Total oddness this morning a 2:32am

Maybe we are all suffering a form of jet lag style issue with the time of year and seasons? I mean, that could screw with us older people quite a bit, I'd imagine.

It's a few days to Xmas.... Does it FEEL like it? I'm serious. Jet Lag is perceptual as much as anything, and so may this be?

Feel any Xmas Spirit? Live in an area that has seen any real seasonal weather yet (No on both here)... Is the TV doing anything to help anyone feel like it is late December vs. the open scenes of a tense war movie?

Perhaps our eyes and brains see it is a time of year that, for us older folks, was powerful for how special and overwhelming it USED to be for society as a whole. Since we have folks who flat don't seem to believe in cheer or happiness in general in charge? Christmas seems almost like an annoyance of timing....doesn't it?

That is sooo wrong tho....and perhaps that has something to do with real off feelings?

I'm not much for Astrology, personally.

Forgive me..but I can't help it. When someone mentions retrograde..all I can think of is strawberries and Captain Queeg in The Cain Mutiny.

Who knows tho? We probably understand just a small part of what is actually happening on different levels all around us.

@snarky412,@wrabbit2000,Mystic Wanderer,

Well, that was a weird night. Thank God I don't have to work in the morning as I just woke up a little bit ago and feel fine and rested.

I never thought about the alignment of planets much, though the subject does fascinate me to a degree. I do pay attention to the moon somewhat and it was a new moon last night. (Gonna have to make a note of that)

Overall I just felt that something significant was going to happen, good or bad I have no idea. Of course, I am also of the mind that something significant is always happening somewhere, but some odd reason it struck me strong yesterday. Guess I'll have my first cup 'o joe and peruse the news.

Thanks y'all for letting me bend your ears...or eyes as it were. (THAT sounds painful   )

Indeed.. Astrology has been seen by millions over time to be an accurate system of predictions and divination. Of course.. Divination in itself is something held by a minority at any given point in history. Blood letting was also seen, for a good part of history, as cutting edge medical science and an absolutely solid approach to the treatment of illness in people. A U.S. President was even treated by blood letting. They'd call it actionable malpractice today and possibly jail a doctor, depending on degree of negative outcome.

Times change...people advance..and we evolve. Is astrology legitimate? I don't honestly know...but I won't try and sell you my view if you don't try and sell me yours on the topic. (sly grin)

I have my merit badges in the realm of the paranormal. This is just one aspect of it I've never really been a believer with.

lol... True.. I know maggots are still in use, and good too. It's icky to the point of retching to think about ..but would you rather have infection removed almost painlessly that way or..have Dr. Feelgood come in with his metal instruments of tort..err...medicine, to remove the infected flesh, one little bit at a time?

I think I'd choose to have my family smuggle me in the kind of drugs they called mythical in even the 60's, so I would never have to give a thought to quite HOW my infection was being removed.

In actual blood letting tho? I'm not aware of anything in Western Medicine (maybe some witch doctor still playing 'gee..seems logical to me!') which still uses that silly placebo.

When I think of blood letting, as it nearly killed a US President once? I think of this...



Performed with something like this...



...as they seemed to believe too much blood became an imbalance to good health. I guess they really DID have a field they called medicine back then... hacksaws and devices like that brass box of razor blades...but geeze! Medicine is a relative term, eh?