}Christmas Past Lives Again{
Mercury turns retrograde on Monday the 19th (early in the morning). Most of us know what that means, or some of it, though it is always good to improve our understanding of it through experience and reflection. It is not just "a bad time" although that is the popular conception. It is a good time for deep experiences, dreams, inner life, pondering, meditating, praying. It is not always good for outer activities, or rather, it is both good and bad but often confusing, requiring us to see things in new ways. It is always surprising in some way or other. And all that has been happening already. Again, here is the agenda:
Dark Hermetic Epoch begins 12/2 . . .(Mercury turns Retrograde 12/19 until 1/8/17) . . . DHE ends 1/27/17
The DHE lasts 56 days, the Mercury Retrograde in the middle of it lasts 20 days.
One of the things I like about the DHE and the MR period within it is the sense of surprise. Things seem oddly new even when they are old. Old memories, family memories, childhood memories, come floating up and seem very real. One can actually travel to the past in consciousness. Dreams seem very real, more so than usual. We enter some other dimension.
That is why it seems so hard, sometimes, to cope with the ordinary time-and-space three-dimensional world (or fourth dimensional if one takes time as a dimension). We want to go off into la-la land.
I watched all of President Obama's press conference on Friday. It was almost his goodbye to the press corps. He reviewed his eight years. The RE words are extremely important during the DHE and the MR. Recalling, reviewing, re-analyzing, and even resigning, as the President is doing albeit a forced retirement. Then, before heading off for his annual Christmas vacation in Hawaii, he said "Mele Kalikimaka." Of course he is going back to where he spent his childhood years. All of us may experience a twinge when we hear "I'll be Home for Christmas" knowing we can only do it in our memories.
Most workers would be glad to have a vacation during this period, so retired people or others unemployed should be glad they are free to experience the DHE and MR in their own free way. However, it is not a free time utterly, because all have a "work load" of some kind or other, even the retired, or especially they if they want to keep themselves alive and alert.
Yes, there is a danger during this period of slipping off into another world and neglecting duties, or even safety. During one such period a train engineer fell asleep and the result was a train wreck. If one avoids such obvious dangers, one can enjoy and appreciate the "other-worldliness" of the period within oneself while keeping outward things in fair order.
The out-of-pattern things which happen are not always accidents or problems. Sometimes they are delightful interruptions. A movie of Buster Keaton's is almost an exact paradigm of a Mercury Retrograde experience. Things may come out right in the end but not without endless peculiar or fascinating comedies of error. We need to be prepared for that. Smile through the Little Rascals' nonsense and carry on.
People are trying to guide others this week. There is an impulse toward being a guide, teacher, or parent. There could be profit through speculation. Venus in Aquarius forms a sextile with Uranus and a trine with Jupiter. This is good fortune, either materially or socially. It can add up to fun and entertainment.
When it comes to government and politics, it is fascinating that the long-lasting T-square focused on Pluto in Capricorn continues in full force, with the stationary Mercury joining Pluto. This is, in two words, Donald Trump and his presidency. Many do not like it; many despise it; yet there it is. Pluto is the planet of big business, and Trump has put big-business millionaires or billionaires in charge of every branch of his coming government. I myself do not see this as good in any way, but my role here as an astrologer is not to make value judgments so much as to point out the astrological correlations to what is going on. That continues through June 2017, and then the Jupiter square Pluto remains until October. We will find out during that period what this "businessman government" means. As for the Jupiter opposite Uranus through June, Reinhold Ebertin gets it right: "Love of freedom and independence, revolutionary ideas, opposition, tactlessness, exaggeration, exceptional inner tension (which can be released), overhasty acts, passing up good opportunities; philosophical, religious or political conflicts."
There is a "get rich quick" syndrome. Nobody wants to "pass up good opportunities"! We have seen that in the stock market, but that of course is likely to be up and down as always; we will see it in businesses of all kinds. Nevada has passed a law allowing sportsbook betting to go on within entities which work almost like mutual funds directed by those who pick winning teams and bet on them for the sake of the whole group. That is one example of what could be happening.
As for backtracking, reviewing, and recriminating, we are having plenty of that with the recent election, with some wanting the Trump Electors in the Electoral Kindergarten to vote for someone other than Trump. We see it in the email nonsense. Hillary Clinton committed no crime with her emails but millions think she did because of fake news and extremely bad and misleading reporting by the major media, even the New York Times. We wish we could fix that now but we can't. Yes, recrimination can be a MR phenomenon. Then there is the Russian hacking of the Democrats which is now, during the DHE, getting the attention it should have had earlier. During these times we go back and find out what we did wrong.
On a cheerier note, the sun sextile Mars is strength, vitality, and definiteness in one's goals with determination to attain them. Venus trine Jupiter and sextile Uranus all this week is perfect for the holiday season. It is sincerity, grace, popularity, sociability, gifts, and festivities. It can be surprises, visits, simple joys, and amorous reactions.
{Week of December 17-23} {Christmas Past Lives Again}
Saturday 17 December 2016Moon in Leo ****
Sunday 18 December 2016Moon in Leo-->Virgo ****/moon goes void-of-course at 8:56a PT | 11:56a ET | 4:56p UT *** /until it enters Virgo at 9:53a PT | 12:53p ET | 5:53p UT ***|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week begins at 4:59p PT | 7:59p /ET | 12:59a(M) UT (until late Tuesday evening) ** |
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