I’m wondering if anyone here would be willing to share about their EA learning journey? That is, did you experience struggle? What helped you really ‘get’ EA?
I’ve been studying EA for a few years now and still don’t feel as though I’ve really grasped it. While I have some moments of clarity and understanding, I almost always become confused and forget what I’ve learned/read. And I’ve read and re-read almost all the exisiting resources (books, EA classes, YouTube vids, etc).
If I’m honest, I’m reaching out here after hesitating for a while because I wasn’t sure if it was an appropriate post…But I’m at a point where I feel I need someone to talk to about it and this is the only group I’m aware of that studies/practices EA. It’s still somewhat underground.
I’m fairly upset about the situation because I really value the depth of the EA teachings, and truly wish to use them to practise as a professional Astrologer, but I fear that my not being able to get it is a sign that I’m just not meant to be doing this. I have Mercury RX in Pisces in the 12th, which makes me think that if I’m not grasping this, I never will.
Anyhow, if this isn’t an appropriate thread for this group, I understand. However, if anyone would be up for having a private conversation, let me know.
Hi Lou,
I truly resonate with your feelings and i hope all contributions here truly help you as you desire. From my part all i can say is this... i have mercury in pisces, and reading your post was truly incredible, because a few months ago i had this urge to write a post (ended up not writing it...) about exactly this, on how it is so important for anyone who has this mercury in pisces placement, or a strong influence of neptune to mercury, mercury in the 12th, etc., to fully accept themselves and their own capacities and their own talent, even if that is totally different from how most people understand and communicate EA. I feel it is such an important step to come to that realisation so we don't feel what you are feeling right now, and i think it is important for people who have this placement to exteriorize speacially among others who share it too. It is not wrong or anything to fix. It's just different your understanding of EA than how EA is communicated for most of who are studying or practicing astrology. JWG has saif that the method for EA chart analysis was that in this virgo way because it is easier for most people to learn in this step by step way (but with a moon in pisces i wonder if he too had his own difficulties conveing it that way, it's a questioni have indeed).
Those of us with this placements tend not to have a linear way of thinking, we don't think this plus this equal that most of times. We start from the whole and let the parts fall in place, but they never appear separate to us, that's why it is difficult either to communicate how we are seeing things or understand something that is communicated to us in much of a linear way. For us language is very limiting relative to the totally of the understanding of things (pisces) or fall incredibly short to how we perceive it (piscean ideal). that why we must see so many poets having mercury and neptune combined ;-)
JWG has said of mercury in pisces or the 12th that we need to communicate through metaphor or story in order to convey a message and he was absolutely right. The way thinking is structured and organized is in a way where, for me for example makes me much more at home when i can communicate trough myth or i can see the teachings or particualr aspect or placemtn in direct human life and drama than to simply look at a chart. You too, if i remember correctly (my apologies if this is mistaken as i am taking from memory) , have communicated that here with beautifull story of how you where contemplating placements and then remembered a birth mark that completely made everything fall in place. I can assure you i have a very lousy memory but when things are conveyed like this i don't forget it, because it makes more much sense than just words.
So my advice if i can give any to you or any0ne with this placement, is don't doubt yourself too much (even if life is full of uncertainty when things are not too linear, that is a beauty sometimes), life can look magical for this placement sometimes and i'm sure you have an antenna exaclty for the information you need or need to give others. In EA there is a place for the counceling that we can do. Each person will have its own message, some people, speacially those who look at life in subtle ways, will need to meet another who can also undersant them exactly as you do.
Hope this helped Lou and you can reach out to me if you see you need to just speak to someone who's brain can function a bit like yours :-)
P.S. One other important thing i remembered is that, with this placements, we might need our own time to let things unfold in way that a connection is made to a broader whole, as it always does. remember, the south node of neptune is in aquarius, which makes communication have a background uranian component for those with mercury in pisces - meaning things will at time feel disjointed before they are fully grasped. This could also have a very peculiar sense of time, sometimes hapening fast like graspint it all in a snapshot moment, other times much more time needs to unfold. But there is beauty in this process too.