Did fortune deal us the
June 14, 2007 11:08 PM Subscribe
Is anyone having unusual bad luck this spring or this week?
I'll probably skip the specifics, but the number of negative things happening to our friends and family over the past three months has skyrocketed far beyond the normal day-to-day events we usually see. With us, friends, or family it involves a miscarriage, a sudden death during surgery, a longtime family dog that had to be put down, accidents, illnesses, a severe depression, and someone starting to use hard drugs again after being clean for a long time. There have been two freak breakages of expensive items in our house. I've noticed my errands have gotten unusually difficult the past week, with unscannable bar codes, people at the register holding up the line, security detectors going off on an item I bought, a debit card that doesn't work at the store but does in an ATM, and so forth, things which are not normally an issue except every now and then.
As my wife and I are scientists by nature, we don't give astrology much credence, but we've been beside ourselves a how this stuff is stacking up. Just 45 minutes ago, shortly after my wife and I discussed this, one of our friends elsewhere in the state emailed to say her dog had gotten kicked by a deer a few days ago and is paralyzed.
It's almost like there is an external force at work. I'm aware a "retrograde Mercury" started today and it's supposed to be a bad thing, but I don't think that explains the onset of these things around late February. Maybe it's just us... if so that will give me some assurance that maybe we've just been lucky and it's time to pay the piper. But I've got to ask.
I'll probably skip the specifics, but the number of negative things happening to our friends and family over the past three months has skyrocketed far beyond the normal day-to-day events we usually see. With us, friends, or family it involves a miscarriage, a sudden death during surgery, a longtime family dog that had to be put down, accidents, illnesses, a severe depression, and someone starting to use hard drugs again after being clean for a long time. There have been two freak breakages of expensive items in our house. I've noticed my errands have gotten unusually difficult the past week, with unscannable bar codes, people at the register holding up the line, security detectors going off on an item I bought, a debit card that doesn't work at the store but does in an ATM, and so forth, things which are not normally an issue except every now and then.
As my wife and I are scientists by nature, we don't give astrology much credence, but we've been beside ourselves a how this stuff is stacking up. Just 45 minutes ago, shortly after my wife and I discussed this, one of our friends elsewhere in the state emailed to say her dog had gotten kicked by a deer a few days ago and is paralyzed.
It's almost like there is an external force at work. I'm aware a "retrograde Mercury" started today and it's supposed to be a bad thing, but I don't think that explains the onset of these things around late February. Maybe it's just us... if so that will give me some assurance that maybe we've just been lucky and it's time to pay the piper. But I've got to ask.
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Yes. As Paulie Walnuts said in The Sopranos finale, "you can take 2007 and give it back to the Indians."
Although there have been good moments, too.
posted by GaelFC at 11:15 PM on June 14, 2007
Although there have been good moments, too.
posted by GaelFC at 11:15 PM on June 14, 2007
Well, it confirms nothing but three people we know have been diagnosed with cancer in the past two months. Both of my partner's grandfathers are dying.
I had a horrible day at work yesterday and the bus wouldn't stop to pick me up.
By the same token, the weather has been beautiful, friends are getting married and today everything seemed to go alarmingly smoothly. If you're looking for it, you'll find it.
posted by EL-O-ESS at 11:16 PM on June 14, 2007
I had a horrible day at work yesterday and the bus wouldn't stop to pick me up.
By the same token, the weather has been beautiful, friends are getting married and today everything seemed to go alarmingly smoothly. If you're looking for it, you'll find it.
posted by EL-O-ESS at 11:16 PM on June 14, 2007
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posted by magikker at 11:15 PM on June 14, 2007