Dispatches from Mercury In Sagg

Do you keep thinking that Mercury is Retrograde already? I do and it’s not just my recent early A.M. inability to scan a Q.R. code at an emergency vet hospital for an event that turned out not to have happened.

Mercury is still in the shadowzone phase of the actual legit Merc-Retro – Nov 25/26 until December 15/16 – so what’s with the outbreak of wyrd?

(a) You, like me, may be on your own private wyrd tangent?

(b) This is an advance alert to streamline tech, admin, routines, data etc before the actual retrograde?

(c) We’re druids or alien shamans and this is an activation – do admit there has been magic amid the chaos?

(d) All the above?

But the battiness may not be so much a retrograde phenom as simply a side-effect of Mercury in Sagittarius for so long. The Magician God is in the sign of the Archer/Mesopotamian Warrior-God Pabilsag/Centaur for nine and a half weeks all-up, the longest non-stop Mercury in Saggo phase since this time in 2017.

For astute yet annoying (but bankable!) insights, muse on your most potent mood and impulses from Nov 2017-Jan 2018. Never mind material gains/losses or linear timelines – in terms of plot, something about now is looping back to your late 2017 storyline and once you grasp that, everything opens up.

This extended stay also means that stress-test alignments like the Mercury-Saturn square (Nov 12-14) will recur – once during the retrograde (Dec 6-8) and again when Mercury is Direct (Dec 26-28).

But emotionally and metaphysically, while the aspect is exact at those points, it’s effectively ON the whole time. If this were a goo-goo sensual cryptic love scenario or intriguing new discovery, cool. But Mercury square Saturn is too annoying for an absorbing fun dalliance.

It’s not just squaring the current Saturn in Pisces  – it’s agitating the natal Saturn of many people born in the mid-1960s and mid-1990s, the Uranus and Pluto of practically every Gen X-er, the natal Neptune of Seventies-born Millennials, the Sagittarian Uranus of most 1980s born Millennials and Gen Z people’s Pluto in Saggo.

If you have a Mutable planet or point between 6° and 22° of any Mutable sign, this extended play Mercury phase will be zapping away at it until early January 2025. So what to do?

Ascertain the point of any merde since early Nov, integrate the lesson and turn it into a triumph. The only alternative is to make it an epic justification/denial statement but then you’ll muffle your magic so why bother?