Mercury Retrograde And The Orphaned Tags

Mercury Retrograde has multiple manifestations, as you know. That is particularly the case when it’s in Sagittarius, approaching the Mercury of Jimi Hendrix FYI. Psychedelia incoming. Anyway, I was doing a site sweep – it is like a digital declutter – and it just “evoked” over 1000 “orphaned tags.”

They were attached to deleted posts or posts that merged with other posts and also came from the internet era when I thought everything needed to be lavishly tagged. But in fact, if there is only one mention of something, it’s pointless to tag it. Anyway, I present these orphaned tags to you now as a kind of tangent that may inspire oblique strategies and I hope you like them!

Anti-Leo – Prince – Bob Dylan – Diana Vreeland – Transition Couch – Nancy Mitford – Barbie Doll – Cosmos & Psyche – Biodynamic – The Wrestler – Academy Award – sprouting – Lindsay Lohan – Vogue Italia – Love In A Cold Climate – Rudolph Steiner – drinking – Steffano Gabbana – Global Financial Crisis – Marvel Comics – Jake Fury Zodiac Key – Debbie Harry 2012 – end of the world – Marvin the Martian-  Mercury stationing – Snow Leopard – Aquarian Octuplets – life after death – Confused Crab –  the Hag Transit – Friday 13th – Nude Chic – Nylon – Mars in Gemini rising – forgiveness – tequila texting – astrological love – Druid Priestess – Vultures rats cockroaches crows – long gray pony tails – pigtails over a certain age – Naff Cravings – C.S. Lewis – Remedios Varo – Pluto South Node in Aries – weird love orgasm phobia – National Geographic – what Virgos want what Virgos hate -Pluto-Moon – fennel – teen astrology -casino Nevada-  ultra-Pisces – surreal astrology of Dr Seuss – Mercury Saturn Aquarius – sunflowers – Walt Whitman – astrology of change – Gemini ski instructor. 

English Leos – Virgo Fashionistas – Lord Of The Rings – Zodiac Egg Box – diet bi-polar tampons – Venus exalted- Leo looks – Astrology phobias – 11th House astrology 12th House astrology – Meryl Streep astrology – astrology mood – Uranus rules Aquarius –  Peachblossom Remedy – Venus Rituals – Brendan Fraser – cosmic consciousness – William Blake –  Bombay astrology – Hooray Henry Hooray Henrietta – Leo birthstones spiral astrology -golden angle paper clips – Moon Exalted – Cleopatra an Aquarius – January 69BC astrology – Asteroid 42 Isis – asteroid 2436 Hatshepsut – Qi-Gong – Virgo Pisces opposition – shoes – Taurus Ex – Wicca astrology essential oils patchwork -Extinct Aquarian Stoned Sagittarian – Mercury myth – Saturn dreaming of being a Mercury – Hermes Mercury Thoth –  Bend Over Essence –  Follow Me Boy – malefic astrology – Valkyrie astrology -Scorpio neuro-toxins – Ancient Maya astrology – Age of Aquarius astrology – U.F.Os astrology – mixed messaging Freudian slips – astrology graphic novels – Moon Waxing in Aries  – Vanadium – astrology purists – Venus square Pluto – astrology afterlife. 

Babylonian Snake Goddess – Adam’s First Wife –  Kocku Von Stockard – patriarchy astrology – Moon Girl – flak jackets dating – Bratz dolls astrology – Shukra astrology – extra-marital-triple Aquarian – The Thoth Deck – Mercury retrograde into Aquarius – Cancerians ancestor worship – Virgos organisation skills – Libra scent Sagittarians travel – Capricorns parents -astrology trophy wife – Aquarius future – Pisces psychedelic – Forced Growth – two degrees of Capricorn – Pluto credit crunch – Neptune drugs artists – Sagittarius man advice – Asteroids – Sagittarius self-help books – Wherever You Go There You Are – monoi oil capsules – Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway- Pluto Trine Pluto – Weirdest Love Affair – Venus Zero Degrees Leo – Absinthe – Men With Venus Square Saturn – Punctuation and Virgos, Benevolent Victim Astrology, Saturn Longevity, Transcendental Taurus, Buddha Was Not An Aries, Astrology of Rock Stars, Apocalypse, Dark Goddess, Horned Moon, Grudge Astrology, Carbohydrates Astrology, Pluto Power. 

Thoughts?

Image: Rainer Fassbinder – Lola

83 thoughts on “Mercury Retrograde And The Orphaned Tags”

  1. Someone posted a book about Jungian Shadows this week, and now, I cannot find the comment! I wanted to check out that book. Anyone remember what book was discussed this past week that fits that description?

  2. Just this week the chaos and insanity of this Mercury retro exploded into my life. It was fine up until now.. Amidst the crazy, I was offered a job, which I badly need, but it turns out it’s only 6 hours per week and I might have to pay for my own practice insurance with it as well as, you guessed it, it’s underpaid. What the hell, universe?! I think I need to accept and ramp up being self-employed again and just go all in on my private practice. Jupiter is just getting into my 6th house, and Mercury will go through there after the retro is over. Perhaps these two planetary dynamos can help me out then? Oh, and I think Jimi’s music is the perennial soundtrack of my city…

  3. I am busy doing Monthly Horoscopes and finishing off consults for the year so no time to blog – but happy this is amusing you!

    Next week- some surprises! ALSO, I will give away a year’s Mega Mystic to the person who can best weave five of these tags into one coherent anecdote or theory.

    1. I’ve decoded half of the message – someone needs to finish it off

      Adam’s First Wife, the Babylonian Snake Goddess gave birth to Aquarian Octuplets. Dealing with her Naff Cravings while pregnant, she became completely devoted to Biodynamic practices, whispering them to Rudolph Steiner during a number of his contemplative meditation sessions in the forest with Absinthe and fennel.

      Little did we know the descendants of the Octuplets would, over the course of time and distance, create: Prince, Bob Dylan, C.S. Lewis, William Blake and oddly an Extinct Aquarian Stoned Sagittarian, the likes of which planet earth has never seen again. The Aquarian had managed to sew the seeds with his notes on what Virgos want what Virgos hate; and his personal inventions of both a Transition Couch, something the Uranus in Taurus era was yet to re-discover to fully realise Transcendental Taurus and a Zodiac Egg Box, which – powered by the forces of dark matter, would randomly spit out inspiring words like Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway and the all time classic – Wherever You Go There You Are. It was the original ‘oracle’, and godfather of the fortune cookie – the best example of Saturn Longevity, in recorded history. Few know about it’s existence and even less believe it is little more than a Mercury myth. It was written about in the Cosmos & Psyche edition by a Druid Priestess in the January 69BC astrology section, that the power of the box WAS the cosmic consciousness, and it would randomly transport itself to it’s rightful descendent, as each living rightful energetic heir experienced life after death. The Wicca astrology essential oils patchwork section in that edition, was particularly on fleek.

      Anti-Leo, Lindsay Lohan had been drinking the night she experienced a weird love orgasm phobia while with Brendan Fraser. The Confused Crab blamed her Capricorns parents and the Sagittarians travel. Turning to her secret home made alter, she made offerings to the collection of Marvel Comics, a Barbie Doll, and the physical remnants of Vultures rats cockroaches crows. The Cancerians ancestor worship Virgos organisation skills, were clearly on display. Invoking the Dark Goddess, the tequila texting Moon Girl sought Sagittarius man advice, forgiveness, and Forced Growth, not realising that the latter was harder than the slogan she’d read in a mixed messaging Freudian slips battle of digital wits with Kocku Von Stockard . He’d told her to buy some diet bi-polar tampons, not realising his smart phone had auto-corrected from Peachblossom Remedy, the original Bend Over Essence. He had actually been distracted by the surreal astrology of Dr Seuss at the time of their conversation, and wasn’t really paying attention. Buddha Was Not An Aries, but he was.

      – – – Diana Vreeland – – Nancy Mitford – – – – The Wrestler – Academy Award – sprouting – – Vogue Italia – Love In A Cold Climate – – – Steffano Gabbana – Global Financial Crisis – – Jake Fury Zodiac Key – Debbie Harry 2012 – end of the world – Marvin the Martian- Mercury stationing – Snow Leopard – – – – the Hag Transit – Friday 13th – Nude Chic – Nylon – Mars in Gemini rising – – – astrological love – – – long gray pony tails – pigtails over a certain age – – – Remedios Varo – Pluto South Node in Aries – – National Geographic – -Pluto-Moon – – teen astrology -casino Nevada- ultra-Pisces – – Mercury Saturn Aquarius – sunflowers – Walt Whitman – astrology of change – Gemini ski instructor.
      English Leos – Virgo Fashionistas – Lord Of The Rings – – – Venus exalted- Leo looks – Astrology phobias – 11th House astrology 12th House astrology – Meryl Streep astrology – astrology mood – Uranus rules Aquarius – – Venus Rituals – – – – Bombay astrology – Hooray Henry Hooray Henrietta – Leo birthstones spiral astrology -golden angle paper clips – Moon Exalted – Cleopatra an Aquarius – – Asteroid 42 Isis – asteroid 2436 Hatshepsut – Qi-Gong – Virgo Pisces opposition – shoes – Taurus Ex – – – – Saturn dreaming of being a Mercury – Hermes Mercury Thoth – – Follow Me Boy – malefic astrology – Valkyrie astrology -Scorpio neuro-toxins – Ancient Maya astrology – Age of Aquarius astrology – U.F.Os astrology – – astrology graphic novels – Moon Waxing in Aries – Vanadium – astrology purists – Venus square Pluto – astrology afterlife.

      – – – patriarchy astrology – – flak jackets dating – Bratz dolls astrology – Shukra astrology – extra-marital-
      triple Aquarian – The Thoth Deck – Mercury retrograde into Aquarius – – Libra scent – -astrology trophy wife – Aquarius future – Pisces psychedelic – – two degrees of Capricorn – Pluto credit crunch – Neptune drugs artists – – Asteroids – Sagittarius self-help books – – monoi oil capsules – – Pluto Trine Pluto – Weirdest Love Affair – Venus Zero Degrees Leo – – Men With Venus Square Saturn – Punctuation and Virgos, Benevolent Victim Astrology, , , Astrology of Rock Stars, Apocalypse, Horned Moon, Grudge Astrology, Carbohydrates Astrology, Pluto Power.

  4. Jimi Hendrix is my ALL TIME fuqing favourite guitarist. I have every copy of everything, bootlegs and all. Live gigs, studio versions.. Every nuance. Music is a language, and either you can speak it, or you’re just a metronome playing the ‘right’ thing at the ‘right’ time. It’s like the difference between knowing a foreign language, or knowing the slang of that foreign language.
    I believe if Hendrix hadn’t died, what we know as ‘Jazz Guitar’ poxy plastic ding-ting, would have been completely revolutionised. Hendrix was Jazz Guitar, we just tagged him as rock or blues. His Drummer – Mitch Mitchell was a Jazz Drummer. Noel (the bass player) was just jealous.

    I had a cat as a teenager called Hendrix – she was an amazing cat, my original Familiar. She used to love to listen to Elgar, and would come running from where-ever if I put Elgar on the stereo. She had a friend cat who lived up the street. When they would hang out in the back yard – I’d call them 2/3rd of the Jimi Hendrix Experience (as I’d nick-named the friend Mitch).

    Hendrix died, and came back to me years later as my familiar ‘Shantiji’. I was unexpectedly given another cat, who I called Tenzen, a few months after getting shantiji by lovely neighbours. I’m am certain Tenzen IS Mitch, the cat. The colours matched, the personalities.. it was all there. I used to promise him (when he was Mitch) he could live with us in his ‘next life’.

    Now that I’ve seen these lists of orphaned tags – my brain is parsing and processing. There’s a pattern here, a gap prime for filling. Titles, openers and subjects that may possibly fall out of our collective consciousness if we don’t attach them to something.

    We must not lose the knowledge, or we may lose our ‘culture’.

    *data still processing*

  5. On the other hand: Mercury Retro is sometimes the “second chance player”.
    I am currently re-living (literally, as if it was a movie scene re played again) some situations at my work place that I had been overthinking for month. I
    t feels like a way to rewatch thing and focus on what you could do differently and, after MR is over, start acting on it or better device the plan to act on it when MR shadow is over.

    1. Lol I’m an Aquarian with a Leo Moon… it’s a never ending battle of banish thy ego vs ego rise up 😉
      Or more often.. ‘I don’t need a fancy expensive haircut, chill and get over the vanity biz…either 2 days later I’m at the salon or the aqua stubborn wins and 6 months later I’m an ‘authentic’ bedraggled, split ended mess.

  6. faithfrancesmoonbear

    I want to see blog posts about these:

    Anti-Leo
    Transition Couch
    Cosmos & Psyche
    Zodiac Key
    astrological love
    11th House astrology 12th House astrology
    Extinct Aquarian Stoned Sagittarian
    Mercury myth
    Saturn dreaming of being a Mercury
    Hermes Mercury Thoth
    malefic astrology
    Valkyrie astrology
    Scorpio neuro-toxins
    astrology afterlife
    Horned Moon
    Grudge Astrology
    Carbohydrates Astrology

    But Transition Couch really caught me eye. Such an oxymoron!

  7. Bob is not on that list of tags? Or do you mean you want me to attempt to have sex with Bob Dylan?

    I admire his lyrics and his career longevity but I cannot and would not listen to Dylan as it always makes me worry about my cat.

    I never promise to do any particular post, you should start your own Dylan Appreciation Blog.

    1. He is on the list but those lists are so weird. Every time I look at them I see something different or can’t find something I saw before. I think the list is taking on a life of its own. Morphing, growing, changing. You know this is how the Blob started. The blog blob ! Omg I think it just … ahhhhhhhh…

      1. Are you two having a transit to your composite charts J?
        I haven’t seen you go on a Dylan rant-worship-love crush-promotion bus for a while.
        But hey, i haven’t been on blog for what – maybe most of the year – so maybe I missed the last tour? ☺

      2. If I were to scry the lay of the land I’d probably suggest an alternative obsession offering to the blog of Mystic as it appears your first offering has been denied access the immortal realms of these cyber-pages.

        Blessings come in all forms and yours may be many in that you have 16 other offerings at the ready, the ability to know when you’re not holding 4 aces (well – do ya?) and lots of folk who can roll with your BDO (yes that is now the official term for your Bob Dylan Obsession hehe) despite personal preferences. There are probably 17 blessings as well – actually, likely many more.

        So… what else have you got?

      3. Yeah you got this – maybe you just enjoy the thrill of running the gauntlet again?

        Appreciate your shares mate so is all tongue in cheek here and…well, as you were…. ☺

      4. You have to clarify OP for me – big day and mind has slowed somewhat…actually it’s just switching to another station

        I love a laugh and a bite myself.

      5. Am about to switch from cyber to theta but I will be back to discuss tomoz. That’s 17 sans Bob? No matter and order doesn’t denote priority imo.

        Curious about weird geography. Expand at will…

        Confession – probably going to unashamedly overlook cricket without even pretending to feign interest.

      6. If National Geographic did a digital sweep thingy like on this (MM’s) site, this would be the kind of list it would spew out.

        And hear hear! to #8:
        NO to cartographic imperialism!

        #5 – Depends where you’re standing & which way you’re lookin…ha-ha.

      7. Of course it was 😉

        Well – I might have to take a guess and say the GC but it’s not necessarily a capital – you’d have to make the trek up that mountain not far from you to be the first one to see the sun.

        This is too big to unpack here and some of the Q&A will be circular in nature – maybe even an enclave within an enclave which may then produce an alternative to the Mercator? Perhaps Neil can write us a song about it? I’d probably give it a listen…

      8. Y’know my first guess was going to be Hobart for some reason but as I’ve been there the visual didn’t make sense. Didn’t think of Mt Wellington though. Mental note – you can be my weird geography go to guy!

      9. That one I know – well the Adelaide component. I’d have double checked myself for 2nd & 3rd prize. I reckon you probably keep facts and such better than me. It’s the mutable factor.

      10. We’d be down that lil rabbit hole in no time perhaps with no clear exit.
        Maybe elephant ears are pirate maps hid in plain sight? 😉

      11. Talking as one who has similar arrangements of outer planets as you (& some personal), i’d say that it’s when that loud Leo Uranus-Merc gets bored you start with the theatrics – as much for your own amusement as others. Add to that a Jupiter square & Booom ….

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      I think Mystic’s suggestion is a good one: start a Dylan /astro fan blog where you can unleash your Merc cj Uranus sq Jupiter SD to your heart’s content

  8. Lux Interior Is My Co-Pilot

    As a virgo I remember some of the posts these tags were linked to.

    But please, Gemini Ski Instructor I want to know more! Golden angle paper clips! Aquarian Octuplets!

  9. Things I am dying to know more about:
    Anti-Leo
    Prince
    Diana Vreeland
    Barbie Doll
    Marvel Comics
    Debbie Harry 2012
    Nude Chic
    Nylon
    long gray pony tails
    pigtails over a certain age
    Naff Craving
    what Virgos want what Virgos hate
    teen astrology
    English Leos
    Virgo Fashionistas
    Leo looks
    Peachblossom Remedy Venus Rituals
    Brendan Fraser
    Hooray Henry Hooray Henrietta
    Leo birthstones spiral astrology
    essential oils patchwork
    Bend Over Essence
    Follow Me Boy
    Age of Aquarius astrology
    astrology graphic novels
    astrology afterlife
    Bratz dolls astrology
    Pisces psychedelic
    monoi oil capsules
    Punctuation and Virgos
    Benevolent Victim Astrology
    Saturn Longevity
    Astrology of Rock Stars
    Grudge Astrology

  10. Oh, and here’s what I’d like more of…

    Diana Vreeland
    the Hag Transit
    Friday 13th
    forgiveness
    tequila texting
    long gray pony tails
    pigtails over a certain age
    Naff Cravings
    what Virgos want what Virgos hate
    astrology of change
    Gemini ski instructor.
    Virgo Fashionistas
    Venus exalted- Leo looks
    Venus Rituals
    Cleopatra an Aquarius
    Bend Over Essence
    Follow Me Boy
    astrology trophy wife
    Sagittarius self-help books
    Buddha Was Not An Aries
    Astrology of Rock Stars
    Carbohydrates Astrology

      1. I think it’s because each heading brings up visuals, emotions, links, time lines etc. So it was exhausting. I like a subject at a time that I can fathom fully. Then I move on.

  11. Sorry for digressing but Hendrix would be 76 on this day (27th). You never miss his birthday, Mystic.
    Both Sun & Mercury are ON his Sun-Merc conjunction.
    Plus Jimi Hendrix asteroid is ON his MC. 🙂

    And Neptune is crossing over our composite chart’s IC….

    Woke up with this on my brain:

    Waterfall
    Nothing can harm me at all
    My worries seem so very small
    With my waterfall
    I can see my rainbow calling me
    Through the misty breeze of my waterfall
    Some people say day-dreaming is
    For all the lazy minded fools with nothing else to do
    So let them laugh laugh at me
    So just as long as I have you to see me through
    I have nothing to lose long as I have you
    Waterfall
    Don’t ever change your ways
    Fall with we for a million days
    Oh my waterfall

    (May This Be Love)

    1. A meditating man may appear, at a glance, to be doing nothing. But as with Buddha seated under his Bohdi tree, this apparent physical inaction hid the cosmic activity of inner illumination.
      Z.B.S. Halevi — An Introduction to the Cabala

    2. As is Jupiter this year. Share a day and those conjunctions as well as south paw guitar style. Only thing my South node conj had let me down on is not being able to channel him through the strings but dug him from the first listen. Yes….every year – well spotted.

  12. I’m interested in all these tags to be frank. They read like a news ticker in the uranian version of cnn or daily mails sidebar. Maybe in Vanadium’s world?

    1. Unless I am greatly mistaken this was Saturn through your first house or on your Sun – suddenly you feel and notice your ageing in a way that your inner sense of identity had up until then managed to blur over, a la vaseline on a camera lens. Or maybe it was Saturn return? Nah – having been through Saturn through 1st house which also contains my Sun between 2014-mid 2017, I’m sure it was the former.

      1. Nothing like direct experience – across my sun same period and there were definitely elements in line with what you describe. Saturn won’t cross my ascendant unti I’m. … a-hem, an elder

  13. Considering yesterday the fax of 19 pages was sent successfully to our nation’s capital.
    This is a massive shift (as a voice called: Leo spelt my email address incorrectly and actually didn’t datamatch my name on file with his typography). A typo is not living in the past when it has shocking ramifications to a person’s right to dignity and a home.

  14. diet bipolar tampons?

    Reminds me the other day. I listened to the Uranus regrounding meditation. I was really chilled then words that were totally unrelated just bounced out of my brain into my consciousness. Like they were absorbed from TV, radio, conversations etc, we’re stuck then popped out like easily popped juicy pimples. I attached no significance too them.

    If only I could do this with my thoughts and feelings. This is something that well practised Buddhists aspire to is it not?

  15. LOL. Within the same day my Mac did a humongous update that stopped it for a couple of hours and the thermostat – that has always run manually – is running on programs that I had set some 3 (maybe 5) years ago and that had NEVER worked. They do work, but on a crazy time-schedule since the hour set on the thermostat is 8 hours behind, it was some sort of jet-lag.
    If this is not Mercury retro in Saggo (in my 4th house) I don’t know what that is.

  16. Holy fuq, thislooks a lot like the notes on the drifts of post-it notes that inhabit my bag /wallet / dresser / important paper-based things.

    Also I love that you , mystic , heavy on the fish virgo mutable things, and Tariq, a multi Sadge, are rampantly cleaning up the site. I feel that mutable cleaning, when it eventually happens, is somehow more…existentially thorough?* With your powers combined does the missing mutable (gemini) just sort of conjure itself out of the void?

    *In that the actual job of mutable signs is not to initiate, or sustain, but to discern, dissolve, forget, and then recombobulate the things. Imho.

    1. “In that the actual job of mutable signs is not to initiate, or sustain, but to discern, dissolve, forget, and then recombobulate the things. ”

      That is beautiful Pi. I like ‘recombobulate’.

    2. Voted up for the footnote: In that the actual job of mutable signs is not to initiate, or sustain, but to discern, dissolve, forget, and then recombobulate the things. Imho.

  17. MercurySquareSaturn and I just caught myself out typing an email to my printer to flag poor print quality of a thing I design, which I received today. I typed ‘please phonemail me about this tomorrow so we can discuss in detail – I find that emailing about this kind of situation can lead to misunderstandings’… wait, what? DELETE.

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