My two closest friends have each called me over the last 24 hours

[Ilsa]

with the same problem: someone they are very close to has been excessively critical of them to hurt their feelings and cause strife in their lives. They both were fairly certain how they wanted to handle it, but were bouncing strategy off me and venting hurt feelings. It seemed like something I should have read in my horoscope for the week.

Any thoughts? BTW, the first call was from California and the second was here in my town in TX.

I forgot to add, discussing my first friend's problem last night gave me a mild case of asthma to go with this sudden and strange cold weather.

[I Have A Dream]

1. Mercury's retrograde until the 25th. Maybe that's part of...

it. It's my understanding that communication issues often come up during times when Mercury's retrograde. However, it's a big "coincidence" that they both called you in reference to the same situation.