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February 2, 2022

Mercury Retrograde Ends Tomorrow – Here’s Why Everything Has Been Going Wrong For You

Mercury went into retrograde for the first time in 2022 from January 14 and is set to end its rampage of chaos on February 3.

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We are just about past that time of year when we can blame our personal failings and things going wrong on a planet millions of light years away.

Mercury went into retrograde for the first time in 2022 from January 14 and is set to end its rampage of chaos on February 3.

No more blaming external factors from tomorrow then, I guess.

We have covered what this planetary ruling means for life on Earth before, but when it comes to disastrous things potentially screwing up our personal lives, it is always good to recap ASAP.

Here is CNN with the basics from Claire Comstock-Gay, astrologer for The Cut and author of Madame Clairevoyant’s Guide to the Stars:

“In astrology, Mercury is the planet that rules thought, communication and connection.” If that sounds like a lot, well, it is!

“This covers a huge range of our everyday activities,” Comstock-Gay explains, “including practically everything you do on your phone or the internet — texts and DMs, Zoom, map and calendar apps… The list goes on!”

“During Mercury retrograde, which is when Mercury appears to move backward through the sky,” Comstock-Gay says, “both your gadgets and your thought processes are likely to go a little haywire.”

It’s hard to believe that some celestial activity can impact our minds and devices to this extent, but there are more absurd truths out there, so let’s just go with it.

The last time Mercury was in retrograde was September 27 through to October 18 last year, during which time Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp all went down.

Spooky.

Besides electronics going haywire (you know, because they’re the things we use to facilitate communication), travel is also often delayed and technology becomes more likely to glitch.

Milling through the past two weeks to see if any of that applies? It would be easy to make it seem so, because in what life do things go absolutely swimmingly all the time anyway?

Comstock-Gay advises that during this time, “be careful to back up important files, make sure you’ve got your dates and times right, double-check that you’re actually sending that message to the right person,” and everything else that a high-functioning adult might do.

As for your personal life, which we need communication for to make things work – you guessed it, more havoc is wreaked:

“Interpersonal misunderstandings are common too,” Comstock-Gay says, “so it’s worth putting a bit of extra time and effort into communicating clearly.”

All of that is good advice for life in general, anyway.

I could use this as an opportunity to make you buy shit that will help you cope with all the mayhem that might come from the next Mercury retrograde, but instead, I’ll offer some words of wisdom.

Don’t f**k up.

Okay no, I’ll go deeper. You deserve it.

I recently stumbled upon Glennon Doyle, the author of Untamed – a book released at the very start of the pandemic that became a lifeline for millions.

She also has a podcast, encouragingly titled after her mantra, ‘We Can Do Hard Things’ – something that has become a rallying cry as we all battle through life’s brutal moments:

We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace.

On We Can Do Hard Things, she sits down with her sister Amanda and does the only thing they’ve found that has ever made life easier: “drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard,” while helping each other “carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, freer and less alone”.

Give it a listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify – it could help you charge through Mercury’s chaos next time the damn planet decides to sow chaos.

[source:cnn]