Mercury and Jupiter retrograde, oh my! (Page 1 of 2)

Hahaha, this explaines alot I got bitched at by my father and i got emotional and bitched back. Which isnt very usual for me He tends to bitch constantly but usually i dont snap back *waves fist at jupiter and mercury*

Holy smokes, Batman...!

Yesterday, March 2, at about 4:15 pm - 45 minutes after Mercury went retrograde - I was almost hit by a Mack truck while driving home.  No lie.  Thing came right up on my probably going about 80, and didn't want to stop and pull back until he was literally inches from hitting me.  I looked in my rearview and it was startling to see a truck grill filling my mirror....and getting bigger, because he seems to not want to slow down.   I didn't get scared though really, because I "knew" he wouldn't be able to hit me.  Let's just put it that way.     He then proceeded to do this thing where he'd lurch forward until he was only a couple inches from hitting me, then pull back, lurch forward, then pull back, "bullying" me you could say.  I was going 50 mph, totally the speed limit for that road.  It's not like I was going 30 in a 70 mph zone.  He was the one that was driving like a nutcase.  Luckily I only had one mile to deal with him before turning off to where I was going.  As he continued past, he laid on the horn, acting like a crazy nut.   I didn't even get mad, felt nothing.   I've learned not to anymore.

To read your words, then remember what happened yesterday is so uncanny.......

Well, now I know why I was "invisible" a good part of my life! I had such low self esteem that I was making myself invisible and that just verified my insecurities about myself. When I finally reached a positive point in mylife, and felt good about myself, I noticed people making eye contact with me for once (of course at that point I thought I must have booger hanging out of my nose or something because I wasnt used to people noticing me) I play the invisibilty game all the time, and here I thought I made it up!    Our internet server went down last night, and my 10yr and I had a big argument last night and we NEVER argue.  I think the neighbors had a domestic this morning because the police were at their front door.

Hey Lipstick Mystic,

Those invisibility tips are awesome, thanks for posting them.   I've been interested in this for years.   For years I've lamented that I wish I could just be invisible when I'm out in public.  Here in Virginia it's not an issue anymore really, but back in Fort Lauderdale there are a lot of negative types out in public, crazies, and empty robot types that would continually hone in on me, yelling crazy stuff, harassing, and so on.  Being invisible was my desire.  I would run errands with a shrunken up mindset, not making eye contact with anybody, just hurrying about my business as unobtrusively as possible, but it didn't do anything at all to stop the phenomenon.  In fact, it only seemed to encourage it actually.  It made me more of a target.   It was only after I adopted a "tough" mindset and was willing to go face to face with anybody who dared to even look at me the wrong way did it suddenly halt.  !   Go figure.   Maybe your techniques work better.   Back in 1999 I came across this book called "The Urban Witch's Handbook" at some metaphysical shop, and the one thing that jumped out at me was the "invisibility spell", this technique for making yourself fade out of view from other people.  !!!    Pretty cool.   I'm going to give your techniques a shot though, it sounds fun actually.   We'll see what happens!  (ps edit - in thinking about my own experiences, compared to your technique, I realized that your technique is the "third option" -  There's Option 1:  Being meek and shriveled up, trying to hide - doesn't work.  Seems to attract negative stuff in even more.  Option 2:  Becoming combative, and willing to face off with the harassers - it makes them back off because now "they" know you can't be bullied around, but it's a negative frequency to be in, let's face it.  Not good at all.   Or, there's Option 3:  Being confident, positive....but *intending to be invisible.*   In this way, you can maintain a positive frequency, while sidestepping the negative harassers by fading yourself out from reality.) 

Oh yeah.......and your soccer mom horror stories are creepy!   Was it you who was mentioning before that Princeton has a lot of weirdness going on there?   I think those things happen more in areas that have a lot of "weirdness" in general.  You know, strange black ops activities, military bases, etc.   I don't know what is around Princeton, other than the University, but it would be interesting to research.   If the people are acting like that, then it's indicative of a much bigger "issue" going on with the entire area, and there's always "somebody" behind it.     I know this is a Retrograde thread, but if you have other Princeton weirdness stories, please share! 

Pamelajean,

Yes, it's really wiser to hold off on submitting resumes and initiating new connections with people, either for business or pleasure, during retrograde times. Things tend to get off on the wrong foot.  So even if you do strike up interest from a potential employer, you might find that communication gets delayed or there are some misconceptions on either your part or their part about the whole process, which can also lead to having to redo or revise a contract later on, yada yada. 

One way you CAN take action to bring work/clients toward you during retrograde is to reconnect with contacts from the past.....business leads, mentors, colleagues, job boards or networking groups you've had positive experiences with before. Quite often, in reinvestigating this productive energy from your past, something cool and new will surface.

This happened to me just this week. A good client of mine unknowingly told a news wire service about my columns and they've just commissioned something new from me.  (My new romantic astrology column, Lipstick Mysticâ„¢ Love Forecast, will be turning up in a special relationships insert in many of the daily newspapers before long.  So my secret plan to take over the world is proceeding on schedule.  Waaa haaa haa ha!)  (intended to be an evil yet comical laugh)

But if I had approached this newswire blind, without the advantage of the positive referral from my other client, I doubt I would have achieved the same effect.

When I had my counselling practice during Mercury retrograde I would call or send newsletters to people who had had sessions with me in the past but hadn't been to see me for a while....reactivating or restimulating those positive ley lines of energy. This seemed to be a good way of manifested new work from OLD sources.

So definitely get in touch with old clients and business leads during retrograde and see if you can shake up some new work through them.  Something good might come of it. But if your intention is to submit resumes and other material to completely NEW contacts who don't know you (and you don't already have a positive referral to those people,) you're best off waiting until after retrograde to establish those fresh contacts. You'll definitely come off the most positive way post-retrograde.

I hope this makes sense and that it's helpful to you!  Any further questions, please post them, and I'll try to respond this week. 

Lyra,

I think you're right about the invisibility thing and the three different ways of approaching it. I agree with you that sometimes if you've been hassled by a lot of negs and street theater types that you need to go through a period where you assume almost a martial arts stance of readiness to go into battle. Once they see you're not in fear, they always back off.  Which is weird, in its own way. It really means that they DON'T have power over us unless we GIVE it to them.

And Pictus is right about the chameleon aspects of stilling your energy field.  That's another good way of looking at it.  What energies are around you, and how can you best blend in to the background so as not to be noticed? That sort of thing.

Another aspect of being invisible....you know when you played Hide and Seek as a child and would hide in a closet or something and hold your breath as you heard somebody approach?  Breath control also seems to be a part of it.  Slowing your breath, containing your breath. So that's another aspect to experiment with.

Re: Princeton.....oy, yes that is a weird place. All gorgeous architecture and high end retail stores and restaurants, very pretty on the surface. But you've got the particle accelerator down the road where they're always messing about with the atom (and believe me, Mother Nature is NOT amused....every time they run the accelerator it's like there's a rip in space time and the ley lines get really chaotic and distrubed.) 

And then you have the University and the Engineering Anomalies Lab. Fellows there were very friendly professorial types when I went to test out their machines and learn about their PSI experiments....But I had unknowingly wandered into a snake pit, because after that David Morehouse, one of the "former" Stargate remote viewers, sent a chief of police to start calling and bullying me into meeting Morehouse to potentially become part of his "consultant company" of professional remote viewers.

At first, I was flattered. But then after I got off the phone, later that night, I felt Morehouse and the other guy scanning me (without my permission, which was very invasive and extremely creepy-feeling.)  Anyway, I could sort of detect their ethics just from what they did to me energetically.  So the  next time the guy called I let him have it, and he became threatening, and I became MORE angry and stood more firmly in my power and called him on the energy they had been using. 

The next two years were a nightmare of psychic attack, including one night when a black-clad human came into my bedroom in the middle of the night, beamed black energy into my heart, and induced a very real heart attack. I was in major heart pain for the next two years until I cured myself through pranic healing and shamanic healing (and receiving healing sessions in these techniques from others; plus learning spiritual warriorship from a no-nonsense shaman who realized I needed to get out of the "white lighter/it's all love" bullshit and into the kickbutt warrior mode.

The moral of the story?  Well, tread carefully should you set foot in Princeton.  You immediately activate the street theater, which is usually harmless but sometimes frightening.  There are a bunch of mental patients who for whatever reasons are regularly running around, yet I learned to distinguish between folks like my sweet buddy Louie, who was on medication and always sweetly said we were going to get married (while never acting aggressive or mean towards me); he had a heart of gold and the most luminous spirit I've ever seen; and the "mental patients" (cough; street theater inserts) who would do all manner of intimidating things to try to psych me out.  Like, I'd walk by a guy and he'd start finishing the sentences I was starting in my head......complete with minute, personal references to things this complete stranger couldn't possibly have known....with that stuff, you either think YOU'RE going crazy, or you start realizing that certain places are one big OP.

Princeton is one.  'Nuf said!

Lipstick Mystic aka Jennifer

Thank you Lipstick Mystic (Jennifer),

Your advice arrived just in time; I was ready to email my proposal the very day you posted the retrograde info ! Whew E! 

How long should I wait to send it or rather when would it be auspicious to do so?

Thanks again.

Just wanted to resurrect this thread and bring attention to the fact that Mercury has gone retrograde as of today, July 1st.  On forums, it has the biggest impact with miscommunications and misunderstandings.  People reading into something that wasn't there, not understanding what was said, people feeling as if they're either being ignored, or unnecessarily targeted, and so on, etc.  So, a head's up!   Let's all be aware.