When You Need to Be a Blade But Your Psyche Is Swimming in Fog

Cheat code for focus when Mercury is directing the uncut edition of your unconscious

I know. I KNOW. I just spent an entire article telling you to slow down. Feel the fog. Let your unconscious do its directors cut thing. Don’t push. Don’t force. Let Mercury drag you through whatever sediment it needs you to see.

And now here I am, writing the “but what if I actually have a deadline” appendix. (Welcome to being human. We contain contradictions. Also deadlines. Often simultaneously.)

Here’s the thing your nervous system already knows: sometimes life doesn’t care about your processing schedule. Sometimes the invoice is due Tuesday and your psyche is still somewhere in 2019, excavating feelings you didn’t know you had about your father’s silence at dinner tables. Both things are true. Both things need tending. And you’re one body trying to hold it all.

So. This is for those moments. Not because the “slow down and feel it” advice was wrong. It wasn’t. It’s still the deeper medicine. But because sometimes you need to function FIRST and process LATER, and pretending otherwise i…