Not Mercury Retrograde
Plowing through decades of old weeklies, a nod to related material, digging into the post-Naughty Aughts, and the pre-pandemic materials, I kept find references to empirical testing, and suggestions that media could be shaded in one direction or another.
There’s a trail and a trigger, a way that this shaped my thinking, and perhaps? My thinking was already shaped but I got a crystallized version, a succinct view, from fiction, and then, combing through those archives.
Test. Don’t just accept at face value. Empirical testing, Peer-reviewed is good. I’m not peer-reviewed, but I do have a number of times, at the shop, in the store — when there’s a gathering of sorts — wherein I find oft-repeated material repeated yet again.
Not Mercury Retrograde
Pointed this out before, in advance of 2023, and made it clear, again and again, over the last few weeks, but just up ahead?
- 6/15/23 Venus at 12° Leo
- 7/23/23 Venus goes retrograde at 28° Leo
- 8/4/23 Mercury at 8° Virgo
- 8/23/23 Mercury goes retrograde at 21° Virgo
- 9/3/23 Venus turns direct at 12° Leo
- 9/14/23 Mercury turns direct at 8° Virgo
I’ve grown fond of “bad astrology,” and one series was suggesting that there was a whole group of people who would benefit from this summer’s longer-than-usual turn with Venus in Leo.
Roughly 20% of the population has Mercury Retrograde in the natal chart, and a little less than 6% has Venus Retrograde in a natal chart, and the two together? Number hovers around 1-2%, but the rest of us?
Empirical testing.
More than one source of data.
Can’t listen to just one data point.
Not Mercury Retrograde
“Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate” (Occam)
the Portable Mercury Retrograde
