Comments on: Retrograde Mercury in Taurus: Recurring Cycle for Goldman Sachs & Global Financial Crises

By: Mu'Min

Mu'Min — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:30:29 +0000

Hi Rob! Glad to hear you’re still very much among the living. Excellent article, I learned a bunch about Mercury from you. Please by all means, keep up the good work! The world needs you.

Salaam
Mu

By: Judith Wood

Judith Wood — Sun, 09 May 2010 19:30:51 +0000

Dear Robert, just an excellent reveal on one of my favorite astro subjects, repeating cycles…thank you, thank you. There really are no accidents….

Many years ago I decided to formally study astrology, after studying it on my own for 20 years…and the SF astrologer I found was Stuart Walker. One of the things he taught was that the day the declination of the Mercury retrograde was in the same degree as the sun was known as “the opening of the doors of perception”. I have found this to be so consistent that I have them all marked in the ephemeris….I look forward to them! (Because they always seem to bring huge bolts of understanding to me.)

By: Arthyr Chadbourne

Arthyr Chadbourne — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:56:40 +0000

Hi Robert,
As usual, your brilliant expertise gives rise to an enormous amount of information in a beautiful and concise fashion. You truly are one of the masters in astrology in our time.

Arthyr

By: Alex Walker

Alex Walker — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:18:41 +0000

I love this kind of article. Purely scientific in approach, no spirituality, politics or biases to sift through. Hats-off to you, Robert. Absolutely refreshing!

Best Regards,
AW

By: Robert P. Blaschke

Robert P. Blaschke — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:13:52 +0000

Dear Tem,

Your most recent minor progressed retrograde Mercury was a 24-day/10 degree Longie (in real time – July 1960).

The retrograde station was 17 October 2008 in 00 Leo 15 and the direct station was 6 September 2009 in 19 Cancer 58. The inferior conjunction took place 15 April 2009 in 24 Cancer 26.

The derived ephemeris date for that MP inferior conjunction was 16 July 1960 and Mercury’s fastest orbital speed while Rx was only 0 degrees 40′ per day.

Best,

Robert

By: Tem Tarriktar

Tem Tarriktar — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:56:24 +0000

I’m in the middle of a secondary progressed Mercury retrograde of 22 days and nearly 15 degrees — a “Middie”– and I’m almost all the way through it. Hasn’t been too bad. I’ll examine the minor progressed episodes I’ve had over the years and see if I can relate my experiences to the longer, more problematic Merc retros.

By: Robert P. Blaschke

Robert P. Blaschke — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:27:04 +0000

Dear Mary, Tem, Gary, Kate, Roni, Pemo and Shelley,

Thank you for your kind appreciation of the article. I was also going to include the Greek debt crisis, but your correspondent had exhausted his word count limits.

Gary,

Regarding the fast Mercury in direct motion: Mercury can orbit as rapidly as 2°11′ of arc when at the superior conjunction. I have not observed these individuals being unaffected by Mercury retrograde.

President Obama would be a good research project as he has the Sun in 12° Leo and Mercury direct in 02° Leo, approaching the superior conjunction.

On the day of his birth, Mercury traveled 2°02′ of arc in 24 hours.

His style of intelligence can be seen in the ruler of the 3rd, Mars, in Virgo and trine with Saturn.

He is quite circumspect, yet verbose, and often over cautious in his choice of words. Really shows how the sign on the cusp (Aries) can be modified by its ruler’s sign and aspect(s).

I, myself, am nearing the secondary progressed superior conjunction of the Sun and direct motion Mercury.

Best wishes,

Robert

By: Mary Plumb

Mary Plumb — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:58:36 +0000

Hi all: here are the tables:

Sun Cnj Mer Apr 28 1885 03:28 07° Ta 59′ R
Sun Cnj Mer Apr 27 1918 03:31 06° Ta 03′ R + 33
Sun Cnj Mer Apr 30 1931 10:07 09° Ta 06′ R + 13 = 46
Sun Cnj Mer Apr 27 1964 10:09 07° Ta 10′ R + 33 = 79
Sun Cnj Mer Apr 30 1977 16:43 10° Ta 13′ R + 13 = 92
Sun Cnj Mer Apr 28 2010 16:44 08° Ta 17′ R + 33 = 125

Sun Cnj Mer Jan 4 2010 19:05 14° Cp 19′ R 106 days (since 9/20/09)
Sun Cnj Mer Apr 28 2010 16:44 08° Ta 17′ R 114 days
Sun Cnj Mer Sep 3 2010 12:34 10° Vi 55′ R 128 days
348 days ÷ 3 = 116 avg.
Sun Cnj Mer Dec 20 2010 01:22 28° Sg 02′ R 108 days
Sun Cnj Mer Apr 9 2011 19:35 19° Ar 36′ R 110 days
Sun Cnj Mer Aug 17 2011 01:05 23° Le 49′ R 130 days
348 days ÷ 3 = 116 avg.

Mer Rx Dec 26 2009 14:37 21° Cp 47′ R
Mer Direct Jan 15 2010 16:51 05° Cp 33′ D 20 days/16°
Mer Rx Apr 18 2010 04:05 12° Ta 37′ R
Mer Direct May 11 2010 22:26 02° Ta 39′ D 24 days/10°
Mer Rx Aug 20 2010 19:58 19° Vi 03′ R
Mer Direct Sep 12 2010 23:08 05° Vi 21′ D 23 days/14°

By: Shelley Ackerman

Shelley Ackerman — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:17:12 +0000

What extraordinary work Robert, thank you so much for this and all that you do

By: Pemo Theodore

Pemo Theodore — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:06:36 +0000

Thanks Robert for your insights! I read a great article on the weekend that was originally in Rolling Stone ‘The Great American Bubble Machine’ by Matt Taibi who exposes Goldmans shenaningans – a good read http://sites.google.com/site/disclosuredelta/