mercury rx in taurus for writers
on the importance of slowing down
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Mercury Rx in Taurus Dates
Stations Retrograde: April 21, 2023 at 15* of Taurus
Stations Direct: May 14, 2023 at 5* of Taurus
Clears Retrograde Shadow: May 31, 2023 at 15* of Taurus
Mercury stationed retrograde at 15* of Taurus at 4:34am Eastern this morning. Mercury, the planet that governs all writers, that is in charge of how we think and how we process, how we write and how we text and how we talk, now invites us to rethink, revise, and otherwise revisit not only our routines and our patterns, but also our ruts and our goals.
The internet always has a lot to say about Mercury Retrograde, but here at this newsletter, we know that Mercury Rx is an entirely normal phenomenon: a useful check-in that happens three times a year, for roughly three weeks each. Which is to say, these retrogrades take up far too much of the year to put our lives on hold: to not sign contracts, or pitch any freelance pieces, or have conversations with editors while your book is on submission. By all means, do those things — just with extra mindfulness and more thorough review than you perhaps normally would.
The good news is that, in Taurus, Mercury is less impulsive anyway. You may have noticed this already: that the pace of writing, of thinking, of communication with your beloveds and colleagues, generally, has slowed. People born with Mercury in Taurus simply cannot be rushed: they write at their own pace; their creative ideas are birthed in their own time. The rest of us do not feel that tortoise and the hare tension as profoundly, but these next few weeks invite us all to reconsider why, exactly, we are rushing to meet a boss’s deadline, or a capitalist expectation of high production when ideas so often need to marinate.