Can't Break Away from Mercury Retrograde

I love the Rumi quote, "Try something different. Surrender." 

I'm applying it here to this week's non-episode. Instead, you're just getting a little announcement.

Mercury is retrograde.

Everything electronic in my house is fucked.

My laptop is not recognizing my USB microphone. I even bought another, thinking the mic might have been the problem.  It wasn't.

I can't spend more than 5 minutes hunched over my laptop screaming into the internal microphone. I did it last week, but my neck and shoulders are no longer available for that activity.

Let's cross our fingers that Mercury complies with my IT guy next week so that I can get back to our usually scheduled programming!

Until then, here's a takeaway. If Mercury is fucking with your electronics, do the best you can do, surrender, and walk away.  I mean, you're powerful, but you can't beat a planet.

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Transcript

Can't Break Away from Mercury Retrograde

Hello loves. Okay. So here is the situation. When Mercury goes retrograde, my electronics life, and basically any kind of electronics communications goes. I mean, it all just goes bat shit. And even though I had my wonderful IT guy over here last week to figure out what was going on with my mic not working, he thought he had it figured out and then it turned out something else was happening.

He is brilliant and he believes he knows what it is, but I am in the midst of Somatic Experiencing Practitioner training for the next few days. And then the first I could get him here would be Tuesday. So, even though I would love to give you a full 20-minute episode, I am sitting here.

My dear friend and massage therapist would be horrified if she saw the position that I was in. She already tells me every time I come in with my ginormous purse, she's like, "okay, put your satchel down." The other day I came in and she actually took it from me. And I was like, "that'll make your work easier for you to get it off my shoulder a little faster."

So, yeah. Hunkered over my laptop with my face, like, smooshed into where the internal microphone is. And, it's just not a healthy thing for my neck or my shoulders to do for 20 minutes. Trying to be a good modeler of behavior, I'm going to choose self-care over doing a longer podcast episode.

So I'm thinking of you and I thank you for your patience while this is all getting sorted. I am very hopeful. Am I very hopeful? I'm hopeful. I am cautiously optimistic about next week's episode, being able to be a full episode because I will actually have a working mic where I can sit upright and talk to you.

Okay. Let's cross our fingers and toes and see if the planets can get themselves in gear. I mean, to be fair, it isn't just Mercury doing its retrograde thing. Right now. I saw something that said that six planets were retrograde and I don't even really know what it means because I'm not an astrologer. I just know that it fucks me up.

I can't really say it any other way. So have a wonderful week or a good week or a week. Do your best. That's all we can do. If you see Mercury, punch it in the throat for me. Cause I'm feeling some aggression toward the planet right now. Yeah. I hope to bring you a full goodie next week. Okay, loves. Until next time.