Mercury’s Retrograde Through the Gemini Zodiac
Mercury in Retrograde through Gemini
Reevaluate
Mental fog, miscommunications, past influences may resurface, gossip increase
When Mercury is placed in Gemini it is considered a “Domicile'“ placement because Mercury rules over Gemini, and that transit is usually quite smooth because like energies are working together for the same goals. But when Mercury is retrograde in its home sign, those energies all start working against themselves and each other.
Despite what you may have heard, this isn’t always a bad thing. It makes a retrograde more localized to limited areas, and the energies rethinking themselves is a purge process that we all go through. This helps these energies unwork anything that isn’t working, and it gives us the chance to do the same.
When Mercury is retrograding through Gemini you can expect mental fog. Mercury is the Planet of the Mind, and it rules over both Gemini and Virgo because it is both the mind in higher realms of consciousness, and the mind brought down to this earthly experience. But when the planet is retrograding, it interputs the connection and slows down the mental process. Due to this, you can also expect misunderstandings in yourself and in your interactions with others.
We live in an attraction based universe, so you get what you think about, what you truly focus on, what you can feel manifesting in your life, whether you really want it to or not. So when the Planet of the Mind is retrograding through its own sign of Gemini, past influences may resurface because you’ve likely been thinking about them and in doing so you have called them back into your life. But this doesn’t have to be a bad thing. This can be an opportunity to set things right, resolve outstanding issues or karma, and give your owm mind a new sense of closure. This is true of all retrogrades in Mercury because of its mental power, but it is especially potent when retrograding through its ruled signs of Gemini and Virgo.
When Mercury is retrograding through Gemini there may also be an increase in gossip. Gemini is a social sign, and it is an air element, giving it the speed of Hermes, the Messenger of the Gods. Mercury is the planet of information and it finds excitement in learning something new, so when you pair these two energies together under a retrograde, the wrong information will travel extremely fast.
There are two types of people in the world, and there is a link to help both of them with these energies: