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Hi Audge, welcome to my world..... but I'm sure it's like this more than nine weeks a year, do you have the dates for this year and next ?OK, I know this may be a little out there for some, but I am serious. I am not a person who follows astrology normally, but in the past number of years, I have been aware of and experienced some of the challenges that come with Mercury retrograde. Some people are effected much more than others. This is an astrological pattern that happens three times a year for about 3 weeks. During this time, communication is challenged, technical equipment and computers break down more, travel is especially difficult very difficult and is often delayed,reservations cancelled, buying big purchases often go bad etc. Life is just more challenging. The good thing is that it is a great time for self reflection, re-evaluation, writing....
As the Camino is a combination of travel and self reflection,
I am wondering if anyone has had experiences good or bad with this while walking the Camino during Mercury retrograde?
I am not a person who follows astrology normally, but in the past number of years, I have been aware of and experienced some of the challenges that come with Mercury retrograde. [sic] During this time, communication is challenged, technical equipment and computers break down more, travel is especially difficult very difficult and is often delayed,reservations cancelled, buying big purchases often go bad etc. Life is just more challenging.
Robert Heinlein
- What are the facts? Again and again and again — what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" — what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
I don't know if it's retrograding at the moment, or even quite what that means. But I have very much enjoyed seeing Mercury high in the eastern sky these last few weeks, vanishing into the gathering dawn as my camino progressed - on those days when I wasn't in freezing fog, that is. And Jupiter as well, and Venus in the evening twilight.
I doubt it had much to do with Mercury, but my mobile's gps, which I've never understood or been able to work out how to use, suddenly sprang to life when I was badly lost in fog in the meseta north of Segovia, and guided me to the next albergue just before night.
So, who walked during these time periods?2013 Retrograde Dates
In 2013, Mercury will be retrograde from:
February 23–March 17
June 26–July 20
October 21–November 10
Did not walk during this time, but I do not follow astrology anyway. Came home before the third time period, and I did have this hollow feeling for a long time after we came home? Don't think it had anything to do with the Mercury retrograde thoughSo, who walked during these time periods?
Are you trying to stretch my credulity? No effect from a small planet next to the huge sun when the apparent movement (not actual movement) is backward? I certainly would have expected disaster.I walked into and during the third retrograde period - couldn't have asked for a better pilgrimage! Everything ran smoothly. Flight, bus and train travel was perfect and the walk was great ... even when it wasn't.
I walked in the so-called retrograde in Apr-May 2010, and didn't observe anything unusual. Most communications difficulties were readily explained by my poor Spanish, and my mobile worked. I will bow to those of you who appear to have identified some causality in what my simple mind has previously considered mere coincidence!So, who walked during these time periods?
There are people that say the same about religious faith.I find it more sad than amusing that otherwise apparently intelligent people give astrology any credibility at all.
I know, but I can accept the notion of a supreme being, even if I think its existence is unprovable.There are people that say the same about religious faith.
I find it more sad than amusing that otherwise apparently intelligent people give astrology any credibility at all.
They used to say that about the earth being round or the sun being the center of our system.
The Three Kings of the Nativity believed the stars and planets had power.
They followed that star right to the Christ Child!
The tides of the sea rise and fall according to the moon.
Ask any scientist.
The word "lunatic" didn't get pulled out of the air.
And seeing how our bodies are 50-70% water… well… I would think any intelligent person could see the possible link?
Proving it, however, is like proving someone has a mind.
You can take their brain out of their head, but it's just a mass of tissue.
It doesn't prove anything.
And although it may be out of the range of our ability at this stage in history, I imagine someday it will be proven. Astrology is, after all, the first science.
During this time, communication is challenged, technical equipment and computers break down more, travel is especially difficult very difficult and is often delayed,reservations cancelled, buying big purchases often go bad etc. Life is just more challenging. The good thing is that it is a great time for self reflection, re-evaluation, writing....
That effect could be scientifically studied, I am sure. However, retrograde just means that the planet "apparently" moves backward, not actually moves backward. There is no change in the physical relationship of the planets; just the way our eye perceives it! Therefore, any effect could only be between our ears where that perception lies. I doubt it could be scientifically studied.Who knows what effect the planets do have?
Really! Astronomy perhaps?Astrology is, after all, the first science.
Astronomical observations in the New World may predate those in Western civilization by many thousand years, making celestial movement the first science.From their beginnings in Sumer (now Iraq) around 3500 BC, the Mesopotamian peoples began to attempt to record some observations of the world with numerical data. But their observations and measurements were seemingly taken for purposes other than for scientific laws. A concrete instance of Pythagoras' law was recorded, as early as the 18th century BC: the Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet Plimpton 322 records a number of Pythagorean triplets, dated 1900 BC, possibly millennia before Pythagoras.
Yes. Astronomy, not Astrology.Really! Astronomy perhaps?
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