Christmas-New Year Planning ’23-’24!
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The 2018 UMass Student Farm crew, having fun and working hard! Sagittarius is learning; Capricorn is experiential! The UMass Student Farm is a great success! Happy students are fast learners! Sustainable Food & Farming!
► The significance of this Retrograde is to powerfully transition Pluto from Capricorn to Aquarius. The entire cycle ends the very day Pluto returns to Aquarius! Background context… The whole holiday RX cycle is while Pluto has retrograded from Aquarius back into Capricorn. Some old things aren’t finished yet. Some need updating and tweaking to make it all work in the future. Pluto feels a bit more at home, and is remembering good things to be kept and brought forward into new times, thinks about how to incorporate them in his future. Strengthening everything Aquarius continues to be essential since Pluto is still preparing for that 20-21 Aquarian years to come. Pluto returns to Aquarius Jan 20, 2024.
This last of 2023 Mercury retrograde cycles, first of 2024, starts adding Fire to the mix. We will need that cheerful warmth as Pluto moves into Air sign Aquarius. Sagittarius calls us to brainstorm, collaborate, learn of the new Aquarian ways. We will go forward and double back to see matters from both directions and the wide angle lens of Sag! Some things will be funny and fun! Happy handshakes all around!The strength of Capricorn takes us right into the thick of things and the building continues! The Goat is wire strong, the one with the high mountain rocky views. They have extraordinary agility traversing dangerous territory in often dramatic weather conditions. They are smart. Human goats have a knowing about them, are the best at business, conserve energy and don’t waste time. They are phenomenal architects and they build to last, are super talented renovators naturally skilled at remediation. We will be needing them. 2023 is the beginning of further revelations to come! It will present options never thought of before. All will be called on to sort things out, move steadily forward.Two signs. Mercury at 22 Sagittarius starts the cycle, making plans, expanding everything, inspiring hope! Mercury moves up to 8 Capricorn, stations there for 8 days, retrogrades Dec 12. At this point, Capricorn is very important as Pluto is back in Capricorn finishing his first retrograde back from Aquarius. Mercury in Capricorn builds our mental skills, puts us to artisanal work using our hands. Mindful attention, responsible communications are emphasized. Historical guidelines can be helpful. Renovation and remedial skills are valuable – but be a bit cautious during retrogrades since changes will undoubtedly occur. When changes are made, date and everybody signs. Generally there is no waste of time or materials, but better prices may be found four days after New Year. Mercury maintains the client lists, sends birthday remembrances to them and loved ones. Thanks to long time clients there are invitations to timely special events, awards, and sales. Optimistic and fun loving Sagittarius keeps Capricorn reminded of their happy plans, keep everyone’s minds on the big plan, to gleefully leap like a Centaur over any obstacles! With the Sag keen eyes and the Capricorn fix-anything ability, together we can do this! All of it!
Mercury goes back to 22 Sagittarius, turns forward 1.1.2024, stations for eight days, finishes the entire cycle Jan 20! Well done!
When I say cycle, I mean they start into the degrees they will cover, that they will go back over when retrograde. The third part of the cycle is when they go forward over the same degrees the third time. Three chances!
Important Retrograde Direct Stations!
Stations are important because, for example, Mercury hovers for 8 days at a degree or less of the retrograde position! There is time to focus, take it in, think it over, anchor the good stuff. See more!
Both of Virgo’s summer Mercury retrograde stations activate the same degrees of the stations in this retrograde. The previous 8-23 Rx station will be activating the Jan 1 22° Sagittarius direct station. The previous 9-15 direct station degree activates the Rx 8 Capricorn degree of this one! Those of you with 8 and 22° factors in your charts will be activated again but from different signs.
More: Mercury’s Aug 23, 2023 Rx station was at 21 Virgo 51 was almost at 22°. The Jan 1, 2024, New Year Mercury Direct is at 22 Sagittarius 10, and the Nov 25 2024 RX is 22 Sag 40. Granted this is a wide spread of dates, but nevertheless, some things that Virgo set up this summer/fall will be questioned and updated. Sagittarian educational matters may be the priority. They will have life importance to your future. What to study, which school, with whom. Virgo is always learning, often the trainer, mentor, master crafts person. Sagittarius is higher education, the professor, the university. Our Summer/Fall decisions will affect end of ’23/New Year 2024 and Nov ’24 choices. New Year 2024 choices will carry through Nov 2024 to be considered again before going into 2025. You can see how import the decisions this summer and Jan 1 will become.
If your chart is connected, expect lots of unexpected changes – that’s what retrogrades do. Have your support team set up for calls to help you at tough times or to share the excitement of the great times! Have backup plans mapped out just in case. Arrange advance extra funding in case you need it.
Sagittarius is a BIG spender, and Capricorn wants to be tops, but is willing to compromise at times to come in on budget or on time. He is a tough negotiator and gets excellent prices on materials. Sag wants a temple of renown, regal, grand and glorious. Cap is realistic but if has no budget or time limit, will build the finest, of uncompromising awesome award winning design! Both Sag and Cap enjoy a superlative view.
Mercury in Sagittarius wants educational opportunities for all at every level. Due to their traveling inclinations, studies of foreign cultures and philosophies can be great for increasing international business, import/export, travel businesses, get best prices on materials from other continents, incorporate learning techniques from all over the world. Mercury in Capricorn encourages business schools and hands on technical training, special studies with old masters of the trade. They can deal with time-saving equipment, make more sustainable living conditions especially in highlands, cold areas, secure quality housing for seniors. They are experts with boundaries, fencing, gateways, stonework. They help with making laws that protect us.
Relationships?
Depending on the sign, some Retrogrades are pretty tough on relationships formed initially during a RX. Sagittarius, Aries and Aquarius in combo are usually not the marrying kind. Sagittarius, the Traveler, doesn’t stay home, so you need to be ok with that or go with. As children, they are the most likely to run away. You see that a mind changing retrograde just adds to the restlessness.
Capricorn tends to seriously marry, but with the retrograde, the promise may not be able to be kept. Not a recommended time for marriage. Wait. Caps are good at waiting. If it’s good, it’s worth waiting for. Let it be tested. If it passes, go for it. Capricorns want to make a long lasting stable home, be good parents and providers. They also want to make the rules, so be ready to negotiate or be ok with the rules. They expect you to work for the relationship. Surrender is called for at times. But giving up too much can harm you, in turn, the relationship. Get to know each other well for that minimum 6 months before any marriage planning takes place.
Have your astrologer help you pick a super date, time and place! AstroLocality makes a difference! If you change the location, have the chart recalculated.
State of Mind, Work and Health
Mercury in Sagittarius can think of a trillion things, speculating on every combination! They are distractible, sometime irritable if interrupted telling a grand story. Burnout can happen, wake up at night or never go to sleep. Or there can be no care n the world, down for the count, up early, off and running. No time for coffee! If you don’t keep up you will be left behind. They’re gone. They can often eat just about anything, but may suffer allergies. Sagittarians can be broadminded or perfectly opinionated! One pointed, a centaur with blinders with the muscle to prove whatever they believe! Generally cheerful and optimistic! Sporty and need to not pull a muscle or overdo an exercise or activity. Best entertaining teachers, generous. Produce terrific seminars, conferences. Wear comfy airy clothes.
Mercury in Capricorn is at work, no folderol, keeping the timeline, wears the classy suit. If they can’t keep a promise or commitment, they are not happy campers. They can just get super tired and depressed at times. Learning limits doesn’t always come easy they are so determined. But when their work pays off, they are so proud. Often they get stronger as they get older, learning from their mistakes. They are wise reality mentors, bring the ones following them to become the best that can be! Capricorns are often the speakers at conferences representing top companies. Skin, bones and joints need watchful care. They are survivors, aren’t quitters and have grit in tough situations. Admirable.
Special three times REPEAT ASPECTS!
► Please check the complete Timeline below to see the event dates in context with other important aspects, Full and New Moons.
1) Mercury in Sagittarius square Neptune. First two squares are with Full Moons, Nov 27 Gemini-Sagittarius, then Dec 26 day after Christmas Cancer-Capricorn! Each will have a certain degree of confusion, but the second will probably have the most due to Mercury being mind changing retrograde at that time. Mercury wants to be logical while Neptune doesn’t adhere to any rules whatsoever, lives in spirituality, psychic realms and the no rules dreamtime! Confusion is a gift of ‘seeing’ out of the box because there is no box, LOL! Nothing to stop you! It means we are seeking trying to find the way. Anything can happen! Let it! Sagittarius, the see forever sign is quite happy with the super dimensions happening! Did you see that?!
Mercury in Capricorn has two favorable aspects, sextile Saturn and trine Jupiter! Saturn says let’s get the job done. Jupiter says let’s go play!
2) Mercury in Capricorn sextiles Saturn, Capricorn’s planet! Yippee, takes one to know one, what trouble they could get in together! Don’t be fooled by Capricorn. They love a good trick and getting away with things now and again, LOL, right? However, logic and structures go together. They are the natural architects of the Universe! Mercury has the precise information Saturn has been needing. Saturn being in Pisces has tremendous psychic savvy and puts things together fluidly, in way never imagined would/could happen! It’s magic! Mercury keeps gathering the threads as things develop. It’s like gathering the Sagittarian fiery horse’s reins and putting them on the heavy work. No problem! Done! The retrograde aspect is on Capricorn Day, Winter Solstice! The sunbeams will lead us, focus at the place! Time may seem to stand still for some moments, for us to savor our perceptions. Sit with your architect and sketch out the plan. It will be a special time to take time with your elders and the ancestors. The third aspect is the day before the last of all three aspects, Mercury trine Jupiter. The baton will be passed. Mercury and Jupiter will carry the wisdom forward in their stories and teachings.
3) Mercury in Capricorn trine Jupiter in Taurus is the last of the three aspects of this Mercury retrograde set. Earthy Taurus and Capricorn are doing practical and sensible things. Mercury in Capricorn looks seriously at meaningful structures, from churches, temples, museums, schools/universities, to sustainable housing, special safe housing for elders. We’re looking at more functional systems, establishing more capable information exchange worldwide. Mercury retrogrades between the first and second aspects, right on the Sagittarius New Moon! Sagittarius is Jupiter’s sign, so there is a strong harmonic between them. It may be discussed how important it is to publish some of their work. People need to travel more to see, touch and experience new choices being put into practice. Jupiter enhances and expands the ideas Mercury brings! While Mercury is putting the puzzle together, Jupiter is making more puzzles! Linkage is everything, and it is FUN!
The GRAND FINALE of the entire Mercury RX cycle is Jan 19th, 20th!!!! The last aspect, this trine, is made the 19th! Capricorn rules time; Jupiter is standing by in Taurus, 100% available! The 20th, Sun makes its annual conjunction with Pluto at 29 (last degree) Capricorn! Intense! All that LIGHT with the underworld’s DARK planet! Revelation time! Pluto is being brightened, illumined. Enlightenment! If you can see it you can heal it. Be there, 5:46 AM Pacific! Sun enters Aquarius 6:07 AM. After the ‘cleansing,’ Pluto is ready to return to Aquarius that same day, 4:50 PM! He is freshened, ready to step in strong! Aquarius, the evolutionary sign, will scatter remaining debris in all directions. The sacred debris will be aired out and re gathered by the Tree People who will breathe new oxygen to it. It will be reassembled in a new form. It has been stored in the dark waiting for this time for a long time. Time to breathe again. And with that, the Mercury cycle ends. Job done – the Pluto transition has been made. Mercury is the planet of the Breath of Life.
Remember, all this is happening while Pluto has returned to Capricorn. Pluto rules life and death matters. Pluto cleans up messes and memories. Pluto rules the Kundalini, the fire of Life! Capricorn is our laws, construction. Together Pluto and Capricorn do remediation. It is time to adjust our laws to the reality of current times. Together we can build per our new needs. The last time Pluto was in Aquarius, it took many people to reach a significant % of outrage to leave their homes – American Revolution, to revolt – the French Revolution, to make the Industrial Revolution in England. During this coming 21 years of Pluto in Aquarius, tipping points will be reached again. Even in this humble retrograde, we are all working for that change. Pluto in Aquarius 2023 to 2044! Pluto’s First Seven Years in Aquarius 2023-29 100 Days of FOUR Outer Planets sign changes in 2025!
Mercury Sagittarius-Capricorn Retrograde Timeline – Pacific Zone. Christmas-New Year ’23-’24!
The Timeline includes the retrograde repeat aspects so you have the entire context.
The first three of our Lunar Events are linked with Mercury RX events!
- Nov 27‘s Gemini-Sagittarius Full Moon is with Mercury in Sagittarius square Neptune the first time. The second square is with Dec 26‘s day after Christmas Cancer-Capricorn Full Moon!
- Dec 12‘s Sagittarius New Moon brings Mercury in Capricorn RETROGRADE!
November
22 Happy Sagittarius!
23 Happy ThanksGiving!
25 Sagittarius-Capricorn Mercury Retrograde Cycle STARTS
27 4 Gemini-Sagittarius 51 Full Moon 1:16 AM, Mercury in Sagittarius square Neptune 5:27 AM – 1
December
01 Mercury into Capricorn
02 Capricorn Mercury sextile Saturn 7:27 AM – 1
07 Mercury trine Jupiter 8:09 PM – 1
12 20 Sagittarius 40 New Moon 3:32 PM, 8 Capricorn 29 Mercury RETROGRADE 11:09 PM
18 Mercury trine Jupiter 6:28 AM – 2
21 Happy Capricorn Day, WINTER SOLSTICE/Yule! Capricorn Mercury sextile Saturn 4:33 AM – 2
22 Mercury Rx into Sagittarius
25 Happy HOLY Days!
26 4 Cancer-Capricorn 58 Full Moon 4:33 PM, Mercury in Sagittarius square Neptune 11:43 PM – 2
January 2024!
01 Mercury Direct 7:08 PM! Happy NEW YEAR!
08 Mercury in Sagittarius square Neptune 5:24 PM – 3
11 20 Capricorn 44 New Moon 3:57 AM
13 Mercury into Capricorn
18 Capricorn Mercury sextile Saturn 12:49 AM – 3
19 Mercury trine Jupiter 1:31 AM – 3
20 Sun conjunct Pluto Capricorn 5:46 AM! Happy Sun Aquarius 6:07 AM, Pluto Aquarius 4:50 PM!
Mercury Retrograde Cycle ENDS!!
Stay loving and dedicated! Blessed be.
ALL ABOUT RETROGRADES! Some of you are old hands. Others have never heard of Retrograde before. New lingo: Retrograde, Direct, Station and more…
Retrogrades are fascinatingly complex! The wild dynamics of retrograde cycles are, as viewed from Earth, it happens when a faster planet passes a slower planet. Mercury is faster than Earth, while Earth is slower than Mars. The planet appears to go forward, backward, then forward over the same ground three times, and if outer planets, sometimes five times in two years! Of course that doesn’t happen in reality. It is visual because of the perspective from Earth. During that time, all the other planets are moving too, so even when a retrograde planet is going ‘backward’ over the same degrees, they are ALL going forward, even the retrograde planet! It’s ‘illogical,’ but that’s what happens.
Inner planets – Mercury, Venus, Mars – retrogrades have three phase cycles. Sun and Moon don’t retrograde. Astrologers use different names for the 3 phases. Basically they are:
1) Covering the initial ground, degrees that the retrograde will go back over when the planet ‘turns’ retrograde.
2) Retrograde covers the same degrees as Phase 1, only in the reverse direction, so your perspective takes a 180 shift while other planets continue on in their own patterns, many of them moving forward. While retrograde the planet checks on previous actions, improving on, updating choices made as it goes back.
3) The planet turns Direct, ‘forward,’ and goes over the same degrees a third time, adds finishing touches, makes experienced final adjustments before it moves on.
Inner Planets! Venus retrogrades about every 19 months for only about 40 days. Only 7–8% of the population has it in their natal chart. Mercury retrogrades 3 times a year, once every 6 years it’s 4 times that year. Mercury actually spends little time retrograde, only about 3 weeks! Mars retrogrades every 25/26 months for 60-80 days. Moon and Sun never Retrograde. About 25% of the population has Mercury Retrograde, and that includes celebrities, LOL! Fun read: 5 Fascinating Facts About Being Born During Mercury Retrograde
Double Retrogrades! Mercury RX 3-4 times a year allows Mercury and Venus, and Mercury and Mars to frequently have overlapping retrograde periods. Venus and Mars very infrequently have double retrogrades. I looked back to 1900 and found none. The next time will be briefly Dec 14-27, 2037. That’s rare. Mercury is also RX until Dec 18, 2037! so we have TRIPLE inner planet RX for 4+ days! That’s even more rare.
Outer planets operate quite differently! Jupiter, Saturn Chiron, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto retrogrades happen every year for much longer times. These slow movers a commonly retrograde months at a time. Chiron through Pluto are generally 6 months on, 6 months off. Sometimes all of them are retrograde for months all at the same time. Other times all are moving forward at the same time! At this time, Neptune and Pluto move only about 3 degrees per year. Often the degrees overlap and certain degrees will be activated 5 times over a 3-4 year period. We use Stations much less for emphasis with them because they moving only 3 degrees a year, they are always making a close aspect to your chart factors the whole year. Also, if using a 5 degree range to consider the time of effectiveness, they can be activating your chart a year in advance! If you have factors one degree after another, that sequence can be activated for many years as each degree is activated. We often refer to those years as a certain period of our lives.
Retrogrades in the sky are passing periods. Retrogrades in a birth chart are life long, a living entity. As a place that is reprocessed over and over, fantastic skills are developed per planet and sign, along with the other chart factors that may be linked to it. The most successful world corporations often have many retrogrades in their charts! They have super expertise on several fronts and it is still growing with the times! Retrogrades keep us mindful and present.
The type of special communication skills of Mercury retrograde depend on which sign, house and planets Mercury connects with in your chart and what type of connections are made. Check out the planets of your own chart, your besties, and track the charts of babies born during retrogrades! Take advantage of these retrograde linkages, learn how to make transitions well for optimum results. Not a time to be nervous and hold back. Stay aboard! Like on a ship at sea, get your sea legs! Flex with the flow. It may seem like a mess, but the magic will happen. Guaranteed!
We hear about Mercury Retrograde the most because it retrogrades 3 to 4 times a year, for only about three weeks a time.
Mercury is the planet of the Mind, thinking, our attention, our breath and lungs, how we learn to learn, communication skills, gathering data, paperwork, signing contracts, a hand shake, the laying on of hands. All of these are essential.
Mercury is heady. There is little that isn’t interesting and little escapes its attention. Air sign Gemini is Mercury’s first sign, and Earthy Virgo is Mercury’s second sign that focuses on details, looks for perfection, expertly organizes and applies the data Gemini secures, is semi grounded! Both are known to be ultra busy! Gemini listens fast, often replies while you are still speaking! Virgo writes the book, organizes the finances, won’t go home, just has one more detail to finesse, worries about her and your health. They are quite different, you see.
Mercury Rx is don’t sign those papers about issues of the sign(s) Mercury is retrograde in! Or, do everything to make it possible so it doesn’t fall through. Escrows can fall through. Use experienced brokers who can get it done no matter what. People don’t return your calls. The dog ate it. Your computer has a snit. Or you do, LOL! You lose your cell. You get lost, turned around. Rule is be sure purchases are from reputable firms that have been around, have a good track record, have reliable returns/guarantees/warranties. Be sure the company is legitimate before you deal. Date and sign any contract changes and make sure they do too. Get/make copies, save and backup. Generally, you avoid making significant purchases/decisions especially of matters specific to the sign/s involved. If possible, don’t move or change or start jobs until you wait 4 days after Mercury turns Direct/forward.
The house/s where Mercury falls in your chart while it is retrograde is the area of your life that will be specially affected. Briefly: If it is in your 4th, it is home and family matters, your Mother. If in your 2nd or 8th, financial adjustments will be made. 6th can be work environment, skills, coworkers, your health regime. 5/7/8 houses can be important relationships. 3/9 is educational, class requirements may shift. 9 is long term plans, travels. 10 may be career, father. 11 career associations/associates, friendships. 12 may be your spiritual beliefs, perceptions. So for example, if in your 10th, be cautious about signing professional documents. If in your 4th, you may opt to wait to buy the new refrigerator – a better deal or fridge may come along. In the 1st or 3rd you might wait to purchase a new vehicle. In 2 or 7, wait for the face lift. If you need help with this, see your astrologer!
Mercury, Venus or Mars Retrograde Matters by Sign! These correlate with the houses.
1 Aries: Personal matters, exercise, vehicle, courage, first responders, right fighter, defender of the helpless and hopeless, independence.
2 Taurus: Your body, beauty, financial comfortability, are founders, meaningful possessions, land, food sources, sustainability, values.
3 Gemini: Mind, breathing, lungs, hands, shoulders. Attention, learning skills, communications. Neighborhood.
4 Cancer: Home, family, Mother, Children, safe food, matriarchal ancestors, memory, deepest feelings, security, art, collections.
5 Leo: Love, Heart, Light, Creative expression, color, parties, theatre, presentations, teaching, giving, self realization.
6 Virgo: Caretaking of self and others, organization, records, pets, gardening – organic quality food, maintenance, crafts/craftsmanship, the finest.
7 Libra: Relationships, equality, negotiation, the Law, fine arts & beauty – theatre/symphony/museums.
8 Scorpio: Deepest relationships, passion, invincibility, shamanic healing, rebirth-death, financial power, privacy, removing pollution, detoxing.
9 Sagittarius: Spiritual studies, world systems, travel, truth, trust, wide open space, views, teaching, storytelling.
10 Capricorn: Family provider, Father, patriarchal history, incredible building, career, responsibility, science, retirement, aging, elders.
11 Aquarius: Freedom, friendship, networking, electronics, research, r/evolution, the cutting edge, the uncommon, flight, space, stars!
12 Pisces: Being spiritual, compassion, music, magic, night time entertainment, symbology, profound images, cruises, good health for oceanic habitat and her beings.
Stations bring special emphasis! A Station is when a planet literally appears to stand still in the sky at the retrograde and direct/forward turning points. Stations help us slow down. A Mercury station holds consciousness at a certain point for 8 days. Stations are a pause when we are able to be still to receive, focus, take time to think, steep in our thinking. We make things the best we can, anchor important ideas we want to keep. The longer the station, the more its strength. Mercury sometimes likes to think things over, draw as much from a valuable experience as possible, or get to know a special person more deeply. More often, it is likely to go crazy waiting for more things to happen and wants to be the first to deliver the news! They may need to rest at the station because a lot has been changing. It can be a relief to take a breather from the rigors of speeding here and there so they don’t miss a morsel!
Planets at different speeds hold station different lengths of time. Mercury stations are about 8 days – four days before and four days after the turns. Prepare for retrogrades as best you can before the Retrograde Station starts! When Mercury turns forward, wait for the Direct Station to finish before turning yourself loose to go ahead.
Every Retrograde is unique by sign, aspects it makes or doesn’t to your chart factors, and houses it activates in your chart! As time goes on the planetary backdrop changes. Context shifts. Retrogrades, like any other astro phenomena, evolve. Each planet has its own matters. The sign(s) it is in while in retrograde, are how those matters are applied, which matters are prioritized, whether they are processed or not.
In retrogrades we may be at another stage or encounter an addition to something already going on in our personal chart. Also, the degrees of this retrograde have to be in connection with your personal chart or it will have little to no effect or interest. There can be a turning away from things we are done with that we never thought we would change about, yet here it happens… Or old ideas are simply abandoned. Just done.
Sometimes retrogrades cross Portals, where sign changes happen! As the cycle goes forward, retrograde, then forward again, we learn how to make that particular crossing. Gradually we see how those two signs are linked, work together, support/lead each other. How each sign is a foundation for the next and the one ahead leads us from the past into new experiences! We see the contribution of each sign, how they each are part of the Zodiacal Great Circle. Be mindful of your own talent, offer it. Be mindful of what others have to offer, be grateful. You may not like them, but we can’t do without their part of the divine tapestry, the Light they hold at that crossroads or as they lead.
What a journey! When you are traveling, what amazing beauty lies around each new bend. Different directions, different views. Maybe what’s behind is out of sight, a memory; what’s ahead is a mystery! Inward turns, like retrograde, give us time to pause, hold steady, slow down. Outward bends like turning forward/Direct, extend our vision of potentials. Each turn, that Station, gives us time to think, recalibrate, prepare for the next stretch. It’s important that there are changes, reversals, old ideas that clogged things up are left behind, revelations have room to occur, new ideas are teased into action! Potential is remembered or revealed and we are rededicated.
Clearly life doesn’t stop during retrogrades, and not all people’s charts are connected to all retrogrades. If your chart is connected to any given one, you will need to do your best and what you can. You can’t explain this astrological stuff to all people, maybe not your boss or even a good friend. Astrology? You’re nuts! Ok, so there are times to find ways to stall or not connect, delay so it will be a better time. You can estimate the possibilities of others not bringing certain papers to the meeting and bring them yourself, save the day! You can ask for a review of the current decisions 4 days or more after Mercury goes Direct/forward. If there are important must do meetings, Dr and Veterinarian appts, call in advance to verify that the date and right time are on their calendars AND yours! Verify that part you ordered IS ordered, being sent to the correct address, the expected arrival date! Know that it might be late. Keep track of keys, wallets/purses, phones.
Document your work and events daily, save ALL emails and backup safely off the premises. No giving your passwords or copies of keys to anyone. If all goes well, fine. If not, all the pertinent information you need is available.
If you have other favorable prevailing aspects, especially with outer planets, it is likely changes will ultimately be to your benefit. Do check with your astrologer for your good dates and times of day to make the best of it! And pray their chart isn’t affected by the retrograde, LOL!
With a transiting Retrograde, if you have factors in your chart at or very close to those degrees, especially at the station degrees, you will be activated. Check in with your astrologer if you have significant plans at those times. Plan ahead for what you want to get done, as much as possible, well before those times, and line up what you can do during those times!
Classically, marriages are not scheduled during retrogrades, especially double retrogrades. Doubles are Mercury with Venus or Mars. Mercury is contracts. Venus is love and money. Mars is sex and independence. Hmm… Mercury can have a short attention span in some signs. Nonjudgmental communications are vital in relationships, to keep up with each other’s thinking, to allow for change. Listening is a cherished skill to balance daily sharing. Venus is love, kindness, affection, admiration, the grace of expressing appreciation, giving blessings and gratitude, important values. Mars is what we do for each other, being there, working together, times of passion, a shared exuberance of life together, mutual inspiration! If even one, sometimes some, of these basic components to a relationship changes, it can be the deal breaker. We choose relationships for the important things in life. Remember, transiting retrogrades or a RX combo, come and go, but if they are in the marriage chart they are there forever. It is the birth chart of your marriage. If a transiting retrograde activates the marriage chart retrograde(s), it can be a doubly vulnerable time, even more so if it activates one or both of each of your natal chart retros if you have one/them.
Some relationships are matters of the Soul’s growth and will happen no matter what for better or worse. They happen perhaps due to a ‘karmic’ debt, are for us to learn humility/compassion as we learn how to deal with differences, strengthen us to make personal change – and there are so many more possibilities.
Check with your astrologer. First be sure your own natal charts indicate your ability or likelihood to enjoy relationships at all. Check if basic compatibility is in especially good order. If that is good, be very careful with those wedding plans. Look ahead for timing that may be better for you. Remember, we are proposing a lifelong relationship. That is worth waiting for the very best chart. Be wise and wait if possible. A marriage chart is like a birth chart; it is with you the rest of your marriage.
Yes, there are times when it is not possible to wait. Still check for the best available chart within the time frame available. A simple thing like the Moon changing signs or houses during the day can make a big difference. Moon changes sign every 2 1/4 to 2.5 days. It changes a degree approximately every 2 hours. Sometimes just waiting a few minutes or an hour can make a significant difference! Best of luck to you.
Retrogrades can drive you crazy and still be a terrific asset if you know how to use them! Remember, the most successful corporations often have many retrogrades.
Added to and Updated 11.22.23
Please, always remember these planetary combinations are what’s happening in the world. Check with your astrologer to see how they do, or don’t, activate your personal chart! Check with your favorite astrologer(s) for the whole picture!
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