All my life I have heard the phrase, hindsight is 20/20. I thought I knew what it meant right up until this week.

Sure it’s hard to comprehend something when you are in the midst of it, especially when it is stressful.  Sure it’s hard to to comprehend “forest” when you’re up close to a tree but never, ever in my life have I seen such clarity when it comes to information.

You might have noticed I write quite a bit and back in 2006-07, I was under intense stress. I wrote throughout the whole period both on this blog and off. My hard drive crashed in 2008.

I needed to access some of this old writing and fortunately I had copied, HQ, a number of emails I wrote in that time frame. I am talking about more than 100 emails, not a small number. This week he located them and the Mechanic was kind enough to go through the tedious process of returning them to me, forwarding them one by one.

I haven’t read them yet but I did skim a few. The Mechanic read them as he forwarded them and said he felt sick by the time he’d finished. Based on that, I thought I’d let the mails “rest” a little before I got into them. Remember, “The Box“?

My husband sent me stuff before we married and I would not open the boxes for it for days because they were so emotionally charged. I compared to bringing home a fish from the fish store. You don’t just dump the thing in the tank, you leave it in it’s bag and float it in the tank so the water temperatures can sync up.

In whatever case, I did skim some of the mails and it is just so OBVIOUS, the side of the barn I was dealing with at the time. I am not talking, “if I knew then what I know now” or some other throwaway remark. I mean the picture is CRYSTALLINE.  It’s clear like I have never seen 20/20 before in my life.

I chalk this up to this most unusual situation with Mercury station in Virgo taking no hard aspects with most the rest of the sky caught up in the T-square. It’s just CLEAN as can be and if you read here you know I always run a little bit ahead so here’s the takeaway:

I already said, I think this is going to be a good Mercury Rx period but now I want to say to say when you do have cause to go back over something, look at it closely because clarity is on offer over these next weeks and jeez, it is a thing of beauty.

If getting it wrong can destroy you, what can getting it right do? I am finding out.

Note- Mercury retrograde in Virgo, August 20 – Sept 12, 2010