My husband will have quit his job and accepted another.  I have my calendar blocked out but will be doing no or short notice consults over the weekend, while he is busy with transition stuff.

We will also be alone for the first time in going on 4 months!

What's happening in your life?

Hopefully nothing dramatic, unless it's GOOD. I'm really tired, and sick of getting my hopes up, only to have them dashed with something worse happening. 

Getting ready for classes to start next week!

Never Mind, I pm'ed you :)
Angie

Friday night - date with the KEB
Saturday morning - Pericles is taking me to get a tattoo. I am one of the last clients my artist will see in te States.
Sunday - Sunset Junction Street Fair and Ozomatli concert :-)

Yay!!! Elsa... have fun with your husband!!!!

hunkering down for the third pass of saturn square saturn....what a joyous transit.....

Sorry, tmp.

Thanks, Michelle. He's been out 10 days longer than usual, it's been a bear.

Thanks Elsa...except for going to work I am living like a total hermit right now.....T saturn is squaring from the 12th house......:)

Hopefully I will figure things out enough to move forward with the type of life I think I want...Glad to hear your husband changed jobs

I am really glad to see you back around here, tmp.  You were gone for awhile and I missed you. :)

tmp, I just finished with that transit (I think). I won't miss it.

Thanks Elsa....

 Salali, I am glad its over for you....

 more focussed on doing my best to endure mars squaring saturn while saturn, once again grrrr, is sitting on my 12th house moon, thank goodness its nearly done AT LAST

I am however looking forward to not being constantly mis understood and attacked by grumpy folk and trying to remain calm, misunderstood even tho i didnt say anything WTF?

When Mercury goes direct, I have a lot of work to do. I'm looking at Mars for the next few months too. And Saturn. Yikes!  

Lots of work. health to sort out which starts tomorrow hopefully with doctor. and hopefully screw ups and emergencies in life will stop. I'm just fed up with all of the constant mess and problems and upsets. Enough.

I'm hoping that my financial issues will begin to resolve, for good. The anxiety it induces is unbearable.

Elsa, I hope that you and your husband thoroughly enjoy each other, during his long-overdue time off.

I'd like to finish this book. My momentum on it has kind of slowed, plus I keep being too busy to do more than about an hour a day on it. Which is not enough if I want it done this month.

I'm off work that day, so hopefully I enjoy it, and I have some time to actually watch communications come back on or something.

What--a month.

Not that bad, nothing like April (eek!), just.....slooow, says even my merc rx in gemini. ; )

I can honestly say this has been the most interesting and weirdest mercury rx i've EVER felt. I've never actually really FELT mercury retrograde periods.. until this one ahha .. all of my personal planets are ruled by Mercury . .

I've got a 4 day weekend!

Our end of summer beach day is cancelled due the hurricane heading up the east coast, but I'm okay with that. I'm actually looking forward to relaxing this weekend, the next three weekends are going to be insane.

traveling!

I am going to return to not feeling and being frazzled as all hell.

This virgo sun/libra rising has been going through the ringer...

Love relationships are unstable

Full time work is not coming around fast enough

I think my life has been playing a cruel joke on me for a while...

I don't know if I am coming or going these days...

I really miss Brooklyn, NY

I think that this Retrograde has been the hardest on me yet...

And, anybody who can shed some light on my situation - please keep me your thoughts please...

I know that this Mercury Retograde was in virgo - that might explain my dyphoria

September 17, 1979

Born 7:40 am

Washington, DC

(If I can offer any commentary from my virgo female with Leo moon to anyone - Please feel free to ask... I don't want to seem selflish...)

Thanks

My husband is on his way to quit his job. It's been a story which continues to unfold except today he'll turn the page.

Good luck, Elsa and Mr. Elsa!

Long weekend here -

Have a good one Elsa and everyone and best wishes to your Husband

@Malissa: This was my worst Mercury retrograde experience, by far. It's usually not that big a deal for me, but this time, all sorts of stuff went haywire.

Time to make some money, now!

Having a yard sale tomorrow . . . it will be fun and profitable. Gin and tonics are in the picture.

Yay for the Rhino! <3

When Mercury goes direct I'm attending a local singles dating service orientation...it was retrograde in my 5th house...I believe; so hopefully this will be my moment to at least meet a good guy. *fingers crossed*

Although Merc is going direct in a few of hours here, I just finally saw the true ugly nature of the woman I was so deeply in love with through her words more so than through her actions.

It's amazing how well I was deluding myself for a year of my life. Suprisingly I feel light and free, even though I'm pissed, I feel okay and good. Wow, maybe Pluto has something to do with this as well.

Got out of a toxic relationship is a huge one for me for this Merc Rx.

This merc rx has been so much death for many and illness complications or new illnesses. It's going out with a bang. Dear friend of mine called me yesterday with news. Her mom is insulin dependent diabetic in congestive heart failure. She had a close call in the spring (last merc rx?) and this week, they found she has breast cancer. This woman is such a bright soul I cannot believe how much she's been hit with - the Mom I mean. And my friend....it's just unreal.

Yesterday I got some answers to new health complications. Really thought I might die a few times in August and it's been hard figuring out what's wrong. Think we figured it out. Today I feel hopeful and better than I have in weeks.

This was an awful merc rx.

double post but I forgot this...there's just been SO MUCH for loved ones this month. Last night, another dear friend (Capricorn) found out via everyone around her that her teenage daughter is pregnant. She's heartbroken and beside herself. She can't believe her daughter put it on facebook before telling her and also told everyone around her, including her grandma, before telling her own mom. We were up until 2 a.m. talking about this.

I told her "your daughter wants to hurt you and she will keep doing this for the rest of her life. Protect yourself."  I feel so bad for my friend. It's a long complicated story but this friend, she is trying so so so hard to elevate her life and has done it all on her own since she was 16. She's a great Mom too!!  Her daughter is a narcissist. Even though she knows this about her daughter, it's that Mom thing...she loves her. Even though she knows the daughter always hurts her and seems to enjoy it, she can't cut her out. It breaks my heart for my friend.

Damn August 2011

I don't recall whats going on, but I am sending you lots of hugs Salali (if thats ok). 

Caribou, may have missed something in one of the threads, but I am sending you lots healing thoughts and wishes as well.

"This merc rx has been so much death for many and illness complications or new illnesses."

I have seen this too.  My mom really went through it over July and August.  I am so worn out that I feel like dropping through the floor. She has been in the hospital 4 times with ER vists in between. I am hoping this is the last go round.

Every single person my mom's minister has visited between Aug and July has died.  And she was pissed because he never came to see her or bring her communion. I was glad he never visited my mom while she was sick- considering.  Just saying.

And there have been some sudden deaths in the extended family and there have been a lot of sudden illnesses this past week in the extended family that have required hospitaliztion.

Hmm, I heard about a lady who has had death in her life too... 

In the past 7 months, her husband, daughter, and dog all died. That's tough, man. Must be the cardinal grand cross more so than Merc Rx.... but the above posts reminded me of this.

On a lighter note... when Merc goes direct... I'll be signing  a contract on Monday! Yay for new starts! I'm excited.

After deleting my Facebook account and amputating a few people outside FB during Mercury rx, I signed up with Elsa Elsa on the very minute Mercury went direct. Also, am befriending totally different types of people.

Maybe it's a midlife crisis.

Welcome, Daydreamer. :)

This retro kicked my arse hard.  As some of you know, my place was broken into in May and I got cleaned out.  My dear mother sent me a very generous gift card to Best Buy to replace some of the electronic things.  Trouble is, it was at the beginning of retro Mercury, so I felt I had to hold back on replacing this stuff until it went direct.  I absolutely had to have a new computer since I've been relying on the work laptop, school was about to start for my daughter, and I didn't want to use the work laptop for personal stuff... So I broke down and ordered one from Best Buy online.  UPS LEFT IT ON MY PORCH and it was stolen within half an hour.  I have had to be the squeaky wheel to get the grease, and finally, they're shipping the replacement out today.

I was also interviewing for a new job during the retro period, but the job description changed, they were going to hire someone else but it didn't work out, so they picked me.  The retro connection on this is that the woman who is hiring me (yes, it's a done deal now) was my boss 25 years ago in my first job in high school.  She remembered me, friended me on Facebook, and we had dinner like a month ago.  I happen to be working in the field she works in now, and she decided that she would like to have me on her team.

Meanwhile, the transition at work is not going well.  The woman who is supposed to take over my responsibilities until they hire a replacement is refusing to do so.  I see her point that she is already overtaxed, but I have invested a lot of blood, sweat and tears into this program and I don't want the med students to suffer for lack of organization.  I try to run this program in a way that the administrivia is taken care of so they can focus on learning.  I also don't want the director, who is a busy Ob-Gyn doc, to have to take this thing over, either.  I just feel bad for everybody involved.

And I'm sick.  Fever spiking at 102, then laying off, then it's on again.  I am a featured person in a local magazine this month, and I'm having to skip the party they're throwing for us tonight.  Meow.  Thanks for letting me vent.

But!  On the bright side, I have an awesome computer on its way to me (signature required), a new career waiting for me come September 6, my kiddo has a killer smile on the way courtesy of the braces she got today, I'm cashing in my retirement from the criminal state-employee investment scam so I should be rolling in it and investing MY way about a month from now.  And I never get sick for more than 24 hours.  I have to focus on the light, not the tunnel.