Mercury Retrograde Survival Tips

Mercury Retrograde:

What to do during these potential frustrating but also highly creative periods each year.       

• Put stopper on new ideas. Use time to review what already under way.
• Count to three before making split second decisions.
• Take some of unused vacation and relax.
• Don’t play markets – keep investments safe and secure.
• Plan and order in advance.
• Visit an art gallery – spend time with favorite paintings.
• Double-check findings.
• Think twice before making decisions.
• Clean out your computer.
• Read the novel you have been meaning to read for a year.
• Take time to listen to your needs.
• Recall all good things and people in life – daily reflection.
• Check the tickets you just bought fort the play
• Don’t skip the gym warm up
• Don’t quite your job yet.
• Catch up on filing and streamline.
• Don’t sign new contracts, or double check them.
• Visit old friends.
• Meditate.
• Don’t bottle up or boil over – channel energy through swimming, yoga, tai chi.
• Learn new things about self.
• Spend time talking to lonely neighbour.
• Investigate new courses of study – don’t enrol yet.
• Call an elderly relative.
• Revise your plans thoroughly.
• Plan the rally you planned to help the homeless but don’t schedule it yet.
• Don’t break a friend’s confidence.
• Channel desire for emotional excess through prayer and healing.
• Recharge batteries by spending time in nature.

Reflection at Oval Beach, Saugatuck, Michigan. Photo by Gary Blaze. Copyright 2014