Mercurial Mars Martian Mercury

The mutual reception occurs when two planets are in each others ruling signs. Take the current night sky for example. Mars is in Mercury’s sign of Virgo and Mercury is in Mars’ sign of Aries. That’s mutual reception. What does it mean?

Mars and Aries are linked, for now, in a particular kind of way. The mental and analytical qualities of Mercury imbibe the action-will-direction of Aries, and vice versa. In practical terms, we say that these two energies can swap places. If Mars is transiting a...