Mercury retrograde do’s and don’ts, and the gift of slowing down
Re Mercury retrograde do’s and don’ts, don’t be caught in a traffic jam in China–9 days long and sixty miles wide, punctuated by Mercury turning retrograde on the 20th. China, as a grand work in process, says about this time: expect delays or to become aware of slow-downs or longer processes than expected.
Everywhere, from travel snafus on your vacation to going to your high school reunion the wrong week (as one of my Texas clients did, ending up in Florida in August), the tendency for this cycle to produce all manner of delays is strong. It produces great synergies and creative bursts from individuals, and fuels many partnerships, but whatever gets created has a lot of details to work out. Unfortunately, on the macro scale, the signs are showing the possibility of war.
The full moon often reveals polarity: the night of the full moon, the streets are full of people, the music is blaring out of the clubs–yet the next night, the town is deserted. This full moon ushers in a positive trend: luck can turn, breakthroughs can break through, situations can come to a head and sometimes end, but for the best.
Let the healing begin!
