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Mercury in the Hall of Mirrors: Truth, Trickery & the Evolutionary Edge| September 18

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Jamie James
Sep 16, 2025
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On September 18, Mercury takes its first elegant step into Libra, only to immediately stumble into Neptune’s foghorn call across the battlefield in Aries…

Imagine a diplomat walking into a masquerade ball just as the fire alarm blares—velvet mask in hand, silver tongue ready, and suddenly confronted with raw, unscripted urgency... this is not just Mercury playing dress-up with Libra’s charm—it’s Mercury being tested at the threshold between appearance and reality, between the allure of acceptance and the naked demand for authenticity... and as if this weren’t enough, the Messenger simultaneously strikes golden trines with Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius, dragging the entire encounter out of costume drama and into the furnace of evolution…

This day is less about chatter and more about the initiation of mind—it’s a psychic nerve plugged into both dream and revolution, asking each of us whether we’ll keep playing the world’s games of disguise, or whether we’ll risk saying something so true it detonates the disguise entirely.

•••What This Means, Ultimately—

This day is not for idle chatter… it is initiation by conversation, transformation through dialogue, revolution by thought…

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