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SEEING WITHOUT EYES Daily Astrology Thurs 12th Nov Mercury in Scorpio is about to finish its 3 weeks of retrograde motion. So that time of unfortunate incidents - mine began with a puncture in a storm at night, and continued from there - is coming to an end. But why are some retrograde periods worse than others in this respect, at least for some of us? Retrograde requires an inward looking, a thoughtfulness, a learning from the past. It could easily be the astrological gods - for whom Mercury is the messenger - pushing us from the outward to the inward. For that is where a balanced, aligned life begins. Outer events sometimes symbolise what is needed on an inner level. In our culture, Mercury finds Scorpio tricky. For we are taught that Mercury as the mind requires theory and evidence to be valid. That has its place, but when Mercury is in Scorpio, something is not true unless you feel it on your pulses. You see the real human beneath the presentation, and you know things you could not have known. You just 'get a feeling'. And then you ignore it, because you don't have the evidence, and because everyone else thinks this person you don't trust is wonderful. So while Mercury is still retrograde, look back at all those times when you haven’t trusted your instincts, and how events turned out. You probably got bitten, hard. For that is how we learn to trust that direct knowing. Such trust is a rebellion against the dominant scientific paradigm, that denies this knowing is real. And in that way we start to lose our souls. It is like 'intercision' in Philip Pullman's Nothern Lights. Astrology itself is this type of knowing, for how could it possibly be a scientific truth? The popularity of astrology is a testament to our continued trust in non-rational means of knowing, and therefore to a faith in a wider web of causation in a meaningful universe. So the fact that you are reading this shows that you have faith in this type of knowing. It is not just the astrologer telling you how things are. It is something in you that instinctively works in this way too. Identify it, and live from it. For it is the most important and direct way of seeing and knowing, and it will serve you well. PS I always make a 3 minute video version of these posts. You can find them here: https://www.youtube.com/@The_Feral_Astrologer/shorts