Mercury On Hold
Thinking of renaming Mercury Retrograde “Mercury On Hold” – it is not like it literally goes backwards anyway. And i now know a lot more about smtp servers & the inner workings of Telstra than i ever wished to know. Short Version: they’re blocking your Daily Mystic if you are a client of theirs & you need to tell them that you actually want/like it. Plus you can view it on the Weekly Horoscopes page, if you prefer.
And Mercury Retrobats in Scorpio is also SUCH a muck-raker…I woke up to see that an acquaintance of mine from absolutely years ago has just been charged with a serious abuse scenario. That’s the kind of nostalgic hit you don’t neccessarily need on a Thursday morning with the Sun having just gone into endorphic Saggo…Shudder. I need to sage the house a.s.a.p.
What else…? Oh yes my beautiful MM postcards are arriving soon (no i did not order them when Mercury was Retrobats) and if you want one, i send them out to peeps gift-subbing friends…I am having a postcards moment. Love hand scrawled messages, the art on the front, real live stamps…
WHY btw have post offices morphed into hideous junk shops full of naff crap? They should be minimalist, clutter-free and with a big statue of Mercury in the middle, some neon, cool music, amazing art, fab energy and Feng Shuied to fuq. Imagine. I should be in charge of everything.
As I tweeted just now (follow me) the Sun is in Saggo – it’s like a bump of endorphins, go hard or go home – fuq off, can-do Awesome energy. LOVE IT. Wait for the fury about the Church & State not being properly separated – that i.m.o. is the pre-eminent sign that you are in Sagg Mode.
Image: Jakob Boeskov – the Search Machine.
I loathe the post office, I stand in line seething not at the wait but at the waste of resources & energy that’s gone into making all that useless horse shit. Filling up big holes dug into the earth when the novelty is gone.
HAHAHA me too! Whenever I am asked to post someone something I’m like “fine, I will brave the hell that is the post office, but only for you”.
telstra delivered for me this morning M – so at least some are getting through. They are so unco they let spammers spamming them, through my email LOL
Oh that’s funny. I broke up with Telstra a while back and like any ex, I love hearing stories of their stuff-ups
How’s that chapter coming along, q? Wishing you plenty of Virgoan stamina to race over the line!
I love old school correspondence and old school post offices.
Yes my local is full of cheap merch crap but the two guys who run it are so genius that it’s become a bit of a focal point for the community. Friendly, intelligent, personal service, and it runs like a motherfuqer. No mistakes, no “where is my parcel” convos, mail sorted and ready at the same time every day. I must ask about their astro next time I’m there. I’m guessing there’s quite a lot of Virgo or Cap involved.
I have a post office box – Scorp rising/8th house moon husb is obsessed with secrecy and conspiracies about mail stealing, lol – and my fave part of the day is opening that little box. To misquote Emily Dickinson: ‘hope is the thing with hand written address’.
Mars in Virgo, Gem NN – thoughtful, well written, witty and well punctuated letters, on good paper, and posted the old fashioned way – well, it’s basically porn, yes?
Yes, adore quality snail mail. I send postcards even though I could email.
My thoughtful friends (in my own city and overseas) send me snippets in the post because I LOVE it. =)
“Basically porn….”
*nods*
Mars in Virgo, Gem NN.
Venus in Libra in 9th.
Love, love, love going to the post office to pick up parcels! Even when I know what what’s inside. It’s still so exciting!!!!
I’ve kept some old love letters, notes, postcards etc. So much better than email. Although love that too. Everything but talking on the phone.
Use to collect stamps in my teens. Would be interesting to know astro of stamp collectors.
YES! I too was a stamp collector in my teens. In fact I recently found my old album during my huge declutter, and I can’t bring myself to bin it.
I have love letters from 30 years ago which are in a box of things I would take if my house was burning down. I love email but you’re right, it’s not the same.
When I’m dating again I’m going to give potential suitors my postal address. Judge them on their, erm, penmanship
My post office is really small and is full of cheap rubbish. It has mew owners who have just crammed in a drink machine. I so hate going in there. Everyone is frustrated by the lack of room and they are slow and not very friendly behing the counter….
But guys you can see my vision yes? Minimalist, the neon Mercury, cool music?
Love your vision for the PO – you really should be in charge of everything MM! And I always feel uplifted & rearing to go in Sagg – must be my Moon/Mars conj in Saggi. Awesome!
Yes who needs all that crap! Hideous!
Sorry Mystic,
Unless you could afford lots of staff for instant service, being in line for ages at a minimalist post office would make time go even slower.
I love minimalism usually due to lot of planets in Virgo, but not this time =).
Maybe instead of crap have art that one could meditate on. we should encourage more zen moments in time. Maybe play soothing zen music.
Sounds perfect.Testimony to your brilliance though, was to hear about the “real live stamps”. That is exactly the kind of thing that turns me on.
I just spent the entire summer trying to convince the “it can’t be done team” to mail a beach rock. It mattered little about the painting on the rock. The “awesome” was the live stamp on the rock.
You certainly have my vote for being “Queen of fuq ing everything”
yes, absolutely! I agree
Nude Mercury Greek statue please. The PO should be a temple to the Art of Communication.
or a Zen temple with fishtanks, bamboo plants and bubbling fountains!!
Yes! to the Zen ideas. Either temple with bubbling brooks and bamboo, or art to meditate on…
Yes please
Neon??? in a post office… No thanks.
I’m in Brisbane and the little post office branches are indeed full of crap (that even makes it hard to discern where the line is), but the GPO in the city is completely your vision. Huge room and long, white perspex desks with a space-age glow.
I joked to my friends that when I went in there the other day I felt like reading the news in Italian.
There was no merchandise anywhere near where you lined up, and polite, smartly-dressed PO people came over to ask customers what they were there to do, in case they could direct you to some other desk for faster processing.
Love it
It’s true! A real oasis
Well I was a dufus and ordered some stuff online – “priority delivery” mind you – during this Retro Merc. And of course it’s missing. And of course the merchant is blaming Australia Post and Australia Post is blaming the merchant. What was I thinking???????
me too! My astral projection oil from For Strange Women is late! hey if Voltaire drank 80 cups of coffee a day, i can have five, right?
I read a study that said up to six cups a day is fine.
How did Voltaire sleep? or did he? I read Stephen King use to do space dust and crank out novels. (He may still!)
I would if I could handle caffeine but gives me horrid migraines.
Subtract your age from 220 and if your heart-rate for 1min tops that then you may need to think about the next cup.
80 huh? I feel better. Well I will feel better once I’ve downed my third pot.
Scorprising not drinking coffee gives me a headache that lasts for days that nothing but coffee will cure. I tried it once.
Good grief Baristagem, my heart rate is increasing with the anxiety of all that maths.
I have ordered that too and a few other samples Mystic… Coyote being one of them. They can’t be late tho as I only did it last week. Looking forward to trying them.. and yes definitely that one as the blend sounds fab. If I like.. and they have some longevity with the fixitive base then I’m giving commercial parfums the heave ho for a bit. I might not last the rest of my life without Chanel but I’m prepared to give it a go!
Re: the post office. The one in the suburb I work in has ‘express’ self-service DIY bill payment machines. I saw one of 3 in use while the line was out the door.
Yes and they sell crap. I just want a friggen express envelope without having to weave through an aisle of junk.
I think the strange items for sale help distract you while you wait a long time in the line.
I’m not one to shop for recreation, nor to buy crap to fill an aching hole. So maybe that’s why I’ve never in my life seen some of the things they have for sale in the post office. Little gadgets with a twist of some kind, tiny light sabers, really? intriguing and amazing and next thing you know, I am at the head of the queue!
Wow! SOO loving this little dose of Sag. And seriously I needed it! My delicate Fish riseing constitution was just about to loose her stuff! My usually clairvoyant super powers have been turned up to 12 and its just a bit much in woolies right now! lol
Merc Retro is usually ok for me (said hesitantly as its not over yet!) I tend to finally sort through the epic to do, to send, to email, to file, pile and get it sorted…. but I guess thats not about getting NEW things started.
What I wanted to share with you all re muk raking eew! Is this epically signif dream I had last night. Like lots of you, i’ve had heaps of wild dreams but this one really stayed with me….
I walked out side this unknown house I was in with people I didn’t know… camera in hand (?) taking pics of these amazing lizard type creatures with huge mouths that we open sticking out of the ground! (kinda like komodo dragons but only the head!) THEN looking up I saw, against a brilliant ochre mountain/rock backdrop a dead tree with a tawny frog mouth in brilliant relief in broad day light (for you northern hem people they are nocturnal ) soooooo I’m thinking taking pics equals bringing into the light that which has been hidden/ primitive/ possibly more (like seriously ) revelations in the public arena?
But also personally with the tawny in the day time i’m thinking true self revealed type stuff…. Any other ideas… here is this awesome tawny link for any other frogmouth owl dreamers! http://www.wildspeak.com/totems/tawnyfrogmouth.html
xx
Thanks Mystic and gang
At least in Australia your mail is safe. And you can do all your business in one hit at the counter.
I was in Budapest in August. I posted some of my clothes back to myself because it was boiling hot in Europe and lugging my coats around was stupid. (The day I’d left the southern hemisphere it was utterly freezing). And I’d been so insanely busy before I left I didn’t check weather or anything. Just tossed some clothes in a case and dashed.
So in Budapest post office, the supervisor, a thin, vulture like man comes over while the girl is taking my money, and he asks me where I got the box. The lady in the other post office (where you can’t send parcels) gave it to me I replied. He stared suspiciously at me. What’s your return address in case there’s a problem, he asks? Well, I’m posting it to myself at home, that’s my only address there, I ventured. He smiled opportunistically.
I got a bad feeling, but what could I do? Maybe I should have put the address of my hotel. Yes. Should have but didn’t. Besides, the hotel staff were not yet acquainted with the idea of customer service. Don’t get me started.
I walked away with a bad feeling. Needless to say my parcel has not yet arrived at my home address, it’s been three and a half months. I hope they are enjoying my beautiful pure wool coat.
In Prague, – very minimalist PO, do you like their Post Office, Mystic? – I had to go to three different counters just to buy an envelope, a stamp and to post it, but by golly they were kind, friendly, and interested in helping. As were Praguians throughout the city.
But after that I visited no more post offices during my trip and just handed out post cards in person when I got home.
The Czechs PO are very Kafka like and yes friendly. Love Prague.
I woke up this morning with this song on my mind…
Performed by a Pisces and written by a SAGG!
Yes!
I wonder if she wrote that about Chris Brown…
She has Juno, Vertex, Moon, Venus and Jupiter in Aries square her Cap Neptune conjunct several of his placements in Capricorn…(as far as what I can tell on the synastry chart I looked at…small print…)
But what might be telling is her Pisces NN conjunct his Pisces Venus
And her Pisces Sun conjunct his Pisces NN…
“Find light in the beautiful sea…I should still be happy”
“See eye to eye”…they were/are both stars…”We’re beautiful like diamonds..Shine bright like a diamond”…
What also might be telling about the violence is their conjunct Plutos opposite so much of his Toro and square her Aqua Mercury-Ceres…maybe she said something that was not quite so nurturing?
A shattered dream perhaps over what could have been (NN)..Is so, sad for Rhianna…
Hope she isn’t smoking too many “diamonds”..
Meanwhile, post office wise, changed my box to a smaller one and have forgotten to tell family the new number…And, have 7,255 unread emails..Think that’s very Aries…lol
Haven’t always been a big Rhianna fan, but took an interest in her chart after the abuse she took from Chris Brown…Esp with so much of her placements in Aries…Must have been the Pisces/Venus/Nodes connections…That I can understand…but please Rhianna, don’t get too lost in the illusion luv.
I like that song tho…You always a diamond Gemmy…x
AWWW YOU ARE!
Sweetpea, Rihanna didn’t write this song.
SIA wrote it – http://siamusic.net/
Oh, wrote by a Sagg…over looked that, but, she still sang it…x
Ha, you so quick Gemmy…I hadn’t even seen your reply when I realized and reposted…
Hey, you gotta be on the Gem wave length, eh? x
Reminds me too of Sagg speaking the truth…
And Zep’s No Quarter…
~They choose the path where noone goes…~
No Quarter…
At least Pisces/Aries Moon had the courage to sing it forth..x
AND, all her Aries square Cap Neptune..
No, not just the Pisces…but we are talking Neptune afterall..
Have Moon square Neptune…know what I’m talking about…
read the first line of this post as ”I am thinking of emailing Mercury retrograde” … it didnt seem an unusual statement.
just match water to coffees Myst, and you’ll be schweet !
And they should be in historic buildings. If you’re going to stand in line you can at least look at beautiful architecture, carved wood and stained glass (all of which my favorite post office has).
MM how can I get a postcard
I don’t know! I am sending them out to peeps who have been gift-subbed so if you gift-sub someone, i can send the gifter one too if they want…i have hundreds and they are gorgeous – i should do a service where i can post little hand written astro thingies on them
You should!!
yes! $10 or something (?) sees you do a flash tarot-brainstorm maybe..
So…this is probably off topic, but is anyone feeling super psychic lately? Its weird. Loads of info in the air, but I can’t say if any of it is reliable.
crazy qi
Off the hook!
So amped up it feels just right. It feels ok to be Piscean or be a 12th Houser in public, for like the first time ever.
crazy as. nearly lost my first job as a freelancer due to big fat foot in my big fat mouth. I have a lot to learn about client relations. Typical Moon in scorp. I’ve schmoozled my way back in(thx to leo charm cough cough) I hope but jeez way to go LG. Ligntening storm on the way no wonder I’ma bit loopy better get off puter.
hey go and enter the 2 Days in Sagittartius comp! Above!
as in , agreeing
Lol – got it.
lol
Too funny!
I just had a heated discussion a few days ago about the American church and state not being separated. Because otherwise why would it matter so much if Obama was a Muslim. lol.
That made me laugh for realz.
Oh for the days when you went in and bought one stamp. I hate all that S*** they sell. Gift packs, teddy bears, whatever it is. Hardly ever darken the doors. Not to mention the oldies paying their bills “over-the-counter”. Who does that anymore?
I do, as i don’t have the arrogance of youth but the wisdom to do the walk in the sunshine to the delightful couple that run the local PO.
mystic this site is so funny. this mercury retro is ending early next week. i had already fucked with my tauras landlord stuff ie- i threw out the oven tray to the mini oven which he said he paid $200 and he already SO FURIOUS without even showing it that i………..lost the key to the place. he asked over and over “you do have the oven tray don’t you. Tauras really do love their posession sssoooo much. god i am going backwards and don’t you hate it when you moon is transiting the 12th house for that two and a half days and you just feel so under-confident and exposed and have awkward moments in supermarkets. uggh.
Yes, the PO are full of ‘junk’ – but remember, it is called the PO Shop…do people actually realise that the advent of email and such has actually been one of the reasons PO have had to resort to selling such merchandise?The decline in volume of letters posted has had to be balanced off in another way, and although people complain about it, how many of us actually don’t look at the merchandise whilst standing in line?
I agree, a more functionally designed area would be preferable, but really its all about marketing – just like in the supermarkets when you have to go all the way to the back of the store to get the milk – you have to pass by hundreds of various items which you may ‘need’.
I lived in a country in Eastern Europe pre Berlin Wall (and no, the country wasn’t part of the Eastern Block/Warsaw Pact) where the post offices handled the mail, bills and telecommunications, ie , telephone lines etc.
That was it. People knew what the PO was for.
Oh, and I just thought of this – how different is the PO from the chemists?
Not at all!!! Maybe we should have an apothecary – just for medicines – and a separate shop that sells cosmetics, hair colour etc etc etc…
Near bugger up during massive two days of organising planes, trains and buses in China…… Card max out plus glitch at jetabout eeeeek close to my workmate and I in Ningbo with no flight booked out phew so glad I nipped that in the bud over the phone
Near bugger up during massive two days of organising planes, trains and buses in China…… Card max out plus glitch at jetabout eeeeek close to my workmate and I in Ningbo with no flight booked out phew so glad I nipped that in the bud over the phone
WOW.. for me dreaming mucha a lot. I think this is under a different blog. Dreams with current people in my life. Also about animals. Ducks laying eggs, dogs being left behind so their master could be taken to the hospital, Lots of weather conditions. boats, firecrackers… ugh… A lot going on in my mind / world.
Oz Post earns most of its squillions from the post shops and from parcel post – to hear Oz Post talk, that’s how it “affords” to deliver our daily mail. Although the daily mail bit enables it to do all sorts of things (like deliver parcels, sell crap to captives and perform in the direct unsolicited mail space) with an unrivalled delivery network and a physical presence in most Australian communities.
A new one near me is quite slick – especially the separate area with snazzy new red PO boxes.
On an unrelated note, who in my employer decided that Mercury on hold would be the optimal time replace everyone’s PCs without all the usual problems, not to mention some new and different ones?? Also, my netbook collapsed, my mobile died about four months before that would be convenient, and lots of people commenced failing io understand each other at times when it would have been good if they did.
Oh! And Dec 11 when Mercury goes Sagg’s way, is my birthday! And Mercury is conjunct all that in my birth chart. Is this not a bit exciting?