Mercury retrograde incarnate

The funniest thing happened to me this current Mercury retrograde. Actually, not to me per se, but to a woman I know and I found it funny I got to hear about it. The events she experienced over the past couple of days have left me to believe she had an encounter with the very physical personification of Mercury retrograde.

It all started at the beginning of the week when she was contacted by the school doctor who recommended she'd take her son to a certain specialist for a specific test. There's no need for me to go into details, but the school doctor recommended a specific specialist and she made the arrangements for the boy to have an appointment with the specialist the following day so he'd be tested, his mother attending as well, of course.

Despite the fact children and people who have insurance here receive free medical assistance, unlike in certain countries, this specialist has a private office and so he had to charge for the appointment while the test is not free either way. The mother had no other option but to see this guy, especially since her family doctor is away at some alleged prestigious training course or whatever and will return in a couple of weeks. This meant she would've had to wait for him to return so he could give her a paper for her son that would allow him to receive the consultation for free while only having her pay for the test itself. But that implied more time would've passed since she would've also had to look up such a specialist for an appointment and who knows when they would've scheduled that appointment.

Anyway, the woman took her son to see the doctor the following day at the hour he himself scheduled the appointment. She knocked on the office door and a voice from inside told her he's busy and so they had to wait. They waited for an hour, during which time no one got in or came out. When she and her son were finally called inside by the doctor, she noticed there were no other doors for any other potential patient to have used so it was obvious to her the guy had been alone. It didn't smell of any food or cigarette smoke since these people often have a habit of eating and smoking in their offices. There was no computer in sight because she also considered the possibility of him watching porn and rubbing one out because who knows wtf these people are capable of? Additionally, there were no files on the desk or any sign the guy had taken a nap on the bed next to his desk.

The doctor didn't have the courtesy to excuse himself for having made them wait for an hour, but instead made up an excuse he didn't have the whatever device thingy was necessary to perform the test and went on to begin a quick consultation. The woman was baffled by this since he himself had scheduled the appointment specifically for the test on that day and wanted to take her son and leave, only to return in a couple of days when the guy said his thingy would be brought back from the people who are fixing it. The guy then told her he would not be able to make another appointment for them in a couple of days if they left now.

It became clear to the woman the guy had been keen on scheduling two appointments for her son so he'd be paid twice and so he purposely made them visit him despite having his thingy broken. If she had a quicker option she would've taken her son and left, but she knew they would have to wait for at least two weeks before her son would receive the stupid paper from the family doctor. She had no choice but to allow the guy examine her son.

The exam was done with little attention and instead the guy talked the ears off of them, telling them all sorts of details about that test she had already encountered using a simple online search. Moreover, the guy's level of self-importance was off the charts, displaying a snobby attitude when being asked pertinent questions by the woman as he paid little attention to her questions and instead rambled on, often repeating himself more than once. Even more so, he constantly talked besides the point, often forgot the name of test the boy had to undergo and even forgot the name of the boy several times despite having his birth certificate in front of him. Whenever the woman corrected him he became annoyed.

The woman had no choice but to pay for the appointment and return today, when she had to pay yet again for the second appointment and the damn test on top of that. She and her son also had to wait, this time close to two hours as the same scenario from last time repeated itself. By the time they got in she asked the doctor why he had scheduled them at certain times only to have them wait for one and two hours, respectively, but the guy was annoyed by the question and simply dismissed her saying he's very busy. 

Anyway, her son had undergone testing, but the guy insisted he had several others done because for some reason he wouldn't tell the lab required people who take the initial test also take the others. She refused and he became annoyed, only to finally agree to perform the simple procedure but doing so painstakingly slow. She then paid the guy and wrote her email on a large piece of paper which she left on his desk so he'd send her the results. He agreed at first, only to stop her on her way out and propose she return herself to his office to pick up the envelope containing the originals. She said the photos of the results are ok and she doesn't need the originals, something which seemed to annoy him and he started lecturing her over official papers and such. She flipped him off, took her son left. It seems to me the guy wanted her to return so he'd have her wait for him to give her the results even longer than she waited previously, perhaps out of spite for her refusal to have her son take unnecessary tests that would've benefited him financially even more. Nevertheless, the guy is now supposed to send her the results in some two weeks once the lab people are done doing their thing.

Besides the guy's behavior, his physical appearance also raised eyebrows. We know Mercury is an athletic youth, swift and cheerful. This guy was old, moody, bored, as well as stunted. He also had a weird body shape, resembling that of Danny Devito's Penguin. She found a picture of him online and showed it to me, but I can't share it for obvious reasons. The odd thing is that although he's old, his faces looks somewhat youthful as in there's no visible age wrinkles on it. Oh, and the guy looked very tired after performing the simplest test that would normally take a couple of minutes and that only demanded him to hold on to that thingamajig that had allegedly been broken in a certain way. 

By the way, she said he had the most peculiar hands. She described them as flipper-like, making his resemblance to the Penguin even closer. In general, people with this kind of hands are slippery. They're usually spineless and will bend whichever way depending on circumstances, but always with the aim to achieve their goals especially through lies, hypocrisy, falsehood and deceit. By comparison, people with claw-like hands, for example, are merciless in regards to getting what they want and will often grab it by force, especially when it comes to money. 

Anyway, I have now come into the possession of the guy's handwriting and he's got another couple weeks more of carefree living because in my book you can't be that kind of an asshole and get away with it. Even so, this has been a great lesson for me with respect to gaining a better understanding of the nature of Mercury, especially when retrograde.

We've covered retrograde in detail in Asteria and you can use my Magick Pills for Hard Transits to protect yourself from the likes of Mercury retro. Meanwhile, overcoming natal retrogrades will allow you to stop experiencing the effects of any retro planet in your natal chart and then some.