Let It Be
 
So where do you go with that? Slow down. As Mercury's Retrogrades can be the astrological equivalent of Ramadan or Lent, slow way, way, way, way down. You be present, be humble, be grateful; you do the work, and you find a way to make it fun. Be the Master Magician by looking for alchemy in what gets weird. 
 
After all, these things are, by their very nature, mirrors. They show you where you are shooting yourself in the foot, and they give you the opportunity to choose to stop doing that. The degree to which this is a bad thing is only measured by your resistance. And by your failure to learn from your mistakes.
 
The way I see it, not only are we always in some sort of a process, we are always in some specific phase of a process.  And the things you are feeling are just the gifts and lessons of whatever one we are currently in. I have noticed over the years that it isn't enough to have a textbook knowledge of the signs, planets, and transits. As human beings, we are driven by our emotions. To really master astrology you have to understand the gifts and the lessons of a transit AND the emotions involved.
 
I have come to believe that the best way to make these energies more understandable to people is to at least spend a little time describing how things feel - or can feel - especially to the different signs.
 
When I was literature student and later a journalist, I became enamored with the innovativeness of Hunter S. Thompson, the founder of Gonzo Journalism. I admired his surrendered conviction that as a human being you simply cannot be completely objective about those people and things you are observing. It seemed to me a logical extension of things many of his predecessors  - and many of my heroes - had concluded, everyone from Walt Whitman to Margaret Mead. Due to the feedback I get from clients readers, I am sort of becoming a Gonzo Astrologer, in that I make transits understandable on both a technical and a feeling level. Albeit with significantly fewer substances involved and less time served.

 

 
So given that, please accept my latest offering. Once again, I want to thank the community that nourishes and sustains me. I appreciate those of you who have shared the burdens and joys, sacrifices and surrenders, and most of all the wisdom and grace. Especially those of you I have worked with in the last two weeks. As Mercury retrogrades, we are being called upon to change. Period. And I am reminded that whatever else is going on, necessity is the mother of all invention, and in order to invent and innovate you really have to draw on Aquarian and Aries energies to do that. These guys invented "Adapt and Overcome." Or as my son started saying after learning to kayak, "Emergency Maneuvers." I am particularly grateful to you with so much Aries and Aquarius in you who continually show me the way to the open door. And then push, pull or drag me through it. You know who you are.
Blessings -
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