Deja vu creeps in as Mercury goes retrograde

May 6, 5:36 AMAstrology ExaminerMaria Barron

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At midday in London today, morning in the Rocky Mountains, Mercury in Gemini goes retrograde and begins its month-long drift back into Taurus. Check the air in your vehicle’s tires, watch for airheads at intersections, back up your computer, and on a psychological level, watch for the issues that re-surface for you this month or that surface with that eerie feeling of déjà vu. 

These could be lessons you’re still working to learn or they could be lessons the world at large is still resisting. But all these things, all these different manners of potential connections, messages, linkages – and their failures to fully connect – are the stuff of which Mercury retrogrades are made. About three times a year for about a month at a time, it’s Groundhog Day all over again. 

So if déjà vu creeps in, get really observant of the details of the situation that brings it on. Another you – the “you” of a different time and place – is trying to remind you of something. A reoccurring review like this has its place and purpose in our lives. 

If the Mercury retrograde instead mostly affects you in an exterior manner, so that connections go haywire, travel turns strange or meanings get missed, those things are par for the course at this point. Just use caution, backup plans and reminders the same way you would if you were driving, computing or planning to meet someone in the midst of a thunderstorm. 

On the good-news side of the sky, Saturn in Virgo, which has been retrograde since December, finally goes direct Saturday, May 16. That will be a terrible thing for the merchants of doom and gloom and fear and bile and despotism. Awful as well for those who like to flog a bad thing until it’s really hideous and then try to make us think that thing is “us” – you know, the eye we need to gouge out or the limb we need to hack off – so that we’ll keep attacking one other. 

Saturn’s return to direct motion should be a welcome relief for the rest of us! 

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