Most of the effect comes from outer planet work...
We do have Mercury very active in all of this
but really not used as in inner planet. Only reason
we are looking at it really is that rules the Career
house ( 10th ).  Note: Mercury also rules the house
of death so to speak ( actually I prefer to think of
it as the house of Life and survival which includes
death ) the 8th house.

So a lot of inner thought seems to go into work
and related issues ( Mercury ) and emotions
as we have Tertiarys active ( Tertiarys being a
type of progression where the rate of progression
is based on the action of the Moon - not for example
like Transits or Soalr Arcs which are based on the
Suns movement relative to the earth ).

It does seem though that there is sufficient balance
with external effects ( Saturn, Neptune  and other
outer planets ) that we can say with some security
( as only a partial analysis was done ) that other
people were involved and probably had their own
profitable motives - your emotional life just blindly
keying into their needs. So instead of satisfying their
behavioural needs ( described by Saturn  - ruler of
the third, co-ruler of 10th  ? ) your Moon based
progressions were in play - the tertiary's.

I always feel that if one is alerted to periods
in ones life where there are possibilities like
this - then instead of taking reserve in ones
own inner life ( inner planets ? ) one can elect
by free will to observe realization of the situation
using these transits and use the Outer planets
aspects to guide ones behaviour.

For a poor example, there is a kind of a chart
called a "diurnal chart" which in one chart links
the natal and the transits of an individual.

There are many many reports and I have my own
experiences to personally confirm and that of my
clients that for example if one can see when a maleafic
is conjunct the Diurnal's Ascendant ( say Mars conjunct
the Diurnal Ascendant )  that is a day when traveling
in a car or doing some activity where one is at risk
of a Mars style incident ( accident, fire, impact etc etc )
should be avoided.

But also - on that day ( when Mars is conjunct the
Diurnal Ascendant ) channel the energy into something
1. you can manageable control - ( perhaps doing what
Saturn defines in the chart ? ) 2. channel the energy
in something constructive. For example, chop
wood, play a competitive but non impact game
like swimming perhaps ?  In any case evaporate
the energy in a constructive safe manner. The
idea being that the energy is now coming through
the planets and especially Mars in this case so
if one is blind to this it will just take the most immediate
available dissipation possible. If at that moment
when the aspect is realized you are in a car
and some other driver has a similar or even victim
aspect ( as in a Murderer and his victim ) then the
energy will manifest in some form of Mars way
say an accident or impact.

If we are aware of this we can avoid situations that
amplify and precipitate the energy involved in a way
that causes disturbance in our lives then at least
we can be prepared and perhaps even use the
energy for constructive efforts. And of course, as always
when working within the divine footprints of these various
charts with transits and progressions, it always seems
one way or another to bring one to ones eventual goal.
Just the path seems to be affected by the mechanisms
the planets describe in relation to the individual and
the immediately applicable environment. One has to
negotiate the traffic of the planets - tough without
an interpreted map.

Thanks for the insight, Airgon!