It's time for another Mercury retrograde!

From July 14th to August 8, Mercury will be in retrograde...meaning its orbit will appear to go backward.
Mercury retrograde periods happen 3 to 4 times each year, and go on for approximately 3 weeks.  Since Mercury governs communications, it can affect our ability to communicate clearly, and impact things like computers, phones and other forms of communication and travel.  Things slow down so it is generally advised not to start major new undertakings, or sign important papers.

There are things that are best NOT To do, and there are also things that are optimal to do during retrograde time.  During a Mercury retrograde, we go into a kind of "heyoka" state and we tend to think differently and out of the box more. I ought to know, because I was born under a Mercury retrograde!  


I offer a group proxy (distance) repatterning session to help ease you through the Mercury retrograde time,as it can be very frustrating if you are the kind of person who likes things to move forward smoothly and in a more linear way.  Go to www.repattern.com/Mercury_Retrograde.shtml to sign up, anytime up till the 11th of July.

In addition to the typical Mercury retrograde patterns described above, each time we go through a retrograde is a little different depending on the other planetary aspects.

Robert Wilkinson has some interesting comments on his website about the upcoming July Mercury retrograde in Leo.  Follow his site for tons of detailed and excellent astrological info at http://www.aquariuspapers.com. Here is the link to his full article on Mercury retrograde that I have excerpted below: http://tinyurl.com/88y2r2e


"Actually, the coming Mercury retrograde should prove to be a fairly productive time with many unique and favorable developments. What follows is why.


Now that Venus and Saturn are moving forward and the Jupiter square Neptune is finally leaving the stage, things should proceed with more precision and momentum than we've had in a while! It sure seemed like Venus retrograde slowed a lot down, as I explained in yesterday’s article.


Venus gave us a look at past and future developments as it danced back and forth in degrees of Gemini. Now it’s moving across that span one more time. Now it’s moving forward, we’ll all be dealing with....the stirring of unconscious factors that will repolarize our ego. Whether it’s a protest against privilege or just a catabolic meltdown will depend on our individual circumstances.


Saturn retrograde [which we have just completed] gives us yearly reviews of lessons we need to take a new look at. Now it resumes its direct motion and finished moving through  Libra, so this is the time to apply what “philosophical completions” you’ve done since February. Still, it’s moving forward, so those affairs related to Saturn will as well.


Even though Mercury is slowing down, ....I suspect it will still be a fairly productive time given its relationship with both Venus, Mars, and Jupiter for most if not all of the RX [retrograde]period...


We’ll need to retire peacefully from some things, and allow a greater creativity and/or spontaneity to come forth. And of course, I’ll be writing more in the next couple of weeks about the coming Mercury retrograde in Leo."


Happy Mercury retrograde..and don't forget to get yourself repatterned for moving through it with grace and ease...at www.repattern.com/Mercury_Retrograde.shtml

Many blessings,
Ellen