A-K R: 9.10.22
Astro-Kinetic Reflection Temporally Conditioned Reverberative Thoughts Resulting from Astro-Kinetic Contemplation In retrograde a planet symbolizes all its best attributes reversed. Mercury is a benevolent sign of inter communion. Today Mercury goes into one of its dreaded retrogrades. The symbolism of this celestial event is “communication gone awry”, and since communication is so fundamental to what it means to be a human, the connotations are negative. But the mystery of the cosmos often sees reversals and oppositions of reversal as a complex dance of actualization. In today’s Office of Readings, the first reading from Lamentations 5:1-22 gives us a keen sense of the oppositional toppling we experience in postlapsarian reality. “ We drink our own water – at a price; we have to pay for what is our own firewood. … Slaves rule us;” this speaks to our own lives as much as it speaks to the conquest of Israel at the time. Water pours from the sky...