11° Scorpio Mercury Retrograde in 5 days (future date 10/14)

"A drowned man being rescued" -Elsie Wheeler

The harder you fight, the harder it'll be for you to find help. Separate opportunity from circumstance and be aware of which one you're running from.

Scorpio Mercuries have distant relationships with their families, or obsessively close ones. This inability to create healthy boundaries is rooted in their habit of basing their view of the relationship off of how they feel in the moment, rather than considering it as a whole.

Don't make an irreversible decision because of the conversation you never allowed them to have with you. Learn to stop making instinctually defensive decisions because you feel like something that doesn't benefit you automatically harms you. Give people the leeway you expect.

With Scorpio's ties to Pluto, this retrograde comes along with the cold and lingering ultimatum of accepting the consequences of your actions. Cut ties if you feel it's appropriate, and never put yourself in harms way, but don't habitually react out of anticipation for it.

This Mercury retrograde is an uncomfortable silence that can drive the calmest of us mad, but you need to realize that silence doesn't need to be uncomfortable. Reevaluate your boundaries that separate independence from selfishness, and don't be afraid to admit you're wrong.