{"id":11634,"date":"2009-02-21T09:35:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T14:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=11634"},"modified":"2009-02-21T11:53:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T16:53:34","slug":"one-fuck-of-mercury-retrograde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/one-fuck-of-mercury-retrograde\/","title":{"rendered":"That Was One Fuck of a Mercury Retrograde"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today Mercury echo phase ends, as Mercury crosses the 8th degree of Aquarius and ventures into new territory for the first time in two months. As I referenced yesterday, Mercury retrograde has three major phases — the echo before the retrograde, the retrograde itself and the echo after the retrograde. This would be easier with a diagram, but it’s about Mercury crossing and recrossing the same degrees of the zodiac, then entering new degrees after the whole circus is over — which it is today. It is kind of like one last new thing about the New Year, which no longer feels so novel. I am sure you have not written “2008” on a check in weeks.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Sean Hayes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was a Mercury retrograde combined with two eclipses and an ongoing, extremely unusual pileup of planets in Aquarius. It was a real scrambler, shake out the truth, get to the bottom of it, mess with everyone’s mind and glad that we made it through kind of phase. I have heard some very weird stories of things that happened to people. A couple of entirely new things happened to me.<\/p>\n

If you have concentrations of energy in Leo and Aquarius, or angles there, it was likely even more significant for you.<\/p>\n

As we all know, there’s been news of many changes in our lives in these weeks since Dec. 26. Actually it has seemed more nonstop than usual, which is saying a lot. Nothing stays the same for very long, particularly when Mercury is shaking the tree of the mind like it has been. One friend pointed out weeks ago that for her, this particular retrograde was about letting go of her old language in exchange for new ways to describe things. You would be surprised what happens when you take hold of your language consciously. A lot of emotion and psychology is bound up in the words and phrases we use.<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s public notice that we should be expecting another wave of bank failures the week our nation committed to nearly $800 in economic “stimulus” (nearly half of which was tax cuts, which only affect people who pay taxes, i.e., not the poor or even the working poor). Banks do matter, but we matter more. I maintain that there is an issue of what is real and what is not in this crisis. We have heard, for example, that there is an extreme credit crisis. Yesterday, news was going around — I heard it three places, through three different kinds of sources, that Bank of America was insolvent and could be cut apart this very weekend. We do some of our banking there, and yesterday Chelsea, our business manager, walked into her local branch to do some transactions, and they offered her a credit card.<\/p>\n

Chelsea has better credit than the Virgin Mary (though besides that, not so much in common), so she would have been a good investment; she told them to bugger off. This is precisely an example of the predatory practices that got us into this mess, and of bank employees (and marketing departments) scraping ice for their drinks off the iceberg that struck the Titanic.<\/p>\n

Till tomorrow,
\n\"Eric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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