Mercury Retrograde - October 2007

October 12th through November 1st

Mercury Retrograde - According to your Sun Sign - Section 1 (below)

Mercury Retrograde - According to your Natal Chart - Section 2 (below)

Mercury turns retrograde October 12th and 9° Scorpio
Mercury turns direct November 1st at 23° Libra

This Mercury retrograde empasizes shared inner depth and values of this connection in our shared relationships. Scroll to each section to determine the impact of this Mercury retrograde. (Graphic at bottom shows the Mercury retrograde process)

Section 1: This Mercury retrograde will impact the later Libra and early Scorpio sectors. Accordingly the angle to Libra and Scorpio will impact your Sun Sign. Read Below to understand the impact within your chart.

Section 2: Scroll to the end of the Sun Sign Section and you will find an explanation of the impact of your natal chart in the location of Libra and Scorpio within your natal chart. With 30 degrees in each sign, we find that the later Libra and early Scorpio sectors will be impacted.

Section 1: Mercury Retrograde

According to your Sun Sign

Find your Sun Sign and read the impact of the Libra/Scorpio aspect to your Sun Sign

ARIES - Mercury retrograde is impacting your inner values and your deep determination to move forward investing in yourself and your beliefs. You are reviewing the deep connections you share with others and you will realize you are ready to make your move, stand up for your beliefs and go in your own direction. The important issues for you surround the parts of yourself that you can share with others. If there are relationships in which you can't share a deeper belief with, then you will begin to withdraw from connection with those individuals and those directions associated with unimportant activities. As an Aries you have learned to value yourself and to not let anyone push you into being someone other that what you are. During this Mercury retrograde you will be communicating to important relationships and making important decisions about the people you want to continue walking with.

TAURUS - Mercury retrograde impacts your relationships and those people you work with. You will begin to connect with others that you have a common set of values with and those values will become important as you review your relationships in general, but also with a focus of your work environment. You will go review your work environment and make decisions to connect with the people that you have something solid to share. You are ready to take a stand to connect with others as you stand up for your beliefs. You are gaining in the exhibition of your true motives and ethics. You philosophy has always been a very strong one, and you will also utilize this philosophy in your actions in dealing with other people. A strong philosophy has been the foundation of your life which has been lived out in your dealings with other people, whether in a personal or work environment. You will become more outspoken about this philosophy and about others connection to this same philosophy.

GEMINI - Mercury retrograde is impacting your creative ideas and how they are integrated into your work environment. There may be a lot of opportunities to adjust your work environment because of the creative pursuits that you begin to apply your talents. You have many talents that are just naturally inherent within yourself. You will be taking these talents a step further as you begin to integrate the creative ideas into your work environment. You may also take up a new health regime in which you find you enjoy and that it provides the spark you have been looking for to regain connection with your inner and outer health. You are very good at working with other people and will have more demands to incorporate that quality into your work environment as well. Becoming more social will be part of this Mercury retrograde. Many spontaneous opportunities to join groups will come into manifestation.

CANCER - Mercury retrograde will see changes in your home environment as it relates to your relationships, decoration and children. You will begin to see that you have a strong likeness for a particular person, a particular color, theme or desire. You will integrate these decisions into your home environment and bring new people into your life, into your home and expand your creative projects. You also have a deep connection with your children that will change the way you have decorated or chosen your house. You will be revising either your home or how it is laid out. You may also decide to remodel or to move closer to your child's school. The purpose of your decisions will be according to your relationships, whether a spouse, family member, children or decisions to redecorate according to your true creative ideas.

LEO - Mercury retrograde impacts your deeper connection with yourself and your true inner feelings about yourself and your home environment. You will be reviewing your home and rethinking many of your decisions of the past. You may also have a huge awakening regarding your true feelings as you look at your life from a much deeper perspective than ever before. Mercury retrogrades back to Libra as you want to regain a balance and stabilize your mental thoughts. There is a strong impetus to gain control of your home environment and not allow your life to come under such major swings because of other people. This will become a strong desire that will ultimately have you rethink some major decisions that you have made in the past. You will come into some great inner realizations and begin to see things differently in order to regain your balance and harmony.

VIRGO - Mercury retrograde impacts your decisions and how your decisions impact your relationships and the finances that have a joint name on them. Virgo is a strong auditing sign and you want to make sure that all is fair and right, so you at times go out of your way to over compensate for your search for fairness. You think about situations in a very deep and penetrating way. You bring your conclusions into a balance and fairness approach with others, in your home, work and business relationships. All partnerships are treated according to the deeper values that each person shows they have as a natural foundation. Your thought process is going to change as well as your financial situation and the connection you have with joint funds and the money that you share with others.

LIBRA - Mercury retrograde impacts your finances and the finances that have a direct correlation on the way you see yourself and how others see you. You want to make sure that you are a fair individual, but you also look at situations dealing with finances in a fairly black and white way. You are reviewing your finances and realizing the impact that the financial status has had on your own image of your self. You want to gain control of your financial situation and turn it around to enable you to have a stronger sense of self and independence. You are ready to regain harmony and balance within yourself and how the control of others with your finances have impacted you and kept you from being allowed to be yourself. Your focus is to regain your self, your independence and be ready to build your financial future.

SCORPIO - Mercury retrograde impacts your image of yourself and how your destiny is changing. You will also look at your inner world to see how much of your balance and harmony was given up due to the controls in the outside world. You will look at yourself differently and become stronger proponent toward your own inner self, intuition and your belief in your own world. You will rethink the ability of the outside world to control you and to take away your balance and harmony. As you work hard to regain this inner balance you will begin to realize how much of it was long along the way. You are ready to regain your true inner self and you will make a decision to put yourself first before allowing the outer situations to control your world and your self-image. This resolve becomes a huge factor as you continue to walk through the remainder of the year.

SAGITTARIUS - Mercury retrograde is impacting your connection with humanity and a larger scope of people. You are expanding into many different groups that you would normally not have a connection with, but because your life is changing, you are moving into very different social circles. Your destiny has a hand in this process as you are going from group to group and connecting with people that are so different than you. However, the connection is an important one and has a reason and purpose behind the energy shift that has come into your life. You are tapping into part of your destiny a sit relates to your new life emerging. Your goals have to now have some different connections in your life that actually will become a blessing in disguise even though right now you may not see it. You have a great amount of depth within and you are not anxious to share that with just every person you meet. But yet at the same time, your circumstances will make you toss caution to the wind and just communicate with people as you would a best friend. This has a definite purpose as your life is on the launch pad ready to blast off into new and different directions.

CAPRICORN - Mercury retrograde impacts your endeavors regarding the relationship with humanity and what your efforts mean to society. You have a strong inner depth and a strong sense of ethics as you have lived out your philosophy. Your true inner world is about ready to explode beyond your containment. All of your beliefs and efforts will explode out into the open. You have built the very quality that you value and are willing to stand up and speak up as Truth becomes the important issue during this Mercury retrograde. You are ultimately preparing for your opportunities to be revealed in your career setting as Mercury retrogrades back into Libra's connection with people and potentially have partnerships within your business world. These new connections may be the very key to unlock the career pathways that you have been desiring for quite some time. You will bring back a sense of balance into your career and business pursuits as you implement your true humanitarian values and how they fit into your career. You may make many changes in your career as new relationships come into play that allow you to connect with others that share your same inner values.

AQUARIUS - Mercury retrograde is impacting how your philosophy is being utilized in your career and business pursuits. You are not ready to give up your controls to others that don't share the same philosophy. You want to connect with a larger social group that you can work in business together and share the same philosophy. Bringing these two areas together for the purpose of your strong desire to connect with integrity, ethics and have a strong sense of pride in your career. Your career then begins to fulfill your inner self and the pursuits that propagate your philosophy of "making a difference". Because of the people you meet that share your same goals and philosophy, you may make a career shift and make a determination that you can have a stronger and better impact upon humanity in this way. You will make many important shifts as you see a path opening up that has the qualities that you are looking for in your life.

PISCES - Mercury retrograde gives you a reason to looker deeper at your life and at your philosophy. You have finally made friends with your intuition and you are seeing it as a great value and something that you can invest in further. Your philosophy is your foundation, yet at times, you have been so stretched with feeling so overwhelmed with situations that you didn't have the time or the strength to continue walking toward your goals. Now that you have your inner connection, you will be making importance decisions about how to invest more of your time and money toward this inner aspect of yourself. The balance that you will be regaining will make you stronger and feel your deeper aspect of ethics, motives and desires. You will ultimately make decisions to change and adjust your goals because of the recognition that you are truly a wonderful person. Your inner depth begins to speak for itself.
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Section 2: Mercury Retrograde

According the House Placement in your Natal Chart

Find the section of your natal chart that has the later Libra (23° Libra) and early Scorpio (9° Scorpio). This will point to the area of your life that will be impacted by this Mercury retrograde.

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio/Libra impacting your 1st house - The 1st house requires the Self to project the qualities within the 1st house and to show the real person that exists. The impact of this Mercury retrograde puts you on stage to be seen for who you truly are. The impact of this Mercury retrograde will reveal the true essence as all becomes visible. The situations that make up this Mercury retrograde will reveal the impact of your essence, how that has created an impact in the outside world. How you have communicated and all that you have said will come back upon you to reveal the true essence of your being. Scorpio lifts the cover to show the person that truly exists and the qualities that exist within you. Your motives, ethics, values and actions will truly have an impact on your image, your self image and the one that is visible to others. The explosion in December will ignite your communication as the true essence will no longer be able to hold back the communication of your true essence. Your passion will take over in your communication and it will begin to lead you into new directions.

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio/Libra impacting your 2nd house - The 2nd house provides focus on your finances, your true values and therefore you will be addressing the monetary requirements during the changes and adjustments that come during this Mercury retrograde. Your true values, motives and undercurrent essence regarding money and financial dealings will become visible. You will see the qualities that create your definition of money and therefore the essence that drives you forward for attainment of those things you value. There may be many situations that begin to impact your finances as the journey that you have experienced since 1995, when Pluto first went into Sagittarius will come to impact your home environment, your relationship with your family members and the emotional connections. You may have put a great deal of effort and financial investment into decisions of the past that seemingly didn't reap any reward, and created a river that just flowed out and has felt like a dry riverbed. Many situations will begin to shift during this Mercury retrograde that will have you review your decisions, ethics and motives. Revealing the true essence of your being, your actions will be revealed.

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio/Libra impacting your 3rd house - The 3rd house rules ideas, concepts and communication. Your efforts to utilize the information gathered becomes a key ingredient of this Mercury retrograde. You will find yourself collecting information as well as information landing on your front doorstep. You look deeper at situations and issues that provide information about people, relationships and want to gain a greater understanding about what makes mediations and negotiations work. You delve deeply into the political aspirations of others and the motives that propel people into specific directions. This Mercury retrograde you may find yourself being part of impromptu discussions about issues that require resolutions. You listen and gather information before you launch into your conclusions, but whenever you do others seem quite amazed at your ability to astutely summarize the discussions. This Mercury retrograde may throw you into the heat of the arguments as a bystander in which you will utilize your talents that must bubble to the surface at a moments notice and require that you jump into the game.

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio/Libra impacting your 4th house - The 4th house rules home, family and your emotional base. Mercury retrograde impacting your home environment, has you become the person who finds the pathway through a myriad of obstacles and ushers the changes into a positive direction for everyone. Your environment requires you express more compassion with others. The shifts in their home environment and family members will bring you closer to a new direction and new understanding with everyone. You have a real sensitivity with others as your emotional base is aligned with similar securities felt with other people. The water sign of Scorpio makes you connect on a deep level to your home and family in a special and unique way. You may add more water to your home in a fountain or bathroom, as you transition your home to something more connected to the emotions of everyone. Your pull to bring this element into your home will increase as you recognize the value that this plays in the emotional well-being of yourself and other family members.

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio/Libra impacting your 5th house - The 5th house relates to creativity, self-expression and the value of your spark. Your children and your creative projects will prompt you to shift and adjust your situations in order to have a deeper emotional connection with them. You may find that you are expecting during this time or that you will be changing your schedule or connection with those who share your creative attention. New creative projects may come along at this time that open new doors of emotional discovery or that requires you to explore more of your feelings surrounding the changes happening in your life. Your love relationships are also a part of the 5th house and they may be moving in or out with the tide during this Mercury retrograde. Love is the key ingredient of the 5th house and your passion will be the focus of your deeper emotional tugs. Shifting from one love to another or striking out in a new area of passion will also create changes as well.

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio/Libra impacting your 6th house - The 6th house relates to health, healing, work and counseling. You may be shifting your work environment or take up a new position in which there is more counseling involved, either by you or others. You may also decide to enter into a new health regime or expand your discovery of health issues and alternative health concepts. You want to bring a fix into your life in one way or another, and you will be looking for and making a great deal of discoveries in this area. You may also have a temporary change in your work environment because of some sort of remodeling that is happening at this time, which makes you feel displaced as if you are working out of a closet. Your emotional responses to these situations will spur your deeper analytical problem solving abilities to help you find that much needed comfort zone. Ultimately you will see the course correction of this Mercury retrograde as one that gives your emotions a deeper sense of security and well-being.

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio/Libra impacting your 7th house - The 7th house rules relationships and partnership interactions. You have a strong ability to understand the deeper side to relationships and to provide a sense of balance in your interactions with others. You are involved with public relations aspects in some way or another and your connection with others will be expanding and shifting during this Mercury retrograde. You become very sensitized to others and you may experience a shift in your relationships due to changes that occur with others. The deeper connections with others may also surface in a way in which you will have to grasp a new understanding about the importance of aspects not seen before. This deeper emotional connection of your togetherness will prompt you to find a new balance and integrate a greater connection.

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio/Libra impacting your 8th house - The 8th house relates to inner values, inner strength and ethics. These qualities are associated with coordinating your efforts with others values. Often the values of others are financially based, or monetary arrangements may be associated with the 8th house, however, there is more of a focus on ethics and shared values during this Mercury retrograde. You may feel as if you have lost your emotional connection with others along the way and you will attempt to try to find this alignment again, yet the value systems with others are becoming the important issue. Whether this shift with others is due to financial hardship or just challenging situations that you have had to endure, you will have to make many important choices about your own ethics and motives. Having Libra and Scorpio in the 8th house pushes your emotional responses into becoming strong and very focused. You are definite about your values and have the endurance that is grown through difficult times. This Mercury retrograde gives you the chance to see how much inner strength you have and the ability to deal with emotional challenges with courage, bravery and positive emotions. You may help others during this time because of your inner strength or you will appreciate yourself more. The relationships that share this connection will grow while others will fall away.

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio/Libra impacting your 9th house - The 9th house relates to travel, international cultures and philosophical approach to life. You are aligned with a natural affinity to understanding different and diverse cultures and this prompts you to expand your connections with others as you understand the need for different philosophical avenues. You will be setting new and different goals for yourself and you will want to also pursue higher education in areas that you have a natural affinity toward. You will be reconsidering different pursuits and different thoughts and ideas will continue to expand your philosophy. Through using your intuition and bringing forward your aspirations and feelings, you create a passionate direction. You will be setting new and different goals for yourself, ones that are more aligned with your true emotional pulls, and therefore your relationships will change accordingly. You will also consider different paths than you have in the past because your emotions are now calling to you in a different way. You will make some very important shifts during this mercury retrograde that will change the course of your life and your connection with others.

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio/Libra impacting your 10th house - The 10th house rules your career and business pursuits. You will have a great revealing process occur in your career environment as many of your business pursuits and career choices become part of this mercury retrograde. You may change your job during this time or have an opportunity for a major promotion at this time. You have a great deal of inner depth and abilities, which will begin to be revealed and the impact that you have in the world of others will begin to be seen and visible as the revealing process occurs. Your deeper motives, ethics and understanding will begin to dictate you pursue a new avenue. You have a deeper connection with life and this understanding is becoming visible as situations are revealed. Your ability to see balance and resolutions are built in your deep vision and understanding of the whole iceberg of situations. You have a deep awareness that will be impacted by this Mercury retrograde. You will see the road ahead, the pathway that must now be traversed with the deep insite which will create majore changes from the positive backlash.

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio/Libra impacting your 11th house - The 11th house relates to the humanitarian focus of your life and your friends goals that you share. The importance of your deeper side of passion toward a particular humanitarian pursuit, will be brought into focus during this time. You have a way to network with others but your networking has a purpose, passion and pursuit already built into it. You are revising your relationships to consolidate those that share your pursuits and those who don't. You are gathering your army so to speak that have a journey to make and a purpose to this coordinated connection. You enjoy being with others, but it has to have a purpose in order to satisfy you. You want to bring your sense of purpose into manifestation with people at this time. This Mercury retrograde will provide the signature of passion, purpose and pursuit that will dictate your transition into your new world as you move through the end of the year. You look at situations and goals from a long range perspective and this is no different. You are ready and the time is right to join forces.

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio/Libra impacting your 12th house - The 12th house rules your inner world and this inner sense of destiny and karma. Mercury reviews this house and makes determinations about the next step in moving into this next phase. Scorpio brings your inner depth into focus and thus makes a difference in the relationships that you have in your life and the connections with others. With Mercury retrograding in your 12th house you will make many important changes and transitions with relationships and people in your life. This is similar to checking in with your cosmic contract to see if all is in order and be ready to make changes as new karmic adjustments take place. You will be revising the relationships that you have because of the cosmic connection that you have with them and the part that you are here to play. The connection that you have with the spiritual world will be changing as well. You may look at life differently than you ever have and be ready to shift your perspective to align more with your new spiritual perceptions. However you change, once Mercury turns direct and moves out of your 12th house you will feel like a new person, with a new purpose, a new passion and a new mission.

Graphic provides a visual picture of the Mercury retrograde process:

Phase 1 - Events seem increasingly to be "not right" and ultimately hit the retrograde point (October 11th).

Phase 2 - Mercury retrograde phase - Shifts our focus to find or uncover information that was not known before, or was unseen, hidden or covertly withheld. New information also begins to surface in strange times and strange events that have a place in adding to the events that didn't seem right that help to make sense of situations and can cause a turn of events, especially the closer to the end of the Mercury retrograde time (November 1st).

Phase 3 - Mercury direct - With this new found information (Mercury rules information, communication, thoughts, and attitudes) we can integrate it into the Phase 1 events to smooth the rough edges and revise events accordingly. Revisions, solutions, getting things back on track

Written by Karyl Jackson
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