Mercury’s “Pre Shadow” Retrograde

Mercury goes retrograde on October 21—and will remain that way for three weeks, until November 10. All that Mercury rules—schedules, forms, traffic, travel, speech, repairs, machinery—will be subject to The Trickster’s tinkering. How can you best prepare? Check which house (or houses) in your chart contain 3 to 18 degrees of Scorpio. Be cautious and careful with matters in this part of your life for the next three weeks, because we’ve just entered the retrograde’s “pre-shadow period.”  Mercury is taking its first steps through the zone of the zodiac it will later retrograde back through. This is when the seeds for the snafus we experience during the retrograde are often planted! If you go slowly now, with care, you may be able to spot potential problems and prevent them.