angstoic.com Astrologer, Ang Stoic
As MERCURY gears up for its retrograde through Sagittarius, the sign of expansive beliefs, cultural motifs, and grandiose aspirations, it prompts an overdue recalibration of what we hold as truth.
Sagittarius shoots for the stars, driven by high ideals, but this retrograde reminds us how fragile and flawed our cultural myths and personal principles can be. The concepts we’ve adopted for meaning—the cultural totems and icons we’ve hoisted to uphold collective or personal identity—now face intense tremendous scrutiny. Are these “messengers of truth” our guiding stars, or have they devolved into hollow symbols, empty vessels, propping up outdated assumptions?
It’s going to seem like our entire philosophy will be flipped on its head.
From the pre-shadow on 7 November, subtle cracks in the storyline started to emerge. Mercury’s station retrograde on 25 November at 22° Sagittarius sharpens the focus, compelling each of us to reassess the stories we’ve told ourselves about our place in the cosmos. Internal questioning: “where did you think you were going with that?” plagues the mind. And this goes beyond a little spell of personal introspection—it develops into a full-blown cultural critique. Sagittarius rules the narratives of religion, politics, and social ideology; Mercury’s backwards motion exposes how these grand tales have twisted over time, become overinflated albatrosses, bloated all out of proportion, losing their original wisdom in favour of dogma or distortion.
The recalibration peaks during the inferior conjunction around Dec 6—a metaphorical meeting of the mind (Mercury) and soul (the Sun)—☿ ☌ ☉ @14°
27′ This is the dark, fertile ground for rewriting your internal script, stripping away pretentious aspirations and reconnecting with raw, primal, intuitively sound universal truths.
What ideals of truth and honour still resonate? What false idols need retiring? By the time Mercury turns direct on 15 December, the gods have had their laugh, leaving you to sift through the horseshit of your own, overblown hubris. Sagittarius thrives on meaning, on cohesive big-picture narratives that purport to explain everything under the stars, but this retrograde will strip you bare should you falter. It’s not enough to tear down false idols; the debris of your humiliation doesn’t automatically grant wisdom. Jupiter in Gemini, smirking from across the chart, reminds you that true knowledge isn’t in grand theories or cosmic affectations—it’s in the humility to admit you got it wrong and the grit to recover without still lying to yourself.
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