The very first thing you can do on a Mercury cycle is treat big statements and life-changing news as questionable. This may not be the whole story, or the end of the story!
It's that time again. Mercury, the planet which rules communication, transport, information and travel is about to move backwards. Of course, he doesn't literally do this. But when he appears to slide backwards and forwards, so do our lives.
Much as I'd love this flakey cycle to start later and end earlier, it just isn't true. We have to count the shadows with Mercury and that means February as a whole is not a normal month.
Phones, media, the internet, the post. Three times a year, Mercury – the planet which rules information, communication and transportation – appears to go backwards.
Mercury Retrograde does not mean the sky falls on your head. But nor should any astrologer trivialise the chaos that can be caused. The story of RMS Titanic is a case in point.
What does Venus Retrograde in Scorpio mean in astrology? The planet of complicated relationships is going backwards and forwards in the sign that rules sex and money, but how does it affect you?
It's Mercury Recovery time...were you personally affected by the strange Leo weather in July, August and early September? Mercury the planet of communication and information was going backwards - and the eclipses and Node did the rest. Now for the good news!
What is Mercury Retroshade, the term created by the Astro Twins which has gone viral? It's Mercury Retrograde Shadow. How does it work in your personal birth horoscope? Read on. Mercury Retroshade 2018, 2019 is worth tracking!
One way to think about the Transit of Mercury is that it is the Mother of all Mercury Retrogrades. It always falls in Taurus or Scorpio, the money signs.
When the planet which rules the internet, telephones, travel, transport, computers and the mail goes backwards, so do our lives. We get stuck. Things slow down or reverse.