This Mercury Retrograde has been more pronounced and noticeable since it started in Cycle 3 (Gemini), the sign it rules over. There are many forms of communication, and no doubt you already have noticed glitches in the matrix. Disneyland reported ride closures, and errors at this time (incidentally, the park opened during Mercury retrograde and had so many issues there was a “relaunch”.) Computers and phones have been acting up. Have you found something you lost or has someone from past reestablished contact? Had to redo something, return something, repair or replace something? I had a neighbors package left outside my door by mistake. My laptop keyboard started typing gibberish symbols and when I went to research how to fix it, thankfully it miraculously righted itself.
This period is often forgotten as one of the best times to re-train your Mind and Mouth, moving away from tired narratives and shifting self-talk and habitual thinking from well-worn broken records and repetitive ruts towards more helpful and affirmative material. We need these windows of time to put our heads back on straight - AFTER we take a clear look at where we have just been, to re-group re-charge and re-route where need be. What we think about, what we say, what we choose to listen to or hear, what we choose to look at can all be re-fined. Distractions abound. Minds will inevitably be made up - and then decisions overturned. Gemini is mercurial, shifting, adaptable, versatile, never set in stone, silvertongued and sometimes slippery. This isn’t the time for simply having a Plan B but having a Plan C, D and E.
Watch your mouth. Observe the monkey chatter within the mind. Make your words count or seek solitude or quiet until you are clear. Mercury retrograde ends on June 3, and Mercury is back to where it was before retro, (the shadow) June 18. It would be easy under a Gemini/Cycle 3 Mercury Retrograde phase to run around like a chicken with its head cut off like “Mike the Headless Chicken” who lived for 18 months after being beheaded (don’t believe me, look him up). This period is better spent, learning to adapt to life’s unexpected twists and turns. On our road, sometimes the traffic gets jammed, other drivers annoy, road signs and building numbers are missing and sometimes even the path itself needs ripping up and repairing.
Mercury just slipped back into Taurus, so slowing down will help, so we don’t risk rushing and missing a vital clue or end up having to circle back for a do-over.
Keep an eye on where your head is at. There is still time to change course and shift circumstances with something as simple as a change of mind, a differing perspective (from a book, a conversion overhead, something you stumble across online etc). Remember thoughts become things, so notice when you are replaying the same ones (that bring discomfort in their wake) and refocus back in on manageable steps that can be taken Today.