With the spring equinox just days away, it's easy to feel like a whole new season - especially one as colorful and lighthearted as springtime - should present the chance to hit the ground running toward your most ambitious goals.

The first Mercury retrograde of the year is going down — or slowing down, in the insolent, fire-breathing sign of Aries and the idealistic, hallucinogenic tidal pools of Pisces.

The planet of the mind and the mouth, thought and expression, Mercury begins its retrograde on Saturday, March 15.