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Now I've had a lot of questions from you about retrograde planets,

what they mean in the Natal Chart,

what they mean in terms of transit,

I'm going to cover half a dozen of those questions in one session today. And in a later session I'll also look at some other questions of yours too. So we had a question from Linda who says why do I always have so many issues during Mercury retrograde. It seems as if this has been a real issue in my life. I find my money fluctuates. The minute Mercury goes into shadow and comes out, people forget to pay me. I dislike having to ask for my services to be paid, but I have no choice. Okay, so let's take a look at your chart. What's interesting as well is that it's forcing you to address that issue with people.

And that might be a very useful thing to consider

in terms of value. I'm not sure what you do for a living,

Linda, but we astrologers often have a tough time putting a numerical value to our services.

And don't like to ask, don't like to ask don't like to charge can be too flexible with our

hours etc and I think if you're having issues with being paid and it's pushing that

button that's probably a button that's worth pushing and getting sorted, not knowing anything more than you've said, I would still say, look at what that says about that discomfort factor you might have around chasing people up and the value of your work of course. So we have your chart here. I'm assuming the

chart is just after midnight it won't make a difference to the question in

terms of your own mercury. Now in your chart mercury is here in

Scorpio and it's in the third house if you were born just after midnight if the

birth time is a PM time just after midday, it's going to be on the opposite side of the child, but I'm going with what you you sent me. In the Astro gold program that I use on my Mac, I use solar fire on my PC, but with the

astro gold, the retrograde symbol isn't shown, it's just shown as a, the degrees and the minutes is shown as red.

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