Mercury Retrogrades are in the Fire Signs in 2012

The Mercury in Leo retrograde currently underway is inching toward direct movement on August 8th, so for those involved in entertainment and the performing arts, your appearances will be in a better spotlight very soon after the retrograde ends.  If you are signing to contract or doing other business that involves contracts etc., it's best to wait until about mid August for best results otherwise, negotiations may have to be adjusted.

Writers and others who are involved in literary activities and productions will have the green light too in terms of pushing forward their creative work when the retrograde has ended, which will be after August 8th. 

Mercury will have retrograded in each of the fire signs this year with the last retrograde period approaching later in the year when Mercury is in the sign of Sagittarius.  The end of the year may or may not be the best time for long distance travel due to the anticipated activities (solar, planetary eccentricities and other 2012 indicators that may prevail at the close of this year). 

Portrait from the 2012, A Woman is not a Flower, Series of Photographs, Joyce Dade

Venus Transits Aries from the 2012 Superimposition Series of Photographs

When they tell you (and the time may very well arrive when they will tell you), "A woman is not a flower," you have every right to question exactly what it is that they mean by that statement.  Is it that a woman is not as fragrant as a flower or that a woman is stronger than a flower?  Or perhaps they mean to say, a woman is something more than a flower.  Or that a woman simply symbolizes a flower and beyond that, a garden of flowers.