Something is up with my email program -- this morning I had over 17,000 messages in my inbox! It's a this is your life moment, as every message since 2008 comes back again. As I get busy deleting, I see how many souls I've had the good fortune to connect with.
I see so many kind comments, and inquiries about a specific astrological quandary. I see a deluge of sharing -- impressions, art work, astrology blogs and related creations.
It's a reminder that I haven't been able to respond personally to every email and as a sensitive person, that bums me out. But all make their impression. With Mercury Cancer (retrograde), every message I receive lives with me, from press releases for books I've yet to review to ongoing conversations with other astrologers. It churns around for days, months or years, until finally, it's a wave I can ride on the surface. Seeing all that's there makes me want to be more empowered -- to make the most of what comes to my inbox. And yet, this is my mercurial way, with its own sense of time.
It's a strange week for Mercury, in the responsive air sign Libra. Nearly at the same linear time, Mercury is opposite its higher octave Uranus Thursday (6:23 pm EDT) and square to Pluto (7:21 pm EDT). Susan Miller describes this day as "Mercury under siege," and warns against signing contracts or making final agreements.
Perhaps my self-replicating inbox is a preview mirror of "Mercury under siege," and in my case, reminding me of being overwhelmed with both opportunities and demands. It's wise to be alert, but sometimes, a situation just has to play out, before you find clarity. Mercury (Libra) gets embroiled with the Uranus-Pluto square -- the volatile energies can cause some disorientation. It's a great week to explore meditation/quieting the mind, to be better able to deal with extremes (both inner and outer). And to be more mentally prepared to act on what comes your way, in the moment.
Update: I just realized there's a Select All function, so I'll wait until all the tens of thousands of messages download, and then scythe it in one go. Perhaps a message not to get stuck in the past, but when possible, to clean the slate in one go!
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Its a great week to explore meditation and quieting the mind, sounds like your meditation will be cluttering a technical glitch which has downloaded your past. It reminds me somehow that too often we let our innervoices besiege us with the past to clog up our present and future.
I relate today to not getting stuck in the past, but cleaning the slate in one go… enough said. Ready to transform the $&!# out of things with this uranus pluto square & impending saturn into scorpio…!
Sukhmandir, so true, and it reminds me too, of how I’ll go through unnecessary steps, when there’s a more sweeping action — getting bogged down in the past, when it’s a choice to ‘delete,’ move on, be in the moment.
Melanie,
There’s a function on the ‘trash’ in this program that is PURGE — when the trash if full. That so reminds me of the ur-pl square. It’s turning out to be more tedious than I thought it would be (still deleting), not in one go, but it does motivate me to just &%*&’n do it. I too am so ready to dig in and see real change!!!!