We all must count the hours of our lives by some metric. It has been said that the universe is the most intricately beautiful clock to ever mark the passage of time. We track the days with sunrise and sunset, the months follow the 28 day lunar cycle, a year carries us through the four seasons, and against the endless sky we watch the wandering planets trace their paths.
I'm an astrologer, following the movement of those bodies through the heavens and interpreting their archetypal symbolism through a lens provided to us by the Western astrological tradition. These patterns have been codified over thousands of years of human experience, and I don't believe humanity has yet moved so far outside the scope of what has historically encompassed the human life story so as to make the lens of astrology not useful. //wording
The current astrological weather brings us a Mercury Retrograde (shorthand: Rx, basically a prescription for a bad time in all things Mercury related). What is the planet to us, who is the god we are relating to when under his aegis? Hermes, Odin, Mercury with his winged sandals, it's travel, communication, technology, magic, and any number of other things.
It's 4:26am on Sunday April 23rd, I'm rambling, and the page just told me it couldn't verify my permissions to edit this post (as I was writing it!), and that I needed to refresh. I was worried about losing something I was already telling myself wouldn't be any good, for any number of reasons. This will take editing, and I might not even like anything I've written until after this retrograde period ends and Mercury can once again enliven my muse.
What Luminiferous Aether means to me, a connecting medium.
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