9 Ways to Turn Mercury Retrograde into a Positive

Say the phrase Mercury Retrograde and watch people cringe.

“The last time Mercury went retrograde, my computer crashed and I lost my data.”

“Mercury went retrograde and my application got lost in the mail.”

The stories are legion.

It's true! Computer glitches and communications foul-ups are much more likely to occur during the time that Mercury’s motion is retrograde than at other times.

So, should you go into hiding when Mercury goes retrograde?

Few of us have the ability to disappear from our lives for three-and-a-half weeks three times a year.

But you don’t have to dread this event. True, I would opt for a different time to launch a direct mail campaign. But if you work with the energy, you can make it your friend.

When Mercury moves retrograde, it appears to move backwards - as seen from our perch on planet earth.

The key is to remember the significance of Mercury's retrograde motion.

Mercury is the planet of communication, thought, and mental energy. During Mercury retrograde periods, the energy is flowing inward and backwards. As a result, it doesn’t function as efficiently in the everyday world as it normally does.

There are many reasons why the Mercury retrograde period is not a time to push forward.

Your mental energy is channelled into an inward direction now. As a result, communications are less clear. There is a greater tendency to hear what we think we heard rather than what the other person said.

Items involved with communication and local transportation, such as telephones, computers and cars, are more apt to have glitches. (Remember to back up the computer and double-check your appointments).

Lastly, your perspective is likely to change when Mercury changes direction and resumes its direct motion.

Which is why most astrologers counsel their clients not to sign important contracts during that period.

But Mercury’s retrograde energy is an asset for many things. Use it for what it is designed to do and Mercury becomes your ally.

Here are nine ways to make Mercury Retrograde work for you. Note that many suggestions begin with the letters re. Think re for retrograde.

1. Re-connect.
This is the time to look up old friends and family. You’ve been meaning to call Aunt Martha, or get together with your old high school buddy. Do it! Now is the time to pick up the telephone. Chances are they will be receptive and you’ll be glad you did.

And you, yourself, may hear from long lost pals now.

2. Re-search.
While it is not the time to go forward with grand plans, this is a superb time to research facts and ideas you can use later.

3. Re-view.
Take that application or take your business plan and give it a second look. Chances are you will see things in a different light. And that can give you ideas to strengthen it. And that second look will ensure you have covered the bases.

4. Re-do.
If you were too hasty the first time, or you chose not to follow my advice, you may find yourself having to redo that report. But each time you redo, you refine.

5. Re-fresh.
Your brain and your body were not designed to function 24/7. Taking a little time to kick back and relax refreshes you and ultimately makes you far more productive than trying to plow straight through.

6. Re-solve.
Go back and clean up old relationships that ended badly. You can resolve many issues now – even bury the hatchet.

7. Back Burner items.

Now is the time to get to projects that have been pushed into the background.

8. Re-organize.
Mercury Retrograde is an excellent time to clean out old closets, old files, old agendas, throw out what is no longer useful to make room for the new.

9. Re-contact.
Are you in sales? Then, this is the perfect time to re-contact old leads.

If you must take on a new job or a new project during this time, know that it will change. A lot. So stay loose and flexible. Because your perspective will change also.

But if you had previously began a project, applied for that position, contacted that key lead, Mercury Retrograde will not affect you.

What If Astrology Really Worked?

There is a large population which looks at today's forecast the first thing in the morning newspaper. Every one of them desires to find out about their day in the columns. Do the predictions come true? Let me talk about this. Most of the forecast columns have four to five predictions. Practically no body writes down all of them and compares the forecast with actual happening at the end of the day. What we do is to remember something of the forecast and if anything comes true, we are delighted. We forget that the other three to four forecasts did not come true.

That is human nature. We want to believe something and find ways to prove that right. This is what we do with forecasts. None of us wants to critically analyze them because we are subconsciously worried that they can prove to be largely false. We also like to hear about what good may happen. We are all tired with worries and anxieties that we want some assurance that things are not that bad and they will improve. Astrologers use that weakness very intelligently.

What if astrology really worked? What if every astrologer made absolutely correct predictions? Say my prediction for today is that I may meet today with an accident. I will believe that and not move out of the home at all. If my prediction says that i may get a windfall soon, I will stop all my work and begin buying Lottery tickets or waiting for a rich relative to die. But despite all the reading of the predictions, none of us acts like this. That proves that we do read the columns to feel good and give no value to them as far as real life is concerned. Some people may be exceptions to this, but this is true for a very large majority. The biggest fun of life is in unexpected happening. That continues.

Astrology Of Space

Even in ancient times astrology helped people find the good and bad places for them on earth, it was based on calculation and conformity of signs, houses and squares to the four sides of the earth.. The most attention was paid to analysis of the sign’s quality and the qualities of the researched places in the country.

In the 20th century the activity of discovery in astrology increased so that astrology started to use the geocentric model (the geocentric model of the universe is the theory that the Earth is at the center of the universe and the Sun and other celestial objects go around it.), astrocartography (Astrocartography is an astrological system, developed and popularized by American astrologer Jim Lewis), and local space methods.

Here is a list of all the methods concerning the analysis of the space quality:

1. The analysis of the signs’ quality and the qualities of the country/place.

2. The analysis of the planet quality (especially in the ninth and fourth houses) and the quality of the country/place.

3. The analysis of consistency between the signs, houses, and squares to the sides of earth.

4. The geocentric method.

5. The astrocartography method.

6. A method of the local space, Local Space.

If the geocentric method can be considered a brand new method in the 20th century then the astrocartography method became the result of traditional-logical development of the time of K.Ptolemeja (1 century AD), like the planet is stronger at the top of the rising horoscope. Modern computer techniques have only proven the old axioms with convenient graphic diagrams. The same is true about the methods of the local space, in fact even before its creation everybody knew where East and West was in the horoscope. The modern astrological program can display on the map of the earth the surface of lines, where the particular planet is in the significant points of the horoscope (top, rising, aspect, position of the axis of horoscope) or on the significant direction (Local Space).

By knowing the place of the planet in the individual horoscope, it is possible to reveal favorable and not favorable sites of the space for the person. Usually the search includes places that are favorable for residence, for rest, for work, and for adjustment of private life. However, this can not be limited; the wishes of fans of the extreme life can be considered too.

The grid of lines of the planets can be put on the whole continent, on the country, on the city, or even on a single apartment. Unlike the now-popular feng shui, here everything has astrological substantiations under themselves proven by the mathematical way from the individual horoscope.

The presentation and beauty of space astrology cannot leave anybody uncaring. It seems that in this area of astrology we can expect big progress as in the growth of the already existing techniques and the development of new ones. But even those tools that we have now allow us to understand and explain a lot.

Getting the Best Psychic Readings

There are many types, methods and systems of readings employed by people who claim to have psychic abilities. Each and every professional psychic may have one or more specialized areas such as Tarot reading, Numerology, Palm reading, Psychometry readings etc. Though the reliability of such readings cannot be fully ascertained, many people are ready to pay huge amounts on personal readings while some do it for the sake of entertainment.

Psychic readings include Face to Face Readings such as In-Person Readings at home, Psychic Party Readings for a group, and the less detailed and shorter Psychic Fair Readings. Distant Readings include Internet Readings, Phone Readings and Mail Readings.

Tarot Reading:

Tarot reading is the most popular form of psychic reading in which a deck of 78 cards known as the Tarot is used to predict and interpret relationships, love, careers, etc. The tarot is also used for spiritual, esoteric, psychological, occult and divinatory purposes. Tarot reading has a great deal of variables because each card in the Tarot, as well as the order in which they appear, and their position within the 'spread' when dealt, have different specific meanings.

Psychometry Readings:

Psychometry is a form of postcognition which enables the psychic reader to achieve information about people or events that had already occurred, or is occurring by being in close contact with the area or object where the event took place. If you seek pyschometry reading in the commercial world, the reader would ask for your favorite and closely worn objects such as wedding rings, glasses, car keys etc for the reading. This method is also used to try and locate missing persons.

Numerology:

Numerology is defined as the study of the occult meanings of numbers and their supposed influence on human life. It is essentially a reading of an individual based specifically upon numerical values such as their date of birth, letters in their names, etc. Numerology was considered part of higher mathematics in the ancient world but is now regarded as pseudomathematics.

Aura Reading:

Aura psychic reading involves the observation and interpretation of auras around physical human bodies. The “aura” is a set of cascading colored outlines emanating from the surface of your body which differs from one person to another in terms of size, shape, intensity, and color. Aura readers claim to have the ability to see or sense this aura, observe each characteristic and interpret their meaning to the individual.

Palm Reading:

Palmistry is another popular method in psychic reading which involves characterization and foretelling one’s future through the study of the lines, shapes, wrinkles and curves on the palm. Palm reading has its origins in gypsy fortune tellers and Indian mystics. This practice is regarded as pseudoscience like many other psychic readings.

Astrology:

Astrology is closely related to, but not regarded as a science because it involves reading of an individual and predicting the future based upon date of birth, using the planets and stars, and their alignments etc which is considered unscientific. Astrology is most popular in India and surrounding countries.

Niche Marketing - Finding Your Home Biz Niche

So, you have decided you want to get into this niche marketing. You are all pumped up at the thought of concentrating on just ONE product and promoting the heck out of it. But you're confronted with one very nagging question. How do you find your home business niche? Is it just going to fall out of the sky and hit you on the head? Will it come to you in a dream dressed up in confetti? Will it be revealed to you in a fortune cookie that you got from the local Chinese take out? Unfortunately, finding your home business niche is only going to come from a lot of thinking and researching. Nothing worth your time is going to be easy and finding your home business niche is no exception. And while there is no hard and fast rule for finding your niche, these tips should make the job a lot easier.

The best way to find your home business niche is to sit down with a pen and paper, or at your computer if you have graduated from the stone age, and make a list of your interests. That's right. Your interests. What do you like to do? What hobbies do you have? What do you actually do for a living? What skills do you have? If you could pick anything in the world to do, what would it be? What do you have a lot of knowledge of? The questions you could ask yourself are virtually limitless. It's what you do with the answers that's important.

Many of the things you list as interests or hobbies may not make for very good niches. For example, let's say you like to make little houses out of popsicle sticks. Well, it's quite unlikely that you're going to find a market for that hobby, something we will get into next. But there has got to be something that you do or enjoy that other people enjoy as well. In other words, common areas of interest. Once you find that one area, the next thing you have to do is find out if there is any market for it. This is the hard part unless you know where to look.

Fortunately, this is actually pretty easy once you do know where to look. There are a number of tools on the Internet that you can use to determine how many searches people do each month under a specific topic, say, like Astrology. Why look up the number of searches? Because most people who do their shopping online use search engines. So if your research turns up 500,000 searches in a month for acne cures and you're interested in the subject and think you have a great home cure, you have most likely got yourself a market that can make you a pretty penny provided you create a quality product and market it correctly.

But what if, with all your knowledge of acne cures, you really don't know how to go about finding your way through the maze of starting your business and getting it off the ground?