The planet Mercury rules communication in all forms—listening, writing, reading, speaking, and so on—as well as activities closely related to communication, like negotiations and contracts. It also rules travel, automobiles, shipping, and mail.

So, when Mercury is retrograde, try to remain flexible, patient, and understanding, allow extra time for travel, and avoid signing onto any new contracts that you’re unsure of.

The process has already begun, and was likely under consideration days or weeks before Joe Biden passed the torch.

The fact that an announcement would happen during mercury retrograde would suggest ensuring multiple fail-safes and modes of communication for the rollout, which would happen anyway to appeal to different voter demographics.

I guess that means the wild WP stories of anonymous donors vetting VP candidates were true. smh

Retrograde is supposed to be a time to repair reflect reassess rework... to tinker with things before you relaunch... Isn't that exactly what's happening right now?

The vetting process seems a very Mercury thing as well and since it's going backwards to check somebody's background it makes sense that it would happen during a retrograde does that make sense?

She really started this process two weeks ago tomorrow (July 21 to tomorrow, Aug. 4), when Biden first recommended her for his spot. Mercury was already in its shadow when Biden dropped out, but she had a week and a half to decide who to actually run through the serious vetting process, looking in the back of everyone's closet and underwear drawers of their past! And you know she was thinking back to her interactions with each of these people, as well as her experiences in the past, helping her decide who to pick for moving forward.

I really hope she picks Tim Walz. I just think he's a perfect match for her in this job.

Hell yes!

And I think being extra careful wouldn't hurt.....I'd say no late than August 2 which is one week from tomorrow....