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Retrograde Planets | Retrograde Mercury
Watch carefully how the stationing of Mercury at these degrees influences your natal chart in order to understand
the personalized impact on your life. This is an important period, and we should be aware of the effects associated
with this astrological influence. Since it is so often, we must learn what it means and how to take advantage of it.
Retrograde Planets | Astronomical background
There is no real backwards movement of Mercury, it's just that we see it this way from Earth, because of
the combined movement of the Earth and Mercury around the Sun. However, astrologically this is very relevant.
Retrograde Planets | What is Mercury retrograde?
Mercury rules over the mind's processes, studying, communication, businesses, travels and the like. When Mercury
reverses its direction, all these areas are affected as well. The mind turns naturally inwards and people tend to analyze
more the own thoughts and follow the common thinking patterns, rather then be curious and eager of new intellectual
experiences or challenges. This helps the meditation or the thorough lonely long-term study of a specific matter,
but it affects the study of new subjects, the communication with the others, the attention oriented outwards.
Businesses, travels and communications tend to experience delays and different problems. Computers and other
processes that work with information may experience crashes, unexpected failures. Don't enroll to courses, don't buy
expensive Mercurian items (books, cars, mobile phones etc.), don't sign important contracts and do not marry.
Mercury Retrograde Period
Mercury retrograde period 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.
Mercury Retrograde Period | Double-check your Agenda
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. Retrograde Mercury
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.
Mercury Retrograde Period | Uncontrollable Events
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.
Retrograde Planets | Mars Retrograde Period
Mars is the planet of energy, action, desire, sports and wars. When Mars turns to retrograde motion, the overall atmosphere
changes, people have lower physical energy, they get tired and feel stressed more easily and they need more time to relax
and recover. The mood, the desires, the initiative, the ambition, they all seem to function on a lower level and therefore all
new projects started during this period seem to lack stamina and focus.
Mars Retrograde Period | Libido decreases for a While
The same happens on the sexual level: the libido decreases for a while, but then comes back to normal after the end of this
period. All new Martian actions fail in a much higher proportion [surgical operations, starting a sport, lawsuit, war]. Also, it is
not recommended to buy mechanical stuff. As Mars is retrograde, all this Martian energy is now internalized, uncontrolled
subconscious agressivity can burst out. Instincts are not as reliable as before, so acting out of impulse is not recommended.
Mars Retrograde Period | People should Relax
The best way to use the Mars retrograde period is to make plans, to work on details and then to wait the end of this period
in order to materialize them. People should relax, study, take care of their health, do some yoga exercises or practice other
techniques that use the internal or spiritual energy. The keyword of the period is patience. One just has to wait for it to pass
in order to gets things done.
Retrograde Planets | Venus Retrograde Period
From time to time, due to the relative motion of the Earth and Venus around the Sun, as we look to the sky, Venus appears to
make a stop and go backwards. This is the so called retrograde movement, it happens every 18 months or so, and it lasts for
about 40 days, which represents 7% of the time. Of all planets, Venus is the one that has the shorter retrograde movement.
Venus Retrograde Period | Venus is the Planet of Love and Marriage
Venus is the planet of love and marriage, of relationships and diplomacy, of art and beauty, of fashion and luxury, of money
and pleasures. Going backwards, the venusian influence is diminished, disturbed or internalized, so that the above mentioned
areas are afflicted in a way or another.During this time, feelings are not easily expressed, everyone seems to need more
affection and love; also, those with relational issues will have to face the reality. The general advise is to focus on older
relationships, to try to make them work, or to understand true feelings. It will be harder to understand what others feel, though.
Venus Retrograde Period | Venus retrograde is a Good Time to buy Antiques
We may meet old friends or someone we loved or cared for a long time ago, which might reactivate old feelings, possibly
forgotten. The artistic sensibility is lower than normal or perverted, so that we might buy clothes or artwork that we'll reject
after Venus goes back to direct motion. Therefore it is advised not to buy jewelery or other similar expensive stuff, as we
might regret it later. However, Venus retrograde is a good time to buy antiques, artwork of historical value or just second-
hand art objects, if you can evaluate them correctly.
Venus Retrograde Period | Avoid Weddings during Venus Retrograde Period
Definitely to avoid during this time are weddings, opening of a fashion store, beauty salon, art gallery, launching of a women
magazine, buying expensive items of venusian nature, radical changes of the personal look, house redecorations, big parties
or other important social events, investments and so on.
Venus Retrograde Period | Contact Friends or other persons You Care About
Clean-up the house and decide which old objects of sentimental value to keep and which to throw away or sell. renegociate
a contract or a bank loan (but we shouldn't apply for a new one) discuss and clarify things in the current relationship as our
understanding on own feelings is increased, which is not true about others' feelings, requiring open and sincere communication
ask genuinely for forgiveness for our mistakes, contact friends or other persons we care about in order to continue the
relationship, develop our capability to love anyone unconditionally, by meditations, prayers and other spiritual activities.
