{"id":45493,"date":"2012-10-22T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/entry\/?guid=0a61e06ff9c21830f5c96346313e3a60"},"modified":"2012-11-01T17:06:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T17:06:39","slug":"mercury-on-the-road-in-the-shadowlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=45493","title":{"rendered":"Mercury On The Road In The Shadowlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Shadowlands of Mercury is a strange and disorientating place but one not to be overlooked. <\/span><\/span>Mercury entered the Shadow time on the 18<\/span><\/span>th<\/span><\/sup><\/span> October 2012. This is a strange but fascinating<\/span><\/span> piece of the astrological jigsaw puzzle and one well worth further examination. Although still moving forward, this time is actually the start of Mercury’s journey back on itself. Mercury is running along that part of the road it will have to travel back down again on the 7th November 2012 which is when it starts it\u2019s Retrograde phase. This road is a dimly lit shady zone and one which can be potentially destabilising. <\/span><\/span>These couple of weeks, j<\/span><\/span>ust before the full Retrograde, is essentially when Mercury is \u2018not in its right mind\u2019 and is thinking very differently. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Mercury can appear to be sprinting full pelt on some very wobbly terrain. It may feel quite disconcerting, in a way rather like running on broken glass or some other very inappropriate material. We may want to rush on and get it over with and yet part of us instinctively knows we are only going to have to come back to clear it up later. In effect the length of road we are hurtling down at such a pace is littered with material and detritus, most of which the flight of foot Mercury may choose to bypass. Attention is focused on the distance whilst the ruts, pot-holes, signposts and left luggage is actually being ignored. But not for very long because, in a few weeks, Mercury will be dragged back with a pan and brush, highlighter pen, ticket machine or notebook to collect and deal with \u2018the ignored\u2019 and overlooked.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The road we are now on, this <\/span>few weeks before the Retrograde, already appears to be quite difficult, unfortunately sometimes this is literal. Roads are a part of Mercury\u2019s domain, as are market places, trading centres, transit junctions such as airports, harbours, stations and ports. A wide brief for sure but there is a thread which links and connects them all. T<\/span>hese shadowy streets can perhaps take a little more effort in negotiating than they did before. On the 21st October, 2012 France woke up to a surprising example of this disruption, when the pilgrimage town and of Lourdes was hit with severe flooding, its streets awash with water. <\/span><\/div>\n