Merry Mercury Direct & now, well, things go faster and there should be heaps less of that mixed-messaging style confusion but as I say, Mercury Retrograde purists don’t count it as DONE until Mercury gets back to six degrees of Libra, the point at where it went Retro in the first place. How I Think This Works: The contracts signing being a bad idea, shit breaking down, crazy Freudian slippage and all that stuff is done once Mercury is Direct. But dialogue from as far back as mid-August still has a while to play out. There will be further developments on any important dialogue in that time. Or reversals. Weirdings. Revelations. Secrets. You get the idea. Particularly when Mercury Squares Pluto again for the third time in a row on October 11.
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Yes, I know. You may feel like hooting it up with some destressing decadence or even just naff crap comforting “food”.
The Dark Moon is always a bit like that. But it’s a Dark Moon in Virgo and I swear, give in to naff urges and you will feel revolting shortly afterward. Especially when the Moon is new conjunct Saturn…Difficult as it may be, this is the time to skive off to bed early with cats/epsom salts baths/valerian tea/face masque/goobly new age tunes…whatevs, you get the idea- yes?
With the current astro-weirding, the path to Uranian fun, freedom & individuation leads through the portal of Saturnine self-control. And the Moon being conjunct Saturn is an intimate echo of this ongoing astro-passage.
Soooo, Saturn has just opposed Uranus AGAIN and it does so a few more times before moving on. Most notably next April, which is when you get to check out how you are doing with the Saturn-Uranian evolutionary process.
This has been raved on and ON about on this site so you can use the search engine or tags to explore previous rantings but in short, think of having to establish a strong new grounding for yourself (Saturn) to get the space, self-expression and freedom that you need…Uranus. And having to use Uranian individuation/innovation to get the Saturn structure right. Somehow making each serve the other.
And that all of society is doing this, one way or another. It began late last year, climaxed in Feb/March, this week just gone and will do it again from April to mid-2010. So, how are you doing with it? And what’s the plan for balancing out Saturn-Uranus energies in the next eight or nine months….???
Helping: The Auspicious Aqua Weirding – Chiron and Neptune are near together in Aquarius (the sign ruled by Saturn AND Uranus) – and Mars in Leo from mid-October…Fear is not an option and nor is fuqed hair.
Lol and I have a new Mercurial Bats caution.
Do not, during Mercury Retrograde in LIBRA, attempt to suddenly D.I.Y. a beauty therapy procedure that one would normally have performed by an actual beauty therapist. I am thinking specifically the random purchase of crap-evil-scent infused supermarket ‘cold’ waxing product on the grounds that one is too busy for yet another appointment and how-hard-can-it-be? As for the crap-evil-etc product, ‘natural essence of jasmine & frangipani’ w.t.f? Thank Aphrodite was only one’s underarms.
Don’t impulse D.I.Y. things during Mercury Retrograde.
Is anyone else noticing flirtations and affairs that had died right down flickering up again during this particular Retrograde?
This feels kind of retro to me (then again, Mercury IS Retro) but lately a lot of peeps i talk to are mentioning this book. I thought it was way old & sort of obvious but maybe it’s either (a) a new book and i am just outta touch with self-enrichment lit as I all i currently read in that vein are my Wolves book & the Qi guide. BUT this Emo Vampire thing is being raved about. Is it feeling super-relevant because of Pluto stationing Direct and Saturn/Uranus new era stuff??? As people consciously try to sift through various aspects of their lives a la the shitfight between Saturn & Uranus?
Years ago i used to be a LOT more vulnerable to the variety of person described in this book. These days i am way more ruthless & tend to go on a gut vibe. I think this ability to throw up effective shields et al definitely improves after Saturn Return. It’s those Saturn Girl ’set and forget’ boundaries again.
Here we go again with the Saturn-Uranus Opposition dudes. Do NOT forget that the Saturn-Uranus opposition tends to warp time. This will be MOST apparent with Pluto stationing Direct & Mercury Retrograde.
Saturn IS the god of time – his Greek name is Chronos – and Uranus is sort of quantum loop future quadri dimensional time-is-a-numerical-construct-ish.
So there is a battle between the Saturnine punctuality/deadlines consciousness and the Uranian timewarping.
Revise your scheduling systems or simplify where you can. Seriously be rad when it comes ruthless simplification. Expect weird flashes of nostalgia, power-rage surges. Keep it productive. Do the old Saturn Law: 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work, 8 glasses of water a day. Sort your clocks or whatever it is you keep time with.
My new Eco-Ghoul light bulbs are So giving me the shits that i am seriously wondering if my Taurus Hippy Uncle was right and we SHOULD ALL BE up with the dawn and asleep by dusk.
Ah yes, t’is Mercury Retrograde again & a misunderstanding has already led to me becoming some sort of agent of catharthis. I think, with this particular retro-bats extravaganza, that there is potential for Freudian slippage and wilful mishearing to trigger already existing hostilities or suspicions.
In other Mercury Retro news, a Japanese scientist is apparently successfully training pigeons as art critics & I have a distraught e-mail from Showbiz Leo.
“Dear Mystic,
I am like a Cowardly Lion when it comes to comments but please be assured that i read all you write and that I move in very influential circles. I have the most awful dilemma and i need to know: WILL THIS BE SOMEHOW MAGICALLY CURED ONCE MERCURY RETROGRADE IS FINISHED? My kids school principal and I have been discussing yoga teachers and exchanged texts about one teacher in particular because of his delicious cadence in the way he talks about ‘your pelvic area is full of delicate tissue and is full of light’ etc during the relaxation part of the practice. So I have dubbed him Yoga Porn Teacher and the school principal (a lady) and I have exchanged e-mails abut his cosmic orgasms etc.
So that’s fine. I am having an affair at the moment AND I am in showbiz and the other day i texted her something I meant for my LOVER. I am not going to go into details but i referred to (in joke) “ur elegant cock” and some other stuff. So my lover doesn’t respond – odd – but school principal does, saying we should go for a drink!!!!!! So imagine my hysterics when realised had texted school principal with my filthy sexting. What I need to know: Will this feel better/be miraculously cured when Mercury is Direct?
Gratefully,
ShowBiz Leo.”
Dear ShowBiz Leo,
Just say you’re terribly sorry but your P.A. who is 19 and terribly, terribly immature & sex-obsessed used your phone to text her sleazy yacht club boyfriend and that she is foreign so somehow mistakenly…hmm. Or say nothing. Go for the drinks? Get your children the most extraordinary reports ever? She obviously likes you and is not at all concerned that you thought her a transgendered individual.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? And take note – watch who you are sending stuff to!!!! Plus what you say, during this Retro-Bats phase….
Also, I think ravens would be better art critics than pigeons. I mean, WHY pigeons…of all birds? Because a lot of them seem to hang around big art galleries??? I always thought this was as it had lots of handy nesting and shitting nooks – ancient architecture and all – but maybe the whole time it was because they are SO ARTY! Actually, why not Vultures? As in culture vultures…
“Although Barrymore will strive to convince you that she’s as simple as a daisy, she is, in fact, a bouquet of contradictions. She swears like a drill sergeant , yet her highest words of praise have to do with ‘purity’ and ‘joy’. She adopts the carefree persona of a party girl but pushes herself like a hard-charging C.E.O. “ John Powers
This is inadvertently one of the best descriptions of Pisces I’ve read! Drew Barrymore is a multiple conjunct Pisces: Sun, Psyche, Pallas, Lilith, Jupiter and Venus all in Pisces.
Another Quote…from her: “I’m a Yin-and-Yang Piscean, I’m an oxymoron of a dichotomy of a double-sided being.”
And the Moon is building to be FULL in Pisces – with Saturn opposing & Pluto going Direct. Now you get to see how your hard evolutionary work of the last few months is coming along…Dream realisation or a swift little reality check?
I love the basic description of Saturn Girl as “a talented telepath from the 30th Century.”
I am so totally loving Saturn, even though the planet is opposing my Venus right now. As you can read in Saturn Crashes The Uranus-Venus Club and the Saturn-Venusian Transits Bad Boys Thingie if you are having a Uranus transit to any point in your chart in the next month, Saturn is along for the smackdown. But this is a GOOD thing.
It need not be Venus of course – whatever is betweeen 20 to 26 degrees of any sign but especially the Mutable signs (Virgo, Pisces, Gemini, Saggo) is being affected. In fact, more than that, it’s been caught between Saturn and Uranus. My mind is on this at the moment partly because i am doing the Saturn-Uranus-Mercury Retro mini-astro-queries but also because i have this Saturn opposing my Venus thing going on & I have decided TWO MAJOR THINGS;
Thing One; Saturn is not boring. Yes i often link the planetary influence with mortality, taxes blah de blah. But the other night, when i turfed out the Uranian, it felt fabulous. Like having an inner suave life coach – setting boundaries seemed suddenly SO simple & easy. And just because he’d turned up out sans warning, i didn’t let my Venus-Neptunian goo-goo urges take over and render the whole thing “passionate” or (worse) fated. Quite frankly it is that sort of sentiment that leads to an awful lot of women snivelling into the cracked tea-mug they’re drinking warm gin out of as they gaze out of their rusty window frame at the railway tracks. Not that the U would have taken me there, but you get my point. Channel Saturn to prize your health, wealth & wisdom. Saturn is cool. And given that the pantheon is overwhelmingly male, i am visualising Saturn as Saturn-Girl for the moment. It works for me and it might work for you too.
Thing Two; Yes, Saturn and Uranus are moving into an opposition at the moment (and it’s back next April so how you do September’s one determines 2010 a LOT) but it need not be a battle between the two. What if they get along really well & help one another? The other night with the U is not just me being an indulgent confessional blogger – it works as an example because Venus was trining Uranus and sextiling Saturn. So it was an actual Saturn-Uranus opposition test/issue. Okay so Saturn works by setting boundaries & saying this isn’t good enough and so on – Uranus was simply bored by the whole thing. I seriously felt like it was a groundhog situation. Almost like we had been scripted and were just revving up for take 57 of the same stupid scene. Not good. Uranus on its own might grok the boredom and attempt to liven things up via a dash of chaos or acting out but Saturn kicks in and says ‘kill it’ – no dramas, no worries & now pixter your teeth, bung on some antioxidant serum & go happily to a rejuvenatory sleep.
So far as boundaries go, Saturn-Girl is set and forget. No agonising. No insomnia. No Neptunian musings re karma drama.
AND: One of my fave astro books – The Gods Of Change, by Howard Sasportas - makes the point that Neptune always benefits from a little Saturn. So if you’re Venus in Pisces, Venus in 12th House or Venus aspecting Neptune (a la me) then you will love a good Saturn transit to your Venus, you truly will.
A telephone used only by Librans to talk to other Librans.
Mercury is soon to go Retrograde in LIBRA, a whimsical little astro-passage bound to make for interesting relationship quadruple entrendres, delicate gameplay & strange back and forthings in nigh everything.
It is, as always, not the time to sign contracts & you need to factor in an extra dimension of potential screw-ups for all arrangements.
But, apart from a few squares to Pluto which i will be dealing with (lol) in the Daily Mystic et al, this is a fairly benign bit of astro-weirding.
It will be – i think – excellent for random flirtations and Libran style synchronicity. There will be a certain charm to it, because it is Libra.
V.hard on impatient Arieans, Pluto-tripping Capricorns & Cancerians who prefer a more emotionally upfront version of communication.
Mercury Retrogrades on September 7 and is Direct on September 29.
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