Comments | ommadawn: What is it? (and a little about the moon)

ommadawn

What is it? (and a little about the moon)

Sep 07, 2009 00:13

Please feel free to repost this to other lists as long as this notice is intact ( Read more... )

Comments 4

_conscience_ September 7 2009, 06:15:49 UTC

According to your numbers, Mercury is retrograde anywhere from 23-46% of the year. As someone whom I have known to point their finger at our poor, charred, innermost planetary brother quite a bit as an explanation for certain phenomena, do you find a distinct and empirically provable causality between disorder and Mercury retrograde cycles or is it superstition akin to searching for 23s?

On an unrelated note, April 25th 2012 looks like fun.

we find what we're looking for ommadawn September 7 2009, 11:09:16 UTC

I did play fast and loose with the numbers a little bit. In this essay, I was intentionally staying away from what it "means". Before I became a "believer", I spent many years pooh poohing the mercury retrograde doom and gloom people until I "felt" it and and afterwards confirmed that the thing had, indeed, initiated the previous night. I now consider it on the same level of credibility as weather reports - those who claim their efficacy have studied chaotic stuff that I don't understand more than I have, and their predictions aren't 100%, but if the weatherman predicts rain, i might actually bring an umbrella because at least some of the time they're right ( ... )

Re: we find what we're looking for flwyd September 11 2009, 03:30:47 UTC

I "felt" it and and afterwards confirmed that the thing had, indeed, initiated the previous night

But how often has something good happened and you checked to see if Mercury was not retrograde?

Incidentally, there isn't just one Creative Commons license. They all require attribution, but they also have options like Share-Alike and Non-Commercial. The most permissive is CC BY, which just requires attribution.

Re: we find what we're looking for ommadawn September 11 2009, 13:55:43 UTC

I don't know if I have ever done that, often once mercury goes retrograde and I am aware, I am sensitized. Not unlike when I first discern that it's the time of the year that snow is likely to fall, I am sensitized to signs of impending snow and other forms of water falling from the sky ( ... )