The weekly audio is done and posted. This edition covers today’s Virgo New Moon, which is being attended by some asteroids whizzing by; Mercury stationing direct; and a look at the Sept. 11 chart.
For those interested in the Sept. 11 issue, here are some previous articles on the topic. One is called Sept. 11, 1984, a reference to George Orwell’s novel. This is perhaps the easiest approach to the topic.
Here is a look at the chart two years after the event.
And here is my first article — called Mercury Also Rises — published in September 2001.
We have also created a Sept. 11 resources area.
Let’s see….two major appliances went on the fritz this Merc Rx, one I had to pay for the other the owner paid for but I ended up paying for the preparations for the delivery and changeover from electric to gas. I hope I get paid back.
My husband got a job, on the Rez, teaching social studies (which he likes teaching0 to middle school kids, some of whom he taught before at the other rez school. Our income will go up a bit at the same time our food stamps will go down a lot. Two steps forward and one back.
My Mom started writing about her life and sending it to em in e-mail and the snapshot on her life makes me long for slower times and a more decent, caring community.
My four kids all won blue ribbons at the county fair and one won Best in Show as well for her art work.
My college classes are not as demanding as I thought they would be so I will have time to do the things with my family that I so long to do.
My weight loss is up to 82 lbs (I started on May 14th) and though it has slowed a lot, it is still going down and by now, eating this way has become a habit.
My relationship with my husband is better than ever, we celebrated our 23rd anniversary the 6th and both of us are feeling a lot better about things.
I was invited by a woman to try again to join the local Christian based homeschool group (for my kids’ sake, they want friends with decent kids who are not vapid, mall-rats and who are not into dating and all that yet and who feel called to better the world) despite the fact that I am not Christian in the usual sense of the word (I don’t believe Christ was a sacrifice-for-salvation but instead a teacher who came to tell how to be better human beings). This is scary for me because though I was raised Christian and live the real tenets of it (love your neighbor, don’t judge people, help the poor, spread joy and kindness) I don’t believe the other stuff of it which means I will never fit in with most other Christians. The last time we joined this group (in 2005) they shunned my kids, treated us like pariahs and made me feel so unwelcome; all because when asked I replied that I didn’t attend any church. This time around, several people from the group know me via other venues (the locla theater group and choir group) and they like me after having met me and my hard-working kids.
This all has me feeling like crying because like being a Third-Culture kid, I never feel like I belong anywhere. I talk to myself sometimes because I have no friends here; both of my friends moved away which is the usual pattern and why I don’t really know how to make friends. Yet I have also had a renewed sense of hope for some unexplained reason. My garden is growing well and things seem to be settling in better. I even have a goal of saving enough to take our kids to Europe and the Holy Land either next summer or the summer of 2012. My husband has a plan as well that sounds doable even as he teaches kids and finally gets to do what his heart wants.
I still don’t know exactly what I want to do….for now it is good enough to be able to be the Mom and enjoy caring for myself and my family.
My Mom’s mom was an alcoholic so my Mom had the symptoms of an adult-child-of-an-alcoholic; her sense of overachievement, and perfectionism rubbed off on me but not her competitiveness. I am still dealing with the insecurities set up in me based on body issues because of her.
That’s how Merc Rx has been working on me. Not much deep escoteric stuff, just practical, personal, and relationship stuff. Which makes sense because I have Virgo rising. :::grin:::
Jere!
Whee!!! Even as a kid I insisted on playing multi-dimensional tic-tac-toe — otherwise it was B.O.R.I.N.G.!!
xoxo
Thanks for the “confirm” GG…..it’s a little off-kilter-making, but kind of cool. Like bringing the ship to dock, but it’s a mighty-close fit…..
wow I like that “future and present is all one.” Very spot on.
..It’s a massive chess game.. except it’s multi-dimensional.. (..and we like to pretend it’s not.)
..I honestly think these cats are here to be so repugnant that they force us to wake up, and deal with ourselves.
..right now, it feels as if the focus is tight,.. as the landscape is broad.
..truly though, I am the onlybody I absolutely co-create with!!
Peace and Love in your meditations
PS…it’s like GG is describing in the sense of not only the future moving into us very fast, but the future and the present being one, but yet with a little blurring or echo.
Adding to list of experiences re: this retrograde — I have been experiencing “time” as “all one” more than any bout of dejavue ever. As in, I regularly have intense dejavue cycles, often knowing I’ve previously dreamt what I’m then experiencing. Sometimes in a cycle within a cycle etc. Developed a fair amount of clarity around this process over my life.
But this week takes the cake – it’s like I’m living breathing dejavue and have no point of separation or point of reference – it’s like ‘soild” feeling rather than the usual “misty” feeling.
Clearly hard to put into words…but there’s the attempt.
Cool – but taking a clear head to just keep moving forward through it and not get caught up in “trying to remember” or being analytical.
xo
Well Eric invited people to post their experiences of mercury retrograde in Virgo, so I thought I’d throw out a few things.
I had an amazing week last week, all under the retrograde, hanging out with a couple of friends who had not previously met each other.
It turned out both these folks were practicing Buddhists (unknown to me) and boy did they groove on meeting each other!
I mostly listened in on their discussions and it just tuned me right into a whole dialogue on spiritual growth, something I had not been looking for, at least not consciously.
Anyhow I think it fit in very nicely with Eric’s idea of mercury retrograde in Virgo being about going back over things so as to understand them better.
Also, not to go on too long but I feel that the future is moving toward us at great speed, much faster than usual…..just the minute I seem to absorb all the changes that happened last month, here come a whole new set of upended assumptions.
Pretty wild.
peace, GG
Loved that Great Attractor stufff.
Love that audio, I listen while I cook, simple, brainy, edible goodness.
I thought I had a rocky night’s sleep last night but hey, w-yeti, nutin’ compared to yours. I really hope that tonight you get a much better sleep. Also, the best of luck on continuing to dissolve your emotional blocks — I take inspiration from every time you post — and to your graduating from “living with emotionally explosive people”….I actually hope to be right alongside you at the ceremony! We can toss our diplomas high into the air together!
I have had such food for thought this week from PW, I’m actually full to bursting but oh so satiated and as Eric put it, I’m learning to pull back “the curtain on the obvious”….doh! Actually Eric, I could quote so much from your “Virgo New Moon and the Mercury Storm” from yesterday’s news AND again from today’s audio. You hit the nail on the head several time over. For example, from yesterday you say of Virgo: “You don’t have to take yourself and everyone apart so they make sense and they you discover they make less sense in pieces.” Jesus Murphy ….(;-) )….ain’t that the truth!
Then I got to thinking today about everyone and their childhood and the imprint it has on their makeup and didn’t you go and peg that for me. For those of us who endured childhood trauma and never learned through the proper channels of nurturing and affirmation, what happens when we are actually familiar with what feels “right?” When you don’t even have a sense of yourself in order to know how to operate in the world. Where does one start?
Well now I know. People; subscribe, subscribe, subscribe to Planet Waves and invest daily in unleashing your potential and fulfilling your wildest dreams, it is such a ride. By daily tuning in to such expert astrologers and their uncanny interpretations of the energies from the skies, one can grow in the necessary awareness to begin to make positive adjustments to one’s sense of self, and an additional UP-side is also that one gets to stare down and lay to rest the shadow material that could forever fuck with one’s soul. It is from that new found place of trust that you get to make choices in your life from what *feels* right — like you describe in today’s audio, Eric; from what resonates at one’s core.
I figure the only way I can thank you and all the contributors at PW for the daily therapy is to work hard at unleashing my potential and begin to seriously make my mark on the world! I’d like to end here with one of my favourite quotes/aphorisms from William Blake:
“We are here to learn to endure the beams of Love”
Let us learn to bask in those beams together and bring much needed healing to our lives.
Len:
In the famous words of one of Len Wallick’s columns: Get over yourself.
You provide the bacon baby, the most I do is separate the pieces and fry ’em up!
“Is this my limbic system continually manifesting the emotional environment of my childhood? At least I’m not reacting to it like I used to so I guess I’m evolving. I’m certainly not looking forward to any more lunations in tense aspects with that Great Attractor thing.”
yeti:
Boy you are asking the question of the new Millennium, perhaps even the late end of the 20th century.
We seem to be drawn to anger, as a means to help us feel anything but numb. Or we numb ourselves to help us stop from feeling so much.
I’m with you. The idiocy of the last nine years and even this week make me want to sleep in.
In response to Eric’s request for what’s up…
Wow, new moon square Great Attractor- extreme polarity. Last night as the soluna conjunction was tuning in (after midnight actually) there was a boy/girl fight with yelling and screaming and verbal threats outside my room but rather than my old habit of joining the fray with my own angry requests to quiet the fuck down I practiced the fine art of dissolving emotional blocks as they occur by engaging the 8 Pieces Of Brocade Qigong set I learned just earlier yesterday. Ultimately I helped end the fight with a minimum of raising my own voice only high enough to be heard over the screams. This daily internal martial/qi practice I’ve developed sure helps my conflict resolution skills, but I wouldn’t want to do this for a living. Can I haz graduation from living with emotionally explosive people now? I know, I’m just learning not to be one myself but it’s one mighty challenge to my skills living with explosions of verbal violence. Yeah, at least it’s not bombs going off, but it still shakes my energy field~organs with hateful energy that tickles my mirror neurons and makes my heart and kidneys tighten up. I spent the rest of the night breathing out my fear that I’d still be kicked out of the house in the morning when the booze wore off. I’ve had so many experiences of drunk people and violence of one sort or another over the past 2 years I’m starting to develop some pretty strong aversions to alcohol consumption. I hate what it does to people. Evidently the dragon has gone back to sleep for now. Is this my limbic system continually manifesting the emotional environment of my childhood? At least I’m not reacting to it like I used to so I guess I’m evolving. I’m certainly not looking forward to any more lunations in tense aspects with that Great Attractor thing.
well, this retrograde has been a real trip for sure. as a Pisces, Virgo being my relationship sign, this Rx has reeked tremendous havoc on my significant relationship with my Aquarius partner. the main relationship issues the Rx has surfaced are those of commitment and accountability.
I found myself prepared after 2 years of long distance relationship to move forward and commit to having her here with me (at least in the same state). She wants to continue our relationship and speaks of the passion she holds for us to make it, then turns around and moves three states away after finishing her grad program for the past 2 years! Then has the audacity to not take ownership of her decision, with comments like, “I feel like you’re abandoning me”.. . (I said I no longer am interested in continuing a long distance relationship if she wouldn’t move closer.)
I am a reasonable person, but I am quite perturbed with my partner’s inability or refusal to take ownership for her myopic decisions that effect both of us. When I call out this behavior, I seem to be vilified for abandoning her and the relationship.
Signed,
Struggling with mercury Rx in Virgo
Fe,
Thank you for being so generous and kind. Given that your editing help (along with that of Eric and Amanda) is what makes my midnight mumblings readable, perhaps it is you who should be taking a bow.
Dear Heart:
The combination of today’s audio and Len’s Daily from Tuesday makes for a perfect, well-rounded tour de force on astrology, the Sun, Moon, Merc in retro and the GA and Ixion. Its a great primer for anyone new and for the experienced to understand the meaning of the stars, and more importantly to ask the right questions of them
Good work, gentlemen, Eric and Len. I salute you!!