May 13, 2009

• If you’ve been having problems with the web, electronics, or communication in general…

  …it could be because Mercury is retrograde again.

  Mercury turned retrograde almost a week ago, in the second degree of Gemini.  Today, it passes back over the cusp into Taurus.  I don’t recall another retrograde Mercury that I felt and noticed more than this one.  Here’s just some of what’s been going on for me:

  • I stood in Greyfox’s yard last Friday and asked him if I had everything from his fridge that I was supposed to take home with me.  He assured me that I did.  Before I got home, he had called Doug to confess that he still had three dozen eggs he’d bought for me when they were on sale.
  • Doug and I went through one glitch after another doing the shopping for and purchase of a phone I need for work, and getting the new phone line wired in.
  • Error messages!  On Xanga, Facebook, Google, and other sites, there hasn’t been a day all week without something gone wrong.  Xanga wouldn’t let me upload images, and then it stopped allowing me to access old images I have stored here.  And TYPOs — I’m ordinarily a fairly fast touch typist.  Now I’m a fluent garbler and frequent backspacer.
  • Four days after the new phone was supposed to be here by UPS, I got a postcard from a delivery contractor in Anchorage — just like the postcard they sent us last winter under similar circumstances — saying they needed more address info.  When I phoned (long distance to Anchorage) to give them the same info I’d given last winter, I was told, just like I’d been told then, that now that they know where we are there will be no such delays in the future.
  • Phone in hand, I started installing it.  Optimistically, when Greyfox called me from the free phone at the library yesterday morning, I told him that Doug would have our original phone line tied up with his D&D session in the afternoon, but I’d call him on my new phone on the new line some time in the afternoon.  Need I say, it did not go that smoothly?  After ten last night, Doug finally finished up the game and I phoned Greyfox.  The new phone is still charging, and won’t be charged until mid-afternoon today.

  I have hit only the highlights there.  The three of us, and a number of my online contacts, have been going through a multitude of communication snafus.  I’d been only peripherally aware of the Mercury station, not fully informed as to the exact date and time, or the degrees of the Zodiac involved, until this morning.  Finally, I picked the ephemeris off the shelf and looked.  I almost wish I hadn’t.

  Mercury is transiting INTO my intensity zone (AKA the “curse/blessing pattern”) and hasn’t really gotten there yet.  This “stellium” or linked system of astrological aspects, is a curse/blessing in itself, probably the main reason I have been as successful as I have been at transcending dualism.  Nothing in my life is ever all bad or all good.  Everything goes both ways at once for me.  I don’t go through hard times or good times.   Life goes from slack to intense for me, from rest to restlessness… from laid back with my hat shading my eyes to hanging onto my hat in a gale.

  When Mercury goes direct at the end of this month, it will cover the same intense points in forward motion that it is just now beginning to back over.  I do love intensity and have learned to welcome challenge, and will be ready for a rest by the time one comes around the middle of June.  Sweet Summer Solstice and the Midnight Sun have never been more welcome.
  

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