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Mercury Stations Retrograde, March 15th. Mercury Retrograde is the most popular well-known fact about astrology beyond sun signs that non-astrologers think they know. But very often they don’t really get it. This may be appropriate as a planet of communications reversing direction, it’s a case of ‘think you know?... Then think again.’ Mercury is mega busy: He moves from 9° of Aries to 26° of Pisces across the 0°-degree point on the back of the Lunar Eclipse. And he visits major planets and points on the way back travelling with Venus, meeting the Sun, the North Node and Neptune and making a sextile to Pluto. That he is following in the tracks of Venus is a big deal and brings a sweetness to the wording of your conversations. More careful wording is needed as this retro might have more noticeably personal impact on people than usual. But it could also have poetic and romantic outcomes, more love letters than ever. You may just not have all the facts to hand and it’s time to do an audit, not just of the details, but what life events actually are in their essence. Words only describe experience; they are NOT the stuff of life experience itself. So, there could be a cognitive dissonance or an inversion between of words and the feelings to which they symbolically refer. Don’t be deceived that the map is the territory. It is not. Also, while changing gears and directions, a planet intensifies its impact. This drills home that it’s time for a major rethink of your life plans which are best realised later in April and May. Mercury is a living contradiction: so while he appears to slow down, he is still the wing-footed messenger boy, so communications move faster; one step back to take two steps forward. It’s a dance routine. Take more time to read all the extra letters, texts, emails and statements that need querying or further research. Ask for clarification before acting or purchasing and edit, edit, edit. He moves forward on April 8th just in time for Easter. http://©ProteusAstrology.co.uk hermes detail by William Blake Richmond (1866) #Mercury #retrograde #Venus #Neptune #theSun #NorthNode #zerodegree #communications