Mercury retrograde is a transit that happens 3-4 times a year when Mercury, the planet of communication slows down and can make it feel like everything is being turned upside down in one or more areas of your life. MR is usually greatly feared as things tend to get murky and confusing with delays, miscommunications and misunderstandings. I want to offer you this surthrival guide to reframe the dread narrative that has become synonymous with this time. When life “seems to be going tits up”, things are never really as they appear in a retrograde. Retrogrades want to turn things inside out so we can see something from another perspective or heal something in a deeper way. There’s always some gold to be found in unexpected and seemingly inconvenient ways, hence why I have called it a surthrival guide- borrowing Devany Amber Wolfe’s term of “surthriving” which I interpret as mastering how to graciously ride the waves of a potentially sticky time.