Sometime around Wednesday morning I discovered I was irrationally irritable. The first signal happened when I came home from walking the dog and discovered my husband intended to go to the gym with me. I didn’t have a  gym bag packed because I was going to catch the Zumba class and then rush home to deal with some stuff  I had to deal with. My husband never goes to the gym without having a steam and sauna. This would add extra time and we’d probably be at the gym for two hours. For some reason this occurrence made me bitchy. I resisted the urge to snap at the husband (sort of) and let him know I was II (irrationally irritable). Since he’s seen this before, he took heed and worked out in half an hour and then steamed for a half an hour.  The interesting part is that in the steam room, he overheard another couple of women also talking about being II. They claimed it was the upcoming full moon. Three day before and three days after things go wacky.

I’ve held this theory for a while and was surprised my husband honed in on it. I’ve kept track of the moon’s phases for a couple of years now and try to keep track of my moods accordingly.  I’ve even discovered that I’m more energetic and happy when the moon is in Aries. Capricorn, my sun sign, makes me feel like a failure. Nice, huh? Cancer makes me moody and depressed. I like Rising Moon Astrology for an overview of what the moon is bringing energetically with each phase. Sometimes knowing it’s perceived as stressful lets you take a deep breath and say “Hey, it’s not me and this too shall pass.”

This full moon is in Aries, one of my favorite happy places.  I realized the full moon was Saturday but hadn’t been paying enough attention to the esoteric lately. A quick Bing search found this very interesting article. Now don’t get anxious. Sometimes it’s good to know things are just a bit volatile so you don’t make that one biting comment to your spouse or whomever else you might feel the urgent need to give a piece of your mind to.  Here is a quote from Deepak Chopra I saw on Twitter the other day.

“The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.”

So use that full moon fire energy to create a spark of creativity. Work on your novel, plant flowers, have sex, play your guitar (or drums in Michelle’s case), journal, jot down your wildest dreams.

So back to the steam room. Moody me sat in silence in the passenger seat on our way home while Russ (the husband) laid it out for me. The women in the sauna said that she had a relative in law enforcement and there was always lots of arrests on a full moon as well as visits to the emergency room. The woman said she used to not believe the full moon alleged myths but our bodies are 90% water. The tides are affected by the moons and the ocean holds a hell of a lot more water than we do.  My husband doesn’t believe in astrology, but the woman had him convinced. I wisely didn’t mention anything about the moon in Aries.

Here is a cool song that sort of feels like what’s coming up.