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<\/dt>\nIn 1776 Mercury was retrograde from June 28 to July 22, entirely through watery Cancer. This year, Mercury is retrograde from June 26 to July 20, entirely through watery Cancer.<\/p>\n
The similarities do not stop there. 1776 was one of those seldom-seen years, like this year is for the first time since 1967, when all three of Mercury’s apparent reversals were entirely in water signs.<\/p>\n
Mercury’s first retreat of 1776 was confined to Pisces from late February to mid-March. Same for this year and 1967. Mercury’s last rollback of 1776 was from late October to mid-November solely in Scorpio. Same for 1967 and 2013.<\/p>\n
Once a fluke, twice a coincidence, three times a pattern. This year, at the very least, the astrology of Mercury’s periodicity in reversal establishes the trend, which is simply stated as: “What goes around, comes around.”<\/p>\n
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Among other things, Mercury represents the mind — your mind — and its means of grasping and communicating patterns. What astrology’s improbable repetitions are revealing for your mind to grasp now is a trend of history come around to your life and the life of every being on Earth, all together at once. It begins with what appeared to be a fluke at the time, the resolution adopted to rationalize a revolution waged by North American colonists against the British sovereign.<\/p>\n
After what the Declaration of Independence itself explicitly reveals as “a design to reduce” its authors and their constituency to “absolute despotism,” the document goes on to itemize the historical trend “of repeated injuries and usurpation’s” for which “redress” was sought through “repeated petitions,” which only brought more of the same abuse.<\/p>\n
Finally, with “a decent respect” they had not received in kind, and “with a firm reliance” on the traditions and belief systems that had come around to them, the Second Citizens of the United States set forth to establish a new historical pattern upon the continent they were in the process of taking away from its First Citizens. And there was the rub.<\/p>\n
As one would expect of any document formalized during a Mercury retrograde, there was a fly in the ointment. The fatal flaw that the Declaration of Independence started in its going around has now come around to all beings at once. By referring to the First Citizens of North America as “merciless Indian savages” distinguished only by their “undistinguished destruction,” the sons of freedom took upon themselves the sins of their forebears to be ultimately revisited upon their children.<\/p>\n
It seemed like a coincidence in 1967. That was when the only objects of “undistinguished destruction” were the disenfranchised. In 1967 it was routine to answer repeated petitions by either people of color, or people of the Caucasian persuasion acting on their conscience, with repeated injury. Most of the citizens who celebrated the Fourth of July in 1967 did not see the same coming around for them.<\/p>\n
With the recent revelation of undistinguished abuses by the National Security Agency and its corporate contractor-masters, it is self-evident that there is no excuse to perceive coincidence anymore. The flaw has become the pattern, and the pattern is pervasive.<\/p>\n
The very same accusations of “destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions” leveled against its First Nations have come around to become the modus operandi of the nation which smugly calls itself America. The very same history of the British Monarch cited by the colonials to “impel them of separation” has become the undisputed history of the America of this century.<\/p>\n
Neither is the “long train of abuses and usurpation’s” systematically perpetuated by the USA confined to its own. We now know that the criminal conduct, irresponsible destruction, and reckless entitlement from which the United States sought to distinguish itself upon establishing its identity have been visited on the entire world as the 21st Century identity of the nation born on July 4, 1776.<\/p>\n
That’s a heck of a note to hit from the bandstand on the Fourth of July, but it is the only note that rings true. Truth, as it turns out, is one of the few things we have left. Hence your place in all of this, as all manner of lives lived going back for centuries are coming around to actually be your life in this life.<\/p>\n
Do not take upon yourself the burden of changing the world all at once. What is long in coming around is long in resolution, even in the case of revolution. Rather make it your place to know the truth and keep it alive in your mind. Make it your place also to know that the end is always written in the beginning, and that we are very close to the point where a new beginning is called for.<\/p>\n
To make the new beginning better than the last one, your mind will have to remember what came around to you, so that those who follow will know, and do better than those who preceded. All you have to do is come around yourself, to what you came around to your place and your time to do.<\/p>\n
Offered In Service<\/em><\/p>\n Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week, as retrograde Mercury rolls back through Cancer, the year 1776 comes around to go around. That’s because Thursday is the anniversary of the USA’s Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. It also because Mercury was retrograde on that historical date very much as it is now. In … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}