No sooner do you dot all your i’s and cross all your t’s, then unforeseen developments will turn the whole thing into alphabet soup on August 5th. Mercury retrogrades often wreak havoc with best-laid plans and the fact that it's reversing direction right when you’re ready to finalize a deal is understandably infuriating. Yet there’s something about the timing of the Stars that’s better informed than ours. Maybe it’s their bird’s eye view of matters or the fact that they’ve been around longer than we have. In any case, what starts out as an inconvenience could turn out to be a blessing in disguise.