will this be better or worst?
Here we go again... Mercury goes retrograde once again. It
happens 3 times a year and it lasts for about 3 weeks. This time is
from May 27 to June 19, 2008. Then from September 24 to October 15,
2008 and then from January 11, 2009 to February 1, 2009.
Stationing degrees: 21Gem32 and 12Gem58. Watch carefully how the
stationing of Mercury at these degrees influences your natal chart
in order to understand the personalized impact on your life.
This is an important period, and we should be aware of the
effects associated with this astrological influence. Since it is so
often, we must learn what it means and how to take advantage of
it.
There is no real backwards movement of Mercury; it's just that
we see it this way from Earth, because of the combined movement of
the Earth and Mercury around the Sun. However, astrologically this
is very relevant.
Mercury rules over the mind's processes, studying,
communication, businesses, travels and the like. When Mercury
reverses its direction, all these areas are affected as well.
The mind turns naturally inwards and people tend to analyze more
the own thoughts and follow the common thinking patterns, rather
then be curious and eager of new intellectual experiences or
challenges. This helps the meditation or the thorough lonely
long-term study of a specific matter, but it affects the study of
new subjects, the communication with the others, the attention
oriented outwards.
Businesses, travels and communications tend to experience delays
and different problems. Computers and other processes that work
with information may experience crashes, unexpected failures.
Don't enroll to courses, don't buy expensive Mercurian items
(books, cars, mobile phones etc.), don't sign important contracts
and do not marry.
It is definitely a very good period for some actions. No time is
completely bad for anything, there is a reason in everything
happens.
The key is the reversed direction of movement: take any known
Mercurian action, reverse its flow, consider the keywords "re-doing
something", "double-checking", "finish the old projects" and there
you are, you've found the good side of Mercury retrograde.
For instance, you may want to read again a book you particularly
liked, a subject you studied before, meet and discuss with old
friends you haven't met for a long time, travel to places you've
already been to before.
This is an excellent time to work on old projects that never got
to be finished. So, think about the things you started and never
finalized.
Next, you might wish to prevent any bad things to happen to you:
so double-check your agenda, call your business partners to confirm
that everything goes as planned, have everything ready before the
deadline and leave some extra time for unexpected events. Make
copies of your important files and documents, save your work more
often.
The other solution is to go on vacation or at least slow down
the pace of your projects. You will find that going slowly during
the Mercury retrograde period will spare you many efforts of
redoing the same action that wasn't performed right the first
time.
Above all, be generous and compassionate: you are already aware
about the influence of this period, but the others aren't aware of
it or there may be uncontrollable events. That's why you should
have more diligence with the others and give them some more time.
It'll be your mental health that you'll be sparing actually.
