Merc’s Pioneering Retrograde
Mere moments into Merc's retrograde wend through the Aries minefield and already the masks are slipping off. The first week of this regular renegade transit delivers secrets, lies and rippling revelation. Magnified by an unwieldy eclipse season whose raison d'etre is conjuring all the old shadows and buried light. Pace yourself, darklings. This is going to be a rampaging week and we've only just arrived to its hump.
As we twist and turn through Aries' cardinal fire on our way to its massive eclipse, we are rendered pioneers. Outliers from the worlds we once mindlessly occupied. Now plunged into fresh consciousness and heightened awareness and all we cannot unsee.
Every single good Mercing is an adventure in consciousness and a hardy revision test. Perception shapes bespoke reality in us all, now glitching and shifting. Mistakes out themselves. Secrets slip under locked doors chanting their own peculiar tales. Even so do not suppose to know where you are in the story. There is still so much more to come, and go. Smarts can yet be salved but best leave the lost things where you dropped them. Forego answers and pursue the questions from this smoking ground zero up.
othing is as it once was. Neither will we ever be as we once were, not again. We are surely better for it. Gilded masks only served an armoured purpose, keeping us far from the union we crave. This life, our love, was not created for battlefields and false gods to exploit. It was only manufactured that way, as we were fed tales of wolves and warriors that had no heart. Of mice and men that ate away at our sweet edges. Of a dark world on the far edge of reason and madness. It isn't truth so it never made common sense.
This week the masks will come all the way off, gently by your own hand or wrenched by stars that know a vaster path. The novice panics and the lovers weep while the alchemist smiles at what lies beneath. Let yourself be moved in tandem.
Wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it
~ Alan Moore
Words c. Kerrie Basha 2024