is it me? or has the whole world gone crazy?

I don't know about you, but I don't normally believe in this astrology stuff. Oh sure, I fit the description of "Taurus" to a T, but I know people who say their horoscopes say nothing to them, that it's not even similar.

My mom was a firm believer in this mercury retrograde shit. She was fond of saying "don't buy anything hi-tech...mercury is in retrograde."

And everytime something broke, she'd say "mercury must be in retrograde."

I've come to understand that there are coincidences, and then there are so many simultaneously occuring things, that you can't help but believe.

My hi-tech prius went tits up a while ago (just before the retrograde) and the key wouldn't sense, the car wouldn't start, and it sat overnight while I worried about how much this was going to cost to fix.

With Mercury in retrograde, communications also fall apart. In the last few weeks, I've had fall outs/misunderstandings with the people at the Columbia Anesthesia office, with UCSF about a job, with my friend Dave, with the orderly at work, and Andrea had a massive communication breakdown with her fiance, followed by me having another severing of yet another frienship, while he's having a massive communication/emotional melt-down with his wife.

It's all too much.
Is it merely coincidence? It could be, but I can't remember so many fights/arguements/differences of opinion with so many people at one time in my life ever. It was getting to be so much that I decided to look up the dates of the next retrograde, and sure enough, we were dangerously close to one. I need to mark these on my calendar and go on silent retreats when they occur.

MOST of these relationships can/will be fixed...one of these I'm sure is not going to recover.

C'est la vie.