MERCURIAL MACHINATIONS

Mercury in Aries: The Mind as Matchstick, the Word as Flame| April 16—May 10, 2025

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When Mercury enters Aries, it doesn’t ask for permission—it kicks down the door, cigarette hanging from its mouth, hair singed from yesterday’s brainstorm...

This is the mind on fire, the tongue turned tuning fork for truths so fresh they’re still steaming. It doesn’t whisper, it declares. And in 2025, Mercury doesn’t just travel through Aries—it crackles. It scalds. It rewires the switchboard of perception with divine urgency and a wink that says: “Ready or not, revelation’s coming in hot.”

Let’s follow this wild little messenger through the crucible…

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April 16: Mercury Conjunct Neptune at 1° Aries

On this day, Mercury and Neptune threw on matching leather jackets and decided to mythologize the mundane...

But don’t be fooled by Neptune’s reputation for dreaminess—in Aries, he’s not floating through fog, he’s burning it off with the heat of objective intent. This isn’t ethereal. It’s raw. It’s Mercury channeling a battle cry through a megaphone made of steel and solar plexus.

You may find yourself now identifying not with lofty visions, but with the thud of footfall, the weight of responsibility, and the satisfying click of a well-oiled mechanism doing what it’s supposed to do.

There’s virtue in grit here. Virtue in sweat.

The dream doesn’t float—it marches.

You may now feel like you’re on probation from a past life’s indulgences, and that’s precisely the point—this is a new epoch of thought, lit not by ideals alone, but by the sharp spark of action.

You’re now the messenger and the message, the hammer and the nail, the fire and its containment.