Today is Thursday, December 1, 2011.
Dear Planet Waves: What the hell is going on? Sincerely, Sagittarius in Orbit
Dear Sagittarius:
Whether you’re a Sadge Sun, rising or Moon, the short answer is: a lot.
No – seriously. The Sun entering your sign is usually what you’ve been waiting for all year, right? It means all your groovy, cosmic tendencies get free rein (and what Sadge doesn’t love having free rein?), and everyone else gets to try it on with you, too. But this year, the Sun arrived with a Mercury retrograde in your sign. So you might as well just stop talking right now. And while you’re at it, stop thinking, too. Mercury is about to conjunct the Great Attractor and God only knows what kinds of crazy ideas might pop into your head. Just turn off your brain until Dec. 13.
Oh, and did you notice there’s an eclipse in your sign, and some funky minor planets hanging out by the Great Attractor?
Great Attractor? Don’t you mean Galactic Core?
Well, the core of our galaxy is in your sign too; it’s the main thing that gives Sagittarius its super-spiritual street cred. But the Great Attractor, this big, powerful goddess-knows-what-black-hole-like-thingy that is swooshing away from us just as fast as we’re being pulled toward it, hangs out in the middle of Sadge. Lately the North Node and a couple of wild-card centaurs have been keeping it company – and now Mercury is starting to pick up speed while backing into the whole garden party. We’re hoping he hasn’t been drinking. His driving backwards always calls for a little caution even while sober. But Pholus, one of those centaurs I mentioned, uncorked this special wine cask that belonged to Dionysus about four generations too early – and dealing with him hasn’t been the same since.