Test of Today - Mercury in Retrograde, Again.
November 12, 2025.
Salam, friends.
Firstly, happy anniversary to my husband, I’m ever grateful to have been blessed with your love. These past few years have only convinced me that we made the right decision, because I don’t know how I would have gotten through without you making me laugh and smile. I love you.
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I would like to preface this post by stating that I do not believe in astrology... 100%. I do not believe in daily or even monthly horoscopes, but I do know for a fact that the moon and gravity or whatever it may be, has the power to move and disrupt oceans. When we as humans are made up of 70% water, I cannot rule out the possibility that the moon may affect us and our moods as well. I’m not saying we’re all secretly werewolves, but I do think there are too many inexplicable “coincidences” that I cannot say with certainty that we aren’t cosmically affected by these events.
The first time I became truly convinced of the potential “reality” behind astrology was three years ago, during this exact time. Since the concussion, I’ve battled with insomnia, and I’ve taken medication and supplements on and off to help with those symptoms. Now despite my medication which almost always works, I struggled to sleep almost every night for at least two weeks. Congruently, I discovered that Mercury was in retrograde in Sagittarius that month. I am a Sagitarius and apparently, according to astrology, that would mean people who hold Sagitarius as their sun-sign would struggle with sleep and more specifically decision making. Now did I believe that the first time I saw it on TikTok? Absolutely not.
Until I had a conversation with my coworkers, who were complaining about their terrible sleep as well. Both of whom were also women, also Sagitarius’, from two different generations, three including me. So, I took it upon myself to conduct an informal survey around the office and ask if anyone else had struggle with their sleep during this time. Nope. Over the 50+ people in the office, and I probably asked 90% of them, said they had no issues with their sleep. Now I know this is not a peer-reviewed study about the correlation of sleep disruption in the general population, but that is a pretty strong “coincidence” if we want to call it that.
It could also be, what Jung called “synchronicity”. This concept is very well explained on a podcast my husband introduced me to today, linked here. Synchronicities | The Science Behind Your Meaningful Coincidences Summarily, synchronicities are from the surface, coincidences but they are too strong to be “just random”. Like the concept of manifestation, it’s based on the law of attraction.
Thus, that moment three years ago when discussing my awful sleep with my fellow Sagitarius, to discover they were experiencing the same thing with no discernable reason, was synchronicity. Be it the universe or confirmation bias based on my TikTok feed, it happened.
Now three years later, I am again struggling to sleep with no distinct reason, except for that Mercury is once again, in retrograde in Sagitarius. Now before you tell me that’s just because I’m overthinking it, I didn’t know that Mercury was in retrograde. It has been three or four days since I’ve been able to truly fall asleep and rest, so coincidentally, I decided to look it up to see if per chance, the same thing had happened again.
And oh golly, it did.
Again, I’m not saying I believe in astrology and horoscopes generally.
But I also can’t rule it out as an impossibility completely for the very reason that I have no other explanation.
Maybe this is an Akam’s Razor of sorts but I’m content allowing the universe to do its thing. As a Muslim, I believe that I’ll get my answers in the afterlife, and that is the only way I can quench that curiosity.
Hopefully this is all placebo effect, and I can get a good long sleep tonight, Insha’Allah.
Ta-ta friends and salam!