This is my seocnd attempt at trying to write this, as I just hit the submit key, internet explorer crashed....

Anyway, Mercury is going retro on Monday the 26th, and will be that way until June 19th - the degrees are 21 to 12 Gemmini and means that this one is going to be very long... 24 days... So, look at the houses and aspects - the information in more detail is in the calendar.

hiya Dave,

Hmmm, so if you could say a quick note about Merc retro in my 7th house, sextiling my natal Sun (at 13* Leo) in the 8th, what would that be?

I've got a disability pension appeal hearing coming up mid-July, so I'm attempting to keep my "eyes on the skies," so to speak, and to take advantage of whatever may come my way!

Tara

P.S. It's kinda funny that your internet explorer crashed while you were writing about Merc retro, eh?

Tara,

Mercury will have ended the review on July 4th (imagine what that will be like!) so you are in the "clear" so to speak....

Oh yes, it was amusing that the system crashed - but hey, we are in the review period already!

Wow! Mercury is going retrograde again, already. Time sure does fly, doesn't it? I hope this Rx cycle is as exhilarating as the last one was. I have Mercury Rx'ing through my water houses this year so it's been quite the eye opener. I'm actually looking forward to what Mercury will uncover while he's doing the backstroke through my 8th.

Tara, it looks like it's thoughts and communications regarding relationships for you during this Mercury Rx cylce. Sounds like a lot of fun sweetie. Enjoy.

Hmmmm..... "in the clear," you say? WOOHOO!

Boy, Dave, I sure hope I am! This appeal hearing has been a long-time-comin', and falls exactly on the 6th year anniversary date of the car accident that prompted the need for a disability pension in the first place!

(July 15th... A Sun conjunct Vertex in the 8th house kind of day!)

Trace, "thoughts and communications regarding relationships" ...

<insert theme from "The Twilight Zone" here>

YIKES!

Tara

Tara,

At least Mercury will have passed the point at which it turned retrograde - as for the outcome, it depends on what is going on elsewhere...

Well, Dave, here's hoping!

I've got Jupiter (although retro) conjunct my Part of Fortune in my 2nd house, which sounds good, as well as a Mars/Saturn conjunction in Virgo in my 9th, with Saturn conjuncting my natal Mercury at 8* Virgo.

The Sun conjunct my natal 8th house Vertex is what stands out the most, though; definitely a planned "event" for my life, that's for sure! The car accident was on July 15th, 2002 - and here we are, 6 years later... time for a karmic reward? Hope so!

Tara

hiya Dave,

Great news! I've had my Disability hearing date moved up a week to July 8th! 36 days and counting...

The new date is the date of my Lunar Return, so the Moon is in Virgo, conjunct my natal Moon (of course) in the 9th, as well as my progressed Sun & Mercury, (in the 8th house of my progressed chart).

Jupiter will be tightly conjunct my Part of Fortune, closer still than the previous date.

Sounds pretty darn good to me... what do you think?
Any thoughts?

Tara

Tara,

I'll have to get back to you...

Tara,

While nothing is "certain" with those types of hearings, it looks fairly good for you as for the reasons you gave and also the fact that a week prior to when it was scheduled gives you the transiting Sun in the 8th house ($$$) opposing your natal Jupiter in your 2nd ($$$ for you!)...

See the attached charts....

My clothes dryer died on me two days ago. Mercury in retro strikes again.

Tara, I zapped the birth data from that chart, per your request.

Connie, have them check the thermostat first. That's what it was when my dryer went out.

Maria

Thanks, Maria

There were a bunch of "downloads," heheh...
I wonder, who would want my birth info that much?



Tara

Geeez, and speaking of Mercury retro-"action," I've had some excitement myself!

First, my home computer died. Then the computers at the library where I go to post online died. Then, once the library's computers were replaced, I took one of the old ones home, (fixed, of course) and had problems with my old monitor, which died and needed replacing as well.

<sigh>

I'm up and running now, but as of this morning, I woke up late to an alarm clock that didn't work, was 1/2 hour late getting to an appointment at the library, (I was hosting a discussion table), because I had to run my cat to the vet - in the pouring rain - with an eye infection. Upon leaving the vet, I then realized I had ALSO scheduled a doctor's appointment this morning - which I had COMPLETELY forgot about - and which had to be cancelled... (I hope I called her in time so that I don't get charged for the missed appointment!)



This is what I looked like by the time I made it home from the veterinarian's office and back to the library's discussion:



(I'm almost afraid to go home now! )

Tara

Hello Moonflower,

Do you grow moonflowers? They are something! The fragrance and the way you can watch a bunch of them open up instantly at a precise time in the late afternoon. I didn't get any in the ground yet, but this week I can! Your nom de net reminded me.

On the clothes dryer breaking down, I have a great dryer but love to hang clothes outside. Our pollen is just about over and I saved some laundry! So is it a merc rx blessing?

As for me, I don't know what this or any future merc rx could demonstrate to me that I don't already know is screwed up!

Love,
PD

Dear Tara,

I hope your monitor is okay. When mine died, good used ones were easy to come by and free!

Glad you are still on line.

Love,
PD

Tara, I believe every time the thread opens and the image loads into the page the download counter tallies up another download. That would be why the tally is so high. After a day like this, I hope you get a chance to unwind! I hate that when I run late and forget things.

PD, I love moonflowers too. I used to have them in the garden at a house I used to live in.

hiya guys!

Well phew! I'm glad to hear that about the downloads, Maria - thanks for clarifying. It was getting me thinking in a rather strange paranoia-inducing way. This Merc retro is squaring a whole bunch of my personal planets - both progressed AND natal - and I ain't particularly enjoying it!



And yup, PD, I got my monitor replaced easily enough, thank goodness! Hopefully soon, when this damned disability thing comes through for me, I'll have enough cash to set myself up on the internet at home with a brand new system!

(Although I'll miss coming to the library as often.)

That said, I'm heading home now to chill out with a mug of something frosty, and a good book!

Tara

It's almost over...

I don't know about the rest of you, but I've found that this retro (the one that happens in the spring/summer) brings about information related to the year (or years) prior from the same time frame, and not just the current cycle. Information that has been real helpful and empowering and allowed me opportunity to say what I never got the chance to say about an issue that came up then.

So for me, Merc retro (or at least this one) is a good thing.

Fifteen hours to go and counting. Yeah, this one's been a real bugger I have to say. I mostly noticed it with my car - it was the radiator one week, the battery the next. Mercury is in Gemini afterall, so I guess car trouble makes sense.

Veneo, I think you might have something there with the Mercury Rx bringing up unresolved communications from previous cycles as well. I've noticed this with a nightmare of my own that began in June of '05. But alas, I do believe this Mercury cylce will see it's victorious resolution at long last. I'm so glad to see you're undergoing one of your own too. These last 3 years have certainly been a very empowering time indeed.

Agreed on the car trouble; agreed on the old stuff. Linked me back up with a fellow Owl as well. I'm going to go to her solstice ceremony. You gals would like Deanna, but she'll never come online. She's all feathers and medicine sticks. All in all, a rather productive Mercury Retrograde!

Maria

Venus,
I guess unresolved communications is a way to put it. There just wasn't enough information to address the individual at the time... that came during the two spring/summer retro periods following. Besides if I had addressed the issue at the time, it probably wouldn't have come off very well. One doesn't want to go off half cocked on a Leo... especially one married to the Assistant County Attorney of your town. Handling it the way I did has seemed to work out best... even if it did take 2 years to resolve. I'm glad to hear that your nightmare is coming to resolution too and that you have felt empowered as well.

Maria,
Your fellow Owl (is that your chinese zodiac animal or something else?) sounds , as does the Solstice celebration you'll be joining in. I'll be celebrating it by camping this weekend. My stepdaugher is coming down as well as some friends from Louisville, so it should be a fun celebration to officially bring in summer!

As of right now, the retro has seven minutes to go

YEAH!

Whew! Happily, the degrees of the retro didn't do much to me personally....but hopefully this means my customers will stop buying stuff and returning it now. That's a classic retro behaviour that I only catalouged recently. I guess there's still the chance stuff will get returned till Merc makes up its lost degrees... Oh, and my son mentally checked out of school the last week of May, but since there's only 4 days left, I don't suppose it much matters now if his brain turns back on. That might not have been retro-related anyway - could just be spring-fever. I should track the spring-summer retro of the next couple years, all my mom-friends and the teachers at the school always comment on how the kids stop learning after our May long-weekend. I think that co-incides pretty closely with the retro....

Interesting story Kel, about unresolved communications coming forward. I'm going to watch that as my life unfolds over the next couple years... I thought you handled that situation really well too - very classy. Sometimes it pays to watch and wait.

Love,
Terri

WOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!

Damn, I'm glad to see this particular Merc Rx go by... all of that Gemini stuff squaring my Virgo stuff...

But it did help with clarifying a few communication issues; I got a lot of paperwork ready for my disability hearing coming up next month, (I'll double-check it after the review ) and I found myself doing a ton of journal writing, getting some thoughts "off my chest," so to speak.

I'm also reconsidering diving back into a screenplay I began a couple thousand years ago (2003, but it feels longer than that) and - considering this involves the rememberance of some pretty ICKY and psychologically disturbing events that occured in my past - I'm at last now feeling as though I may be able to get back into it without the baggage of the emotional responses I had at that time.

(Thanks for part of this goes to Saturn hovering pleasantly over my South Node, reminding me that "this too shall pass," and keeping my ideas on the back burner until Mercury said it was "OK.")

And say, as Kelly mentioned, those "unresolved communications" issues have certainly cropped up in my life as well. Some of these issues were difficult to face; honesty about my sexuality, being unafraid to face up to lies I've told in the past (regarding said sexuality) and learning to let go of relationships and burdens in my life that were no longer important.

Sometimes, it's better to say, "Ok, this isn't working. Thanks for the experience, but it's time to move on. Holding onto this is only hurting me..." rather than, "Dammit! Why does this keep falling apart? WHY am I always dealing with this shit?"

<sigh> Don't get me wrong; I'm still learning, but WHEW, this Merc retro has REALLY helped me out some. (Of course, lots of planets passing through Gemini right now; they're all playing a role, I'm sure, forcing my Virgo stellium to do some house-keeping) but Mercury transits (the ruler of my 7th house) always bring about much-needed change in my relationships.

Glad to see that we've all pretty much survived.

Tara

YAY! The Rx is officially over and we not only survived, but emerged even stronger. Hooray for us!

I am so happy for and proud of you Tara for how well you got through those 'relationship thoughts & communications'. I raise my glass in a toast to the resurrection of your screenplay. You may not have been ready for it to emerge back in 2003, but I'm willing to bet that you are now. Can't wait to see it in print at a future summer Mercury Rx. Positive thoughts coming your way for that and for the upcoming hearing.

Thank you for your kind words, Kel. I will be so relieved to finally have my life back to where it was heading before the events of June '05 took place. In retrospect though, I can see that I wasn't yet ready to go there at that time. I needed more fire, and facing this nightmare, as terrifying as it was, has given it to me in spades. I feel 100% ready to walk my path now. That saying 'good things come to those who wait' is so true. I am so happy it's proven true for you as well.

Have a very Happy Solstice EveryOne! I'll definitely be celebrating mine by the fire.

I agree with all of you... This Merc Rx has brought up some unresolved issues that need to be communicated, specifically with a very good friend of mine. It's problems that have popped up in the past, but because he's such a good friend and because I can usually cool down about it that I haven't dealt with it. While I haven't talked to him about it yet, I've thought of a way to do it in a way that will be best for both of us. So yay! Merc Rx isn't so bad... Although, I will say that I'm glad I haven't started my new job yet. I'd rather the Merc Rx be over before I do that...

In any case, the Merc Rx only passed over my North Node.

Hey, I am glad that some things got brought up for people to resolve - that is what the retro is about - to ponder and think about things - I know I did it with a "possible" relationship and lo and behold, yesterday just before the retro ended, someone else "popped" back into my life - ah, it could get interesting!...

More like natural religion, native American ways. Owl medicine. Deanna is blind but has incredible inner sight. Deanna and I together went through the phenomena of being young, strong, hardworking women with kids and jobs and then each experiencing physical disability, her with her eyes, me with my power plant. God yanked us both out here to the Rockies not long after that. Deanna is so totally snowy owl in the same way Carlos was/is sleek trickster raven. Years ago, Deanna and I would sit up late into the night together. One of the few friends I could do that with. It's our time; it's when I'm strongest. We sit and ponder.

Her 16-yr-old daughter is over here now. We'll go together later out to the gathering. Got to stop and buy some fruit. It's potluck.

Enjoy your camping! They have a tent set up for us in case we want to stay. But I've been wracking my back carrying stuff and cleaning -- or I was last week, and I'm in recovery mode now -- so I'm not really sure I'm up to camping. I used to like it quite a bit.

Maria

I sould have figured it was Native American Indian Medicine Maria. I'm kinda a night Owl myself by nature. Don't know if that makes me an Owl or not, but I certainly resonate with that. I hope you feel up to camping, but either way I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time celebrating the Solstice!

Venus, You're welcome, and I do believe that good things do come to those who wait. Your nightmare sounds intriguing, I don't ever remember you talking about it at the time... maybe because it was a nightmare. Hopefully it won't haunt you anymore.

Terri, Thank you for the compliment on how I handled the situation... obviously you read my initial post.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Carrie, that's so wonderful that you have found communication resolutions during the retro too. Congratulations on that new job. I bet this is the one that was showing up in your Solar Return. Mercury over the N Node - news of your destiny beginning. How perfect. Thank god & goddess that it won't begin until after the Rx though. Please keep us posted and let us know how it all goes once you start. You must be so excited!

Veneo, I've talked about my big nightmare before. It involved all that stuff with the state terminating my partner's disability benefits and then expecting him to pay back almost 9 years worth of benefits, something like $120,000.00. The month before that announcement came, I was taking my first steps toward realizing my dream of working for myself in the creative and spiritual field. But once that happened, I had to put my dreams on a shelf for awhile and head back to the sure and steady income of the corporate world until I could get this mess straightened out.

After 3 years of agonizing tension, worry and despair, we are almost there. The alleged overpayment is waived and we are waiting for his benefits to be awarded again. He's already been approved for the medical part of his claim. We're just waiting for the decision to be made on the non-medical portion which should be arriving any day now. Once he's back on his feet, I will be in a better position to take my dreams back off the shelf and run with them to the finish line this time. Dealing with this situation has given me a sense of confidence in my abilities that I seriously lacked before, so all's well that ends well.

I hope everyone enjoyed their Solstice celebrations.

Oops, sorry Venus... I took you literaly when you said nightmare, I didn't know you were talking about the SS issue Steve was dealing with. Glad to hear that things are finally getting resolved. It took long enough, huh? That's the govt for ya!