{"id":960,"date":"2013-02-21T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cosmiccandor\/?p=960"},"modified":"2013-02-20T23:41:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T23:41:15","slug":"whos-a-control-freak-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cosmiccandor\/2013\/02\/whos-a-control-freak-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s a Control Freak? Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarot.com\/tarot\/timeline-tarot-022113\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-961\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/329\/2013\/02\/timeline-tarot-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Timeline Tarot reading at Tarot.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>I admit it: I don&#8217;t do well when I&#8217;m living in the unknown or feeling like my life is out of control. Which is how it always feels during Mercury Retrograde!<\/p>\n<p>And this Mercury Retrograde (from February 23 to March 17) is happening in super-sensitive Pisces, so I expect my anxiety will be even worse this time.<\/p>\n<p>The hardest part is just living in the unknown and dealing with all kinds of unexpected things going wrong at any given moment. But guess what &#8212; I&#8217;m prepared to do battle!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning to do a Timeline Tarot reading to prepare for this Mercury Retrograde because Tarot always soothes my jangled Gemini nerves in times of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Timeline Tarot is one of my favorite Tarot readings because it looks at your entire life path, based on the far past, recent past, present, near future and far future.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simply reassuring to see the potential problems in my near future, and the steps I can take to change the things I don&#8217;t like that seem to be heading my way.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m a control freak or anything, but I&#8217;m counting on this advice to help me face my fear of the unknown and stay in control no matter what happens during Mercury Retrograde!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Timeline Tarot reading at Tarot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tarot.com\/tarot\/timeline-tarot-022113\" target=\"_blank\">See what&#8217;s in the cards for you this Mercury Retrograde \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit it: I don&#8217;t do well when I&#8217;m living in the unknown or feeling like my life is out of control. 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