Trickster Origin Story
Mercury can be a bit like this shark in the comic strip by wawawiwa comics, your ride and die, but it’s always there helping your neurons fire. Communication, the domain of Mercury teaches us, as does analysis, their other house. And life is learning! Mercury is what it takes to build a village, a place or a life, as it will take a village. It is breath and hands, communication (for which the Deaf use hands again), food, siblings, relatives or community, language and culture, barter and trade, science, technology of the kind that gets overlooked, that of the inventor trying to solve the neighbourhood’s problem or make a ham radio for others to do it, the builder’s or the farmer’s skill and inventiveness, and what it takes to create community besides a good meal. Food preservation techniques; speaking of which a retrograde may be time for you to use the pickles you made. If you want to learn Western astrology, you can for free on Stormy Grace’s youtube. I just heard an Orphic hymn for the first time. And while I thought I knew their story, son of Maia?! Did you know Mercury’s name in South Asia up to the South, is Buda and that Buddha’s mother is Maha Maya? And that there were astrological things in Buddhism that are distinct from what East Asia has today? The other striking part of the hymn or story is how the peacock got its feathers. Where are peacocks from? South Asia if it has the eyes on feathers? Do both species have the same pattern? Alexander the (alleged) Great colonised South Asia and peacocks started to become represented in their chariots. If a planet as basic as Mercury has an origin story from South Asia, trust me, a lot from astrology is from South Asia. I can’t stop the misinformation, that people will be speaking of a region with a population as big as the African continent, as if it were a monolith, and a not-ancient language. Someone tweeted yesterday about how toxic the astrology or spiritual community has become. No, it is becoming more apparent. It will only become more and more apparent.