It’s time for another Mercury retrograde period.
Mercury retrograde is a wonderful opportunity to slow down the increasingly busy pace of day-to-day life and attempt to calm the restless monkey mind.
Everything Mercury-related (travel, commerce, and communication, etc.) will potentially have to be reviewed or redone when Mercury retraces his steps backward.
The retrograde period is an ideal time to be extra conscientious, patient, and attentive to details, so as to minimize misunderstandings, confusion, or other small mistakes. Mercury retrograde tends to favor right brain, non-linear creativity and has a reputation for messing with our more left brain-dominated day-to-day world.
Mercury’s job while retrograde is to uncover things that need to be repaired or redone.
It doesn’t cause problems, but rather it helps us see where we need to go back and give some extra care. There are many gifts Mercury retrograde has to offer, such as: reconnecting with people to communicate about and resolve old issues originating in the past, or reconnecting with people to communicate truths and feelings that were left unsaid in the past.
And of course, becoming aware of and fixing logistical, technical, business-related, or other glitches originating in the past.
(This is the one that can be frustrating, but the good news is that the awareness of the problem is what provides the opportunity to fix it.) Mercury retrograde is not a negative time, but rather the perfect time for a mental retreat inward. It may feel annoying to break one’s usual drive forward because of delays or issues in need of review or repair, but the retrograde period is an organic, necessary, and divine part of the eternal cycle. It can be a time of re-discovery and re-visioning, a time that balances us.
