You are metaphor
Once symbiotic with one of my favorite beings
You are Hermes
Messenger among the gods
Sending messages across psychic oceans
Emanating flotillas of imagination
You are Mercury now in shadow
We inhabit a liminal moment
Poised between prototypical orbit
And retrograde
The appearance of cosmic regression
Mercury in shadow is a metaphor
A lens through which we can reflect
Contemplating our imperiled social order
Contemplating our desperate hope
This sea of dystopic pain
This sea of looming apocalypse
Disrupted by insurgent imagination
Aspiration for liberation and transformation
We must let the stars and planets speak
We must heed their ancient wisdom
Sentience manifest in you as an oracle
Spiritual power to withstand apocalypse
Mercury in shadow is in Virgo
Virgo is my rising sign
And Mercury rules Virgo
I am rooted in noble purpose and creative fluency
I feel the psychokinetic electricity of this moment
I look at your radiance, confidence, and vulnerability
And I find luminous joy
I celebrate your beauty
I see you rise from water like Aphrodite
Writhing within the churning tides of our moon
I find my own power rooted in this water
And I redouble my faith in our cosmic mission
Visuals are of @rrefnaa_ on IG, @LeDicenAnfer on twitter >> apparel by @kavwearmen
–BYPO PHOENIX c)2022
