it’s wednesday, october 30, & i’m back! on friday, not long after i posted the daily bliss, my computer crashed & burned, died hard. having met with my computer guru not long ago, i did not expect that. at. all. so it took me a few days to wrap my head around the $itch—wtf, mercury isn’t even retrograde!—& deal with it. my teacher sam geppi had just posted a video about mercury retrograde, reminding us that when mercury is retrograde, which it will be from tomorrow until november 20, we don’t stop living our lives, we don’t delete all mercury-related issues from our lives, that planes fly all the time without crashing, novels get published all the time without bad press, love letters get sent all the time without being misinterpreted, during merc retrograde. & the reverse seems also to be true: computers crash & burn all the time when merc isn’t retrograde!
the reason we pay attention to the planetary energies, the reason i write the daily bliss, which is to me like a daily cosmic weather report, is so we can be prepared for what the day might bring. it’s not like we don’t go out if it’s raining—we just put on a raincoat & rain boots & grab an umbrella. &, then, of course, we have to be prepared for the unexpected, which is why we have our practices. i am reminded of a teaching that the shaivite scholar douglas brooks once gave about karma: there’s personal karma, there’s collective karma & then sh*t just happens. which i found incredibly realistic & comforting.
i’m not sure sam, who can dig way into the weeds of any chart to explain the energies that produced a particular result, would agree, & i haven’t dug deeply enough into mine (who had time what with getting myself back up & running with a new computer on top of everything else i’m juggling?!) to figure out which planet or planets zapped me, so i’m just throwing up my hands & saying swaha—sometimes $h*t just happens!
but while merc is retrograde it’s a great good opportunity to revisit relationship issues, the source of problems that may have arisen between you & your partners, whether romantic or business or platonic. & do watch your communications—try to listen, try to understand rather than blame.
moon is in the starspace called jyeshtha today, which is in scorpio (it will retrograde back into libra, which is why the emphasis on relationships). scorpio can bring our worst psychological fears & paranoias to light & jyeshtha supports our right actions, being in alignment with our dharma, our highest purpose in life. it’s also the fourth lunar day, which is related to obstacles, like, um, discovering that your old word program isn’t optimized for your new $upersonic $tate-of-the-art computer. grrrrr! & it’s wednesday, as you know, so see above for all that mercury focus.
& that’s your daily bliss! jyotish, vedic astrology, is the science of light. if you want to shine more light on your life, contact me for a session! ~.~
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