#grandtrineproblems

Mercury is going retrograde late on Tuesday, Dec 12. Back up whatever you need to back up now.

But honestly mercury retrogrades arent total disaster, hide in your bed until it's over. I would wait to sign a contract or agreement until after mercury goes direct on January 1, but if you have anything that has to do with the suffix re, this is the time.

revise a story, or

rewrite one with a better vision.

re evaluate your project planning for the next quarter.

review your 2023 and compassionately evaluate it.

revisit old ideas that you set aside.

Mercury is going back. You should too. When mercury turns direct on January 1st, you'll be ready to look forward, refreshed with a better awareness of what you did before.

But don't feel like you are messing up if your plan isn't going smoothly right from the crack of January 1st! The morning of January 11 will be the new moon in Capricorn, and you will have seen some of the complications of your grand resolutions after the first week. Take time to adjust your plan to whatever gives you practical, sustainable results, and take advantage of the do-over first thing Thursday morning.

The planet Saturn is now in pisces for over two years. The big picture: Restrictions, Limits, and obstacles to creativity, imagination, sensitivity, compassion - not gonna be a lot to spare for anyone.

Buckle up, writers. It's gonna be tough out there. Cold and grim. Scary. Book banning and suppression of culture? It's still on.

The attacks on culture and queerness of the 30s saw Saturn in Pisces in the middle of it all. works of art considered "degenerate" were attacked as inappropriate for children. Works were confiscated, and when saturn left pisces, some of those works were sold to benefit a terrible authoritarian system. Those that couldn't have money extracted from them were destroyed. But saturrn was also in pisces in the mid 60s, when people demanded civil rights, when second wave feminist started meeting together to raise their consciousness, when anti-war protests gathered together. youth questioned society's expectations and rebelled.

I think the differences between these two saturn periods are connected to where the outer planets were at the time, but that might be a bit too nerdy. Let's get to the advice part of the post.

Short term, the market is going to pull away from risk as well as contracting. Hunker down. You can get through this. Nepture is still in pisces. Keep dreaming. Dream harder. Pluto is coming to Aquarius, and Pluto will bring "nothing will ever be the same again" change. You can handle this. but make your safe place to dream and protect it.

Short-term strategy: Write light-hearted, write gentle. Keep yourself safe and put money in your pockets. If you have a successful series, stay in that lane if you can, as people will need comfort and fammiliarity.

Long-term strategy: Everything that pisses you off about this time? write that in secret support of your light and comfortable work. When the moment comes to give it to the world in a glorious fuck you, you'll be ready.