Mercury going retrograde is one of astrologers’ favorite things to broadcast! It seems that Mercury retrograde season has the reputation as being a hindrance rather than an opportunity!
I am hereby making good on my claim from my April panel (about the last time Mercury was retrograde) to become Mercury Retrograde’s new PR Manager. It gets a bad rap! Even if it is doing something TO us (which it isn’t), we need to get our adulting pants on and work with it! Would you go outside in a tornado if you didn’t want to get blown away? I hope the answer to that is NO!
First, retrograde is a term applied to a celestial body that APPEARS to be moving in a backward motion or in reverse. It is actually not going backwards; it just appears to be moving backwards. Retrograde season is for slowing down and reflecting and making sure we are into the details of what we do, especially our communication, since that is the area of life that Mercury rules…thinking and communication.
Mercury is in Libra now. Libra is an Air sign, so Mercury likes it there. We communicate through air. Air is what allows man to communicate to the way it does…air rushing from our lungs over our vocal cords, through our mouths, over our teeth and lips to form what we call words. Mercury is in the zodiac sign of Adam, the first man. So…
We can use words now to go back to the ‘beginning’ of a situation and start the healing process. Go back and correct the places in our lives where maybe we used our words negatively, whether we meant to or not. They were our words. We would do well to take responsibility for them. Even if we only imagine the situation going differently, different words being spoken…there is healing.
We have until October 2 to take advantage of the gift of Mercury Retrograde! Mercury will go retrograde again on December 28 this year in Saggitarius. Saggitarius energy is very expansive and far-reaching and tends to be rather direct. It acts like there is no filter between the brain and the speech. So, now is the time to practice paying attention to how we communicate while Mercury is in tactful, diplomatic, people pleasing energy. Sagittarius’ nature is none of that! Its energy can also be helpful. Thing is not everyone appreciates what Saggitarius energy thinks is helpful!
Until then, Happy Practicing! and may all your i’s be crossed and your t’s be dotted! Wait a minute, is that right? Ohhh, you know what I mean!
All the Best, with Love and Care,
Michal Donna
Michal Donna Astrology 