• More on that MRX

    More on that MRX

    • Mercury hits 20° Scorpio 10/20.
    • Mercury bounces at 6° Sagittarius 11/7-13, turning officially retrograde on 11/10.
    • Mercury slides back to 20° Scorpio 11/27-12/1, direct on 12/1
    • Mercury reaches 6° Sagittarius again on 12/17.

    More on that MRX

    mrx alt Sagittarius is mutable fire sign. Maybe not the best fire, that’s usually Leo, but we are companionable. Recent eclipse action, Virgo/Pisces then Virgo/Virgo (opposite Saturn/Neptune)? That paved the way for some new deconstruction, reconstruction. That’s what this is about as Retrograde Mercury dips from fiery Sagittarius back into watery Scorpio, then forward again, culminating at almost the same time as the Sun crosses into Capricorn, the Winter Solstice.
    Back in the bad, old days, I used a product as a gasket sealer, called — don’t know the name. It was yellow, branded with a Yamaha tube, nasty kind of glue that withstood engine heats. Used it on European motorcycles because it worked better than anything else. It was nasty stuff. Sickly yellow color. Probably no longer available, and possibly poisonous. But it worked, back then. Tear a motor down to pieces, then gradually reassemble it, and use that yellow Yamaha-brand gasket-sealer as part of the process.
    We all need some possibly hazardous “gorilla snot” help glue this together — after Mercury goes direct and gets back to its starting point.

    More on that MRX

    Sun into Scorpio 10/23 4:38 AM Mars into Sagittarius 11/4 7:01 AM Venus into Scorpio 11/6 4:39 PM Sun into Sagittarius 11/22 1:32 AM Venus into Sagittarius 11/30 2:14 PM Solstice — Sun into Capricorn — is 12/21 at 9:03 AM local.

    the Portable Mercury Retrograde

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  • Sun House

    Sun House

    Sagittarius buddy, we were talking fishing, then books, next he suggested an earlier novel, some author, so I went looking. The River Why from my 2003 notes. Then I found this one. Strange premise and set-up. Early on, though, it’s that lyrical prose. In a single take?
    “FOR HER FIRST eighteen years, Risa was an unusually bright but otherwise typical American child of TV, rock and roll, A.P. English and math classes; child of FM radio love songs inseparable from clogged Portland malls and sprawls and hi-speed girl chatter; child of parents whose dysfunctional marriage led to a divorce that simply chopped the dysfunction in two, bequeathing Risa two untenable homes instead of one; child increasingly aware, therefore, of the deep bewilderment of her parents’ generation and the binge consumption, binge investment, binge drinking, eating, sex, religiosity, to which bewilderment led; child who, from the age of thirteen or so, was virtually self-raised amid a circle of smart, irony-addicted peers desperate to at least make black comedy out of their nation-state’s willingness to sacrifice life, including children’s lives, in the name of global markets, global shopping, tumorous growth, global golf.” Page 24.
    One long breath, breathless, in a form, and I’ve done it before in horoscopes, but not the same, really, but there’s an almost poetic flavor. Satire? Real irony? Encapsulates a generation, raised on MTV, so to speak.

    Sun House

    When I connected the author’s name to a previous book, and then even in the opening passages, there’s a was style I recalled, a feeling imparted by the way words wee strung together, an inimitable eloquences, of sorts.
    “Politics is high school with guns and more money. —Frank Zappa” page 52.
    Like the quote.

    Sun House

    In my mind, deep college recollection, and probably faulty, it was Hemingway who suggested, “Get some characters together, put them in a room, see what happens.”
    “Here’s the very very hard thing. Whoever life harms, she heals. But almost never in ways we get to see.” Page 344.
    It bounces back and forth.
    “Or is there a tipping point where litanies of horror shove our empathy and creativity where the sun doesn’t shine?” Page 278.
    Perfectly acceptable modern question.

    Sun House

    Reminded me of The Starship and the Canoe.