Mercury, that tricksy little messenger of the mind, has gone retrograde again. It’s not necessarily a cause for alarm, though there are things to be careful of during these stretches. Double check your communications, edit thoroughly. Not necessarily a good time to bring forward sensitive topics for discussion with others, not necessarily a bad time either, if you are very careful and as open hearted as possible.

Trust matters when Mercury is retrograde. This is a time we have to have faith in each others’ good intentions, because it is so very easy to misconstrue. When Mercury is retrograde, our mental functioning effectively turns inside out, so that the words we say and hear actually travel along different pathways in their swift journey toward our grasp than they normally do. Meanings can be missed that way.

A good way to learn to adapt to Mercury retrograde by using this time to be with yourself, take stock, turn your attention inward, where it naturally wants to go now anyway. Re-read old journals, old poetry, remember the ones who have gone before.
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To understand astrology, break it down to the four elements. Each element has a fundamental character.

Fire: creativity, inspiration, excitement, energy, motivation, expansion
Earth: usefulness, substance, beauty, organization, containment
Water: flow, changeability, impressionability, mystery, solubility
Air: information, communication, ideation, abstraction, relation

To understand a sign or a planet or a house, look at its elemental rulership or association.
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The 365days photos are piling up, indicating that I’m not posting enough here. I like to peruse my archives seeking inspiration, and I regularly discover things written in the past that had gotten filed away under ‘forgettery’. This one from 2006 needed a fair amount of editing, so it’s partly new again.

This is one of those channeled, deep, talking-to-me-as-much-as-anybody-else type pieces that tend to baffle the part of me that just isn’t that smart yet (partly why they get filed away for so long). As much puzzle as poetry, it can take me years to own a particular piece. When I do get it, though, they tend to make a profound kind of sense.

While there are a lot of levels, verse 2 of seems appropriate for this global warming conference in Copenhagen.

Your Suffering Savior

Body, breath, life isn’t cheap
lion in jungle crouching to leap
Boogie’s in the shadow, she never sleeps
So mothers, kiss your kids goodnight
This electric dark draws nightmares
too stark for sweet child minds
who always should stay safe and blind,
and aren’t you Momma’s precious babe? (more…)

Thee and Me

chorus:

Won’t hurt, can’t hurt, how could it hurt hurt
Being what you’re feeling, feeling what you are
Won’t hurt, can’t hurt, how could it hurt hurt
show your inside outside, follow your own star

Born into a world of pain, lied to taught to be ashamed
feeling lost and different, none of us the same
our parents they were lied too, they’re not the ones to blame
no one to point the finger at, no one we can name
the buck stops here, the time is near, we’re going to end the game
chorus:

We are taught that we are bad inside, sinners one and all
Twisted wrong and dirty, we all hide inside walls
We’re taught not to trust anyone, ourselves the least of all
afraid to do just as we feel, we live like plastic dolls
This sickness real it’s time to heal, it’s time to heed the call
chorus:

We’re taught that we are born in sin, evil Satan’s spawn
and we’re taught that we’re God’s children and He loves us right or wrong
tied up in contradiction, can’t tell where we belong
It’s time we opened up to feel our inner truth so strong
We have a choice, we hear a voice, we recognize its song
chorus:

You, me, we are connected, inside we are the same
we don’t have to play this old separation game
We’ve all got a direct line to our Source that needs no name
we don’t have to buy those lies like sheep docile and tame
God’s not above but in and of, a picture with no frame
chorus: