I attribute it mostly to Jupiter...

"Seriously, WTF??? My issue is mostly finding work. But with the economy like it is in the US, I know I'm not alone. "

Teresa

Isn't Saturn conjunct your IC and opposition your MC right now?
Presumably Uranus must be conjunct your MC and opposition your IC, must be roughly within orb?

Neptune is also square your sun. You also have a square from tr Mars to natal mars and venus too. Mars might be triggering off your Venus-Pluto oppositino for example.
No wonder you're feeling a little out of sorts!

Yeah, something will be coming for you. I hear you on the waiting! I'm impatient by nature, but I guess this is supposed to be a lesson. *rolls eyes*

That's great, Paul. I'm sure we are all rooting for you!

Yeah, I think the Mercury-esq people feel it the most. I was looking at my planetary rankings today and I realized Mercury ranks #2 on my planetary strengths, after Mars. The same thing is true of other people - lunar types are so moody based on Moon transits, etc.

Yes. You got that right, Teresa. I have been stuck, too, and sleeping at all sorts of crazy times. It has been going on for months, and I am sick of it. Yet I still can't get it going, so I am waiting out the storm of inertia.

I hate to tell you guys, but Mercury will be retro again in December.

I'm patiently awaiting the Jupiter, Neptune Chiron team to move forward again...across my Saturn and Dsc. Hopefully things will work better then.

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I know some people who are thriving in this time, but not a great number of them. I think that there are some people, too, who are particularly sensitive to certain sorts of transits and are so for a number of reasons ~ one is that their aspects predispose them to be, and another is that they are actively working with those transits to understand them better and see how they can handle them.

For example, I have a Mercury-based chart, so it stands to reason that I am sensitive to the transits of Mercury. I am also focused on figuring out what sorts of things can go into something like a Mercury retrograde period, so I study the transit like a specimen of experience. Not everything in a Mercury retrograde period is negative, and it sometimes surprises me in what manner the positive experiences or trends or insights manifest, because they often stem from responding creatively to a negative circumstance. This inertia that people here are discussing has driven me to begin to view certain things as being prospective solutions to the dilemma in stead of just wastes of time. What might seem like a mere diversion in a time of lethargy reveals itself as a part of what might cure the lethargy by taking on a purposeful role rather than merely being an idle activity, as it were. This, to me, is a good deal of what goes into "working with a chart," which, if you consider the chart as a kind of map of energetic forces, is what I think makes it a practical tool.

"Every time people point out a specific transit and say expect to feel this or that, whether good or bad, I never really experience it. Same with this one. That's why I really just can't take transits seriously. "

Transits are the things I most readily recognise. Odd how its different for all of us.
Do you use solar arc or progressions or not bother?

I can't imagine how everyone HASN'T noticed this last mercury retro, could feel it for a few weeks leading up to it and tapering off now but still lingering around. Amiable has noticed it for longer and mercury is much more of a key player in her chart than in mine, tho still somewhat important in my own. Perhaps you would notice a transit involving your chart ruler or some other key player in your chart?

Hahahahahaha. I'm sure your nuts are all gathered, exio. Sorry I can't help laughing at that ne.