Do you need a second chance?
Do you need a second chance in love? At work? Anywhere else in your life?
Then the famous Mercury retrograde cycle, which is coming up later this month has your back.
Wait. What? Mercury retrograde has your back?
Yes it does!
One of my missions this year is to spread the word that Mercury retrograde isn’t bad luck or bad juju. It just is.
Moreover, it can be positive.
Let me explain…
Mercury is the planet of the mind, communications and where your head is at.
So when Mercury is going forwards, our minds go on to new and new and new things.
However when Mercury is going backwards – or at least appearing to from our vantage point here on earth – it can dredge up the past, it can take you on a walk down memory lane and it can reconnect you with people you’ve lost touch with.
Just as it can sometimes somewhat annoyingly mean you have to do something over again, so it can also work in your favour – you get a second chance, that you actually want, to do something again.
Here are a couple of examples of how this can work in your favour…
When it comes to love …
Imagine the scenario. You said something things to your beloved which you wished you hadn’t. Maybe you even said them in the pre-shadow phase which is the couple of weeks before Mercury retrograde starts, or you said them when Mercury was already reversing.
So what does the communications planet Mercury going backwards mean? Well, for one thing, you could get a chance to take your words back, you could get a second chance to tell your beloved what you really meant to say, or you could get a second chance to say something to your partner which you meant to say earlier but didn’t for whatever reason.
See? There’s lots to like about Mercury retrograde.
And what about at work?
One scenario could of course be that Mercury is going backwards and you get confused and make a silly error. There is no denying that Mercury retrograde can bring that on!
The upside here though is that you are getting second chances when Mercury is retrograde. So for example, you’re likely to be given a second chance by your boss, despite your mistake, or you get a chance to actually fix the error, or you come up with a second idea which makes up for everything.
If you think of Mercury retrograde as a chance to rethink and re-say and re-strategise, you will be able to make the most of it.
It’s even better, of course, if you understand the “flavour” of each Mercury retrograde. I will tell you more about this in my next post but it’s to do with which sign the Mercury retrograde is taking place in. Plus you can also work with where in your personal horoscope it’s hitting!
The shadow period of the upcoming Mercury retrograde kicks in on October 11 and the whole thing ends by December 20. That’s lots of time for your do-overs!
Let me teach you more…
If you want to know about all this and more to do with Mercury retrograde, and would like a free mini-class about it to boot, click here.
In The Mercury Retrograde Book, which I have co-authored with Kim Farnell, we lay out the essentials that you need to know for working with Mercury retrograde in ways that you never thought possible. This is a book about working with this famous cosmic cycle so that it works to your advantage!
In it you will learn…
• How to stop worrying about Mercury retrograde and start embracing it
• How to make the most of each Mercury retrograde, depending on which element it’s in
• How to decode where in YOUR chart it’s triggering
• What it means if Mercury retrograde touches one of your planets
• How to see Mercury retrograde as a cycle which lasts a lifetime!
Stay open to amazing things coming to you – again and again!
As you start to work with first the pre-shadow phase of Mercury retrograde, then Mercury retrograde itself and then the post-shadow phase, you will start to see how very connected you are to the cosmos and how far from working against you, this cycle can work for you.
That in turn will open you up spiritually as you start to see how much life really is a woven web of magical moments that we can chose to struggle with or live consciously with.
Far from fearing future Mercury retrogrades, you will start to anticipate and welcome them!
What you have read here is just the start of your learning adventure. It you’re ready, visit www.mercuryretrogradebook.com and download your free gifts when you order my new book The Mercury Retrograde Book.
