Mercury Retrograde June/July 2020

Mercury Retrograde Chart  

June 17th 2020  9:59 PM 

Whole Houses 

Mercury Retrograde Dates June / July 2020 

• Pre-Shadow      6/01/20      9:51 PM        05° Cancer 30'
• Retrograde        6/17/20      9:53 PM        14° Cancer 46' 
• Direct                7/12/20      1:21 AM       05° Cancer 30'
• Post Shadow     7/26/20    10:09 AM       14° Cancer 46'

The Pre-Shadow is when we can begin to see Mercury start slowing down and this is where we will begin to feel the beginning of Mercury Retrograde. This period of time can be marked by errors in communication, travel, and electronics. These are just general events that usually occur during periods of Mercury Retrograde. The Sign or Signs that Mercury RX occurs in also influences events that occur during Mercury RX. The Pre-Shadow begins in Cancer and this is where people will generally begin to feel the walls closing in on their homes. They may feel stifled or suffocated inside their own homes and start thinking about making changes to improve their home by changing the look and feel of the place in which they live. This is a good period to sit down and brainstorm ideas, sketch out a plan, or start collecting images from magazines, newspapers, and the internet to create a new vision of your living space.  

However, to figure out exactly how Mercury Retrograde will affect you on a personal, individual level, you will need to see what natal house your Cancer is in. The area of life represented by that house is the area of life that will most be affected by Mercury Retrograde. Essentially, those events that occur during the Pre-Shadow will frame your experiences during the retrograde phase. These experiences are believed to be necessary for our own personal growth and soul-evolvement. At the end of the Pre-Shadow, Mercury will come to a complete stop at 14° Cancer and sit there for a few days days before moving again. 

The Retrograde period is when Mercury starts moving again, only from our perspective on Earth it will appear to be moving backwards across the zodiac. It is during this period that we will most strongly feel the effects of Mercury Retrograde. Generally speaking, we can expect communication, travel, and electronics to go all wonky on us. During Mercury Retrograde, we refrained from making any major decisions or changes. Instead we are told to RE-lax, RE-evaluate, and RE-assess our issues and conditions

Generally speaking in addition to feeling the urge to re-new, re-arrange, and re-model our living spaces Mercury Retrograde in Cancer can manifest as opportunities to explore how we nurture and heal ourselves and others. Cancer represents our mothers, so this is a good time to remember, reassess, and reevaluate our relationship with the parent who nurtured us (or didn't) in our childhood; as well as how we love and nurture ourselves and others in the here and now. We can now confront and heal childhood issues and make a course correction if we feel that we are repeating the mistakes of the past

There is a connection here between our immediate home environment and our emotional feelings and well being as several philosophies and beliefs support this connection. For example, in the practice of dream interpretation it is said the a house or home is a metaphor for your life in general. In addition, in the science and practice of Feng Shui it is believed that the manner in which our living spaces are arranged can have a direct impact on our lives and the things which happen to us. And in 2012 there was a TV show on Bravo called Interior Therapy that helped people confront and heal emotional blocks and issues by changing some aspect of their home and living space. 

Again, to figure out exactly how Mercury Retrograde will affect you on a personal, individual level, you will need to see what natal house Cancer is in. The area of life represented by that house is the area of life that will most be affected by Mercury Retrograde. Towards the end of this retrograde period, Mercury will begin to slow down again before coming to a full stop at 5° Cancer It will set there for a few days before it starts moving forward again. Mercury is said to Station Direct when it starts moving forward again. This is the period when many people feel like they can start breathing again (metaphorically speaking). They hear Mercury Direct and think that its over. But that is not the case. Mercury Stationing Direct is really the beginning of the Post-Shadow period. 

The Post-Shadow is the period between the time Mercury stations direct and it reaches the point where it initially began to slow down in the first place. It is characterized as a period in which those issues raised during Mercury Retrograde are still present but may be winding down, that is, they are still present but not as intense as before. During this post shadow phase is where we take what we learned during Mercury Retrograde and apply that knowledge to re-dress and re-solve those issues and conditions that were raised during Mercury Retrograde.

Carolina Dean