MERCURY RETROGRADE: WITH A SURPRISING TWIST! November 14, 2005 to December 3, 2005
by Eileen Nauman
WHOSE AFFECTED??
Mercury goes retrograde at 10 Sagittarius on November 14. It will remain retrograde until December 3, 2005, when it swings direct at 24 Scorpio. It will affect Gemini by opposite sign. And, ANY planets or their ascendant or Midheaven cusp between the following degrees: between 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 degrees Sagittarius and/or Gemini. The most affected will be 10 Sagittarius (and 10 Gemini) however.
BIRTHDAY OF THOSE WHO ARE AFFECTED
Whose most affected when it goes retrograde on November 13, 2005? For Sagittarius sun sign people: those born between November 29th through December 3rd with the emphasis on December 1st. For Gemini sun sign people, those born between May 28th through June 1st, with the most important date May 30th, are most affected by this retrograde.
MERCURY'S SHADOW
Of course, we begin to operate under the seven-day "shadow" energy of Mercury before it turns retrograde as of November 6, 2005. That means from November 6th to the 12th, we are in the shadow. Things are going to start falling apart on you about this time, so just set your attitude and be flexible. Remember: this too will pass.
WHAT DOES RETROGRADE MEAN?
What does 'retrograde' mean? It means "backwards movement". The Earth has an orbit around the Sun. So does Mercury (and Mercury's orbit, because it is closest to the Sun, is shorter or smaller in circumference than Earth's).
At certain times each year, usually three of them, Mercury, because it has a shorter orbit than Earth, goes whizzing by Earth. As it's moving 'away' from Earth, to an observer standing on Mars, it looks like Earth is moving 'backward' as this is happening. Mercury is surging ahead and Earth is left behind. This is 'retrograde motion'.
Another way to explore this is: most of you have probably ridden in a motor boat. When the engines are in 'forward' position, you zoom around. When you want to 'back up' the boat, you put the throttle in "reverse" position. Have you ever watched the surge and turbulence of water beneath the engine, at the rear of the boat when it's put into reverse to back up? That's 'retrograde' motion. All turbulence, frothing, bubbling and boiling as water, which is flowing nice and smooth one way, suddenly
has this engine and motor come and stir it all up as it reverses motion!
Take Mercury and Earth in the same analogy: Mercury is the speedboat. Earth is the water in which it floats. As Mercury 'passes' Earth due to its shorter orbit around the Sun, this "turbulence" energetically is created between the two planets for a brief (3 weeks) amount of time. And I know Earth is not in 'reverse' motion--the concept I'm trying to visually give you is that as Mercury passes Earth as
it zooms around on it's shorter circumference orbit, creates invisible 'waves' of energy. And this 'energy' is translated into 'retrograde motion'.
so, too.
Mercury, typically on a given year, passes Earth three times because of a smaller, orbit around the Sun because it is the closest to that star. And during these speedy passed past Earth, these times are called 'retrograde'. Usually, a retrograde Mercury influence lasts 3 weeks. As the turbulence subsides from this pass and the 'water' is smooth again, Mercury is then said to be 'direct'.
Actually, it is taking Mercury three weeks to approach earth in a parallel orbit (side by side like a team of horses) and as it nudges past earth with its planet body, and moves ahead, that is when it is said to be "direct" once again. When direct, all the Mercury Retrograde 'things' stop happening to people around the globe. Many breathe a sigh of relief :-).
MERCURY RETROGRADE WITH A 'TWIST'
As if Mercury going in reverse isn't enough, two days later, Uranus goes direct on November 15, 2005. These two together can create quite a shock and therein lies the 'twist' to this period. November is a month of upset and changes. We have Mercury going retrograde first, then Uranus and finally on November 22, 2005, Saturn goes retrograde. It is a month of train cars being jerked forward to backward by an unseen Cosmic engine; and the jolts are there, to be sure.
Uranus rules stress, airline travel, computers (think viruses being released and disk crashes), sudden attacks (think of terrorism here), electricity, to name just a few items under its bizarre list of rulership items. For sure, airline travel is going to be in a major snarl. Expect massive airline delays and expect snow or unusual weather for about ten days before Uranus goes direct (on a full moon at 23 Taurus--which, by the way, is the same degree and sign that Mars went retrograde on October 1, 2005) so this is like pour salt into an open wound. Travel is going to be awful, to put it
bluntly. Airline crashes may very well occur due to some 'strange' or 'bizarre' reasons. If you do not have to travel from November 9 through the 18th, this would be best. If you have to travel and get a bad feeling about boarding a plane--do not do it--take another one later.
Uranus puts people in a stressful state of fretting and
anxiety; it amps up our already wired nervous system which is ruled
by Mercury. With Uranus sitting there on a Full Moon, the emotional
tides of our body running full bore, people are going to be popping
their corks, literally and figuratively speaking. They aren't going
to be in a compromising state of mind, either, with a Taurus Moon.
"Going postal" is a possibility on November 13, 14, 15th, so just be
more alert than usual with disgruntled or belligerent people. Don't
push their buttons; they may come back on you like a sixteen pound
sledge hammer.
WHAT ELSE SHOULD I LOOK FOR?
Here's a list of some of the things you can expect from a
Mercury Retrograde. Keep in mind that they won't all happen to you!
Just one or two, usually. However, if you have a natal Mercury in
conjunction with the transiting (daily motion of a planet) Mercury,
then your life is going to be strongly affected by that retrograde!!
Most important to those of us on the Net:
VERY IMPORTANT: Back up your hard drives, folks! Crashes CAN and WILL occur!
TRAVEL DELAYS POSSIBLE
Under the present circumstances of travel delays aboard any transportation vehicle (especially airliners) then, expect delays, confusion and problems. Sometimes, under a retrograde, travel snafus miraculously sort themselves out and you might find yourself with an upgrade!
CHANGES IN YOUR LIFE
1. Expect indecision on your part--or the part of others. People
who usually are cut/dried, can make decisions quickly and cleanly,
will muddle around, hesitate, won't be sure. And, if they do make a
decision during a Mercury. R transit--whatever they decided to do
will CHANGE. It will NOT remain as the person decided at all. You
think men and women can't communicate with each other now, wait until
the Mercury Retrograde period hits. One is speaking Chinese and the
other, French!! Partners have to really work at saying what they
really mean because assumptions abound during this time and worse,
what you say is heard differently than how you meant it!!!! Watch
for big-time communications snafus--they will complicate your life on
a personal and professional level. Nothing is immune from our
foot-in-mouth disease as in a Mercury. R period!!!
2. Don't EVER sign a contract, agree to something, buy a
car/boat/house/animal or start up a new project under a Mercury.
Writers should never sign a contract under this aspect. Publishers
shouldn't be giving out contracts during it. Either way, the
contract and negotiations and agreement will not be
conducive....writers may feel cheated. Publishers won't see the book
they expected or have it come in on time. It's a prescription for
disaster from both angles and who needs that? Better to wait to
offer contracts and negotiate after Mercury is out of Retrograde!!
Do do contracts during it: well, THAT's is a prescription for
disaster! The contract won't be honored by one party or the other.
The car you bought will turn out to be a lemon!! The boat will have
problems, structural or otherwise. The house you bought will be a
"money pit" and the owner did not reveal all the problems the house
had--but you inherited them!! The animal you bought (dog/cat/horse
or whatever) will turn out to have some real 'hidden' problems that
you could not see upon first perusal or inspection. They usually
aren't happy things you find out--for example, I bought a St. Bernard
puppy under a Mercury. R (and I knew better!) and I directly asked
the breeder: Does this dog or his parents or anybody in his pedigree
have hip dysplasia? The owner said no. Six months later, the puppy
couldn't move because his hip dysplasia was so severe! The breeder
lied to me.
Projects begun during this time (baaaaadddd choice) will
inevitably develop differently than agreed-upon or expected. The
only way you can avoid disappointment about it is to expect the
project will change!! And if you aren't prepared for those little
surprises,then don't start something new at this time frame--just
wait.....be patient.....
3. Do NOT buy any mechanical things, appliances, computers, software
or anything else like that during this period--they will not work
right! You may have to get another to replace it (providing its
under warranty--and IF you have to buy something like a refrigerator,
stove, radio or whatever, make SURE that warranty is in force because
9 times out of 10, you're gonna be glad you have it because you'll be
using it.....). Hold off until Mercury goes 'direct' to buy anything
new.
I might add that this a time when mechanical failures happen.
DISK CRASHES are common placed and I strongly recommend to Netters to
back up the stuff on their hard disk BEFORE a Mercury R transit
occurs--do it at least a week in advance. Believe me,you will thank
me for this little piece of advice over and over again--because
crashes are common. Another Net problem is that the Net will slow
down, be sluggish, blocked or break down. There are more telephone
lines cut and dug up during this transit than you have fingers and
toes to count on! Telephones/telephone lines/cables/electrical
cables are all affected badly by Mercury Retrograde. "SAVE" your
stuff you're working on every 5 minutes during a Mercury Retrograde
or you'll lose it--believe me :-). I wouldn't be installing new
software systems or trying to learn them under this transit,
either--you'll be tearing hair and end up bald in the long run!
4. Try not to travel long-distance during a Mercury Retrograde
because Mercury is the ruler of travel by any conveyance. If you do,
there will be delays, equipment (like a plane or car) will break down
during this period. Travel will try your patience during this
period--so be smart and don't travel to save yourself a lot of
hectic, stressful times/moments. Equipment failure is at its peak
during this transit. ANY type of equipment--not just computers. It
can be that your trash compactor explodes on you. Your knife
sharpener quits working. Your telephone goes on the fritz. Your fax
dies on you and you gotta replace it. You name the communications
device or travel device (cars/planes/boats) and it will fail.
5. Mercury rules our thinking processes. Believe me, folks, we
aren't thinking clearly or as coherently as we'd like to think we are
during a Mercury. R!!!!! We become forgetful. Yesterday, we knew
that person's name, and today....well....pfffftttttt....out the
window it goes and you can't recall that person's name for love nor
money! Or you get lost in traffic, lost in a shopping center, you
can't remember where you put something. Things get LOST and
MISPLACED big time. You won't find it until after Mercury goes
direct or you won't find it until the next Mercury retrograde
period!!! Our orderly thinking dissolves. Our minds may race.
Insomnia may affect a few.
6. Delays--on everything! You're late for an appointment. Or,
they lost your appointment! The company promised it would be there
on a certain day--wrooonnnnggggg! Under a Mercury R, it can get lost
(permanently or temporarily) and it will never arrive on time! No
one shows up at the right time. So forget it, let the punctual
schedule go and just sit back and relax. You'll never be on
time--there can be an unexpected delay on the freeway/turnpike, or
the other person is delayed. Detours pop up out of nowhere.
Accidents delay you for hours on a freeway. The appointment will
never occur on time during a Mercury R.
7. Your mind is somewhere else rather on the nuts and bolts of
everyday life/demands/things you gotta do. Where it's gone is still
a mystery. We just know you aren't functioning like you normally do
:-). It requires a lot more energy and intense concentration to do
your daily job right (and not lose or misplace things) than normal
during this three week period. Pay attention! Don't be driving and
have your mind go 'elsewhere' because you're an accident waiting to
happen. About seven days before Mercury goes retrograde--be
especially watchful and more alert about your own driving--and drive
very defensively--because other drivers who aren't in touch with what
is happening in the heaven are already spacy and somewhere else and
they are NOT paying full attention to their driving. The day that
Mercury goes retrograde is the most dangerous of all for driving a
car. PLEASE, pay attention!!! I usually opt NOT to be driving
anywhere on that day--I stay home and clean up a bunch of unfinished
projects instead.
8. Do not try to send out a new PR news release or any kind of
media-blitz to newspapers, internet, television or any other medium;
it will not "takeoff" and produce the "buzz" you want from it; it
will be circular filed in the nearest waste basket and forgotten
about! Your money spent on a hard working PR consultant will have
been in vain. It will be circular filed with a giant sucking sound
and disappear! Better to wait AFTER Mercury goes direct to start any
campaign....then, it WILL take off like everyone hopes that it will!
9. Don't open up a new web site, either. It will not receive the
notoriety, the 'hits' and it will die on the vine. Better to wait
until Mercury goes direct if you want it to flourish, get notoriety,
and have good word-of-mouth 'buzz' about your up and coming .com.
10. If you must TRAVEL during this period under the present
circumstances, keep your eyes open and your guard up. Any vacations
or unnecessary travel should be avoided IF your birth date is
mentioned at the start of this article.
11. There is so much garbage, lies, FRAUD and deceit on the
Internet, that it's sad. People MUST look the gift horse in the
mouth. Do not buy anything for your personal safety until you look
at it and get confirmed, reliable sources, science trials or whatever
it takes, to prove that this "thing" will work as the sales people
are saying. Beware of fraud.....
12. Having any kind of an operation performed under a Mercury
retrograde automatically means it will be done AGAIN, later.
Misdiagnosis, bad surgery, abound, with this aspect. Invitro
fertilization will also fail. This is the misdiagnosis and medical
malpractice central when Mercury is retrograde. If you can avoid
medical procedures/surgery under this, do it. Otherwise, you are
doomed to repeat it later--and who needs pain and discomfort twice?
Also, cosmetic surgery will not make you happy with the outcome,
either. Avoid it at all costs or be stuck with a nose, lips or eye
wrinkles that will have to be worked on AGAIN, to straighten out--IF
it can be straightened out at all.
IS THERE ANY GOOD NEWS ABOUT MERCURY RETROGRADE?
Yes, indeedee! Let's look at this another way. We lead very
stress-filled, super busy lives, right? Which one of us,
voluntarily, is gonna say: "Hey, I'm gonna have a 'time-out' for
three weeks, kick back, relax, and just take it easy and let my poor
mind and body rest up from the punishment I give it." I don't see
any hands raised. :-) That's right, Mercury retrograde is our 'time
out' from stress and the humdrum orderly life we lead. The phones
quiet down, the email demands diminish, the faxes stop making your
floor look like white rolls of paper. Your mind goes 'elsewhere' and
you just wanna daydream, or just stop thinking altogether. It feels
good to 'unplug' and rest.
Yes, Mercury retrograde is our time out to rest. And if you
won't voluntarily do it--it will do it for us to some degree or
another. For Sagittarius and Gemini folks who are most affected by
this retrograde. So for them, they are usually strongly affected by
these retrogrades--more so than any of the ten other zodiac signs.
Life can turn to chaos or sh-- (depending upon their attitude toward
these 'time-outs' in their life) or it can mean exquisite relief from
all the powerful mental/mind stuff they do constantly 24/7.
I look FORWARD to Mercury retrograde because my phone stops ringing, demands of Email, faxes diminish to a huge extent and I get to 'rest'! Boy, do I look forward to these time-outs!! And I get to 'catch-up' on all the stuff that hasn't been attended to because of so many phone calls, faxes and Email demands! :-). I love Mercury R!!! I get a three-week 'breather' three times a year and with my mental schedule, if I didn't have these, I'm sure I'd have permanent brain burn out ! However, with this terrorist event, I'm not sure I'm gonna get that time out I was hoping for!
Virgo's (the other sign ruled by Mercury) tend to get more
upset over Mercury R periods because they're such picky
perfectionists and they really do expect their lives to go like
clockwork and God forbid they be late for an appointment--HORRORS!!
For them, it's a major crisis if that occurs. For them, Mercury R
periods are discombobulating because they can't strive for that
near-perfection they seek for three weeks, three to four times a
year. If they can 'get over' this need to be perfect or always
on-time, then it's not such a stressful period for them :-).
1. If, however, you want to finish up on something--Mercury R is a
wonderful time to wrap up projects, attend to details, and yes, clean
up your messy desk, reorganize things, the telephone stops ringing,
email flow reduces, faxes are fewer, and generally, a period of quiet
so you can "catch up" on a bunch of projects you had started earlier,
can be finished up very nicely during this period. This is a
wonderful time to take something you wanted to do--but just didn't
have the time to complete or finish up--and get it done.
2. If you have a project that has lain around a long time and you
just never got around to it--now is the time to look at it more
closely and decide if its worth your investment in time and
energy--if it isn't, during this time, you'll more than likely drop
it permanently--or get serious about resurrecting it or completing
it--successfully!
3. Lies, deceit, cheating and sneaky actions by others or yourself,
will come to light during a Mercury R period. It's the the long arm
of Karma unveiling such negative things. If you think you duped
someone--wait--during this period is when it will come to light and
boy, will you be caught 'red handed'!!! Or, if someone said
something behind your back--it will get back to you during this time
frame. Or, if you were in some way cheated, duped or lied to, you
will find out about it now.
4. Your daily routine is no more--so, "go with the flow" and don't
fight it. You'll be more day-dreamy, more spacy, more....of
'something'--so just go 'there.' This is a great time for "inny" not
"outy" experiences. It's wonderful for doing internal work--either
with a therapist, or digging more deeply into your psyche via
meditation or other spiritual experiences--and it will produce a lot
of 'aha's' during this time frame.
5. This is a great time to clean up anything you haven't already
completed! Wash the windows! Paint that cabinet! Finish off that
project that has been there silently asking for completion. Dust
that room! Take down the spider webs! You'll have the time to do it
now :-).
6. Remember Mercury REtrograde this way: REturns, REvise, REthink,
REdo, REgroup....well, you get the idea...any "RE" is usually
applicable to a retrograde. Do these things, and they will turn out
just fine!
by Eileen Nauman
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