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General : Mercury Retrogrades in 2006
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From: MSN NicknameLadyMajykWhisperingOwl  (Original Message)Sent: 11/24/2005 1:03 AM
Mercury Retrogrades in 2006

Mercury Retrogrades in 2006

March 2, 2006 Mercury turns retrograde at 26° Pisces
March 25, 2006 Mercury turns direct at 13° Pisces

July 4, 2006 Mercury turns retrograde at 1° Leo
July 29, 2006 Mercury turns direct at 21° Cancer

October 28, 2006 Mercury turns retrograde at 25° Scorpio
November 18, 2006 Mercury turns direct at 9° Scorpio

The Mercury retrogrades of 2006 are in the Water signs of Piscsses, Cancer and Scorpio . The middle Mercury retrograde of 2006 touches into the fire sign of Leo, then retrogrades back into the water sign of Cancer, so there will be a need to look below the surface of situations into our home environment and revise our sense of security.

Part of the theme, obviously, for the EIGHT year of 2006, emphasizes the outer realms of tasks, projects and dealings in our busienss world.

Pisces represents our inner sense of Self, so the first Mercury retrograde will push us to look beyond the physical to determine our value and matrix of definitions as seen through our inner self.

Cancer represents our home, family and emotional self, so the second Mercury retrograde will review our connection with people close to us and our emotions surrounding our family.

Scorpio represents our deeper sense of power and motives and alignes our inner and outer goals with our philosophy. Scorpio requires that we take a closer look to understand what truly is within. This being the last mercury retrograde of 2006 opens the door to grab hold of something of substance and that capsules our beliefs and bring this out into the world of career, business and literally bring our inner beliefs to the outer world in one way or another.


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From: MSN NicknameLadyMajykWhisperingOwlSent: 7/11/2006 11:52 PM

MERCURY RETROGRADE

What and what not to do.
Knowing what to do-and not to do-is one of the more important astrological skills you can develop. Mercury retrograde is a very powerful key for this and well worth understanding. Knowing its effects and the timing of its yearly cycles can save you time and money as well as a vast amount of personal frustration. Also, knowing the basics of its retrograde effect on your spiritual life can offer a highly favorable opportunity to further your own personal spiritual growth.

But, what exactly is retrograde? The planets travel around the Sun in large elliptical orbits. Because we are not observing from the center of the solar system, from our perspective, the planets seen during a retrograde appear to be moving backward. But, in actuality, they are still moving forward. It's sort of like when you're passing another car on the freeway. From your perspective, the car you pass is moving backward. But, in reality, you are both moving forward. It's just that you are moving forward faster than the other car. When this occurs with planets, they are said to be in retrograde motion.

When a planet appears to slow down, then stops (make a station or becomes stationary) and begins its apparent backward movement, the energy that it normally governs lessens. Thus, anything that is driven by its energy field is affected. From this concept of an energy shortage due to a reverse planetary motion, the Mercury retrograde phenomenon is born.
Mercury governs logic. Anything that is influenced or driven by logic comes entirely under the influence of Mercury's energy. This includes such things as written and verbal communication between people, daily schedules, contracts (including marriage), the mechanics of motion (such as walking) and all mechanical items such as automobiles, appliances, and computers. Mercury influences anything that has a logical or mechanical component.

When it goes retrograde and its power output is reduced to a mere trickle, everything that comes under Mercury's rulership becomes disrupted. This retrograde situation occurs about three-and-a-half times a year. And each time Mercury goes retrograde, it will maintain its reverse direction causing an almost complete power shutdown for about three weeks. Then the planet finally "goes direct" and its energy output is again switched into the high position.

Mercury retrograde creates a tri-annual mine field containing all of these commonly accepted unpleasant features from which the bad rap of Mercury retrograde is born and perpetuated: wide-spread bad vibes, rampant pessimism, defeatism, paralysis of action, generalized negative thinking, deflections, distractions, overlooking the obvious while focusing on the irrelevant, overreaching, overreacting, the collapse of logical plans, and putting the cart before the horse.

The following events all seem to be present in abundance during retrograde: plans falls apart, scheduled appointments are not met, people become argumentative, cancellations occur, letters are late, people say rude things to each other, and people who try to say non-rude things become misunderstood. Contracts signed during Mercury retrograde will not produce the expected outcome.

Mercury retrograde in and of itself does not and never will create a problem: expectations do-expectations that the world will move forward normally. Whether you like it or not, things are not "normal" during retrogrades.

There are however many important, meaningful, and productive things you can do. In fact, these things are best performed during a retrograde. Like hypothermia where the limited amount of heat available is forced into the vital organs of the body, during a Mercury energy outage, your energy body (aura) has learned to force all the remaining Mercurial energy into the vital parts of your aura. As a result, it becomes the ideal time for daydreaming and introspection. This is the key to the extremely beneficial nature of the cycle. One side note about this introspection (inward focus) is that it can happen at inopportune times, for example while driving a car. Extra care needs to be taken while driving so that daydreaming does not cause an accident due to inattention on the outside world.

During a retrograde you can cogitate, review, and mull over things for a full three weeks. But don't take any actions or make decisions until Mercury goes direct! This is the perfect time for reorganizing data and toying with possible new applications. Create a list of new options but make no final decisions.

It can prove to be a very quiet and restful period. After all, you won't be starting anything new or making any decision for a while. It's a period when unusual points of view in all areas of life will come forward to you and prove meaningful. This makes it an ideal time for researching anything. Also, like a void-of-course Moon, you won't have to look too far to find loose ends. Things that had been left undone at other times will pop up. The retrograde is an excellent "catch up" period.

In summary, it's a good time to finish up old business, reflect on things in a new way, do research and gather data from which new perspectives can be developed. Once Mercury goes direct, you will have gained fresh insights that will enable you to make decisions and take steps for improvement. There is no other astrological period that is more favorable or suitable for this.


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From: MSN NicknameLadyMajykWhisperingOwlSent: 5/14/2008 9:34 PM

Mercury Retrograde

What does it mean and how does it impact you?

Mercury retrograde provides the opportunity to adjust our thoughts, attitudes and decisions about our issues and adjust our new direction as 2008 evolves. The adjustments of Mercury retrograde occurs three times a year and become similar to a course correction during the flight from one destination to another. The adjustments that occur during Mercury retrograde typically have a theme that occurs all year long, shown by the elements of the signs affected. In 2008 the adjustments that are slated to occur during the retrogrades are in Air signs. Thus these Mercury retrogrades will impact our throughts, ideas, decisisions and attitudes about specific events and choices we are reviewing.

The purpose of Mercury retrograde is to review and revise our life and our connection with reality. The timing of this universe is geared toward the Sun as it moves through the zodiac. Mercury has an orbit that at times gets ahead of the Sun allowing us to look into the future toward new and innovative ideas. However, we cannot continue in that vein until we come back to the present designated by the Sun and put our new ideas into manifestation. During the time that Mercury jumps ahead, we ultimately have to bring the ideas back into the present to test and evaluate to see how they fit into our life. As Mercury retrogrades back into the present, the connection with the Sun happens as we test drive our ideas and re-align with reality and the natural timing of the universe.


The Mercury retrogrades that are occurring this year (2008) provide the opportunities for us to make mental adjustments about decisions we have as our goals, aspirations that are our focus during the ONE year of 2008. Because we are making decisions about our NEW journey, new endeavors, new goals, the events during the Mercury retrograde time frames help us to veer away from the past and take bold steps into our new future. . These adjustments will be very necessary as they allow us to make major changes, emphasizing our bold and innovative choices.

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Mercury Retrogrades for 2008

In 2008, Mercury retrogrades three times, all in air signs, which means that we will be changing and adjusting our thinking and thought process. Because 2008 is universally a ONE year (in numerology), this Mercury retrograde process becomes important in the major adjustments as we move into our new beginnings and shift into our new outer journey toward. Mercury retrograde provides the opportunity to adjust our thoughts, attitudes and communications about our direction. The adjustments that are slated to occur in 2008 are in air signs, Aquarius (in Jan/Feb), Gemini (in May/June), and Libra (in Sept/Oct).


These air signs of the zodiac and relates to our mental status and the inner attitude we carry with us. With all air signs, ruling thoughts, attitudes and communication, we are focused on being social, as Aquarius rules humanity, Libra rules partnership and Gemini rules day to day encounters with others. This energy will impact our new beginnings and the different people we are aligning with and moving forward with. We can begin to see how we share our ideas with others and that during a Mercury retrograde, and especially in 2008, we will be communicating with others as if we are at some social gala during each of these mercury retrograde times.


The Mercury retrogrades that are occurring this year provide the opportunities for us to bring forward new and different ideas and talk with others that are also interested in pursuing these new directions. With 2008 being a ONE year, we can bet that the mercury retrograde in air signs will have a huge impact on different ideas, different forms of communication and a whole new innovative movement turning our world into a new and different direction. Inventions, innovative designs and major idea changes will come about to make major adjustments during this time. The changes, revisions and adjustments that occur during these Mercury retrograde time frames will have a major impact in events of humanity, relationships with others and strong, bold new ideas being born.


Because Mercury itself rules AIR signs, especially Gemini, (and the analytical part of Virgo) we will be adjusting everything related to thoughts, concepts, ideas, and communication. When Mercury retrogrades, we find that many parts of our life are being revised. Often these revisions can be a surprise or throw us back a step. However, these revisions which occur during a Mercury retrograde, are a "course correction" and provide a stop gap measure until we can review situations. During this time of revision, change is compounded and confusion is created by our reactions to the ever-changing situations. Thus anything started during this time will ultimately be taken back or even revised further, making for a high-frustration time. This will be especially true with changing our minds, reviewing new ideas and our communication being improved and honed so not to be mis-understood.


The best mode to be in during a Mercury retrograde is one of "non-reaction", and with air signs being impacts, things will be changing continually during a Mercury retrograde Treat the time period as a time of gathering information, yet because the information will be in constant change it would be like trying to comb your hair in a wind storm. Best to wait until the changes stop before attempting to make things orderly. Therefore, just let the winds of situations blow around you without reacting. Once Mercury turns direct, take a look at the information that is still around at that time and go about putting everything in order, while maintaining the fine art of flexibility.


How the different Mercury retrogrades will impact you, can be viewed by the different graphics below (soon to come) that summarize and list the details for Mercury Retrogrades coming up in 2008. The detailed look at each of the Mercury Retrogrades occurring in 2008, will provide the impact on each individual.


Mercury turns retrograde January 28th at 24Ã'° Aquarius
Mercury turns direct February 19th at 8Ã'° Aquarius


Mercury turns retrograde May 26th at 21Ã'° Gemini
Mercury turns direct June 19th at 12Ã'° Gemini


Mercury turns retrograde September 24th at 22Ã'° Libra
Mercury turns direct October 15th at 7Ã'° Libra

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Mercury Retrogrades for 2009

In 2009, Mercury retrogrades four times, starting the retrograde in air signs then going back into earth signs. The change in mental attitudes, information and perceptions are going to go back to review the earth aspects, which means that we will be changing and adjusting our thinking and re-organizing an important area of our life. Because 2009is universally a TWO year (in numerology), this Mercury retrograde process becomes important in the major adjustments as we move into relationships and shifting our journey with others coming and others going. Partnerships in different areas of our lives become the theme and the area of adjustments all the way through 2009. Important to our new journey are those that share a common path, we can walk along the road together toward specific goals, accomplishments and purpose. Mercury retrograde provides the opportunity to adjust our thoughts, attitudes and communications about our direction. The adjustments that are slated to occur in 2009 are in air signs and then changing to only earth signs; Aquarius/Capricorn (in Jan/Feb), Gemini/Taurus (in May), and Libra/Virgo (in Sept), At the end of 2009 with Mercury retrograde occurs from December 26th through January 15th and is completely in the earth sign of Capricorn. This transitions into the remaining retrogrades of 2010 to impact only the earth signs of Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn.

The fact that the retrogrades impact both air and earth signs of the zodiac focuses on the outer world and accomplishments, but also in the air sign issues of mental attributes, attitudes and information. The fact is that these areas of Career, Money and Health are changing as we retrograde back to deal with specific earth issues. Our attitude toward Career, Money and Health are very important and very key to the retrograde phases of 2009. Our thoughts, attitudes and communications are changing and we are adjusting the focus in our life about these areas, to bring important building blocks to the earth signs, and our mental attitude surrounding these building blocks may adjust the approach and people that we talk with about these areas. The energy that we share with others will impact our relationships and the different people we align with create different scenarios as we move forward. We can begin to see how we share our ideas with others and that during a Mercury retrograde, and especially in 2009, we will be adjusting specific aspects of our life and adjusting our thoughts, attitudes and communication about the specific areas of career, money and health.

The Mercury retrogrades occurring this year provide the opportunities for us to bring forward new and different ideas and talk with others that are also interested in pursuing these new directions. With 2009 being a TWO year, we can bet that the mercury retrogrades will have a huge impact on our ideas, communication and the relationships we have been building. A whole new innovative movement will occur, turning our world into a new and different direction. Our thoughts, ideas and relationships are geared toward the Jupiter, Neptune, Chiron issues of Humanity. Inventions, innovative designs and major idea changes will come about to make major adjustments during this time. The changes, revisions and adjustments that occur during these Mercury retrograde time frames will have a major impact in events of humanity, relationships with others as strong, inventions and bold new ideas are being born.

Because Mercury itself rules the AIR sign of Gemini and the analytical part of Virgo, we will be adjust everything related to thoughts, concepts, ideas, and communication. When Mercury retrogrades, we find that many parts of our life are being revised. Often these revisions can be a surprise or throw us back a step. However, these revisions which occur during a Mercury retrograde, are a "course correction" and provide a stop gap measure until we can review situations. During this time of revision, change is compounded and confusion is created by our reactions to the ever-changing situations. Thus anything started during this time will ultimately be taken back or even revised further, making for a high-frustration time. This will be especially true with changing our minds, reviewing new ideas and our communication being improved and honed so not to be mis-understood.

The best mode to be in during a Mercury retrograde is one of "non-reaction", and with air signs being impacts, things will be changing continually during a Mercury retrograde Treat the time period as a time of gathering information, yet because the information will be in constant change it would be like trying to comb your hair in a wind storm. Best to wait until the changes stop before attempting to make things orderly. Therefore, just let the winds of situations blow around you without reacting. Once Mercury turns direct, take a look at the information that is still around at that time and go about putting everything in order, while maintaining the fine art of flexibility.

Click on the graphic below to the Summary List of the Mercury Retrogrades coming up in 2009, as well as a more detailed look at each of the <B>Mercury Retrogrades occurring in 2009, starting with the one that begins in early Jan 2009.

Mercury turns retrograde January 11th, 2009 8Ã'° Aquarius
Mercury turns direct February 1st, 2009 at 21Ã'° Capricorn

Mercury turns retrograde May 7th, 2009 at 2Ã'° Gemini
Mercury turns direct May 31st, 2009 at 22Ã'° Taurus

Mercury turns retrograde September 7th, 2009 at 6Ã'° Libra
Mercury turns direct September 29th, 2009 at 21Ã'° Virgo

Mercury turns retrograde December 26th, 2009 at 21Ã'° Capricorn
Mercury turns direct January 15th, 2010 at 5Ã'° Capricorn