Exactly five days until the next Mercury retrograde starts, but in my time I've watched them come and go and in my experience the ten days before it starts are just as bad if not worse than the actual retrograde period itself.  So- seeing as I have'nt done it for a while, here the definitive 2009 version of M Rx.  Emails get lost, phone calls get missed, letters are delayed, people hear but don't listen, there are misunderstandings and miscommunication, it's when the universe throws a lot of different twists and turns in your path and challenges you to be flexible.  On a Mercury retrograde ( M Rx) do the 're' stuff - re-assess, review, repair, reform, rejuvenate and reconsider.  But don't make radical new choices of action, or sign long term agrements.  M Rx changes not the message but the delivery system, so that it's like everyone using a different software package where some bits just don't gell, no matter what is done.  For this particular period, which ends on the 31st May, look at your chart and see which house covers the end of Taurus and the start of Gemini.  This is the area you're most likely to experience some of the delays mentioned above, but also the area where you can think and see things differently.