About three weeks ago, I realized I’d lost my sunglasses, the ones everyone hates but that I love because they’re so “Greek tycoon”. You may know them – they’re really big and heavy looking, like thugs always wear. A day or so later, I noticed my gloves were gone too. I was upset, especially about the glasses, because their uniqueness and brute appearance gives me a strong sense of identity that I otherwise lack. I searched high and low, checked at my bank, grocery stores, but nothing. Tonight, within 5 MINUTES of each other, I found both glasses and gloves in separate places: the glasses were in a jacket pocket, and the gloves in the back seat of my car under some newspapers. Finding them so close together in time struck me as – what? Weird? Strange? Then Laura told me Merc had just gone direct. If I was into astrology, I’d think this was very meaningful.

I was born Dec 6, 1984. I believe that’s the day before mercury retrograde in that year. I am trying to understand how the retrograde affects me?