Hi Elsa,

Is a relationship doomed if Mercury is retrograde on the first date?

Worried

Absolutely not. Your dinner reservation might get messed up but that’s about it. Someone is 10 minutes late, the other person deals with it well and you’re off and running on a great date.

Nothing and no one is ever “doomed” via their chart or a planetary configuration in the sky. If an astrologer tells you otherwise – run!

You don’t need perfect conditions to fall in love. In fact the opposite is more conducive so go on your date and enjoy!

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.

Continue reading Mercury Station in Virgo, Turning Retrograde – Hindsight Is 20/20

This Mercury retrograde period ends in a week and has seemed super slow and concentrated to me. Communications have been heavy, delayed or about delay as in, “I am going to be slow responding.”

It’s a feeling of not being able to process very quickly or even if the mind can get there, the fingers (or the mouth) are lagging.
Continue reading Mercury Retrograde: One Week To Go – How Are You Faring?

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.

Continue reading Mercury Retrograde in Capricorn: How Are You Faring?

Mercury goes retrograde the day after Christmas. You’ll hear a lot about returns and snarled traffic, I thought I’d offer another angle.

Since Mercury has entered Capricorn I have seen my writing become very structured. I have started a newsletters for clients which incorporates writing (Mercury) into business (Capricorn) and requires I discipline my thinking to create something that falls into a specified format.
Continue reading Transit Watch: Mercury Retrograde In Capricorn: December 26, 2009

I feel frustrated over my inability to communicate my thoughts that have formed due accessing my deep emotion. I have made four attempts with four different people and can see I may as well be speaking French or Pig Latin or gibberish or something because no one seems to know what I’m talking about. They just don’t grasp the depth of what I am saying and as a consequence I fall deeper in.
Continue reading Pluto Direct Square Mercury Retrograde – Discovery

Typically I come on here and tell people not to worry about Mercury retrograde but this period is particularly fraught. Notice I said “fraught” not “fraught with danger” and that statement right there reflects this energy in that is very assertive and controlling. Also note I don’t ascribe negative judgment to either of those words, this just is.

Continue reading Transit Watch: Heads Up – Mercury Retrograde, Sept 7, 2009 – Direct Sept 29, 2009

Dear Elsa,

Wondering
Continue reading Open Question: Mercury Retrograde – What Are We Supposed To Get Out Of This?

Regarding Mercury retrograde, pal and astrologer, Claire-France Perez left her impression and delineation of the situation on Everything Disposited By Mercury Rx
, her conclusion was this:

“My best advice is gather all your evidence, then decide in July.”

I am going to take her advice regarding this blog because as she’s mentioned privately, besides the fact a decision about writing made while Mercury retrograde would most definitely have to be reconsidered, it is a given that not all the information has been presented. But since I have been covering this, I want to present another angle.
Continue reading Regarding Mercury Retrograde… And A Uranus Transit Ending Oppression