You hit the ground running in May with Mercury squarely in your sign at 0 degrees. Your mind is humming and your thoughts are like pin point lasers, cutting, exacting, sharp. You’re in element, the leader of the band and then wham! On the 7th, Mercury, your ruler, in your sign, goes backwards, causing all sorts of screwy things to happen. The first might manifest in self-doubt, or at the very least, second guessing yourself. This may or may not be a bad thing, if you have recently taken on something that’s slightly over your head. You need confidence, but you also need some objectivity.

Think of this Mercury Retrograde as a safeguard from flying too high, too fast. With both Venus and Mars in Aries, you’ll need something to keep you grounded and believe it or not, MR might just be the answer. This tethering effect will ensure that you are engaged in the realm of human affairs, while still allowing you to sharpen, revise, revisit and reintegrate your ideas. But like most signs, I would advise you to get as much heavy lifting out of the way before the 7th and after that it’s all about fine tuning. That will change on the 31st (Walt Whitman’s birthday) and then you’ll be off and running again and by the middle of June, you’ll have another, visionary period where you can take your projects, thoughts and ideas to a new level. Until then, get out, be social, mix it up, make new connections, renew your commitment to make the world a better place for yourself and others. Your enthusiasm hasn’t been this high in quite sometime. Enjoy it.