Hey, just so you know… Mercury is about to go retrograde. Like tomorrow.
Quick. Back up your data!
Apart from the usual technology and communications mishaps that come with the M-Rex territory, this retrograde, in place for the next 3.5 weeks, could get kinda interesting. It’s starting in Virgo (a sign Mercury rules) for extra potency and retrogrades in opposition to Neptune, so there’s a surreal and escapist quality to it, and perhaps also a bingey indulgent element too.
But most of the retro is in Leo, so it will probably focus itself on more Leo-ish lifestyle elements – public appearances, arts and crafts, glamour and personal-appeal (do not, I repeat, DO NOT opt for a make-over or new do until September!).
Once in Leo (at the start of next week), it’s a bit of a slow burn as the retrograde slides Mercury ever closer to the Sun and Venus, until all three meet, mid-Leo, on the 16th-18th of August. Those three days will be INSANE. Truly. It could inspire the ultimate grand-scale romantic melt-downs, and suitably public, melodramatic and ‘shared’ a la Leo. It would even be worth keeping a cam-corder on you just in case you capture the next YouTube sensation in the streets. So diarise that one, and for Hades’ sake, DO NOT go on a date.
The final stages, on the last weekend in August, have a bit of a hot-head and snarky quality to them, courtesy of aspects to Lilith and the Mars-Saturn situation that will be unpleasantly in play by then, so that’s your real duck-and-cover, double-triple-check for errors few days.
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