You may not know this, but Mercury's in retrograde right now. That means it's a bad time to start anything new, especially things to do with electronics and/or communication (so basically the whole of the internet-based modern life), but a good time to complete unfinished projects, or look back at things you have done in the past.
So, instead of starting a new electronically communicated blog this week, as I've been thinking of doing, I've decided to reinvigorate this baby. Well, why not eh? I still have loves and I definitely still have bugs!
Chances are that you are one of those people who does NOT care about astrology and is NOT INTERESTED in such rubbish - shutters slammed down, science and logic only here please, metaphysics move right along! And I respect that. I know astrology is not really logical; I appreciate that the idea of those big balls of rock and molten metal out there in our solar system exerting an influence on our lives can seem utterly far-fetched. And to be fair, I completely understand if the term 'celestial bodies' puts you right off, it probably would me too.
But I don't love astrology because it's logical (... haven't our greatest thinkers established that logic its very self is nought but a construct anyway? Just saying). I don't love it because I think it's 'true' and can accurately predict the future, so that we should all be living according to it's advice. I love astrology because it's interesting. For me it's a kind of acetate scrawled with archaic designs that I can lay over the humdrum, strip-lit, grey, work-a-day life. It adds an extra dimension of fascination to encountering and getting to know the intricacies of a new human's personality.
I am not 100% convinced about the workings behind astrology, but I do see patterns of accuracy in it that I can observe with my own 12-boxed brain (oh, you're an Aquarius? In you pop, box no.1 on the left there!). Time and again I see patterns: Sagittarius and Virgo couples, for example, Taurus and Pisces friendships. People SO strongly reminding me of someone else that I just know they're the same sign - and then having it confirmed. Who cares if there's logic to that? It's fun! I love being right and astrology makes me feel secretly right about things that are otherwise absolutely nothing to do with me - yesssss!
Astrology is also, to me, my childhood. It's my family, back when they were still a big, bright, messy collective who sat around the dinner table, eyes flashing and tongues wagging. Rushing to opinionate in conversations that almost always involved sentences like 'well, obviously she would - she's a Leo for god's sake! Blimmin Leos.' It's part of my nostalgic-family-feeling from before each of them were, one by one, drawn away from the glowing dining room and into the dimness of distance by thin threads of beloved resentments, cherished hurts, 'irreconcilable differences'.
Mercury is in retrograde, and it's a time for nostalgia, so today I am also nostalgia-ising about my big old broken family, who used to float around me with loving arms and hot-beating hearts, but now drift in distant seas. And I'm listening to Joni Mitchell because we all liked her, bunch of hippies that we were/are. Joni understood about distance and love, and she understood about astrology too.
Awww, just look at her shine:
Awww, just look at her shine:
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