Lessons of the Retrograde

On Friday night around midnight, just minutes after the Mercury Retrograde began, the walls started crumbling down once again. My laptop crashed. My alarm clock no longer worked. I've had problems with my cell phone for weeks. The Mercury Retrograde is all about set backs, especially with anything electronic as a catalyst. It's as though it takes the things we rely on most for security and takes them away from us to ask: "How secure are you really? Better get your shit together."

So here I sit with a crashed laptop just moments after this has begun? Coincidence? Probably not. It was a loaner while my other one is in the shop! As I stared at the laptop, after dousing the desire to slam it against the wall across the room, I thought about shutting down. Getting myself a new inner hard drive, if you know what I mean. Starting fresh with a new system. Will I lose the things that were on the old system? Sure, but something has to die for something new to be born.

Sometimes I think we let the past rule us far too much, just because it's so difficult not to. From the second we're popped out of the womb, we're being conditioned by what we see in society. Told what is normal and what is not. What to feel and what to not. What to say and what to not. What is good and what is evil.

Can you imagine how much faith we might have in ourselves, how much hope we might have in the world, if we didn't use the "past" as a barometer? Subconsciously we're always thinking, "Well that's never stopped you before...," "Well, I AM this -- ," "Well, everytime I've tried this in the past, I've failed...," "No one has ever succeeded at this...," etc. What if we lived so fully in the present that the past was erased? Can you imagine how much we would believe we could achieve individually and as a whole? And if you're like me, you understand that the power of belief is one of the strongest there is. Without believing something can happen with all of your being, that vessel remains empty.

So it's time to reprogram, I suppose. Live more in the present. As far as I'm concerned, from now on, unless it has something positive to contribute to the present, the past is the past.

My advice of the day: Experience life as if it is happening for the first time. The past is only of use if good can be pulled from it.

As my laptop tried to boot over and over, I kept getting the same error message.

"Current profile could not be loaded due to security issues. Contact administrator."

Mmm... I think I'll do just that.



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