Notes from the field: Astrology third rails, the spirituality of stomach bugs, inter-woo stigma, escape from under the weighted pro-anxiety blanket...and why you should be very afraid of July 26.
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MAD MERCURY AND THE INCONVENIENT PURGE
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"But a final thought occurred to me as the Celtics were crushing Milwaukee in Game 2 that night – what if the illness wasn’t, or at least wasn’t entirely a trick of this bizarre cosmic arrest. What if the things that happened with my body – the purgation – was not merely an affliction and an inconvenience, but an outward manifestation of a spiritual or cosmic process? What if this shithole Retrograde with a Side of Saturn was so thick and diabolical that I actually needed to be purged, wholly and violently, before I could truly leave it behind? I normally wouldn’t be inclined to portray a vile stomach bug as a necessary spiritual ordeal, but what I had been experiencing since late March has frankly added a lot of unusual possibilities to the table."
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Read more: https://wizardofmonadnock.com/2018/04/18/mad-mercury-and-the-inconvenient-purge/
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