Finally, Mercury Retrograde Explained in One Page.

You can use a Mercury retrograde period to plan and strategize. Use it for finishing things you started before Mercury went retrograde.

Once Mercury goes direct, all of these things will move quickly and perfectly.

A Mercury back track is a bad time to start new projects. It's also a bad time to sign anything important.

You should hold off until Mercury goes direct again in the cases of; signing a certificate of matrimony, beginning or taking a job, filing papers to sue someone.

It is also a bad time for purchasing, leasing, or renting a vehicle. Lastly it is really not a good time to go through a surgical procedure.

Mercury retrograde happens three times a year. Planets in retrograde happen in several stages.

The first stage is that, the Planets seem to be still. (When a Planet has been direct and is about to turn retrograde its "stationary" or making a "station".)

The second stage is that, the Planets back up through the zodiac signs.

Third stage is, they stand still again. (When a Planet has been retrograde and is going to turn direct it makes a "station" again.)

Lastly, the Planets start to move forward again going "direct".

The Sun and Moon never go retrograde.

There is a false impression that when Planets are in retrograde, that this means "trouble" at the most and bad luck at the least. It’s easy to see why people think this.

Mercury governs:

(*Authors Note, I cringe whenever Mercury is in retrograde, but I digress.)

When there are Planets in retrograde, it extends whatever effect that Planet has, in whatever position it lays in the house, no matter what sign.

When Mercury retrograde is happening, all things that have to do with; inter-communication, ideas, and instruction, will experience glitches.

Anything used for communicating, will be interrupted. You may not get the call that was supposed to come, then while you’re on the phone, you get disconnected.

Your computer crashes. Negotiations fall apart. You don't attend the closing of the house or the offer for the house you put in is pooh-poohed.

You have a crucial meeting and you lost a significant piece of data.

All in all, Mercury going backwards, brings general misunderstandings and frustrations.

If Mercury was back tracking when you were born, you were probably timid as a kid, but you're catching up aren't you?

Your studying methods and learning was most likely be on the slow side.

Your communication mode, shy.

It's not all bad… In some ways it's good. Speaking in an unhurried way may lead to others hanging on your every word.

When Mercury is retrograde, it has a heavy impression on people whose signs are ruled by Mercury, like Virgo.

It will also give a jolt to jobs regulated by Mercury; instructing, publishing, managing, and or traveling.

During a Mercury fall back intercommunication with others is often misconstrued, held up, or discombobulated.

Letters get lost in the post.

Deliveries go to the wrong office or home.

Short errands become complicated, you leave your directions at home or your car doesn't start and you don't know why.

A short jaunt over the weekend gets perplexing your flight is canceled, or your credit card won't work, making you wish you hadn't.

Want to read about the goddess of love? Move on to Venus in astrology.


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