Mercury Direct - Fresh winds in the sails

Yesterday Mercury the celestial power of communication moved back to its forward progression. If like myself and countless others you've been plagued with frustrated misunderstandings, communication problems, computer issues, or transport or travel difficulties (people of the passport office you shall see me AGAIN shortly!) thankfully now everything will be in the process of adjusting back to a flow of normality.

**Enter chorus of joyful angels singing**

Mercury rules the mind, thought and all forms of communication; as the immortal wing-footed messenger of the gods he also rules transport, transmission and travel. Mercury is also a relatively small planet who spins around the sun in a tight orbit and stands as the passing medium between the earth and that of the sun. Mercury represents the speed of thought and the mental gifts: that of analysis, reason, logic, knowledge, learning, education and even intelligence itself.

Mercury is the power that restlessly chatters behind Gemini's reputation for witty, lively, amusing conversation as well as there passion for the technological age. In today's world where communication, transport, travel and swiftness are so important, Mercury is a god with greater influence and recognition than he had in ancient times.

Although a patron of the technological age Mercury still presides over none-technical forms of communication like conversation, gossip, speeches, all forms of writing, comics, people watching and has sway in documentaries and even movies. It is said that even the ways we 'speak,' personally and culturally, are within his domain.Where the sign Mercury was visiting at the moment of our births reveals our personal style of communication, the ways in which we think and learn.

For example, if you have Mercury in Scorpio you would be an intense communicator who gets to the heart of the matter with sometimes brutal and unbridled directness.

While a Mercury in Cancer might try to communicate all the shifting emotions and thoughts that course through their mind by being somewhat intimate and revealing allot of there emotional sensitivity in order to create a sense of empathy.

If you were born with Mercury retrograde your style of communication is often quite different from those around you, which is often interpreted as eccentricity but also gives you the benefit having an startlingly unusual array of interesting ideas along side the challenge of having those ideas understood and appreciated by others around you.

Mercury makes this transit three times a year, for three weeks at a time. To the ancients it was because of his swift fast pace and huge responsibilities and demand that a regular period of rest and rejuvenation was in order. Whenever possible, we should try to adjust to work with his rhythms, as such cosmic currents set to serve us well.

The retrograde Mercury is a change in course; it seeks to make the demands of reassessment, review and reappraisal. In order to get our attention and therefore promote our positive action, Mercury is said to disrupt communications which force us to notice things that were done haphazardly or undisciplined and to set them right.

If you've experienced communication issues with loved ones or co-workers the Mercury retrograde is a time of review that revealed where you need to correct matters or at the very least acknowledge problems.

If you haven't had time to reflect on how Mercury has revealed what need to be addressed, now with the fresh transition is the perfect time to do so.With Mercury again available to get communication going clearly and effectively; he lends all his quickness and clarity to fix any areas that were affected. If these times are used properly, in which we at first during the retrograde slow down and notice problems, then afterwards correct the problems, communications year 'round go more smoothly.

The problem is that in the modern world of ours we hate to stop moving forward - all the time. To plan for a Mercury Retrograde, schedule time with as little important communications and travel as possible; and then afterwards make necessary readjustments.

This careful use of Mercury will put you into touch with the natural astrological rhythms - the Music of the Spheres and make such knowledge of a fresh direct a welcomed continual initiation into being a more whole'istic person.