Out of context
Quick Shakespeare quote, out of context:
“From whom hast thou this great commission, France,
To draw my answer from thy articles?”
Shakespeare’s King John (2.1.110-1)
#shakespeare
Mercury in Retrograde 4/1-4/24/24
Mercury Retrograde from 4/1 27° Aries to 4/24 16° Aries.
the Portable Mercury Retrograde
Mercury and the Dream
“Jesus! Did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?” Page 19.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Thompson, Hunter S. NY: Random House, 1972.
The last two times I’ve reread that great American classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I used a library edition.
Please support public libraries.
It’s one of the few books that I’ve got in paperback, as well, along with various other titles by the same author, but that paperback is an older one with yellowed pages, a larger facsimile edition of the first, replete with the Ralph Steadman pen and ink artwork rendered in glorious black and white.
What attracted the first time was the tale itself, and what I later dug into to discover, the layers upon layers of wit, satire, possibly truth masquerading as an improbable adventure of epic proportions.
“Jesus! Did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?” Page 19.
When Mercury is retrograde, I’ve found a certain calm in diving back into old texts and rereading the material, turning up new nugget sets, bits and pieces, stylings, and other improbable interludes that deserve recognition.
the Portable Mercury Retrograde
- : iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation)
- : no
- : 3mm
- : 50
- : 1/60s
Horoscopes for 3-26-2024
How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell:
Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
Albany in Shakespeare’s King Lear 1.4.254-5
Horoscopes for 3-26-2024
- Eclipse 3/25 12° Ari./Lib.
- Mercury RX 4/2 27° Aries
Please support public libraries.
#shakespeare
#horoscope
March 26 at Nature’s Treasures
Aries Card
4103 N. Interstate 35
Austin, TX 78722
Phone: 512.472.5015
12PM – 4PM, appointments encouraged. E-mail.
Tuesday at Nature’s Treasures.
“It’s really him,” at the rock shop in Austin.
Discounts are available.
March 26 at Nature’s Treasures
Use the code, “sparkle faerie” at the check out — for applicable discounts.
Price Selection Won’t Be Beat!
Vincit Qui Primum Gerit
“First to arrive gets the best deal.” (Source.)
astrofish.net/travel
#Austin
- : iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation)
- : no
- : 3mm
- : 200
- : 1/40s
April Eclipse “Ameliorations”
“22. All things are what we judge them to be, and that rests with you. Put away, therefore, when you will, the judgement; and, as though you had doubled the headland, there is calm, ‘all smoothly strewn and a waveless bay’.”
Ὅτι πάντα ὑπόληψις καὶ αὕτη ἐπὶ σοί. ἆρον οὖν ὅτε θέλεις τὴν ὑπόληψιν καὶ ὥσπερ κάμψαντι τὴν ἄκραν γαλήνη, σταθερὰ πάντα καὶ κόλπος ἀκύμων.
Book XII, Marcus Aurelius Meditations
- “It’s all how you perceive it. You’re in control. You can dispense with misperceptions at will, like rounding the point. Serenity, total calm, safe anchorage.” (See also 12.21.2018)
April Eclipse “Ameliorations”
Some time back, a new age, metaphysical outlet was advertising about a way to ameliorate the effects of the eclipse action.
I’m a big one for not trying to change the ways of the universe, the — whatever one wants to call it — fates, furies, or just the odd gods of the galaxies.
But trying to change the existing energy is probably not the best way to work this. How about working within the energies, instead? What does it spell out?
First? Let’s look at the elements in play.
April Eclipse “Ameliorations”
Mars, the planet associated with Aries, is 13° Pisces with Saturn 14°, close enough to call them aligned.
Mars is drive, direction, and decisions. Saturn, to some, a wet blanket of responsibility and to some, “karma.” In Pisces? Layers on a thin film of spirit and spirituality.
Mercury, Retrograde in Aries, from April 2 to about April 25? We’re in the middle of it.
The eclipse itself, 19°-20° Aries with Chiron riding in on that, at 19° Aries.
But what does it mean? And more important, how can this be harnessed for both individual and collective good?
April Eclipse “Ameliorations”
Think of this as a Super-Duper (confusing) New Moon in Aries. Great for starting, and even better for starting material that needs to be started despite the quick-fix outlook not being present (Mars/Saturn). Then, too, it’s understanding the fickle nature of Mercury, Retrograde, in Aries, a Fire Sign.
This is an immense point of inception, but the real facts, the causes, and roots are hidden. Motivations may not be what we think they should be. It’s the starting point. It’s the beginning.
Years ago, I came across a quote from Winston Churchill.
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
(Speech at the Lord Mayor’s Day Luncheon London — November 10, 1942.)
Date on that one is important, in historical context — it was war.
This eclipse is about new beginnings. False starts, mistakes, wrong directions, but starting, new beginning, testing new material.
April Eclipse “Ameliorations”
The eclipse kit? How about a sprig of Sage, a cone or stick of Nag Champa incense, an evil eye protector bead, a fragment of Palo Santos, maybe a crystal shard, a tiny sliver of citrine?
The fire is required to ignite the incense, the smoke from the Aries fire spreads the good intentions.
None of this will ameliorate the effect of the eclipse. It’s designed with the intention of enhancing the proper understanding. Move forward in the physical realm as Mars aligns with Saturn, and embracing a bit of Mercury and Lunar Phase emotional confusion that can spread through the end of the month, but not in a bad way.
“… not in a bad way.”
There will be confusion and misdirection, possibly misunderstanding. When the Sun and the Moon eclipse each other? The emotional content frequently overrules the rational. That’s not alway a “bad” thing. The confusion can allow new ideas to seep in, usually sideways, and that’s what this is about.
Eclipse
the Portable Mercury Retrograde
- : iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation)
- : no
- : 3mm
- : 80
- : 1/60s
“Look with thine ears; see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief.”
- King Lear (IV.vi.129)
Simplest of Guidelines
There’s an evolving piece of web advice I’ve been doling out for the past half-dozen years, maybe longer.
“If I had to do it all over again?”
The simplest of guidelines still holds , and this is a “Learn from my mistakes” category.
Domain name, simple, with a business card holder in place, contact, social media, 50 word bio, maybe an image.
As the folks I normally deal with are readers, writers, intuitive, creatives, and similar ilk? The job definitions change; the name remains the same.
Instead of a cute name? Or company name? Just my name. I got lucky, as there is really only one Kramer Wetzel, which makes this that much easier for me.
When I first launched, it was a back server at the university, then a long URL that ended in three letters, FGS for Fishing Guide to the Stars. That was then, this is now.
astrofish.net popped out in 1998, and the URL has remained constant ever since. In its current iteration, unless the blog is off on a different server with a different IP address, then the trick is to hang a blog off to one side. Two sides of the same coin of the realm to conflate metaphors.
Previously alluded to, the weekly astrological missive is my main “thing,” and the blog is the sideshow. Or some kind of a show. Since the dollars don’t support separate sites and separate servers? Just back to a blog motor off to one side, and I think I’ll be able to streamline that further in the coming years.
All about simplicity, and making this easiest for me.
Simplest of Guidelines
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- : iPhone 14 Plus
- : no
- : 5.7mm
- : 320
- : 1/60s