Today officially kicks off the busy season at work. I’ll be in training from 9am to 5pm all day today, getting our newest batch of para-professionals ready for another year of college residential madness. To that end, as I noted this time last year, my posts will be a bit lighter. You can expect a pretty tight MWF posting schedule.
And thanks to Creating Motherhood, I’ve got a ton of prompts to get me through the month with her target=”_blank”>Blog Summer Camp project! I’ll be picking and choosing from the various 31 days of writing prompts. The Day 18 prompt asks us to talk about how we feel about astrology. It just so happens that this happens to align perfectly with the stars right now.
Mercury went into retrograde back on August 3rd. As a Gemini, this throws me into a total tailspin of communications breakdown. You see, Mercury is the planet that rules communication and Mercury is Gemini’s ruling planet. When Mercury is in retrograde, that’s when the weirdness happens. Emails get lost in the void, people might call me and leave a message but my phone never rang, and I just generally feel like things are happening beyond my control. Of course, this just has to coincide with my busiest time of the year. Doh.
Whether you believe in astrology or not, I am basically your textbook Gemini poster child. Flighty? Chatty? Of two minds at any given moment? Check, check, and check. Here, take a look at my natal chart:
Alabe.com outlines some of the meaning from this because looking at this makes my eyes cross a bit. Here’s what Alabe has to say and my take on things:
“You have a quick, bright and agile mind, but an extremely short attention span.”
I love lateral thinking puzzles and mystery stories. I love the challenge of figuring things – ooh! Shiny! I’m sorry, what were you saying?
“You intuitively know what to do to make others feel comfortable, loved, accepted and needed.”
This can alternatively be read as “Keiko has a neon sign that only crazy people can see that says to come up to her on the street and stand there talking to her for 10 minutes while she desperately tries to think of some way to walk away from their rambling manifesto of crazy.”
“You do demand your own way in a relationship. Try to give in to your partner’s needs and desires once in a while.”
Hey, sometimes I’ll watch Top Gear when I really want to watch Mad Men, right honey? Right? Gimme the remote.
“Although you take quite a while to make decisions, you usually consider all sides to a question, all the pros and cons, and the solution you come up with is very often the correct one.”
Seriously – have you seen my Resources page? I own every one of those books. I’ve read every one of those books. If I could make a living mulling over decisions, I’d be a frigging millionaire.
“For your entire generation, this is a time of radical changes in society’s attitude toward marriage and interpersonal relationships.”
Gay marriage for the win.
“You love to dig deep beneath surface appearances in order to find out what is really happening. A persistent researcher, you are very interested in the psychology of any situation.”
Why yes, I have spent hours reading through Wikipedia, starting at “Austerity measures” and ending up at “Tuberculosis.” StumbleUpon was basically made for people like me.
Wait, what did this all have to do with Mercury again?
Mercury in retrograde. Bad communications mojo. Leaves Geminis in a tizzy for the next month. We’ll return to your regularly scheduled life after these retrograde messages. Right – got it.
So… what’s your sign? Are you feeling the weirdness of the retrograde too?
Do you know Rick Levine? He’s my uncle-in-law, and makes a living from figuring out all of this. It’s all greek to me … all I know is that I’m a Sagittarius, and I’ve somehow managed to avoid having him explain myself to me. I should give him a call, though … these days, I could use the consult!
Mercury in Retrograde is wonderful for my husband since his sign Virgo, and Earth sign is Mercury ruled. So this is the time that he gets his do-over. For me, well yeah, I’m just taking it easy and finishing up old projects. I know better than to start anything new during Mercury in Retrograde. Oh and I’m a Leo a Fire sign ruled by the Sun.