Mary O'Gara

Posts Tagged ‘Retrograde’

Saturn’s dipping back into Virgo, so the time is right to restructure your plans and goals, revise your manuscripts, and revision your future.   If it needs adjusting, Saturn retrograde in Virgo is the time for easy adjustments.

Saturn is not only structure, but also accountability, so checking each and every plan and plot you have is a good thing right now.   Look for acocuntability–and make changes or eliminate goals and projects for which you’re no longer willing to be accountable.   Revise plots with structure in mine; sure you can keep those crazy characters, but you have to decide when the reader will know what they’re doing.

As for revisioning your future–just weed out those goals you wouldn’t be willing to have manifest right this second.   And take at least one step toward the ones you keep even if that’s a minor step like a phone call, a blog, or a note in your day planner.

Saturn’s retrograde until the end of May.  It hangs around its station degree and minute from May 27 to June 2nd, so get your work done before then.

You won’t be done, of course.   After Saturn goes direct, you can still polish that structure and shine up the dream, reworking them happily until Saturn goes into Libra again on July 23rd.

You goals for Saturn in Libra:  Be ready to recognized great critique partners and other team players to help you reach your goals.   Sadly, you may also need more distance from some of your present colleagues.

Before Mercury goes retrograde on September 7th, there are three steps you’ll want to take so life will be smoother and easier while it’s retrograde (September 7-29).

1. Shop for anything you buy in bulk or any new equipment with moving parts, including electronics.  While Mercury is retrograde, you’ll only want to buy what’s needed for immediate needs.  Take full advantage of back-to-school and Labor Day sales.
2. If you’ll be traveling while Mercury is retrograde, make your travel plans now.  Setting the trip in motion by buying tickets or booking passages seems to offset the retrograde issues.  If you must make a trip by car while Mercury is retrograde, allow extra time for driving and do your normal road-worthy car check twice.   No need to stay home while Mercury’s retrograde, but you do want to be flexible and allow for last-minute changes.
3. Start anything new that’s important to you.  Writers might want to postpone revision (which is actually easier with Mercury retrograde) in order to start a new book.  The start could be as small as labeling a box for resource materials (Twyla Tharp’s method of starting a new dance routine) or opening a file folder and copying your plotting templates into it.  It’s the fresh start that matters.

Mercury retrograde has less impact on things you do daily by habit than on things you do once in a while.  Shopping for veggies for the week isn’t usually a problem.  Making a purchase you rarely make (like a new computer) while Mercury is retrograde might leave you with a major item that doesn’t meet all your needs or that gets outdated too soon.