Mercury Retrograde - Time to Reboot - Winter/Spring 2012

Written by: Janet (Sparrow) Moon
Published on: February 24, 2012
Category: Astrology

On March 12th Mercury will be shifting into reverse... again. At the same time we'll have outer planets singing in Earth signs, and the Sun will be approaching the Vernal Equinox. In fact, we will have so many positive aspects going on, that I'm not sure we will even notice that Mercury has turned retrograde (well... at least we won't care). Mercury's retrograde will end on April 4th without any planetary influences.

When Mercury is in retrograde, he is passing the Earth on our solar race track, thus he creates the optical illusion of moving backwards against the universe. Also his gravitational influence is stronger. Mercury only takes about 88 days to orbit the Sun, so we witness his retrograde about 3 or 4 times a year.