Is Mercury Retrograde A Poltergist?
Mercury Retrograde in Pisces is many things, right?
Mercury Retro in the multi-facet-friendly sign of the Pisces has to be basically omni, yes?
It’s not just the Mer-People being affected by this thing. It’s a Love Zombie Trigger – cue flash yearnings for things from the past, ghosts and echoes. It heightens the chances of serendipitous encounters and also omens/messages in everyday life.
It’s also an infuriating transit for things to be lost in the most surreal, ridiculous way possible. I’m talking like you literally see something on the bench or whatever and then wham, it’s gone.
It’s like it is the Anti-Virgo. I went to check a date from last year; nearly everything in the past calendar on my iPhone is deleted. It leaves some dates and appointments there, but basically the past is obliterated. And as we all know, that’s totally Piscean.
But the shit disappearing in broad daylight, there one moment and apparently in a surreal alternative dimension now? In the past week, i’ve lost a colander, a hoodie, a blender lid & two halves of performance sock pairs. Lol at the latter but this is messing with my Zap Zone fitness bender and forcing my consciousness to be less Virgo, more Piscean.
Is this you as well? Is Mercury Retrograde a Poltergist?
Image: Connie Lim
I’m happy to say this hasn’t happened to me (yet).
Work is a little crazy in that boredom has been replaced with chaos since the retrograde took hold. I literally went from having nothing to do, to have so many things to do I can barely keep track of them all.
Me too GemCrab! I was bored and then last week everything had to be done. I actually saw my boss in a different light. A little frustrating but she will have to get use to me when she gets overly stressed about deadlines and she throws it in my lap. My response can be a little stone cold. And she is pregnant so she isn’t “there” as much. She is leaving early because she is not “feeling” well etc. etc. So, I will take over.. let’s see who they like THAT!!
xo!!
I envy your stone cold approach!
I panic and work over time… I need to learn to take it in stride. I just hate incomplete tasks…
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I am the same as you.. I end up working overtime etc to get it done because I don’t like the stress from my boss. My stone cold approach is when my boss is acting lazy and feels it is ok to throw things in my lap because she’s pregnant.
Are you a hidden Virgo? LOL!!
xo!
I often think I am a closet Virgo
I seriously get their quest for order and practicality.
I have Mars (Scorpio) in the 6th, so maybe that’s it…
Well, I did just go looking for the mixer blades for the hand mixer to bake cookies… and they are no where to be seen!!
But generally with Pisces rising and Neptune in Sag on my MC I’m finally feeling like it may be safe to leave the house and that the ‘outside’ reality may finally be catching up with my witchy fishy way of living!!! Loving having everything in Fish mode at the mo especially Merc for all the amaze dreaming and intuitive communication! 
Perhaps we will finally find out where all those missing socks go now we have access to alt dimensions ??
I keep thinking of the past and then BOOM, a movie from that time will be on or a song that I thought I’d forgotten will come back in full memory in my head. I wore clothes the other day from a time when I was a different me and all those feelings came swelling in. I’m already Pisces-stricken enough, Mars-Asc and Moon, but my Toro realism can’t handle the past just haunting me like that..
there’s this song that has played at key signpost/change/freakout moments in my life WITHOUT FAIL since I was 8. has emotional resonance but appears randomly, in the loo at a shopping centre just as I receive a text from a new significant love interest, playing in a passing car just as I hear of a friend’s death, randomly on the shuffle just as I’m considering moving my entire life to another state. It is uncanny. Like a LISTEN TO ME PAY SOME ATTENTION kind of echo. Unnerving. Is it just emotional resonance and coincidence? I don’t think so.
This song has been remixed – I didn’t know this. I never listen to mainstream radio however a girl at work does, and just as I’m thinking of quitting my job shifting my life CHANGECHANGECHANGE there is goddamn is again.
Not sure if it’s merc retro or some kind of tricksy tag team thing being played by neptune and pluto on serious moonjuice – that’s what it feels like.
Wow, I love that freaky synchronicity, what’s the song!
OMG! I thought that only happened to me! The song “I can see clearly now (the rain has gone)” has been an indicator of changes ahead since the late 80′s. It must be from the 70′s it’s so old but yep, it pops up somewhere just before the unexpected every time.
*sigh*. Missing THE ex.
Made the decision that I will spend the whole month in Hermit mode. Process feelings. Detox system. I figure this is a good month for it. All the Pisces will bring up the muck and emotions so I can sort through them. Then at the end of the month everything going into Aries… I can power out! Hopefully.
Still. Love Zombie mode is not fun.
you can do it Woohoo..
You’re not a love zombie, babe… if you were LZing you’d be saying, ‘oh I’ve spent three days composing a text to him and consulted five tarot readers who all say we have a past life connection so obviously we’re meant to be together even though he can’t quite see it yet… he’s afraid of the intensity of our love.’ …. you’re so not like that! You sound very aware of where you’re at, wishing you weren’t, but being real nonetheless. Just missing someone isn’t a character flaw xx
I’m defs a LZ. I can see all the ways he didn’t treat me right, but given the chance I would not hesitate to take him back. My efforts in trying to forget him are matched by my wishing to have him back. Hoping he’ll apply and get another job back here.
Anyway, it doesn’t help living in this small town. I think I’m just lonely. I need to meet a new guy. So far talent is low in town.
Nothing lost in another dimension so far (that i know of).
However, walked into bedroom to find a crested dove sitting on my pillow, walked back out again in case i hallucinated it (Pisces Rising, Neptune MC, so sometimes i’m not sure if things that i see are really there at all). Walked back in and there she was, peaceful as anything just looking up at me. Let her out and know i didn’t make it up, as she left a little departing gift on my pillow. Hopefully good dreams tonight, as last night after watching Argo i had a shocker.
Goldy, i always knew you were an animal whisperer witchy earth woman. This is fantastic! Birds just sitting in the house is always a really strange phenomenon.
Funny little dove – i suppose it is important to be comfortable and serene when taking a crap
Thanks Millie, I am a bird nerd for sure. When we go away it’s one of the first things i pack, my bird book. The Pisceans lovely Aqua daughter, who travels quite a bit told me after her last trip ” But you are the easiest person to buy gifts for, you like birds, socks, and folk myth stories” … this almost made me cry, as for years people have complained that i am impossible to find gifts for, and that gorgeous Aqua summed me up in one. xx
That’s so cool!!! Perhaps some kind of omen…I would be so excited if that happened to me.
Wow, I sound weird. But I’m kind of a bird nerd. Have a reputation for catching pigeons when they get caught indoors and confused by windows or in corners in the city. I used to have pet chickens as a girl and I loved them as much as my friends loved their dogs and cats. People think they are dumb but they have their own little personalities and quirks…I even trained one of them to ride on the handlebars of my bike!
me too! I had a finch fly into my hand once
chooks are great company
a chook on the handlebars!! that is awesome
Hey Rache,
We have one chicken left out of three, she comes inside about 3ish in the afternoon, and has her own chair. She also goes mental if the children start getting too rowdy. She’s a lovely thing, if only i could talk chook, as she sometimes come in with some great stories to tell us about her day. Great at alerting us to snakes too (she’s done this a couple of times), shes like a little wise old Granny. x I love your chook on the handle bars story, make a great cartoony/tank girl like art piece…x
Hi Cosmic.. there is a great book called Animal Speaks by Ted Andrews. It describes the spiritual meaning for each animal if they appear in our lives.
For a dove it mentions: KEYNOTE: Feminine Energies of Peace, Maternity and Prophecy
The first line says: The dove has a temendous wealth of lore and legend surrounding it. Most of it centers around all the traditional feminine and mother symbols. In the Greek tradition, Aphrodite was born from an egg brooded by a dove.. [there is obviously more]
xo!!
Thanks Virgo Ellie,
I have this book beside the bed for looking up dreams, i hadn’t thought to look up dove. will have a read. – thank you. x
Nice.. My Reiki Master recommended it after a session for me.
xo!!
No. Mercury Retro has brought change and new things. No Ghosts. My everything is Tripple Neo-New
I have :
- New hair,
- abundant energy from self-motivation-ambition to create a new richer deeper better life,
- new friends [who know the difference between "advice" and "support"! THANK YOU HEAVENS ABOVE]
- new dreams/goals/plans
- new address
- new perspective on where i went wrong when saturn was in libra [GOLD]
- new work opportunities + partnerships
- new leadership role
- new relationship with self.
For ME, Mercury Retro in Pisces has sped-up MY Change & Adaptation like you would not believe, Mystic. Finally, the rut that was spot-light and neon during saturn in libra. I think it’s not till saturn changes sign that you actually get the lessons of that transit. The downfall of aspects of your life that no longer serve a purpose. Gone. How do I know I’m doing well? I feel it and I see it, life is tactile again, I am tactile again, and those who don’t like you moving out of the box that they’ve put you in, well, they let you know you’re changing and that’s just fine.
xxx
zOh – and new xcersize, new diet and I’ve never lust over working so hard in my life. I Love Merc Retrod-grade in Pisces x 10000!
(Part of me thinks I’m just from the Future, and then I think I’m in for a Huge Zapping in May and July – that’s when I’ll set fire to my old life and skin for good and all my hard work, confronting weaknesses will totes payoff. I’m still shitting myself at the steps forward I’m taking, leaps, but am gradually feeling more worth it).
This is great and so inspiring to read! I have also gained much of the new things in your list, even after getting zapped HARD for the last 3 mos: having to move, losing job, lost work Laptop at start of Merc Retro, have had car troubles, etc.
life is evolving just as it should.
It has been incredibly stressful but has also felt like a Saturn lesson: oh hey, you weren’t saving money, paying down credit cards and neglecting your car. Nor were you standing up to be a leader at work (that was the hardest lesson here). But now I’m on the verge of a new life: found place to live, should get new job offer tomorrow, all with the support of my soulmate.
That same work lesson hit me pretty hard this week. It does feel like clarity on the whole Saturn in libra era.
alot of peeps are suddenly transforming their vocation area. I am one of them.
congrats on bringing in +ve changes and good luck with the job!
Yes, and good luck to everyone! I am ready to overcome my work blocks and excited by the next opportunity. It’s always good to look at these stressful situations for the lessons to be learned, and evolve from them rather than let them get you down.
Haven’t had anything go missing, in fact this is probably one of my best Mercury Rx’s yet, inspiration’s flowing, blog and social media renovation and revision’s all coming along beautifully, even went back to regular exercise and my intermittent fasting diet etc. except on one count: I haven’t been able to sleep. At. All.
This is the worst case of insomnia I have ever had in my life! I haven’t been able to fall asleep naturally since the Retrograde hit and I’m slowly getting run down. It’s not like my mind is racing or anything, that’s the weirdest thing. In fact, I’ve been taking everything very slowly, a lot more relaxed and flowing than I have ever been especially when it comes to my work and writing, I can’t believe it. But I just can’t sleep! No matter how tired I am. I lay there and my eyes just can’t shut. It almost feels like I’ve forgotten the feeling of falling asleep. I’ve had to taking sleeping pills on two nights already, first time ever, and I dread making a habit of the stuff. I can’t help but think of Heath Ledger.
Usually I get lethargic during Retrogrades but have no problem sleeping. This time, I have no lethargy bar the fact that I’m sleep deprived! It’s nuts.
Is anyone else suffering from the same?
I’m really hoping this will pass with the Retrograde. Never had anything like it in my life before.
yes, my sleep a bit patchy, I wake at 4am and can’t back to sleep without reading for a while, at around 6, and I find I remember my dreams really vividly at 7:30 when I wake again
Plus one on finding it hard to fall asleep & stay there. When I do I dream about the past and it’s like being awake …
Yes, me too! I sleep thru the night fine but I always wake up hours too early, then can’t get back to sleep. Have also had 2 dreams this weekend about the same thing: a particularly difficult as well as growth-inducing job featuring my work crush from that time. I swear that he and I have astral visitations at times: our dream encounters feel incredibly real.
I’m with you Silver. My insominia is so bad that I’m nearly on a third shift sleep schedule. (Fall asleep at 6am/7am, wake up at 2pm). Thankfully I’ve got a flexible work schedule, but the insominia/sleep craziness feels out-of-hand.
yes, me too for insomnia which i unusual for me – but mine is brought on by using my sleep hours to get ahead and push open new doors with my work. I’m just going ape with working, working, towards better things, changes, and loving it, seeing progress and inner-confidence in particular.
Me too. Wake at about 3am and can get back to sleep till after 4. Listening to hypnosis app helps … Relaxes my body then my mind usually tags along … but not practical when I’m having a sleepover so just have to lay there and wait … and deal with the shadows under my eyes in the morning.
i crashed my car and lost my mojo (since retrieved) – is that Mercury retrograde? or just B-grade….
Safe? Expensive? Hope you’re not too shaken.
thank you Mille xx
i had a small crisis of confidence and optimism but I am absolutely fine now.
I think it’s gunna be big, cost-wise
lucky my summer ends today!
oh no! crashing cars.. not like.. hope you come out not too badly off .
When was Merc retrograde last year? Similarly around mid March of 2012, a woman had a seizure at the wheel a two lane road, proceeded to swerve into my lane and plow into me head on. Had no time to react or evade, it was one of those oh shit moments for sure. The paramedic said I basically hit a brick wall at 80. Looking at the whole thing retrospectively, I now feel the astro significance, a very saturn/scorp moment where the universe forces you to recalibrate. And it’s been a extremely harsh and wide learning curve of a year, but finally looking much more positive.
Thanks Gren & Pi
Gren – I don’t know when the Merc Rx was but goodness that sounds awful! i agree that at times I’ve had serious accidents they have been sobering moments in the big picture….warnings?
Luckily no-one was hurt in this – twas just a bingle, and my fault, but rain-soaked circumstances caused the person in front to do something unexpected at a roundabout and then just skated my car into the back of them.
Will be costly for me I think, and I’m a few out of work months into my year of learning to live frugally….which led me to drop the comprehensive car insurance – hadn’t had an accident in 25 yrs. Hello Saturn? Maybe I haven’t learned my lesson yet!
So glad that you are okay calypso – I like your name and it’s one of my favorite moons
I agree, that it is a sober warning, or a shot across the bow. For me, my big costly lessons learned were from ego and making bold decisions without having much foresight or a dedicated plan. So now, I’m grateful to be without chronic injury, although there’s lingering muscoskeletal aches. Definitely have transformed into the better. That day was the start I guess.
yep, sounds like saturn at work
still, I hope there’s some healing available for those lingering problems…
actually looks like I had a stroke of luck today….my mechanic has a car the exact same make and model as mine only smashed in at the back that he was deciding TODAY whether to fix or use for parts….then along I came needing the front panels. seriously. If this was the lesson I had to have then someone is sweetening the deal for me
I’m glad you like the Calypso moon Gren
Things just can’t disappear fast enough around here!
Still packing my life up, and selling worldly goods.
AND i found a sock partner to the lonely-we-need-a-break-from-each-other single sock i washed two weeks ago. Hopefully they’ve had enough space and will pair up nicely again.
Glad things are moving. And so glad about the socks. I do love a good reunion story. The last thing you need right now in your space is a Sock Love Zombie. xx
Pisces rising here. I am relearning things. I am renewing my own personal vows. i am ready for whatever images that may trigger me into fear but I know the fear is just a ghost. I must walk by and ignore while it’s still lurking by but i smile and move on as leap to the new era, consciousness and changes.
oh god, YES. I was wondering if it was a chicken-and-egg scenario (is my customary Piscean disorganisation worsening this? Or am I in fact being hampered by worse-than-usual astro conditions?
If I actually let everything that is going stupid in my life get to me right now, rather than attempt to deal with it in little tiny nibbles at a pace my mind can handle right now, I would soon be found in a corner, wrapped in an old blanket, shivering and babbling uncontrollably in a language no one could understand. *makes eye contact with universe* *resolves to keep going*
i wonder if not lasering in on the shit but actually vaguing out and glossing over it all while actually managing it in small bites is the way Pisceans adapt to crises…
i mean this is what alcohol is for too but it lessens the ability to manage in small bites (bites of a cocktail olive don’t count)
you could be right mille… it was “front foot only” for a few weeks but there are multiple small shit things nipping at my heels right now and most of them relate to lack of income. Am doing what I can to sort this out but the moneyverse ain’t talkin to me yet… something I said…? Wreaks havoc on the self esteem but fuq those gremlins, I’ll make it through somehow.
I could murder a couple of martinis though, that’s for sure! Once I have done this thing that requires a clear head… xx
Hugs xxx
thank you C! xx
Well im a bit love zombie for paris; that capricorn in paris piece stirred it up. As far as im concerned, im very optimistic about my plans. Not sure thats mercury related.
Merc Retro HAS caused a few misplaced items. Lost be me in plain sight, found by others. There have already been TONS of miscommunications, as in people hearing the obsurd instead of what was actually said. Even my kids have noticed. It has SO helped me to know we have a whole month of this and to just go with the flow. I am just trying to be immaculate with work communications. I am feeling pressure to produce with speed but feeling the need to pay attention to detail. Trying to balance. And spell check emails
oh yeah- TOTES!
insane….
I seem to lose things that are there … looking for keys that are exactly where I left them but my eyes can’t seem to see them or focus on them – I see all the crap lying around them, but no keys – so I tear thru the house looking for them in all the other places I might’ve left them and then go back to their usual home on the kitchen bench – lo and behold, they’re there by some strange bit of magic … Pisces sun & moon, Kataka asc – birthday today
did this today … they were in my hand lol ????
Yes! I can’t find my magnesium and my eye is twitching…. Just had a convo that’s making my eye twitch a bit more, I can see how march is going to be mad! I suspect I will be best to not talk much, really dig my own company and keep my hands in the dirt… I also need to lose enough weight so my hot new Lorna Jane pants fir properly! that’ll keep me busy!
Well, they must be ghosts because the man in question is not here, I have made my peace with the fact that he won’t be back, I am moving on. So why, at these times of heightened omens/messages, do they always seem to be about him? Really specific. In one week alone:
- I went to hear a writer read from her novel. The passage she chose included a metaphor that my old lover used in a poem he wrote about me.
- The title of another poem he wrote about me – another obscure old English word hardly heard these days – appeared frequently in a news article I heard by chance.
- Had the radio on at work for 10 mins which never happens. Guest played a song from an obscure local album that was the soundtrack to my summer with him. A song that wasn’t popular, it is never played on radio anymore.
I mean, fuq! I don’t want reminders of him, I have asked the universe to stop putting them in my path. I have begged the universe to help me forget him. I am exercising, building my confidence, buying new ‘dating clothes’, I am smiling at men, I am putting my attention to the future not the past. But it is really very hard not to LZ-out when such coincidences occur. Hmpf.
ah, that. I think these moments are where the universe is testing out resolve.
*our resolve. if it suits you – look back, appreciate, say thanks for the memories, i have to be somewhere new now.
That’s good advice, Pi. The universe is too smart for me, it knows I’m lying. It can see my fingers crossed behind my back. But I’m faking it ’til I make it. As soon as I am able, I intend to take up dating as a recreational sport. That’ll do the trick. He was a nice guy, but he wasn’t the only guy in the world. xx
My experience has been that when I try and get out there and date I get depressed and turn into more of a love zombie! It’s like I gotta have a buffer in between where I regroup and have something to look forward to that has nothing to do with another person…and that cleanses the palate so to speak and helps me not compare the sometimes depressing dating landscape to some idealized version of an ex (not saying you’re doing this…but I totally do and it sucks. 8th house person — take relationships/dating extremely over-seriously and love zombie out over karmic connections that ain’t even there!).
Oh yeah I hear you on that! 8th house Pisces here, so love and karma were the Everything. TBH the experience of loving that guy was so unexpected and bizarre that I don’t expect that to come along again for a while. What I’m interested in is lightness, recreation, the kind of experience of dating I never had when I was younger. It’s a different mindset for me. Will be channeling my Venus in Aqua ! x
GHOSTS….yes. Was just thinking of this retro in this way and then saw your blog post, MM.
The past is hanging around, in ethereal form, for sure. I was really missing my grandmother and my cat today, both passed on within the last ten years. Also, just lots of other weird ‘blasts from the past’, little symbols, songs, etc., showing up here and there…
I usually get depressed during Merc retros, especially by the end, and I also go sort of ‘silent’, more inward, I guess. I’m a bit depressed tonight….feeling lonely….
This retro is ALL OVER my stuff, though. That huge Pisces stellium is transiting MY Pisces stellium and it’s a trip! I am getting a lot of insights and creative ideas about work/career and try to wriggle out of this financial difficulty I’ve been living in for several years now. I’ve had some real breakthroughs with ideas for that! The Merc retro is happening in my 10th house and backing up into my 9th……
Me too with the Pisces stellium! I have Pisces sun/Merc/Saturn conjunction, Chiron at 17 and Psyche at 23. So I’ve got transiting Venus and Chiron, plus Neptune and Mars tripping over me.. I think Eros is in there too…. through my 7th/8th. Plus opposing my Pluto / Uranus / Mars in Virgo. It’s madness
Ooh! You have it too!
It’s a trip, yeah! I keep forgetting it’s in opposition to my Virgo stuff, too. My Uranus, Pluto, Jupiter.
I also have that gnarly Mars/Pluto opposition. I have Mars at 17 Pisces and Mercury is retro-ing at 15 Pisces right now…..I’d better watch what I say! I’ve been more irritable and bitchy lately, for sure, and I’ve been reflecting on how much of a bitch I can be, in general, so maybe that’s what the retro is doing for me, trying to give me insight about that. I’ve been trying to deal with my anger issues, lately, to learn how to process my anger better.
That would be a really productive way to use the retro phase, flowerchild. I tend to forget about my Pluto-Uranus Virgo in 1st but it pulls directly at my sun stellium so it’s a constant battle. Mars is currently opp my natal Mars in Virgo so no wonder I am all over the place!
Oh, wow, having the Merc retro influence your 1st house stuff must be intense! ..esp. with Mars involved.
I would think having this retro influence the angles, like you have (Asc/Desc) and I have (MC/IC) would make it all the more intense and pronounced for us.
My Mars is EXACT conjunct my MC and my Pluto is a few degrees off my IC, in the 4th house.
We’ll all have to see how we feel and see what has happened after this retro period passes on 3/18!
Mystic your post is spot on spooky
I’m reminded how feisty I am this merc
looks like ill be here for a while folks
http://life.nationalpost.com/2013/03/01/always-look-on-the-dark-side-of-life-pessimists-live-longer-healthier-lives-than-optimists-germany-study/
With this mercury Retro stell Retrograding my 8th of secret and cult studies, what this generation Y’er is finnding out about unwarrented Ghost Fear and what its driven some in secret to do…
With Pluto moving into (secrect) Aquarius (societys) next- u all might wanna try being a little more “pessimestic” with your fasley ordained industries.
this Piscean retrograde all through my 6th house, over my natal saturn, and chiron …felt neptune moving in last year as we moved to a house across from a lake. It seems to rain more frequently, and there are hundreds of little frogs chorusing at night.
Feel deeply safe at home for the first time since I was a teenager asked to leave by stepma after dad died. Also all this Pisces is making me dreamy and silent like I was once, my cousins used to call me moonhead cos I was preferably tuned out, drawing or reading greek mythology. At the moment it is the memoirs of Christopher Hitchens. I am basking in Neptune, it’s muting out mars, uranus pluto Virgo tight together in the 12th
cloud atlas. hahahahhahahahaha… runs off for hematite bracelet and voodoo oils- “soul mates blah blah tangled connection blah blah BLAH” –gaaaah!
Am on anti-epileptics that actually stop me creating memories. Finding stuff I just put down is a feature of my daily life. It’s completely maddening. If I didn’t drive I wouldn’t even take them.
So I cannot realistically comment on Merc Retro as I take the Merc Retro Drug.
Helluva Mercury rx in my world. Friend in HK: hard drive mysteriously crashed and (for the time being let’s hope) he lost everything on it. Another friend here in BJ: knocked off her bike and had her IPhone stolen (both events out of the ordinary here). A big organization I work for: email system down for days loads of missing emails and general admin chaos…and me? Lost a whole project have been working on for a year or more coz the business parties couldn’t agree. Oh well….keeping a very close eye on iPad!
I “lost” my Scorp friend this afternoon. We were supposed to meet and I was late by 10minutes and I couldn’t find her. I even walked around the place. Best part? She messaged me earlier that “my phone batt is dying”.
The other friend I was meeting, a Piscean, was like “meh, she’s always MIA, let’s go to cafe, what do you want to eat?”
We met up with the Scorp later at the cafe because she had gone home first to charge her phone. -_-”
In the daily scopes there was something about Aquas coming out of the Neptune in Aqua fog. I definitely am feeling this…it’s like once the Sun passed through Aqua I was reborn! Healthy, productive, creative, and NOT A LOVE ZOMBIE. Saturn just into my 7th house as of July…right when long-distance-2.5-year-travel-romance ex and I broke up. This winter was rough but if my last Saturn transit was anything to go by Saturn is a glammer, bitchier version of Pluto — anything not structurally sound will be swept away first.
My 6th house Saturn transit experience with it was a complete astro-cliché — my advice to anyone in it now is to seriously heed the health warnings that come with this transit! I learned so much and got way healthier than I was but only because I was completely falling apart physically.
Regarding Health.. Ok. I will start paying attention. I am worried about my eyes!
i got a ring stolen then i stashed it and forgot to lock door
bitch that stole it originally i see her in the street
and she looks at her fingers to see what rings she is wearing wtf
a real cow as not told anyone what she really like
and lies to others to look good
yet ring gone and i dont know if she restole it!
I am having horribly vivid dreams where all of humanity are slowly suffocating fish in under-oxygenated water….must be Pisces. I have Pisces rising so am feeling that vibe strongly…also omens of rotting fish…any others influenced by pisces having this kind of negative “eveythings polluted” kind of vibe? I’m free of love zombies, but not free of the thought that human kind’s the zombie!
I’ve had The Clash’s Live at Montego Bay on repeat and have been musing over the ‘good ol’ days’ of my own psychic and creative freedom, energy now funneled towards balance sheets – whatever…..
I haven’t misplaced anything yet, but Merc Retro has another two weeks to go, so who knows?
This retro has started just on my Pisces ASC, going backwards to 12th house. I have revised my “to-be” list, rephrased several of its items. The projects are still waiting to be revised, but I can’t concentrate at all! And I am sleeping as if my life depends on it. With the 12th house now am escaping to my dream world.
And of course, Merc Retro throws up all sorts of past connections I’d rather forget. So far, the total count is six.
Here is another perspective on Mercury Retrograde by the Astrologer Rob Brezsny from Free Will Astrology.
”Uh-oh. Mercury’s retrograde. You know what that means: garbled phone calls, fouled-up travel plans, missed deadlines, embarrassing slips of the tongue. Right? Wrong!
It makes me sad when the sacred art of astrology is turned into just another excuse to be superstitious. Using half-baked horoscopy to justify self-fulfilling prophecies is astrology abuse in the extreme.
Sorry to get so riled up. I’m a little sensitive about this. I truly love astrology’s power to enhance our willpower, and it bugs me when it’s ignorantly invoked to accomplish the very opposite.
When Mercury is retrograde, as it is until March 17, it does not mean communication snafus are inevitable. Rather, it tells you this is a great time to refine the ways you exchange information . . . and to concentrate harder on saying what you mean and meaning what you say . . . and to meditate on how to improve the ways you connect yourself to the people and resources you need and like.
P.S. Some people say that when Mercury is retrograde, it’s a bad time to begin anything new. During one such period two years ago, an acquaintance of mine decided to delay accepting a dream job offer as editor of a magazine. By the time Mercury returned to normal, the magazine had hired another applicant. I wish I’d have known, because I would have told her what I’ll tell you: Some of America’s biggest, most enduring Fortune 500 companies began when Mercury was retrograde, including Disney, Goodyear, and Boeing.
My deep skepticism about big corporations notwithstanding, the fact that their founders had great success in launching them during Mercury retrograde is a telling statement about Mercury retrograde.
P.P.S.: In my understanding of astrology, there’s no such thing as a bad astrological aspect. It’s true that some may be more challenging than others, but every single one of them presents an opportunity. And having said that, I personally don’t regard Mercury retrograde as even being particularly challenging. If you fear and expect it to be, you may tend to be slightly more attractive to disruptive events. But then that’s true about how every superstition works.”
http://www.freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/
Thanks for sharing this. I def feel like I am being pushed to revise how I communicate my ideas and needs to others. I’m working on it consciously and the astro is really supporting my awareness. Also, I’m hoping to get a job offer on Monday and intend to take it if I do.
Disney has tons of sexual subliminals in it. That kids act out, then our judical system makes a killing off ‘Fixing them” Are they really that successful?
This guys gotta be a nothings changed boomer….Boeing and Good year probably have there hands dirty in something im sure…how you can be so large and “successful” in the eyes of the universe in this atmosphere of of pure greed mindless competition world sadness and corruption is beyond me. I bet they started out on a rocky road. Im sure if we pitted things agianst people who respected a mercury retrograde and people who make there own universal interprets would see those who started with mercury direct with much less hiccups.
I see mercury retrogrades in effect and these companys as war machines and not what they appear to be, so I would say the merc retro is in effect. I dont have it retrograde, I get the wierdest calls break stuff that never breaks when its direct. I guess if you can can tempt fate. I prefer to go by what ive tested. My text goes to no one so I have nothing vested in the matter.
And that no such thing as a evil, aspect crapola Thats stuff u say when you have a client base. or when your new and dont wanna get your feelings hurt about your chart. I dont so, I read deep finality astrology when taken in context of the whole chart- there are people I continue interacting with and people I dont. And im sure im better for it, control freak or egotist for selfish reasons, I just dont respond.
If someone has apects that suggest one is a killer or has violent tendencies. those “o so challenging aspects” I suggest finding it in there chart before they find you.
That’s also what I took from it. Instead of focusing on delays and frustrations, why not look at the way we might be creating these situations with our own ways of communicating and expressing our self. Re-trograde: Re-vising, Re-thinking, Re-shaping, Re-structuring, our methods of expression! Awesome!
yea that guys a Cancer- totally based his applications on emotion, instead of providing us with numbers and research into if it works or not.
Hes a cancer usually there all mostly about defining themselves and other people through money. If you need F 500 company to tell you what success is, your sipping corporate koolaid. Someone sounds stuck stuck in the past.
riled sensitivity.. lol pat answer astrology…
I once saw astrology described as “applied poetics”. So in that sense it’s interpretive rather than predictive as such. Various interpretations of events, situations, characters etc can provide food for thought, a common language between like minded people… and yes, even some much needed levity in our musings about life. Will power, on the other hand, comes from within. I have never managed to muster it any other way.
Hey i reckon your colander, hoodie and blender lid are under that womans hair in the pic?
What a strange array of items to go missing? Maybe they have gone to the land of lost bobby pins and socks? I am always losing them
Maybe you need a new hoodie and a new colander? funny i thought you meant calendar ha ha enough said:)
p.s. i have gone missing from work last few days, and loved it forgot what day it was, had trouble kerping track of time, in the zone!
[Mercury Retrograde in Pisces is many things, right?]
[Mercury Retro in the multi-facet-friendly sign of the Pisces has to be basically omni, yes?]
[It’s not just the Mer-People being affected by this thing. It’s a Love Zombie Trigger – cue flash yearnings for things from the past, ghosts and echoes. It heightens the chances of serendipitous encounters and also omens/messages in everyday life.]
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Still in LZ mode. The toro/gem did a sudden clean house of his FB friends. I mean everyone who was very close to him, including me. He did keep some of our mutual friends but something happened to piss him off. So he is now missing.
I did send a nice email wishing him well. His response was that he has FB for only family now (which is a lie).. but he is hurt by something from us. I was completely surprised that he removed so many. Removing me I could understand but not some of the friends I know are very important to him.
Reading Mystic’s post above I would like to say he got freaked out about the past, the friends that were involved in that past (the ones he removed) and me because the past is of a love he was hurt by.
So, it opens my eyes more about him and how hurt he is. I feel bad for him. I will keep on stepping.
xo!!
Oh.. and I will be seeing a HS friend today. Last time I saw her was 31 years ago. FB has it’s good points like this one.. but there is a lot of bad.
That is all pure conjecture Ellie.
You do NOT know why, you may THINK you know why but bottom line is you will NEVER know why so DON’T waste your time thinking about it.
Final ties are cut. Let him go. Be free and move on.
I walked away from the ATM without taking the $200 I had just withdrawn. Didn’t even realise till 15 minutes later.
Ouch.
Did you get it? Yikes..
Nope. It was gone by the time I went back. Lodged a form with the bank incase it was the ATM’s fault, as I have NO recolection at all as to what happened. I hadn’t been able to remember anything for nearly two week. I missed my 20yr high school reunion because I thought it was on in March and that we were only in November??
Only just learning about Mercury Retro etc, so am totally pumped that I am not in a perma fog.
Thanks.
Oh man.. that stinks! Don’t they have cameras? Was it during banking hours that someone from the bank took it or someone brought it inside? Don’t they have tracking info.. oh sheesh…look at me probably causing your more stress. Just feel bad!
xo!!
No stress at all. Bank was great. They took details, lodged a dispute form incase it got stuck in machine and asked around for me. No one dropped the cash in. It was Fri lunch time. ATM’s are at bottom of highrose, but under building works so no camera that day.
I’ve let it go now. Was just pleased that it was also the planets and not just me loosing my fuqing mind. Thank you. Yr ace.
I was born during merc retro. Mercury retrograde has thrown up ye olde classic merc retro tricks …
I scan things that can’t then be read, I turn up early to the wrong room, which sees me arriving late to the right room. I think my uni lecturer thinks I am really incompetent.
At work, everything that could take an hour’s work or day’s work is taking at least two weeks, with the people due to give me something blaming the ones before them for it taking two weeks instead. Then when it comes, it’s replete with odd little errors that challenge me to notice them.
Last week, bang on the start of mercury retro, I was due to to fly somewhere on the last flight of the day, at 7.00 PM. Prior to that, I received a message to say that the plane was delayed to 7.30 PM.
Come 7.00 PM I see ‘final call’ and sprint through airport. They had changed the departure time to 7.15 PM and didn’t see the need to tell anyone! And all day, I couldn’t check in online as usual so got stuck at back of plane. (Yay me!).
The cat – my pisces princesss – has it right, as she would like me to stay put on the couch. It’s where I should be for all of March.
As fate would have it I am currently unemployed and may just end up taking your cat’s advice. Yesterday, I crashed from exhaustion, so perhaps the couch and I need each other.
Airlines are such assholes. But, I do love getting to the gate just in time. Safe travels!
Funny though. I am not quite in “could have been” land (I think – realised that I am really bad at recognising what’s actually going on in my head/heart), but today I missed the Neptunian Toro – we actually did have a great Toro-Pisces vibe. Also playing music right now that instantly evokes the brief era of the Very Sexy Virgo With Scorp Mars… a while ago realised that the vile feelings around the Angry Pisces were rather diminished and I started thinking of the very funny repartee that we exchanged… we did share a sense of humour which is rare for me, let me tell you. Had another yummy dream about the Amazing Pisces Scientist the other night. I never dream about love / men etc, incl him, but whenever I do dream about him it’s just *such* a delicious energy, we’re not necessarily “together” in the dream, but around in the same space, I wake up feeling like we’ve been hanging out together. Sigh / lol.
Well, got fired Wednesday, felt like a 7 year old afraid to leave my room, and heard from Uranian Scorp that night. He claims he hadn’t gotten a message sent months ago and said his crazy life will be less crazy soon. I let him know About my job and that I am done giving myself to situations that don’t want or need my talents. No love zombie here.
Friday my keyless car key stopped working. Spent Saturday getting tips on relating to others from my lovely Libran stylist during a mommy and me morning at the salon. After that, my keys were working again.
My severance package has a critical typo. I hope mer retro let’s the new job offer get to me speedy quick. I want a schedule again. I am a Virgo, damn it, and proud of it!
Oh. And I have no computer now. Had to return it Wednesday. How mercury retro is that? Nothing is temporary about that situation. The Phoenixing must go on!
what a week 12V. I can vouch for the schedule-less lifestyle and the strange unhinged feeling that can accompany it… I mean I am the queen of just going with it, but even I have my limits. My theory is to explore this space-walk..I’ll be back on Earth soon enough.. you too no doubt xxoo
and, obviously, I am sorry to hear that you lost your job.. although given the history you might be OK about it, in some way?
I’m grateful for the clarity. They actualy said I need structure to feel safe. And I saw it through all time and something changed in me then. But they weren’t willing to give me time to show it. That hurt. But the place I interviewed at is everything the last place isn’t. They’re uber structured and still creative. They have open working spaces, so no more girl hiding in my room. I MUST learn to collaborate!! And getting a leadership role will make that easier for me. I’m sure of it. When HR told me no one knows what to do, the situation was fluid, I was like “Thank fuck! I can lead in a situation like that!” but no one ever told me that before. Or at least, I never heard them correctly.
I have had the same situation! Lost job due to them having no structure and horrible communication. Plus, me having to work with in collaborative bullies more concerned about protecting their own jobs than doing what’s best for the company. I simply cannot win or thrive in that situation…makes me shut down and disengage. Coming job offer will be from a company that is way more structured and working on a product that has strong new leadership. And here’s the Merc Rx bit: I’ve interviewed at this company 4 other times now!!!! The other roles weren’t really right for me so I’m not even mad about being passed over before. This time they’ve been courting me!!!
Interesting! I see you are double mutable. Are you Virgo/Virgo rising like me? The mer retro bit for me is the recruiter contacted me in december and I ignored him. Then, I realized a formercolleague word there and got an accelerated interview on her referral. Cheers to new beginnings!
No, I”m actually a Gemini, with moon in Virgo. Why yes, I do over-analyze things.
12th did you get the job offer? Sounds exciting! xo!
I interviewed late on Friday with two people. The recruiter said he had to check in with the 2nd guy, but the first one told him he wanted me on his team. He said they’re picky, but expected they make an offer on Monday.
Good luck, 12HV. May you and the right job find each other xx
Fingers crossed 12th!! Toes and arms as well!
xo!!
Good luck!!!
i went back to my north node conjunct sun and sextile neptune, ascendant-neptune aspects and there’s a lot of ‘creative pursuits’, ‘creative expression is your destiny’ blah blah, there’s also ‘travel abroad for a cause’ speak as well. I guess the mer retro is making me reflect on this because it puzzles me. ‘creative’ is broad, c’mon.
i had a look at my younger sister’s chart too while i was ‘addit. she has mars square neptune, moon 8th house and moon square sun. geeze i need to be more supportive. the moon square sun is also in a dear friend’s chart. they both come into conflict with people alot.
oh yeah mercury rx in full force here. Already a flat tire, wayward checks of money owed us getting lost in the mail (amazing how my money owed to people finds its way there fast but the other direction is slow), and just the other day my cell phone clock was reading the correct time but it was the WRONG DATE. I tried turning it off and rebooting but alas it was stuck on the day before. argh. I had put the wrong date on everything.
My wife has North Node Conjunct MC and I have Moon Conjunct Midheavan. Says a lot about our focus and concerns.
Carol Anne? Carol Anne! Stay away from the light, do you hear me?!
LMAO!!!!!
I don’t have any of this except the Love Zombie stuff but honestly I think I’m in that state perma anyway, just entered Pluto sq Venus, lord help me. I’m one of those born with Merc RX and I swear it does seem to pass me by, aside from a particularly monster one in 2011 which got everyone in a tizz. Right now I can hear my housemate downstairs looking for a ring she’s lost, it was literally in front of us and vanished, no sign of it anywhere. So weird.
Having a strong Merc Rx so far. Reading the scopes it looks like the close proximity of Aries humping Mars is trumping everything atm. I’m extremely irritable at home though and bored bored. Funny, I still can’t get my gravatar to sync up. I’m no dummy, but I can already tell it’s something really obvious. Also, I’ve been having lights flicker off in the garage where I park at work. It’s probably timer related, but kind of cool. Haven’t had any desire to run with the old hobbies, friends, scenes. I want new, crazy, unpredictable action, a blind road trip with a close clandestined misfit. But still in kind of a recessed productive hermit mode with being most content during Workout and career-branding times. The other hours have been very alone and in waiting mode. I came across the MM post from July 2012 whether it is better to be a sheep in boredom or a wolf in loneliness. I’ve got both…what to do.
Add some medicinal herb to the mix and consider everything simple but important tangible thing to vanished to never land…
And my animals are hilarious when Mercury is RX. The cancerian dog who’s usually perky and alert just lays around pouting and my aries cat won’t stop jumping off the high bookshelf. Hoping to snap out of it? Hmm.
I’ve literally lost days–ie, my calendar! I write everything down in it, since being a Sag, if I don’t wite down appts/times I’ll show up on Sag time not everyone’s time. *ugh* That’s about the extent of my Merc Retro “norm” afflictions. Everything else has been very beneficial. My 4th (outta 5) pinched nerve finally released in my lower back. I can touch my toes again! I can finally go back to working out without pain. AND I finally lost my temper. Anger is theraputic as well as motiviational for me so…only good things ahead.
um, I’ve dubbed Dec through Feb as the black hole sun, felt like one long bad trip, I can’t recall any of it. I think I slept through most of it, by choice!
I think you are making a local event macro, Meg. Not saying that Merc Retro in pisces doesn’t add to paraormal phenomena but what u describe is classic trickster-spirit possession stuff. a sprite / earth element / mis-channeled energy of any kind will do the stuff you describe. its frightening but not astro. it is also not too difficult to undo, normally, with the aid of some salt, a sacred circle, sagebrush and an open, focussed mind. just look up wiccan cleansing rituals online, should sort u out… and since its a waning moon (i think) you don’t have to wait long to do it:-)
I am forever losing jewelry, but reckon it always happens for a reason, like some sort of sign. Anyway, my best turquoise necklace disappeared as soon as Merc went retro. Hopefully it turns up.
Otherwise this has been an awesome, creative, fateful Merc Rets. (Pisces rising>?)
I’ve been wondering how Gypsy Romeo (was that the man with the animals and the wayward piscean partner?) is doing these days.
Anyway, i send love xx
Yes! Think merc retro has stolen my Daily Mystic!
Wow, what a coindinky that you posted this.
YES. Mercury retrograde is a poltergeist.. but only in my dreams… let me explain
I dreamt that I was in a park and my camera went missing. I was with all of my work mates and there was this one ‘stupid’ but very handsome guy I had a fling with, who was there. He gives me the shits. Anyway I blamed it on him and then POOF my camera is sitting on the bench.
I have an interview for Flight Centre but I couldn’t remember the time and the letter with the interview time on it had gone missing. I was stressing out and bummed because I missed out on my interview and I was thinking of ways to explain what had happened. I then found my letter which stated the interview was in fact TWO DAYS FROM NOW. What a relief!
And lastly… this is interesting. I dreamt I was in a car park a mystical looking car park. I had to go to Pluto.. I convinced the ‘gate keeper’ to Pluto to let me go. The way to pluto was behind a door that had been duct taped shut. While he was opening the door a little girl appeared she was very cute with dark hair and bangs. She kind of look like me. I played with her until the door opened.
This is all in ONE dream.
I am going through a hell of a Pluto transit. It’s conjunct my Uranus. Then it will be conjunct my Neptune. Then conjunct my Saturn .. then all over my moon.
So no surprise I’m dreaming of these urges to travel to Pluto.
I read this article when MM first posted it – and didnt think much of it.
This morning however, something strange happened. When I was in my dream state, I became aware of waking reality – being in bed, in my room, with my plushie doll laying between my ear and right shoulder; I mean, this is the kind of thing that usually what happens as we wake, right? But what was strange was that I distinctly remember my doll feeling like it was being tugged towards my back, and I thought I heard what was the beginning of my name being called out in my right ear, but as soon as I woke up in a slight panic by what I was understanding to be going on, the movement of my doll and the calling of my name stopped immediately. Ive never had anything like this happen before, and when I think of my dream last night along with this morning’s events, I start to feel… slightly uncomfortable. I will also add that this happened around 5:30 in the morning. I NEVER wake up that early of my own accord.
Not sure if making my first comment during Mercury Retrograde is the thing to do or not, but I got inspired to subscribe by the “Tell Me Everything About Libra” post (no, I’m not her!), so here I am.
I’ve been noticing a few things going missing lately — important papers, socks, the tv remote (five times in two days), even my purse at one point — only to turn up in plain sight the next time I walk through the room. I have Virgo in Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto and NEVER lose anything, so am happy to have an explanation for this nonsense.
As for the Pisces part, well, the only place I’ve got Pisces is in Chiron. I’ve got a bunch of mystery bruises that showed up out of nowhere (what did I DO to myself?!); I understand Chiron isn’t really about literal wounds, but…
*casts shifty eyes at Chiron anyway*
Definitely agree Merc Rx is like a poltergeist. Shit goes astray and its probably best that its gone really. Amazing how once I’m aware of his going AWOL three times a year I palpably notice how much more stressy other people get around me, especially when it comes to
1. Foot in mouth disease
2. Electronic device angst
3. Interpersonal meltdowns
I like to think Mercury is putting up his hot little winged heels in Bermuda somewhere smoking a nice fat one. He certainly deserves regular breaks from the neurotic humans.
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Yep totally a poltergeist. Losing my old thought patterns and naff laziness.
All these pisces planets, all 6 of them, in my 7th house.
wow.