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If another person refers to Mercury being retrograde as being the cause for whatever bad is going on in their lives (and there have been a number lately) I am going to SCREAM.

Because crap happens to people ALL THE TIME -- and somehow, the rest of the time, it's just "crap happening." As someone who really does not care about what the hell the planets are doing, I can attest that there are other things that tend to affect people more: bad spells of weather and bad political events, for example, and as far as I can tell, those have nothing to do with where Mercury is.

And yeah, I know, my beliefs are really weird too. You're entitled to scream -- and a lot of people do: according to many if not most commenters at Atrios, for example, people of my ilk are responsible for all that is wrong with the world today (check out the comments following his post last week about Barack Obama's speech).

Comments

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

I actually use "Mercury is in retrograde" to mean "there is no discernable explanation" (but please, scream if you must)

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

I think I can attest to using it that way, too... Otherwise, I say, "Why is shit happening?"

I've had problems with believing astrology because the planets have moved in their rotations anyway, but read Free Will Astrology for entertainment value.