Mercury in Taurus is fixed opinions and dogged speech. When squared by Pluto there are secrets, unconscious matters or a powerful challenger. This creates a crisis that’s meant to transform your ideas and mode of communication.
But change does not come easily so the crisis must be fairly significant. The challenge triggers deep fear that the mind interprets as a threat to survival. Maybe someone presents an innovation or new form of power that makes your ideas obsolete. So your response is quite forceful, maybe even cruel. You don’t mean to sound so extra but a button has been hammered. It can feel like all your weaknesses are being probed and used against you.
This is the moment to pause and tune into what you’re really feeling – why does the challenge to what you know trigger such intensity? What is it that you don’t want to see? Stop thinking/speaking automatically and use your awareness to shed light on your Shadow.
This aspect demands that you look at the very thing you refuse to consider. If you can accept the information you’re so attached to is outdated or wrong, the resulting shift in perspective will be momentous. And your new insight will reveal hidden resources plus your own source of power.
If you’re on the receiving end (you say something benign but trigger the other person) know that you’re not imagining the strange edge in their voice. There is more going on and most likely it has nothing to do with you. Step away – don’t try to argue because you’ll be arguing with their Shadow and you’ll never win.
Pic by Atahan Demir
