Three or four times a year, Mercury appears to move backward through the zodiac for about three weeks. This optical illusion — Mercury retrograde — has become cultural shorthand for technology breakdowns, miscommunications, and travel delays. But reducing Mercury retrograde to "everything goes wrong...

Mercury is your mental engine. It’s how you talk, how you learn, how you make sense of the world — and how you broadcast your ideas back into it. If the Moon is your emotional weather, Mercury is your internal narrator.

Keywords: communication, thinking, learning, speech, logic, analysis

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The Archetype: The Craftsperson

Virgo is the energy of refinement, of making things better through careful attention, of understanding that excellence lives in the details. Where Leo celebrates what is, Virgo sees what could be improved — not from cruelty, but from a deep belief that everything des...

The Archetype: The Storyteller

Gemini is the energy of connection, of language, of the electric spark that happens when two ideas meet and create a third. Where Taurus builds in the material world, Gemini builds in the realm of thought, word, and exchange. It doesn't need things to be — it needs th...