{"id":33,"date":"2025-06-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-astrology-pro\/2025\/06\/08\/mercury-retrograde-a-calm-practical-guide\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T09:00:00","slug":"mercury-retrograde-a-calm-practical-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-astrology-pro\/2025\/06\/08\/mercury-retrograde-a-calm-practical-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury retrograde: a calm, practical guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around three times a year, for about three weeks, Mercury appears to move backwards through the zodiac. It is an optical effect of Earth overtaking a faster inner planet \u2014 and astrologically it is one of the most misunderstood events in the calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What it is good for<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retrograde periods favour the &quot;re&quot; words: review, revise, return, repair. Finishing an old project, reconnecting with someone or rereading a contract all fit the energy well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A practical checklist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Back up your phone and laptop before it starts.<\/li>\n\n<li>Read the small print twice and leave room in travel plans.<\/li>\n\n<li>Expect old messages and old faces to resurface.<\/li>\n\n<li>Launch new things before or after, if you have the choice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What it is not<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not a reason to cancel your life. People sign leases, start jobs and get married during retrogrades every year. The point is simply to slow down and double-check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three times a year Mercury appears to move backwards. Here is what that really means, and a short checklist for getting through it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,17,7],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transits","tag-mercury","tag-retrograde","tag-transits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-astrology-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-astrology-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-astrology-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-astrology-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-astrology-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-astrology-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-astrology-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-astrology-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-astrology-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-astrology-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}