Hiya S!How're you and Mr Aqua doing?? Here's wishing you a happy holiday season!!
Here's a great link about retrograde planets this year:
http://www.astralis.it/2005rx_pla.htm
Mercury won't be direct again until Sat Dec 3rd 9:22pm EST (Sunday the 4th at 02:22 for you).....
Here's the other retrogrades going on during Dec 2005 --
MARS RETROGRADE from October 1 through December 10 2005
Mars depletes the vitality so that it is never a time to initiate something new. Whoever initiates loses – a new project, a great love, an argument, a lawsuit or an international war. With a new project, it will fizzle out and never really go anywhere. With a hot romance, it too fizzles and it rarely get to the alter – which can be just fine if you only want a short-lived fling. With an argument, the hostility will came back to haunt you later. In legal matters, stoke your opponent into initiating and lawsuit. It will be etched in granite that they will lose. In an international way, whoever fires first will automatically lose or ultimately withdraw. Matters commenced with Mars is retrograde will be frustrated and plagued with disruptions until they finally fizzle out. At this time, people become irritated when activities do not run smoothly. Anger can disrupt indirectly and inappropriately – like getting a traffic ticket when you feel annoyed with your job.
NOTE: Since this Mars has turned retrograde, it has been like Mercury retrograde! My answering machine does not work all the time. I am reluctant to buy a new one since, when my lawn mower broke when the last Mars was retrograde, the new one died after a year. There is one option - to get a service contract.
My fax machine will not accept faxes. I had a surgical procedure to anesthesize the pain coming from a nerve (it is part of a series of 3). The drug seeped over onto a major nerve that regulates my right leg. I just thought my foot was asleep but, when I got off of the recovery table, my foot buckled under and it may be fractured (just had scan). One cat died and another has run away and I cannot find her. This is the worse Mars retrograde that I have ever experienced and I have 6 more weeks to go.
SATURN TURNS RETROGRADE - NOVEMBER 22 2005 through APRIL 5 2006
Saturn turning retrograde will slow down the normal rate of activity so that better methods and strategies can be developed. Saturn rules the physical and psychological supports, structures and armatures in our life. It produces the rules and regulations by which we guide our lives, our sense of responsibility, and our limitations. It allows us to define boundaries for ourselves by saying NO! When Saturn is natally retrograde, this capacity does not function properly, making us insecure and unable to accurately assess what can realistically be expected in any situation. The most common flaw is the tendency to say YES when we should say NO, especially in activities and relationships ruled by Saturn's house position. Stress hits - do not make commitments on these dates: DECEMBER 27 2005; JANUARY 26-27 and MARCH 10-11 2006.
During the period when Saturn is transiting retrograde, it is essential that we go back and assess and solidify commitments made, projects started and responsibilities undertaken in the past. This must be done before we can continue. Saturn transiting retrograde provides the opportunity to reassess what we have taken on, to finally say NO, to back out of a commitment and to improve the organization of a project. While the process is going on, while you are working with what you have at hand, you should be warned against taking on any unnecessary responsibilities or long-range commitments. Only deal with issues from the past; do not take on new ones!
Saturn turning retrograde gives us the opportunity to go back and reorganize or renegotiate any activities or commitments that seem to be a source of frustration. If you merely persist under Saturn frustrations, the frustrations will merely persist! Weed out the source of frustration at this time. Remember, my definition for being responsible is in knowing how much you can do before you start to feel frustrated, trapped or confined - and drawing the line and saying NO before you reach that point! It is essential that you do not start any new business activity while Saturn is retrograde!! You will only find that a lot of reorganizing has to be done before any successes can be made.
From: http://www.astralis.it/horoscope.htm
Back later ~
'Zala
PS: See this link for some Venus retro stuff: http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/007361.html