Mercury The Trickster

Everyone has their Mercury Retrograde horror stories! Communications go wonky. Computers misbehave. Things are lost and then found later and then lost again. Appointments get cancelled or forgotten. Wrong numbers are dialled. Delays interrupt the normal flow of things. Second thoughts lead us to doubt our decisions. Arguments erupt. The best laid plans seem to spin their wheels in the mud, and "business as usual" can be very hard to maintain. We drift off in mid-sentence and wonder what we were just... um..... you know...While Mercury is retrograde, his Trickster side comes out to cause playful but frustrating havoc! When Mercury goes retrograde, it appears to go backwards in the sky. Physically speaking, this is an optical illusion because we're observing it from Earth's perspective, but astrologically it is very significant. Any retrograde planet's energy becomes much more internalized, more intense and harder to express outwardly in a way that is direct and clear. Since Mercury is the planet of communication and mental thought, you can see how it could feel like somebody stole your brain! Just when you thought you had things figured out, along comes Mercury retrograde to spin your head around and make you feel a little nuts. Mercury is probably the most notorious of all the planets that go retrograde. It does this more often than any other planet—3 to 4 times a year, and lasting just over 3 weeks at a time....read more...