posted May 10, 2011 04:17 PM            

So I have an exact conjunction of Mercury and Nessus at 10° Scorpio, and I was wondering if that meant something particular. Knowing that Nessus is linked to abuse, maybe it has something to do with verbal abuse?

posted May 10, 2011 04:30 PM            

"Nessus represents, or arrives nearby, some of the darkest attributes of our sexual reality: deception, revenge, rape, the fear of diseases (and their reality); everything we connect with genital anxiety. Nessus is associated with potentially inappropriate sexual contacts, of which we have defined many many many in our society; we hardly have a definition of what sexual contact is appropriate, except for compulsory heterosexual marriage.

On a deeper level, Nessus is about the intermingling of karma between people sometimes removed by several layers of contact. These stories go in cycles of cause and effect, and can come back like a boomerang. Nessus is one of those planets that usually exists on an “unconscious” level, but which typically percolates up to awareness as fear or paranoia. These feelings are associated with past events, which are mingled with all kinds of negative expectations. There is really only one way out of this, which is awarenes — and that Mercury bestows. The way to use Nessus positively and consciously is to take it on the level of awareness that actions have consequences, whether good or bad, intended or unintended; when we act, we set off a chain of cause and effect — and we may be part of an effect before we are part of a cause."

And obviously, we can add Scorpio's 'feel' to that as well...

Sorry can't help much more, hopefully one of the clever ones will come along soon.

Love Rachel x