In Lagos, young Nigerian protestors against police brutality and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) posted a list of demands which notably states, “In the Spirit of Fairness, Justice, and Tranquility for victims both Dead and Alive we also demand an adequate compensation for citizens.” And, on Oct. 7, foreign powers called for ceasefire in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia (a conflict that reinforces our topic of generational memory and debt). 7, in the shadow of Mercury Rx made an opposition to Uranus in Taurus and the White House refused contact tracing despite being a COVID-19 Petri dish, a move that surely displeased investigative Mercury in Scorpio. Of course, we know a retrograde cycle is flanked by shadows and returns to those shadows to do its work. This Mercury retrograde transit begins Oct. Is that what makes men across the globe refuse to wear masks, claiming they are a sign of weakness? Mercury, it was written, traveled between the world of the living and the world of the dead delivering their messages. What does the weight of our past have to do with the present moment? Aren’t we shaped by it? Doesn’t epigenetics provide that our cells remember the terror of witnessing our loved ones treated as expendable by a militarized state? Doesn’t epigenetics store knowledge in the bodies of those who have descended from enslavers and Nazi sympathizers? A knowledge that an oppressed populace, united, is powerful with grief? If there is information stored in us from previous generations, it is information that governs our reasons. In my country of citizenship, countless examples: the Atlantic slave trade the internment camps the Trail of Tears the Tulsa Massacre the ICE detention camps the unceasing state-sanctioned murder of Black people in our country without cause, without fair trial, and without legal consequence.
In my ancestry, there have been plenty of those: Holodomor, Babi Yar, and the Holocaust. If we tend the collective memory, we remember that most atrocities, most forms of genocide, were regarded by the beneficiaries as par for the course toward a “better country,” and they were sanctioned. On Tuesday, I woke up thinking about the many people who refuse to believe that COVID-19 is “that bad,” despite the numbers, despite the refrigerator trucks. It’s not funny, but one can laugh or one can cry - and laughing in moments of grief is a time-honored Jewish tradition. We joked about the '80s being back we joked about the hell-mouth opening and the death demons holding rallies.
On Monday, I screenshotted an article from the New York Times claiming that burglaries, rape, and violence are on the rise in New York subways and sent it to my Gen X kin. None of us are actually going backward, although sometimes the country (or the world) does feel that way.
The transit itself is a kind of illusion - the appearance of moving backward.
When was retrograde 2020 full#
It can be difficult to hold a full image of Mercury retrograde, its effects and influences, when Mercury was a trickster god.
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