The Mishaps of Mercury Retrograde

Let me give you an idea of the kind of mishaps it can bring

I am at the mall with my kids and I go to the restroom. I walk in the stall and close the door and see toilet seat liners on the door and I think oh great I can actually sit on the seat instead of having to squat and look like I’m doing a football drill in the stall

But my delight about the seat cover was short lived as I turned shook out the seat cover and proceeded to put it on the toilet only to see the toilet begin to automatic flush and the reading glasses that were hanging on my shirt went flying off and straight down the toilet. “oh man!”

Then if that wasn’t enough I come out of the stall and go to wash my hands, and as I squirt the soap in my hands I realize that the countertop is full of water and I realized that because i felt the wetness seeping into my pants making a nice big stain and then I also notice as I look in the mirror that my shirt is covered in coffee stains. I look like a walking human napkin, I mean really it looks like I took my shirt and wiped my mouth with it and now it looks like I went to the restroom and missed the toilet.

What is mercury retrograde?

When a planet is said to be retrograde, it has the appearance of going backward along its orbital path. Truthfully we know that planets don’t go backward - it simply has that appearance as we look to the skies from our point of view. However, it has the effect of reversing and scrambling the things normally associated with that planet.

Mercury generally goes retrograde for about 3 weeks a few times a year. We are now just at the tail end of one of these periods.

Mercury has to do with the communication and disbursement of information

It also oversees telecommunications, electronics, computers, software, all forms of transportation, learning experiences and styles. When Mercury is retrograde it scrambles information and can cause a great deal of confusion i.e. that show up as mishaps from forgetting things (like removing your glasses before you bend over so they don’t go down the toilet)

It is generally not a good time to sign contracts, purchase new equipment. make big decisions, complete important tasks because there is usually information that will be missing.

The beginning and end of these periods are when we feel or notice the energy of it most acutely or most intensely.

The prefix RE

One of my teachers/mentors taught me that the best way to deal with or understand this sort of energy is to remember the prefix “re”.

You may end up having to re-send a lot of emails

re sign or re- negotiate contracts

reschedule events

It generally is a good time to repair, redo, reorganize, relax, return, rejuvenate

I will give you another example, earlier this month I ordered 3 bookcases from Staples, only 2 arrived and of those two, one way damaged and couldn’t be assembled. The one that appeared fine also could not be assembled. So thought I made arrangements for them all to be returned b/c it was obviously not a quality product. But the 3rd one arrived anyway while I was away, I assembled it no problem and actually discovered that I didn’t really need 3 bookcases anyway.

Earlier this month I leased a new car and within a week had to resign the lease..why I don’t know they are both exactly the same, the dealership thought there was a mistake on one of them.

The glasses I lost in the toilet at the mall were in need of REpair and I ended up having to REplace them which was probably a good thing. But I also learned to REmember to take my glasses off my shirt when bending over. My clothing obviously needed to be REplaced as well and what better place to do that then at the mall. But instead I just decided to give up and REturn home to RElax.