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Topic: UMMM is Mercury retrograde or something?!?!
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frankie2912
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From: yep,ks,usa
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted November 25, 2011 01:45 PM
  
I usually DONT experience the effects of Mercury retro. but around 1:30 am my phone suddenly wouldn't let me send or receive texts...my friend's phone just suddenly froze up and won't work...my car started acting funny and now i can't drive it and we're not sure what's wrong with it...WTF?? IP: Logged |
frankie2912
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posted November 25, 2011 01:49 PM
ha!! i just found the other mercury retro post and saw that it went retro yesterday..when everything started going to sh*t!!!! great.IP: Logged |
Capriquarius
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posted November 25, 2011 01:56 PM
Is it transiting any of your natal placements, or those of your friend?It's conjunct my natal Mercury right now but so far nothing malfunctioned on me. However, one of my neighbors (a Gemini) was making a fuss in the hallway early this morning because she couldn't find her phone. My natal Mercury is in my 3rd House (neighbors). =D IP: Logged |
frankie2912
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posted November 25, 2011 02:26 PM
It is transitting my 2nd house (possessions??) and conjuncting my moon and saturnIP: Logged |
Capriquarius
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posted November 25, 2011 02:38 PM
Yeah personal possessions makes sense. The conjunction to your moon-Saturn could manifest/reflect goings-on in your parents' lives. Whenever my Sun receives a hard transit, my father is facing a challenge. He and I have major karmic ties (Saturn on angle, luminary on Vertex, etc). IP: Logged |
cancercaite
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posted November 25, 2011 07:08 PM
i really thought i could feel the effects the day before it was supposed to go retrograde, i kept tumbling over my words..stuttering. went home came on here noticed it was about to go retrograde hmmmm...IP: Logged |
maira
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posted November 25, 2011 07:27 PM
I usually don't notice it, but this time I am really incoherent. My Mercury is in Pisces anyway, so it takes a lot for me to explain what I mean, but today I was trying to explain something and at one point just resigned with the idea that I wasn't making any sense. IP: Logged |
Capriquarius
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posted November 25, 2011 08:09 PM
I'm about to drive back home....haven't had any serious malfunctions in speech or mechanics thus far...so hopefully this means my poor hapless neighbors and siblings used up all the retrograding energy due me, hahas. EDIT: The only retrograde Mercury-ish thing that happened to me today was that I left the gas on when I ran out for groceries. The last time I did that was in October of 2010 but Mercury was direct then....so... nothing particularly related to retro Mercury happened to me even though it was conjunct my natal Mercury. Zzzzzz.... IP: Logged |
Fondue Knight
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Registered: Nov 2011
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posted November 25, 2011 11:41 PM
http://www.ismercuryinretrograde.com/ Although, regarding that site, my Virgo Moon twitches every time I read "in retrograde." Retrograde is either an adjective or a verb - not a noun. A planet is either retrograde or in retrograde motion or retrograding/retrograded, etc. /grammarnazienglishmajor IP: Logged |
Capriquarius
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posted November 26, 2011 12:58 AM
Whoa. Well, you obviously made the correct career choice!IP: Logged |
Purrr
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posted November 26, 2011 01:05 AM
*looks at wallet and the $70 macbook charger that she needed to buy because the cat decided to make it a chew tow looks back at wallet and a little tear comes down her cheek* Yes, it's retrograde.  IP: Logged |
lindisfarne
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From: she doesn't know that i left my urge in the icebox
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posted November 26, 2011 01:10 AM
I wonder about this too.....is it a mercury retrograde? My friend lost her job and blames mercury retrorgrade what exactly is a mercury retrograde IP: Logged |
Fondue Knight
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Registered: Nov 2011
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posted November 26, 2011 01:23 AM
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Originally posted by Capriquarius:
Whoa. Well, you obviously made the correct career choice!
I get into trouble with my compulsive need for proper grammar sometimes. When I was in college I took an advanced writing workshop class. We all had to write short stories and everyone would read them, write comments and suggestions and discuss them in class. This one kid wrote what amounted to a landfill of atrocious grammar and spelling errors and I think my eyes started to bleed. Naturally I took a red pen (or two) to his story and I brought it up in class that he should probably proofread. His response? "Actually, I'm dyslexic." I wanted to die.  IP: Logged |
Purrr
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posted November 26, 2011 01:47 AM
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Originally posted by Fondue Knight:
I get into trouble with my compulsive need for proper grammar sometimes. When I was in college I took an advanced writing workshop class. We all had to write short stories and everyone would read them, write comments and suggestions and discuss them in class. This one kid wrote what amounted to a landfill of atrocious grammar and spelling errors and I think my eyes started to bleed. Naturally I took a red pen (or two) to his story and I brought it up in class that he should probably proofread. His response? "Actually, I'm dyslexic." I wanted to die.
I would like to know your opinion on the Oxford comma, since it seems you are not a fan of it.  IP: Logged |
Capriquarius
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posted November 26, 2011 02:08 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Purrr:
*looks at wallet and the $70 macbook charger that she needed to buy because the cat decided to make it a chew tow looks back at wallet and a little tear comes down her cheek* Yes, it's retrograde.
Awww.....kitties are totally worth all the trouble they cause =) quote:
I wonder about this too.....
is it a mercury retrograde? My friend lost her job and blames mercury retrorgradewhat exactly is a mercury retrograde
When Mercury looks like it's going backwards. If you go to astro.com and look at the "Current Planets" box, the small r next to Mercury means it's currently in retrograde motion.Supposedly, this affects machinery and communications. quote:
I get into trouble with my compulsive need for proper grammar sometimes. When I was in college I took an advanced writing workshop class. We all had to write short stories and everyone would read them, write comments and suggestions and discuss them in class. This one kid wrote what amounted to a landfill of atrocious grammar and spelling errors and I think my eyes started to bleed. Naturally I took a red pen (or two) to his story and I brought it up in class that he should probably proofread. His response? "Actually, I'm dyslexic." I wanted to die.
Lols, that was probably worse for you than for him. I bet it wasn't the first time something like that happened to him so he was prolly (oops, I mean PROBABLY!) used to it.
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frankie2912
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From: yep,ks,usa
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted November 26, 2011 02:14 AM
Fondue Knight, chill out..no one likes an a$$hole.IP: Logged |
Fondue Knight
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From: NY
Registered: Nov 2011
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posted November 26, 2011 02:43 PM
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Originally posted by Purrr:
I would like to know your opinion on the Oxford comma, since it seems you are not a fan of it.
It's funny, because when I was in Elementary school I was taught not to use it. I know what it is and will use it occasionally, but my natural instinct is to ignore it.  IP: Logged |
Fondue Knight
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Registered: Nov 2011
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posted November 26, 2011 02:45 PM
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Originally posted by frankie2912:
Fondue Knight, chill out..no one likes an a$$hole.
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Fondue Knight
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Registered: Nov 2011
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posted November 26, 2011 02:49 PM
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Originally posted by Capriquarius:
Lols, that was probably worse for you than for him. I bet it wasn't the first time something like that happened to him so he was prolly (oops, I mean PROBABLY!) used to it.
My friends in the class were making just as big of a stink about it but didn't have the balls to address it in class.  IP: Logged |
VenusDiSirius
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From: Surfing Kite. Seriously.
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted November 26, 2011 02:50 PM
Love,love loovee Eddie 
FK,I am Virgo Merc,my eyes also burn around bad grammar... (eng isn't my mother tongue )IP: Logged |
Fondue Knight
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From: NY
Registered: Nov 2011
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posted November 26, 2011 03:14 PM
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Originally posted by VenusDiSirius:
Love,love loovee Eddie
FK,I am Virgo Merc,my eyes also burn around bad grammar... (eng isn't my mother tongue )
I have Neptune ruling the 3rd, which is trine my Virgo moon, and Mercury-Moon mutual reception.  What's your mother tongue? I  foreign languages. IP: Logged |
VenusDiSirius
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posted November 26, 2011 03:30 PM
It's from Slavic family of languages.IP: Logged |
Fondue Knight
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Registered: Nov 2011
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posted November 26, 2011 03:47 PM
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Originally posted by VenusDiSirius:
It's from Slavic family of languages.
How many Slavic languages are there? I'm assuming most of the former Yugoslav countries speak a Slavic language. Is Russian considered a Slavic language? I took that for a semester in college. Привет! IP: Logged |
anongrl10
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posted November 26, 2011 03:50 PM
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Originally posted by Fondue Knight:
http://www.ismercuryinretrograde.com/ Although, regarding that site, my Virgo Moon twitches every time I read "in retrograde." Retrograde is either an adjective or a verb - not a noun. A planet is either [b]retrograde or in retrograde motion or retrograding/retrograded, etc. /grammarnazienglishmajor[/B]
Actually there is a rule that allows for the nominalization of an adjective when the noun in the compound expression is dropped. Hence, "in retrograde motion" becomes "in retrograde" where "retrograde" is a nominal element (a "nominalized" adj) and so it's pretty grammatical.
Hope your Virgo Moon feels better.  Anongrl10 IP: Logged |
VenusDiSirius
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posted November 26, 2011 03:52 PM
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Originally posted by Fondue Knight:
How many Slavic languages are there? I'm assuming most of the former Yugoslav countries speak a Slavic language. Is Russian considered a Slavic language? I took that for a semester in college. Привет!
Yes! Russian,Czech,Slovak,Bulgarian,Polish... think Easten,Central and South Europe.There is a bigger family as well,Balto-slavic family,where u have Lithuanian,Estonian and Latvian. IP: Logged |
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