VIRGO (Aug. 22 – Sept. 21)
Born under Mercury, the planet of shortcuts, you often choose the swiftest means to an end. Usually this works perfectly except for when Mercury is retrograde. For the past 3 ½ weeks you have been dogged by some kind of technical fee or bureaucratic error. Although blameless, your brusque handling of the situation made matters worse. Mercury coming out of retrograde on May 3 won’t solve your problems overnight, but it will put you back at square one again and that’s a good thing. This is your chance to do things right the second time which winds up taking less time in the long run.