{"id":2155,"date":"2010-12-28T17:35:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T17:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2010\/12\/mercury-retrograde-roundup-1.html"},"modified":"2010-12-28T17:35:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T17:35:53","slug":"mercury-retrograde-roundup-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2010\/12\/mercury-retrograde-roundup-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Mercury retrograde roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/astrodynamics.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/Goofy-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/astrodynamics.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/Goofy-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Mercury retrograde\" width=\"286\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7370\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-color: initial;float: right\" \/><\/a>Mercury is still retrograde for another few days or so, and there are signs of it everywhere. &nbsp;Mercury rules transportation as well as communication, and when retrograde there are often snafus and the need to repair our equipment and revise our plans<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure my readers have stories of their own to tell: disappearing emails, dropped phone calls, malfunctioning equipment, miscommunications. &nbsp;There are plenty of stories in the news as well that relate to the retrograde Mercury cycle (italicized words are Mercury keywords)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Passengers are&nbsp;<i>stranded&nbsp;<\/i>in airports all over the world from Boston to London to Moscow as winter storms bring air travel to a screeching halt. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><i>Miscommunications&nbsp;<\/i>between airline pilots and air traffic controllers resulted in passengers on Cathay Pacific and British Airways planes being&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/TRAVEL\/12\/28\/jfk.stuck.tarmac\/?hpt=T1\" target=\"_blank\">stuck on the tarmac<\/a>without an available gate for many hours.<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese government delivered a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/8228253\/China-attacks-Popes-Christmas-message.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>counterattack&nbsp;<\/i><\/a>to Pope Benedict&#8217;s criticism of Chinese religious freedoms in his Christmas&nbsp;<i>message<\/i>. &nbsp;It seems to me this is an area in which the Pope doesn&#8217;t have much room to criticize.<\/li>\n<li>Time Warner Cable makes another grab for more programming money by&nbsp;<i>rejecting<\/i>&nbsp;a settlement offer with Sinclair Broadcasting which means Sinclair channels, including network and Fox affiliates, will go dark when the contract expires.<\/li>\n<li>Consumer confidence&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory?id=12494567\" target=\"_blank\"><i>retreated<\/i>&nbsp;<\/a>in December, with consumers expecting that there will be fewer jobs in 2011.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/US\/12\/28\/maine.skiers.trapped\/?hpt=T1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>malfunction<\/i>&nbsp;<\/a>of a ski lift in Maine injured nine people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s going on in your world?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury is still retrograde for another few days or so, and there are signs of it everywhere. &nbsp;Mercury rules transportation as well as communication, and when retrograde there are often snafus and the need to repair our equipment and revise our plans I&#8217;m sure my readers have stories of their own to tell: disappearing emails,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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