WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD MERCURY RETROGRADE?

Everyone hates the Mercury Retrograde. It makes trains run badly, planes arrive late, folks to not communicate well, electronics to break down and contracts to be considered null and void. It’s also considered a period of slow down…which most of us really don’t wanna do.

THE CONS OF THIS MERCURY RETROGRADE

When the windshield of my car cracked wide open, my phone died, one of my oldest friends getting annoyed at me for not calling her back (because my phone died right when her internet connection crashed) This of course brought up a ton of old relationship baggage we both have.

When I realize that I am ALREADY rehashing the same g.d conversation about work and health that I have been having for the past year (this mercury retrograde is hitting my 6^th house of health and work hard)

When I nearly lost an Astrology report I had been working on for a client I didn’t do as I advise as an astrologer. When registering for class did not go through…

At any of these moments did I slap the top of my head and say “oh I know why! It’s because it’s we are approaching Mercury Retrograde”

No, I did not fall back on the knowledge that I need to take this type of thing in stride. Nope, I didn’t shrug it off.

What I did do was freak. I threw a mini tantrum at the office of my school (Mars is in Libra/in my first house of ego & self. I’m a lil riled up these days)

I told my friend to check her online issues.

Did I own up to my procrastination? NO, not until today.

In all of my conversations, had I done the T25 DVD program yet? No, I did not.

Did I get the chip in the windshield fixed last week before it split into a big ole crack yesterday? No, I sure didn’t.

The moral of all of this rant, and of one of the many goals of Mercury Retrogrades?

Slow Down.

Do Not Shrug Anything Off

If something needed to be fixed before, by God it will get fixed now.

Any kind of relationship conversation that needed to be had will be had  (I want to lay some of this at the door of the end of the recent Venus Retrograde)

Whatever you committed to will be brought the front.

NEVER EVER LEAVE ANYTHING TO THE LAST MINUTE

THE PROS OF THE MERCURY RETROGRADE

However, on the up side of this looming retrograde, I got to clean up my mess with my friend, broke out the T25 (by god is it hard)

and I have drifted back to an artistic project I began over the summer that I never had the time to devote to it. Given the fact that I have come back from a trans continental trip two weeks ago, I have a ton of pictures that I am just now downloading and picking over (my 9^th house of long distance travel is very much lit up during this astrological period)

There’s not a magic formula for getting through this period. It’s really more of a learn as you go; Most Mercury Retrogrades are different from each other. Use your instincts, and pay attention to the lessons it has to teach you.