We are still in a very active energy period and a very weird mercury retrograde, which is the topic of this week’s newsletter article. We just had a powerful full moon that ticked all of the boxes as far as engaging multiple levels of energy and experience, engaging the past, present, and future, compelling (a nicer word than forcing) us to reconsider what we repeat and think about doing things differently, and setting up some very strange and unusual situations to guide us along new personal and ascension pathways. If you look at what is going on in the world things are equally weird and rather twisted, with revelations of misdeeds and outright fraud that make us wonder what is being hidden if this is what is being exposed. And we have this Mercury retro for another 8 days (plus 14 days of shadow until November 12). It is a very tricky one so keep your guard up and if you need extra support and information read my Substack article “Respect the Mercury Retrograde” , link is in the blog.
https://enlighteninglife.com/mercury-retro-extravagant-necessary/If you follow me on facebook you know that my phone died yesterday. It just stopped working. The screen was black, it would not ring (I tried to call it), it would not turn off or on, I tried pushing all the buttons, nothing would make it respond. My first thought about why this happened was Mercury retrograde, as this is the kind of event that happens with Mercury retro and this one is particularly tricky. That realization did not fix my phone but it did remind me that everyone is susceptible to Mercury retro shenanigans, even someone who has Mercury retro in their natal astrology chart, like I do.
So I did what anyone today does when their phone dies (and it is their only mobile phone), I panicked. I called my carrier and ordered a new phone, paying extra to ship it next day air. I had an old tracfone that I tried to reactivate, and I searched online to find ways to make my phone work again.
I went to bed last night feeling rather glum about the whole situation. Now I am not tied to my phone, as in I am not using it 24 hours a day, I don’t take it into the bathroom with me, I turn it off at night, but it does come in handy for certain things like GPS and it is required to post some things on Instagram.
I felt rather lost, not being able to check my facebook page and Instagram account yesterday, to get phone calls and check my text messages. While I do not get that many texts, there is a difference between not checking them because I am busy and I will check them later and not being able to check them at all because my phone is not working.
And I sent my family members an email (from my computer) letting them know that if they called or texted and I did not respond it was because my phone was not working. This was especially important for my mother, who tends to panic and think the worst if I do not call her back within a reasonable amount of time, which in her estimation is about 20 minutes. And I have to share that I did this because a few years ago when I did not call her back immediately she called my children and other family members, certain that something dire had happened to me because she did not hear back from me right away. I later told her, after I called her upon receiving absolutely panicked calls from my children wondering whether I was still alive and not mortally wounded, that this was really not appropriate behavior.
So to ensure that it did not happen again, I let her know my phone was out of commission Read the rest of the article on the Enlightening Life blog at this link.