by I started to ask why I had misunderstandings everywhere. On the wrong day I sent my daughter in a pillowcase and Jesus sandals for a school service. My internet has dropped three times. The dog disappeared from my house when I went to the shops – I thought I had left the front door open. It turned out that a dog hiking company had taken him – they hadn’t received the news that I wanted to cancel weeks ago. Then I had a stage in a Thai café over a booked table for lunch. You said I hadn’t booked. When we drove home, I was caught behind a bus and a car for 45 minutes when the vehicles collected and wedged together.
I was also in a bad mood because I accidentally sent a text to the worst person to whom he could have walked, which was extremely embarrassing. “Why, why, why did I do that?” I screamed. Sure, these things can happen in the best times – but it was one thing after another. My life is usually not so by chance – what was going on?
Then I grabbed my cell phone and googled it: Yes, it is Mercury Retrograde. All of the signs were there: a cosmic return that allegedly devastated with communication, transport and technology and brings unresolved problems to the surface. In other words, modern chaos.
It is the first from 2025. It declined on March 15 – at least now that I am now in this dreaded phase until April 7, so I can navigate unexpected changes instead of being surprised.
Mercury, which is declining, does not mean that the planet literally goes backwards. Indeed, it is an optical deception if, in our view of the earth, the planet seems to be left in the opposite direction that happens about three or four times a year. But I do not accuse it – or shifted responsibility to a planet. It’s just my experience.
Now I wish I weren’t so impulsive and argumentative with the friend with whom I could be – and realized that it was only a “declining misunderstanding of Mercury”. I could have slowed down, as well as the cosmic advice.
Of course, there is always a risk of being stressed and anxious when you wait for a retrograde Mercury moment. But for those who want to follow planetary activities, astrology can offer an agency and structure in a frequently confusing and sometimes scary world, be it a confusing day with missing compounds (see: Mercury declining) or intensive emotions (for this they could thank a solar eclipse).
Tikok and Instagram made astrology widely accessible. A survey recently raised in the United States showed that 80 percent of the gene Z and younger millennials believe in astrology. For gen z, God is replaced and even therapy speaks. It can help people build self -confidence and give more self -confidence.
“This declining retrograde was so intense for a few reasons” Your cosmic purpose is June 5th. “It happened in the very last and first degree of the zodiac, and Venus declined almost exactly next to mercury. This also asked us to check our relationships, values, self -values and self -awareness.”
She explains that these planets have moved in the last degree of fish degrees in the initial level of the ram (and now they will return to Aries, the beginning of the zodiac bike), it was a massive “clear” to ask us to leave old versions from ourselves and to come here to be here.
“You have to be able to see what you capture in the past or where you have to let repetition, patterns and cycles and what you have to let go,” she says. It has brought “a huge reset”, she says – “from the heart, your mind, your beliefs, your values and your relationships.”
But far from ruining her life, she adds, Mercury Retrograde is actually an “invitation”, something more mindful, “to see where you rush and always worry about things or too much in the past or future”.
The famous astrologer Shelley from Strunckel, who makes detailed birth cards, tells me that it is crucial to understand that Mercury Retrograde is not a curse. “The planet seems to go backwards – so we have a backward experience with it. Things don’t happen as we expected,” says von Strunckel. “But there is a tendency to demonize it.” Instead, she refers to the time like another natural cycle – and if you are prepared for it like a rainy day, you can take precautions.
Would someone sign a legal document in astrology or marry under these circumstances? “Probably not,” she says. “I learned to leave more time when I expect travel and delays.” But it is an opportunity to learn, she adds – because it helps us to recognize what “we have to clean up”. It also adds that many things that people happen during a Mercury Retrograd would happen anyway – and it is important not to be “superstitious”.
“As soon as astrology was chiefly oriented and deeply predictive – but also life,” she says. “Now, however, astrology is about self-confidence how they can change or improve their situation.”
How mercury retrograde affects us depends on the sign Mercury at this time, she tells me. “Aries are about acting so that they are in a hurry. If you are in a hurry, be careful,” she advises. “While in fish, the highly intelligent sign, it can be easier to solve a problem before it occurs.” Insight into dealing with the Mercury Retrograde can also differ depending on the Zodiac sign.
Astrology, the investigation of the observation of the movements and relative positions of heavenly body and the assumption that their positions can influence human life has been around for around 5,000 years. However, it is not supported by science and viewed by some as mythical garbage.
A recently carried out study showed that astrology does not work – and predictions based on the movement of the planets and stars are no better than random assumptions, say scientists say. In the test carried out by mathematician Spencer Greenberg and the US social enterprise, Clear Thinking, 152 astrologers received information about an unknown person and asked that belongs to five possible birth cards of this person. The astrologers were only right 20 percent of the time and often did not agree. Paul Byrne, Associate Professor of Earth, environmental and planetary science at Washington University, also said the BBC:
He continued: “The only way I can imagine that another planet has some effects on us if you should walk around at night to look at Mars, say, or Jupiter or Venus – and not look where they go, go into a lamppost.”
The truth is, however, that (still) just because something is not demonstrated by science, not that it is not valid or helpful. I contacted my dead father through a medium with astonishing results, and although I do not live my life through Tarot cards or psychios, I found your instructions certainly to be invaluable – and extremely precisely.
The review of Mercury Retrograde does not mean to surrender to fate and fainting. Quite the opposite; We have some control. It’s like brainstorming solutions with a friend. Mercury Retrograde is just another small guide on the journey of self -discovery. It can also be a bumpy ride, but at least it will only happen three times this year – and not four.
