{"id":735,"date":"2010-08-20T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T15:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestudiohhc.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2015-04-14T21:28:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T21:28:54","slug":"mercury-retrograde-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharynrose.com\/mercury-retrograde-huh\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Retrograde… Huh???"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Uh Oh, It\u2019s Another Mercury Retrograde<\/h1>\n

Stop worrying and start celebrating!<\/h4>\n

Published: August 20, 2010<\/p>\n

by\u00a0MARK HUSSON<\/h2>\n

Use this mini calendar to time your good fortune.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE <\/span>an early (900 B.C. or so) astronomer with a true love of planet surfing (which is a lot like channel surfing only your television set is a long tube with a warped piece of glass on the end of it).<\/p>\n

Now imagine your astonishment when you realize that one of the planets you’ve been watching, the planet you call Mercury, stops moving in its predictable path. The little guy starts to slow down and before you know it\u2014about a week after your first observation\u2014you realize that Mercury is moving backwards\u2014back through the path from whence it came!<\/p>\n

The hair on your body (and it’s likely everywhere on your body\u2014eww<\/em>) is standing straight up. You begin to get dizzy as your mind races to help you decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing. The thought occurs to you that this appears to be a great opportunity to “clean up” the past. You are so excited by your revelation that you jump to write your announcement and knock over the candle that was lighting your way. But the resulting fire was horrible and you realize that you must have been wrong. Now you feel that it is your responsibility to send messages of fear and terror throughout the villages. “Mercury moving backwards is a bad thing and we must seek to make this Messenger God happy. Sacrifice something\u2014stop having fun, stop living if you have to, at least until Mercury decides to move forward again.\u201d And so began the birth of the ill-fated retrograde.<\/p>\n

Thousands of years later, we discover that Mercury wasn’t moving backwards at all. Three times a year, the Earth just passes Mercury in such a way that it\u2014appears\u2014to be moving backwards but it’s not. Unfortunately, in spite of our awareness, the terror struck by that early astronomer is still felt by many of you and you cower in dread every time it is announced that Mercury is moving Retrograde. Even though more than 50 percent of the top Fortune 500 businesses were launched under a Mercury Retrograde, and even though we have strong evidence to suggest that the God Mercury may be a myth, we still tend to heed our ancestors call to sacrifice in the hopes that the angry God will leave us unscathed this time around.<\/p>\n

If you happen to be someone who broke out of that fear cycle and feel supported by a loving, Divine grace, then you’re likely to have a lot more fun during this retrograde. And while your friends are cowering, you get to be first in line for the great bargains and remarkable opportunities that often befall us during each retrograde. Here is a mini calendar to help you time your good fortune during this August 2010 phenomenon:<\/p>\n