Mercury Retrograde: Last News

Mercury has officially entered Retrograde, a notoriously difficult astrological phase that can be particularly challenging for those seeking love - and three zodiac signs may be in for a rough ride.

Virgo season is upon us, and as we transition from body glitter and ring lights of Leo season to the weed, sourdough, and judgment of Virgo, one among the ranks of this star sign has been showing off her shadow.Blake Lively has been called out by social media users for focusing on punchy floral fashion, her haircare line, and her husband’s movie while promoting “It Ends With Us,” a film anchored in the devastating effects of domestic violence.Meanwhile, old interview footage has surfaced of Lively using slurs and being casually cruel to interviewers and costars alike.WTF is going on with this Virgo? Read on to learn more.Born August 25, 1987, Lively is a QUINTUPLE Virgo with the sun, moon, Mercury, Mars and Venus, all landing in the sign of side-eye and divine discernment.This unholy amount of Virgo energy primarily falls in Lively’s first house of identity, which indicates how we project ourselves and how we are perceived by others. Virgo represents service and streamlining, but in the first house, that can quickly translate to a self-serving agenda.Checks out.There’s an elitism to Virgo; they expect the best of themselves and extend that same punishing standard to others, often making those who attempt to know, collaborate with, or question them feel insignificant at worst or inadequate at best.

With Mercury Retrograde starting on Monday, Stuart Cassels says that you should avoid taking things too seriously. As the period typically affects communication skills, the MEN's resident fortune teller advises that this isn't the week to plan big romantic gestures, or to have deep discussions about relationships.

HRH Taylor Swift, the Sagittarius queen of confessional songwriting, sick burns, and exhuming the sins of her exes, is back at it with the release of ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ her 11th studio album. A meditation on her frayed relationship with British sad boy Joe Alwyn, with lyrical forays into her ill-fated affair with Matt Healy, a beef with Kim Kardashian and a few nods to new dude Travis Kelce, the album dropped on an auspicious day, leaving a whimsical, side-eye giving trail of astrological easter eggs. Can you find them all? Read on and see how you did.The hotly anticipated release comes amid the thick heat haze of Mercury retrograde in Aries, a time when the re- prefix is emphasized and we reimagine the past, revise our self-concepts, and revisit the muck and the mire of failed relationships, to discover the kernels of wisdom buried in the burning buildings of romantic ruin.In essence and ashes, this album is the smoking, stillborn delivery of a doomed love story.

It’s been one of the biggest trials of this year. And with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s trial set to end on 27 May, there is much speculation about what could be the final verdict. However, keen astrologers will note that the trial is taking place during Mercury in Retrograde which can be auspicious for a number of reasons.