Opening Bell for Tomorrow Thursday

Mercury has gone Retrograde now in Libra. Libra is ruled by Venus. Mercury and Venus combined ruled the Markets. This is just going to be an extra long transit through Libra for Mercury. Venus just keeps clinging to the Ascendant at Opening Bell. Now she rules the opposite 7th House.

I'm also basically senselessly babbling here but wanted to look at the chart.

I don't have any real knowledge of what Mercury Rx means. The descriptions I've read never make any sense. Mercury Rx, Void of Course Moon and what's the other one? oh yeah, Eclipses, are generally described in superstitious terms. You understand that these are good times to not do anything. You're just supposed to feel afraid, very afraid. It's not even guilt or paranoia, it's Fear. Fear helps you to see the other point of view so Fear has its purpose.

Retrogrades are said to bring back things from the past. I'm a Cancer Sun so I live in the past all the time. And guess Mercury Rx can't make the writing get any worse. So maybe this is why I just cant' catch on the transit.

Right now I've decided that Retrogrades are best thought through a literal description of what they are. They describe a very long transit over a certain set of points. Therefore they create frustration because they give a sense of not moving on. Mercury Retrograde is humbling. It is humbling because it brings up these spots where things have to be looked at over and over. Some people enjoy that. Most people want to move on. Mercury Rx is humbling because it is a reminder that Earth and Inhabitants of Earth are not the Centers of the Solar System. We spin around the Sun so we don't get the viewpoint in which to watch the planets, the Sun does. Our view of the orbits have these little blips where the planets look like they are moving backwards for a while. For the Sun things just really spin around. For earthlings there are these little periods of syncopation, blips in the harmonies. If you like Jazz, you like Syncopation. Retrogrades could be exciting and complex and mysterious, but, like Jazz, they are going to be rooted in difficulties of experience that don't make sense.

The Retrograde of Mercury right now is important because Gemini is now on the 8th House cusp. Mercury is ruling Debt, Bankruptcy, Insurance and what used to be called Investments. Warren Buffet just dumped 5 B in some company, I forget which one, in order to cheer people up. When you think about it, 5B will only pay for 5 days of fighting in Iraq. I hear the Space Station is going up on the Block in 2010, Warren, if you're still looking for swamp property.

What else Mercury Rx happened today? George Bush made a speech. ((((LOL))))) Cancer is now beginning to take over the 8th House and the ruler of Cancer is conjunct the Midheaven. MC = President and Moon = Cancer and Bush is a Cancer so the description is literal. The Moon in tomorrow's chart is conjunct the South Node in Leo as well. That's bad circus. It is opposing Chiron to the degree. That sounds unhappy. This will be the emotional humpday. Venus in Scorpio on the ASC. Moon in Leo on the MC. Chiron-NN-Neptune on the IC.

Okay back to Mercury. Mercury's conjunct Mars in the 12th House and trining Neptune which rules the 12th House within a degree or two. Confusion, Deception, Spaciness. Some sleeze. Some great art is being created right now somewhere on earth. They should bang the Bell with a dozen long stemmed Roses. Just give it up, Wall St.

There might also be a feeling of Denial about what's going on or a trust that things will turn out ok.

The heavy Mercury in Libra transit means that people will continue with Diplomacy. This could be good. 12th House means that they won't understand what each other is saying and probably will be missing parts of information and won't be telling the trust, but Saturn ruling the 3d House, if it doesn't get too depressed might balance that out. It might also push for solutions or wait too long. Saturn's about timing. Saturn's trining Jupiter which is ought to be a good thing. Good for building.

Mercury and Mars disposit to Venus and Venus has moved into Scorpio and is still conjunct the Ascendant. She's shrewd these days and she's sextiling Pluto in H2 which means that she's focused on the problem. Venus and Pluto together show really intense feelings so I guess this is appropriate. Venus also rules the 7th House which is empty. Most of the activity in this chart is on the left hand side of the chart which shows a sense of still being under control.

The 2d House has Sagittarius on the cusp and ruler Jupiter is in Capricorn in the 3d House. Jupiter is strongly connected with Saturn through a trine. If people keep talking they might be able to build a good solution?