A BTW, ( a By The Way) on this Mercury retrograde. So it looks like I am still on for blogging my ramblings, and someone out there, is still on to find them ~ if they want to look. Michaela

This is a small, or maybe it is more directly meaningful 'BTW.' by the way.

Mercury is now settling itself to go direct. Is that a Hurrah I hear?
Communications, technical glitches, messages gone awry...not understood. Which brings me to one Glitch that has been bothering me,  that is one of the Platforms of HUGE COMMUNICATIONS, the Google platform situation.

But I speak to my personal situation only now, the part where Google take down my blog beginning of April. So the last few weeks I have it written on paper that I have to DO SOMETHING about this.
Save the blog to another blog, which means creating a new blog and 'copy and paste' the whole lot over, or download it to a hard drive and work from there....What?
BUT I didn't actually have the time to do anything concrete. I told myself that I will figure it out when I figure it out, and if that means I loose the blog than maybe that is what needs to happen, but something kept telling me it was ok, or that I would find or see a solution.

So finally yesterday, still ill from the weekend, I set out time to do this, (yes, cutting it fine again)...and ignore everything else that I would normally 'jump to' to get done.

I am not a techie, and don't understand many of the things you should know to operate a blog.
But sometimes I just find answers 'conveniently or synchronistically'.

So I was poring through internet sites and checking what I could do, even starting a few new blogs (yes, really) which is when  the photo of Mercury (from 2017, so not recent) jumped out at me (a few times) from some files, as I was looking for images to put on a new blog.

 ~~~so I was thinking: Okay, that's nice, Mercury for Communication, North node of Gemini in the 12th house. ~~
And I was settling into Creating these new blogs-spaces but ultimately it meant that I would have import each post, from this one to save my 'valued' posts, until I had the time to work which I was happy to delete. BUT,  I JUST couldn't see myself doing that,  importing them one by one, for the next few days solid...SURELY there must be a better way.
That is when 'I got' that there was message coming to me squarely from Mercury retrograde.

So skimming through Google help sites...to cut a long story short, eventually I worked out that Google is closing Google+ and the blogs that are attached to Google+ were on shakey ground.
BUT I just switched it from a Google+ account to a Blogger account only, and that means that this Blog will survive, it just wont have all the add-ons ( that I never made full use of )that it had when it was attached to Google+ account.

So the upshot is this:
EITHER I had completely got it wrong in the first place, a huge communications failure on my part...Google never was going to shut my blog down, just withdraw my Google account.
Or, I had got it right,  that Google was going to shut my blog down along with my Google account, but I was given a little  reprieve, an insight to get the blog back on track.

OR, I have got that wrong too , in which case, my inability to sort things of PERSONAL VALUE to me into some kind of 'top of the list' Priority is what this retrograde was showing me... which is what the Mercury retrograde in the 2nd house is trying to show you.

However, Mercury is the blessing in disguise that gives us that little extra time we didn’t know we needed. We’re given an opportunity to perhaps fix the little faults of our plans and better prepare ourselves for certain events or even grander opportunities. 

So it looks like I am still on for blogging my ramblings, and someone out there can still find them if they look.

~~If I have this wrong, and this blog fails to appear next week,  I apologise now, in advance for            misinforming you,
~~~and I apologise to myself for letting the things that I value ( 2nd house), become lost in the ongoing avalance of everyone else and everything else.~~

Michaela.