I find people cringing over Mercury Retrogrades more than any other planet, and really, it's not that bad. In fact, we spend less time in a Mercury Retrograde per year than we do with any other planet. (Pluto spends just shy of half a year at a time, grinding away in reverse...) It's just that you can't fight the flow here: this time is meant for REVIEW, and for catching your balance again before you move forward again, if you leaped-before-you-looked. It's all in how you look at it. And so, at the risk of another shameless self-plug for GreenCorvid.com, here's my example of a Mercury Retrograde put to GOOD use: