What’s in Store for Your Rising Sign this Mercury Retrograde? Astrology Forecast for the Week of August 28-September 3, 2022*

Hey star-gazers! Did everyone make it through last week’s transits relatively unscathed?

I made the mistake of trying to record the YouTube version of this forecast under the last lingering degrees of that Mercury-Neptune opposition and, let me tell you, what should have taken half an hour took two, as I tripped over my words and struggled with my sentences. Talk about discombobulation!

Though this week is light on transits, we should bask in the relative celestial calm before the Mercury retrograde storm next week.

In this post, I’m going to help you prepare for the apparent backward movement of the little grey planet by hitting all the rising signs with some possible themes to watch this retrograde season.

But first, the energies of the week…

We’re entering the week under the lingering effects of the Sun-Mars square. This is definitely a conflict aspect, with each of the planets in one of Mercury’s domiciles.

Mars wants to act on the facts it has, while the Sun wants to consider and analyze the implications six ways to Sunday, and with Mercury having entered Libra, this could be an instance where we’re less…