Felt like just about everyone was doing stupid shit or getting on your tits? Bouts of weepy WTF-itis? Disturbing nostalgia and batshit dreams? All at once as steaming little ol' you held it together by a thread with only occasional unleashing of flying monkeys - for recon purposes of course - and mild bouts of trigger finger tourettes.

Welcome now to the weekend, where not much will change until Monday. By then like ships crossing in the night, Mercury will be direct and Chiron will be freshly retrograde. But until then? As just about every news channel is telling you not by complete coincidence, bunker thafuck down.

Stationing points, when a planet is coming into or out of retrograde, are notoriously tricky to navigate. They herald or emphasise, depending on whether the rx is beginning or ending. In the case of this weekend: both.

The full stop on this fully mental Merc rx is bound to be confounding, emotional and gaspworthy revealing all at once. It will throw a whole new hue over the last few weeks and ensure that all the nostalgia has not set you back. Tip for willing delusionists: if you got back with your ex anything, this weekend may well remind you why you broke up the first time around. Make it so again to pass the test. Choose you.

Chiron's rx is a little more nuanced and a lot longer. The dive is deeper and more tender as we wrangle our own original sin, the identity wounds that hold us back from shining bright like a multifaceted prism here to save the world. But first, stationing and a Mars charged poke in that same spot. This may hurt in a productive pain kinda way but not as much ignoring it.

There are coping strategies beyond anaesthesia, dissociation and denial but as this is Friday night, I leave just two here at your discretion. Chardy as self care is a debate for another day far earlier in the week. Simply holding thyself and staying out of the fray is the everything right now.

The great joy of turning down the volume on a braying world is that it amplifies what is taking root within you. Kicks you back in and allows you to spend valuable time on the most vital relationship of your life.

Dig in, darklings.

Pic of Elaine from Seinfeld in 2020 mode