Excerpt from one of my favorite teachers, Gahl, taken from his e-zine, “SpiriTalk Newsletter - CosmicNavigator.com”.

Mercury starts his retrograde motion on Jan 11th right after the Full Moon. Mercury will turn direct on Jan 31st. Since Mercury is the planet of tricks, it is tricky to say how Mercury Retro will affect you personally. I have noticed that the best, funniest, and hmm, most embarrassing synchronicities tend to happen in Mercury Retrograde. Mercury Retrograde is a worm hole between lifetimes, dimensions and parallel lives. It creates short-cuts and destroys them right after. Like the stairways in the corridors of Hogwarts, once used they move away. This means that while communication on the mundane level might be hindered, channeling, dreams, aha moments and all other extra sensory communication will be favored and experienced more frequently. In other words, if you are waiting for a check it might take time, or never show up but if you are waiting for an answer from God it will travel faster then light. Here are a few tips that can help you in the next three weeks:

* Back your computer files
* Check your bank statements for fraud or mistakes
* Take longer to drive to meeting, expect traffic to be heavier
* Don’t sign contracts if possible
* Be extra careful from slips of tongues
* Edit and or read emails twice before you send them
* Revisit old projects, ideas and rework them
* Be extra careful when downloading and or upgrading programs
* Don’t buy any new electronic equipment
* Reconnect to old friends, reconcile rebuild past connections

The Chinese New Year, Solar eclipse and New Moon in Cancer will be on Jan 26th. It is going to be a fresh new start for 2009 and can be viewed as the real beginning of the energies of the year. I hope you all have a great New Year and may everything you need (not necessarily want) come to you in an effortless flow…
-Gahl