Regine

This is the fifth part of my essay series “Inner Work with the Planets”. If you haven’t read the earlier parts yet, I suggest you start with part 1 to get the most out of this essay.

We’ve spent the past two week’s in Mercury’s sphere, and boy, what a dizzying ride it was!

Everything flew by in Mercurial speed, and there was a constant bombardment of words, of new ideas, of new perspectives. And while navigating Mercury’s sphere is an interesting and stimulating experience, it can also be pretty exhausting, can’t it?

To be honest, much as I love Mercury, his quick wit and sharp tongue, his ideas and his flexibility, he can also be a bit intense sometimes.

Of course, this isn’t a big surprise after what we covered last time. Mercury really seems to have made it his goal to teach us about the two sides of each planetary coin, and how they can’t be separated.

(As an aside, I hope you had the time to ponder this concept a bit, and also to apply it to your everyday life as often as possible. If you shouldn’t have done so, it really is worth doing – things can look very different from this outlook!)

Anyway, a break would be welcome right now, wouldn’t it? Just some relaxed time, to take a deep breath or two, and simply enjoy life for a short while.

It turns out we’re in luck, then. ‘Cause now, as we enter the sphere of Venus… now the scenery changes completely. [Read more…] about Queen of Hearts

This is the fourth part of my essay series “Inner Work with the Planets”. If you haven’t read the earlier parts yet, I suggest you start with part 1 to get the most out of this essay.

After a bright and shiny day with no clouds anywhere in sight, the Sun set just half an hour ago, and it’s promising to be a quiet and dark night with an equally clear sky.

The Moon is only a thin sliver tonight, and her subdued light gives you a wondeful view of all the less bright stars. In the West, Venus is outdoing herself in her gala performance as evening star, by far the brightest object in the sky.

Much higher up in the South, and a lot further away from the Sun than Venus, Jupiter is doing his level best to outshine her in his slightly different shade of white. These two are so bright, they are easy to spot.

But now it gets a bit trickier. Mars is still fairly easy, with his distinguished red shine.

Saturn is somewhat harder. He’s fairly distant, thus rather small to our eyes, and also by far not as shiny-bright as Venus or Jupiter. But still, you’ve been smart and looked up his current location beforehand, and… ah, there he is! A small, rather dullish brown point in the sky.

But Mercury… Have you ever seen Mercury? For real, I mean, not on some photograph?

Chances are good you haven’t – and the reason why leads us straight into the territory of the Hermetic planet Mercury, its vices and virtues…

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