Me! Me! Pick me!

I have peregrine Mercury in Scorpio (unaspected) in mutual reception with Pluto rising. I think a lot, I write several thousand words a day, but I don’t speak much.

I work with a guy that has pluto/mercury square. He is very good confronting people with the nonsense they say sometimes. You can feel the air freezing after he shoots a plutonic comment… but then 3 seconds of silence he starts laughing cause he is a Gemini e suddenly the air clears ups. It’s amazing watching him… he does it all the time!

Not directly but I do have Mercury sextile Venus in Scorpio and I love this song so…it should count for something.
Generally I take people’s word for it, but I am very demanding about the accuracy of information people send my way.

(I am reading these in reverse order - so, kind of building on the response in the following post).

Mercury conjunct Pluto in Libra in the first house. This is one of my favorite aspects in myself. It may be just that it’s in the first house, and so it’s really accessible and obvious.

This aspect (I think) is responsible for this feeling of having a lot of power. For good and for ill.

Some random observations about it:

I recently made the connection that people who like severe weather, probably will also like (and be able to handle) this energy in me. My longest relationship was with a storm chaser, who was like this cloud that could absorb my anger tantrums (which I feel no pride in having), and who fed off of the more positive lightning that could generate (for lack of better words).

My voice is too big and heavy for a lot of situations. I have a lot Virgo, and so I want to serve. But then I try to serve, and have all this Pluto energy when I’m communicating - it really gas lights some authority figures. I can’t help it. I know (and am aware that I know) 10x less than the people around me with more experience, and I just speak and sound like I am … some voice descending over the room, directing things, like from an intercom (like the voice of God). I don’t mean to assume the power, but it’s just in my voice.

But the good side - the part I adore. Is that I have found in myself the ability to turn the lights on in dark rooms. To make friends with the dark, creepiness under the basement stairs. My Virgo parts love this - because I can take the areas of ourselves and of life that are almost unusable, because no one wants to go there - and make them habitable. So we can all that use that space, we can go there!

I just had a classic (and life changing) example of this happen in my life. Someone very close to me died. And I blogged in a lot of detail about the visitation and the funeral. But I found the beauty in the death and the situation. I did not shy away from talking about the state of the dead body (of this person - who I loved so much) in the casket. Or about what it was like to touch it. About staring into the hole in the ground at the grave site, and instead peering down into the hole with the same curiosity as my young nephews, to see if we could see the walls of my grandpa’s vault (it was my grandma who died) next to my grandma’s space. I talked about the beauty of leaving wet hand prints from the rain on my grandma’s casket. I even took pictures. It’s just what I do.

But it was a beautiful experience. And I don’t know about the rest of the world, but I would rather be able to walk into these formerly verboten areas of our lives and be, beyond comfortable, but in awe of the beauty. It just seems somehow more right. Like it is our right to be able to enjoy the beauty in the dark. In war and death and hell and pain and all of it. It’s our right to be able to find and enjoy, at least, some form of peace.

So anyway. That’s one take on a way to make some lemonade out of Pluto-Mercury lemons.

Bummer - I hope my comment didn’t get eaten. Might do some good.

I definitely had some paranoia going on at work yesterday afternoon…worrying that some random dude was going to cause trouble with my bosses over my non-Christian religion, when lots of people have noticed my Pagan jewelry and have never complained about me before. No aspect between Mercury and Pluto in my chart, but they are both part of the six-planet stellium across my 8th and 9th houses, and the opposition is squaring my natal Pluto.

hey yeah, Althera…your comment can do some good fer sure! People who can speak of death openly are needed in the world, so good on you.

Mercury opposition Pluto, 6th/12th, with Scorpio rising. Dang right I am suspicious.

…and am rather privacy oriented and unwilling to give complete trust to anything _especially_ authority figures….