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January-February 2021 Mercury Retrograde
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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.
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…
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…
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…
It’s been too long since my last rant about the utter lack of philosophical underpinnings of modern astrology. So here goes.I was reading an astrology blog today that points out that Venus is moving into the sign of Leo on Thursday of this coming week. It mentions parenthetically that Venus Read more…
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…
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…
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…
Continuing from the previous post: CareerBetty White’s career has spanned more than 70 years, making a thorough treatment of it an impossibility in blog format. However, her recent resurgence in popularity (she may, in fact, be more popular than ever before) made me curious about what’s going on for her Read more…