Mercuriality

Not Mark Your Reality, though I like the idea. In California, we like to invoke the phrase “Mercury in Retrograde” to explain/blame the seemingly cyclical tendency to experience problems with communications or modes of communication. “Technical Difficulty” is a non-astrological term for the same condition, but somehow, blaming a planet a few light minutes away feels more immediate – like there’s a funnel for the frustration to flow into. “The Dropsies” is a term I heard on the East Coast somewhere. Might have been in the east bay for all I remember. Same thing, though – that specific quality of non-specifc, recurring encumbrance. Static. When your computer hangs. Cell phones punt calls. A slight tension in communicating with people. I broke two pens today. My email’s bugging out. I’m feeling generally unsettled. And I blame Mercury, ’cause why not.