The Thief and the Messenger: Mercury’s Descent into the Underworld

As Mercury retraces its steps through Scorpio’s depths, something long buried begins to stir. What was taken, forgotten, or lost may soon resurface.

I was lying awake in a hotel bed along Oregon’s Columbia River, restless from a night of anxious thoughts and the sound of sea lions barking through the dark, when I learned about the Louvre jewelry heist.

Mercury, the Zodiac’s cunning magician, was meeting up with Mars in his clandestine home of Scorpio for a meeting whose minutes may never be made publ…