Intuition, Mercury Retrograde & Mishaps
If you’ve felt a bit tongue-tied or suffered from fuzzy thinking for the last few weeks you are feeling the effects of Mercury Retrograde.
FYI: Mercury will be retrograde from June 7 through July 1.
When the planet Mercury, also known as the “Trickster,” which rules the thinking process, communication, short trips, transportation, commerce and contracts to name a few things, appears to go backward (retrograde) in the heavens it often creates delays and or mishaps in these areas of our lives.
Typical Mercury retrograde mishaps can result in…
- delays of all kinds
- making errors in your checkbook that cause you to be overdrawn
- forgetting to put stamps on bills when you mail them
- payments being charged twice to a credit card
- fraudulent use of one of your credit cards
- snafus and delays when traveling
- problems with your car
- problems with purchases of electronic devices and communication devices bought during this time
- contracts having to be renegotiated or falling apart
- spelling errors and editing errors
I’ve experienced every one of these during various Mercury retrogrades.
Mercury retrograde can cause us to overlook details and make mistakes due to the “fuzzy mindedness” we experience during this period. And it is for this very same reason that we also tend to overlook our intuition during this time too so beware.
My recent Mercury Retrograde mishap:
On the day Mercury went retrograde I was driving when I hit a pothole. Immediately an image came to me of a time years back when a wrench had pierced my tire and caused a flat tire. (That happened during a Mercury Retrograde too). I heard myself think, “I hope I don’t get a flat tire.”
I didn’t get a flat tire that day but a week later I did have a flat in the parking lot of the grocery store. As I pushed my cart toward the car I noticed the flat and saw glinting in the sun a shiny new nail wedged in between the treads of my tire.
After going through the aggravation of getting someone to change my tire and then taking the flat one to be repaired the next day it came to me.
When the mechanic showed me the extraordinarily long nail that he’d pulled out of my tire I suddenly knew exactly what had happened.
A neighbor was having a new roof put on his house. I needed the contractor’s number so I pulled up alongside of his truck to jot it down. Earlier, I had planned to walk down the street to get the number off the truck but a few things had cropped up at home and I didn’t have the time so I thought I’d get it on my way grocery store.
I had this weird feeling that I shouldn’t pull up so close to the truck because often contractors are careless and drop all sorts of things they never bother to pick-up but, I ignored it. I was in a rush and too focused on getting the phone number and that is most likely how this very, very long nail got into my tire.
My intuition tried to warn me to be careful about getting a flat twice but I had not paid attention.
During another Mercury retrograde period years ago I was driving a car that was approaching 9 years old and had been feeling for many months that it was time to buy a new one but had put it off. I had been saving money and wanted to wait until my next big commission check so I could by the car outright instead of financing it.
Suddenly the transmission slipped and I had no control over the accelerator! I carefully guided the car off the highway to the side and just as I did the transmission kicked back in. I was so relieved that I forgot all about the urgent feeling I had about buying a new car.
Two weeks later I was in a minor accident when a woman driving a huge Suburban hit the back of my car at the light. The damage to my car was declared a total loss and I had to practically give the car away for nothing to the dealer to take it off my hands. If I had listened to my intuition and gotten a new car when I first began getting those “urgent feelings” or at least right after my transmission slipped I would have been able to trade it in toward a new car.
Don’t let Mercury the Trickster mess with you during this retrograde make sure you pay extra special attention to your intuition from now through the first week of July.
Have you felt the effects of Mercury Retrograde? Did you have an inkling from your intuition that you ignored? Share your experience with us in the comments section.
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Where shall I start with the last few weeks:
+ Computer’s ability to connect to the internet disappeared
+ Critical invoice was late, meaning that rent was paid over a week later than it ought to have been
+ Really unhappy customer on 26th June 2014 for a $300 job. Will only be getting $150 now
+ Hiring a van to help someone move house. The van’s gearbox (manual) was completely stuffed and I constantly had to put my warning lights on to play with the gearstick and get it into 1st gear at traffic lights.
+ Around the 10th June we had a long weekend and the servers were down at one of my customers’ website. That meant I couldn’t do any work for them for days resulting in a late project delivery.
It’s actually been a pretty unpleasant month in many respects and things need to change *now*.
Dear Gary,
You had a particularly bad Mercury Retrograde! Thank goodness it ended yesterday.
You won’t have to worry about it again for another four months.
Thanks so much for visiting and sharing what happened to you during Mercury Rx.
Well this explains a lot! 🙂
I have been trying really hard to hear my intuition these past few weeks. It seems “quieter” than normal. About a week ago, I ALMOST overdrew my account when a bill I had forgotten about cleared. I haven’t done that in years! I couldn’t put my finger on what was going on, but it all makes sense now. How often do these Mercury Retrogrades occur? Not very often I hope. 🙂
Hi Summer,
It’s great to see you again.
It definitely sounds like Mercury had some effect on you too.
They happen three times a year(every four months) and last for about three weeks each time. This one started on June 7 and is ending on July 1.
We’re almost there!
i don’t know that i’ve ever been aware of experiencing mercury retrograde but they’d probably be revolved around money mishaps for me 😛
Dear Janet,
You may not have experienced these things. Some people thrive under a Mercury Rx! Or, it could be those irritating mistakes with money like you say.
So nice to see you here.
Best,
Angela
I loved our chat about this topic Angela. I actually need to send this link to a client of mine that was just commenting on Mercury Retrograde. Thanks for tips on what to watch for during this phase. You know your stuff for sure. I love it 🙂
Hi Melissa,
I enjoyed our chat too!~
I’m glad you found this so helpful.
It’s almost over thank goodness.
Angela,
Too funny! Okay, not really. A lot of strange things have happened (some of them even mentioned above) the past couple of weeks, and I was just laughing out loud about this whole retrograde thing. Thanks for lending some plausible ideas and information as to why I’ve been experiencing out of this world weird things lately! 🙂 I enjoyed the read.
Hi Victor,
I’m glad the article sorted things out for you and gave you some ideas of the kinds of things that can happen during retrograde periods. The most common thing is delays of all sorts. And, that isn’t really that bad, right?
Thank you so much for visiting and commenting.
Ouch, Angela, listening to your intuition really matters…it’s just that sometimes it’s such a quiet voice! As for mercury retrograde, I was born with mercury retrograde and it seems to always be the forerunner of good things happening! At least that’s whats happened in the past and of course now I believe it to be true for me! 🙂
Elle,
Ouch is right! LOL
Yes, if you’re born with Mercury Retrograde then this is a very comfortable period for you. It feels natural.
With natal Mercury Rx you’re a person who is very introspective, reflective and reticent; not one to shoot from the hip as they say. So, Mercury Rx periods are probably when you are most creative and productive unlike most of us who feel fuzzy mentally and have to “go back to the drawing board” with things that were started previously
Ange-
When you and I last talked, we discussed the power of Mercury Retrograde and how it is having an effect on us right now. The good news is that once you know it’s Mercury Retrograde, you can laugh at all of the frustrating things that happen and think ‘Well, it’s not my fault.’ xo
Hi Fran!
Yes, LOL. That’s right we can laugh it off.
Also, it’s good to know that there’s an end in sight as well.
Xxoo
Hi Rosemarie,
Phone and computer glitches are so common during Mercury Retro. Thank goodness it’s almost over!
Funny, but over the last couple of weeks all kinds of little things have been going wrong. Dropping things, spilling oil on the floor, forgetting my phone, etc, computer glitches. I blamed some of it on trying to do too many things at once, but that’s certainly no out of the ordinary and din’t explain computer problems. Now I see it was the good planet Mercury