Rx & The Healing Eye
…On the Venus & Mercury Retrogrades
Rx is shorthand for recipe, which essentially means ‘to take.’ Medieval alchemists would scribble it on paper and have their patients swallow it. It was also a cipher for Saturn and was thought to mitigate the malefic influences of the leaden God. It is also thought to have its roots in the Eye of Horus, which had profound healing properties (ie. it sustained Osiris in the afterlife). This magical eye has been used by Thoth and fringe healers along the hippie road for centuries. Now, even though Rx stands for ‘retrograde’ in astrological lingo, I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to see a retrograde planet as a recipe-or, something we must ingest to get better.
There are currently two planets that are retrograde: Mercury and Venus. The former is combust, headed for the heart of the Sun; the beautiful latter has already experienced her cazimi and is caressing the morning sky. Whenever a planet is Rx, they are close, perhaps even close enough to hand us a recipe (Rx). With Venus, it usually will address our heartstrings and the social consensus of the current times. With Mercury, it’s often an idea that functions like a benevolent virus that replicates swiftly if the conditions are right and if we give it the proper care. With both, we must accept the terrible responsibility of taking their recipe with eyes wide open, then allowing the regeneration cycle to commence.
Working with retrograde planets requires night wisdom, not day intelligence. It requires us to fine-tune the channels receiving information from wyrd worlds like dreams, visions, and unbelievably frustrating moments caused by the tricks of the Magi. We must become patient problem solvers and curious listeners. It’s our job to take it all in, lay it all out, and attempt to arrange the pieces so an image can form that speaks directly to the Soul. It’s a bit of a reassembly, not too different than Horus losing his eye, reclaiming it, and finding it has immense healing potential when repurposed.
On January 23rd @ 3º23' Aquarius, Mercury will cross between the Earth and Sun, beginning yet another synodic cycle. It’s in these moments when we should be on our hands and knees, sniffing the ground for clues of the Idea that is stalking us-or, are we stalking it? The start of a Mercury cycle is one of the greatest ways to eliminate creative blocks, casting away the dreary fog which may be causing a lack of inspiration. It is because when the Idea arrives, we begin to see the world through a different eye. It rearranges our neurons. The filter is changed.
The Chandra symbol for this cazimi is:
Many fireflies at dusk.
…it seems to intimate staggering encounters. If you have never witnessed such a feat or had your feet amongst phosphorescence by the sea, you must search it out. They are reminders of the majesty of this life. Octopus, birds of paradise, cordyceps, eclipses, and ten thousand other things can serve as reminders that Twitter is simply not the place to be spending your time. We live in a miracle and every time we forget this, losing our center, perhaps blaming politicians for what is wrong in this world, we should do ourselves a favor and ponder the pyramids through the Eye of Horus.
As far as Venus goes, she is nearly done with her retrograde. Stationing on the 29th in the morning sky, she will move forward and have yet another encounter with Pluto and Mars as the “end of the world” party commences with the Pluto Return for the USA. It should be interesting.
ps. I don’t recommend swallowing slips of paper with Rx on it unless something magical was dripped from a dropper directly on the symbol.
Eudaimonia,
Adam
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