If you've been an emotional wreck this week, apparently it's not really your fault.

You might have noticed that people are a bit fragile at the moment.

Emotions are running high and people are moody. SO moody.

But it turns out we have something to blame.

The moon.

The June supermoon is wreaking havoc this week, leaving everyone oh so emotional and confused.

We spoke to an expert on this week’s episode of Mamamia Out Loud about what the supermoon is and how it’s controlling our moods.

Lynette Arkadie, who runs My Energy Mentor explained that a supermoon occurs when the moon is the closest to the earth in its orbit.

And when the moon is that close, it pulls magnetically on all the energies of the earth – including us.

“Essentially what we are is energy on the outside and we’re a current as well and we’re a physical body so what happens is when this energy is in its place at the moment, it takes us around in an orbit to our own shadow,” Lynette explained.

“That’s why we’re crying, that’s why we’re going back over old things, it’s a very deep time where we process a lot of internal things that we thought we’d packaged away.”

Lynette explained that the time of the supermoon is a powerful time and a time to expect great change.

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“The important thing here is this is about being interconnected with something massive, with big forces way beyond your local little energy,” Lynette said.

“The trouble is, we all retreat when this energy happens. We often get shameful or we shut down and get really sad and we forget to phone a friend.”

Emotions are magnified during a supermoon, so little things can seem like much bigger dramas.

“You might take someone’s stapler and normally they might not care. But in a supermoon, they might go into a full-scale intervention,” Lynette added.

But don’t expect the drama to end anytime soon.

The bad news? The next three moons will all be supermoons.

That’s three consecutive months of being an emotional, moody wreck.

Oh dear.

Listen to the full episode of Mamamia Out Loud. 

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