Retrograde Mercury has a bad rap. There’s no planet or sign or astrological chart that’s good or bad. There’s a positive and negative side of everything, everyone in life. It’s all how you choose to work with it.
Personally, I look forward to Mercury retrograde, because it’s MY TIME! I can get off the wheel and allow myself to catch up on personal matters.
Over the years I’ve noticed people seem to have more breakdowns (physical, mental, emotional), accidents, arguments, drama, easily stressed out during the retrograde Mercury period. There’s no balance in our lives; more and more we are driven to accomplish in our external lives while we neglect our inner, personal needs. I’m suggesting life would not be so difficult, if we observed the order of the cosmos. There’s a time for all things. Mercury retrograde is a time to kick back. Reflect on and learn from past experiences. Let go and go with the flow of things - unplug.
Mercury generally travels in retrograde motion 3 times a year, for intervals of roughly one month. Since you shouldn’t try to forge ahead in your outer, external life, (like buying cars, houses, starting businesses or new jobs, signing contracts, etc.), what can you do?
The following is a list I’ve put together, certainly not complete, but a few ideas:
1. Develop inner goals. Focus on physical, mental, spiritual self-improvement. Attend a spiritual retreat, satsang, pilgrimage. Begin therapies, programs to help break bad habits. Allow more time to practice exercise regimens.
2. Study or research. Read. Start a personal journal or scrapbook.
3. Selling (especially getting rid of stuff you don’t value anymore, like a great time to have a yard sale).
4. Develop psychic or healing abilities - mystical experiences, psychic healings usually occur when Mercury is in retrograde.
5. Reunions - looking up old friends, family, acquaintances, lovers.
6. Discoveries - finding items you’ve lost and forgotten about, resolving old issues, finding out the truth of a matter.
7. Art or any creative endeavor - this is the time when you can find new inspiration and will make most headway developing creative projects.
8. Making repairs and doing things over again like re-taking a test, re-painting a room or refinishing a bookcase or restoring an antique.
9. Vacation - party.
10. Counting your blessings - contemplating the wonders of life.
MERCURY TURNS RETROGRADE FEBRUARY 16, 2020 @ 7:54 P.M. EST - 13-DEGREES PISCES
MERCURY TURNS DIRECT MARCH 9, 2020 @ 11:49 P.M. EDT - 28-DEGREES AQUARIUS
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