{"id":9052,"date":"2012-07-15T07:21:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T11:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/astrologicalmusings\/astrologicalmusings\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2012-07-15T07:21:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T11:21:56","slug":"sunday-inspiration-from-the-readers-trust-the-planets-dont-blame-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/astrologicalmusings\/blog\/sunday-inspiration-from-the-readers-trust-the-planets-dont-blame-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday inspiration from the readers: Trust the planets, don’t blame them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>Some comments I made on my Facebook page<\/a> in response to a lot of complaining on the page about Mercury and Uranus turning retrograde elicited lots of great comments that I wanted to share with you. \u00a0I posted this:<\/p>\n

Friends, I feel moved to talk about something. It\u2019s tempting when we are in a difficult planetary time like this to develop a belief that the planets are causing the problems we may be experiencing in our lives.<\/p>\n

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Planets don\u2019t cause problems but because they act as teachers, they reveal problems. Then it\u2019s up to us to fix the problems. This is where free will comes in. So in discussions here perhaps it would be helpful to reframe the way we look at things: instead of saying, say, \u201cI hate Mercury retrograde\u201d instead let\u2019s think about how we can use this time productively. How can we learn patience. How can we learn what is really important.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is a collection of wisdom posted by readers on the page:<\/p>\n