Mercury Retrograde is infamous for being a time of challenge and miscommunication where life turns upside down.
There are ongoing jokes that its best just to stay in your house during mercury retrograde… To avoid traveling, avoid talking to people, stop taking on new projects, signing paperwork, or making decisions…
While there’s a small level of truth in some of this, there has become this massive cultural superstition and stigma about Mercury Retrograde… That’s actually incredibly disempowering.
Astrology is meant to shine a light on the energetic influences happening, so we can know what is coming, respond accordingly… And use the energies to thrive! Not to say “Oh well, I guess the next month is going to be…