Mercury Returns to Libra: In Search of Balance

Mercury continues its journey in retrograde motion and on October 10th moves out of the watery depths of Scorpio back into Libra, where balance could be considered a top priority. Our thoughts and focus shift back again into a re-take on what we were starting out to conquer in a new way during the last full week of September, when the Libra New Moon brought certain life concerns to mind, and issues of relationship to the fore. All this transpires over these next two weeks of the actual retrograde, and the following two weeks of Mercury's subsequent 'retrograde shadow,' as the planet of mental pursuits and communication makes its way back to the third degree of Scorpio where it started about a week ago. You could find yourself spending time looking over your own internal landscape for that place where extra self-love and perspective adjustment could prove to be necessary. This is a terrific time to be writing yourself a letter, in the form of journaling, and also for an extended meditation on and where in the world you might actually be heading, or establishing a better balance of energy with others.