Mercury is at greatest eastern elongation and slowing for retrograde. Retrograde motion begins -with Saturn- at 29 Sagittarius on December 3rd (tropical zodiac).
Time to carefully consider how you state your position so as to lessen the risk of the reflecting the same undesirable traits that you are against.
All positions at noon, Mountain Time, USA
(Lights)
Moon Aries @ 01 deg.
Sun Sagittarius @ 06 deg.
(Rocky Midgets)
Mercury Sagittarius @ 27 deg.
Venus Scorpio @ 26 deg.
Mars Libra @ 23 deg.
(Gas Giants)
Jupiter Scorpio @ 10 deg.
Saturn Sagittarius @ 27 deg.
Uranus Aries @ 25 deg. (Retrograde until January 2, 2018)
Neptune Pisces @ 11 deg.
(King of Kuiper Belt)
Pluto Capricorn @ 17 deg.
See retrograde page on http://www.minuteastrologer.wordpress.com for degrees and dates of retrograde planets.