The cusp of Gemini barely at our backs, it’s hard not to think about thresholds, margins and in-between spaces, since sign ruler Mercury (Hermes in Greek myth) is the messenger, the go-between, the slipster, the one breezing in and out of the doorways from here to there, all backwards sometimes, upside down, inside out.
Gemini is [...]

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I was fortunate enough this weekend to soak up a talk on memory, voice and writing by the inspiring and insightful Dennis Patrick Slattery, who I once heard speak, seemingly off the cuff, on Dante’s Inferno for about seven hours straight. (Okay, there was a lunch break in the middle of that one. But still. [...]

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Astrologer Extraordinaire Joyce Hopewell challenged her blog-reading astrologers to come up with eight random things about themselves through the lens of a single aspect structure in their birth chart. So, because I can’t get it out of my head, I choose my irritation triangle, that red-green-green dog biting my chart in two along the MC-IC [...]

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Mercury is never more than 30 degrees away from the Sun. That’s unique among the planets — all the others trek much further astray from the great ball of fire.
And if you know just a tad about Mercury and Sun’s roles in the birth chart, you can begin to appreciate the importance of our smallest, [...]

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Duh.
In the haze of a sinus infection last week (more on that later), I left some very important information on Mercury out of this post.
In addition to commerce, travelers, gymnastics and the underworld, Mercury is also closely associated with data, information, learning and communication. (Though not patently obvious at first glance, these themes do dovetail [...]

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