The Steiner quote is a genuinely strange find, and putting it next to the fusion description does more than either would alone.
One thing worth adding on the timing. This Leo season opens with the Sun at full voice while Mercury is still checking its own work. Mercury turned direct on the 23rd at 16 Cancer, and it has not yet climbed back to the 26 Cancer where it stationed retrograde at the end of June, so for about the next two weeks it is re-walking ground it already covered. That sits interestingly against the moral imperative you land on. Leo is the Sun's own domicile, the one sign where its expression answers to no other ruler, so the impulse is to emanate immediately and unfiltered. Mercury still in its shadow is the part that asks you to reread it before you send it. Full strength expression, revision not quite finished.
The line about the audience being individuals trained by dopamine algorithms rather than a sovereign group of Stoics is the one I will be sitting with.
I love the nuance you added with Mercury migrating through its Shadow period, thus reworking communications. I was born with Mercury in what is called max combustion. It leads me to often publish or put out words that have some typos or errors in them unless I slow way down to reread my material, it is almost a type of being blind to writing. Bernadette Brady said this type of Sun indicated someone who brings forth meaning from the internal world to the external world. I have always liked that view, in terms of Mercury combust. In a way, one could contemplate it as the nuclear fusion factory deep in the Sun, and the rays of ideas, or light coming forth from the Sun taking the shadow period to reach the earth. That would be an intriguing type of metaphoric mythology of the astro physical process.
That metaphor holds up better than metaphors usually do, because the physics is genuinely on your side. A photon made in the core does not travel outward so much as random walk, absorbed and re-emitted over and over through the radiative zone. Estimates of how long that takes vary widely with the model, from something like ten thousand years to a couple of hundred thousand. Then once it leaves the surface it crosses to us in about eight minutes. So the shape you are describing is real. An enormously long interior process, then an almost instant delivery. That is a fair picture of bringing meaning out of an internal world.
On combustion I would push on one word though. The classical complaint about a combust planet is not that it is weak, it is that it cannot be seen. Lost in the light rather than diminished by it. Which maps almost too neatly onto what you are describing. The writing is not the thing that is impaired, the visibility of your own writing to you is, and that is what combustion literally names. Being blind to your own text is the condition itself rather than a side effect of it.
And on the timing, since it is useful to know when the tax ends. Mercury stationed retrograde at 26 Cancer 15 on June 29, and it climbs back over that same degree on the 7th into the 8th of August. So the slow careful rereading has an actual end date this cycle rather than fading out vaguely.
Don’t know how I missed this! Brilliant, comprehensive and very deep. Great work. I feel the rays 👏🖖❤️💥
The Steiner quote is a genuinely strange find, and putting it next to the fusion description does more than either would alone.
One thing worth adding on the timing. This Leo season opens with the Sun at full voice while Mercury is still checking its own work. Mercury turned direct on the 23rd at 16 Cancer, and it has not yet climbed back to the 26 Cancer where it stationed retrograde at the end of June, so for about the next two weeks it is re-walking ground it already covered. That sits interestingly against the moral imperative you land on. Leo is the Sun's own domicile, the one sign where its expression answers to no other ruler, so the impulse is to emanate immediately and unfiltered. Mercury still in its shadow is the part that asks you to reread it before you send it. Full strength expression, revision not quite finished.
The line about the audience being individuals trained by dopamine algorithms rather than a sovereign group of Stoics is the one I will be sitting with.
I love the nuance you added with Mercury migrating through its Shadow period, thus reworking communications. I was born with Mercury in what is called max combustion. It leads me to often publish or put out words that have some typos or errors in them unless I slow way down to reread my material, it is almost a type of being blind to writing. Bernadette Brady said this type of Sun indicated someone who brings forth meaning from the internal world to the external world. I have always liked that view, in terms of Mercury combust. In a way, one could contemplate it as the nuclear fusion factory deep in the Sun, and the rays of ideas, or light coming forth from the Sun taking the shadow period to reach the earth. That would be an intriguing type of metaphoric mythology of the astro physical process.
That metaphor holds up better than metaphors usually do, because the physics is genuinely on your side. A photon made in the core does not travel outward so much as random walk, absorbed and re-emitted over and over through the radiative zone. Estimates of how long that takes vary widely with the model, from something like ten thousand years to a couple of hundred thousand. Then once it leaves the surface it crosses to us in about eight minutes. So the shape you are describing is real. An enormously long interior process, then an almost instant delivery. That is a fair picture of bringing meaning out of an internal world.
On combustion I would push on one word though. The classical complaint about a combust planet is not that it is weak, it is that it cannot be seen. Lost in the light rather than diminished by it. Which maps almost too neatly onto what you are describing. The writing is not the thing that is impaired, the visibility of your own writing to you is, and that is what combustion literally names. Being blind to your own text is the condition itself rather than a side effect of it.
And on the timing, since it is useful to know when the tax ends. Mercury stationed retrograde at 26 Cancer 15 on June 29, and it climbs back over that same degree on the 7th into the 8th of August. So the slow careful rereading has an actual end date this cycle rather than fading out vaguely.
She’s one hot Leo!