Meaning of the planet Mercury

The Planet Mercury is the sensory antenna of your horoscope. Its position by sign indicates your reactions to sights, odors, taste, and touch impressions, affording a key to the attitude you have toward the physical world around you. Mercury is the messenger through which your physical body and brain (ruled by the sun) and your inner nature (ruled by the moon) are kept in contact with the outer world. This will appear to you in accordance to the index of Mercury's position by sign in the horoscope.

Mercury rules the rational mind. The planet Mercury goes retrograde this month. This occurrence refers to this planet appearing to go backwards as seen from earth and again forward. We don't know why Mercury retrogrades affects our thinking, (probably magnetic interference affecting the brain) but we do know that you need to be careful of the following:

• You may have many delays in all forms of communication.
• Avoid buying any new gadgets until Mercury starts going direct, as any gadgets bought during this time will have nothing but problems.
• make sure you pay your telephone, cable or hydro bills or it will be permanently shut off.
• It is a time when you should be careful of signing any documents.

This is a time of many delays, and you can offset this influence by paying attention to the dates and remembering to complete the above before Mercury goes into retrograde.

Mercury goes retrograde on Feb 6 to Feb 24, 2001