Mercury Retrograde, Short Story, Shakespeare and current authors
Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,
And with them scourge the bad revolting stars”
Duke of Bedford in Shakespeare’s 1 Henry 6 (1.1.2-4)
Mercury Retrograde, Short Story, Shakespeare, and current authors
Wherein the title and the lesson might be longer than the story itself.
Mercury tends to retrograde three, maybe four times in a calendar year. This summer, it retrogrades from Virgo back into Leo, and then forward, eventually, stirring the pot, so to suggest.
In a moment, I ran across a free (online someplace) copy of short revenge tale by Margaret Atwood called “Cut and Thirst.”
At the time, I was traveling, and not at home, which meant I was lacking some of my easy-to-grasp resources. The biggest challenge, I recalled reading her novel Hag-Seed, and I know I would have written a short note in the blog: it’s what I do.
Every time I picked up the novella, though I would start looking for that blog entry. 2016? 2017? I kept ending up with a four-0-four, and when one’s own site delivers the file not found error? Steps it up to seriously irritating.
Mercury Retrograde, Short Story, Shakespeare, and current authors
This is a relatively involved process. Fortunately, as is my wont, I keep a back-up of everything, and I dug through an older, still online, database of entries where I discovered the Hag-Seed entry, and for some reason, it hadn’t been translated to the new location. Which meant, this is a serious Mercury in Retrograde action, export then import, and guessing, since a number of entries weren’t present, it was time to import them all.
In my files, I have an actual written record of the original import actions, dated even, but for some reason, that one entry, maybe a couple of dozen, didn’t make it.
This is an excellent example of the proper use of Mercury in Retrograde weather. What to do. What not to do.
What is an expedient use of extant energies, especially with that bit of Virgo cast over like a shadow.
The data is backed-up, and restoring just a portion made my life easier. The typical mercurial frustration stemmed from obvious references to the entry but not finding in it where it was supposed to be.
Blame the stars — I do.
It took three days of frustration to realize I had what I wanted, in the back-up, and I could just restore it, easy as pie. Circular reference to three days and change?
In part, this is exposition about my own process, and in part, this is about what process yields the best results when Mr. Mercury is so indisposed.
Mercury Retrograde, Short Story, Shakespeare, and current authors
Hag-Seed the novel •
Cut and Thirst the short story •
the Portable Mercury Retrograde
revolting stars
5.14.2015 (Thought I used that before.)
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