Top Five Events of 2012: Mercury Retrograde Election

Dear Friend and Reader:

I'm back with the next installment of the Top Five Events of 2012 -- and this is a hot one. It's part of Revolution. Revelation. Reality Check. -- the 2012 annual edition of Planet Waves, which by the way is available for general sale to all readers, by sign. Subscribers may still get the 12-sign discount rate. We will mail another all-12 discount special offer to our subscribers soon.

Photo by Elizabeth Joyce.

So, what's the big event? Mercury stations retrograde on Election Day. Exactly on Election Day. That is to say, right in the midst of everyone voting in the highly anticipated, so close it could be a tie, who the heck are all these weirdos, one and only 2012 presidential election: exactly on that very day, Mercury goes retrograde in Sagittarius. I know -- I could not believe it either.

Notably, Mercury has only ever stationed one other time on a presidential Election Day -- in 2000, when we had Bush v. Gore and the loser won.

Now, for the second time in American history, Mercury is stationing exactly during an election. What is this about? In this segment, I cover the basic possibilities: it looks like some kind of scam, such as an overt case of election fraud. There is lying and denial; and since it's in Sagittarius the courts may be involved. Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius, square Neptune, has a bit of the religious huckster or confidence man to it. In that way that astrology can be bizarrely literal, this chart is the perfect image of the political landscape -- and it is volatile.

What could possibly go wrong? Well, what could go right? We could get a wakeup call to civic involvement, and it's on this note that I end the discussion: with a call to civic action. This presentation includes a bonus track -- an interview with Planet Waves contributor Astrodem, a political consultant in Washington, D.C. Astrodem is not an official writer for Planet Waves, just someone who contributes his ideas about astrology and politics as a commenter. You will get to meet him in the bonus segment.

Even if you hate politics, you will enjoy this edition of the Top Five Events of 2012. The link includes access to all of the previous editions -- and here is the ordering page.

Lovingly,