Here we go again... Mercury goes retrograde once again.

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Here

we go again... Mercury goes retrograde once again. It happens 3 times a

year and it lasts for about 3 weeks. This time is from May 27 to June

19, 2008. Then from September 24 to October 15, 2008 and then from

January 11, 2009 to February 1, 2009. Stationing

degrees: 21Gem32 and 12Gem58. 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. 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. General influence of 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. What is this Mercury retrograde period good for? It

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. 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. This 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. 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. http://www.astrologyweekly.com/astrology-articles/mercury-retrograde.php