Mercury is in retrograde again, which apparently means that communication will be muddled, electronics will go wacky, and various other yucks will happen. This is supposed to last until the second week of March.
On February 14, 2007, Mercury, the cosmic trickster, turns retrograde in Pisces, the sign of the Fishes, sending communications, travel, appointments, mail and the www into a general snarlup! This awkward period begins a few days before the actual turning point (as Mercury slows) and lasts for three weeks or so, until March 8, when the Winged Messenger reaches his direct station. At this time he halts and begins his return to direct motion through the zodiac.
Ugh.
What is this Mercury retrograde period good for?
It is definitely a very good period for some actions. No time is completely bad for anything, there is a reason in everything happens.
The key is the reversed direction of movement: take any known Mercurian action, reverse its flow, consider the keywords “re-doing something”, “double-checking”, “finish the old projects” and there you are, you’ve found the good side of Mercury retrograde.
For instance, you may want to read again a book you particularly liked, a subject you studied before, meet and discuss with old friends you haven’t met for a long time, travel to places you’ve already been to before.
This is an excellent time to work on old projects that never got to be finished. So, think about the things you started and never finalized.
Next, you might wish to prevent any bad things to happen to you: so double-check your agenda, call your business partners to confirm that everything goes as planned, have everything ready before the deadline and leave some extra time for unexpected events. Make copies of your important files and documents, save your work more often.
The other solution is to go on vacation or at least slow down the pace of your projects. You will find that going slowly during the Mercury retrograde period will spare you many efforts of redoing the same action that wasn’t performed right the first time.
Above all, be generous and compassionate: you are already aware about the influence of this period, but the others aren’t aware of it or there may be uncontrollable events. That’s why you should have more diligence with the others and give them some more time. It’ll be your mental health that you’ll be sparing actually.
Ha! I’m finishing old projects. How perfect.
by Charlene February 18th, 2007 at 6:53 pmThis is tooooo funny! I sent my submission to the SOM contest and it didn’t go through. hahaha
Now the dog better not eat my iPod again.
by Dana Pollard February 19th, 2007 at 3:47 pmOh, and my doctor appointment today was at 9, not 10. They worked me in.
by Dana Pollard February 19th, 2007 at 3:47 pmHi Sylvia.
I always find Mercury retrograde is good for revisions, which proved true last week. This week, I’m happy to not have much writing at all to have to deal with.
Just blogging and sewing. 
Sam
by Samantha Hunter February 19th, 2007 at 5:35 pm