Mercury-Neptune: When Your Mind Lives Somewhere Else

People often write about this configuration with a little too much pity and not enough awe. Yes, it can scatter concentration. Yes, it can produce confusion, loss, self-deception, misplaced work, vanished facts, and a peculiar relationship to ordinary necessity. But it can also make language luminous. A mind like this may not remember where it put the paper, but it may know, with unnerving intimacy, the deeper interpretation of an event.