Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host Jessica Lignato. I'm an astrologer, psychic

medium, and animal communicator, and I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no

bullshit mystical advice for living your very best life.

Darling's, it's time to talk Mercury retrograde again, and I say again because Mercury goes

retrograde a couple of few times a year every damn year. And what that means, my sweet

loves, is that Mercury retrograde is a predictable part of life. And not something to be feared.

I mean, listen, is it a total boner? Yes. Is it something that creates upsets? Sure, yes.

But it's kind of one of those predictable unpredictabilities in life. That, if you

understand it, if you accept it, then you can work with and around it. So we're going to get into

this particular Mercury retrograde, a quick reminder, or in case you don't know. Mercury is a planet

that governs communications. It's emails, conversations, DMs, your damn Zoom conversations, you know,

that's very Mercury. Mercury is what you understand, what you say, what you hear, and the means

for doing so. So whether it's through talking, writing, yeah, yeah, yeah, Mercury. Now retrogrades,

and let me just say the word retrograde refers to the movement and motion of a planet. So a planet

is not in retrograde. It is retrograde and grammatical errors like that are so mercury retrograde.

So retrogrades always invoke the rule of re reflect, reassess, review, realign.

When we're talking about something like mercury, the planet of communications, you know,

it's time to review our attitudes and opinions. It's time to reassess how we communicate or how we

listen. It's time to be really patient because shit goes sideways during a Mercury retrograde.

Now what I've done is I've pulled up the chart for this particular Mercury retrograde,

and it's cast for October 13th of 2020 at 6.05 pm. Now whenever casting an event chart for something

like a Mercury retrograde, like an astrological event, the location is not applicable to all people,

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