Early fall, about the middle of September to the middle of October, has always been a turbulent time for me.
I met two of my ex-girlfriends in early October, broke up with a third, and ended up working a volunteer event that lead me to The Girlfriend.
I’ve changed jobs, started looking for new living space, lost my job, and, now, found a job all during what seems like an ordinary eight week period.
This time of year has always seemed so full of possibilities to me. I’m not sure if it’s my biorhythms crossing, the stars aligning, or some weird confluence of events around the balancing out of day and night at the autumnal equinox. All I know is that odd or momentous thing tend to happen to me in the fall. Not even the equinox yet and this year is no exception.
This year, however, is the first time I’ve had someone throw herself at me, and not just at me, at me and my girlfriend at the same time.
It’s been a very strange week indeed.
*Hexagram 28: Ta Kao “Critical Mass”
Among other things,
Your environment is rapidly becomeing a meeting ground for many of the major circumstances affecting you. These things will take up a great deal of your time, space and energy. More and more of your attention will be demanded by these very real imperatives. There is a lot going on, the situation is excessive and may reach Critical Mass soon.
Wow, that is an odd thing to happen. So what was your reaction to the person who threw herself at you and your girlfriend?
It’s a hard question to answer – what was my reaction – because I had so many at the time and have had a chance to think about the events some more.
This woman is a friend of my gf, quite bright, and attractive (something about which The Girlfriend and I agree; rare since we have oddly divergent taste in real women (celebrities are a whole different issue)). Initially I was sort of pissed; that kind of event, inviting a third person into an established relationship even if it is a one-time thing, changes the entire dynamic of the relationship and I wasn’t really sure that this throwing incident wasn’t something they’d planned together. Now that I know it wasn’t, anger has fallen by the wayside.
Then there is, of course, the unbearable curiousity. [grin] It was not a good night for me; entirely too much imbibing all around I’d say but it hit me particularly hard and fast so the “what if…” questions naturally arise (“What if I hadn’t been feeling so sick? What would have happened?”)
Who knows what might have been. Who knows what will be.
And it still isn’t even October yet. 😉