My computer was acting unusually slow...so I decided to look up this year's Mercury Retrograde schedule (since my pc crashed during the last one) - found this info:

Mercury Retrograde 2009
Mercury will be retrograde in 2009:

January 11 - February 2
May 7 - May 31
September 7 - September 29
December 26 - January 14

Mark your calendars - the technological and communications nightmare of Mercury Retrograde is coming! Activities to avoid: signing important contracts, launching brochures or promotional materials, doing a major mailing - anything where you don't want communication to be screwed up. Expects delays with travel, computers, all forms of communication... cell phones dropping calls at the worst possible time, faxes not getting there when they should, the printer copies your documents all wrong.

So what is Mercury Retrograde good for? Hunkering down in your office and getting caught up on old business. Reviewing those piles of materials that you've been waiting to get around to. Or taking a day off from the office and doing some deeper, inner searching to reflect. Are you headed in the direction you want to be, from a larger, spiritual perspective? The universe hands us these times so that we can catch our collective breath, relax, and recharge. Take advantage.


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take it or leave it...may be some truth to it, may not