Mercury Chronicles
Subject: Mercury Retrograde
Date: 08/16 10:48 PM
From: FGSKramer@aol.com
Mercury Retrograde (again) 8/17-9/10
Mercury Retrograde (again) (again) 8/17-9/10
Mercury Retrograde (again) (again) (again) 8/17-9/10
(I've got to get a better proof reader than my cat.)
"Now Mercury endure thee with leasing, for thou speakest well of fools!
the Clown in Shakespeare's 12th Night [I.v]
I should note that last month I did get to see an excellent version of 12th Night in the park. If you eve get a chance, the Dallas Shakespeare Festival puts on wonderful free stuff in the park.
This is coming to you as a friendly reminder about what the pesky and occasionally pernicious planets are doing right now. Yes, it's that time again, time for the topsey turvey world of Mercury going backwards.
Mercury takes about 88 days to go around the Sun. It take us about 365 days to accomplish the same orbit. What this means, is that a few times a year, Mercury looks like it is traveling backwards in relation to the rest of the stars in the night sky. What does it mean astrologically?
Well, the easiest thing to do, astrologically speaking, is to get under the bed and not come out for a few weeks. Since that's not a practical idea, a vacation is also a good idea. Oh yeah, and those dates for the little planet?
Mercury begins its backwards tumble on August 17 and rights itself on September 10. Going to be an interesting time for all. Let me relate this little story about Mercury retrograde and ticket sales: this is the good life.
For my Fairbanks trip last spring, I knew Mercury was going to be retrograde. I knew there would be problems. Hey, I'm the astrologer, I was prepared, sort of. I missed one reading because I was offered an opportunity to hop up to the Arctic Circle. Who would pass up a chance like that? And it didn't seem to be a problem--and I did get a chance to go further North than I had ever been. I didn't realize there was so much beyond Oklahoma. The next morning, I called the ticket agent who had been handling the ticket sales for readings.
"All booked up," she told me, "my computer shows no openings today at all."
That was great news. I sat down at my table in the hotel room and got ready for the steady stream of clients... and waited. After an hour without a single person, I began to worry. It turned out that the ticket promoter had told the agent who told the computer person who told the record store... and then I got lost with the details and chain of command.
With Mercury retrograde, you just never know what your computer will do.
So when Mercury is heading east, doing its little retrograde boogie, make sure the car is in park, check the flue in the fireplace, and always call Anchorage for ticket information.
And if you don't know exactly what it is that I'm talking about, you
might try the Mercury Chronicles Archive
Copyright 1997 by Kramer Wetzel
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Sept. 28 New Age Books [1006 S. Lamar, Austin]
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