posted June 04, 2003 01:02 PM              

Further Mercury analysis:

(Note to self: This Mercury has got goals and commitments. I am impressed).

I'm really having a hard time thinking of anything to write at the moment.

Mercury is being truthful and engages us. Thank you for this 1Scorp, I am certain many feel the same way and your writing will motivate others to do the same despite such an obstacle. This is good. Mercury plunges ahead anyway, regardless of anything and learns along the way.

It's ten (10) minutes until 11:00 here right now. I can't sleep a wink (as usual). I lay on my back then I switch to my side. I swear I can hear the digital clock running!

Mercury here has an objective it wants to get at, but cannot. Mercury explains what it did to get that objective and what things distracted it from the goal.

My mind wonders. I think of the engineers at work today. Especially this one old guy that decided bermuda shorts and a hawaiian shirt was stylish. He also wore a long trench coat! When he turned around and walked down the hall he looked like a flasher! Oh, now I've got myself tickled.

Mercury acknowledges another distraction, and knows at this point that objective will probably not happen soon enough and chooses to do something else in the meantime.

I can't sleep. I just get up out of bed, walk down my stairs, get a glass of milk and flip on the computer. Now I can't believe I'm typing this as tired as I am.

Bingo. Mercury knows Mission Sleep X will not be accomplished and gets up to do something instead of agonizing over it.

Was that alright? Or was it really bad?

Mercury asking for acknowledgement . . . feels a little weary not knowing if objective here on this assignment is met. But 1Scorp does it anyway! Brave woman

one more

Mercury now has a new objective, to accomplish the goal on this homework . . . and will do whatever it takes to get it . . . even if it is not clear on what it is.

I have my milk in hand, and you know something? I have been drinking this skim milk for so long that I've forgotten what a good cold glass of whole milk taste like. I think "man, cookies would be good right now"!

Mercury begins a story.

I walked into the kitchen, looked in my cabinet and all I have is reduced fat oreos. However, I've become so accustomed to this card board food that I rather look forward to a chocolate flavored treat. My refrigerator is the same sad story. Lean, fat-free, reduced calorie, etc.

Mercury is describing something it is committed to, another objective. Yet is not completely satisfied and communicates a drawback.

I just want a juicy hamburger with cheese, pickle, onion, mayo and ketchup! Is that so much to ask?

Ah, a hamburger. Mercury wants a hamburger even though it is committed to a low-fat diet.

I have to keep at my treadmill and weights like a religion. Or do I? I don't really know, as I've been with this routine for so long, I don't know what would happen if I stopped.

Mercury communicates a commitment it has, an objective it continually keeps up. Mercury tells us it is uncomfortable with not knowing what would happen if the the terms of this commitment would change, even slightly.

Off to bed... hungry.

Mercury thinks about the hamburger, the distraction. However, is choosing to maintain the commitment to a low-fat, and regular aerobic exercise. Mercury makes a choice to maintain a firm objective to the goals of good health and sleep.

Aphrodite

posted June 04, 2003 01:10 PM              

A concern with meter, concrete items over abstract concepts... that's earthy... sense of rhythym, beauty/poetics, the celestial and spiritual... that's Neptunian... yet broken up playfully, unexpectedly, kind of Uranian... a driving force of communication, so to me that's cardinal...

Wow! You are great. I saw your interpretation for Ali's chart and that was awesome too. Where did you get earthy? Just curious. What you write is exactly me. Hehe. I will send you my birthdata if you want.

This is tough, as part of me feels really wrong at trying to analyze a lovely poem to death to extract the Mercury! Yikes!

Nah, go for it! I'd love to hear more

Nope, I'm getting themes, have no clear idea, but I'm gonna guess wrong, so here goes anyway... Merc in Cap in the 12th House, or Merc in Aries with Neptune/Uranus aspects...

I do have Mercury in Aries, but it has no Neptune or Uranus aspects.

posted June 04, 2003 02:54 PM              

I like your Mercury courses. I need all the help I can get with communication!

I also enjoy reading all of the post. I believe it was Lion's vegetarian topic that sent me into a hunger frenzy

posted June 04, 2003 05:03 PM              

feel free to analyze mine!

hi 1scorp, to answer your question . . . for the most part, yes. just a few paragraphs. it's also why i asked you before if you are the same way with number of planets you have in scorpio. i can usually tell in 5 minutes when i am with a person how they are going to be. kind of scary, but it's good overall.

posted June 08, 2003 10:05 AM              

I tried so hard to connect your poem with your Merc in Aries, but it's so placid and un-Aries like, I don't know what to say other than it's obvious your Merc conjuncts your Venus.

posted June 09, 2003 01:56 PM              

great to hear you had a kick out of the deconstructions!

no worries about the poem here's the thing, i wrote it for a gemini friend, and i have gemini on the the cusp of my 12th house. you are good to see the 12th house connections!

posted June 11, 2003 12:56 PM              

Well, I did. Was wondering if it would be alright to post it...

posted June 11, 2003 04:15 PM              

yes, do post. i hope the others will chime in and give their interpretation skills practice.

i don't know what stinky means to you, just as long as you are aware of the rules of the site and oblige, randall will be okay with it

posted June 11, 2003 08:31 PM              

Alright... I'll do it. I've never done this before... so I'm a bit shy. However, I want brutal honesty!

I watch casually, yet taking in every movement, gesture and word.

Who are you?

Your eyes meet mine.

A radiance burning deep.

What's behind them?

You speak and your eyes begin to talk.

I see it. It's all there.

Your confidence
your weakness
your strength
your timidity

Yet, still there is an untouched purity that lies deep.

That's what I seek.
That's what I need to touch.
That's what I want.

Your soul

posted June 13, 2003 01:22 PM              

this is going to sound strange . . . i've actually written a letter to someone like what you've just wrote. i don't have it anymore though, otherwise i would post the bit that is nearly identical. something along the lines of, "the spinning vortexes within those eyes, separating pure truth from all the lies."

and, i do know of the *glint* you refer too.

very interesting, these similarities.

your work feels to me a very deep song from the soul.

words can only do so much to convey sentiment. so limiting sometimes, in expressing a language of feelings . . . that has no words.

your poem is beautiful and moving.

aphrodite

posted June 20, 2003 08:52 AM              

ok, jumping in!

what do i write about? lemme see..

how 'bout having sisters that you gel with?

one sister's got a scorp moon. the other's got the sun and i got the rising! isn't that fascinating? i mean, we really chose to incarnate together as a family. we're friends and we all trust each other. the scorp moon sister , of course, is mum about her emotional life. the scorp sun sister exudes a sense of strength and magnetism. me, a reserved mien, aka poker-face.

oh, but aphrodite, you already know my mercury...

posted June 20, 2003 12:25 PM              

Lioneye, as a former Vegetarian I can tell you that you can't win her over if she's a Taurus, the best way is to change her mind by being logical. Show her photos of healthy people and mention that she needs red blood cells. Then show her pictures of red blood cells. Sorry to be so blunt but either she is or isn't and being a Taurus she is just feeling sorry for animals. She will stick with it as long as you let her but she is only caught up in her own argument and need to be right.

Truthfully she probably wants to eat meat. I would let her fend for herself and serve succulent meat dishes, but also have a book handy on the importance of good nutrition. Look at her books? She can't go around sucking up to every cause, because then she will be marching in demonstrations and throwing buckets of paint on fur coats and getting arrested and going back to eating meat anyway years later and feeling guilty about it.
Taurus likes animal meat. Animal meat is good. Animals go to heaven and we are thankful for their goodness. It's a sacrifice we are thankful for and we only take what we need. The animals forgive us.

There's my homework. Taurus takes it to the extreme, especially with merc/gemini/7th house.