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Diagram of The Prophet’s Mosque in Medina. One of the thousands of ancient documents in Timbuktu.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

On the 19th January 2013 Mercury moves from the mountainous terrain of Earthy Capricorn into the Air space of Aquarius, where it is exalted. We are all on the exciting flight path of the water carrier as it makes its fly pasts, takes it circuitous routes and leads it’s trains and caravans from here to Timbuktu. In the middle of the desert, Timbuktu, a settlement on the caravan routes since the 12th century has always been associated with the concept of somewhere so far away the distance is incomprehensible but we can imagine all sorts of adventures getting there and all mystical, exotic and fantastic. Tuareg folklore suggests the name came from one of their slave women called, Timbuktu who was so trustworthy the Tuareg could leave their precious belongings in her care. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Astronomy manuscripts, Timbuktu<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Sadly, the historic town and World Heritage Site, has been in the grip of radical Islamists who have been destroying monuments and mausoleums and now nothing appears to be in safe hands. <\/span>The <\/span>UN Security Council gave its backing for an African-led military operation to help Mali’s government retake the north of the country if no peaceful solution could be found.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Interim Mali President Dioncounda Traore has Mercury in Aquarius
He has already survived a mob lynching last year when his ‘guards’ allowed a murderous mob into his office in Bamako carrying a mock coffin with his name written on it, He was beaten punched and kicked then stripped naked, with members of the crowd carrying away pieces of his clothing some shouted triumphantly that he was dead and he could well have been as he wears a pacemaker and had to be treated and recouped in France for over two months – video posted by Jeune Afrique<\/a> He has been talking tough by pledging to ‘wage a total and relentless war’ on the Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali who have declared a state of Azawad but he is still searching for peace on shaky, volatile ground. <\/span>
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As Mercury moved into Aquarius, negotiations were taking place (a Mercury skill) between the Algerian government and a terrorist Islamist group who had taken over a BP oil refinery in the settlement of In Amenas, in the Sahara desert. This group operated under the banner of the Signed-in Blood Battalion led by Algerian, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, known by his slang nom de guerre ‘Belaouer’, one-eye ‘and the Belaouer’ has eyes everywhere’. <\/i>His al Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM)  group who have been consistently kidnapping westerners since 2003 are affiliated with a terrorist organisation, Ansar Dine, already active in Mali, west Africa. <\/span><\/span>Those responsible for the group in In Amenas reportedly confirmed their action of taking foreign hostages was in response to France’s recent military intervention and prescence in Mali. <\/span><\/p>\n

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President of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika has Mercury in Aquarius.<\/span>
Of Berber descent, he has also survived an assassination attempt.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This month Mercury may have to act as a courier of aid, supplies and reinforcements as well as a messenger. Mercury in Aquarius will also ‘bring it on’ and carry or trade views in complex arguments, objective scientific thinking and some effective, cool rational thinking. Conversely and often, perversely, Aquarius can also herald some willful, stubborn, entrenched, bizarre or even autocratic communications and activities.<\/span>
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The roads in this land may sometimes seem quirky and unconventional and some may even take a sudden unpredictable turn but this can also make the exploration all the more necessary. This is a time that can generate more and more questions and most definitely will take us along the roads less travelled. It may take us to lawless, rebellious, unrestrained, ungovernable outlawed and vast spaces, exiled or at the outer reaches. We may find that it is from these marginalized unfamiliar lands that people are taking centre stage and doing the talking, trading and exchanging. This is their air space we in after all for these few weeks, and it is their language to which we must translate and the roads we must navigate.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Actor Ray Bolger has Mercury in Aquarius famous forever as the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz
who followed the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City in order to get a brain<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Whenever Mercury changes sign, we need to learn a whole new language and adapt to completely different customs to the ones we have become used to and seem familiar. Mercury effects the way we process and deal with information, how we talk and chat, or tweet, blog, text, write, read, listen and learn and Aquarius is highly inventive, uniquely convinced, scientific and objective with the facts as well as being highly futuristic. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The Father of Science Fiction Writer Jules Verne has Mercury in Aquarius
 he wrote the classic,<\/span> Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth
& Around the World in 80 days
‘<\/span>Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them..<\/span>.<\/i>
the world does not need new continents but new men.’<\/i><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Combine, blend and mix up a potion or two and sometimes create science-fiction in fact.<\/span><\/div>\n

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When Mercury passes through such an offbeat and ‘going its own way regardless’ sign such as Aquarius, things can get interesting and quite challenging. There is strangeness here, a curious blending of ancient and sci-fi futuristic thinking sometimes occupying the same time and space. Rather like mixing the Medieval with Star Trek the result will always be surprising and sometimes fantastic.<\/span><\/div>\n