CAPRICORN (Dec. 21 – Jan. 19)
Mercury retrogrades are famous for gumming up the works of your everyday life. Anything that runs smoothly becomes more puzzling, frustrating, and tedious during the time that this planet is moving backwards in the sky. Yet it’s because things won’t go as expected that Mercury retrogrades are also famous for getting you to reexamine situations you always assumed were stuck and would never change. The retrograde Mercury/Sun conjunction on Dec. 12 shows you a different way to handle a familiar problem or address a habitual dilemma and it’s this fresh take on matters that allows you to find your way out of that winding maze.