havok unleashed

I have a good friend that I will endearingly refer to as my "crazy" friend.

she and I are crazy in the same way, so we get each other even though no one else really does.

She told me not to make any important decisions from September 24 to October 15.

"why?"  

"because", she replied, ever so calmly, "mercury is going into retrograde and it affects your sign particularly badly"

so I looked it up tonight because this morning my mind was a goddamn pigsty.  My emotional capacity was easily overloaded by random remarks and even though I was making really good progress restraining my homicidal tendencies, I now had decided that life would be easier if I just started picking people off and hiding them in the crawl space with a few buckets of lye.

the following is a summary of what this god forsaken planet is doing to me, all because it wants to spice it up by walking backwards.

"On the day Mercury stations retrograde at 22+° Libra, it will square the Moon in its own sign at 28+° Cancer.

Stephen Arroyo delineates the energies of the Moon in Cancer thus:

Reacts with sensitivity (sometimes over-sensitivity) and with protectiveness (towards self and others)
Feels secure when nurturing and being nurtured by others
Natural sense of timing and ability to tune in to intuition and emotional subtleties
Extremely sensitive to moods and reactions of others; often at the mercy of one’s own moods
Can be over-protective of emotions; strong memory of past emotions is retained forever, still coloring attitudes toward present situations (58)..."

more of this balderdash here.

despite my balder-dashy comment though I can't help but notice that it is eerily striking me close to the home front.  I'm not entirely convinced that I picked the correct excerpt to convey this accurately, but then, that's exactly what this retrograde is supposed to do, make me sound stupid and not be able to communicate myself clearly.

the way today went I should probably stock up on food and call in sick til the 15th of next month.  I get the notion that a heavy, solid, sturdy object seemingly falling from nowhere could quite possibly cave in my dome on any given sunday.

stupid planet