Mercury Retrograde in Virgo Rethinking Work and Health

by Rebecca Brents

Rethinking "everyday stuff"

When Mercury is retrograde in Virgo, it's time to reconsider all the things that comprise your everyday life routines, your working conditions and arrangements and your health maintenance practices -- the ways you take care of your physical body ... so you can go on doing all the things life requires of you. That covers a lot of ground. None of it glamorous -- or even much fun; all of it important.

Virgo is a sign focused on work and service, issues that consume huge amounts of time and labor in everyone's life, but which get very little praise, special notice or appreciation. A sad percentage of people say they dislike or actually hate their jobs, the very activities that provide them with the money and "meaning" they supposedly need to support themselves. Most of us could do without all the little time-consuming chores, errands, tasks and "jobs" that are our daily responsibility ... like it or not.

I'm talking, of course, about the grocery shopping, the bill-paying, the house-keeping, the car maintenance, the lawn and yard care, the wardrobe upkeep. And the things you do just to be able to circulate comfortably out in the world -- washing your hair ...

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