Mercury turned retrograde yesterday. It'll move backwards through the zodiac for the next three weeks, retracing its steps for the first time this year. Time to look back, review, reconsider, dust off unfinished ideas, dreams and plans and either complete them or declare them done.

Mercury is in the Zodiac Sign of Aquarius, and will remain in Aquarius without changing Signs until it turns direct again in mid-February.

Interestingly, in terms of root meanings 'consider' originally meant 'to observe the stars'. So to reconsider is to once again put your mind together with the stars and planets (the word 'planet' = wandering star). Re = back, again. Con = with. Sidus = star.

There's much more information about Mercury's retrograde movements throughout 2008 in this article http://astrology21.co.uk/p1mercretro2008.html