Mercury Retrograde in Capricorn: How Are You Faring?
My eye on the sky
We’re about halfway through Mercury’s retrograde period and it’s been very noticeable to me. Typically I have no problems writing the blog with Mercury Rx but this period has been a true strain and I chock it up to the Capricorn factor.
Usually it’s just a jumble and a do over here or there but with Mercury Rx in Capricorn, there has been an abundance of caution around what I say or don’t say. I’ve had to exercise restraint, take down posts, delete my comments and all of this is very unusual.
I have also had a very hard time reaching people. I have either not been able to reach them at all or seen delays of so many days between communication, I don’t know if it spells rejection… or not.
Worst of all, I have not been able to talk to my husband much which is very unusual. We really do talk 15 or more times a day and for various reasons (mostly having to do with timing), we’ve not been thwarted and all I can really do is shake my head.
To top it all off, last night he told me he thought we were being listened in on. ::smiles:: How the hell do you like that? I mean who wants to talk freely with little clicks on the phone?
Well apparently he does. He shows no restraint at all but I don’t feel that way. I am on my end of the phone sort of half-mute and what else is new? I am half-mute everywhere else so why would I expect different?
I don’t know how all this is going to wash out but I do know I will be real happy when Saturn turns direct, gets the hell out of my 12th house and ultimately enters Aquarius on the 19th. Might I enjoy free speech again? I live in hope.
How are you faring with Mercury retrograde in Capricorn?
42 Responses to “Mercury Retrograde in Capricorn: How Are You Faring?”
Where to start. Saturn is only halfway through my 7th house. Saturn 7th house Libra, still trying to legally disolve my business and marriage. Mars in my 6th house. Capricorn is my 10th house. I am going to school and working part time. Well my boss just called and due to cost cutting measures will stop matching my pension, and no longer offer health insurance to anyone except full timers. So do I quit school and work full time to keep my benefits or do I risk no health insurance so I can keep working part time and stay in school? I found this out 3 days after the fact because my cell phone died and my answering machine quit working.
My ex originally agreeded to make the house payments while I was in school and today informed me he will no longer do that after April. Unless I reconsider the pending divorce. Again do I quit school and resume full time work to keep my house and my benefits. Or do I quit making contributions to my retirement and buy my health insurance and stay in school that way. I am not sure exactly what Saturn wants from me as it seems so intertwined with work/school/relationships, 6th, 7th, 10th house issues, but it is kicking my butt.
Jupiter and Neptune will soon be crossing my ASC pisces, so I can’t wait, something has to give. But in the mean time I have a headache.
PS the ex is a having an affair, is drunk more than he is sober, and that is the last thing I want in my life. I am trying so hard to get away from all of it. So I can’t figure out exactly what all these planets are trying to tell/teach me. I am so desperatly trying to sell my house but we all know how that is going in this economy. That which does not breaks us, makes us stronger. How’s my foundation looking from the outside?
Daisy, honey, it’s got to get better. Sending big hugs and lots of good thoughts your way.
Almost forgot Pluto 10th house also. So yeah I got this big crush between work/school/relationships, but I found his reference to April interesting. My gut tells me to do what ever it takes to step away from this relationship and stand tall regarding work and school. Maybe the Sag optimism and upcoming 11th house stellium of north node, sun, mercury, venus, along with the pisces ASC event will lighten things up. What I find funny, I need some humor now, is that nothing is transiting my 8th house, why is that funny. I am suppose to start 09 taxes for the business we just disolved. So being that house is empty I am hoping that goes well. Or maybe it is empty because there is no nookey. LOL
Gosh, Daisy, the eclipse swept away my ex-fiance. And good riddance. He was becoming more pouty and infantile every time he didn’t get his way. Hoping the next eclipse does the trick for you!
not too bad. merc retro is usually bad for me, being a virgo and all. but this time it’s been easy on me. for the most part some positive things have come back (a job interview, a work-related idea) and the mixups have been relatively painless (yesterday my plane was broken but it was quickly replaced and we were only delayed 30 minutes!). but things are going sloooooow in some areas.
((((((daisy))))))
“My gut tells me to do what ever it takes to step away from this relationship and stand tall regarding work and school.”
GO WITH IT. You sound as though you have a lot to stand tall about. 10th House Capricorn–you are not meant to bow your head, my friend. With that placement, the Universe asked you for something else. Maybe with all the “noise” gone, you will hear something else?
Recently decided I’m going to “flyer” everyone I know when I return from being away–I’m going to ask every single person I know if they know of work. Maybe putting the call out people you know could spark something?
Another thing here – the other night it dawned on me it is probably best I don’t talk to the family of my friend who died. While I have wanted to for weeks and while I was tremendously encouraged, it has not happened and all the sudden I realized I no longer want to talk. I just think it won’t go well.
If it were going to go well, it would have gone, see? I am so easy to talk to, so open – my heart was wide open to all of them so it just makes no sense until it hits you – it is best NOT to talk.
The lesson is this: It makes no sense to talk to someone about something they don’t want to talk about. Er…. duh.
I sure wish someone could have clued me in. Its still not over but I wish it was. I have arrived to the familiar destination, and want to as I say behind the scenes, “Fast forward to where you don’t like me and you’re innocent.”
What a job I have, yanno? I haven’t done a damn thing wrong, it’s just that there no way to be me and do a damned thing right in certain circumstances. You just come in and you’re going to be the shadow no matter what.
Oh Daisy, I am so sorry. This has worked like a charm for me on many occasion, just keep affirming to yourself, that “Out of this situation, only good will come, and for the highest good of all”
Daisy, that is alot of stuff all at once – I hope it does all start ironing out soon…..
Mercury retro for me, well I am still climbing the mountain, but my goat is going backwards, but he is still going……..
Right on Dorothy, I like to think of it as two steps forward, one step back, still forward movement but we get a redo/review on half our steps before moving forward again. Kinda like setting up camp for the night before moving out again in the morning. Or waiting for the scout to come back and tell you when and how to move forward again.
Thanks everyone for your support, I know it will get better, but right now its tough. Maybe I am just cranky and tired from sitting on the tarmack at Newark airport last night for hours courtesy of a security breach. So as I am exhausted, I will go to bed early and hope to dream and listen. I really don’t like to complain but I am frustrated. Broken, it seems everything is broken, broken phones, broken planes, broken security, broken relationships, broken economy, broken jobs.
Kash: what kind of work do you do, what are you looking for?
Hey I have to explain Things Twice and people dont get the facts until i show them or until i use arguments that could not be misunderstood it is funny( U get to know a lot about people by seeing what they do not understand and why that happends so Mercury Retrograde is helpful in that way ), and the great inferior conjunction between the sun and mercury and the conjunction between venus and mercury and the conjunction coming between venus and The Sun have helped me a lot i am a Taurus.
Best Wishes all of U !!!
U always go to the point U are Great Elsa ThankYou !!!
I have been crazy sick since the day Mercury went retrograde, and I cannot kick this sucker. I’m stuck at home, coughing my head off, up half the night with a sick and coughing child, and basically just having to sit back and accept it all minute by minute. Now the mister is sick, too. So, yeah. I dunno. Haven’t been at work in two weeks now, it seems. It’s been a strange, aimless time.
Mmmmm after today, fuck Mercury retrograde. Seriously. Entire computer system crashed and I had to restart the damn thing like I was opening it new out of the box. So I lost all my pictures, all installed programs were erased, all my iTunes purchases aren’t there (luckily they’re on my actual iPod or I may really have a nervous breakdown), and not to mention work was hell. I’m the patient rep in an ER and I was cried to by two patients, cussed out from another all because of lapses in communication. Wow, surprise, surprise. Then when I informed the current boy toy that I was not in the mood to deal with his shit, he proceeded to be incredibly immature. Lovely.
But, on the bright side, I had an entire folder saved of letters I wrote to a Marine I thought was a friend. He screwed me over in a majorly humiliating way, and those letters are gone. So… I can’t pine over them. Which is always nice 
I can’t get a single computer program to do what I want and you have NO IDEA (ok, maybe you do) how important it is that they work right!
Merc Retro is usually a non-issue for me. If anything it suits my scorpio nature.
Same here, usually push through the retrogrades but this one has clamped down on all communication, like I can’t do anything right… seems spiraling tighter that way every day. I’ve stopped trying to communicate myself and just keeping head down and forward until there’s some let up…
It’s been ok here so far. The snowy weather has meant all life has come to a standstill but having to stay at home has given me time to catch up on things I was behind with, so the retro factor seems to be working for, rather than against. Although I do have both Mars and Mercury retro natally.
(((Daisy)))
i have huge piles of work appearing (and reappearing) and never seem to be even close to done. trying to back up and clean out all the old messes i can find.plus the normal stuff – losing emails, wrong numbers, miscommunications, etc.
the snow here has us holed up in the house, but that doesn’t bother me much. got plenty of food and supplies so we can wait that out just fine. hubby’s organizing around the house, and that’s been nice.
well.. first I spilled tea on a wireless keyboard just before Mercury went retro.. that seemed to send some kind of instruction to my PC to misbehave when I put a new wired keyboard in..it won’t work properly. Today I did a system restore and the whole machine has crashed and I am so grateful I have a laptop, although now my Facebook won’t allow me to access other than via my smartphone..but again there IS a route, just more of an effort… Meantime we had electric switches to replace in the house, our tree lights all blew just before the retro, too. All can be sorted, although the PC crash I just haven’t a clue what to do.. as I said to a friend who’s just had a washing machine breakdown and lots of expensive light bulbs to replace.. bag humbug little Mercury!!
Snow here is not too bad but like Opal, me n hubby are loving just cosying up.
I’ve probably missed a few things off this list of happenings, but i won’t miss the chance to say Happy 2010 everyone! xx
meant to say like Opal and Goddess who’s saying hubby is organising things around the house.. cosying up is great for a while..hubby is out hunting for leeks for soup..none available.. the ground has been too frozen for them to be lifted..wow!
Usually, the Mercury retrogrades aren’t anything special for me, possibly because I was born with a stationary Mercury. But this one is hard, Mercury has been on my Moon and Mars . Yesterday I completely lost it with someone who accused me of “being difficult” because I wouldn’t let her take credit of the hard work I’ve done. This person has a Mars/Mercury/Neptune T-square, an is extremely aggressive in pushing her views. She puts this down to a “strong personality”, and actually thinks people love her for this. But the thing is people simply don’t dare or care to argue with her. Well, with my 3rd house Mars it’s not going to happen with me, I’ll argue back.
I probably should have counted to ten, as I’ve done in previous occasions, but I just feel she needs to know her behaviour does get to people’s nerves – and not just mine. I guess that with all the transits going on it’ll probably come to haunt me, but I just had to have this out.
This retrograde cycle sucked.
My ex-girlfriend (Virgo) has disappeared. Nobody knows where she is. My current girlfriend (Gemini) started having a nervous breakdown during the last MercRx, She started giving all her money to the homeless, became homeless herself, and started living in her car. During this MercRx she got so crazy, having a hypomanic attack, that my friends and I had her involuntarily hospitalized in the psych ward. Somehow she managed to escape the hospital and now nobody knows where she is.
As for me (Sun Moon Mercury in Taurus), well, I got fired from my job, over an incident when the company’s internet went out. The old incompetent tech that set it up wrong wanted her job back, so she made it look like it was my fault.
Yeah, this one sucked. Bad.
I can’t get a good rant on to save my life, and my Mars really needs one. I am consistently thwarted and held back at work, and it frustrates me to the point of tears to hear that I’m one of the strongest members of the team while the managers are taking my projects away (ones that I’ve started on, and started well with a lot of solid thought and planning in them) to give them to other people on the team who are unreliable. When I ask about any of this, or ask for clarification to my job or my role, it’s like I’m invisible and nobody will fucking talk to me.
*sigh*
If this keeps up after this Mercury Rx I’m afraid I am seriously going to have to look for another job, but I’m hoping it’s MercRx for now. I actually like my job a lot, and I’m damn good at it, and I want to stay here.
Oh … and both of my desktop computers went boom. One during the last MercRx … one this time around.
Jeez Charles.. that’s a lot to deal with..hope she is found and gets well again soon..what a worry.
((Shannon)) it’s so often the good guys the facilitators, the people who quietly serve, work their socks off who get taken for granted while some swan in with a fanfare and get all the praise and kudos.. that does suck. Maybe Elsa’s guidance could help you to steer this one, cos you’re right, it doesn’t sound at all fair..
I’m amazed at these computer crashes.. mine now won’t even boot up and I wanna scream at it..but frankly I can’t be bothered to.. making soup instead..
Elsa.. hope your communications with Soldier get back on track sooon!
Flippin Mercury huh..seems like he got caught up in Saturn/Pluto’s destructive stuff.. yet I’m strangely hopeful about my computer being fixable.. think it’s playing at being dead..wake up PC!!
Lynne, thanks – I’m sure you’re right, and I keep sitting down to write out my question, and of course … I can’t.
*chuckle*
{{{Everyone whose MercRx is sucking badly!}}}
all the jobs i applied for last mercury retrograde are offering positions or interviewing…..
i can’t work that much, or juggle that much, especially with classes, but i’m really excited about several of these opportunities.
I had a thought (wow!) that to have Mercury Rx in Capricorn in your 12th is to lose your mind. It is only good at working (Capricorn) in service (12th house). It’s very strange.
mercury retro in capricorn in 12th..lose your mind.. Well they do say use it or lose it..! I think my mind is having a vacation at one level, but feeling fantastically creative in a really quiet way, operating on a “need to” basis, but otherwise putting the “gone fishin” sign up, without making it that obvious to all and sundry . Can’t recall ever feeling actually entitled to do that before now. liking it too…. Recharge the mental batteries ready to make use of what the next phase brings?
most everything in my chart is mercury ruled or in a mercury ruled house.
oh elsa, its so true! i have been second-guessing everything i say. and even posts of facebook…i delete them, worry about who will see them. relationships are being questioned…what do we do? just wait it out and avoid contact until it goes direct? i thought i really put my foot in my mouth the other day and got a very cold shoulder from a cappy 
i hope it was just the retrograde talking.
Mercury has been hitting us hard in very tangible ways but we have experienced a lot of grace and luck in the midst of it as well. Flights to Ireland and back all happened without a hitch. Rental car was obtained, used and returned safely. We made it home and all family members are fine and well.
That said, we experienced huge set backs due to weather including one nearly empty gig (money lost instead of made) and many hours stuck in downtown Dublin when it became a skating rink on Wednesday. People in Ireland claimed it was the worst winter they’ve had in decades. First day back in Atlanta and guess what. Snow has closed schools.
Now we’re home and there’s a flat tire on the truck that’s going to have to be dealt with when this side of the world wakes up. It’s 10 AM according to my body though it’s only 5 here. Jet lag and pain woke me up. I felt so good for so long that it’s quite a rude awakening but not surprising as I seem to have covered all the known triggers in the last few days of the journey.
I’m actually feeling better today. I got a dance class and a couple miles in yesterday – that always helps. I’m easing myself back into a regular dance schedule after so many closings and cancellations over the holiday weeks. Next week I have three classes AND a private lesson. Whew! And I also picked up a netbook this week to amuse myself while I wait for buses and such.
Welcome home, Lupa – hope you’re feeling better soon.
And welcome, Jade 
Hang in there – the good thing about retrograde periods is they always pass.
Superficial compared to what lots of folk are going through.. but wanted to post that my PC is mended..my son did some very clever things, not a recovery or system restore, but similar..and he fixed it…so what sometimes looks like it’s not working under a mercury retro could be sort-able is all I wanna say. Plus hugs to anyone here who could do with one.. Hope Lupa, you’re not in so much pain..it’s a long flight, lot of travel.
love to all xx
(((everyone))) a few more days – we can get through it!
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Ah, lovely Mercury retrograde and with 5 planets in Mercury what else can I say? Best to say nothing. I just sorta hide until its over.