Michelle.. in answer to your question on my thread... you cast a chat for your birth time.. then you can read up on where your planets are and how this shapes your personality (like your Hs Venus in Gemini)... but for planets in the sky now.. thats called Transits..
so Mercury is currently transiting through Gemini and therefore, it will be transiting wherever Gemini is in your chart - and what house that is in your birthchart and then thats the area of life that the retrograde period is affecting. If you look on astro.com, you can pull up a free horoscope chart for transits and then enter todays date in.. your birthchart is in the centre and the planets in the sky today are shown on the outside of the chart. The glyph for mercury is like Venus (the symbol for woman) with a kind of hat on.
Hope that helps! Ali xxx
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