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The 2010 Cardinal T-Square and Mercury Retrograde

By Ellen Zucker | August 19, 2010

In the Northern hemisphere, the days are noticeably shorter. Above average temps coupled with humidity to match still blankets much of the continental US while Russia bakes and Pakistan drowns.

This has been a summer to remember both meteorologically as well as astrologically.

Days of high intensity are not over this season. Not by a long shot. Not when Saturn’s square to Pluto is still reaching for exactitude.

But the tide is beginning to turn.

Tomorrow Mercury will begin its backward retrograde dance, something it does performs three to four times a year. Uranus, Jupiter, and Pluto are already dancing backwards and Uranus reentered Pisces last week.

This summer has been one of high intensity–even if you haven’t been living in the Swat Valley or Moscow. With outer planets covering new ground, new issues have come to the fore so that you can look them in the eye and deal with them.

But you don’t have to do this all at once.

This summer you have been introduced to Uranus and Jupiter breaking ground in Aries. The ultimate answer to your quandary is in going towards the new and innovative. The good ol’ days of 1999 are gone forever.

The good news is that you don’t have all of the answers all at once.

The Universe has some mercy; we are coming into a period where forward movement slows and you get to mull over and digest the new events, new feelings, new changes. That is the point to retrograde motion – the backward dance – that is beginning to take place.

Through the end of 2015 we are in a concentrated period of high intensity, realignment, and transition. Ever since we woke up to the news that Lehman Brothers went bust, the world as you know it, from the global level all the way down to your personal day-to-day has irrevocably changed and there is no going back.

But nature moves in rhythm and the celestial tides ebb and flow.

So you get to take a breath once in a while.

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