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Mercury is going retrograde late on Tuesday, Dec 12. Back up whatever you need to back up now.

But honestly mercury retrogrades arent total disaster, hide in your bed until it's over. I would wait to sign a contract or agreement until after mercury goes direct on January 1, but if you have anything that has to do with the suffix re, this is the time.

revise a story, or

rewrite one with a better vision.

re evaluate your project planning for the next quarter.

review your 2023 and compassionately evaluate it.

revisit old ideas that you set aside.

Mercury is going back. You should too. When mercury turns direct on January 1st, you'll be ready to look forward, refreshed with a better awareness of what you did before.

But don't feel like you are messing up if your plan isn't going smoothly right from the crack of January 1st! The morning of January 11 will be the new moon in Capricorn, and you will have seen some of the complications of your grand resolutions after the first week. Take time to adjust your plan to whatever gives you practical, sustainable results, and take advantage of the do-over first thing Thursday morning.

Mercury retrograde is happening again. This time Mercury will station (appear to stand still) on August 4th 2024 9:56 pm Pacific Time, but I'm going to advise that anything you are working on that can be characterized as "forward progress" be paused starting July 27th. The time to back up your computers is *now* and I suggest that anything you have that's important on cloud services? copy it to a portable hard drive. We've seen what Crowd Strike did to big businesses; don't let that be your portfolio, your manuscript, your archives, your photo album. Get it local. Cloud just means somebody else's computer.

DO NOT SIGN CONTRACTS DURING MERCURY RETROGRADE. Get them sewn up this week or wait until the end of August. PLAN FOR DELAYS DURING TRAVEL. Don't pack anything of particular value if you must travel.

August 4th is also a new moon in Leo and that's usually the time to start new projects. but take heart - there's a workaround. Mercury retrograde is a great time to do do-overs, reviews, repeats, and throwbacks.

So this is the secret to how you start things during a mercury retrograde and see success--do a re-start.

for activities to "return" to during mercury retrograde, you can look at your own natal chart and see what house mercury is in when it begins retrograde at 4 degrees virgo, then when it enters leo on August.

Since Mercury will be in virgo when it stations direct, this is a good time to review your work stuff. Look at your projects, evaluate them, look for missing details. Make records, and BACK STUFF UP. Tempers are going to flare in your everyday work--organize your stuff, gather your receipts, stay gracious. File your paper clutter. Update your spreadsheets. Look for subscriptions for stuff you don't need or want and cancel them.

Old health routines are a great re-start when mercury goes retrograde in Virgo. Go back to eating more plants, try that thyroid supporting eating style again. Get the yoga mat back out. Duswt off your kettlebells. Go on a dumb little walk for your stupid mental health - something that you were doing for your health in the past, but stopped doing.

Special highlight day! on the evening (USA) of Wednesday August 7th mercury and venus will be conjunct in virgo, and so on this day and thursday, it could be a good time to socialize, especially if you're catching up with someone you haven't seen in a long time.

On August 15, Mercury will go into Leo. This is when you go back to your hobbies, leisure, fun, creativity, romance, and children. If you took an old course about how to express yourself or for leadership, charisma, personal improvement, personal brand, etc. This is a great time to go back to those courses and review them with the experience you have now.

If you have old writing, this is a good time to go back and see if you need to revise or rewrite.

If you used to do a hobby or art but you haven't in a while, mercury retrograde is a good time to come back to it. If you were decluttering and then life happened, Mercury retrograde is a good time to declutter - and I'm going to suggest, since Mercury is going into Leo on August 15, that you mark that as the time to declutter your clothes and hobby supplies.

This is a shitty time to start a new investment! but it is a good time to analyse where your money is going (horrifying, I know) This is when you'll see that you're spending a lot of your money on candles, and be more able to see clearly that it's becoming a problem.

This is an awesome time to go on a "no buy" challenge around your hobbies. Fiber artist? work from stash, and make something you have made before that you really liked. Fashionista? No new clothes. (I said *new* clothes. Consignment, vintage, thrift, and swaps are technically not new clothes, but don't go wild.)

Mercury stations and turns direct on August 28, 2024, resuming forward motion again, and will have passsed completely out of the retrograde degrees on the evening (USA) of September 11, 2024.\

Generational planets such as Pluto, Uranus and Neptune in the 1st house can indicate great fame, since these planets have to do with large crowds of people, causing the native to attract or exert great influence.

Mercury in Aquarius/11th house be careful not to become what you most fear becoming: dogmatic. No matter how formed your opinion is, don't let it become fixed to the point of being your greatest truth.

The 3rd house is very elastic, the one who will define its energy most precisely is the sign in it.

Moon/Venus/Mars in Scorpio/8th house, go practice the Law of Attraction, you have a very powerful aura, you are wasting time if you don't use all this magnitude to get what you want.

You know that Mercury in Scorpio/8th house person you teased? Good luck trying to hide anything from them, in love or hate they will discover your secrets and, if hurt, they will use it against you.

12th house placements, please stay more in touch with the people you love, they miss you. If the distance you maintain is self-imposed, don't forget that the people in your life love you, that they want to have a little more of your physical presence.

My dear Leo, be careful with who you spend your affection with, you give so generously, be careful not to give it to the wrong people, the ones who are secretly jealous of you, who talk about you behind your back. Your heart of gold can "rust" in the wrong hands.

Aquarius placements, get ready, because the definitive entry of Pluto in Aquarius on November 19th of this year until 2044 will be the craziest years of your life. Get ready, there are a lot of big profound changes coming.

Mars in Pisces would do very well if they worked with their mediumship, whether in tarot or astrology or in art.

10th house placements always attract 2nd house placements people, it's incredible. They generally get along very well, they understand each other, they can be very good friends. The 2nd house supports the ambition of the 10th house, the 10th house values ​​and pampers the 2nd house.

I know there isn’t a lot of information out there on Yods (AKA- Gods pointing finger, Finger of fate, etc) and I’ve had a heap of requests to make a post on this fairly rare aspect pattern. I plan on going further in-depth with Yods at a later date but for now, this is what I know…

The Yod in astrology is often found in the charts of people whose lives are colored by intensity and constant adjustment.

Yods symbolize patterns in families that have lasted for generations. Carriers of the “Finger of Fate” can also feel insecure or have trouble expressing themselves and they may often find themselves in unusual situations. People with Yods in their chart have a restlessness, like a sense of their unique purpose and a calling to be their authentic selves at any expense.

The discomfort of a Yod tends to manifest more in the mental and emotional realms. Yod people may always feel like some crucial understanding or piece of information is missing—one that would help transcend the irritating sense that things are not quite as they should be.

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If you have one or more Yods in your astrology chart:

You elicit strong, recurring responses from your environment that you don’t understand

Your parents had trouble comprehending you as a child (and as an adult)

You maneuver through intense circumstances that would break other people’s spirits

You experience things “out of the blue” that are beyond general life events

What crosses your path often involves some scare, shock, security threat, or some other uncomfortable situation over which you cannot exercise any influence. Strange events simply “happen,” often out of the blue

Simply put, the role of Yod bearer is to break ancestral patterns. Yods are strange, but also somewhat mystical and fated. Those who have Yods in their birth charts are here to shed light upon patterns that have gone unaddressed for generations. The planet at the top point of the yod is the solution. When the yod is activated you have the choice to make society better or worse and your choice can not be undone. Whatever fate you choose is set in stone. No pressure.

Side note: Yods can also be a health aspect. You have 2 planets in a sextile so they get along really well and then you have the activation point…It is always a sign that is not Compatible with the other two which causes irritation.

credits goes to @astrobaeza

Our natal charts can indicate a lot about our personalities: our goals, aspirations, gifts and talents. Here are a few major indicators of high intelligence or even genius-ness in the birth chart! (disclaimer: if you don't have these, it does not mean you are not smart bb<3)

Sun and/or Mercury in an Air sign (intellects of zodiac)

Sun and/or Mercury in Mercurial signs (Virgo and Gemini)

Moon-Mercury aspects (good memory of knowledge)

Mercury-Saturn Aspects (academic rigour and ability to study for long periods of time)

Mercury- Uranus conjunction (eccentric level of genius, quick thinking)