Mercury Retrograde In Aquarius

Turning Convention On It's Head

Retrograde — the word that breeds fear into many. After all, it means losing more control of the little we have. Yes, the universe has a certain way of ping-ponging the energies in our lives to keep us on our toes, but none as aggravating as the one known as Mercury Retrograde. Plus, when it is in Aquarius, the sign that rules technology, you can expect this one to be one humdinger of a roller coaster ride that has no rhyme or reason. However, is there cause to fear? Not if you’re prepared!

To circumvent the anguish that is Mercury Retrograde in Aquarius, foolproof your life to make this calamity work for you:

·      Ever dream of being off the grid? Make this your chance, but do it staycation style. With Mercury ruling commuting, trips of any sort can be plagued with misadventure. Best to kill it at home with candles, books, your baby and a stockpile of snacks that can last you for days. Not only effective in realigning your chi, but being a bit green during this cosmically kooky time will score points in the world of karma.

·      Technology isn’t complete trash during this time. In fact, social media accounts you’ve been off or video games you use to play can have a renaissance now, as in logging in those old passwords and rediscovering a world you’ve left behind.

·      Aquarius rules friendships and in honor of a retrograde, be proactive by being the one to reach out to anyone from your past you’ve been thinking of apologizing to or to reconnect. Whichever the motive, a Mercury Retrograde is your rip-in-time to set relationships with history back on track.

·      Stop and edit your masterpieces. Instead of pushing to get past creative blocks, avoid anything new. Best to perfect what you have. Retrograde periods are for tightening drums and discarding red herrings. Yes, work with what you’ve got.

·      Allow yourself to be non-committal. The world will be operating at wonk level and so no matter how hard you try to resist, it won’t change. Be vague and explore. If you can avoid signing any dotted line until post-retrograde, then you’ll be playing to win.

Mercury Retrogrades In Scorpio

Say What?????

Do not fear Mercury Retrograde! Yes, it’s in the death sign of Scorpio, which means intense rebirth is par for the course now (if only your techno gadgets) — but there is a sunny side up to all. Sure, there is a threat of reaching a sort of rock bottom first, but that only means a rise to power as high.

Scorpio is the sign of surprise and its methods of communication are covert. In the information learned there are always many convoluted red herrings and the best way to master this beast is to know positive resolutions exist. For example, on how to keep the hope alive:

1.     People from the past show up. In Scorpio, it’ll likely be old booty calls or intense loves. Who says a second time around isn’t fate?

2.     Scorpio is a behind-the-scenes kind of energy, so expect brilliant ideas will appear, regarding aspirational projects you’ve let go. A breath of intense air is blowing; its muse can awaken you.

3.     If technical breakdowns happen, teaching you the ultimate lessons of back up, focus on the new gadgets you can get to get back into the game wiser.

4.     Traveling to places you’ve been will be just the getaway, as familiarity will be what soothes now.

5.     The bitch factor of a retrograde cycle intensifies and you won’t be alone in this, because if misery loves anything, it’s company. Party the night away with other sour souls that feel they have nothing to lose and adventure will ensue.

6.     Old money dealings will payout — like getting paid back in full from someone you forgot you loaned anything to, investments that suddenly matter or finding cash in an old coat pocket.

7.     …And if ever there’s a time for sensational gossip and mind-blowing slips of the tongue, it’s Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio. Cliffhanging/glass dropping info that can destroy reputations of those that need the most humility.

Mercury Goes Retrograde In Cancer

24 Days Of Mental Disturbance...

1. 2 blown-out tires in mts of Trinidad. (Luckily, lots of    hotness to the rescue & the party went on! #bunz)

2. Leaving our Trini family... Even their car was sad, overheating soon after we were dropped off at the airport . :(

3. Zzzzzzz.........

4. 2 flat bike tires.

5. 8 credit card "customer service" agents, 2 hours later, 0 resolution...yet.

6.  A limp launch of The World Cup, even in Little Brazil.

7. Crackheads.

8. A shitious day of anti-climatic World Cup watching. Wrong predictions and Uruguay sucking hard -- but still, not as hard as Greece. Thankfully, Colombia rocked my world... I'd say more, if I knew what is actually going on. So, I won't.

9. Being stuck on a line for 30 minutes with a SMELLY person behind me that had NO sense of personal space. NO, not Mercury Rx, just me being a bitch.

10.  2 days later, still can't get my friend's ginormous TV to change channels....stupid.

Mercury Retrograde In Scorpio

Fight The Power

Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio sounds scary enough than to emphasize its direness more. So, instead, let's focus on the good. After all, Mercury Rx's don't always have to fuck every minute of every day. At the minimum, if you're lucky, this one lasting until Nov. 10th could be 51% fuckery and 49% possibility.

10 Ways Mercury in Scorpio Rx Can Be Your Bitch:

1. Avenging yourself. This Mercury Rx is a karmic black hole, so feel free to play with your voodoo dolls.
2. Removing warts, lice and other nastiness from your genitals (including pubes, if you see bush that way).
3. Pissing on your territory again.
4. Celebrating The Day of the Dead.
5. Getting back owed money long overdue.
6. Reversing a vasectomy.
7. Removing ungrateful a-holes from your last will and testament.
8. Landing on good gossip about someone you despise.
9. Experiencing familiar ghosts./Getting the Ouija to work./Going to a successful seance.
10. Finding good deals on underwear.
    

Mercury Retrograde In Cancer

Watch Your Tongue

Approximately a week after July 20, you can say, "Two down, one more to go," as you will have completed the second Mercury retrograde of this year, leaving only the last one, which is going to be in Scorpio and is bound to be a bitch, especially when it aligns with Saturn, the planet of tough love ethics...Until then, enjoy this little tale of caution.

Mercury enters Scoprio, Retrograde

...and again...

From now until December 10, Mercury will be in Scorpio -- but only in retrograde until November 26. So, get ready for an about face. To get a refresher on what it's all about, click here.

Transit Theme Song:
Back In Black
AC/DC

Mercury Retrogrades In Sagittarius

Flashback! 

Everybody has a John Hughes movie that is close to their heart, as it embodies some part of their  teenage angst. Mine was Some Kind Of Wonderful. In my mind, I was Watts. I had a guy best friend too, and was totally in love with him secretly. Even penning a letter to him in the case of my death...Anyway, I watched this movie so much, that when I finally confessed my feelings, I too walked away like her and cried....Although I didn't have him chasing after me with diamond earrings. Instead, I walked almost half the length of the parking lot we were in, until I was picked up in a car, by my sister, with him in the backseat saying nothing....No, life isn't like in the movies....



However, there was a somewhat happier ending to this story, as the next day, while at a concert, he asked me why I walked away. I said, "Because you rejected me." He then said he didn't and that I never gave him a chance to say anything and from there we attempted to "date," which consisted of fooling around and fighting back insecurities. To say the least, we were better as friends...and to this day, we still are! In fact, we're even neighbors!

Mercury goes Retrograde in Leo

Oops, I did it again.

When any planet goes into Leo, it means drama with a capital YES! So, as this Mercury retrograde (Rx) goes into effect in Leo, today at 10:16pm EST, you better get ready for the bottom to fall out, the papers to go flying and the logic to go out the window until August 8th (with residual effects up to a week later, with the transit periods being the most active). 

D for disaster is no joke, so hold onto your wig, because the fur will go flying -- and it might even be that you have nothing to do with the mess, but you'll be the eye of its storm and the clean up will land on your head. As for where and what you should be looking out for, to make your Rx (prescription) to this period of communication snafus and refueling the past, here it is:

Aries: Your ego will feel as if its been hit by a torpedo, so forget trying too hard. If you can coast the mid-line, then you'll be as doing as good as it can get. For you, blending in may be tough, but it's your only defense.

Taurus: You get neurotic, that is bound to happen. After all, you can't always be solid, you're human. So, if going on a bender of any sort will work it out of your system, just go with it.

Gemini: Mums the word on anything you have in the pipeline. Most of your anxiety is typically from blabbing your plans to everyone, and creating performance anxiety within yourself and from the anticipation of your audience. Close out those demons, by keeping as open or as numb of a mind as you can to walk through the next phase of your plans.

Cancer: The future is always going to be there and no matter if you take big or small steps into it, it'll still be there.  So, if you need to stop and catch your breath, do it, because tomorrow isn't going anywhere.

Leo: You're going to be everyone's scapegoat, whether or not you get it to your face. No matter, as the tides can easily turn by playing your best weapon -- guilt. All it will take is a few bats of your eyelashes and one pointed sigh and the world will listen.

Virgo: Let your crazy off the lease. Having to be always logical and purposeful is a big responsibility and one you don't have to take on. The more insane you act, the more time you'll get to sleep.

Libra: Bullying is a hot topic, which is why you need to get in on the action. After all, you're not one to be behind on the times. Yes, taste a bit of the sweet of being able to hold others' esteem in the palm of your hand, if only once. It's so out of character, chances are no one will even hold you accountable.

Scorpio: Remember, there is always someone younger and hungrier coming down the stairs after you. So, rev up your inner whore and get to work. Accept this and you'll be a happy as a bug in a rug.

Sagittarius: Moral standing is so blase. No one needs you as their beacon of hope like that, because it just has no flair. Dive in the trash and redefine what works for you, because as of now being wrong is your right.

Capricorn: Break out the skeletons in your closet and make them your badge of honor. Nothing like attracting all the right people, places and situations to you unless you really show them your true feathers.

Aquarius: What's fair and what's equal are two separate things, because equaling out things won't be what is fair for you. While this might lead you to resort to a fascism, the right attitude for you now is that you'll try anything once.

Pisces: Throw out the watch and burn the calender. Deadlines, schedules and time restraints are a joke. Freedom is your calling. If anyone else dials up looking for anything else, hang up immediately.

As for the theme song of this retrograde, Let's Have a Kiki, Scissor Sisters....because everyone needs one!

Mercury goes retrograde in Aries

Reexamine yourself...

Life or Something Like It

Mercury goes retrograde in Sagittarius

Feel the nostalgia.

Since Yesterday
Strawberry Switchblade

Mercury goes retrograde in Virgo

Stop the presses!!!!!!!!!!!

Expect life to get a bit more twisted over the next  24 days, because yes, that tri-annual event called Mercury retrograde begins today at 11:50pm EST, which many of you know is the time in which communication breakdowns are prevalent, untimely travel snafus pop up, delays in getting a commitment happen and people from the past can suddenly reappear. It's a plethora of aggravating  issues that can be set off, but mainly linked to those following issues...and since this Rx is in detailed-orientated and efficient Virgo, it means you must do your homework in regard to upcoming plans, as in sweating the small stuff and ensuring every minor detail is in place to move ahead... Of course, that ensures nothing either, as obstacles will happen as part of fate, but to do all you can to minimize the agony is possible...So, for those areas to batten down those hatches, the list is as follows:

Aries: health, dealings with co-workers, routines
Taurus: romance, creativity, risks involving your ego
Gemini: family, business, home
Cancer: communications, dealings with siblings, travel
Leo: money, comfort, stability
Virgo: vanity, new projects, general outlook
Libra: the past, reality (versus illusions), subconscious fears
Scorpio: friendships, hopes and wishes, the future
Sagittarius: status, career, traditions
Capricorn: truth, spirituality, global matters
Aquarius: power, sex, finances
Pisces: relationships, contracts, peace of mind

...but do know, despite all the headaches that can appear, good can come out of Rx's too, as in pulling out things from your past and reworking them, as this is the time to examine what you have and work it into perfection, as nothing you wish for has to be a lost cause. So, despite the chaos, understand there is an eye of the storm you can relax in, but only if you choose.

Mercury goes retrograde in Aries

Oops, oh well...nothing is perfect...

Except this...the perfect theme song for the next three weeks of jack-up-ed retrogradeness (lasting until 4/23)....learn it, live it, love it, & you can download it here too...The Kinks, Better Things...

Mercury retrogrades in Sagittarius

Go ahead, dream.

Mercury goes retrograde in Capricorn

Recheck your sanity.

Mercury retrograde has arrived as of 7:04 AM EST. That means the monkey wrench had been officially thrown into the communication works and you can expect snafus in all things that deal with talking, walking and breathing. You know it, nothing comes easy when the planet closest to the earth decides to go on a lunch break and leaves every one hanging to sort out its mess, like a bitter secretary...  You can try to fight it, or you can take its cue and realize nothing has to be so urgent or so black and white. In Capricorn, the sign of building, it's about slow progress anyway, so at the least, this retrograde will verify or decimate your hunches.

As for me, for sure, it's making me a believer all over again. As my friend has told me, "You know Kiki, I don't believe in all that stuff you do, but Mercury in retrograde, I totally believe in that."

You know it, despite the calamity, the universe is acting in a way I can get again, as in aspects/transits and planets acting the way they should. For me personally, the Mercury retrograde is in my 9th house, ruling international relationships and lo-and-behold, just prior to the official RX, which is when it starts to gurgle, I heard from a few friends I haven't heard from in a while and all of them overseas! My friend in Buenos Aries, a Nepali friend living in Japan and one of my BFFs from high school in Korea! What are the chances? So no matter what chaos I will be stepping into until December 29th (when this whole debacle will settle down), I get there is a method to this madness and that it ultimately means I am not nuts, astrology does happen! Yeaaaaaay!

Mercury Retrograde

Remembering the past.

Written September, 2001. First published @ SXSW Award Winner for Best Gurl website, www.planetkiki.com, in response to the terrorist attacks.

AMERICA’S WAKE UP CALL:

HIT THE SNOOZE OR GET OUT OF BED?

The first reports of looting have come in since the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York. As horrific as that seems, is as predictable as it can get. After all, a New Yorkers’ reputation is all about being a brooding bad-ass criminal that is really a loner at heart. It is part of the stereotype. So, why should this be so shocking? Life goes on they tell us — and so it has.

Of course, the report of looting, set in such a grim backdrop of carnage, is crass. However, it magnifies the questions we must respond to. It is not just asking ourselves about life going on — that is a given. The question we must ask ourselves now is, how do we want life to go on? What is the quality and level of respect we want to live among? Are we capable of really learning from our past? As this country comes back to a semblance of normalcy, what will it bring? Will it only take a few more days, or weeks, for this fabrication of unity to begin to crack? Do we let our apathy come back with the TV stations’ scheduling, or is this redemption going to revolutionize our minds?

As we all have seen in the last few days, love has out poured throughout much of the world. Throughout the streets of New York — a city famed for its cutthroat environment — strangers are hugging one another; people of all colors are praying together; volunteers and donated supplies are superfluous. Around this nation, the same spirit of unity has driven people to sit on the sides of random highways, waving to strangers in their cars and of little children selling their toy collections to help others in need. It has been an awe-striking phenomenon that has been infectious throughout the nation. No matter what economical class, political allegiance, religious clique, etc. that one belongs, lines that divide have gone asunder. The masses have found a connection through grief. We’ve been given a reminder that we are one nation — however dysfunctional — but like most dysfunctional family, when the madness strikes, we stick through the thick together.

Yes, despite these random reports of obscene selfishness coming in, we should not feel the need to be diverted by the jadedness, allowing it to infest our minds. We need to react, remembering all the kindness and love that has been brought to the surface, and seal those bitter cracks. The statistics are in; ignorance is the minority. There are more of us, than there is of it, and let that serve as our common bond. Let’s not make this sense of togetherness a temporary reaction, but a rediscovered instinct. The alarm clock has gone off, and accepting that and treating everyone as an enemy, if you can’t get your way, is no longer acceptable. It is time to go deeper into your thoughts and emotions, and think about real priorities of what life is about; understand it isn’t always about you. Life includes every single living being in this world. It is about everyone caring, respecting, sharing, having patience, etc., for one and all. These are the pillars of a peaceful society.

We all share this life together, and these events have given us the taste of how powerful it can be to live in a positive alliance. September 11, 2001 marked a day when a renaissance of humanity was woken. We have witnessed the effects of ignorance at its most unimaginably depraved level, and have proved we won’t allow it. Know now that the way we were living before, in all the apathy and arrogant bitterness, was wrong and unnecessarily counterproductive. Know now that it is horrific to be brought together at this price — a price that should forever serve as our reference point for the mistakes we all committed before. Know now we should no longer take for granted the choices and the quality found in how we choose to exist, and how giving we all can be. Know now we must destroy the arrogance and ignorance we allow to exist because of indifference. Know now we need to refuse to be engulfed in, and act out, the frustrated anger we all can get caught in because of our egos. Know now we need to continue to embrace what we each can do, to truly achieve peace, love and happiness — and all the slogans of positivity. Understanding we are all together is taking the first step; living with it, appreciating it and embracing it, is the next. Know now that we should no longer think an eye for an eye, and call it a day. In these days, we have seen too much, suffered too much and proven too much strength to want to revert.

So, as this tragedy’s day will move farther down the time line of our history, what will our personal actions be? With massive, and useless carnage occurring throughout many generations of our existence — what can we gain from our generations’ calling? We have learned so far, history has had two effects — it teaches or it taints; leaving us at the daunting decision to let this moment be a defining one, or just another tear-jerking twist in the human archives. It is each our personal responsibility to either uphold the knowledge we have been given and retain this appreciation for life as part of our daily existence or not. Which will you choose?

Mercury Retrograde in my solar 11th

Ramshackling it's way through my house of hopes and dreams.

It's already happening. Today, I started getting excited about next Wednesday's new moon in Virgo, Jupiter going back to Pisces and Venus entering Scorpio for a super extended time. All are suppose to be amazing and even more amazing for me...but lately, every time I think there is going to be something special, it never happens...or if it does shows signs of something, it eventually gets taken away in a series of prolonged and confusing events.

It's dramatic and tragic in its own way, every time, so it should of been no shock to see a big dead cockroach in the entrance of my building as my first omen today. Then, yesterday, I saw dead ladybug in my apartment...and even my headphones.

In every Mercury retrograde, inevitably one pair of earphones always gets destroyed. This time, it was two, and in a matter of 24 hours...So, time to downsize on the expectations of triple threat Wednesday, just like today's disappointing Hurricane Earl?

..."OK, new moon in my house of hopes and wishes; Jupiter, the planet of luck, in my house of romance and career; and Venus, pleasure planet, lighting up my personal pleasure axis, what now?"

(Update: September 9th, killed another set of headphones, now making the total of 3 in just a week!)

Mercury goes retrograde in Virgo

Ahhhh, memories...

On July 30th, three convicted murderers broke out of a maximum security jail in Arizona. While one was caught early on, two were still on the run, complete with a first cousin/lady love in tow. By August 6th another was caught in Wyoming, about 60 miles outside of Yellowstone National Park. Unfortunately, the armed incestuous couple was not. The following days, the search grew more intense, with the area of Yellowstone Park being the focus.

On August 15th, Julie G. and Kiki T. started their road trip towards the same destination, Yellowstone, the hotbed of fugitive action...but unlike the screwy cousins, they weren't running from the law, just reality and thankfully at every stop, there were willing participants ready to aid and abet their cause. However, by August 19th, both parties were no longer fugitives for varying reasons.

5-Day Fugitives



Special thanks to Jef, Chaz, James, Charity and Ken, fantastic enablers and of course, xoxox to my partner-in-crime, Yulie.

Mercury goes retrograde in Taurus

Beautiful memories come rushing back.

CHERRY BLOSSOMS THROUGH THE YEARS AT THE BROOKYLN BOTANICAL GARDEN!

Mercury goes retrograde in Libra

23 days of aggravation.

It's only been 24 hours of mercury retrograde and I'm already done. Things are not normal, but just skewed enough to annoy the crap out of me. Woke up this morning crabbily and angrily to unnecessary loud talking right outside my door. Like why the fuck does anyone have to talk so loud to someone standing 6 inches away from them???? ...but who am I to complain? If they didn't wake me up, nothing was and I had already overslept 20 minutes past the time I was suppose meet at the train station to get to the beach. Fuck, fuck, fuck. How I slept through my alarm, the phone calls and a bunch of texts, I'll never know...

Hopped to it, threw my stuff in a bag and out the door STAT, to the subway, running down the steps against a horde of people hogging the fucking staircase and made it just in time to be able to touch the closed doors. ARGH! Minutes later, before feeling totally confused why I just didn't keep laying in bed, another train arrives. Even better, the exact one I would of wanted. Express, not local. I even get to the station with enough time to get an ice coffee for the ride.... and seems I'm not the only one late. We all missed the train, except one and oddly enough, he's always the last one to arrive. If that wasn't some sign of a surreal alternate universe, I don't know what was...

Met up with the others on the train and then throughout three various trains, we all met on the beach for a fab day, even despite the wind, clouds and chill.... Of course, mercury retrograde doesn't control the weather, so as for as screwing my day, it was fine as long as I stayed in one place. After all, mercury retrograde is only about technological mishaps, travel issues and communication snafus...Fast forward to the end of the day, and getting to the train just in time to watch it leave, missing the last one for the next two hours. Didn't even fight it, took defense back at the beach and had margaritas...

By the time we got the train and smoothly rode back, all giggly and chill, thought I was home free, until I got to my place to realize there was a funky smell in my apartment. Oh, yum, seems my toilet was clogged with a bouillabaisse of my shit, piss and wads of TP. Why I had to see the corn from yesterday's BBQ floating about like cereal was only the final touches to my day. With no option, hopped on my bike at 12:30 am to find a plunger. Who the hell would of suspected everyone in NYC would suddenly celebrate Labor Day and close their fucking stores, leaving NYC to feel like Greenville, Kentucky??? Whatever, perseverance got me through and by 3:00 a.m. after literally dealing with all my shit, was able to go to bed...One day down, 22 more to go.

On a less cranky note, Mercury retrogrades are periods to put the past to rest...Although summer 2009 isn't technically over, for the most part it is. Sucks...but here are some of those delightful remembrances to forever cherish:

My fave people watching beach game: homo-erotic best friends or gay lovers? You decide.

















Sexy summer style.

















Awkward summer romances.

Mercury retrograde in the natal 12th

Retracing footsteps.

Any place I am forbidden makes me want to go. Last year, that place was Belvedere Castle, a guesthouse exclusively for men on Fire Island. Like a white monstrosity from the heavens it dominated in the middle of the walk between the Pines and Cherry Grove. The first time I passed it, I couldn't help but get sucked into its grandeur, just gazing from behind and squishing my head into the "Venetian" wrought iron gates, wondering what was inside that glamorous paradise, like a peasant upon the gates of Versailles....

Enter my second visit to Fire Island, brought on spontaneously and auspiciously. There were we, my two friends Shlomi and Gil and me, just at the right place at the right time to randomly meet two friendly drunken strangers on our way home that night, soon resulting in them becoming our houseguests. From there, they went on to explain the horrors of their accommodations and much to my excitement, it was Belvedere Castle. No women, no luxury and nothing but sleaze in sight. OMG, get me there STAT!!

...This led to that and soon enough, I was changing into Gil's clothes to assume the identity of his drunken boyfriend, propped onto his side and hidden under my hoodie drawn as tight as possible to look as sexually ambiguous as possible — followed by the the four boys giving me a lesson on how to be a "dude." After midnight, we infiltrated. However, warned that if my true identity was discovered there would be hell to pay, like a lamb being eaten by a rabid pack of coyotes...I felt just like Woodword and Bernstein, but with only one set of balls...

Findings:
Belvedere Castle only has two channels: CNN and porn.














This is the most expensive room in the place — the "Baroque" (broke) room. The headboard may have been painted onto the wall. If not, it was nailed closely to it. All other furniture, busted.




















Unrivaled elegance to jerk off in.






Upon entering, guests are greeted by this picture of the owner and someone he no longer likes — the paint just sprayed over the glass. Love it!




Overall, the rush of secrecy was the hottest part of the night. Unfortunately, the tower, which is the ultimate cruising spot, was already closed. Otherwise, this could of been just a little more of a hot rocking XXX post. Oh well...but today, today at Fire Island, the water was so cold it only took ten minutes to chill my can of pear juice and that felt almost as exciting too.