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		<title>Making Merc rx work for you</title>
		<link>http://mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/making-merc-rx-work-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hitchhiker72</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Merc Rx experiences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us know that Mercury retrograde can signal frustrating delays, mistakes and u-turns, but if we adjust our expectations, it is possible to be productive during this period. I have a 6th house natal Mercury placement; being &#8216;productive&#8217; keeps me sane. Mercury retrograde may not be good for starting new projects, but as I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=632980&amp;post=904&amp;subd=mercuryretrograde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mercury in Leo</title>
		<link>http://mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/mercury-in-leo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hitchhiker72</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another Mercury retrograde is upon us, and this post is late as usual. My excuse is &#8211; I&#8217;ve been writing, but more on that in another post. With all that has been going on in the world in the past weeks (what with the ongoing phone hacking scandal, European economic crises, US political standoff and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=632980&amp;post=894&amp;subd=mercuryretrograde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mercury in Aries</title>
		<link>http://mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/mercury-in-aries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hitchhiker72</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Merc Rx 2011]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the moment, there are a lot of planets in Aries, including Mercury. Aries is the sign of pioneering ambition and passionate adventure; Mercury in Aries may be expressed as: Communicates assertively, forcefully, directly, confidently Restless urge for action underlies energetic way of speaking and creative use of skills Confrontation and forceful release of energy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=632980&amp;post=875&amp;subd=mercuryretrograde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Granny severs nation&#8217;s internet connection</title>
		<link>http://mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/granny-severs-nations-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 01:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a retrograde in 2008, there were reports about the disruption to the internet when several undersea cables were severed. Yesterday, it seems a 75-year-old woman in Georgia single-handedly cut off the internet to 90% of neighbouring Armenia&#8217;s network when she sliced into a cable while digging for copper to sell for scrap&#8230; As the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=632980&amp;post=876&amp;subd=mercuryretrograde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 — Mercury retrograde in the Fire signs</title>
		<link>http://mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/2011-%e2%80%94-mercury-retrograde-in-the-fire-signs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hitchhiker72</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercury retrograde tends to cycle through the signs of one element (though sometimes straddling signs) in a given year. This suggests that there are some common themes that may run through each retrograde period for the year. This year, Mercury retrogrades through the Fire signs. These are the dates: 30 March to 23 April 2011, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=632980&amp;post=869&amp;subd=mercuryretrograde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 in review</title>
		<link>http://mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/2010-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hitchhiker72</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com/?p=864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here&#8217;s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=632980&amp;post=864&amp;subd=mercuryretrograde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mercury-Mars-Pluto in Capricorn triple conjunction</title>
		<link>http://mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/mercury-mars-pluto-in-capricorn-triple-conjunction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hitchhiker72</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Merc Rx 2010]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If people are feeling the extra intensity these past couple of days, it might be a reflection of Mercury retrograding back over Mars and Pluto sitting on top of each other at 4° Capricorn. I have Jupiter at 3° Cap and Venus at 4° Cancer, so I&#8217;m feeling like I&#8217;m dragging around sacks of potatoes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=632980&amp;post=855&amp;subd=mercuryretrograde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No, minister</title>
		<link>http://mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/no-minister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hitchhiker72</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A slip of the tongue resulted in a BBC Radio 4 presenter substituting a minister&#8217;s name with a rude word. What&#8217;s really funny, and mercurial, is how the slip gets repeated by another broadcaster trying to report the story without saying the word, and proceeds to do just that.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=632980&amp;post=851&amp;subd=mercuryretrograde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shooting the messenger</title>
		<link>http://mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/shooting-the-messenger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hitchhiker72</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercury retrogrades from 5 to 30 December 2010, from 5° 55&#8242; Capricorn to 19° 39&#8242; Sagittarius, but the current shadow phase is already throwing up plenty as the Wikileaks saga shows no sign of losing momentum. Mercury is in Capricorn now and Capricorn is the sign of government and large organisations. Is it any surprise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=632980&amp;post=834&amp;subd=mercuryretrograde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hiatus</title>
		<link>http://mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/hiatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a couple of emails and messages asking for updates. Apologies not to have posted this earlier but I&#8217;m putting this blog on hiatus for a bit — at least until the next Mercury retrograde cycle. There is too much going on in my life at the moment that I&#8217;m trying to process, lots [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryretrograde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=632980&amp;post=832&amp;subd=mercuryretrograde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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