The Dog Days of Summer

September, 2009

Let’s start with a bit of astronomical trivia. The “dog days of summer” is when the Dog Star, Sirius joins the Sun as it rises and sets between mid-July and mid-August, hence making it the hottest time of the year. In Southern parlance it is also when nothing seems to go right—life’s struggles seem to get more intense.

I recently mentioned to someone that I had never had a more trying time than I had this summer, and it seems that many of you feel the same way. Some of you have reported unusual physical challenges—breast cancer scares, heart attacks, brain tumors— and family problems—deaths and divorces looming—and it begins to make you feel that the gods are picking on you. That’s how I felt when it took me a month to resolve a kidney stone problem and six months to restore a subluxated rib I injured in Egypt in February. I won’t let any of us forget that we had three of the most challenging eclipses over six weeks than we have had in a long time. But the truth is that we all are experiencing exactly what we need to grow through challenges no matter how severe.

The best news I can share is that Mercury is going retrograde September 7th which means that for the whole month it is time to reflect. Recently I had a massage—the first in months and months and I feel incredible. The previous day I had a rib repositioned where it should be and my pain has subsided 90%. I decided to write a book about my dog Mr. Darby, and I almost have met a financial commitment that I set nearly a year ago. I need to lose some weight and swim instead of sun—but I can report for me the worm has turned. I am seeing the ending of the dog days of summer and the cooler breezes and gentler opportunities coming my way. After schooling was behind me, September has always been my favorite month; the world is about to make a drastic change from too much sun with its incumbent sizzling heat to falling leaves and nippier climes. It is a time to reposition and to reconsider.

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