posted December 06, 2010 05:42 AM
This is from Diana's blog, http://lillianstar.wordpress.com/ :We do have mercury about to turn retrograde on Friday, December 10. Mercury already stationed on November 22 at 19 degrees sagittarius and will turn retrograde at 5 degrees capricorn. If any of these degrees are house cusps or planets in your chart, take note of which house it happens and which houses are ruled by mercury and where natal mercury is located. For everyone else, look to the houses where sagittarius and capricorn are located and these are the areas where you will have things go backwards and topsy-turvy. With mercury retrograde we often have old friends or lovers return into our lives. Communication and communication devices are subject to breaking or acting erratically. It’s not a good time to buy electronics. Sure, now ya tell me, I bet you’re all thinking, since electronics are a big item on Christmas lists! It is OK, buy it, but you may have some bugs to work out or need to return it because you bought the wrong one or some other issue. I really think we all know you can’t not buy your child any electronic gifts for Christmas. That would be cruel! Just make sure you do your homework BEFORE buying it and make sure you save the receipt or pay with a bank card, just in case. Double check travel plans, get to the airport early, expect delays. If you prepare you should be able to avert disaster and if you expect delays you won’t be upset when they happen, but pleasantly surprised when they don’t.
To see how this retrograde might affect you look back to January 15, 2010, June 26, 2010, December 9, 2009, and the beginning of August 2010 to September 12, 2010. That’s a lot of dates, I know, but this mercury retrograde hits a lot of old important spots.
January 15, 2010 — The eclipse occurred at 25 capricorn and it had mercury direct stationing on almost the same degree it turns retrograde now. This means whatever was started then may get a conclusion now or it will be revisited in some way.
June 26, 2010 – An eclipse happened that the mercury rx station will hit very closely. Anything that occurred a month prior to, or after this date, may come back into your life.
December 9, 2009 — This is the date mercury entered it’s shadow phase right before it went retrograde on January 15, 2010. It’s only minutes away from the current retrograde station, which makes it very significant, especially since it had an eclipse along with it.
August 2010- September 12, 2010 — This is the last time mercury was retrograde, so the same issues may be looked at again now.
Mercury being retrograde in capricorn will have a saturn theme to it. Structure, rules, restriction, infrastructure, banking, money, credit, the law, judges — all of these things will be emphasized until mercury goes back into sagittarius right before New Year’s Eve and then it will take on a more Jupiter-Sagittarius flavor to it. What an optimistic way to start the New Year! But before that it will turn retrograde on the fixed star, Kaus Borealis, which I am happy to say is a fortunate fixed star! Here’s a description of it from Astrology on the Web.
“Promoters of idealistic and humane ideas, promoters of mental stimuli, enterprise and a sense of justice.”
With mercury turning backwards in the sign of the detective (capricorn) and on THIS degree, this would be a really good time to solve old cases that seemed unsolvable, especially if the victim was a capricorn (or the suspect) or the crime happened in capricorn territory, especially the first ten degrees of the sign, so that would be from December 21-31. Anyone else thinking of the Jon Benet Ramsey case? I am, but I would be very surprised if that was ever solved. That is a public case, so it fits with the new moon chart — remember I mentioned mars on the MC conjunct the node? With a square to uranus and jupiter, which rule the 12th and 9th (Law) and 10th houses, respectively, the chart would support it. I may take a look at Jon Benet’s chart and the transits to see if we’ll hear anything, but there are other cases and victims with the same time frame, they just aren’t well known. They may get solved now or at least make some headway. Mercury and the NN are also conjunct pluto, which rules crime and the underworld, which further supports this theory. It also can indicate the detective, as moon conjunct mercury is an investigative aspect. Pluto rules the 8th house of investigations and death while mercury rules the 7th house of law and the 4th of the home. Unfortunately, this aspect cuts both ways and can indicate crimes taking place. Unfortunately, the transits for solving crimes are also the same as for the actual crime taking place, so maybe we’ll have a terrible public crime occur. I hope not. In addition, we have asteroid karma sextile jupiter and uranus, which are representative of the law, and can even indicate someone outright confessing to an unsolved crime due to guilt. That isn’t something that happens often, but with the new moon’s aspects, the mercury retrograde in capricorn and then truth loving sagittarius, it COULD happen. Especially since mercury is going backwards, — going into the past– and it ruling the mind, well, it could happen. Mercury also indicates the thief and the trickster, so more likely we’ll get a false confession that won’t pan out.