Mercury Rx: Lather, rinse, repeat.
Tomorrow the Sun makes its opening square to Pluto following the conjunction last December. I seem to have mercifully blocked out December from my consciousness, and my meager blog updates that month are no help in jogging my memory. I know November was hideous, so maybe I simply spent December …
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What kind of astrologer launches a complete redesign of her website while Mercury is retrograde, you ask? This kind.
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Civic Duty
A confession: I’m 44 years old and have voted in every election for the past 15 years or so (and every presidential and midterm election since I was 18) – but I’ve never served on a jury. I never even received a summons until we moved to this house … …
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April retrograde.
Mercury stationed retrograde last Friday, and that’s exactly how I’ve been feeling: stalled, and starting to move backwards. The week leading up to the station was exhausting, thanks to an ugly interaction with a difficult client, a visit from a long-lost friend I hadn’t seen in fourteen years (fun visit, …
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A Mercury Rx classic
We found ourselves with our first free weekend day in a couple of months, so this morning we celebrated with a trip to the local bookseller. Hours of browsing later I dragged home my bounty, which included Steven King’s memoir On Writing. I’m no particular fan of King’s fiction, but …
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The “ooh” in the “ooh la la”
We interrupt the angst and depression of the past three weeks to bring you this uplifting announcement: Venus and Mars will make a conjunction in Scorpio this Sunday, December 5, 2:13 pm PST – ish. And may I just say that this aspect promises to put the “ooh” in the …
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Mercury Rx and the Shadow Period
Is it just me, or are things already feeling kind of Mercury retrograde-ish, even though the next Mercury Rx period doesn’t begin until the 30th? I’ve been noticing it for the past few days – everything takes at least one extra step that I didn’t anticipate. Well, maybe not everything, …
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