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• 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.

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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.

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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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A Mothman Variation

“I know this is going to sound like some paranoid fantasy conspiracy, but it’s what my dad told me. “Years ago, way back, we lived in Virgina, West Virgina. I think, might be on my birth certificate? Should check that. I was little at the time. My dad claimed he had seen the Mothman, and my dad swore he had a hand that was cut off from one of the Mothman creatures. I never did understand exactly how that happened, the ‘hand getting cut off’ part, but it’s what my dad said. “The deal is, there was a time, this was a several years back, there was a time when all the old family materials were stuffed into a storage unit. Before we moved here. That storage unit, this much is true, burned down, or, like the middle row of buildings got toasted. Roasted and burnt. ‘They said’ it was a meth lab in the unit next to ours, but I’m not sure.” “Did they even have ‘meth labs’ back then?” “The hand, cut off from a Mothman, was just wrapped in an old dish towel, in a regular shoebox, like, with the rest of the family’s junk. Old pictures and newspaper clippings, famous headlines? Moldy magazines and spare dishes. How my dad got that hand? I don’t know, something about an encounter, and he said he didn’t like talking about it. “Sounded ominous, but most of my family stories were like that. Remember that this was before cell phone with cameras, so who really knows? “My dad always hinted that it was a big government conspiracy cover-up, that’s what burned the storage unit. He got a big pay raise when we transferred here.” (Reused with permission.)

A Mothman Variation

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