Mercury Retrograde March 14 - Thoughts that straddle Pisces and Aries.

 

Mercury Classical statue.  Uffizi Florence. 

 

Mercury

Station Retrograde 

March 14, 9Aries 35

 

Feb 28        Mercury enters shadow 

Mar 14       Mercury stations retrograde (9 Aries 35)

Mar 24       Mercury conjunct Sun – cazimi (4 Aries 24)

Mar 29       Mercury re-enters Pisces  

Apr   7       Mercury stations direct (26 Pisces 49) 

Apr  15       Mercury re-enters Aries 

Apr  26       Mercury exits shadow 

 

Two weeks after Venus stations retrograde, we now have Mercury retrograding at 9 degrees of Aries.  Like Venus, Mercury is straddling back and forth between Aries and Pisces.    In general, during Mercury retrograde periods we benefit by a slowdown of our thinking, talking and connecting.  Unfortunately, the very nature of slowing down will piss off Aries.   Delays will be very frustrating.   Some issues that come up may demand swift thinking and conversations that are sharp.    If the talks cut to the bone and have long term consequences that might be okay.   In our current climate of Venus is helping us find our hearts and talking to us through Aries and now Mercury retrograded in Aries, there just may be a need for fierceness for things we love and independent thinking.   

 

When Mercury re-enters Pisces on March 29, it will join Venus and now they both remember tenderness, kindness and benevolence has meaning.   We can reconnect to something again tender through our hearts and minds and then when Mercury stations direct on April 7 and re-enters Aries on April 15, we are back to our warrior brain again.   

 

In mundane astrology, we should anticipate big talk of war.   Big talk of independence.  Big talk of doing something new.  But if in the ‘newness’ the baby gets thrown out in the bath water there will be those who say, ‘hang on I think we are forgetting something.’  More to be revealed.