Just checking in on y’all to see how you’re holding up as chaos erupts all around us. Only a week into eclipse season and a few days into Mercury Retrograde, it’s already a truly wild ride… is your life feeling stable or unhinged?
I want to add that INERTIA is also a big thing right now. I'm in the middle of writing a book and I don't have any time for that shit, but I found myself just staring at a blank page earlier today and I had to get out and take a walk and drink a SHIT TON of coffee to get anything done. With Mercury Retrograde in Taurus, it can feel like our brains are turned completely off, slowed down to a snail's pace. I find that movement gets the words flowing again (when I can find the energy to get my lazy ass up out of the chair.)
Honestly I feel like crying. Feels like everywhere I go I just want to run away and escape. Feels like everybody is mad at me, exes flooding my dms and I feel super emotional.
Sending you a BIG HUG. That's absolutely the vibe right now, and you're in a lot of good company! No one is likely mad at you, though! They are probably worried that everyone is mad at them too. We're all going through it, so rather than go it alone, I thought this thread might help us process some of it collectively. PS: try to ignore the exes in your DMs, if at all humanly possible!
Same for me! It’s like the worst of PMS but it never ends—wanting to cry, wanting to hide. Nothing bad is actually going on in my life but I feel so emotional and overwhelmed.
Oh, yes, luv -- that's PRECISELY it. I think letting ourselves cry is so helpful. It's SO NORMAL and SO UBIQUITOUS at the moment. Do you have space to just let yourself release it? I did this the other day and felt SO MUCH better for hours afterward. <3
I seem to be having the complete opposite feelings right now in that…I’m furious with absolutely everyone right now. All the time.
I try to balance it all with compassion, but I am getting so fed up with seemingly everyone’s inability to take responsibility for their actions. As a business owner, wife, daughter, daughter-in-law and part-time customer service rep for our company, I’m very good at finding my understanding of the situation to be able to outwardly express compassion, but inside…I am furious with just about everyone I come into contact with right now.
Years and years of always being the compassionate, supportive and understanding one who gets jack shit in understanding or compassion in return…I feel like I am just barely keeping it together right now and I am so close to losing it and telling absolutely everyone what I truly think. And that would not be pretty.
Would you please tell me this is somehow energy related and that it’ll pass?
This fury and frustration is downright exhausting…
Ginger, thank you for sharing all of this, and I'm sending you a big hug because this shit is HARD. I will say that your emotions are right in line with the energy of the Aries eclipse we experienced last week, and these energies reverberate for a while, even though the Aries energy has dissipated. It sounds like something important got opened up for you as the eclipse hit that anaretic degree of Aries, and you should continue to examine the source of all of this as Mercury backtracks over the next few weeks. I want you to feel better, but I also don't want you to stuff your righteous rage back inside -- Aries energy is really good for helping you heal and reverse any tendency to let people take advantage of you. Movement can be really good for letting this move through you, though -- dancing especially. Check back in and let me know how you're doing!
I know I have my people-pleasing tendencies that deserve closer observation (I’ve already brought it up with my therapist), and I’m also happy to hear that…I am not going crazy, it may just feel that way. 🤣
Movement- always a good idea. Haven’t been doing that for a while, so I finally did some sort of aerobic dance yesterday (hobbled along towards the end, but hey - it’s a start!)
My understanding of eclipses is still a bit wobbly…the portal is open for two weeks, and we can feel the effects for up to six months, is that correct?
But I’m all cases, thank you for seeing me and for giving us a place to process this stuff. ❤️
So glad this information is soothing to you! Different astrologers calculate "portals" differently, but I typically go with opening salvos a week before the first eclipse in a series, sensation remains until sometimes two weeks after the second eclipse. Events related to New Moon/Solar Eclipses can emerge for six months. But truly, and this is where it gets complicated -- there is an 18-year window when we embark on a Saros series in our lifetime. But in terms of how you're feeling right now -- the intensity should begin to dissipate after the 2nd week in May (the final eclipse of the series is on the 5th). I'll be writing more about this over the weekend and posting on Monday!
So, I am happy to report that now that we’re in the second week of May, I do, indeed. Feel better. I’ve sort of been holding on to that thought with a hope, and I’m glad.
The 18-year cycle is interesting because yes, a lot of the stuff that came up was around from when I moved abroad…18 years ago!
So that makes a lot of sense.
I’m sure I’ll have a lot of junk to sort through now that this has passed, but I wanted to say thank you for the heads up!
I'm so, so happy to hear, this Ginger, and deeply heartened to know that my reply here made a difference! Please stay in touch and let me know how you are. ❤️
I want to add that INERTIA is also a big thing right now. I'm in the middle of writing a book and I don't have any time for that shit, but I found myself just staring at a blank page earlier today and I had to get out and take a walk and drink a SHIT TON of coffee to get anything done. With Mercury Retrograde in Taurus, it can feel like our brains are turned completely off, slowed down to a snail's pace. I find that movement gets the words flowing again (when I can find the energy to get my lazy ass up out of the chair.)
Honestly I feel like crying. Feels like everywhere I go I just want to run away and escape. Feels like everybody is mad at me, exes flooding my dms and I feel super emotional.
Sending you a BIG HUG. That's absolutely the vibe right now, and you're in a lot of good company! No one is likely mad at you, though! They are probably worried that everyone is mad at them too. We're all going through it, so rather than go it alone, I thought this thread might help us process some of it collectively. PS: try to ignore the exes in your DMs, if at all humanly possible!
Same for me! It’s like the worst of PMS but it never ends—wanting to cry, wanting to hide. Nothing bad is actually going on in my life but I feel so emotional and overwhelmed.
Oh, yes, luv -- that's PRECISELY it. I think letting ourselves cry is so helpful. It's SO NORMAL and SO UBIQUITOUS at the moment. Do you have space to just let yourself release it? I did this the other day and felt SO MUCH better for hours afterward. <3
Thought it was just me. You are not alone!
I seem to be having the complete opposite feelings right now in that…I’m furious with absolutely everyone right now. All the time.
I try to balance it all with compassion, but I am getting so fed up with seemingly everyone’s inability to take responsibility for their actions. As a business owner, wife, daughter, daughter-in-law and part-time customer service rep for our company, I’m very good at finding my understanding of the situation to be able to outwardly express compassion, but inside…I am furious with just about everyone I come into contact with right now.
Years and years of always being the compassionate, supportive and understanding one who gets jack shit in understanding or compassion in return…I feel like I am just barely keeping it together right now and I am so close to losing it and telling absolutely everyone what I truly think. And that would not be pretty.
Would you please tell me this is somehow energy related and that it’ll pass?
This fury and frustration is downright exhausting…
Ginger, thank you for sharing all of this, and I'm sending you a big hug because this shit is HARD. I will say that your emotions are right in line with the energy of the Aries eclipse we experienced last week, and these energies reverberate for a while, even though the Aries energy has dissipated. It sounds like something important got opened up for you as the eclipse hit that anaretic degree of Aries, and you should continue to examine the source of all of this as Mercury backtracks over the next few weeks. I want you to feel better, but I also don't want you to stuff your righteous rage back inside -- Aries energy is really good for helping you heal and reverse any tendency to let people take advantage of you. Movement can be really good for letting this move through you, though -- dancing especially. Check back in and let me know how you're doing!
I really appreciate this, thank you!
I know I have my people-pleasing tendencies that deserve closer observation (I’ve already brought it up with my therapist), and I’m also happy to hear that…I am not going crazy, it may just feel that way. 🤣
Movement- always a good idea. Haven’t been doing that for a while, so I finally did some sort of aerobic dance yesterday (hobbled along towards the end, but hey - it’s a start!)
My understanding of eclipses is still a bit wobbly…the portal is open for two weeks, and we can feel the effects for up to six months, is that correct?
But I’m all cases, thank you for seeing me and for giving us a place to process this stuff. ❤️
It IS hard. Yeesh…
So glad this information is soothing to you! Different astrologers calculate "portals" differently, but I typically go with opening salvos a week before the first eclipse in a series, sensation remains until sometimes two weeks after the second eclipse. Events related to New Moon/Solar Eclipses can emerge for six months. But truly, and this is where it gets complicated -- there is an 18-year window when we embark on a Saros series in our lifetime. But in terms of how you're feeling right now -- the intensity should begin to dissipate after the 2nd week in May (the final eclipse of the series is on the 5th). I'll be writing more about this over the weekend and posting on Monday!
So, I am happy to report that now that we’re in the second week of May, I do, indeed. Feel better. I’ve sort of been holding on to that thought with a hope, and I’m glad.
The 18-year cycle is interesting because yes, a lot of the stuff that came up was around from when I moved abroad…18 years ago!
So that makes a lot of sense.
I’m sure I’ll have a lot of junk to sort through now that this has passed, but I wanted to say thank you for the heads up!
It made it “easier” to get through. Thank you!
I'm so, so happy to hear, this Ginger, and deeply heartened to know that my reply here made a difference! Please stay in touch and let me know how you are. ❤️