Lupa writes on Mercury and Minds:

“I agree with you Elsa. The idea that you send your ideas, thoughts, communication out there and let it be received or not can be an excuse for poor communication.”

Well my writing has been through the wringer. As I mentioned on one of these posts, when saturn transited my 6th house (writing / mercury / virgo)… this is when HQ helped me put my book together. He was the first person who told me that I wrote in code. I of course had no idea what he was talking about.

Eventually I got to see I had this 9th house writing style. I’d just go and go and go. MY writing was full of jokes only I (and perhaps people very close to me) could understand. I took the readers knowledge for granted which was WAY off base.

HQ had to get it through to me, it was my job to make what I was writing easier to parse. I had all kinds of problems. My stories are so large, I would skip chunks as if the audience could figure it out. I wrote as if I were talking which I still do but to a much lesser extent. In general I was a Wild, WILD horse and had to be tamed to some degree.

In whatever case, this was a brutal process. It was actually Saturn’s transit through the 6th (Mercury) squaring natal Mars Mercury so you can see how the hammer came down. Not only did I write in code, I wrote in what I called, “Cajun”. That is, I wrote things backwards, “It’s down the road, 3 miles or 2…”

::smiles:::

Yeah, I had all kinds of problems. HQ had pretty much stumbled across Nell of the Internet and had to try to get her to comb her tangled hair!

Saturn through Virgo means more of this though it’s not near as bad as that was which illustates how learning builds on learning and I got news for me – Next Saturn will conjunct my Mars Mercury so I am going to be slaving like this for some years.

For the record I like my old writing, rambling or no. But I admit you have to know me to be able to read it well and this is because my speech patterns and rhythms are somewhat odd. It’s a real problem to fix my writing without normalizing the “Elsa P” right out of it and HQ had to deal with this. Over the years, once people have a conversation with me (say via consultation) the report enjoying my writing a lot more than before because they’ve got an idea of the cadence of my speech,

Probably surprise you to know the soldier also understands this and has offered his editing services. There are some errors that were inserted into my manuscript and he thinks he could fix them. He’s got almost 10 years of college and he can definitely write but he said specifically, “I know how you talk. I know how you sound…”

So that’s that other than to point out to beginners this is such a big deal in my life because that Mars Mercury is so prominent in my chart. I’d also say that Saturn’s conjunction to my Mars Mercury in a few years should really order my writing once and for all but for now all I can do is work towards that goal and I really have to strive, I’ll tell you.

Back in the day when I was trying to untangle the Cajun, there were times at the peak of this where it could talk me 15 minutes or more to untangle a paragraph. It’s a form of dyslexia actually. My brain would throb trying to order the words. I mean, I was in pain and it would exhaust me. Lot of trouble for someone who months before could just write and write and write. Talk about throwing chock in your wheels!

In whatever case, this is some of what I have gone through to be able to bring you this blog. It’s been an odyssey. It’s a challenge (Mars) for me to write (Mercury). It’s a war (Mars) in my mind (Mercury).