a head's up is in order, because this upcoming mercury retrograde is going to be one for the books! honestly the astrology this year is over the top to begin with- so why shouldn't the first mercury retrograde of the infamous year 2012 follow suit? ;)
the reason this mercury retrograde is so potent is threefold: first of all mercury will go retrograde in the sign of aries while the ruler of aries, mars, is currently retrograde in virgo- one of mercury's two home signs (the other is gemini). so we have a mutual reception going on between two retrograde planets. retrogrades take the energy inward and down. they are less tuned into outward, rational expression and are more tuned into inner experience and that which is illogical and irrational. mercury naturally likes things to be rational and logical (he rules the mind) and in aries he wants things straightforward and action-oriented, but with both mercury and mars both retrograde things will be anything but. i get an image of a ra...
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