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January-February 2021 Mercury Retrograde
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Mercury Retrogrades 2021
Here’s a look at what happens in the sky when Mercury goes retrograde, along with a review of how and when it might affect you. I also look at the dates for 2021 Mercury retrogrades.
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What’s Worse Than Mercury Retrograde?
Three times a year, for about a month, the collective astrological world freaks out. We’re about to do it again. Even the most casual followers of the planets and stars are familiar with the phenomenon of Mercury Retrograde. How often have you opened Facebook only to see a friend who’s Read more…
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Mercury Retro Series (a.k.a. the Mercury Retrograde Survival Kit)
Since I find myself often writing to correct lots of misperceptions about retrograde planets in general, and Mercury retrogrades in particular, I’ve decided to assemble all of the links to previous posts on the topic in one blog post, so that I can easily refer to them in the future. Read more…
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Harping on Mercury
Yes, that’s me harping. It seems that every time Mercury goes retrograde, I write a flurry of blog posts on the matter. You’d think that it was a big deal with me (Mercury retrograde); in fact, it’s quite the opposite. Whenever Mercury goes retrograde, the internet is flooded with Stupid Read more…
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Woops! I Had An Accident(al Benefic)
As Chris Warnock pointed out in a comment on my previous blog post, modern astrology tends to deny the existence of malefics and even of evil itself. (Note: which is interesting, since most of the keywords that they use for Uranus, Neptune and Pluto tend to be negative, yet the refuse to Read more…
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Here We Go Again
Here we are, at the beginning of another Mercury retrograde cycle. As everyone starts to blame poor Mercury for everything that could possibly go wrong for the next 3.5 weeks, I thought I’d take a closer look to see what traditional sources say about Mercury retrograde periods. I looked specifically Read more…
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Mercury Retrograde – Again
So here we are again at the end of a Mercury retrograde cycle, and this one seems to have been particularly fierce for some. There are at least a few reasons for this: Mercury is retrograde Mercury is in Sagittarius for most of this retrograde, where he is debilitated Mercury Read more…
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Not Again With This Retrograde Thing! (Not Really, Read On…)
A Facebook friend posted earlier today about how people are being jerks all around and you would think that Mercury is still retrograde. Excuse me for harping on this issue, but there is a lot going on astrologically, all the time, that has nothing to do with Mercury. Or retrogrades. Read more…
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Retrograde Schmetrograde
I was recently catching up on one of my favorite blogs, Christopher Warnock’s Renaissance Astrology Blog (we pre-Enlightenment types have to stick together, you know). Reading the post on retrogrades, I had to agree with him wholeheartedly. If you haven’t read my own posts on retrogrades, go here to find Read more…