u/mossystarwitch

Hello!

I have felt a growing desire to finally tackle the task of sorting reassessing and cataloging my digital photos. I was going to be scheduling that soon as a several weeks-long project, however, I then noticed Mercury going retrograde on the 29th!

I’m still learning the themes of a Mercury retrograde in a real-felt sense and I wanted to ask you, the community, if you feel like I should do that during this time or if should I wait until after it stations direct?

I ask because I know that the themes of retrograde can be a reassessing and recalibration, but also there’s technological things that go along with it that can cause problems.

With Mercury, going retrograde in Cancer I feel like the feelings of nostalgia, home and family could be really good thematic timing for me to look through and edit and back up my photos properly, but of course now I’m questioning the timing. 😅

Thank you!

My older brother died in a motorcycle-on-motorcycle collision in 2015 on a back country road on his way back to where he and my parents were living.

I live in another state, so I was not able to be there immediately, but when I came into town my husband and I stopped by where it happened and it was still a gruesome sight several days later (blood still caked the road.)

After a decade of healing and moving through life without him, I thought I’d closed that chapter and knew everything. However, the other day I held space for my mother because she had been stuck in a depressive mental loop lately and I learned some new info (that I think had been new to her too.)

Apparently the first responder to arrive at the scene was so deeply effected by the carnage and despair of the situation that he has struggled with depression ever since. We learned this through some publicity he had recently, and my mom keeps up with several of the people who were there at that time.

We also learned another of the first people on the scene was so troubled by what he saw it was a large factor in his mental health which eventually lead to his very sad death.

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Learning that the horror of that moment was so much worse than I had imagined has left me feeling a wave of grief for all of those involved.

My poor father was the only one who had the strength to see him in the morgue (I was traveling up, and my mother was inconsolable in the morgue waiting room); and apparently he wasn’t allowed to see under the sheet because the only thing that wasn’t eviscerated was my brothers face (which only had a few scrapes.)

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It’s been over a decade now. My life has settled, and I carry my love for my brother with me everywhere. I am an optimistic, warm person who is determined to live a peaceful life for myself (but also for him)

I am, however, so filled with a particular grief this morning, and I thank you to anyone who took the time to read through this. 💚

As advanced astrologers, how would you teach to absolute beginners?

I have been working towards teaching astrology lessons in my backyard with people I know (I have a really wonderfully supportive community who keeps asking to learn more!)

It’ll likely be anywhere from 6-30 people, adults and sporadic interest from passing kids/teens. Imagine that you had a good sized backyard stage with either a big white-board for writing, or even a projector screen. 

I’ve personally been thinking of starting with the zodiac archetypes, then planets, and then finally houses, but I am very curious about what others would do in this scenario! 

If you had this opportunity, how would you introduce astrology to people who only vaguely know things about sun sign astrology?