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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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Looking forward by looking back. Turned 75 again.

Piss in your shoe: 2025 in review

The Halloween story I liked? My Mothman Variation.

Piss in your shoe: 2025 in review

Books, truly enjoyed? We Did It Kid (Anthony Hopkins memoir) Clown Town (Slow Horses) Fever Beach (Carl Hiaasen) The Faculty Lounge Old School Indian

Piss in your shoe: 2025 in review

Watching the Chicago Cubs win in Wrigley Field, a warm, summer-like afternoon. Eventually lost a playoff to Milwaukee, but a good run.

Piss in your shoe: 2025

Looking back to look forward? An aging, yet still valid piece of advice I tend to favor?

Look over your shoulder to see where you’ve been; then plot a way forward.

But?

Glance back; do not dwell in the past.

Heeding some of my own advice? Look back and start at my yearly overview, from the beginning of 2025, dated Dec. 31, 2024. In the year, at one point where I’m especially proud and happy? “Proud” might be the wrong word, but self-satisfied within a family and professional situation. Situations? Instead of the old, tried and true method of throwing more fuel on the fire, heeding my own advice? I stayed clear of exacerbating a situation. Like that (astronaut) Alan Shepard prayer. (See Sagittarius.) Image is from a coastal trip last summer.