Mercury is into Capricorn! And, due to a Retrograde that starts just after Xmas, Mercury tarries in Capricorn until February 10.
The Retrograde is from December 27 to January 16. That is totally one to diary in. But it’s a brill time to apply cool Capricorn analysis to situations that may have become too soggy and/or Mercurial wit & the Power Of Glib to the part of your chart dominated by Capricorn.
There can be something magic about The Trickster in the sign of the Sage, no?
And those of you into the post-hols sales could buy some stupendously naff crap, lol.
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Probably better than average wisdom re: bargain buyer’s remorse? Feeling this shopping season won’t rebound well in post-holiday sales unless it’s something really practical or super ridiculous good buy (read: steal).
I’m planning to invest in a juicer. Had one ten years ago that was mostly plastic and annoying. Looking for serious juicer this time, as right now it’s the most efficient/sensible option for diet wellness for my life. Have had prolonged cold/sinus probs this fall and am facing the old mid-life reality check on my health. I’ll have a busy first house this winter setting my body on a better foundation.
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I’ve got Cap sitting in the 8th & 9th houses but I don’t know if this actually means much. Maybe that the only way I really do Saturn Grrrl is in the realms of sex, death and the higher mind? Weird fact: After a couple of years of complete abstinence from mind altering substances (well aside from the fags and caffeine) … last week around the full moon, I hit the sauce! Just like that … thought fuq this I needs a drinkie. Or … 20. That and the Toro and the ditching of the spiritualists and just basically thinking Fuq This Noise and going AWOL from my life. Actually it was when Uranus went Direct. Mercury is the Lord of my chart … let’s hope this retro doesn’t pack the same wallop as Uranus seems to have on me …
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ooh just checked … mercury is transitting my 8th house until feb. This is not going to be pretty is it?
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Yo if it’s not rude to ask what kind of spiritualists were they? I have a fascination you see. They sounded a bit ott and all the spiritualists I’ve ever met have been totally relaxed about what peeps believe – dog, universe, whatever (hehe yes I am a belief system please kneel so I may bestow upon you the sacred rites… no really it’ll be fun). Yours made me think you were hanging with the ascension crew – they’re dogmatic, did they want you to dress all in white and wear funny shoes like an american cruise ship passenger?
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” the ascension crew “…LOL! Kundalini rising from 1 to 7 and from 7-12….? ( Chakras)
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no white shoes … and it’s not an uber organised cult or anything. Sheesh that shit would have me running a mile. No funny shoes or orange robes. It’s more like a spiritual book club – we meet up and discuss spiritual principles and how to apply them, our personal experiences/struggles … stuff we’ve read. It was all good until last few months (mars went into leo) … started sounding dogmatic, a few peeps (probably Saggos) getting on their pulpit .. being dictated to about “the best way to live life”. Just shat me. Not me at all.
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Mine to prowl cat! What do you make of it? Realisations, deep emotinal releases or talks with lovers, family etc bury the hatch type stuff…or mega transformation in speech, like takig no crap, tell it like it is stuff…??
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dunno … but I think weathergirl is on the money when it pertains to authority figures or structures, relationship to both those … and on a deep level to what with the 8th house sex/death thing and 9th house of the higher mind (particularly with the Saturn square Pluto thing going on overly rigid setups are going to get mighty fuqing irritating). But hang on I’ve got Uranus all over my moon and pluto as well so that could just be me going abruptly AWOL.
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I imagine you’ll have a thought or two about the power of personal authority figures in your world. Is it your mother who carries on about how you blew her freedom gambit?
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well of course … being a Leo obviously it had to be someone elses fault that she hooked up with a mad greek, got preggers and wrecked her greek island lifestyle fantasy. Let’s just say lately I’ve been taking perverse pleasure in doing anything and everything that will fundamentally annoy her – and since she’s got Virgo Asc, that’s not difficult.
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Yes, sadly easy. I’ve got a Virgo Asc (Moon conj. Asc, even) mother, and they are easy pickin’s if you’re willing to take on their brand of Mars blow-back.
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cool! merc on my natal mercury in Cap, 9th house. this is perfecto for me for a great work january.
thanks mystic
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cap is my 6th. so I’ll spend even more time talking about setting up work/exercise rituals and habits – i do enough of that already anyway. it’s action i need.
I seemed to have planned this one alright. doing the sussing now to put things in place in jan. the only one likely to happen prior to merc redirect I am hoping will only be temp anyway – that a better arrangement will come along.
I’m thinking little plans now for big plans later. i think i can i think i can….-
great excuse to do f’all over christmas and ny too.
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Oh no I wanted to buy my first apple mac in the post Christmas sales – better do it before or after the retro!
I have capricorn over my 2nd house, possessions and body – does that mean I have to declutter/ensure I only have things that suit who I am becoming, and does it also mean I can shed that extra bit of weight around my middle by applying discipline and process like a good Capricorn?
Thanks for the help, these threads are awesomely supportive and teach so much!
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hey Crab Tiger – Mac’s tend only to be discounted when a new model is launched (ie 2 months ago) so no point haning for the ‘sales’, & in Merc Rx toboot!!
if yr in Oz consider a David Jones charge card & pay it off interest free if you’re haning onto cashflow. or dive in pre Merc Rx shadow zone & bingo – you’re away !!
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Oh thank you so much rockstar, great advice. Yes I was planning to pay it off my DJs card for sure, makes a lot of sense cashflow wise. I’ve got my own little business so that’s a key for me!!!
Much appreciated, will sort it out before Mercury retro, when does the shadow start?
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I think the shadow zone starts 9th
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Thanks ! x
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how apt, biz relationships merc 7th house transit.
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ooo does this mean you’ll have alot of relationships discussion>?? I have something similar… Venus is in 7th being trined by murcury in the 9th. Maybe is a good thing
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meh, fraid so. It’s a bit endless really. I am crashing with my ex but I have just got back from O.S and getting cash together so I needed to sort some things out you see. But I am thinking its more self sufficient, biz, love boundaries now.
you got heartstrings to peeps overseas?
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Yes, this guy I’ve been seeing for while is going away for a couple of weeks today, I think some discussions are due when he gets back. I just thought don’t want to do this now, plus talking about feeling is not my forte.
Read somehwere that sharing finances is one of the biggies re commitment. Never tried it myself, but good luck, seems like Mercury’s on ur side
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thanks, he’s totally decent person, it’s been a tricky breakup (are they ever any good) so its nice just to see him and set the new tone for the future x
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Not sure “getting cash together” was about joint finances but a word of unsolicited advice from one who knows from experience re the sharing of cash. Keep a separate stash ladies – maintain your fiscal independence at all costs. Doesn’t mean you can’t share it by paying for joint purchases, it means you have a choice about what your hard-earned is spent on. This is not miser advice – it’s canny married woman advice. Joint accounts are good for bills. Nest eggs are imperative.
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yes true I am not sharing finances like that! hard sitch to explain on a post
I am all about getting a nest egg fear not, just saving up for next moves
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no need to xplain your sitch hon – my experience of joint accounts has been like this – thank god I love you so much because it means I can forgive you for spending our money this way but I hate that our love has been tested by money. Earth element tests for two air signs in love. A huge learning curve – but a success story thank goodness.
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re the sitch & not needing to explain soz if that kinda came across in an offhand way – meant no need to spill your beans in the public domain for the sake of a convo w a stranger – your private stuff’s your private stuff – conversational nature of this site makes letting down your guard re privacy easy but it is still ultimately people you don’t know. You’re wise to be aware.
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Have booked a beach / bush family holiday from 26th to 16th, perfect timing to deal with merc retro in my biz sector.
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Merc trine Venus for moi, does this mean I’ll write beautiful poetry?
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oo please do the world needs poetry.
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Mine crosses the 7th & 8th. I’m thinking the 7th is bus relationships cos all the marriage irritations have been fine tooth combed since Oestre 06.When did this mercury thing happen? Cos I had the breakthrough idea that solves the work dilemma I’ve been in for a few years over the last 2 days. I thought the saturn hook up was to blame but maybe it’s the trickster adding its spark. Suddenly I realised long term goals don’t work in the short/mid term – doh! Tomorrow I’m initiating a plan that should solve the how do I get there part of it all. Such a weight off my mind. Maybe when it gets to the 8th I’ll receive news my idiot father has died and left me his millions. THAT would be a coyote twist. With the pluto mars uranus jupiter all progressed in my 2nd house anything’s possble.
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Yes it moved to Cap last couple of days, and is going backwards just after X-mmas. Its wierd though, I don’t tend to feel the Merc retrogate cycles that much- maybe cuz my natal Uranus is retrogate (so are half the planets on my chart actually).
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omg stop staring at me (jokes) But seriously – is that pic posterised? if so i love the tonal range – nice. Something about the negative space & the angles makes it hard not to look into your eyes.
re the retros – interesting – have you noticed any other trends re the natal retro planets? Did uranus direct have an effect? what’s the spread with cardinal, fixed and mutable in your chart?
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Haha, its like this… fixed mostly like my gaze right there lmao
Yeah photoshop cutout filter, elementary, but I love the effects, use it for presentations all the time.
Haven’t felt the Uranus direct yet- it is trining my Mars though, don’t know what to expect. Natally juputer, saturn, uranus, Neptune and Pluto are all retrogate mostly in fixed.
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wow – thanks for sharing your deets I’d never thought about the retro effect. Found an explanation that says a person with many retros would live a more inwardly focussed life. I wonder if that’s why you don’t notice the effects in the outer realms. Fascinating.
here’s the link if you want to check it out (hopefully this is ok with you mystic?) http://www.mollysastrology.com/astrology-tutorials/retrogrades
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ooooo thank you for that
“It could be that you brought over the past life energy shown by the retrograde, to assist you in your soul growth in this lifetime.” (nice way of putting it ) ….that and all my 8th house action in my chart….hmmmm definately inwardly introvert as such
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i think mystic has done posts about the south node and how it’s associated with past lives – could maybe give some insight/texture to the way the retros are working together. It seems kinda magic to me to have so much retro help in working through the past life stuff. Your soul’s gonna sparkle x
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Interesting Christmas inheritance story for you…
My ma’s step father, massive psycho (libra virgo cusp chess wizz who plays people same style) refused to acknowledge her/our presence in a room for over 10 years playing her off against evil sister/my aunt who’s children (yes our cousins) would fight over what they were going to get at family BBQs of his BEFORE he was dead.
Evil Aunt was very cruel to my mother about this whole situation. Aunt would invite step father to gatherings to watch him not talk to my mother only her brood, among other games. Cue stepfather gets cancer and dies suddenly but was too cheap to re register the changed will from 25 years ago after promising my aunt everything so by default my ma was awarded half!!! evil aunt and her husband tore stepfathers house apart trying to find the new will and tried to steal, hide all the bank details and intimidate my ma into giving them everything as he ‘would have wanted’
Ma finally got all the jewelry that was our grandma’s, sentimental stuff he was hiding from her. Evil aunt was furious she thought she would get everything and showed how evil she is against my poor ma. now she knows.
Karma Karma Karma.
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christmas you say? I’ll pencil that in. I think if it happened I’d give it to my mother. I was kinda joking re the inheritance tho just looking a my chart thinking what could possibly come of this astro? I always think of families being the place you get to meet peeps you would never choose to mingle with. I have some awesome relations – in the step families as well as the blood but god some of them are just not the kind of people I would ever spend time with. I’m glad to hear your mum got the sentimental things. Jewellery and stuff people you loved have touched is important – their vibes are stored in it. So much more important than $.
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Totally, her family died youngish and she got stuck with him so it was very symbolic to get the jewelry back. She doesn’t care about the $$$ we are not like that, thank god.
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Ms…ah such a gorgeous story. Hope your Mum stuck to her guns and did not give in to the evil aunt. The other great thing is after such evildome your mama bear will not have to even set eyes on said evil aunt non? I love stories like this, it makes my heart smile when justice prevails : > Thanks for sharing.
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xx
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Capricorn !! Ballbuster Extraordinaire! Get ready for bitch-0-rama I guess…
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I heard start your diary on Dec 5 for some reason, forget why…
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Sensible Capricorn.
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12/7 130 am how’d you do that? Capricorns time travel also?
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I think that’s why my brain has been going crazy for the last little while.
I sure didn’t know this was gonna happen. Merc and capp both significant in my chart and time for a clean out createde by a friendship of both.
Trickster and the sage. what a team!
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Yooohooo Mystic … ermmm .. question. I asked Oracle “what should my strategy be with work?” It said “sexual manipulation”!!!!!!!!! Ploise exploin.
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Oo! You could do a little research into Hex 44 of the I Ching. Not sure “manipulation” (ie, treachery) is on tap, but definitely a little…
Woman power.
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Know your self employed Prowln but “sleep your way to the top?”
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I already have enough sex with myself as it is Sweetpea!
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flash your tits at your clients?
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then I’d have far too much work
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I have Cap across end of 6th & into 7th…
Biz relationships have already been tweaked, and have had some interesting (in a good way!) conversations with my man re our plans for next year.
He has Cap in the 11th house… time to reflect/reconnect with friends?
I was planning to buy a new blender in boxing day sales, not sure whether that counts as a major purchase or not…
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Cappy Merc. will go retro right around my Moon in 8th and Rx-back to just a little more than asteroid Psyche which is a bit wide conj. my Moon. Usually works though…
Better listen to those inner messages and dreams. Then again, if retro means “redo, retrace, rethink”, etc., imagine higher self might be “must we tell her AGAIN!?”
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LOL…” must we tell her AGAIN ? “..!!!
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