Mercury Retro and The Vehicles

I just ran into a dude on a motorcycle that wouldn’t start. He was practically less than a waif, and outfitted as though he thinks he’s riding a 125 CC somewhere in Central Europe in the 1970s. No gloves, a thin leather jacket not done up, a canvas courier bag over his retro sweater.

But he’s riding a 900 CC Harley.

As it wouldn’t start, he wanted help pushing it so he could try a rolling start. I almost just learned some about this from my stepdad, who’s always looking out for me and my vehicular adventures, but I wasn’t sure it was an answer for a dead battery - a totally dead battery. I guess I’m fessing up when I say that I didn’t so much listen to what he was telling me as appreciate that he wanted to…

This bike is brand new (= shiny shiny shiny! I was afraid to touch it for fear of ruining the blessed sheen), which made me ask him how long he’d been riding. “About three months,” he said kind of sheepishly, internally kicking himself in the metaphysical rear for buying this huge bike. I realized that he felt like a moron enough without me getting on him about buying such a big bike right out the gate. I helped him push it (meaning that I pushed it) out of the street and into a parking lot.

I told him that I’d bought a 250 CC when I started because I thought I wouldn’t even be able to pick up a monster like this one if when I dropped it. But this little guy couldn’t really even maneuver it! He said it was okay if I dropped it, he does it all the time. I asked him if he took a training course, and he said he did, so I dropped the big brother worry bit. See, I’m pretty strong, maybe even two of this guy, but I’m so conservative in my driving habits (10th house South Node + rx Saturn in Gemini/9th) that I would never start out with a bike like that. Also, I’ve been in enough actual bicycle and car and car-and-bicycle and bicycle-and-ice and dog-and-bicycle accidents (yes, it’s been as ridiculous as it sounds) to be by now fully formed as a stick-in-the-mud driver, perhaps to be mistaken for a driver twice or even three times my age.

And then a few months I sold my car and got a small bike. I was pretty clear I didn’t need a vehicle as large as a car, and also that I didn’t need a car payment on a car I didn’t need. I had no idea it would offer nifty opportunities for assertiveness training, loving the feeling of wind (which equals freedom), and an enjoyment of speed.

Assertiveness training: Mars-Uranus in the 1st house, square the nodal axis. I’m someone in need of figuring out the right place and use of self-assertion, the taking and having of freedom, and boundaries that allow me to be with others yet have enough room to get done what I want. Sometimes it seems like a confusing set of symbols - Mars-Uranus in the 1st square the nodes, seemingly about a rather loud self-individuation, yet in Libra, which means it’s to take place a lot of the time within relationship.

The feeling of wind: Sagittarius Mercury-Moon on the cusp of the 3rd house. Holy expletive pileup, do I love being on that bike and going going going.

Speed: I have a 250 CC, a small bike. It maxes out at 65 MPH, so I don’t take it on the highway. Also, I’m not in my view experienced enough to do that. This speed I’m al about loving is 40 and up. (It feels much faster when on an exposed vehicle. Remember when you took your bicycle down your first big hill? It’s like that, but with a throttle you can pull on as much as you like (until, um, of course, 65 MPH)).

I’ve been thinking about writing a post on self-assertiveness training that the bike has brought, and I’m taking the time now, during the Mercury retro. The Sun’s hit Scorpio, Mercury’s about to hit Libra, and they’re together on my Anti-vertex and Ceres in the 1st. And now is when I admit that I have no idea how to end this post.

I could tell you that I’m half expecting something interesting to happen with that combo on that conjunction. I watch transits to the Vertex axis, and stuff does happen now and then. Okay, that’s how I’ll end it - a total let-down, I know. That’s what you get for reading blogs during Mercury retro in Scorpio, when everyone’s obsessing about the secret emotional turmoil they’re unwillingly experiencing full-force and trying like mad to cover up and seem normal, if that’s possible, if that’s even possible.

Or maybe I’ll –

No, no I don’t think I’ll tell you about that.

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October 23, 2007 By Tom Jacobs