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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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How To Lose You Mother

It was my sister, raving about the book, so I got in line at the library and borrowed a digital copy.

“Let her descend, bully, let her descend; my chambers are honorable. Fie, privacy? Fie!”

Host of the Garter Inn Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor IV.v Part way through, a phone conversation with my sister, I mentioned I was reading it and laughing at inappropriate places, dark humor at play. Very dark. It’s the daughter of the author of Fear of Flying, which wasn’t ever in my own purview. Heard about it. Lived in that world, as a child, but no, not in my own collection or recollection.

“Until I got sober, I always thought I’d die young. But as I stayed sober, I kept having birthdays. Birthday after birthday. Time continued to march on.” Page 197.

How To Lose You Mother by Molly Jong-Fast Elegiac, laced with black humor. Or what I perceive to be humor, served dark, but not bitter. It does tackle the question of life, death, and more current ailments like cancer and dementia in our present world. More humorous, if one is accustomed to the idea of being raised in the shadow of a famous parent. Famous parents. Famous parents and grandparents. Family, huh.

How To Lose You Mother