{"id":298,"date":"2012-08-07T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cosmiccandor\/?p=298"},"modified":"2012-08-02T17:27:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T17:27:37","slug":"directly-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cosmiccandor\/2012\/08\/directly-speaking.html","title":{"rendered":"Directly Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Learn<\/a>Get ready to thank your lucky stars for the second day in a row! Venus moved into Cancer today, and Mercury Retrograde ends tomorrow. Altogether this means it’s time to move forward again, and any bumps in the relationship road should finally smooth over.<\/p>\n

Mercury Retrograde messed with quite a few of my friends and co-workers this time around. My boyfriend’s van broke down on the highway, my co-worker Stacey’s laptop crashed AND her car also broke down. And my good friend got stuck at the Miami airport overnight.<\/p>\n

As for me personally, I escaped most of Mercury Retrograde’s travel and technology troubles, but I sure felt its backward effect on communication. I haven’t been able to speak my mind freely for weeks — I’ve had all these conflicting thoughts and feelings that I need to discuss, but when it comes time to talk it out, well, Mercury has been holding me back.<\/p>\n

And frankly, when you feel like you need to say something and you just … CAN’T … it builds up inside and causes major stress. I’ve been feeling tormented by my own feelings and my inability to express them for weeks.<\/p>\n

I need to have a heart-to-heart with my boyfriend about, er, my “needs,” and that’s never a fun talk. I’ve been dreading it, because in my experience, most men seem to feel pressure and clam up when a woman starts talking about her needs. Not all men, of course, but most of the ones I’ve dealt with.<\/p>\n

But now it’s time. And I know I’m more likely to be heard and understood now that Mercury is going direct. Even better, with love planet Venus in nurturing Cancer, I’m also more likely to get a compassionate response.<\/p>\n

Er, I hope. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Mercury Direct at Tarot.com \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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