March 21, 2026
The Fog Has Lifted! Mercury Is Out of Retrograde. WTF Does That Actually Mean?
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RSS Feed Happy Astrological New Year Everyone. OK, full disclosure, Amy kinda takes this stuff seriously, while T.J. does NOT. We go over what astrological experts say this new phase we’re entering means for your relationships, your communication, even your personal and work projects. Whether you’re into astrology or not, we have some fun with what the planets are now saying about this new phase of the year.
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Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Saturday, March twenty first, and Mercury is no longer in retrograde. I have no idea what that means, but I'm told it means life is about to get better for all of us. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Every time something's gone wrong in the past three months, I don't even know. Ye, Mercury is in retrograde. What does that mean?
00:00:34
Speaker 2: It was past three weeks? But yes, it was just three weeks.
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Speaker 1: Yes, my life feels like I'm always sorry.
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Speaker 2: Every week with me, it feels like a month. Apparently, Yes, Mercury is out of retrograde. I literally woke up saw that got so excited, and you looked at me and said, what the hell does that mean?
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Speaker 1: Okay, generally speaking, the audience that's listening right now, they know what it means when they say mercury is in or out of retrograde.
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Speaker 2: Predominant listener here is a woman of a certain age. She probably knows what that means, and probably has said when things have gone wrong, when chaos has ensued, when technology isn't working, when communication falls apart, we say, of course, mercury is in retrograde, and it's been in retrograde since February twenty sixth.
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Speaker 1: Wait, you said women of a certain age. What age, doll we talk about?
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Speaker 2: I feel like women my age, younger, a little bit older, but.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit young, a little bit older. Not like every woman. Then who are we talking about?
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Speaker 2: Well, maybe like my mom's age. She might loize at that, like, oh you silly, woo woo people.
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Speaker 1: You and younger. This is a younger ride.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it would probably be anyone who's like in their fifties and below. Would probably anyone who likes to check their horoscope just for the fun of it. Look, the reality is, I don't know, but I do like to try and imagine or keep it possible that the way our our solar system works, the way our planets are aligned, the way our ocean tides, it's all connected.
00:02:06
Speaker 1: That's what this was talking about.
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Speaker 2: Yes, this is so. Actually, this is interesting. I did some research, because the truth is I didn't really know. I started looking it up. So here is the deal. Mercury, as I pointed out, was in retrograde from February twenty sixth through March thirtieth. Had the last three weeks of your life felt a little extra chaotic, like technology wasn't working. Maybe if you were traveling, things got disturbed. I mean, look what's happening at the TSA. I know we can say, yes, the government's in shutdown, but it has interestingly coincided with retrograde.
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Speaker 1: I don't get what we're talking. I still, as I sit here with you, I don't know what that means. Okay, okay, we talking about the planet. Yes, Mercury is in retrograde. What does that mean?
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Speaker 2: Okay, they're okay. So from an astrological standpoint, the planet Mercury actually slows down. Mercury normally moves faster than Earth around the Sun, but when Mercury is in retrograde, it's moving slower than the Earth around the Sun. So mercury, this is what it says when I look this up. Mercury moves eighty eight days around the Sun versus three hundred and sixty five days that the Earth does to rotate the Sun. But it creates this optical illusion in certain periods where it looks like Mercury is moving backwards, like visually it looks like that. And so the understanding from folks who follow astrology is that the planet Mercury rules communication, travel, news, information, gossip, and technology. Who astrologists, okay, gotchall right, And so when we're in retro when Mercury is in retrograde, that means we can expect this is what they say, meltdowns, false gossip, miscommunications, technology, failures, issue in travel, missed connections and delays, and hearing hurting in information. Basically, it gets all muddied. Someone described it like this, Making a major decision during this time when Mercury is in retrograde is like reading a map underwater.
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Speaker 1: Hmm uh what alarmist gave us that quote? No, I'm kidding.
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Speaker 2: I thought that was a good way to describe how people would explain. Who believe in this stuff? What is happening when Mercury is in retrogra I.
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Speaker 1: Got questions if you all haven't noticed yet, robes completely say, Hey, this is gonna be fun. Because she says it all the time. I have no idea what she's talking about. This is the first time I actually asked questions about it. Here is a question I have. How often is it in retrograde that it slows down?
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Speaker 2: It depends on the year. This year we have three periods, three retrograde. Yeah, we just got out of one. This was the first retrograde period of the year. And by the way, it was supposed to be an extra bad one. Now I don't really fully understand this, but apparently we were in a bunch of eclipses and actually we're on some axis of Leo Aquarius, which is you and me. So it actually affected people these last three weeks more than it usually does because of all sorts of other things that are going on.
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Speaker 1: Galactic Okay, so you get a couple, you could get a couple to a few times a year this happens. Does it happen at least once every year?
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Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, yes, Oh I didn't know that. Yes, and so and by the way, astrologically speaking, happy New Year. This is literally the start of the new zodiac cycle. It is when the sun leaves Pisces and enters Aries. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac. So that means in the next coming weeks we are going to be moving, We're going to be taking initiative, We're going to be experimenting. Someone said, take the risk, send the email, start the relationship. Everything is starting anew and this is going to be an active, exciting period.
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Speaker 1: That the new year thing is separate from the mercury in retrograde.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's all connected, Chris, it's all connected.
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Speaker 1: Wait, so you're telling me today is a great time and a renewal with Again you keep saying astrologically speaking, yes, but at the same time you're saying, this is a crappy time because mercury is in retrograd.
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Speaker 2: No, it just ended.
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Speaker 1: I thought you gave me a date range.
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Speaker 2: It ended March twentieth. Today is the start of the new astrological years. So now, yes, they're calling it retro shade until April ninths. We're in a little bit of a murky area. We're getting out of retrograde and we're moving into a bright, sunny, amazing period. So from now until April ninth it'll be a little a transition. So they're telling astrologists, tell folks to clink. We're just cheersing each other because we're drinking a mimosa right now, delicious. They're saying, you can now reflect back on these last three weeks, see what you learned, and then start anew So these last three weeks, would you say, because I can tell you there have been some difficult technology issue use in the last couple of.
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Speaker 1: Weeks, I would say yes that I would not. Okay, fine, if I'm going to be a little bit of a doubter, you also know I have in the past month taken on more challenges when it comes to technology. I am doing more when it comes to technology. So maybe it was just a bad time.
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Speaker 2: Probably should have waited until today.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, so I don't know if anything's necessarily broken down. But okay, we.
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Speaker 2: Don't know for sure, but I there have been a couple of days I was actually thinking.
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Speaker 1: Of it a bunch of days.
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Speaker 2: Oh yes, okay. So here's what we can expect in this new phase, clarity and movement. They say, conversations will start to make more sense. Projects you've been thinking about are going to start moving forward now. So I think that's pretty cool. They say that misunderstandings, if you have any in your life, are beginning to clear, and if if you are worth waiting to sign a contract or make a big decision, now is the time, because this is now where we're going to have fresh energy and new action, and so this is the time to make your life happen. They talk about relationships like that. If you were waiting to make a move, now is the time. This is a time of rebirth and renewal.
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Speaker 1: What what dame I have? I had a question? Sorry, you you've said so much that called me to one ask. Oh, yeah, the retro shade you say, we're still in a weird time.
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Speaker 2: Period for Yeah, so they call this retro shade, meaning it basically while the planets are realigning or doing their thing, we are now in a transition. So we're moving out of retrograde. We're out of it, and we're moving into this new action oriented phase.
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Speaker 1: We're not there fully, this is our transition.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're transitioning. April ninth is when we're fully, fully, fully ready to go. So if you want to have a date where you're going to make a decision, maybe pick April ninth.
00:08:51
Speaker 1: Okay, so right now it's still the little dice.
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Speaker 2: Well, just be aware this is the time of transition.
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Speaker 1: And reflection, not full steam.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So now that you on understand what retrograde was, out of it, all right, when we come back, we're going to tell you where the two more periods are going to be a retrograde so you can prepare yourself, and some tips on how to handle mercury in retrograde when it comes back. And welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ where we are celebrating the astrological new Year and celebrating that we're finally out of mercury in retrograde. I have to tell you, every time you missed the subway train, your flight gets de late. I mean there have been It's funny, there have been a lot. My daughters have called me with issues and problems. I will google it like, yep, mercury is in retrograde, and then you roll your eye at me. I wonder how many people believe in this stuff.
00:10:04
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think we've given folks sometimes an easy excuse. You could say, oh my god, missed the train, or you could say, maybe should have left the house ten minutes earlier and you could have got to the platform more time. Who knows, But.
00:10:18
Speaker 2: Then something else would have happened because mercury's and retrogra delayed you further.
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Speaker 1: It's become one of those annoying things. Almost like six even like I just had to hear mercury and retrograde.
00:10:27
Speaker 2: And your skin starts to cray.
00:10:30
Speaker 1: It's that thing.
00:10:30
Speaker 2: Now. Look, I really like all jokes aside. I do check out my horoscope at least a couple of times a week, and I do think that, look don't. I don't map my life out based on it, but I do think it's something to consider that we all are connected, the Earth, the other planet's space, all of that. We don't know what the connection is between energy and what's happening and the reverberations of all of it. I think it's entirely possible we're all connected so in this way, and maybe this is a way of having things make more sense. I believe in angel numbers and signs, but I'm just one of those folks and not everybody agrees with me.
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Speaker 1: That's fine to have a guide, it's fine, and it's fun quite frankly, Folks don't know we every single morning when we used to anchor a show together at GM three, we would look at our horoscopes every single morning, and it would determine what kind of day we're going to have.
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Speaker 2: Work together them to each other. It was very fun. We had a blast with it. So just in preparation now that we're out of the first mercury and retrogade. Just prepare yourself for the second one when you're trying to figure out when to travel. This is gonna be a big one. June twenty ninth to July twenty third is the next mercury and retrograde. And actually, Babe, I think we are back from all of our travels. We are actually chilling during.
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Speaker 1: That time we're on the ground.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just that's actually worked out really well for us. We didn't plan that. And then the third mercury in retrograde this year is October twenty fourth to November thirteenth, So just keep those dates in mind. I actually do appreciate preparing for it. So what do the astrological experts say you should do when mercury is in retrograde. First of all, recognize that it's happening. They say, just this is a time to take a breath and to move at a slower pace. It's actually, they say, the universe's reminder to you to slow down, that you can't always be at full speed. Things aren't always going to be action action, action. This is a moment to actually take a beat, take a breath, and reflect. They say to use this time to heal and transform old relationships and friendships. So instead of looking at as a bad thing, look at as a time of reflection and a way of just reassessing where you are in your relationships in your life, and if you're fighting with people, try to go and see it from their perspective. These are good moments to take well. I think tips we could use throughout the year. But have a focus where things seem to be going wrong and use it to your advantage. They see, Okay, the keyword is patience.
00:13:12
Speaker 1: Do you notice, certainly not us in particular are really our inner inner circle, but do you have friends and people on kind of our periphery? Have you noticed more conflict within friend zones of either analyst or a of us and be oh my gosh, wow, shit, Now I think about it.
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Speaker 2: I was waiting for you to recognize because when I was reading about all of this, I was going back to remembering the conversations that you and I have had with both of our daughters about major conflict that has been happening with them for the last few weeks.
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Speaker 1: I kid you, not new stuff like some new stuff, new unexpected stuff, not petty stuff like we're worried about that style. But it's kids, it's girls in particular. They go through this.
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Speaker 2: It's going to turn around starting today, okay, and then we'll have another another period of it. But that is true. You're not even just saying that to humor me or to humor the audience.
00:14:05
Speaker 1: Oh just hit me.
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Speaker 2: Really is true.
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Speaker 1: We have had serious conversations because I've leaned on you because you your girls not too terribly long ago went through this twelve thirteen, fourteen, These girls or these relationships, it started to get complicated. I've come to you plenty in the past few weeks more so thank hey, yo, what am I supposed to do with it? This is normal?
00:14:21
Speaker 2: And my nineteen year old is going through it too, significantly over the past couple of weeks. So I mean, it doesn't ever really end. I will say maybe now in my fifties, because my friend group has gotten so much smaller. There is nothing but peace these days, and there's just been a lot of perspective and a lot of patients and a lot of periods of mercury being in retrograde for me relationship wise, where I think you do graduate to a place where you can look at it as a time of reassessment. You can look at as a time of patience and calm because you recognize what the planets are telling us. Look, people have all sorts of different ways how they interpret what's happening, why something's happening, and maybe how you can navigate better during certain times. For me, this is something that's fun, something that could possibly be real. Why not go ahead and read the tea leaves and do everything you can to try and manage where we are in the world, And most of it, pretty much all of it, we can't control anyway. We can only control how we react to it.
00:15:27
Speaker 1: I don't mind it at all. And no, it is not to be offensive to anybody when it comes to religion. But there are some people who have faith in some who don't. And what is faith is the evidence of things unseen. Right, You just you believe, And people have horoscopes and they look to the stars. There's no evidence of that anymore than there's evidence of you could argue some spiritual leanings or religious leanings. What I'm saying is religion gives a comfort to people to think that there's something else in the world, something can lean on, something that comfort me in this difficult time, something a higher power I can look to and lean on. Ro That's what kind of all of this is. And I'm okay with anybody who says they are one hundred percent belief in horoscopes, just like I was. Any faith out there, knock yourself.
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Speaker 2: Out, and I actually would say the two aren't counter to one another. You can actually have tremendous faith, religious, spiritual, whatever, and also have a belief in the universe and in what maybe we can learn from the stars and the planets and those people who choose to actually follow that stuff and know a lot more than we do. You want to hear your horoscope for the day. This is the one we always looked at when we were at GMA Daily News. We used to always look at the daily News horoscope.
00:16:42
Speaker 1: I have one for you too, I pulled up because it's hilarious. Okay, it's hilarious.
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Speaker 2: All right, here's your LEO for today. Yes, Gus, personal sharing will be easier when everyone involved feels calm and safe. Mars forms a flowing trine with Jupiter invigorating your eighth House of Intimacy and your twelve House of secrets. Trust can blossom today, but you must give it a chance to do so. You could schedule a budget check with a trusted peer, or you can discuss other sensitive topics. Do your best to release past fears before you speak in order to have a more productive discussion. When possible, choose transparency over guess work.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea what to do with that. That's that's a lot. That's a load, as we would say, that's a lot done back? What am I supposed to do?
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Speaker 2: That can actually be vulnerable today, vulable every day today, day feel trust that is flowing between you and your partner.
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Speaker 1: That last one might be a problem. I'm kidding, I can hear you. I'm just joking. Do you weire? Is yours in there? Because that one? That one's weighty?
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Speaker 2: Okay, did you have a fun I see.
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Speaker 1: Gonna all right?
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Speaker 2: Mine says money matters will probably be at the forefront of your mind today. Combative Mars finds ease in a trine. What is this? Trying stuff to lucky Jupiter? Focusing on your second house of salaries and your six pousive effort, which thankfully should make budgeting less stressful. I don't like the money ones they're so boring confusing telling me to set a spend a simple limit for categories. Take a look at my receipts to keep my spending consistent. Please, I'm fine.
00:18:19
Speaker 1: That yours are too high brow for me. Yeah, I like fortune cookie type.
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Speaker 2: You know what, Give me a fortune cookie one that's way better.
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Speaker 1: Here you go. It is related to money. Here is aries Uh no, wait at the boom at the bottom of Wait there she is. Respect your money making ideas today because you might be onto something. Whatever you do today will improve your assets and wealth and possibly help others as well. You've always wanted to make the world a better place. Well think about that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, what's yours? Leo?
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Speaker 1: It went? And if it would kind of been companion to or flew in the face of that one? Leo, your high viz today. People admire you and they want to hear what you have to say, especially about financial matters related to shared property inherent's wow, inheritances, will's debt, and taxas. People can see that this is not your first rodeo and they want your advice.
00:19:16
Speaker 2: Wow, I guess I should turn to you before making any financial decision because.
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Speaker 1: It's all well, I would hope you do that anyway, as you know the family that we now are.
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Speaker 2: All right, everybody time to celebrate, happy New Year. Go dive into that relationship and have that conversation you were putting off because mercury was in retrograde. Now y'all are going to understand each other. You're going to be excited for one another, You're going to be vulnerable to one another. Everything is going to be beautiful from here all the way until what was it June June twenty sixth or something like that.
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Speaker 1: You were leaving us on a high and then you brought us back down.
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Speaker 2: All right by joy today and the weeks and months that follow And with that, everyone, thank you for george us on this Saturday. We always appreciate you. On maybe Roeboch alongside T. J. Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Saturday, March twenty first, and Mercury is no longer in retrograde. I have no idea what that means, but I'm told it means life is about to get better for all of us. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Every time something's gone wrong in the past three months, I don't even know. Ye, Mercury is in retrograde. What does that mean?
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Speaker 2: It was past three weeks? But yes, it was just three weeks.
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Speaker 1: Yes, my life feels like I'm always sorry.
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Speaker 2: Every week with me, it feels like a month. Apparently, Yes, Mercury is out of retrograde. I literally woke up saw that got so excited, and you looked at me and said, what the hell does that mean?
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Speaker 1: Okay, generally speaking, the audience that's listening right now, they know what it means when they say mercury is in or out of retrograde.
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Speaker 2: Predominant listener here is a woman of a certain age. She probably knows what that means, and probably has said when things have gone wrong, when chaos has ensued, when technology isn't working, when communication falls apart, we say, of course, mercury is in retrograde, and it's been in retrograde since February twenty sixth.
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Speaker 1: Wait, you said women of a certain age. What age, doll we talk about?
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Speaker 2: I feel like women my age, younger, a little bit older, but.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit young, a little bit older. Not like every woman. Then who are we talking about?
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Speaker 2: Well, maybe like my mom's age. She might loize at that, like, oh you silly, woo woo people.
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Speaker 1: You and younger. This is a younger ride.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it would probably be anyone who's like in their fifties and below. Would probably anyone who likes to check their horoscope just for the fun of it. Look, the reality is, I don't know, but I do like to try and imagine or keep it possible that the way our our solar system works, the way our planets are aligned, the way our ocean tides, it's all connected.
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Speaker 1: That's what this was talking about.
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Speaker 2: Yes, this is so. Actually, this is interesting. I did some research, because the truth is I didn't really know. I started looking it up. So here is the deal. Mercury, as I pointed out, was in retrograde from February twenty sixth through March thirtieth. Had the last three weeks of your life felt a little extra chaotic, like technology wasn't working. Maybe if you were traveling, things got disturbed. I mean, look what's happening at the TSA. I know we can say, yes, the government's in shutdown, but it has interestingly coincided with retrograde.
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Speaker 1: I don't get what we're talking. I still, as I sit here with you, I don't know what that means. Okay, okay, we talking about the planet. Yes, Mercury is in retrograde. What does that mean?
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Speaker 2: Okay, they're okay. So from an astrological standpoint, the planet Mercury actually slows down. Mercury normally moves faster than Earth around the Sun, but when Mercury is in retrograde, it's moving slower than the Earth around the Sun. So mercury, this is what it says when I look this up. Mercury moves eighty eight days around the Sun versus three hundred and sixty five days that the Earth does to rotate the Sun. But it creates this optical illusion in certain periods where it looks like Mercury is moving backwards, like visually it looks like that. And so the understanding from folks who follow astrology is that the planet Mercury rules communication, travel, news, information, gossip, and technology. Who astrologists, okay, gotchall right, And so when we're in retro when Mercury is in retrograde, that means we can expect this is what they say, meltdowns, false gossip, miscommunications, technology, failures, issue in travel, missed connections and delays, and hearing hurting in information. Basically, it gets all muddied. Someone described it like this, Making a major decision during this time when Mercury is in retrograde is like reading a map underwater.
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Speaker 1: Hmm uh what alarmist gave us that quote? No, I'm kidding.
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Speaker 2: I thought that was a good way to describe how people would explain. Who believe in this stuff? What is happening when Mercury is in retrogra I.
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Speaker 1: Got questions if you all haven't noticed yet, robes completely say, Hey, this is gonna be fun. Because she says it all the time. I have no idea what she's talking about. This is the first time I actually asked questions about it. Here is a question I have. How often is it in retrograde that it slows down?
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Speaker 2: It depends on the year. This year we have three periods, three retrograde. Yeah, we just got out of one. This was the first retrograde period of the year. And by the way, it was supposed to be an extra bad one. Now I don't really fully understand this, but apparently we were in a bunch of eclipses and actually we're on some axis of Leo Aquarius, which is you and me. So it actually affected people these last three weeks more than it usually does because of all sorts of other things that are going on.
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Speaker 1: Galactic Okay, so you get a couple, you could get a couple to a few times a year this happens. Does it happen at least once every year?
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Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, yes, Oh I didn't know that. Yes, and so and by the way, astrologically speaking, happy New Year. This is literally the start of the new zodiac cycle. It is when the sun leaves Pisces and enters Aries. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac. So that means in the next coming weeks we are going to be moving, We're going to be taking initiative, We're going to be experimenting. Someone said, take the risk, send the email, start the relationship. Everything is starting anew and this is going to be an active, exciting period.
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Speaker 1: That the new year thing is separate from the mercury in retrograde.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's all connected, Chris, it's all connected.
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Speaker 1: Wait, so you're telling me today is a great time and a renewal with Again you keep saying astrologically speaking, yes, but at the same time you're saying, this is a crappy time because mercury is in retrograd.
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Speaker 2: No, it just ended.
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Speaker 1: I thought you gave me a date range.
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Speaker 2: It ended March twentieth. Today is the start of the new astrological years. So now, yes, they're calling it retro shade until April ninths. We're in a little bit of a murky area. We're getting out of retrograde and we're moving into a bright, sunny, amazing period. So from now until April ninth it'll be a little a transition. So they're telling astrologists, tell folks to clink. We're just cheersing each other because we're drinking a mimosa right now, delicious. They're saying, you can now reflect back on these last three weeks, see what you learned, and then start anew So these last three weeks, would you say, because I can tell you there have been some difficult technology issue use in the last couple of.
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Speaker 1: Weeks, I would say yes that I would not. Okay, fine, if I'm going to be a little bit of a doubter, you also know I have in the past month taken on more challenges when it comes to technology. I am doing more when it comes to technology. So maybe it was just a bad time.
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Speaker 2: Probably should have waited until today.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, so I don't know if anything's necessarily broken down. But okay, we.
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Speaker 2: Don't know for sure, but I there have been a couple of days I was actually thinking.
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Speaker 1: Of it a bunch of days.
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Speaker 2: Oh yes, okay. So here's what we can expect in this new phase, clarity and movement. They say, conversations will start to make more sense. Projects you've been thinking about are going to start moving forward now. So I think that's pretty cool. They say that misunderstandings, if you have any in your life, are beginning to clear, and if if you are worth waiting to sign a contract or make a big decision, now is the time, because this is now where we're going to have fresh energy and new action, and so this is the time to make your life happen. They talk about relationships like that. If you were waiting to make a move, now is the time. This is a time of rebirth and renewal.
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Speaker 1: What what dame I have? I had a question? Sorry, you you've said so much that called me to one ask. Oh, yeah, the retro shade you say, we're still in a weird time.
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Speaker 2: Period for Yeah, so they call this retro shade, meaning it basically while the planets are realigning or doing their thing, we are now in a transition. So we're moving out of retrograde. We're out of it, and we're moving into this new action oriented phase.
00:08:41
Speaker 1: We're not there fully, this is our transition.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're transitioning. April ninth is when we're fully, fully, fully ready to go. So if you want to have a date where you're going to make a decision, maybe pick April ninth.
00:08:51
Speaker 1: Okay, so right now it's still the little dice.
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Speaker 2: Well, just be aware this is the time of transition.
00:08:55
Speaker 1: And reflection, not full steam.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So now that you on understand what retrograde was, out of it, all right, when we come back, we're going to tell you where the two more periods are going to be a retrograde so you can prepare yourself, and some tips on how to handle mercury in retrograde when it comes back. And welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ where we are celebrating the astrological new Year and celebrating that we're finally out of mercury in retrograde. I have to tell you, every time you missed the subway train, your flight gets de late. I mean there have been It's funny, there have been a lot. My daughters have called me with issues and problems. I will google it like, yep, mercury is in retrograde, and then you roll your eye at me. I wonder how many people believe in this stuff.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think we've given folks sometimes an easy excuse. You could say, oh my god, missed the train, or you could say, maybe should have left the house ten minutes earlier and you could have got to the platform more time. Who knows, But.
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Speaker 2: Then something else would have happened because mercury's and retrogra delayed you further.
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Speaker 1: It's become one of those annoying things. Almost like six even like I just had to hear mercury and retrograde.
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Speaker 2: And your skin starts to cray.
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Speaker 1: It's that thing.
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Speaker 2: Now. Look, I really like all jokes aside. I do check out my horoscope at least a couple of times a week, and I do think that, look don't. I don't map my life out based on it, but I do think it's something to consider that we all are connected, the Earth, the other planet's space, all of that. We don't know what the connection is between energy and what's happening and the reverberations of all of it. I think it's entirely possible we're all connected so in this way, and maybe this is a way of having things make more sense. I believe in angel numbers and signs, but I'm just one of those folks and not everybody agrees with me.
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Speaker 1: That's fine to have a guide, it's fine, and it's fun quite frankly, Folks don't know we every single morning when we used to anchor a show together at GM three, we would look at our horoscopes every single morning, and it would determine what kind of day we're going to have.
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Speaker 2: Work together them to each other. It was very fun. We had a blast with it. So just in preparation now that we're out of the first mercury and retrogade. Just prepare yourself for the second one when you're trying to figure out when to travel. This is gonna be a big one. June twenty ninth to July twenty third is the next mercury and retrograde. And actually, Babe, I think we are back from all of our travels. We are actually chilling during.
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Speaker 1: That time we're on the ground.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just that's actually worked out really well for us. We didn't plan that. And then the third mercury in retrograde this year is October twenty fourth to November thirteenth, So just keep those dates in mind. I actually do appreciate preparing for it. So what do the astrological experts say you should do when mercury is in retrograde. First of all, recognize that it's happening. They say, just this is a time to take a breath and to move at a slower pace. It's actually, they say, the universe's reminder to you to slow down, that you can't always be at full speed. Things aren't always going to be action action, action. This is a moment to actually take a beat, take a breath, and reflect. They say to use this time to heal and transform old relationships and friendships. So instead of looking at as a bad thing, look at as a time of reflection and a way of just reassessing where you are in your relationships in your life, and if you're fighting with people, try to go and see it from their perspective. These are good moments to take well. I think tips we could use throughout the year. But have a focus where things seem to be going wrong and use it to your advantage. They see, Okay, the keyword is patience.
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Speaker 1: Do you notice, certainly not us in particular are really our inner inner circle, but do you have friends and people on kind of our periphery? Have you noticed more conflict within friend zones of either analyst or a of us and be oh my gosh, wow, shit, Now I think about it.
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Speaker 2: I was waiting for you to recognize because when I was reading about all of this, I was going back to remembering the conversations that you and I have had with both of our daughters about major conflict that has been happening with them for the last few weeks.
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Speaker 1: I kid you, not new stuff like some new stuff, new unexpected stuff, not petty stuff like we're worried about that style. But it's kids, it's girls in particular. They go through this.
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Speaker 2: It's going to turn around starting today, okay, and then we'll have another another period of it. But that is true. You're not even just saying that to humor me or to humor the audience.
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Speaker 1: Oh just hit me.
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Speaker 2: Really is true.
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Speaker 1: We have had serious conversations because I've leaned on you because you your girls not too terribly long ago went through this twelve thirteen, fourteen, These girls or these relationships, it started to get complicated. I've come to you plenty in the past few weeks more so thank hey, yo, what am I supposed to do with it? This is normal?
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Speaker 2: And my nineteen year old is going through it too, significantly over the past couple of weeks. So I mean, it doesn't ever really end. I will say maybe now in my fifties, because my friend group has gotten so much smaller. There is nothing but peace these days, and there's just been a lot of perspective and a lot of patients and a lot of periods of mercury being in retrograde for me relationship wise, where I think you do graduate to a place where you can look at it as a time of reassessment. You can look at as a time of patience and calm because you recognize what the planets are telling us. Look, people have all sorts of different ways how they interpret what's happening, why something's happening, and maybe how you can navigate better during certain times. For me, this is something that's fun, something that could possibly be real. Why not go ahead and read the tea leaves and do everything you can to try and manage where we are in the world, And most of it, pretty much all of it, we can't control anyway. We can only control how we react to it.
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Speaker 1: I don't mind it at all. And no, it is not to be offensive to anybody when it comes to religion. But there are some people who have faith in some who don't. And what is faith is the evidence of things unseen. Right, You just you believe, And people have horoscopes and they look to the stars. There's no evidence of that anymore than there's evidence of you could argue some spiritual leanings or religious leanings. What I'm saying is religion gives a comfort to people to think that there's something else in the world, something can lean on, something that comfort me in this difficult time, something a higher power I can look to and lean on. Ro That's what kind of all of this is. And I'm okay with anybody who says they are one hundred percent belief in horoscopes, just like I was. Any faith out there, knock yourself.
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Speaker 2: Out, and I actually would say the two aren't counter to one another. You can actually have tremendous faith, religious, spiritual, whatever, and also have a belief in the universe and in what maybe we can learn from the stars and the planets and those people who choose to actually follow that stuff and know a lot more than we do. You want to hear your horoscope for the day. This is the one we always looked at when we were at GMA Daily News. We used to always look at the daily News horoscope.
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Speaker 1: I have one for you too, I pulled up because it's hilarious. Okay, it's hilarious.
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Speaker 2: All right, here's your LEO for today. Yes, Gus, personal sharing will be easier when everyone involved feels calm and safe. Mars forms a flowing trine with Jupiter invigorating your eighth House of Intimacy and your twelve House of secrets. Trust can blossom today, but you must give it a chance to do so. You could schedule a budget check with a trusted peer, or you can discuss other sensitive topics. Do your best to release past fears before you speak in order to have a more productive discussion. When possible, choose transparency over guess work.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea what to do with that. That's that's a lot. That's a load, as we would say, that's a lot done back? What am I supposed to do?
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Speaker 2: That can actually be vulnerable today, vulable every day today, day feel trust that is flowing between you and your partner.
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Speaker 1: That last one might be a problem. I'm kidding, I can hear you. I'm just joking. Do you weire? Is yours in there? Because that one? That one's weighty?
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Speaker 2: Okay, did you have a fun I see.
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Speaker 1: Gonna all right?
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Speaker 2: Mine says money matters will probably be at the forefront of your mind today. Combative Mars finds ease in a trine. What is this? Trying stuff to lucky Jupiter? Focusing on your second house of salaries and your six pousive effort, which thankfully should make budgeting less stressful. I don't like the money ones they're so boring confusing telling me to set a spend a simple limit for categories. Take a look at my receipts to keep my spending consistent. Please, I'm fine.
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Speaker 1: That yours are too high brow for me. Yeah, I like fortune cookie type.
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Speaker 2: You know what, Give me a fortune cookie one that's way better.
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Speaker 1: Here you go. It is related to money. Here is aries Uh no, wait at the boom at the bottom of Wait there she is. Respect your money making ideas today because you might be onto something. Whatever you do today will improve your assets and wealth and possibly help others as well. You've always wanted to make the world a better place. Well think about that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, what's yours? Leo?
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Speaker 1: It went? And if it would kind of been companion to or flew in the face of that one? Leo, your high viz today. People admire you and they want to hear what you have to say, especially about financial matters related to shared property inherent's wow, inheritances, will's debt, and taxas. People can see that this is not your first rodeo and they want your advice.
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Speaker 2: Wow, I guess I should turn to you before making any financial decision because.
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Speaker 1: It's all well, I would hope you do that anyway, as you know the family that we now are.
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Speaker 2: All right, everybody time to celebrate, happy New Year. Go dive into that relationship and have that conversation you were putting off because mercury was in retrograde. Now y'all are going to understand each other. You're going to be excited for one another, You're going to be vulnerable to one another. Everything is going to be beautiful from here all the way until what was it June June twenty sixth or something like that.
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Speaker 1: You were leaving us on a high and then you brought us back down.
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Speaker 2: All right by joy today and the weeks and months that follow And with that, everyone, thank you for george us on this Saturday. We always appreciate you. On maybe Roeboch alongside T. J. Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.