Mercury, the planet of communication, intellect, messages
and crossroads has been acting out lately. He does it about three times a year
for nearly three weeks. Here on earth we call these periods Mercury Retrograde.
This retrograde motion above is reflected inw: computer glitches,
misunderstanding, issues with machines, mail, banks, delays in deliveries, lost
objects, theft, and confusion. I wanted to dedicate this email to dear old
Mercury and demonstrate how the above and the below are connected by invisible
cords.

Since this time round, Mercury is retrograde in Gemini, it
manifests even stronger because Gemini is the sign ruled by Mercury. Below is a
story of my own mercury mishaps. I am sure you will find just as many examples
in your own life.

I am pretty good overall, that is when Mercury’s motion is
direct, in reading those metal contracts displayed on posts around town,
detailing the times which one can or cannot park. I get street sweeping and 2
hour parking between 8am-6pm,
but last week I got four tickets. 4!!! Each time I tried to look at the
brighter side and lower my level of anger by convincing myself that the city of
Los Angeles is in dire need of new palm trees. However, after I felt I had planted enough
trees and got pissed off at myself, the city, and the its landscaping!

Every morning I go to Intelligentsia, which is considered
the best café in Los Angeles.
Coffee is very Mercurian. It affects the nervous system. As they say,
mathematicians and writers are machines that run on coffee and produce formulas
and books. I usually take a risk and park really close but in a very red zone.
I think it’s a combination of not having my coffee yet and an Aries need for
taking chances and risks. I have done this every morning for the last year and
was always lucky, but I would not be writing about this incident if my luck
would have extended to Mercury Retro in Gemini. Right before I ordered a
messenger stormed into the café screaming “Whoever has a grey Prius, come out,
they are writing a ticket!” I ran outside and managed to save my car just
before the ticket was issued. I was lucky to find a legal spot very close and
once again stood in line. But then the same messenger, as if happy to bear bad
news, jumped at me again and said, “your spot is expired, you have to get a
ticket from the machine.” What machine? Then I find out (and I still haven’t
had my coffee!) that they installed new little parking machines resembling the
Buddhist vision of the hungry ghosts – greedy creatures with tiny mouths and
big bellies which makes it impossible for them to be full.

So I ran to the machine, entered my parking spot’s number
and fed it money. At that moment the meter maid ran to me screaming “Stop!” I
looked at her bewildered, ready to receive my fine for trying to work against
the fates, only to hear her say in a soft voice that made me feel ashamed for
all the bad thoughts I had toward her kind “ You don’t have to pay the meters
or parking machines if you drive a hybrid.” So there you have it, hopefully my
final donation to the City of Los
Angeles.

That was not the end of my parking peril. Hollywood ticketed me outside of my office at
the Golden Bridge, where you can only park for an
hour. I had only one chart, but she came late because of her own Mercury
retrograde issues, which then exposed my car to the wrath of the parking
police. The reason why I parked the car in the street instead of the parking
structure, as I always do, was because I lost my monthly parking pass two days
before. I guess next time I should not only pray to the goddess of parking, but
make some offerings as well…

Then came my blackberry. So far she’s been a good girl.
Actually she is the second reincarnation of my original blackberry, who lost
her life two mercury retrogrades ago. She was left along with her lover, my
wallet, on the roof of my car, and fell to the road as we drove off. She was
then smashed by an anonymous Mexican car just south of Ensenada. I know this because I found her
remains, but my wallet full of cash and credit cards disappeared all together.
My current Blackberry, which already knows to stay away from car roofs started
shutting down randomly. This started a day after Mercury went retro. I did not
even bother calling technical support. I figured, past lifetime regression
would work better for her. It did, she’s fine now…

As part of my book launch I joined an online service that
sends writers like myself, links to reporters who are seeking experts to
interview in different subjects. Four days passed with no alert so at first I
thought perhaps no one in the world is writing about astrology or mythology.
Then I find my password did not please the web master. It took three days, ten
emails, and calls to the secretary and finally the head of the company to fix
the issue and make me an expert once again.

The final example happened as I was preparing this
newsletter. I wanted to make sure I provide the link to my new book, Cosmic
Navigator, on Amazon. So I go to Amazon.com and instead of reaching the largest
online bookseller in the Solar System, I get this error message:

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

I copy pasted the
message because I could not believe that Amazon the great, the biggest online
bookseller in the Solar System, with an army of geeks could not protect their
formidable digital fortress against Mercury’s tricks. I thought to myself it
must be my computer, so I went to another computer in my home and got the same
error message. Then I thought, OK, it must be my wireless router which a day
before did not work and caused me to spend two hours with technical
support. I still needed the link from
Amazon before I could send the Newsletter so I decided to “let it be,” as
mother Mary suggested in the Beatle’s song. A few hours later, I went to check
the news and look what Mercury showed me:

Another interesting
fact is that Amazon was knocked offline right when Mercury was in conjunction
with the Sun. As the Sun and Mercury kissed, and Mercury got infused with the
powerful energy of the Solar disk, the Amazon server collapsed.

Please send me your
experiences with Mercury Retrograde and I will post them online so we can leave
something useful for future generations…

Just in case you
want to know, Mercury will continue his tricks until June 19^th.

Much love,
Gahl Eden Sasson

Design Your Destiny With Astrology and Kabbalah

For more info about Gahl's work: www.CosmicNavigator.com