Me and Mercury, We’re not Friends

Have you recently encountered a lot of technical difficulties? Are you having trouble communicating with others? Have you just been feeling pretty shitty in general for the past couple weeks?

I definitely have. And Mercury may just have a lot to do with it.

Mercury began a retrograde on March 22, which will continue until April 15. Only a few more days left (thankfully)! For those of you that have no idea what I’m talking about, when a planet retrogrades, it reverses itself and moves forward again, making it appear to those on Earth that it is moving backwards. Mercury is ruler of things like communication, contracts, code, travel, and a plethora of other important things. During a retrograde, a planet “sleeps”, so the activities that it manages suffer. I feel like the past few weeks I’ve been hit hard by it, so I’m trying my best to find ways to get through these last few days.

During the past 6 months of my grad school experience, I’ve become addicted to listening to ASMR videos as a way to relax my mind at night. My favorites are these distance reiki sessions by this wonderful woman named Jillian AKA Lune Innate. During a retrograde last August, she made the video below. In it she does a wonderful job in speaking on how to embrace the retrograde and work with it, rather than using it as a source of blame. If you’re into that kind of thing, I recommend giving it a listen/watch.

Hope everyone gets through the rest of the week gracefully!