Backwards buddy

Mercury's retrograde until December 15. Read the Mercury retrograde rules. Read what I already wrote about this retrograde.

Personally, I've found Mercury retrograde most affects me at work, because I have a Mercury-themed job, but I also have a 10th house Mercury in my birth chart, so that's my deal. Either no one emails me, or confusion abounds. Your personal Mercury impacts probably have a lot to do with what Mercury's doing in your birth chart. You can look that up, or you can just notice trends during Mercury retrogrades as they apply to you, personally.

I also have found that if I talk myself into buying something I don't *really* need during Mercury retrogrades, either it doesn't work as expected or I never use it. If it's a new thing, that is. Don't worry about routine purchases. Actually, it's better if you don't worry about Mercury retrograde at all, just accept that information travels in weird directions at this time and there's confusion and snafus. Check the important things: that your prescription was filled correctly and that what you ordered is actually what's in the box.

Here's what I've noticed about the sky recently, which is due to a combination of Jupiter in Gemini, Mercury in Sagittarius, and Saturn in Pisces all working together in a strange way: people think they know what they're talking about without fact-checking themselves and are building narratives about what they've decided is true, because they'd rather write their own story than look at what's actually happening. I'm not saying everyone's guilty of this, but it seems to be out there.

Here's another way of thinking about it: have you ever written a paper in school where you wrote the conclusion first and then looked for supporting evidence based on the conclusion you wanted, and found that the research supported the opposite of your conclusion, so you kept looking in the hopes that you'd get to keep writing the paper you wanted to write in the first place? If you wrote what you wanted to write in the first place, it was probably a shitty paper.

I'm in grad school right now and writing a paper at the moment, so I'm having lots of flashbacks to previously-written papers. Fortunately, I'm not writing my current paper conclusion-first, but I'm having to do a lot of bullshitting to make it fit the guidelines, and bullshitting is a Mercury in Sagittarius concept.

I've watched people have their narratives disrupted lately because there's suddenly slightly too much evidence that's contrary to what they want to believe. You have two options: 1. ignore or 2. sit with it. Remember, during a Mercury retrograde, there's no reason to act on new information, you just have to think about it. When Mercury goes back to normal, you make necessary adjustments and go on living your life. Again, Mercury retrogrades are not intended to harm or destroy you, they just slow you down so you think things through. If you recently got evidence that something you've been telling yourself for days/months/years isn't true, it doesn't necessarily need to be an overnight process to reconfigure your life.

Just don't disregard new information right now: it's not to your benefit to ignore what's actually happening.