the double text #9
we stan mercury retrograde.
Friends,
Mercury retrograde has always gotten a bad rap. Yes, comms breakdown, printers run amuck, and suddenly you’re the fucking asshole in the theater who mistakenly forgot to turn their cell phone off. It’s a time for hiccups and slightly clunky mistakes; perhaps an email of brevity comes off more cranky than it should, or you could develop a hesitation to commit to an event or experience, and then there’s that godawful glitch in the timeline that shows itself when you see someone on the street you no longer speak to.
The blame comes easy, and annoyance grows thick.
But here’s my version:
Send the follow-up email, ask for advice from people who have careers you want to emulate, enter each conversation with a personal understanding to yourself that they can only meet you where they are — not where you are, ask the price, volunteer to handle the scheduling so you have the most control, take the meeting, keep your head down and stay focused, double text when you have something important (or not important to say), write down the ideas that have been swimming in your head, it is rarely about you so just let it go, and finally — running and rushing aren’t advantageous for the plot; get there early so you can look around and take notes.
Mercury will station direct on August 28th, so until then, meet whatever is coming for you head-on. We’re too grown for otherwise.
xVLB
PS—Full blue (or sturgeon) moon is August 19th—
Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly
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