If you wish you could retreat from the world to dream, create, watch movies, enter alternative states of reality via mind-altering substances, drink yourself legless, or just sleep, congratulations: you're attuned to Mercury retrograde in Pisces. The past few days featured two important planetary aspects to Mercury: the Sun conjunct Mercury on Thursday 3/14 and Jupiter square Mercury on Friday 3/15. Hardly the best time to be objective or have perspective; more likely to be dealing with blind spots, unfathomable delays, and biting off more than you can chew. A desire for justice, travel, optimism, and/or learning hampered by not being able to see the finer points or the forest for the trees. You may simply feel lost or disoriented, in a fog, succumbing to torpor, unable to make or stick to plans. So much is shrouded in mystery and secrecy that even breaking news only reveals the tip of the iceberg.
Mercury does not turn direct until 3/28, over a week past the vernal equinox (which falls on a Full Moon this year), so if you can put off making a major decision, entering a contract, or purchasing anything that can't be returned easily, please wait. This is a better time to mull things over and let your subconscious work on an insurmountable problems. Revisit the past in its myriad forms. Revise (as opposed to starting an entirely new project).
My personal story of Mercury retrograde: Thursday dinner was kung phao chicken and fried rice from Busy Season Bamboo Dragon; Friday night was roast pork noodle soup from Pretty Good Local Chinese Place. I got an identical fortune two nights in a row.
Hope is the best stimulant of life.
I don't think I've ever received identical fortunes before, and having this happen on two consecutive nights can't be a coincidence. I haven't had much in the way of hope lately. That would explain why I've felt so lifeless. That would also explain why I'm trying to fight back at the same time that I am trying to stop struggling.
Ah, Pisces. The ultimate paradox.
