Aspects
Arethusa Quincunx Mercury
Arethusa forms a An awkward aspect between planets about 150 degrees apart, joining signs with nothing in common. It asks for constant small adjustments between things that do not naturally fit. to your Mercury, so the urge to keep your thoughts private never quite fits ordinary expression, asking ongoing adjustment between guarding and sharing. The work is to keep tuning the two.
- arethusa
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- mercury
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Arethusa by her myth — the nymph turned into a pure underground spring to escape the river-god's pursuit — as a point of the protected source, flight to preserve one's freedom, and transformation under pressure.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats an aspect as a specific working relationship between two principles, read by the geometry of the angle between them.