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.

My darlings, you are in for a treat. This episode is an excerpt of a two and a half hour

long conversation I had with the fantastic astrologer Chris Brennan of the astrology

podcast, and it's all about the Mercury shadow, and we're still very much in it, the retro

shade. If you want to hear this whole podcast, you can listen to it wherever podcasts are

heard, or even better yet, go to the YouTube channel of the astrology podcast and watch it

there because we have visuals. You might want to watch along. Enjoy. We need to talk

about the shadow. Yeah, because the people need to know, oh, is that like a separate topic?

Is that should we do that separate? No, we should do it. This is a perfect time to do

it. I think it's perfect. I think it was Lisa Stardust who popularized it. Maybe she didn't

create it. Maybe I just learned it from her, but the term retro shade, which I like so

much better than this. I've only heard this, I've been hearing this for the first time

over the past few days, and I saw you use it. I saw one other person on Twitter mentioned

it, and I really like it. It's retro shade. Retro shade. It's perfect. I mean, listen,

nothing. I'm not a grammar police person, but nothing bothers me more than someone saying

Mercury is in retrograde. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to read it. It is the

most annoying grammatical error, and it is so mercury retrograde to have such a basic grammatical

error be so popularized. To me, retro shade is the opposite of that. It's a really fun

word-play situation that actually means something and is accurate. Down with mercury in retrograde

up with the retro shade. Don't say in retrograde, just say mercury is retrograde or mercury is

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