What's actually happening here?
About three times a year, Earth overtakes swift Mercury on its inner orbit – from our perspective, he seems to move retrograde through the zodiac. Astronomically a matter of perspective, astrologically an invitation: The planet of communication, traffic and trade shifts into Review instead of rushing ahead.
Typical Themes of This Phase
- Communication: Misunderstandings, lost messages, old contacts reaching out.
- Technology & Traffic: Devices glitch, appointments shift, travel needs a buffer.
- Contracts & Purchases: Read the fine print twice, check decisions one more time.
How to use retrograde Mercury for yourself
This phase is not cosmic bad luck, but a built-in Pit Stop. Everything with "re-" flows especially well now: reflect, repair, research, reorganize, reconnect. Those who use the weeks this way come through the phase clearer than before.
How strongly a retrograde Mercury personally affects you depends, by the way, on your own birth wheel especially on where Mercury stood at your birth and which houses it's currently moving through.