Sorry for what I said when Mercury was in retrograde.

So a little heads up on your psyche. It’s gonna get a little fuzzy soon. Yes, my friends, that Mercury is headed for retrograde. What is this, how does it effect moi and how long will I ‘be under”, you ask? Here’s the scoop, so now you can say that you’ve been warned.

So this Sunday, August 13th through September 5th, the planet Mercury will be in retrograde. Retrograde is the illusion of reversal –in relation to the planet Mercury orbiting Earth. So, in short, 4 times a year Mercury passes Earth in its orbit, and the best example for explanation I’ve read is when two cars are passing each other and it appears that one (Mercury in this case) stops, and can appear to be moving in the opposite direction.  So even though this is an *illusion*, Mercury is very powerful, and being this close to the Earth, it does have its pulls on us Earthlings!

The planet Mercury is named from the Roman god Mercury (son of Zeus) who was a super speedy messenger. The fastest of all messengers, often portrayed with winged lace-up sneaks and sporty helmet for quick-delivery efficiency! And like this gifted messenger, our planet Mercury (as my fave 5-year-old buddy Cole could tell us), is the “smallest but fastest planet alive”!

Mercury being the messenger, it’s only fitting that Mercury the planet is known in astroglogy to be the planet with the most impact on human interaction and communication. Man, I worship a good clever pun and double meaning. So- how do we take cover for this ambush of retrograde? Basically, the “rule of thumb” is not to start anything new, no signing contracts, or making mega big decisions. I wouldn’t stress too much if you are pinned to doing any of these things during this time. Your life will not unravel, as these are mere suggestions of things to avoid from the hocus pocus gods.

Like a scene from one of my favorite movies You, Me and Dupree, we don’t exactly have the luxury of “staying loose, nimble, liquid” until the “Mothership” calls– meaning, we have lives to run and many things are time sensitive….(You can still scroll below for the entertaining and inspirational clip :) . …Though we can at least be a little more cognizant of how we communicate and interact with even the baristas and postal workers, and especially those VIPs in our lives during this time.

During retrograde, it’s said people from your past may bubble up, you should allow a little more time for travel plans, you should use this as a time to gather information on big decisions- but don’t dot the ‘i’s” until Mercury has shipped out– and such.  There might be a few more irritable or “confused” people roaming the streets, so maybe we can all just try to whistle a little more doo-dahh until the storm passes.  As Dupree would say, those Pods that needed to hear this, did. “It’ll kick in when it needs to.”

(I did not title this “greatest speech ever”. Some You Tuber did. Still awesome though.)