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Mz. Korona's astro missives. -- on the December '23 mercury Retrograde.--

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Mz Korona's astro missives
On the December '23 Mercury retrograde
"Visions and revisions that a moment will erase" TS Elliot
All for the the want of the editor's red pen, this mercury retrogression will be short and gnarly like a rough wave slamming the shorebreak. Lots of snarling and pushing of boundaries, shield thumping, lots of nicked skin and bruises. It's a time to breathe and watch from the sidelines, unless your caught in the cross fires, or find that someone's handed you a shield, in which case, drop the shield, breathe and step, or crawl, to the sidelines if you can, duck and cover if you can't, pretend to be dead if needs must. 
Some bible (or cultural correlative) thumping commences around Christmas day -- In place of the shield, that is.
January 2nd rains on the parade and we all go home, not really knowing WTF was that.
Fresh flowers, chocolates and starbucks gift cards work wonders just about now: licking of each others wounds.
On the 5th we all roll up our sleeves and get back to whatever we had been about, with a fresh resolve to study war no more.
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  • Of course, Mercury is not going backwards, it follows its elliptical orbit around the sun as usual, all the time. It only appears to go backwards because of the relative positioning of the earth, Mercury, the sun and the apparent immobility of the stars in the sky. It is the embodiment of the phrase, 'more apparent than real'.

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  • Of course, Mercury is not going backwards, it follows its elliptical orbit around the sun as usual, all the time. It only appears to go backwards because of the relative positioning of the earth, Mercury, the sun and the apparent immobility of the stars in the sky. It is the embodiment of the phrase, 'more apparent than real'.

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  • in reply to Martin

    It is called "apparent" motion for this reason. It was always called that - but since the '80s its been abbreviated to retrograde - which has proven more confusing. Most folks don't recognize Mercury's apparent retrogressive motion any more. I have a deep love of celestial mechanics and miss some of those more cogent terms but needs must, eh?\

    Also the missive is written as entertainment as well as informative so I keep to the current standards for me readers.