I have written of this <\/a>and the god Janus in a New Year post a few years ago. \u00a0The god Janus similarly looks both backwards and forwards at the same time.<\/p>\nAt this time of new beginnings under the Virgo New Moon, it\u2019s important to remember the retrograde pull of Mercury which keeps our \u00a0attention from wandering too far into the future. \u00a0Virgo is more about planning than actually taking action, which fits in nicely with the retrograde Mercury phase. \u00a0Planning, creating new ideas that look to the past (Mercury Rx) and take from it only those things that work and eliminating the rest (using the discrimination of the Virgo New Moon). \u00a0 Following our duty to others, putting aside ego for the sake of service, creating a temple space for our physical body \u2013 these are good Virgo things to plan and create and gradually put into action once the plan is fully baked.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A reader on my Facebook page asked a really good question: \u00a0\u201chow does [Mercury retrograde] work with a New Moon and we are supposed to start new things??\u201d Mercury retrograde periods are more appropriate for reviewing, re-doing, re-visioning, and renovating than for initiating something new. \u00a0This is an assimilation phase. \u00a0New Moons are times of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1335,2264],"class_list":["post-6685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-mercury-retrograde","tag-virgo-new-moon-2010"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>A reader on my Facebook <\/a>page asked a really good question: \u00a0\u201chow does [Mercury retrograde] work with a New Moon and we are supposed to start new things??\u201d<\/p>\n