You know a little fun fact with mercury?

It travels with the sun, so a lot of people are born with their mercury the way they think can speak and the same sign as their sun sign,

the sign before it, or the sign right after it. And so this is one of those chart rectification

tools that you can understand with someone who doesn't have a birth time. Just throw in noon

for their birth time, and Mercury is highly

likely to be their sun sign or the sign neighboring it. Now, because Mercury switches signs

roughly every three to four weeks, I usually don't create podcasts for it. I don't talk about it

too much. I want to focus on the juicy stuff like full moons, new moons,

big boys like Saturn or Jupiter switching signs. However, this Friday, February 6th,

Mercury is moving into the sign of Pisces. And if you remember, Pisces has been the sign

of the hour for quite a long time. We just had Neptune spending

about 12 to 13 years in Pisces. We just had Saturn in Pisces for almost three years. Needless to say,

the house ruled by Pisces and our natal chart has gone through it by some pretty big planets. And so Mercury,

while he's a planet, he's kind of a little guy. He's just the way we think and feel and process.

And not only is Mercury moving into this house to go, whoa, let me cognitively process what just

happened here, but this is going to kick off the very first

Mercury retrograde of 2026. If you remember in our 2026 astrology podcast, we will have

Mercury going retrograde 100% not dipping back into the fire signs around water signs,

but 100 percent in water

signs so those waterhouses in your chart are really getting activated by mercury retrograde

it's a time to tidy them up so to speak with mercury so mercury so mercury will go retrograde in

Pisces it is interacting with the north Node currently in Pisces, and it'll

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