Or when the CEO turned over the Death card.
I have a history of pushing against bad science. From the nonsense that is Myers Briggs, to the irrelevancy of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need.
I am a Neuroscientist at heart (albeit a recovering one) so when I met my wife, one of the first things she asked me was my star sign. She watches her horoscope on YouTube. She has completed the birth chart for me, compared to hers (we match thankfully).
I am a fire sign, so is she, so is my daughter, that’s why we are such a hot household. It’s never quiet in our house.
And whenever something goes wrong, it’s normally in Mercury Retrograde. A period that lasts about 4 weeks and happens a few times a year. Contracts go wrong, technology goes wrong, communication degrades.
Of course I don’t believe in of this, right? Right?!
I don’t, but also I don’t fight it, I have more of an issue with being described as “Left brained” than I do with being described as an Aries. Pseudo science is more insidious. At least with astrology most people know that it is just a bit of fun, a way to look at the world differently.
Enter Tarot
As a welcome gift to some of my clients I include a pack of Tarot cards. Not because I believe they hold any magical powers of fortune telling, but because they allow you to look at things differently.
The first time I tried it, you guessed it, the Death card was pulled.
Now Death doesn’t mean you are going to die. It means an end, or at the least an understand that something will come to an end within a set time.
The CEO scratches his head, thinks, “Well, I have been thinking that it hasn’t been working with my COO for a while now. Is that an end?” For him, of course it was. It gave him an insight into his life and what needed to change, what might need to end.
Astrology, tarot, the Chinese year of birth, even Mercury in Retrograde can act as a way of stopping and looking at something differently. That change can be enough to unlock something new and exciting. When something goes wrong, it’s comforting to blame it on a distant planet rather than it just being bad luck.
Is it nonsense? yes of course, but then I am an Aries and I would say that but there is some value there.
Is Mercury in Retrograde? Find out here.