Mercury in Libra skrying

Mercury in Libra

9:18 PM 10/21/2009

Mercury in Libra is trine Neptune. Moon in Sag is sextile Mercury and very closely sextile Jupiter. It is equally widely sextile Neptune and square Uranus.

I see brass scales swinging back and forth, the pans filling in rapid sequence with all the choices one could make, particularly economically - how do we know where to put our money? Do we choose based on reason and superior long-term value, or do we spring for an impulse that will soothe us emotionally? How do we know how our future happiness and prosperity will be affected by the choices we make today? How can we see past our habits to choices we haven't noticed yet? Is a methodical examination of our options the answer? How do we learn about our desires and goals and the choices we need to make to attain them? Is discipline and self-denial the answer? Are we swayed by envy and irrational associations? Are we swayed by glamour? Who profits from it when we make a mistake? How do we avoid confusion? How do we avoid deception?

One answer is to picture ourselves five years after making a certain choice, or many like it. What will our lives be like? Will we have anything to show for it? What will we be like? What kind of person do we think makes a choice like this? Is it true? Is this who we are? Is this who we want to be?

Emotions are fleeting, they come and go, and they can be educated. We need to look at the assumptions that provoke them. Emotions have underlying beliefs, whose validity need to be examined. We should make a plan in terms of our true goals, and what choices we need to make to get to them, and how to budget our resources to support those goals. A rational underpinning applied to even trivial decisions will alter our futures greatly, and we will realize a level of control over our what we will be based on all the details of our decisions about what we do with our time and our money. A free person is a person who troubles themselves to do this analysis, make a plan that is true to their own nature, and maintain discipline in sticking to it. Someone who doesn't do this will become a slave to their own appetites, and to the people who have done this work.