Why this annoying sleeplessness?

Oy yoi yoi!

Here I sit suspended between sleeping and wakefulness for the fourth night in a row. So very unlike me as I love to sleep and am able to easily turn my brain off when need be.

It's occuring to me that some thick, ropey energy is emerging and surrounding and that empath aspect of my personality is picking up on it. I'm thinking Beirut. I'm thinking Java tsuanami. 

Methinks I need time for retreat out in the Hill Country to process. Thankfully, the universe always provides and I got an unexpected out-o-the-blue call from my wusband informing me he was coming to pick our daughter up for a few days for a visit! So for the first time in six years I will have more than one night to myself. Oh joy! Oh rapture!

As I write this, I see that the Truthout site has been hacked. Hmmm. So I turned to a few resources to see what's going on astrologically. I know of course that Mercury is retrograde right now. What I did not know is that 5 other planets are as well: Chiron, Pluto, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. This is rare. From astrodynamics.net:

 Once Mercury turns direct on July 28, your plans and dreams will manifest much more easily. Turn your attention to the future and place your intention there as well, and you will find life opening up to you in a whole new way. The effort required to navigate through the past couple of months has opened our eyes to opportunities that we have not been able to recognize before. Build a solid foundation for your dreams now, and the opposition of Saturn (structure) and Neptune (transcendence) that begins next month will serve only to strengthen that foundation.

Oh, thank God! I don't think I can take much more of this miscommunication and examination of my shadow! 

I'm working on several great projects right now, but the energy is frustratingly muddy. This is good practice though to let go and let God and to surrender to the highest good. One of my lessons in this lifetime is patience and letting go of control. 

I still continue to be awed by the abundance in my life...