In just over a fortnight's time, Mercury will station and turn retrograde. This occurs three times a year, and is an important time for reassessing our views, opinions, hidden assumptions, and unconscious beliefs.
Astrology and astronomy used to be more frequently studied by the same people. For the past few centuries the study of the planets and stars has been split, so that one group tends to study astrology but not astronomy, and the other astronomy but not astrology. Given that Mercury rules Gemini, the primary sign of duality and disconnection/reconnection, it seemed apropriate to talk about Mercury retrograde from an astronomical as well as an astrological viewpoint.
Because there are a lot of graphics and space for those is limited here on the blog, it seemed better to put the material on the main website. It can be found at: www.astrology21.co.uk