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Just make sure what you're listening to is your intuition and not the Devil in disguise! When the fog sets in and uncertainty is strong, your intuition can act as a guide. Pisces is a highly intuitive, spiritual sign, so focusing on spiritual pursuits and strengthening your intuition can be a good thing to do during the retrograde in Pisces. Try to have healthy boundaries to protect yourself, but also be mindful of others and what they need. Some can lack sensitivity at all and act in cruel ways. Pisces is a compassionate sign requiring a gentle touch, and with Mercury retrograde, we can be too sensitive, to easily wounded, and require more boundaries so we're not taken advantage of. This is great if you have nothing to focus on, but we always do! So we have to work harder at trying to stay tethered to reality and not get lost in the whimsy. Imagination runs strong, and we can get lost in daydreams and fantasies. With Pisces, we can get stuck in the fog, struggle with focus, and feel scattered. The first round of Mercury madness for 2020 descends upon us, starting in water sign Pisces. Mercury Retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius 2020 Dates: There's usually two storm periods, one around the time Mercury turns retrograde, and one around when it turns direct. Mercury is a fast-moving planet and hates it when he's moving slowly. The storm period of Mercury retrograde is when Mercury is moving at its slowest, less than 40 minutes per day. Most people don't feel the effects of Mercury retrograde until it enters the storm period though. The shadow period starts when Mercury first hits the point in the Zodiac it will turn direct at, and ends when it last hits the point in the Zodiac it will turn retrograde at. With Mercury retrograde, we experience a shadow and a storm. When a planet retrogrades, what that planet rules tends to be thrown off, along with what the sign it's retrograding in rules. Mercury turns retrograde most often, about 3-4 times per year, and lasts for several weeks.
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It isn't actually moving backwards, it just appears that way.
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A retrograde occurs when a planet appears to be moving backwards from our vantage point here on Earth.