Mercury Retrograde, November 2024: What Each Zodiac Sign Should Know w/ Christopher Renstrom
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In this episode of the Astrology Hub podcast 🚀
In this insightful episode, Christopher Renstrom dives deep into the upcoming Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius, offering guidance on how to navigate the inevitable miscommunications, delays, and disruptions. Through storytelling and expert advice, Christopher reframes Mercury retrograde as a period for reflection, growth, and ingenuity rather than frustration. Plus, Christopher breaks down what this period means for your sign. Whether you're dealing with travel plans, relationship dynamics, or professional hurdles, this episode provides actionable tips to thrive during this astrological cycle.
What You’ll Learn by Tuning In:
📜The historical and mythological origins of Mercury retrograde and its impact on communication and transactions.
🌑How the Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius influences each zodiac sign, with specific themes like travel, partnerships, and financial agreements.
🎯Practical strategies to handle miscommunications and delays during the retrograde period, especially during holiday travel.
🚩A refreshing perspective on turning challenges into opportunities for creativity and problem-solving.
🏷️The role of humor and adaptability in navigating the retrograde, illustrated by a whimsical story about a peddler and his caps.
🔑Key dates and astrological aspects to watch during the retrograde, ensuring you're prepared for any twists and turns.
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00:00:00:15 – 00:00:26:02
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00:00:26:04 – 00:00:54:04
Christopher
Hello, my name is Christopher Renstrom and I'm your weekly horoscope columnist here on Astrology Hub. And this time I wanted to talk to you about Mercury turning retrograde on November 25th, just in time for Thanksgiving. Mercury retrograde. So probably the most famous aspects of astrology. Just about everyone on the street. No sort of Mercury retrograde is. Mercury retrograde is a period of time.
00:00:54:05 – 00:01:20:23
Christopher
A time when things become confused, when communications are working at cross-purposes, when people don't really make a lot of sense, and when when, whatever transaction or business deal you're engaged in suddenly falls through or turns into a lemon. So Mercury retrogrades have this kind of. Oh, well, what would I say? This reputation for duck and cover.
00:01:21:00 – 00:01:45:13
Christopher
And people often take that sort of attitude when they hear that Mercury is turning retrograde. They're like, oh, these are duck and cover days. I better watch out, don't sign a contract, don't agree to anything, don't make a big purchase or a big deal because chances are nothing will come of it. Now, the reason for this reputation lies pretty much with the root word of mercury in Latin.
00:01:45:15 – 00:02:18:13
Christopher
Mercury comes from the word merc, which was used as the root word for merchant merchandise and mercantile. So mercury naturally ruled over anything that is transactional. People who do buying and selling, people who do accounting, people who do accounting, people who analyze, people who crunch the facts. Usually these people have a very strong mercury in their chart, or they're born under the zodiac signs of Gemini and Virgo, which are both Mercury ruled signs.
00:02:18:15 – 00:02:42:22
Christopher
Mercury comes from the idea of the scribe back in Mesopotamia, in Mesopotamia, which we basically generally regard as the cradle of civilization. You would have a king, you would have a ruler, and you would have a court, you would have soldiers, you would have people who worked and you would have citizens, and you would have tradespeople and farmers and all sorts of things.
00:02:42:24 – 00:03:11:14
Christopher
But a very important person in the, setting of the court was the scribe. This was the person who wrote down everything that the king said. So if the king one day, was going on about an edict or rule or law, it was the scribe who was, writing it all down, maybe one day the king was waxing poetic about what the gods had said, via their, starry messengers in the night.
00:03:11:19 – 00:03:40:01
Christopher
And the king was, going on about what he, thought his future plans or or maybe it was a nighttime vision would be. And again, it was the scribe who dutifully wrote all of this down. Scribes were also the people who went and counted how many jars of honey or how many jars of olive oil. They there were, scribes also went and counted, how many heads of cattle, how many citizens, how many buildings?
00:03:40:05 – 00:04:04:15
Christopher
So it was the scribe who was always taking the measurement of things, who was recording things, and who was writing things down for posterity, so that when the king said, oh, I don't remember having said that, the scribe took out his handy clay tablet and said, oh, no. On the seventh day of our new, you said this. And so the king was like, oh, you scribe!
00:04:04:17 – 00:04:28:16
Christopher
So scribes could play a benevolent role, which was writing down what the king said, and the scribe could also play the pain in the derriere role, which was reminding the king of the things that he had said before, and that were perhaps inconsistent with some of the edicts he was taking out. Now. Now, when a planet turns retrograde, that means it has turned backwards in the sky.
00:04:28:18 – 00:04:52:00
Christopher
Obviously, planets don't turn backwards in the sky. If planets turn backwards in the sky, we'd all be in a lot of trouble. But it refers to a period of time in which maybe the Earth is moving faster than the planet, and so it looks as if the planet is moving backwards in the sky. In any case, a retrograde is that period of time when the planet is operating or behaving opposite.
00:04:52:04 – 00:05:13:11
Christopher
Then the way that it usually does when Mercury is moving forward, in the sky, when it's going from one sign to another to another and another, then Mercury is behaving normally. Mercury is behaving in a way that we all understand. Mercury is setting up transactions. It's allowing people to shake on a deal. Mercury is providing information.
00:05:13:16 – 00:05:37:09
Christopher
When you go in, you click on your Amazon cart or whatever cart, and your merchandise arrives on the front doorstep. It's not damaged, it's not ripped up. It's not in a bad state. It's exactly like you saw it online. Well, during the period of time that Mercury is moving backwards in the sky, all those things that Mercury is in charge of, like I said, deals and purchases.
00:05:37:13 – 00:06:00:10
Christopher
Mercury, by the way, is also in charge of commuting. So Mercury rules over the traffic commute to work, rules over grabbing the bus or getting the train on time, getting your plane on time. So this idea of commuting is also ruled over by Mercury. As you can imagine, when Mercury is retrograde, things like the deadlines are missed.
00:06:00:23 – 00:06:25:03
Christopher
The plane doesn't show up on time. It's delayed. The train left without you because you couldn't get there in time. You were held up in traffic or your car broke down during the period of time that Mercury is retrograde. So, again, as I was saying earlier, there's a kind of bedeviling reputation to Mercury retrogrades. For the most part, everyone sort of takes them tongue in cheek.
00:06:25:04 – 00:06:46:14
Christopher
They they take a mercury retrograde with a bit of humor. You always sort of want to watch out. You always want to be extra careful when you're studying a contract. You want to read everything that's that's in the, bill of sale. You want to hold on to emails because you may have to refer to them later in case something goes south.
00:06:46:23 – 00:07:29:06
Christopher
But basically, for the most part, Mercury retrograde aren't really seen as being calamitous or too difficult, but but they can be very irritating, especially when they show up just days before Thanksgiving when everyone is hitting the road and commuting. So what you want to do is if you can start out for your destination earlier, if you can make sure that everything is set up and ready to go, so that you don't have any sort of last minute purchases that you have to make, if you want to call ahead to make sure that the that the, lodgings who are expecting you are indeed still, expecting you and that they
00:07:29:06 – 00:07:53:05
Christopher
didn't write down the wrong date. These are the extra things that we want to do during the period of time that Mercury is retrograde. So how do we handle Mercury retrograde? Well, we know that things that we are expecting to go off without, second thought are going to get tangled up. They're going to get mucked up, they're going to get confused and confounded.
00:07:53:07 – 00:08:18:13
Christopher
So we want to take extra time. We want to take extra time with our preparation. We want to take extra time when explaining something. We want to take extra time to make sure that the person we're sending the text to or the email to is the person that we had in mind and not somebody else. So you, as I said before, you want to take that extra time, you want to call your eyes and you want to cross all of your T's.
00:08:18:15 – 00:08:43:19
Christopher
But as I said, there are going to be periods where you're going to feel very confounded, where you're going to feel like Mercury is just working your last nerve. And for those of you who might find yourself in that type of the situation, this is the sort of advice I want to share. This advice comes from a wonderful children's book that my mother read to me when when I was a wee young lad.
00:08:44:06 – 00:09:05:22
Christopher
Unfortunately I don't remember the title of the book, but I do remember pretty much how the book goes. It was a children's book, so it was an illustrated book. And, I love this book so much, but it's the first thing that came to mind, when I wanted to talk to you about Mercury being retrograde in the zodiac sign of Sagittarius.
00:09:06:13 – 00:09:38:17
Christopher
And Sagittarius is a sign that the more good humor you can show and express, the better off you're going to be. Well, in this book, there's a peddler. Okay? There's a there's a sales person. Okay. There's someone. Mercury right there. Okay. And this peddler was known for selling caps and, and and instead of, like, a wagon, for some reason, I don't know, this peddler walked around town with with caps that were that were piled on his head and there were several caps.
00:09:38:17 – 00:09:57:13
Christopher
It wasn't like 2 or 3. It was like ten or maybe 12 or, who knows, maybe even 15 or something like that. And so this peddler would walk around town, selling his caps, and people would buy them and say, hello, peddler. What a what a fascinating captain. He would take them down off of his head, and he would he would sell them.
00:09:57:13 – 00:10:17:16
Christopher
He would say, this would look wonderful on you, or this might not look so wonderful on you or something along those lines. Well, one day he came to town to sell his wares, and he put it. He took the caps off his head and he put them down on the ground, and he was about 3 or 4 short, and he was like, oh, what happened?
00:10:17:16 – 00:10:38:02
Christopher
I always walk wonderfully balanced, you know, with the caps on my head. What? Why am I missing 3 to 4 caps? And he thought nothing of it. And people came by and admired his caps, and he sold a whole bunch of them. And he went to go and get some more from home. And then the following day, when he came to town, he was missing half of his caps, when he got to town.
00:10:38:04 – 00:11:01:13
Christopher
And he was really kind of distressed. Where did they go? Did they fall off he went. And and, I mean, after selling his caps for the day, he went to sort of double checked where he had walked and things like that. And no, there were no caps missing or anything along those lines. And so on the third day, he goes to town and he arrives and he takes off his caps, and it's just the one that he's wearing, okay?
00:11:01:13 – 00:11:29:20
Christopher
And he's like, where did the other 14 go? Where are my caps? You know? So he goes rushing back, home and he, passes a tree and he, sees on this tree, climbing on this tree, a troupe of monkeys. And each one of the monkeys is wearing a cap, and they're throwing the caps back and forth, and they're wearing a cap, and they're sort of inspecting one another, you know, wearing the cap, maybe at a jaunty angle with the other one.
00:11:30:01 – 00:11:47:14
Christopher
And he's like, you took my caps. And he. And he realized that he put two and two together because this is a tree that he always walked underneath. But he wasn't used to the monkeys, you know, before. And they were playing with this caps. And he's like you monkeys, you monkeys, you give me back my caps, you know?
00:11:47:14 – 00:12:10:02
Christopher
And the monkeys, like, started chattering at him and maybe chewing the cap or throwing it back and forth and things like this. And he's like, you give me back my caps, you you you monkeys. And, you know, monkeys being up to monkey business weren't exactly going to do that sort of thing at all. And so he, he went and he like, you know, shook his hand and he said, you monkeys.
00:12:10:04 – 00:12:34:24
Christopher
And the monkeys looked down at him and they said, you know, back at him. And he's like, you, monkey, you give me back my caps. And the monkeys went. Back at him. They started to toss the caps back and forth and things like that. And he stopped one leg and he said, you monkeys! And the monkeys stomped one leg on the tree branches, and they bounced up and down and they went, you know, it is.
00:12:34:24 – 00:12:55:02
Christopher
And he found some both legs and both legs and angrily, angrily, he's stamping with both legs. And all the monkeys were stamping with both legs at all, and as well, at the same time, and he was like all kinds of frustrated, and he was all kinds of angry. He was just beside himself. And and when he tried to climb the tree, they just climbed higher.
00:12:55:02 – 00:13:14:11
Christopher
And he couldn't make it up that high. And and he and he came back down and and he and he had his cap and he threw his cap down on the ground, you know, in anger, you know. And then it dawned on him. He picked up the cap. He put it back on his head. He looked up at the monkeys and he went, you monkeys again!
00:13:14:11 – 00:13:39:00
Christopher
And they went again. And he went, you monkeys again! And they went. And he just like I said, you monkeys again! And they were like, they stamped their leg in one area. And he jumped up and down with both legs, and they stumped up and down with both legs. And he took his cap and he threw it down on the ground, and he went right at the cap, you know, he went through it on the ground.
00:13:39:00 – 00:14:01:07
Christopher
I'm right at the cap. And the monkeys and that same instant took the caps off their heads, and they threw them down on the ground and they went round, you know, and he went, and the monkeys were like, you know, and he went, and he went and he collected all of those caps, and he took them with him to town, and he sold them all that day.
00:14:01:09 – 00:14:30:22
Christopher
Now, I love that story. It's so mercury in so many different ways. It's the idea of mimicking. It's the idea of mocking. But most importantly, it's the idea of outsmarting. Okay? And the outsmarting wasn't done through, you know, going away and coming up with computations. You know, the outsmarting wasn't done. I don't know, Agatha Christie was like, oh, look, there are the monkey prints.
00:14:30:22 – 00:14:48:08
Christopher
They're on the ground or oh, look, there are prints out the ground. They go up the tree. I've deduced there are monkeys. It wasn't done like that, you know. It was done out of the spontaneity, the frustration of the circumstance. Once every day this peddler went to town and he was missing caps, and he was trying to figure out what it was.
00:14:48:13 – 00:15:12:06
Christopher
He discovers that the monkeys were taking the cops and making fun of him, and instead of getting frustrated and angry and just quitting and leaving in a huff, he engages the monkeys in mirroring. He engages the monkey monkeys in mimicry. He turns it into a game, you know, and by throwing his cap on the ground, he gets them to do the same thing.
00:15:12:09 – 00:15:36:11
Christopher
And that's essentially how he wins the game. And that's the advice that I want to give to you during the time that Mercury is retrograde. Yes. You're going to feel angry. Yes, you're going to feel frustrated. But what you want to do is backtrack over your steps, figure out where things went wrong, and instead of just being angry and frustrated, stay engaged.
00:15:36:17 – 00:16:05:04
Christopher
Make a game of it. See what you can learn from the predicament or the problem that Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius is presenting. The other added complication that you'll be having during this time, as Mercury is said to be in detriment when it is traveling through the zodiac sign of Sagittarius. What that means is that Mercury is traveling through a sign that is opposite the sign that Mercury rules.
00:16:05:06 – 00:16:31:03
Christopher
For instance, Mercury rules the zodiac sign of Gemini and Sagittarius is six signs away, or six months away from Gemini on either the zodiacal circle or the calendar year. So when a planet is in a zodiac sign that is opposite its own sign, it is said to be in detriment. It is said to be struggling. It is said to be having a problem.
00:16:31:05 – 00:17:00:01
Christopher
Now why would Mercury, the ruler of Gemini, be having a problem in a zodiac sign like Sagittarius? Well, Mercury, as I said before, is the planet of the scribe. It's very detail oriented. It records things, it writes things. It takes notes of things. Mercury in Gemini in particular is a very playful combination. Okay. This is, this sign placement for Mercury makes Mercury very inquisitive.
00:17:00:03 – 00:17:33:10
Christopher
It makes mercury very curious, and it makes mercury extremely playful. Mercury in Sagittarius isn't really playful in the same way. It's good humored, you know? And mercury in Sagittarius has a fantastic sense of humor. But Mercury wants to analyze it, wants to deduce it, wants to problem solve. That's that's part of its job in an astrological chart. But when it's in the zodiac sign of Sagittarius, what Mercury does is pontificate, okay?
00:17:33:10 – 00:17:58:08
Christopher
It it's sermonizing. It goes on about why things happen. It's very philosophical. It's very profound. It's very deep. It has a great sense of humor. But sometimes mercury in Sagittarius can take itself a little bit too seriously. It. Mercury inside territory is can make fun of someone. But if someone makes fun back, they can maybe take it a little personally or it's not.
00:17:58:11 – 00:18:25:05
Christopher
It's not that funny, you know, that, that sort of thing. But the big difference between a mercury in Sagittarius and a mercury in Gemini is that mercury in Sagittarius is ruled by its enthusiasms. It gets excited about an idea. It's absolutely gummed smacked with the wonder of something that's come to its mind. In fact, Sagittarius is a zodiac sign of wonder.
00:18:25:05 – 00:18:47:14
Christopher
It wants to contemplate the great truths of life and and and as I said, sermonizing about them. It doesn't want to ask questions. It doesn't want to be bothered with inconvenient details. It wants to tell a story. If it tells a story and everyone is absolutely enraptured to the story. My mind, that is such a fantastic story.
00:18:47:16 – 00:19:12:15
Christopher
The Mercury in Sagittarius unfolds it and enlivens it, and maybe even embellishes it a little bit, or exaggerates a few, points for comic effect. Now, this is not something that a mercury in Gemini or a mercury in Virgo is going to do. Okay, they're much more detail oriented, especially a mercury in Virgo. It's very, you know, you stick to the details, you stick to the minutia.
00:19:12:15 – 00:19:43:06
Christopher
These are the things that are important. But when Mercury's in a Jupiter ruled sign, it exaggerates it. It embellishes. It wants to hold everyone's attention in this wonderful fable. Okay, so truth isn't, analysis. Truth isn't stacks and facts. Truth is a really good story. Truth is a wonderful fable with a moral to the tale. Truth is an adventure that's shared.
00:19:43:10 – 00:20:04:03
Christopher
Maybe you experienced it yourself. Or maybe someone you know went on the adventure. If you have a mercury in Sagittarius and so you're going to borrow it because you could tell the story of the adventure much better than that person ever could. So these are the things that happen to Mercury when it's traveling through the zodiac sign of Sagittarius.
00:20:04:05 – 00:20:32:16
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00:20:50:15 – 00:21:22:03
Christopher
So for people born under Aries or who have Aries Rising, Mercury will be traveling through that part of your solar chart that's associated to long journeys. It's associated to higher education, to it's associated to the courts, the courts of law. So Mercury traveling through Sagittarius is going to have more of a sense of broadening your horizons. It may be connected to messages or opportunities that you're receiving from great distances.
00:21:22:05 – 00:21:54:05
Christopher
Now, what passes for great distances? Well, it's not going to be your next door neighbor, and it's not going to be someone who lives down the block a great distance can be someone from another city. A great distance can be someone from out of state, or great distance can be from out of country. So you may have recently received a message or an opportunity, that was inviting you to come travel to come be, maybe you got a scholarship or some sort of funding from an agency just in the nick of time.
00:21:54:05 – 00:22:18:18
Christopher
That was going to help you out. Now, when Mercury turns retrograde like it will on November 25th, it's going to retract that offer or it's going to introduce some kind of complication. And so this may be something that you find really dispiriting. This might be something that you find very discouraging, like whoa, whoa, whoa, what happened to that?
00:22:18:18 – 00:22:44:05
Christopher
Or or you know, why are you taking it away from me? And the reason why it's being taken away could have to do, with circumstances running afoul. Or it could be bad timing. Or maybe someone made a promise that they couldn't keep. This is a theme with Mercury in Sagittarius. Particularly when Mercury is retrograde in Sagittarius.
00:22:44:07 – 00:23:09:17
Christopher
You want to sort of be wary about promises that are being made during this period of time, because there could be a feeling that, they, they over promised, that the person, over delivered and, and so this may cause a sort of complication where for about two weeks, you may feel on the edge of your seat, like, like things are going to go south in a terrible sort of way.
00:23:09:19 – 00:23:30:16
Christopher
What you want to do during this period of time is that you don't want to just sit back and take it. You want to make inquiries, but you don't want to make inquiries in an angry, demanding sort of way. You want to make inquiries in a friendly way, in a sympathetic way. And, it must be hard to, offer such a thing.
00:23:30:16 – 00:23:50:02
Christopher
And then all of a sudden, you know, it's it's it's become complicated. I, you know, it must be hard to be in the position, that you the person who was inviting me, are in. You know, if you show a lot of sympathy that that tends to make people much more affable. But it also makes them more willing to fight on your side for something.
00:23:50:04 – 00:24:13:24
Christopher
What else? What may happen during this period of time is, as I said, that you might have recently had reached a court settlement or some sort of legal settlement. And so Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius may throw a monkey wrench into the works in which, you know, your first response might be like, well, I don't have to take this, you know, and with Mercury Retrograde, that's not the way you want to respond.
00:24:14:01 – 00:24:35:22
Christopher
How you want to respond is to go and try to figure out who to talk to or how you can turn this to your advantage. And if you go ahead and do that, you may find that something that had been withdrawn or taken away is back on by the time that Mercury comes out of retrograde on December 15th.
00:24:35:24 – 00:25:02:05
Christopher
For people who are born under the zodiac sign of Taurus, or are Taurus rising, this period of time when Mercury turns retrograde in Sagittarius, it's turning retrograde in a part of your chart. That's a very sensitive part of your chart. It's a part of your chart that is connected to, other people financially. We have a house, the second house in astrology, which talks about my money.
00:25:02:05 – 00:25:24:06
Christopher
You know, and then we have the eighth house, which talks about other people's money. And so this can deal with things like if you, signed off on if you cosigned a loan, if you hold joint, property if with someone else, this can deal with the way that you are paying back what you owe someone.
00:25:24:18 – 00:25:49:12
Christopher
You know, was there a good, affable agreement of, like, oh, you can get back to paying it back whenever you want to, and now you're hearing that the person needs all the money right now. You know? Or it can maybe, perhaps deal with an issue in which other people owe you. And, you've been kind of, you know, laid back about them paying you back, but now it's gotten to a situation where they're they may be abusing it in some regard.
00:25:49:18 – 00:26:22:14
Christopher
And so you might find during this period of time when Mercury is retrograde, you can't be that sort of bon vivant, you know, Mercury in a Jupiter ruled sign. You know, you actually have to like, turn the screws. You actually have to bird dog things. You you have to make sure that someone is, staying good to the amount, to paying you back, an amount of money or or maybe it's a renter that they're paying their rent on time, you know, and and you want to work with them and that sort of idea.
00:26:22:16 – 00:26:44:21
Christopher
But another thing that could be happening during this period of time. And Mercury is retrograde from November 25th until December 15th. You may learn that someone that you were getting into bed with financially, okay, maybe someone that you were taking on as a business partner or a client that they've suddenly gotten cold feet, that they're suddenly like, I don't know if I can go through with this.
00:26:44:21 – 00:27:03:10
Christopher
I don't, I don't know, if this is the right thing for me to do and they might even, you know, they might, apologize right away, but they might even sort of, like, blame you in a weird sort of way. And you may feel like, whoa, what happened? We were like, so on board for this, and and things were looking so good.
00:27:03:10 – 00:27:25:08
Christopher
And now they've gotten cold feet, you know? Do they need a pep talk? Do I need to make the terms more inviting or more accommodating? You know, what's what's going on here? What may be going on here. Because we are dealing with your seller eighth house is there may be some behind the scenes shenanigans. Now, now, I'm not saying that the person is trying to pull the wool over your eyes.
00:27:25:08 – 00:27:46:08
Christopher
I don't really think that they that they are, but I think that this might have been a situation where a person might have over promised. They might have said that they could deliver more than they could, or they were thinking they could swing the financial partnership with you by stretching a buck, and they're realizing that that's not going to happen.
00:27:46:14 – 00:28:08:21
Christopher
So what I want you to keep in mind during this period of time, from November 20th 5th to December 15th, if that, if a deal doesn't come through, if a client isn't giving you the green light. If if you don't, sign some sort of agreement with, with maybe a backer or a supporter in some way, it might be for your own good.
00:28:08:21 – 00:28:42:11
Christopher
It might be because this person couldn't deliver on what they were promising or was having money problems that they weren't upfront about, or maybe they didn't even know about until now. So one way of dealing with this Mercury retrograde don't try to make your terms more amenable. What it may be is more like maybe this person's trying to get out of an agreement where they would have caused you a lot of headache, and if that's the case, let them get out of it, wish them all the best, and carry on on your way.
00:28:42:13 – 00:29:19:17
Christopher
Now, if you're born under the zodiac sign of Gemini or you have Gemini Rising, Mercury Retrograde is going to be messing around with your partnerships and close associations. There may be this feeling that, you're rotating them or they're rotating you. Now, when I'm kind of referring to here, was this funny story that my mother told me, and I think it was in college when she was a freshman in college, she had a roommate who would, have photographs of her friends, and she would tape them on the wall over her bed.
00:29:20:15 – 00:29:59:16
Christopher
And in order of who she was feeling best friends with that day, it, I remember my mother was completely, like, amazed and kind of impressed, you know, with this, but kind of like, who who does that, you know? And so she would arrange carefully arrange who, who she felt closest to versus who she felt distant from, you know, and many days, of course, the lineup remained the same, but there were days in which her, her roommate would come home and move, you know, someone at the head of the line to the back of the line, or maybe introduce a new picture or or take off 3 or 4 pictures, you know, kind of
00:29:59:16 – 00:30:19:21
Christopher
like the peddler with the monkey in the heads. And so, as I said, my mother was quite like astonished and stunned that someone would do that. And I remember asking my mom, well, where did she get these pictures? It's not like they were headshots or anything like that. And she was like pictures that she had taken or maybe cut out of the yearbook.
00:30:19:21 – 00:30:47:05
Christopher
And I was like, cut out of the yearbook. I mean, like my mom was she was very serious about this. So, but what I wanted to share with you, Gemini, is this is, you may feel that there is during this period of time that Mercury is retrograde, a change in the roster. A change in the feeling of who's the who's the closest friend, versus who's the one you're not talking to anymore.
00:30:47:05 – 00:31:12:17
Christopher
And you may be experiencing that you you might be experiencing a change over or disappointment with close friends or spouse or partner, maybe even, creative collaborator or business partner or because you're ruling planet Mercury is traveling through the solar seventh house, which is, Sagittarius in the solar chart, and it's ruled by Jupiter, which is in your own zodiac sign.
00:31:13:02 – 00:31:54:05
Christopher
You may feel like you're one of the pictures on the wall that's being moved around. And you may be wondering, what you said. What's going on? What's what's what's happening with all of this? So the best image that I can leave you with during this period of time that Mercury is retrograde in your opposite sign of Sagittarius, from November 20th 5th to December 15th is just sort of think of a revolving door, you know, and people coming in and out of your life, and you may figure out the reason for these changes in disposition and attitude, or you may not, it may take a little while for you to discover what
00:31:54:05 – 00:32:21:22
Christopher
the real truth was, but I think that if you take on a more laid back, attitude about it, and if 1 or 2 of these relationship upsetting upsets are truly distressing asking about it, be ready for the person not to be ready to talk about it during this period of time. Mercury, the planet of communication, is traveling backwards through the sky, so they may not be in the mood to share or divulge that information.
00:32:21:24 – 00:32:59:23
Christopher
And this might be a really good time to sort of give them their space and allow them to be like that and to trust eventually, at some point, they're either going to, share with you what they're, angry about, or you're going to discover maybe that your pictures suddenly back and at the front of the line again, for some sort of mysterious reason which may never be revealed to you, at all if you're born under cancer or you have cancer rising, this period of time when Mercury is retrograde is going to be a bit difficult for you.
00:33:00:09 – 00:33:23:23
Christopher
The reason it's difficult for you is because Mercury isn't really forming a true Ptolemaic aspect to your zodiac sign. The Ptolemaic aspects, in case you wanted to know, are the conjunction, the opposition, the square, the trine, and the sextile. These are all talk about relationships. If you're in love with one another and supporting one another, that's a relationship.
00:33:24:00 – 00:33:58:23
Christopher
If you're fighting while people fight in relationships. So that's a relationship. If you're in polar opposite camps and you have no relationship at all, refusing to relate can still be a relationship. And a conjunction, of course, is feeling like you're on the same page. But the quincunx introduces, a wrinkle in in in a chart. It has a think of a recalling energy you've pressed to your shirt, but there's this wrinkle, and maybe you iron and iron it again, and there's still a wrinkle or or you maybe press it on out and it comes back into a wrinkle.
00:33:58:23 – 00:34:21:15
Christopher
This is what a quincunx does. It's it's an insistent, wrinkle. It's an inconsistent, mis fitting of energies. And so it's really hard to apprehend or understand why this is happening. But at the same time, you're not going to want to give up on it either. You're going to want to keep trying to figure out how to solve the problem, how to make it work.
00:34:21:21 – 00:34:46:11
Christopher
But you will always be frustrated in doing that. This is what happens when there's a quincunx energy in a chart. Either natively or by transit. What's going on here? Because, Mercury will be retrograde in your summer house of work and service is that you will be, you will be experiencing, wrinkles, with, with work in service.
00:34:46:13 – 00:35:11:05
Christopher
Now, that's not outright hostility. That's not a square, for instance. Right. Like you're fighting with a with a colleague or you're, you know, complaining about your boss. You know, it's not that what it is is that you and a person that you're working with, or it could be even a client. You're just not looking, okay. And you're getting on one another's nerves as a result.
00:35:11:07 – 00:35:27:22
Christopher
Okay, so so maybe maybe you've taken on a client who was very demanding and very difficult and and you're like, you know, I can't wait to fire this client. You know, like, I can't wait to get rid of this client. I don't need this client in my life. We're right when you're about to, you know, dismiss the client.
00:35:28:14 – 00:35:51:17
Christopher
That's when a big bill comes in and you need the client because you need the money coming in, and, you know, you're you're kind of like, in this enforced having to be with someone. Or maybe you're you you're trying to teach a colleague how to do something. And it's during this period of time when Mercury is retrograde that the colleague just messes up, for, for the 15th time.
00:35:51:17 – 00:36:22:07
Christopher
And maybe you even get blamed for it, you know? And so there's just trying to figure out how to make this situation work, and the situation just isn't going to work. Which is why it will resolve itself when Mercury leaves Sagittarius all together. But until then, there's this irritating thing that you have to deal with. The last idea that I want to share with you is that you may be having trouble with bureaucracy, like a bureaucratic agency or a bureaucratic institution.
00:36:22:09 – 00:37:01:08
Christopher
They might have lost something of yours or the IRS keeps sending you. You know, we need more documentation, you know, on this tax file or something like this. And and it doesn't matter how many times you Xerox it or copy it or scan it or send it, it's almost like they keep if they're not always losing it, there is a new person being brought onto your case who needs you to go back to the beginning and outfit them with all the paperwork again, you know, so so it's something that's going to be very frustrating, which is why the advice is to get this person on your side, you know, to take a moment to
00:37:01:08 – 00:37:31:03
Christopher
be like, okay, count to ten in your head. You're thoughtful and can be like, I have taught you how to do this 15 times before, but we're going to go for time number 16, you know, and to engage once more. Another thing that you're going to want to do during this period of time is to keep, what they call, what is it, an email trail, that you want to hold on to the correspondences, the receipts, any kind of exchanges, texts and things like that.
00:37:31:05 – 00:37:57:06
Christopher
So when you have to go back over it with a new person or to, to plead your case, should that be, a situation that you find yourself in, that that information is ready at hand? Whatever the quirkiness, whatever the difficulty with you cancer, it may last a particularly long time. It could take until February 4th to sort itself out.
00:37:57:12 – 00:38:23:10
Christopher
I hope it sorts itself out sooner, but if it doesn't, it will definitely sort itself out by February 4th, when Jupiter, the ruler of Mercury, which is retrograde, comes out of retrograde itself on the day after. If you're born under the zodiac sign of Leo or you have Leo Rising, this Mercury retrograde inside detritus isn't going to be so bad.
00:38:23:12 – 00:38:49:02
Christopher
Why? Why is it not going to be so bad? The reason it's not going to be so bad is because Sagittarius is a fire sign, just like Leo is a fire sign. And so these two signs share the same element. They share the same energy. And so there's a built in simpatico. There's a built in understanding, there's a built in rapport and friendliness between these two zodiac signs.
00:38:49:04 – 00:39:12:03
Christopher
So what's going to be taking place here when Mercury turns retrograde on November 25th, is that there's going to be a change of heart now. That change of heart could be a change of heart on your part about a venture or project. You're not really as into it as you thought you were, or something better comes along.
00:39:12:05 – 00:39:38:15
Christopher
That change of heart, could do could deal with an agreement or promise that you made to a child of yours, or that you made to a parent that has to be revisited and in some sort of way. Maybe you were the one who over promised by saying, oh, sure, it's fine for you to come in and camp out at my house, you know, for eight weeks, and then you're beginning to realize that wasn't a really good idea, right?
00:39:38:15 – 00:40:05:20
Christopher
So so it's a change of heart on your part about a particular type of situation. But what's nice about the trine is that it will be done. Affably, you know, it's not going to be, you know, the person you made a promise to isn't going to be horribly disappointed. Maybe it's someone you date or are dating, that you realize it's not just it's just not clicking and you say, you know what?
00:40:06:00 – 00:40:22:21
Christopher
I don't know if this is clicking and the person you're going out with, it responds, oh, thank God you said so because I didn't know what to say. It wasn't clicking on my part either. I mean, I really like you. You're a great friend, you know, and I've had a wonderful time visiting, but I'm just not feeling that.
00:40:23:01 – 00:40:48:07
Christopher
And you might be like, I'm not really feeling it. And you're like, I'm not feeling it either, you know? And so it's one of those affable sorts of things. It's not going to be horrible. It's not going to be heartbreaking. And on the off chance that it is, because it's fiery energy and we're dealing with a mercury retrograde, this falls into the there's, another train right behind this one count.
00:40:48:18 – 00:41:09:07
Christopher
Now, what that refers to is I lived in New York City for 28 years, and, would take the subway, of course, like everyone else. And you would like mass or press yourself on the subway train, especially if it was, you know, rush hour. And what would happen is that people would like, you know, like, really present on the subway train, and the doors would be like, you know, trying to close and come back over.
00:41:09:13 – 00:41:25:00
Christopher
And the conductor would be like, with a couple of you, please get off. And, you know, people would like, you know, pretend like they didn't hear it. It's like there's a train right behind this one. And some people would like, get off and wait and the doors would close. They would leave. And indeed, there was a train right behind it.
00:41:25:02 – 00:41:45:05
Christopher
That's kind of the sort of thing if you feel like there's a change of heart and you're like, oh, no, this is like this, this is, this is going to hurt or this is going to be difficult. There's a train right behind it. Okay. So in other words, there's going to be another project, something else that captures your interest, someone else for you to date or for you to see.
00:41:45:21 – 00:42:08:05
Christopher
In fact, this might have removed someone who was an obstacle to that energy. So the way that it turns out, with this particular Mercury retrograde in the zodiac sign of Sagittarius at Trines Leo is that it's affable. It's good because of the nature, which is a trine. And even if you see it first, you know, there's a train right behind it.
00:42:08:07 – 00:42:37:12
Christopher
But if you're born under Virgo or have Virgo rising, the immediate word that came to mind when I was looking at your stellar horoscope was Scrooged. As an Ebenezer Scrooge, you may be working for someone right now who's very demanding. Not only is this person very demanding, but this person is very insensitive to your schedule. This person is very insensitive to your other obligations and duties and responsibilities.
00:42:37:14 – 00:43:03:01
Christopher
And this person is not only insensitive towards those things, but this person may also be underpaying you in some ways. You may even feel used and abused. So what's going to happen during this period of time that Mercury is retrograde in the zodiac sign of Sagittarius is you're going to start getting a lot of pressure from loved ones and from friends to do something about it.
00:43:03:03 – 00:43:25:16
Christopher
They're going to say to you, you know, you always make excuses for this person, or you always make excuses saying that you need the money, you need the situation. Something along those lines. But don't you see how you're sort of buying into this? Don't you see how in you're accommodating of the person? The person not only takes you for granted, but actually wants more from you?
00:43:25:18 – 00:43:57:11
Christopher
And so this may be a period of time in which your eyes gradually open up. You realize that you are working for someone who is being very abusive of their situation. Now, you may, take time to rehearse, different conversations or meetings or negotiations. You may have with this person, or you might take time to go and look for another job position that's similar to this, in which you're getting paid at least market value, if not possibly more.
00:43:57:13 – 00:44:21:01
Christopher
So this is a good period of time to go and look around for what else is available. You've done the accommodating, you've done the hoping that the person would turn around, you've done the hinting, you've done the bringing up things. You can try the negotiating if you want to, but my feeling is you might be better served just moving on to an entirely different situation altogether.
00:44:21:12 – 00:44:52:00
Christopher
This Mercury retrograde is bringing in previous squares to Saturn and to Jupiter, so this might be a months long issue. Then is what you are experiencing right now. Now, on the off chance that your employer or your client is visited by three ghosts, the better of the night, one being the Ghost of Christmas Past, the other being the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the other one being the Ghost of Christmas Future.
00:44:53:02 – 00:45:23:04
Christopher
By chance, this person suddenly sees the light and turns over a new leaf in as being affable. Great look for that around the time in the days leading up to Christmas itself. But if not, if not, then this is probably a good time to look for something somewhere else. We're not only you feel appreciated, but you feel rewarded and encouraged to be the best that you can possibly be at your job or your particular role in it.
00:45:23:06 – 00:45:48:07
Christopher
If you're born under Libra or you happen to have Libra rising, this Mercury retrograde in the zodiac sign of Sagittarius is going to be wonderful for you. That's because Sagittarius forms a natural sextile to your zodiac sign. You may recall earlier with Leo how I was talking about Trines. Those are benevolent relationships that exist between two totally different signs, but they share the same element.
00:45:48:09 – 00:46:15:20
Christopher
There's a similar character to the sextile. Libra is not a fire sign like Sagittarius is. It's an air sign. But these are both what we would call nowadays gang signs. Air and fire are Yang signs, and earth and water are yin signs. Back in the day, we used to call these masculine or feminine signs. But that's kind of gotten into a bit of troubled waters nowadays.
00:46:15:20 – 00:46:36:03
Christopher
And so we go with Yang and Yin. Another way to think of it is that the gang signs are more active. They're playing with what's there in front of them, and the yin signs are more, I'm going to take this on in and think about it. And they're sort of really they're more sensitive to a situation and figuring out how they want to proceed with the situation.
00:46:36:09 – 00:47:02:01
Christopher
It's rarely in the spur of the moment. It's usually with a great deal of thought and deliberation. So there's a there's an excitable energy that exists between Libra and Sagittarius. Not only do they like one another, but they get much more animated in conversation with one another. Those animating enthusiastic energies of Sagittarius will absolutely perk you right on up.
00:47:02:03 – 00:47:28:00
Christopher
And being born under Libra, which is a people person sign. You work with other people, you interact with other people, on a regular basis. You know, someone tells you a good turn and you return it by, doing someone else a good term. Now, what you're going to find with this Mercury retrograde is you have to help someone out before they can help you.
00:47:28:02 – 00:47:49:09
Christopher
All right. So in other words, maybe there's a favor or an introduction or something you need from someone else, and that person answers you with, oh, I really want to help you with this, but. But I'm, you know, in dire straits, or I'm trying to make ends meet or, you know, I'm dealing with certain complications or problems in my life right now, you know, is there any way that you could wait?
00:47:49:21 – 00:48:12:18
Christopher
And then I can I can eventually help you. And being a Libra, you might be like, sure, I can wait until it's better time, but what's up? Maybe I can I can help you with this. And the person's like, what's up? You know, how much time do you have? This is the story of my life. And you might find as a Libra that as you listen and take in what this person's going through, that it's not a problem at all to help this, help this person out.
00:48:12:20 – 00:48:38:20
Christopher
And so you may agree during this period of time, but remember that there's always a monkey wrench being thrown into the works whenever you have Mercury retrograde. And chances are there will be some sort of complication and some sort of condition that, draws you in deeper, than you wanted to be drawn into initially. Something that may be quest, may be gets you the question, was this a good idea?
00:48:38:22 – 00:48:58:10
Christopher
These are kind of the adventures that Mercury Retrograde takes us on. We we may begin, you know, with something that we thought was an above board gesture or an exchange. And we find that it gets much more complicated. And part of us is like, how do we get out of this? But another thing that happens is that we're being taken off the beaten path.
00:48:58:10 – 00:49:19:06
Christopher
You know, we're being taken into an area that we really don't, or that familiar with or think about that much, or maybe were tested in terms of our ingenuity or even loyalty. So these are the wonderful adventures that a mercury retrograde can take you on. And this is an adventure that I would likewise encourage urge you to go on.
00:49:19:08 – 00:49:47:19
Christopher
Because when Mercury comes out of retrograde on December 15th, not only will the person that you were helping out be in a position to help you out and turn, but you might have learned some wonderful things about this person and yourself in the meantime. Now, if you're born under Scorpio or you happen to have Scorpio Rising, you may find that there's a piece of unfinished business that's starting to take its toll.
00:49:47:21 – 00:50:14:19
Christopher
Actually, I might want to amend that. There's a piece of unfinished business that's definitely taking its toll because it wasn't taken care of or managed before this Mercury retrograde isn't just sort of happening on its own. It's not its own piece. It's happening on the, heels of having formed a square to Saturn and having formed, opposition to Jupiter in the past few weeks.
00:50:14:21 – 00:50:36:13
Christopher
So there has been this problem that's been building, that has really made you wrestle with a loyalty that you feel to someone else. But you're beginning to wonder if that person is feeling a loyalty to themselves. Now, that sounds a little odd. Like, well, if I feel loyalty to someone else, does that person feel loyal to me?
00:50:36:15 – 00:51:03:16
Christopher
I would say that the person feels very loyal to you, but the person isn't taking it upon themselves to help themselves. And this is something that might be taking a toll on you right now. Now, this person might be in a place of need. They may be overwhelmed by the problem that they're facing. They may have just received news that has really thrown them off their stride.
00:51:04:05 – 00:51:31:13
Christopher
They may be dealing with a very difficult situation, and you're there for them. As a Scorpio, you will always be there for the people you care about. The funny thing is, you're even there for the people you don't care about. Which is a funny thing about Scorpio. And that's because being a mars ruled sign, you feel furiously loyal, but you can even feel a loyalty towards those who have done a bad turn to you.
00:51:31:15 – 00:51:50:15
Christopher
The water, the the Mars part of you is always saying never forgive, never forget. You know, although I'll never, you know, be friends with this person, but you have this watery side of you which is always like, you know, there's a reason why this person is this person, and maybe they can change their ways, or maybe they can be a better person.
00:51:50:15 – 00:52:21:04
Christopher
Anyway, I'm digressing, but that's my $0.02 on why Scorpios can find themselves often coming to the rescue of a nemesis rather than, you know, chuckling and letting them, you know, fall. There's there's still that watery empathy. There's still that watery fear of there. But for the grace of God go I. But in any case, you really need to take a more businesslike attitude towards a very untangled emotional situation.
00:52:21:06 – 00:52:57:07
Christopher
Emotionally, you can be there for someone, but financially you may not be able to or physically you may not have the time, the energy, the resources to be there for someone. And this may be something that you're really, truly wrestling with. And so during this period of time that Mercury's retrograde, you may find yourself seeing that the excuses that you sort of patched over things or the promises you made, you may see cracks in those promises, cracks in those pledges that make you feel awful, that make you feel guilty and terrible.
00:52:57:09 – 00:53:21:04
Christopher
But at the same time, they're also making you see reason. They're also making you see the situation more realistically. And they're also maybe, getting you to factor in yourself with what's going on here, something that Scorpios aren't so good at again, because if they're feeling a duty bound to someone, they're going to be there. Absolutely.
00:53:21:04 – 00:53:52:13
Christopher
For the person, the end result will be a more, real communication between you and the person. And you may find that now that you're not insisting that you carry the burden of either solving this person's problem or rescuing them from the dilemma, you may find during this period of time that Mercury retrograde from November 20th 5th to December 15th, that you're actually listening to the person, that you're actually recognizing things that this person can do for themselves.
00:53:53:00 – 00:54:22:08
Christopher
That in some ways you're kind of delegating maybe some of the responsibility of taking care of this person's finances or emotions. You're delegating it. And that this person, may be rising to the occasion, you know, because you've reached your limit and this person recognizes that you've reached your limit. So this could be a wonderful moral to the tale that emerges when Mercury comes out of retrograde on December 15th.
00:54:22:10 – 00:54:49:09
Christopher
If you're born under Sagittarius or Sagittarius is your rising sign, then this Mercury Retrograde is going to impact you most of all, because it's traveling through your own zodiac sign and what this will bring up. Once again, it seems to be an ongoing theme for you this year is relationships. You've gone through a very, painful and difficult journey about relationships.
00:54:49:20 – 00:55:13:11
Christopher
Maybe you were in a relationship earlier in the year and you realized that it just wasn't working out. Despite everything that you could do to make it work. Maybe as a Sagittarius, you realized earlier this year that you want to be in a relationship, and part of you might be like, well, you're not built for a relationship, and you might be like, Maybe I'm not built for a relationship, but maybe you still want to be in one, you know?
00:55:13:11 – 00:55:36:15
Christopher
So there's been a lot of ambivalence or a lot of trying to figure it out. Sifting through all of this. And what's going to happen with the retrograde, retrograde we've discussed earlier is a backwards motion, when the planet behaves in the opposite way that it does normally. Another thing that a retrograde stands for is the word retrograde, which means backwards.
00:55:36:15 – 00:56:00:12
Christopher
Backwards thinking. You know that when someone says that's a retrograde idea, you know, that's a very backwards idea. Or, you know, we're going to go back to these types of roles in our society, how retrograde, you know, it. It's it can almost be connected with a willingness to move backwards or, or a realization that one is being backwards.
00:56:00:12 – 00:56:23:23
Christopher
And they're thinking, well, I want to use it in this context with you, is that you may be dragged back into. I was trying to think of a kinder word, but you may be dragged back into helping out an ex. Okay. Someone that you had been in a relationship with before. Now, maybe it was the person that you were having troubles with earlier this year.
00:56:24:00 – 00:56:46:18
Christopher
Maybe it's someone from years ago. Mercury retrograde often reintroduces people that we knew went back into our lives. And so being dragged back in when I'm trying to communicate here is that it's not really your choice. It's more necessity. It's more like you have to help this person out. And, and it's urgent is something that they very much need.
00:56:46:20 – 00:57:13:03
Christopher
And so you're going to put aside what your put aside your hurt, put aside your anger, put aside your frustration, and you're going to be there for this person, maybe voluntarily or maybe circumstantially. You have to be there for this person. And if it's voluntarily, there's this is a good act, you know, that that you're doing and, and you will have the benefit and the joy of that.
00:57:13:05 – 00:57:44:01
Christopher
And if it's involuntarily, it will be you learning something about yourself, you know, that, that you can that that actually you can take on the obligation, you can take on the responsibility. That may be where, and so whereas before you might have felt like, you know, this person was too big a responsibility or too big an obligation, you may be introduced to strengthen yourself, that you're actually that your shoulders are broad and you can shoulder such a thing.
00:57:44:03 – 00:58:12:10
Christopher
The other thing that might be taking place is that by going back and helping this person, your heart may open again. Maybe to this person, or maybe just in general, your heart opens again. There's often a beautiful moral truth that comes through when Mercury is retrograde in Sagittarius. You know, we're used to like, oh, that's the moral to the story.
00:58:12:12 – 00:58:44:13
Christopher
You know, when we think like, okay, let's just go to the moral to the story and we ignore the story itself because the story itself brings us to the moral. And that's what's going on here with this Mercury retrograde. If you feel like you're being dragged back into something or you're moving backwards, let yourself no, let yourself believe that there's a moral to the story and that when Mercury comes out of retrograde on December 15th, that will be a moral of the story that you'll understand, and not in a prohibitive way.
00:58:44:13 – 00:59:03:20
Christopher
Like, you know, now I know why I left this person or why this person left me or not. Not like that. It will be like, wow, I feel like I really tied up loose ends. I really feel like I came to terms with something, you know, that had always weighed on me. And so it will be your own personal moral to the story.
00:59:03:24 – 00:59:28:23
Christopher
It will be your own sense of profound meaning. If you're born under Capricorn or you have Capricorn Rising, Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius falls in a sort of blind spot in your solar horoscope. And it falls in, what we call the 12th house in astrology. Now, the 12th house in astrology often has a very negative reputation, and it did for years.
00:59:28:23 – 00:59:58:01
Christopher
You know, it was the house of self undoing and incarceration and depression and drug and alcohol abuse and all these sorts of things. And people are like, oh my goodness, you know, is there anything that's positive about the 12th house? But the 12th house was also a place of retreating from the world, of reconnecting with our soul, of really, drawing upon a mysterious part of ourselves that we knew was there but weren't always convinced was.
00:59:58:03 – 01:00:31:07
Christopher
And and it's a house of great profundity. It's also the house of the mystic. Mysticism can be like, you know, having visions of things, you know, but mystics were also in the history of the Catholic Church, the ones who reintroduced the experience of God back into a church culture that had become overly doctrinal, heavy. You know, mystics had these visions or they had these miracles or these experiences that got people to believe, wow, God really does exist in this world.
01:00:31:07 – 01:00:58:09
Christopher
And not just, you know, in some sort of sick, Bible that's being quoted haphazardly about every other sort of thing, you know, that there is a deeper meaning, that there is a mysterious profundity. Now, the 12th house over the years, becomes associated with, shall we say, self-sabotaging tendencies. And, what can be the self-sabotaging tendency of a Capricorn?
01:00:58:11 – 01:01:20:16
Christopher
A Capricorn wants to do a good job, okay? A Capricorn wants to accomplish and achieve. This could either be great accomplishments that will be celebrate it in history books for centuries to come, or they can be getting through your day, which was a rough day. Or you're having a hard time, you know, struggling with maybe dark moods or depression or something along those lines.
01:01:20:16 – 01:01:56:03
Christopher
And hey, you made it through the day, and that's an accomplishment. You know, that's something that's really important. Or maybe you're getting over a physical injury and and you're in physical therapy and you're trying to get back on your feet again. You know, that can be a tremendous accomplishment, that tremendous achievement. What can happen when Mercury is traveling through the overenthusiastic zodiac sign of Sagittarius is you can make promises that maybe you can't keep a big question, Capricorn that you might be facing right now is, did I bite off more than I can chew?
01:01:56:05 – 01:02:24:11
Christopher
You know, Capricorn prides itself on being responsible, on being very reliable, on, on on delivering on, on on its goods and duties and responsibilities. But you may be feeling at this time that you have overcommitted yourself in terms of some sort of work service, obligation or responsibility. And that for a Capricorn is like complete shame. It's like you don't overcommit yourself, or rather, you don't not deliver.
01:02:24:11 – 01:03:04:09
Christopher
You always deliver no matter what the hell it takes. But during this period of time, with Mercury moving backwards in Sagittarius, which can be overenthusiastic with making those promises, this would be a good time to have a sober assessment of what you can really do and what you cannot do. Capricorns want to do it all. They're not very good at delegating responsibility, for instance, and this may be a period of time in which you realize you're either going to have to prop back on what you're doing, or you're going to have to delegate more responsibility, offload responsibilities and duties to other people involved.
01:03:04:11 – 01:03:30:09
Christopher
As I said before, there can be a shame factor with this, feeling I like I should I should have been able to do it, you know, and maybe an insistence that I still can and let the mercury in Sagittarius moving backwards through Sagittarius right now, let it be a point of reflection. Let it make you see that this is a pattern that you've been repeating over and over and over again, not just this year.
01:03:30:09 – 01:03:52:21
Christopher
You've been repeating it for years, maybe even decades, where you think you can do more than you can, or you think you can do it on your own or by yourself, and you cannot. So this isn't a reprimand from the stars. This is a very gentle, your human message from the stars. You know, you're a human being. Capricorn.
01:03:53:07 – 01:04:25:23
Christopher
You can take yourself away from the grindstone. You can have a life. You can scale back on your responsibilities. You're not going to explode. You're not going to, you know, wind up on the street or anything along those lines. Because a lot of times, Capricorn takes care of its insecurities. Financial insecurities or emotional insecurities through work and work can become a sort of hiding place and so this mercury moving backwards, this sign says, let's get honest about work.
01:04:25:23 – 01:04:53:23
Christopher
Let's get honest about what you want to do and what you can do. And let's prioritize accordingly. Follow that adventure, Capricorn, and you'll find yourself in a very clear place when Mercury comes out of retrograde on December 15th. If you're born under the zodiac sign of Aquarius or you have Aquarius Rising, you may be involved in a sort of negotiation sort of deal.
01:04:54:00 – 01:05:16:19
Christopher
Maybe trying to find a fit with someone who's hiring you, or someone who wants to come work for you. Maybe it's a client, maybe it's a backer. And you haven't been able to find this fit. Maybe there was a promise that was made to you. You know you're going to be hired by such and such a date, or I'm going to be ready to work for you by such and such a date, or I'm here in your corner.
01:05:16:21 – 01:05:38:20
Christopher
And maybe there was a promise that was made to you, and it was made too rashly. It was made too soon. And and so the other side has begun to back out of it. They're not sure that they can come through with this. But because this is a sextile, Aquarius is an air sign. Sagittarius is a fire sign.
01:05:38:22 – 01:06:03:04
Christopher
There is, camaraderie between these two zodiac signs. They they mean well by one another because it's a sextile and because sextile are not immediately simpatico like a trine is. Okay. Trine will just, like, go and have your back right away. A sextile is. I'm not sure if I'm on board with this or not. Let's continue talking about this.
01:06:03:04 – 01:06:28:00
Christopher
Let's let's keep the conversation going. And conversation and keeping conversations going are very much the character of a sextile. You might have reacted to this person saying, maybe I over promised or I'm not sure if I can do this. You might have reacted in that sort of Aquarian deflector shield. The invisible deflector shield, Aquarius is a Saturn ruled sign.
01:06:28:00 – 01:06:53:02
Christopher
So Aquarius very much is sensitive to rejection. Aquarius can be just as sensitive to rejection as a Capricorn and a Scorpio can. Those are the two signs are really sensitive to rejection. And those are the two signs who also know how to cover it. Aquarius covers rejection with a smile. Okay, it's an arrow sign, you know, and it's it's it can recite all the reasons why it didn't.
01:06:53:04 – 01:07:21:17
Christopher
You know, work out its understanding of that and all those sorts of things, and it will feel disappointed and hurt in private. Aquarians rarely, if ever, show that, unless they have some very agitated, planetary aspects in their own natal horoscope. Usually, usually it goes behind the deflector shield. Smile. So what I want to encourage you is to keep at the conversation.
01:07:21:19 – 01:07:42:14
Christopher
Okay? Part of you may be like, this is ridiculous. And moving on to something else, but I want you. I want to encourage you to keep at the conversation. The person who's not showing up or coming through for you right now wants to. All right? They want to. It's a sextile. They just don't see how they can do it.
01:07:42:14 – 01:08:17:03
Christopher
But because it's a sextile, they're trying to figure out how they can do it. This is different from, another aspect that I referenced before, a quincunx, where it's a mismatch which just keeps hitting on the mismatch. A sextile really isn't going to give up until they can figure out a way to make it work. So what I want you to think about here, what I want you to sort of put in your, your, your mental catalog is during the period of time that Mercury is retrograde, which is November 25th until December 15th.
01:08:17:05 – 01:08:42:24
Christopher
The longer that it takes for someone to get back to you, the more that they make, the more that they schedule an appointment. But they can't keep it. But can we schedule later? The more that those things happen, these aren't discouraging signs. These are actually encouraging signs. The person's trying to figure it out. They might not have the resources they need to make the promise right.
01:08:42:24 – 01:09:03:02
Christopher
That or someone didn't get back to them in a timely way. So that's why they have to reschedule the appointment. They're trying to make it work. They're trying to make it fit. So I want you to keep the door open. I want you to keep your heart open and your mind open. Now, I'm not saying that you're going to get your yes right on December 15th.
01:09:03:03 – 01:09:35:11
Christopher
My suspicion is that it may be about two weeks afterwards. Two, two weeks after that, December 15th. So maybe it's around the new year, but then you have to think of, like, business and things like that. So let's make it, ten maybe the early January. That might be when you really hear back or you work out some sort of agreement, and that's when you'll be proud that you had the faith and you had the stick to itiveness, and you had the ability and support.
01:09:35:21 – 01:10:00:02
Christopher
To keep that conversation going. I think you're going to be very, very happy. I think it's going to be like early January. You're going to be very, very happy with the result. Now, if you're born under Pisces or you have Pisces Rising, this Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius is going to be fascinating in a very in a very peculiar and profound way.
01:10:00:04 – 01:10:27:06
Christopher
It's going to make you question and reflect on your trust in the universe. Now, you know, that's that's something for me to say. You know, Pisces is pretty famous for trusting in the universe. It's the sign of mysticism. It's the sign of of mystery and sacred and profound experiences. But Saturn has been traveling through your zodiac sign, for a number of months now.
01:10:27:07 – 01:10:54:06
Christopher
Actually, it's over a year now. Saturn has been traveling through your zodiac sign, and maybe knowing it or not knowing it, it has narrowed your margins. Okay? It has made you, much more pessimistic, for lack of a better word. And I see ins have their pessimistic episodes, you know, they they can feel very melancholic at your water sign.
01:10:54:06 – 01:11:22:07
Christopher
All water signs can have melancholy. All water signs can feel ecstasy and agony. And being a Pisces, you often experience the two at the same time. But what's happened with Saturn traveling through your zodiac sign is that it's had a more sobering effect on you. And again, either consciously or unconsciously, you've kind of unplugged from your aspirational self.
01:11:22:20 – 01:11:52:03
Christopher
Maybe you've become more accepting of what your circumstance is, are, maybe you've become, humbled by them. Maybe you've become maybe a little disillusioned and regard so with this journey of Mercury moving backwards in Sagittarius is going to do is that it's it's going to take away something that you had really had your hopes pinned on and that you really wanted to work out.
01:11:52:03 – 01:12:17:08
Christopher
Maybe it was, had something to do with status in society, maybe had something to do with work. We're talking about your soul or 10th house here. So maybe it dealt with work. Something that you really had your eyes set on and, over the past few weeks, because Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius isn't taking place on its own, it it already formed, square to Saturn in opposition to Jupiter, and now it's stopped in the sky.
01:12:17:17 – 01:12:40:14
Christopher
Well, actually, backtrack. You may be feeling very burdened. Very, you know, like, I am so sick and tired of things not working out. I am so sick and tired of the disappointments. I can't take another disappointment or. Oh, here's another disappointment. You know what? I'm going to stop even wishing. I'm going to even stop hoping. Why?
01:12:40:16 – 01:13:21:18
Christopher
All right. And so this retrograde introducing another disappointment around November 25th, something being retracted, taken away is going to reinforce that Saturn. It's going to be like, okay, that's life. That's where I am right now. And what you may experience during this period of time. That Mercury is retrograde. Is this feeling that you don't want to give it up, that you really do want, the aspiration, that you really do want, the hope that you really do want the wish you really do want the longing that the aspiration, the hope, the wish, the longing.
01:13:21:20 – 01:14:05:01
Christopher
That's what makes you, you. That's what makes you creative. That's what makes you loving. That's what makes you so philosophical, spiritual, religious, profound that that you were sort of becoming sold on the argument of being a fish in a fish tank and you carry an ocean inside your heart, you carry an ocean inside your soul. So it's going to be fascinating, this disappointment that takes place when Mercury turns, backwards in the sky on November 25th.
01:14:05:03 – 01:14:33:03
Christopher
What's going to be fascinating? Is it is it going to be the disappointment that was the straw that broke the camel's back? Or is it a disappointment that was connected to something that was never right for you to begin with? Is it a disappointment that was connected to you because it's something you wanted, because you had become very fish tanky in the way that you were looking at things as something you felt you had to have.
01:14:33:05 – 01:14:55:09
Christopher
It's something you felt you should do and did. The mercury in Sagittarius retract that because it was never you, you know you that that you shouldn't be doing things because you should do them, you know, or that you have to do them or because you've given up and this is it, and you've convinced yourself this is the way you want to go.
01:14:55:11 – 01:15:24:14
Christopher
So this Mercury in Sagittarius, during the period time that it's retrograde, November 20th 5th to December 15th, sit with that disappointment and ask yourself if you really wanted what was taken away in this period of time from November 20th 5th to December 15th, sit with this disappointment and wonder why you're not buying into it, why there's something that still yearns for something more.
01:15:24:16 – 01:15:56:13
Christopher
This is going to become much clearer for you, this kind of almost reawakening of your own spiritual journey. It will become more clearer to you not on December 15th, but probably the two weeks that follow it. And you may find yourself not only reconnecting to the real you, but maybe, even perhaps, understanding the real lessons that Saturn in your zodiac sign has been trying to teach you all along.