Gird Your Loins—Mercury Is Going Retrograde for Most of July
On July 7, Mercury will go retrograde in Leo, and won’t go direct again until July 31. Which means—you guessed it—everything is about to get overly! complicated! Mercury rules communication, intellect and contracts/agreements, so basically, you know, some of the most fundamental parts of the universe. When a planet goes retrograde, it gives the illusion of moving backward. This shift usually results in a change of energy and affects all the signs in various ways. So, when Mercury decides to go on a bender, everything sort of goes haywire.
Mercury retrograde is like having a bad boyfriend—the one who was always kinda mean to your sister and dabbled in various multi-level marketing schemes throughout his brief stint at...
