Mercury Stations Direct on July 31st. What this means is that Mercury will start to move forward again instead of moving backwards (“retrograde”) and that things and topics related to Mercury will start to function normally again. You may have noticed communications slowing down or being a bit wonky. You may have noticed a lot of miscommunication, messages unreceived, internet problems, website malfunction, mail being delayed, etc. Or you may not have noticed it at all. All of this will start to resume normal speed again. As I mentioned in a previous blog, Mercury Retrograde isn’t just a time to freak out about or be worried about. Everything in the sky happens for a reason and Mercury’s job when it goes Retrograde is to help you slow down and reflect, maybe by making everything else slow down too or stop working. When the internet isn’t working, you may have nothing else to do but to sit with your thoughts! My advice is to go with the flow. Accept what’s happening as a gift and use the energy to your advantage. With that said, it will feel like a bit of a relief that Mercury is moving forward again.
But don’t get too excited- Mercury will be passing through territory that he’s already been in before until August 15th. This means that even though Mercury will be moving forward again, he’s traveling through territory that he’s already been through twice- first when he moved through it initially before turning retrograde and second, when he turned retrograde and moved backwards through those same degrees. So, this will be the third time Mercury will pass through those degrees of Cancer and Leo in a forward direction, and chances are, it could help bring clarity to whatever might have been confusing in the past 3 weeks or things that have been slowing you down/frustrating you could finally come to some resolution. On August 15th is when Mercury will be beyond the degree of Leo where he went Retrograde and thus, he will begin going through new territory.