Mother's Day

It is exceptionally ironic that Mother's Day falls in the middle of Mercury Retrograde. Mercury Retrograde takes us backward, or at least makes it feel that way. Many of us are thinking about past times, childhood, friends, families, but most of all mothers on this significant weekend. Not all mothers fall into the glowing KS&L description below and the pedestal perfect paragons in the flower ads.

Some mothers lack(ed) courage, were cruel and make Mother's day tough. Whatever happened in your childhood, look around and find someone who is a good Mom and honor that person. Biology doesn't always make a family, and maybe a friend, neighbor, or relative helped you to have a view that motherhood can be what philosophically you would have wanted it to be.

As Mercury pulls us back, we can use that energy to heal the past and then when Mercury goes direct and we all move 'forward' again, perhaps we will have left some old emotions behind. We never lose our memories, but perhaps we can handle them with more wisdom and less pain.

For those of us who are Moms, perhaps we can analyze what we got right and what we would do differently: what did we learn from those charming, challenging children who profoundly pushed us to the edge of our patience? Maybe we learned to be wise, perhaps the most precious description any of us can ever earn from the soul expanding experience of being a Mother.

Happy Mother's Day

Correction: Speaking of imperfect people, the Mars event supposedly coming in August, I have discovered happened in 2003 and I got that whole thing wrong. I should have checked it out. My mistake!