There are many things that are favored while Mercury is retrograde, despite the general opinion that it leads to massive confusion, miscommunication, and things going everywhere and nowhere all at once. Usually the week just before and after the beginning of the period is most difficult for people, and yet if you know how to adjust your sense of timing, you'll see things fall into place in ways you never suspected........
during a Mercury retrograde period we all know we're NOT supposed to sign contracts, make purchases of electronics, make major moves or decisions, and are supposed to hang out with the energies, seeing that things may not be as they appear, and so on. That said, there are many things that a Mercury retrograde period is good for, such as traveling. I have found that as long as one is flexible, retrograde travel is actually a good thing.
Also favored are research, reflection, review, rehearsals, and returns from the past. It's also a great time for reconnecting with old friends, finding people and things thought lost, It's a great time to explore possibilities, as long as no definitive decisions are made, since they are usually modified or reversed later on.
It's a good time for doing things left undone, or neglected, from previous times. It's good for resuming something from the past, as long as you remember that it may not look like it used to, or requires a different approach than before. It's also good for doing things that fill in gaps in understanding or activity, or for doing things that seem to go in one direction but lead you to entirely new information and understanding.
It's a good time for resuming things begun in previous retrograde periods, or for picking up threads that had to be set aside while other things developed. It usually indicates a time when you need to be able to build in a time lag with whatever you're doing, since retrogrades often show that there are things yet to develop that will ultimately fill in whatever is missing in the present.
In my book, "A New Look At Mercury Retrograde," I included a chapter on Mercury retrograde in the signs. Obviously what sign Mercury retrogrades through makes a huge amount of difference in what is appropriate during that period. Since it is retrograde in Cancer, I'll offer you some possible manifestations of what we may expect, regardless of what Sun sign we are or which house(s) it moves through in our individual chart. This article outlines what to expect concerning which house it transits in your chart. That said, here's a bit about Mercury retrograde in Cancer from the book.
In Cancer, Mercury's energies slow down to rethink in a sensitive, receptive, adaptive mode. The inward turned feeling-dominated mind tests all ideas and evaluates them to see if they bring greater or lesser feelings of security. There is a solving of puzzles and all that can be picked apart. This position uses feelings to communicate as well as using ideas about unsuspected needs. There is a caring communication style able to touch others deeply, and a sensitivity to what others are feeling, even if it cannot be expressed.
This position understands other's survival issues. Here there is an ability to express a sympathetic view because of seeing situations as another would, or seeing into another's subconscious. This position indicates an instinctive mental sympathy with others, with the ability to absorb unusual ideas in order to anticipate needs for future times and situations.
Mercury in Cancer is in its own 2nd sign. Here feeling values itself as a way of confirming what it can draw on, especially to fulfill an immediate need. This position seeks mental substance to further a sense of definiteness, and examines matter's source. It knows the immediate need and communicates that knowledge indirectly, or in terms of another's feeling-based point of view.
It is also in its own 11th sign, indicating that the goal of all ideas is to fulfill some need. Mercury retrograde in Cancer gives the desire to provide nourishment within a group situation. Knowledge comes from need fulfillment; knowledge also comes from offering what you preserve from the past in a caring and sympathetic way.
The coming three weeks will be a good time to harvest the best of what has emerged in your life in the past few months, and search for the mystery of what decisions you've made and why. Let go of insecurity, neediness, clutching, and defensiveness. Do not allow your mind to wander off into a self-absorbed echo chamber or house of mirrors. Your instincts will be very up, but beware of misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and egocentricity.
Which brings us full circle to something I said in the second paragraph: Hang out with the energies and information, pay attention to details while remembering that a lot of it won't make sense for several weeks or months, and don't believe everything you're told. It will be a great time to review recent decisions, and rework your habits and need-fulfillment systems.
Don't clutch, open to the new that's already in motion, take time to be comfortable inside your own skin, get in touch with your needs, change your habits accordingly, and don't allow discontent or nervous reactivity mess up what should be an inspired time. And of course, be willing to sacrifice old ways of life that no longer serve the need of your life or the times.
More on the influence of the June-July 2007 Mercury retrograde in Cancer can be found in this article covering its overall meaning. Part 2 offers more insights about Mercury Retrograde Astrology in June-July 2007 Pt. 2 - What It Means For Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces, while to repeat an earlier link, How Mercury Retrograde Affects Us In The Different Houses will help you understand its influences based in what house in your chart it is retrograde.
© Copyright 2007 Robert Wilkinson
Reading thru the info above I am quite *gob-smacked* as I will be traveling in this period and there will be a lot of remembering, re-connecting and I am already in the retrospective frame of mind LOL
On other levels it has been a good week, I got one day's work and the promise of another 1 or 2 next week, Dave is coming to collect and pay for the shrug I have made for Jo - for those curious you can see latest *creations* at Crochet Crook
Another tie in as I realise that I have picked up some old work of mine and found a great use for it - I had crocheted some rectangles from oddments and then put them aside as I wasn't sure what to do with them, Lau said make em into bags which I did with one, but still wasn't too inspired - now they have become *baccy wrappers* hehehehe, [pics will appear soon at Crochet Crook] this has led me onto belt bags, just big enough for passport, small pennies purse and if so inclined you baccy n lighter.
I got gifts from Eli yesterday 2 dvd's with many yummy things ad a cd of great and varied music, oh and some amazing *incense papers* that come from France to know more check out their site papier d'armenie
so I have contacted them to see if I can buy direct, I know a few others who would like them also.
Another interesting Site sent to me from Eli this morning is the Human Design Centre oops soz Center US spelling LOL, worth a quick peek, I was looking through the analysists & found one in my old home county town of Dumfriesshire, mmmmmm, now there's *coincidence* [if you believe in 'em] - anyway as per usual all fodder for thought, keep the grey matter exercised :)
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