Hey there! Welcome back. Where have I been and what have I been up to? The usual: screwing off, losing track to time, getting caught up in the paid work and making a lot of excuses. Somehow I managed to finish the side project; that’s currently sitting in longhand form on my nightstand, waiting for me to start researching and rewriting. Still marginally stalled on the series, but I’m getting back into it, slowly but surely.
The good news is, all this foot-dragging isn’t my doing. It’s the fault of the universe itself.
How so? I’ll tell you. Back around October, I think it was, I was having my morning tea with the radio on and the morning show DJs started talking about astrology and Mars being in retrograde. I paused to pay attention, and learned the planet Mars is a source of aggression, activity and motivation. When Mars goes into retrograde, the opposite takes hold. Energy flags, motivation sags, progress drags and next to nothing gets done. Until Mars moves into a better galactic headspace, you’re just pretty much screwed.
In short, the universe itself is against me. I knew it all along!
So that’s the reason you haven’t heard from me, and why I’m having trouble focusing on my goals and cutting it close on the paid work’s deadlines and making next to no headway on the writing. Damn Mars fell down on the job and dragged the rest of us along with it. According to the person on the radio, this bad patch, which has been going on since before Halloween, will end on January 12. Just in time for Friday the 13th, which comes with its own negative baggage.
Not that I’ve ever really believed in astrology or superstition, but when the alternative is to admit you’re either depressed or lazy, which straw are you going to grab at?
So don’t expect too much from me until at least the end of next week. At least I didn’t need to waste time and energy making resolutions this year. Of course, once the retrograde ends I’ll be out of excuses (and, coincidentally, out of paid work, unless they book me up with more assignments) and may have to actually put my money where my mouth is and start pounding out publishable product.
Hmmm…wonder what Saturn is up to these days…?
