Mercury stations rx in Taurus — and so it goes

I have been trying to publish this for the past two days, but either kept getting interrupted or had connection problems — oh well.

Mercury is currently stationed in Taurus and due to retrograde from 17/18 April to 10/11 May 2010 (depending on which time zone you’re in), from 12°38′ to 02°40′ Taurus. And as usual I have slid straight into it.

I lost my car key today (Friday), but as with me and Mercury, it is never just the one instance of loss that makes it a Merc rx moment. For me, a real Merc rx moment has to have an element of cheeky coincidence about it.

 

Mercury retrograde news, December 2009

I’m blogging on the road, so I’m just going to list a few interesting events that appear during this retrograde period and invite thoughts or comments.

Mercury is now in the shadow period in Capricorn (which rules tradition, authority, and institutions), and we seem to be seeing some institutional or official backtracking and secrets coming to light, reminding us of the long and painful process of adjustment we’re facing as Pluto moves through Capricorn. (See earlier post on Mercury rx in Capricorn here).

The list will be updated as and when:

• 10 December: Swine flu pandemic ‘less lethal than expected’ (see Lynn Hayes’ scepticism about the crisis from November 2009)
• 14 December: News emerges that over 20 million emails from the Bush administration were missing and are to be restored
• 14 December: British Airways is threatened with a strike over Christmas that’s scheduled to begin on 22 December, potentially disrupting the plans of 1 million passengers.
• 15 December: Swine flu vaccine recall
• 7 to 18 December: Copenhagen climate talks inch forward, backward, and sideways in fits and starts
• I am not even going to try and date the ins and outs of the debate on US health care reform!
• 23 December: Blackberry network in the US falters
• The Pope is knocked down by a woman on Christmas Eve
• Christmas Day news about the failed attempt to blow up a US airliner by a Nigerian man now known as the ‘Underwear Bomber’
• Increased airport security on US-bound flights adds to travellers’ woes
• Severe winter weather cripples transport in Europe and North America
• 30 December: Google loses case against ‘Groovle’
• 4 January: Newark airport security slip causes travel chaos
• 5 January: Google launches its Nexus One phone (again?!)
• 5 January: UK winter gridlock intensifies — the worst winter weather in decades
• 7 January: Beleaguered British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, survives a third coup (never launch a political coup during Mercury retrograde…)

Image: Paddington Bear (official website)

 

Mercury retrograde: Life accelerates

I’ve watched this for a very long time. Life does indeed accelerate for me in the run up to Mercury retrograde just when all the advice is to slow down (see also). It must be the contrarian nature of my having natal Mercury trine natal Uranus or something! Actually I like this take on Merc rx, in that sometimes no matter what you do, stuff happens.

For me, it’s a bit like this: you try to go down a steep stair as slowly and as carefully as you can, but then you slip and are forced to go with the momentum until you stop. Somehow. Mercury retrograde is like that for me.