My Mercury is in Pisces, ruled by Neptune. Mercury is the mind, the communication, the metaphorical Voice. Neptune obscures, some say it lies, but they’re pretty lies, lies the teller believes even if only for the moment. When I talk, I must not know what I sound like as I’m always surprised to hear my own recorded voice. I sound like a stranger, or my mother, and I try not to think about which bothers me more.
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Mercury is communications but it is also the senses. In apparent retrograde motion it moves “backward” against the zodiac over ground it has recently covered. It hits the same places in your chart that it hit previously and you have a chance to experience this same degree transit, but in a different way. For one thing, the other planets are in a different position than they were in Mercury’s forward pass, for another, it’s a second exposure and you retain the experience of the first. It’s like re-reading a book: you experience it differently the second time around.
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I had a lousy sleep last night. I was awoken several times by loud, sharp noises that I’m pretty sure didn’t actually occur in reality. Then this morning I yelled at the kids to “cut it out, I’m sleeping here!” only the kids weren’t being noisy, not overly so. Even with a pillow over my head it’s like my hearing was so acute I could hear the grass grow. After a cup of coffee I realized, ahhhhh, retrograde Mercury is going back over my ascendent into my 12th.
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I saw that as a topic on the boards and thought, “ah yes, I have Uterus in Capricorn,” with a corresponding “tee hee.” Of course, that wasn’t what it actually said. Whenever you have Neptune involved with your senses (Mercury) perception can be a little foggy. There are a lot of components to humor, but I think that Mercury placement is a part of that. I have Pisces Mercury and I tend to misperceive things initially in a way I find personally hilarious. My Mercury is pretty well-supported so it’s just a moment of snortishness, nothing debilitating. My Capricorn Moon in sextile immediately pokes me, “something about that doesn’t feel right; look again.”
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My wireless router has been behaving abominably. I ordered a new one last week and it just came in today’s mail. I haven’t been able to get online for more than five consecutive minutes without restarting the router and even then it’s been slow. There’s a brand new shiny router in the house now, not hooked up, and what do you think is happening? The old router is operating at peak levels unseen in months. Its like it KNOWS its replacement is on deck and it’s performing its little heart out.

Clearly I have no idea why this would be, but what is interesting to me is my own tendency to ascribe to it human motivations and emotions, even an ego. I have Pisces (universal) sun (life, ego) conjunct Mercury (communications devices) in the 7th house (projection) aspecting the moon (feelings) and Uranus (technology). I tend to do this with things in general anyway. When I was a kid I didn’t want to throw anything away in an empty trash can as it might be lonely. I’d wait till I had two things so they had company. I hope you’re not as crazy as I am.

Do you anthropomorphize non-human entities? Can you pinpoint the astrology? I ask because my cat is curious.

I took the kids to the movies Sunday. There weren’t a lot of other people in the theater, and most of them came in after the previews started. Before the lights came back up I decided to give myself an exercise in memory and perception. Without looking around I made mental notes of how many groups, how many in each and the genders and ages I suspected. I’ve been thinking a lot about Mercury placement and the senses lately. With Mercury in Pisces I figured I’d be pretty good at subconscious memory if I really let it flow.
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Saturday night I watched Frida, Salma Hayek’s movie about the life of Frida Kahlo. Ever since I’ve had a song from the movie, Alcoba Azul, playing in the background of my mind. Today it’s interspersed with Cat Stevens’ song Tuesday’s Dead. With Pisces Mercury this is a normal occurrence for me and I don’t usually find it bothersome. Music (Neptune) flavors my thinking (Mercury). My Mercury is in the 7th house so I like to communicate this to the other. I’ll post a video to a friend’s facebook page or sing to my partner.

Where is your Mercury? Can you relate this to the flavor of your thinking?