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Taurus New Moon, Mercury Retrograde – Time Out!
In this last week of Taurus, we have a Taurus new moon festival (Sunday) and Mercury turning stationary retrograde (Monday). New moon times signify new realities, thoughts, ideas and planning. Mercury’s three-week retrograde, creating internal assessments and review, allows us to emerge after the retrograde with new ideas introduced by the new-moon energy.
Mercury retrogrades through June 11 (from 13 to 4 degrees Gemini). Mercury is communication, messenger of the sun (gods). When a planet retrogrades, the outer characteristics become hidden. Everything feels upside down, curving into unexpected directions. Mercury rules the lower mind; how we communicate, add numbers, understand directions, and interpret our environments. When Mercury retrogrades, minds turn inward leading to confusion, misrepresentation, miscommunication, and details left out, not remembered.
Mercury Retrograde Rules: no large purchases (car, house, computer, etc.), no signing (or sending) important papers, no new negotiations of business plans, etc. These “no” statements are protections. Why? Because when Mercury turns direct again, the world turns right-side up, it looks and sounds different, what we signed we discover had hidden clauses, what we agreed to actually never occurred. Everyone’s mind has changed! Mercury retro cultivates inner awareness, listening, research, review, and reassessment of all information received since last Mercury retro (Jan. 21 – Feb. 10).
Mercury retrograde provides us with a rhythm to review three to four times a year. By the time Mercury retrogrades we’re overwhelmed with too much information. Mercury retro’s gift is the offering of new perspectives, a new look at old problems or situations to achieve greater understanding. Mercury is our personal “star,” our “messenger.”
Mercy Vineyards
Mercy Vineyards has garnered a wealth of gold medals for its 2010 Pinot Noir, including a double gold at the 2013 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, golds at the Critics Challenge, Orange County wine competitions, and another gold at the 2014 Pinot Noir Shootout. These are serious accolades, and most certainly well deserved.
NEW LEAF FOR BUSH?
New Leaf Community Markets shoppers might be shocked to learn that one of the company’s board members sponsored a $12,500-a-plate benefit for Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
Courtney Laschkewitsch
The first time Courtney Laschkewitsch recalls wanting to be an entrepreneur, she was 4. By 6 years old, she’d gotten into the habit of ripping up pieces of paper so she could fold and tape them together to create prototypes of her product ideas, which were usually tables, chairs, desks, and kitchen appliances.
Martijn Stiphout
To most Santa Cruz residents, a pile of old wood on the side of the road is just trash. To Martijn Stiphout, founder of Ventana Surfboards and Supplies, it represents endless possibilities.
Monica Karst
You get your first job, and then realize you have no idea how to file your taxes. You blow a tire on Highway 17 and haven’t a clue how to change it. You try to make your first pot of pasta (it’s the easiest food to make, they say) and boiling water floods the kitchen floor.
Andrea Mollenauer
For Andrea Mollenauer every night is a party—but not everyone would think so.
Coffee Zombie Collective
There’s a video on YouTube from about 15 years ago of a band called the Real Jimmies, four young guys who used to busk on Pacific Avenue. One of them grew up to be Nate Lieby, the lead singer of Santa Cruz’s freakishly inventive cover band Coffee Zombie Collective.
Paul De Worken
Everywhere Paul De Worken goes, he sees blank walls.
From The Editor
Plus Letters To the Editor When I wrote about Matthew Swinnerton taking over the Nexties in a cover story last year, someone asked me about the in-depth profiles of the awards show and all of the winners—in effect, “Why the Nexties?” There are other prestigious awards to be won in Santa Cruz, true, and they generally...
Taurus New Moon, Mercury Retrograde – Time Out!
In this last week of Taurus, we have a Taurus new moon festival (Sunday) and Mercury turning stationary retrograde (Monday). New moon times signify new realities, thoughts, ideas and planning. Mercury’s three-week retrograde, creating internal assessments and review, allows us to emerge after the retrograde with new ideas introduced by the new-moon energy. Mercury retrogrades through June 11...
Mercy Vineyards
Mercy Vineyards has garnered a wealth of gold medals for its 2010 Pinot Noir, including a double gold at the 2013 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, golds at the Critics Challenge, Orange County wine competitions, and another gold at the 2014 Pinot Noir Shootout. These are serious accolades, and most certainly well deserved. Fruit for this...
NEW LEAF FOR BUSH?
New Leaf Community Markets shoppers might be shocked to learn that one of the company’s board members sponsored a $12,500-a-plate benefit for Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush. Stephen Babson, a Republican who put on the dinner to raise money for Bush’s Right to Rise super-PAC, is on the board of directors of New Seasons Market, which...
Courtney Laschkewitsch
The first time Courtney Laschkewitsch recalls wanting to be an entrepreneur, she was 4. By 6 years old, she’d gotten into the habit of ripping up pieces of paper so she could fold and tape them together to create prototypes of her product ideas, which were usually tables, chairs, desks, and kitchen appliances. Now 18, she’s...
Martijn Stiphout
To most Santa Cruz residents, a pile of old wood on the side of the road is just trash. To Martijn Stiphout, founder of Ventana Surfboards and Supplies, it represents endless possibilities. Reclaimed wood is readily available, and in Santa Cruz where redwood and old wood is so prolific, people throw it away every day. “It...
Monica Karst
You get your first job, and then realize you have no idea how to file your taxes. You blow a tire on Highway 17 and haven’t a clue how to change it. You try to make your first pot of pasta (it’s the easiest food to make, they say) and boiling water floods the kitchen floor. ...
Andrea Mollenauer
For Andrea Mollenauer every night is a party—but not everyone would think so. She works on her feet as many as 14 hours a day. But that’s what makes her happy: serving dynamic food and teaching others to do the same. She’s getting a Nextie for creating a new kind of place to eat, a restaurant...
Coffee Zombie Collective
There’s a video on YouTube from about 15 years ago of a band called the Real Jimmies, four young guys who used to busk on Pacific Avenue. One of them grew up to be Nate Lieby, the lead singer of Santa Cruz’s freakishly inventive cover band Coffee Zombie Collective. The video is a portrait of the...
Paul De Worken
Everywhere Paul De Worken goes, he sees blank walls. “But I don’t see a wall. I see a blank canvas just waiting for artwork,” says De Worken, who founded Monterey Bay Murals (MBM) in 2008 with his friend Jaime Sanchez. “Our first mural was at La Mesa elementary school, which is a school for military families,...