Cosmic chaos – Mercury Retrograde & Impacts on Business

Have you felt like your electronic devices—be it your TV, refrigerator or computer—have been malfunctioning or conging off completely? Or maybe you just seem to be getting into more arguments, tussles, misunderstanding or fights with clients, vendors or even friends and family?

Its time to wakeup to reality and look beyond the horizons of your existing knowledge to crack the factors affecting business and work.

As entrepreneurs, we’re always juggling a million different areas of business- running teams, communicating with clients or just keeping up with technology alone. When Mercury goes retrograde, these everyday activities suddenly get very tricky. Contracts go awry, emails get lost and your computer decides to crash at the worst possible moment.

What many entrepreneurs do when they encounter such challenges is to push even harder. This can be very detrimental at times, more so during a Mercury retrograde, since it might lead to burnout. Remember that some external factors are completely beyond your control, furthermore, often there are smarter ways to navigate these turbulent periods.

The Impact on Communication and Relationships

One palpable effect of Mercury retrograde falls on communications. There are misunderstandings that lead to conflicts, frustrations and even more arguments between you and your clients, vendors, or even personal relationships. Such disputes may arise from very simple miscommunications, like a poorly worded email or a missed phone call, but can have lasting consequences if not dealt with carefully.

This will help to curb some of these problems. During a Mercury retrograde, every form of communication should be reviewed twice. So whether it is that very important email or any contract you may need to sign, make sure you clearly get your point across and everyone is on the same page. Also, try to be patient, don’t rush into things, because tension can run high.

Patience is one of the best weapons to fight this period. Be patient and let things pass, it has to be more of response than reactions.

Technology Troubles

Another common problem that arises during Mercury’s retrogression is the unexpected crashing of computers. They crash, and their software behaves weirder than usual, and electronic devices simply cease to function, all for no reason at all. For business owners who use a lot of technology in their daily business activities, these disturbances are especially stressful.

While the urge is usually there to rush and patch up every problem as it arises, generally, calm, careful methods can be very successful in learning how to get past problems. Backing up critical data before Mercury retrograde will help to protect you from the loss of information should something go down, like equipment or system failure. Be prepared also to implement other work-around strategies for the occurrence of failures in technology- for example, having other ways to notify clients or having back-up equipment ready for use should something go down.

Dealing with Delays and Obstacles

Mercury retrograde is notorious for causing delays. From a delayed shipment to having a meeting pushed off or that project that all of a sudden hits a roadblock, these obstacles can throw a wrench into your carefully laid plans. For an entrepreneur who thrives on efficiency and progress, such delays are most frustrating. Delays and cancellations of flights is also observed during these periods.

Yet, in reality, very often, delays at Mercury retrograde are mere, very well-hidden opportunities. They let you step back, rethink strategies, perfect your plans, and be sure you really walk by the right path. Instead of fighting the delays, try to embrace them as moments to reflect and recalibrate.

Turning Challenges into Opportunities

Though mostly touted as a time of frustration and hindrance, Mercury retrograde truly has the potential to be one of growth and transformation. Knowing the unique dynamics at work during this phase will help you profit from it in many ways:

Review and Reflect: Use this slower pace of Mercury retrograde to review your business practices, assess your goals, and reflect on what’s working and what isn’t.

Revisit Old Ideas: Mercury retrograde is good for visiting old ideas, projects, or partnerships that were perhaps shelved. Something which didn’t function in the past might work better now with a fresh perspective.

Strengthen Ties: Communication can get a little dicey at this time; hence, it’s an excellent time to deepen relationships with clients, partners, and employees. Clarify misunderstandings, extend gratitude, and reassure as to your collaboration.

Exercise Patience: Keep in mind the fact that things will not work out as expected during this retrograde phase of Mercury. Being patient and maintaining a positive attitude will be very helpful to survive this period with much less stress and more elasticity.

Internal Growth: Even when external progress may seem slow, Mercury retrograde is an extremely strong period for inner growth. Be it personal development, new skills, or new ideas, this is a time to invest in yourself and your business from within.

Looking Beyond Mercury Retrograde

Mercury retrograde is just one of many outer factors that can influence your business directly. As business entrepreneurs, it’s important to know about these influences and be able to adapt accordingly. You could use the knowledge of Mercury retrograde to understand how it is going to affect communication, technology and relationships in your business. Being prepared for its misadventures or hiccups in communication, technology, and relationships, you will be better set to turn those into opportunities.

Though Mercury in retrograde offers multiple problems, it also teaches three valuable lessons- patience, readjustment and building inner strength. Then you will get up again and be better prepared for the future if you strategize how to meet it.

The current Mercury retrograde ends on 28th August and all can expect some relief from these situations but the damage can be deep enough for some to recover.

An entrepreneur has to keep his thought sphere to 360 degrees as the impacts on an individual and his work is from all over, just knowing the fundamentals or rationales of business are not enough. Most of life’s tough situations happen from the unseen domain.

Embrace Revach and get to know and understand more of such influences – an entrepreneur everyday is out on the warfield and his scope of vision should be all around to fight and win this game.

Wishing you all a safe and aware retrograde period further.