The Weekly Horoscopes – from September 18 – are posted. And yes, we are entering the Mercury Retro Zone and the maverick mercurial revelations are just beginning!
In keeping with the new-era-amp-up/surreal absurdity levels, an internet-of-things-bot is this season’s Mercury Retro alert.* Next week’s Piscean Full Moon is creatively regenerating and peak paranormality.
I’ve popped in Scorpio below – how cool is the Albert Camus pic? And, the Daily Mystic email for the weekend contains a brief but pertinent and hopefully helpful response for people who’ve emailed to ask my opinion on the deal between the U.S.A. and Australia that was just announced.
Finally – for now – check out the Moon near Saturn and Jupiter! It’s in the general vicinity for the next few days.
*If you’re a MM member, my helpful cyber-rave is on the Mega Mystic members page.
Just wanna say Yes to a paranormal experience on the full moon in pisces in my 8th house – Triple Cancerian here, with natal moon in the 12th, just happened to be doing a sound healing on a Piscean, pretty much bang on exact the full moon, perchance, when, I got totally in the zone the most I’ve ever been doing this stuff I’m just starting out, and the ante was upped in the channeling and tuning in to the energy field department, especially with rattle shaking, anyways… When I chimed the bells 3 times to signal the end of the session. I felt the energy body of a male (shaman) leap forward out of my body in a crouching position. I knew something next level was going on with the rattles. I’m diarising all pisceian moons and moons in the 8th/12 from hereon out for all things spiritual/healing. mind blown.
That’s so cool. Working with the Moon’s magic is the best.
You healers blow me away.💫 Closest I have got is attending breathwork shamanic meditations, and doing at home journeys listening to Sandra Ingermann. But always – full respect for Mother Moon (and esp. her cycles, or portals), and sound healing next on list. 💗
Reading: Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki, a Noongar / Yawuru writer. Can recommend a thousand per cent for anyone wanting to know more about the impact and consequences of colonisation in Australia.
Watching: Hacks. OMG I inhaled it in 24 hours. Women, the generational divide, mothers and daughters. Brilliant.
Listening: 80s soft rock on some anonymous internet station. (I’m having a Gary transit, ok? 😂)
Thanks for that reading suggestion- am ordering ASAP.
I think you might really enjoy the series The Chair (re academia & cancel culture) it’s hilarious.
(Have started a Chisel bender – Gaz is now conjunct Jupe & activating grand cross, am bracing myself 😬)
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Guys… guys !!! Sure, the last plane outta Sydney’s almost gone. But you can’t Run to Paradise !! You’re the Voice, try and understand it. Make a noise and make it clear…
Whoaahh…oowhoa, oowhoa oowhoa
*head shakes mullet*
Ma-a-a-te – talking my lingo.
Dear Pegs & all the Highly Intelligent Readers Here,
thanks for overcoming shyness and sharing your light!
My three read/watch/listen noms are very accidental, not at all prescriptive, just result of my overworked Gem moon – but going to take up all of your recommendations, YUMMY:
Mary Oliver poetry. Divan of Hafiz. Vintage maps, all of MM’s amazing links contained within pics of her weekly horoscopes, anything on trauma-healing modalities, anything on shamanism, William Morris !!, medieval music (Jordi Savall and his beautiful late wife, Montserrat Figueras). I collect articles evidencing damage to environment by microplastics.
I’ll read/appreciate anything my peeps clap onto, basically. except numbers. Numero not so much.
Reading; Leaving Home by David P Celani
Watching; The White Lotus by Mike White
Listening to; The Red Scare Podcast
Ladies of the Canyon………sang Joni Mitchell, you are loved.
Am feeling humble and grateful for your cyber company and communications and the appreciation it is surely reciprocated by me.
A story:
The first time realised Mystic Medusa had a website mentioned on her Astrological columns (actually glossy squares) in the Australian Weekend Magazine was thrilled she was easily accessible as she was one of 3 rather clever woman writers for that quality hard copy. Loved her style of writing and how insanely hip and humorous she was plus a blog where one could write their thoughts in response to her postings.
Wrote something on it then hid after i pressed send, seriously shy as it was the first time i knew the word ‘blog’ and the month of my first macbook, a glorious typewriter that has music, photo and access to the world at the fingertips, so she was the first connection on www to an esoteric metaphysical journalist who had a spooky astro-mind:-)
So perhaps others write here that would like response or feedback to draw them in as it was once said the blog was a clique. Not true as many come and go for 6 months others are here for Mystic because of the warmth that comes through the wire in having someone respond to you. Rejection doesn’t matter it’s the reach out.
Can you tell i just watched world news? It is a rare occurrence now i know why.
The saying ‘acquired helplessness’ comes to mind. Once heard it used it used as a reason ‘why woman stay in erroneous relationships’.
In this case helplessness comes to mind as there is nothing i can do about the volcano in the Canary Islands except hope the wildlife escaped. Pele is restless and Gaia’s got her back.
Listening to Rachel’s Song by Vangelis
Reading Duke of Caladan from the Dune collection.
Watching Altered Carbon.
Et toi?
x
Moi?
Been reading Mystic’s blog since 2010. Took me 3 more yrs to participate coz i was too shy & thought everyone was so smart & funny.YOU always brought a warm smile to my heart. I thought the blog was a perfect mixture of the hip, arty, playful & serious; & prob the main attraction pour moi – the cozmic & esoterica ….. and oh yeah, Astrology!
Just wish more boyz would play.
Listening: The Heart of the Congos by The Congos
Reading: i’m on an Asterix bender atm.
Watching: Sex Education.
Bonjour ma petite,
Let’s make a thing: Listening Reading & Watching while Myst is busy with Astral DNA :-). It passes on good stuff one may not thought of.
Thinking everyone else was smarter wiser more erudite than me also made me shy but THREE YEARS Skarab?
Just bought a scarab ring and lion’s head ring had been lusting for from 6 months from Mimco. Waited til sale then til 20% off on sale. Also have a stylised scarab as wall paper on phone.
Paying a subscription is like supporting the continuing life of an ultra rare species, oui?
Still miss David, the Hierophant in the deck.
Hola Skarab!! I am bingeing Sex Education right now- LOVE it!! Hope they make more seasons (always loved Asterix too) xx Veronica
Veronica! Hola guapa! It’s fab isn’t it?!
V, you once recommended a podcast about herbs & esoterica on a post some time back when we were discussing psychoactive herbs. I really loved it, but kept the link on a computer i no longer have. If you remember what i’m talking about, could you post it again, por favor? xx
Rune Soup podcast- there is so so much good stuff on there, but the episodes you are thinking of are from 2017
‘Talking plant Magic with Catamara Rosarium’ and/or
‘Double talking plant allies with Sarah Lawless and Juniper Jeni’
That’s it! – muchas gracias. X
Divine. I love this community so much
Isn’t Gillian Anderson utterly transcendent in that?
Although there’s nothing she’s not transcendent in tbf but seeing her shine as an overtly funny character without sacrificing vulnerability or intelligence is delicious. Enjoy.
Yes, totally, she’s v funny in this – esp after her intense & scary Thatcher – bloody scary she was.
I loved her in The Fall as Stella Gibson.
Her dog is called Stella too but which came first I do not know.
I’ve still not seen her as Thatcher apart from a few photos with Olivia Colman who is also DIVINE. Yeah might resubscribe to Netflix this winter and take in the last two seasons of the crown. I’m rewatching Succession tonight which is kinda Shakespearean. Anyone else have recs for good TV?
or books
Ok, (sorry it’s me again – i’m making up for those 3 yrs i said nothing, lol) but i have to recommend The Book of Disquiet by this extraordinary writer Fernando Pessoa. It’s a TRIP. He was a super eccentric Portuguese guy who was also a mysticist & avid astrologer. Anyways, if you want something weird & wonderful check him out.
😁🙏🏻🙏🏻😁
Gillian Anderson was brilliant in the Hannibal series x 3. Played a warped psychiatrist fascinated by Hannibal (Michael Madson). It is very dark though.
Ooof. Yes please. I’m into the darkness. 12th house moon and Lilith in the 12th in Scorpio. Any excuse tho.
Love ya Pegs- have always felt your warm heart, Saggy/ Cap wisdom and humour through the interwebs
Yes I used to just read blog for years before venturing to comment. Has been such a great dimensional portal for what Skarab wrote below
“perfect mixture of the hip, arty, playful & serious; & prob the main attraction pour moi – the cozmic & esoterica ….. and oh yeah, Astrology!”
Backatcha Lovely. Missed you.x
Just re read Turbulent Times and the associated What the Astro Fuq. Now i get it astrologically those ongoing squares and the havoc caused by their rays.
Often have to re-visit what i skim after a certain time frame to really understand it.
Maybe a type of Elder Dyslexia that or my eyes are all read out. Actually going for an eye test this week as have been experiencing ‘aural migraines’ which is are the electrical zigzag bright lights visual disturbance without any pain that last 5-10 minutes only. Oliver Sachs wrote about them in Migraine, the book had pictures of what the visual lights looked like or i would never had known about it as associated migraine’s with excruciating pain, lying in darkened rooms with pain killers that do nought, lasting 12-24 hours.
The month of Virgo is and has been a month of health checks, scans, bloods, eyes and teeth. The colours in the MIR tunnel are beautiful as they change.
Latest library find is Brain Rules for Ageing Well. Rule #2 is friends and cyber friends count as much as material ones is a pleasing find, so accolades to those here under Myst’s umbrella.You are such treasures. x
As are you Pegs. Your insights and admonitions as much as the cheers have been an invaluable part of my journey since wandering in here 2012
Hear, hear Invicta. Pegs you really mean a lot to so many, and I would imagine not just on these pages! X
Be careful with the migraines, am so sorry you had to have an MRI/MIR? (I am too scared to get one of those – need to build up guts).
I too have had the migraines with aura since about age 8, but never read Oliver Sach’s work on it – will have to look up. I get the zig-zag technicolour (like the old tele’s) circles about half an hour before the pain hits (usually one side). Although since working on my gut health (have coeliacs and a whole host of other bits) since 2016 I have reduced both frequency, duration and pain level. Avoiding glare is a must. And yes, like everyone on here (and esp. you) have had to do most of my own research re. conditions – dr’s may have 5% of an idea. 🙂 (Bless their cotton socks!!) Go gentle with yourself (you too Invicta). Xoo
as are you, Winged One … you know it’s reciprocated. xx
On the day that the Sun was exact opposite Neptune (making a T-square with my moon), the love of my life made a grand re-entrance after months of silence by showing up unexpectedly at an event I was hosting and asking to talk. I told him I need time. We’re going to meet up at the new moon. I don’t think he’s out of the woods yet with his own problems and so we can’t be together (or even friends/in close contact), but I’m glad we won’t have silence anymore. In this lifetime or another I know we are happy together and I can be comforted by that.
Thanks Mystic. I am looking forward to this weeks full moon & equinox. Isn’t it weird how it recently (given the ultra weird astro) it seems old-fashioned to ‘be excited’ by fairly routine heavenly happenings at the moment? haha!
WIZARD. The heavens are worth getting excited about as the earth ain’t in great shape making the cosmos a better focus of our energies. Libran harmony coming tomorrow.
Really annoyed. Just found out my neighbour maybe 15 metres away had sonic sound to deter the local bats. Apparently the police removed it a few months ago . When I was waking up at sunset and sleeping at dawn. I just thought it was menopause. Or winter.
The police, the council and the body corporate recognise him as a nuisance.
Grrrrr. My nice neighbours said just let it go.
Sounds like you’d become bat woman with that sleep routine ?!?! We have loads of bats here that swoop and pip and trill all night. I love the noise. And welcome their dark shadowy selves flitting past my open windows. Actually it’s no wonder my sleep is rubbish. We’ve got scops owls and cicadas and other owls plus roe deer barking and church bells !!
Yes I love the bats too. Because of all the noise etc most of the neighbours don’t appreciate our Plutonic friends. So the council is installing a water sprinkler system to keep them away.
I will miss them when they are gone. I remember the first day I came here. I was so relieved to get away from the nightmare existence I left. At dusk I sat on the back porch . Then I saw them flying. I was in 7th heaven. It was definitely symbolic.
Oh I love the sound of cicadas. So relaxing. I wish I had owls. But I’ve got kangaroos and apparently there are koalas.
Church bells! What every hour?
Camus! Many moons ago, I took a sprig of rosemary from his small unkept grave in Provence & planted it in my tiny London garden. I used to make infusions with it hoping to imbibe his genius.
P.S. The Plague makes for an interesting read these days.
Ahh that is so romantic! I bet some of the genius rubbed off, truly. x
I agree.🤣 And that anecdote paints such an evocative picture – even just the first line!!😍
Thank you kindly youse guys. xx
Chrysalis, you are sort of right, but not exactly how you mean. Any genius of the Absurdist Camus i might of imbibed, Gary transmutes into me being a genius at absurdity, not quite the desired result. 🙂
Haha! Love it. I feel we are overdue a Gary discussion. Gaz is currently hanging out at the *snicker* bottom of my chart, conj my IC and Neptune, opp my Jupe. Hehe. Ooh I’ve just checked and yes, there is an asteroid Camus! 12696. Currently in Virgo. Natally I have Camus at 0 Gemini in the 10th. It feels important, somehow. x
Omg, you genius – you looked up Camus! that placement certainly does sound important in your chart. Bet you’ve got that certain je ne sais quois charm about you in spades.
Natally he’s at 14 Pisces in my 5th H, and trine *exact* my Sun! Yay! No wonder i love him so.
PLUS right now trans Camus is actually conjunct the Sun – and here we are chatting about him…. coincidence? Ha!
Well, fuq ME! trans Gaz is at 14º Scorp trine my Sun and Camus! A beautiful Grand Water Trine. C’est magnifique! … i think… must find a Cause other than the couch.
Chrysalis baby, you’ve just made my day. xx
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I am obsessed with this comment and keep re-reading it over and over. Magical!
Thank you!!!
This Scorp rising is ready for developments in the weird that has been setting up in the past few days. A new position I’m going for at a place I’ve wanted to be for years – but this time I have better armor and tools. A catty woman at work who has treated me like shit for years has met her match… long story but the match is a good friend of mine. Both situations precipitated out of the blue. Keeping my mouth zipped tight but maybe you can read my vague intensity and the hint there’s much more to the story.
Ooooh, your “vague intensity” (lol!) is just sizzling outta my screen & making my spine tingle. Good luck Electro!
Haha, I think that’s one of my top three moods. I hope you are well, Skarab!
Oooh exciting:)
ive been reading and thinking about shadow work lately. I’m working on integrating as many disparate parts of myself as I can, safely… haha.
I recently had a huge spat with a woman I came across through a charity/ volunteer group and we had a proper cat fight and it went on for days. In the end because we’re both volunteers the charity didn’t kick either of us out so we had to deal with each other. I was aware that during our power struggles I wasn’t so much upset as I was enjoying the adversarial sparing. I’m scarily gifted at being a nasty bitch without losing my cool online (in person not so much) but our spat was texting within the app. The point of this is that actually I really like her now and she’s been incredibly kind to me. It’s funny how we chat all the time now and send each other stupid emojis.
spats can be good entertainment
The lady I work with would be fine if she didn’t play out her insecurities with other people. I don’t get involved, I’m too busy and I don’t care if she likes me or not. But the other day I get a call from a friend asking how I know her (the co-worker) because their kids play soccer together and let’s just say she has been really unkind to my friend and has not tried to get to know her at all. She’s not one to sit idly by and let it happen! It’s not in my court but it’s odd to have two separate circles from my world having a clash.
Oh god yeah control dramas are horrible.
Im not brave enough to get involved in those.
Projective identification is one of the few things I still find absolutely terrifying. Unfortunately I haven’t developed the skills yet to be that kind of hero. Certainly not to get involved on someone else’s behalf. Go you though. 🦞
OMG Invicta is surely IS a silver pixie hair design. Have finally gotten the colour i wanted by emphasising where the silver streaks are with a strong lightener then adding a violet water colour spray with some pink added to get a slightly mauve effect. There is an actual silver rinse available that haven’t tried yet. So many women are allowing their natural silver to shine & shine it does tho’ may be result of hairdressers being closed, but it is looking so good so strong & very flattering. Yours looks so free & easy plus you can alter shape with a variety of product with that length if you so wish. x
agree that silver and violet/ pink colours have such uplifting and flattering effects on the face. Real silver hair is magical. I lightened mine and then used a silver shampoo-in rinse which keeps the brass at bay. Hopefully I get my real silver stripes soon! I love how we are finally embracing the crone / dangerous old woman / magical elder archetype in beauty. Putting the algorithm to work for me means I only see images on my feed that reflect my interests, mostly sewing and mending or menopause accounts and lots of silver sisters sharing their journey from dyeing their hair to growing out 💯 grey. Saturn has been on my Venus all year though and it’s done amazing things for my aesthetic life. Frugal, neutral, sustainable, low maintenance. I’m tempted to do my ends pinkish as you’ve done but maybe when the back of my mullet is longer?
Keep us up to date…..could be come -uppance time😊
Adding to the swoons for Camus!
But Camus has SUCH a negative viewpoint on life! A nihilist, along with Sartre and Nietzsche. He nearly finished me off when studying Existentialism at age 18.
well, I’m a Scorpio, so not much scares me, except myself.
Was going to say – didn’t know Albert was a Scorpio, until this post – and knowing all the Scorps I love, it makes so much sense… I minored in philosophy, too, Sundew – I too prefer hopeful utilitarianism, or even (sometimes) Kant’s categorical imperative, but there is a keen hope in declaring the absurdism//futility of life, I find. Xoo
Oh noooo – Camus was anything but a nihilist! His Absurdist philosophy might take off from the same stance as the Existentialists, but he wasn’t one either – he refuted that all his life. Reading his Notebooks one realises his absolute love of life, nature and beauty, & he urged people to live life with presence and passion – to make it a life worth living. Above all he was a humanist, however, as he wrote, “humanitarian feelings are always accompanied by misanthropy”. That is what i’m finding now with this crazy fuqed up world. I want to believe in humanity, but what i see around me is the mess we’ve created through greed and non-caring. His philosophy (& his actions) inspire me to try and live a fulfilling life & to fight the good fight – much more so than mainstream religions which mostly exalt the after-life as the be all of our existence. To me they are truly absurd & seem more like death cults instead of teaching us to celebrate this life to its fullest & sensual potential.
As an aside, & i know this might sound weird, i found that formal education can sometimes destroy a true understanding of the things it tries to teach (often in a reductionist way) and it isn’t till you leave it and re-discover old subjects again & study them at your own pace, without the pressure of exams looming, that their true nature unfolds to one. Anyway, that was my experience with some philosophers i had to study.
A thousand yeses. A million. Thank You Skarab.🙏💗💗
(Also was going to add – not sure if appropriate as so personal – but – in my experience – if you have significant adversity in (especially early) life then the absurdist/futility view makes sense – because only in the face of deepest loss and pain do you really face The Question – what is the meaning/point of this mess?? When it all ends or sours, despite seemingly infinite love/effort/hope. Humanity is this endless cycle of letting go. I am still learning. While breathing (lol). The end.) Xoo
Ahh thanks Skarab yes I’m no expert and definitely biased in my views but Camus yes yes. And yes. How can we be true humanists without acknowledging ourselves as also misanthropic?
. I love Carl Jung’s quote about how impossible it is for consciousness to reach heaven without also having roots that go all the way down to hell. Jung can be pretty terrifying but he’s definitely no nihilist. My preferred interpretation of the Nietzsche quote about the death of god is that it it’s a call for humanity to really align with our highest values. And to find out what they are, what that means to us as individuals. I left school at 14 so I never had to study anything but I can’t imagine being fed him at a young age, before acquiring the taste on my own. I sometimes think I’m jealous of people who got to study cool stuff like this at uni but the truth is I simply wasn’t ready for it then. I can barely understand bits of it now. Definitely agree with you on this
Life learning is not a subject in schools. I didn’t start studying until 30 years old and have continued with 2 x 2 year breaks with pens pencils books rulers rubbers in lounge kitchen and even bedroom, not bathroom :-).
Australian catholic colleges in 50’s and 60’s was by nuns who had no teaching training at all. Back then we were taught sewing cooking elocution when i wanted science and latin, which gave me a life long desire to learn what i didn’t in school, so you didn’t miss much even tho’ you are much younger we were on the same latitude…lol. xx
Yes. I think we shared some Saturn square childhood and Saturn Square early educational opportunities Pegs. Oi vey I’m only beginning to see the wood for the trees now. It certainly toughened us up though hey
With you 2. Saturn really spoilt my early education (it’s in my 3rd H Cap of early learning). Apart from attending 6 different primary schools, my father punished me if i didn’t get really good grades. I always freaked at exam times. The pressure used to give me horrible tummy pains which i had till my early 20s. I didn’t know the pain was stress related (no one talked about stress back then) & doctors had no idea either & were about to do investigative surgery on me until someone recommended a homeopath.
He got rid of it in one session with 3 little pills. It was a major energy block in my Solar Plexus, he said. Which totally makes sense.
My life changed after that (& my vocation, as i began my love affair with bodywork) and i began to love learning at my pace & i became a compulsive reader. I mean i’ll read ANYTHING, lol… nothing is too deep nor shallow for me to read.
Skarab do you still live in Australia? Which state. I live in Qld. Can you recommend a good homeopath. What type of body work do you do ?
Wish, i left Oz 30 yrs ago & i’ve lost contact with all the therapists i knew in Qld. The only homeopaths i can recommend are in Sydney. One is Ken D’aran & i think he does Skype consultations. The other is Michael Neil (he also uses astrology to help choose remedies) but i don’t know if he Skypes.
Thanks Scsrab
Wow this is strong medicine Skarab. I can relate tho.
Pegasus, i went to one of those Oz Catholic schools in the 60s for a year before i was expelled (but that’s another story). One of the ancient nuns there used to teach us geography. The classes used to consist solely of chats & slides of her European travels in the late1940s-50s. i have to admit that i enjoyed them, but can you imagine the education dept. letting that happen now, LOL.
Nietzsche a nihilist?
im not formally educated so I could be wrong here but my understanding of him is far more earnest and hopeful
Sartre you can keep tho sundew. I liked the idea of him as goth aspie teen but I also liked thick grey polyester cardigans and menthol cigarettes so you know
“I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom and my passion.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
He looks like a good looking man *******sigh*******brains AND looks.
Pegasus I love you so much.
Camus * swoon*
Also, off topic but your hair looks FAB. x
What?
thank you so much Chrysalis! It “feels” right but I’ve realised lately I have almost no ability to judge whether something looks good on me or not. I can only go on how it feels. I’m learning so much on this reading bender and it’s hard. Powerful and slow and invaluable but yeah. Heavy.
everything I do seems like an effort to validate and support my creative inner kid
she is mad resilient