Mercury Retrograde and What it Means in Astrology

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Spirituality

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2020

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

In episode 276 astrologer Jessica Lanyadoo joins the show to talk about Mercury retrograde and what it means in astrology. Mercury retrograde periods occur when the planet Mercury begins moving backwards in the zodiac for about three weeks every few months. Astrologers generally associate Mercury retrograde periods with miscommunication, delays, technological snafus, and other issues in the areas associated with Mercury. During the course of the show we talk about the significations of Mercury, the astronomy of Mercury retrograde periods, shadow periods, and share some stories about how we have seen these periods manifest in the past. Astrologers have been talking about Mercury retrograde a lot recently since one is happening in the three weeks leading up to election day in the US on November 3, and it seemed timely to talk about the phenomenon in general, as well as how it might relate to the election. Jessica recently launched Zodiac the Vote, which is encouraging people to get out and vote, and providing guides to make it easier to avoid possible Mercury retro snafus: ZodiacTheVote.com This episode is available in both audio and video versions below. Timestamps Here are some timestamps for topics covered at different points in the episode: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:98 Zodiac The Vote 00:06:56 Introduction to Mercury 00:20:26 Introducing Retrograde Motion 00:28:42 The Shadow Period & Referencing an Ephemeris 00:48:50 The Station 00:55:30 Experiencing Mercury Retrograde 01:22:13 The Social Phenomenon of Mercury Retrograde 01:30:50 Retrograde Transit Variations 01:34:15 Personal Chart Impact via Transit 01:49:30 Working With Mercury Retrograde 02:10:50 November 2020 Mercury Retrograde 02:18:05 Zodiac The Vote Cont. 02:30:44 Contact Information for Jessica Lanyadoo Watch The Video Version of Our Mercury Retrograde Episode Here is the video version of our Mercury retrograde episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu0CCgzNlng - Transcript A full transcript of this episode is available: Episode 276 transcript Listen to the Audio Version of This Episode You can either play the audio version of this episode of the podcast directly from the website or download it as an MP3 to your device by using the buttons below:

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the
0:02.4	astrology podcast. In this episode I'm going to be talking with
0:05.2	Jessica Lagnato about Mercury retrograde and what it means in the context of
0:09.4	astrology. This is episode 276. We're recording on Thursday, October 22nd, 2020, starting at
0:16.0	257 PM in Denver, Colorado, and I think that's a full hour after we were supposed to start
0:22.1	because we're having Mercury retrograde issues right now.
0:25.2	Welcome back to the show Jessica.
0:27.6	Thank you so much. Two things. First thing. What an accomplishment? It's a lot of
0:31.7	fucking episodes. And you're welcome. I know it's a lot of
0:36.2	effort and work and all the things and also we are the embodiment of the very transit we are meant to talk about. We have had almost all of the things
0:45.6	that could go wrong with the Mercury retrograde. Yeah, have happened basically
0:49.9	because we're so we're in keeping with our topic we're recording this during a mercury
0:54.2	retrograde for those who discover this episode at some point in the future
0:58.2	when this retrograde is just like a historical footnote about the one that led up to the US election and
1:04.7	whatever the hell takes place in November 3rd 2020. So in keeping with that we're
1:10.4	going to do a whole episode just talking about what Mercury retrograde means,
1:13.5	introducing the concept, talking about also perhaps what it doesn't mean or how it's sometimes
1:18.2	overplayed and basically just doing a deep dive into this topic.
1:22.6	So Jessica, for those that don't know,
1:24.6	is the host of the always fabulous ghost of a podcast,
1:27.4	which, how many episodes are you up to at this point?
1:30.1	One hundred and fifty two or three, I can't remember.
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