The words “Mercury Retrograde” often put fear and panic into the minds of anyone who knows a bit more about astrology than their Sun sign. And as a Mercury Retrograde realist who doesn’t always jump on the panic bandwagon, with this particular Mercury Retrograde cycle, I’m willing to drive the wagon for this one.
Mercury went into retrograde in Pisces at 1:42p PST today, and this Mercury Retrograde cycle may be the loopiest one we’ve had in a long time.
Let’s start with the fact that Mercury is already at a disadvantage in the sign of Pisces. With Pisces being dreamy, ethereal, and sometimes delusional, it’s not the most stable sign for our collective thoughts and ideas to be traveling through. Idealistic and imaginative, we can get lost in daydreams and fantasies rather than focusing on practical reality.
The danger with this particular Mercury Retrograde in Pisces is that there are 4 other planetary bodies in Pisces along with it – the Sun, Mars, Chiron, and the sign’s ruler, Neptune, are all traveling through “the ethereal woo”, and Mercury Retrograde will conjunct every single one of them as it moves from 18° back to 5° Pisces. It’s not the easiest time to get something tangible or practical done, which is why this cycle may prove to be a doosy.
Most of us may have already been experiencing some very bizarre occurrences in this Piscean fog, especially involving electronic devices and communications. Incorrect information is shared. There may have been the overlooking of one or more crucial details in a project or report. Some of us have noticed a few more absent-minded drivers on the road as we drive around (and in some cases, those drivers may be us!). We may find it difficult to concentrate or to focus on the matters at hand, being easily distracted by our emotions or feelings or by our questions about our spirituality and/or Universal Truths. As Mercury goes retrograde, these events are likely to increase and intensify as the focus of these rather elusive energies shift to an inward focus.
With Mercury in retrograde motion, we begin looking at our own ways of communicating and expressing our inner truths, then asking ourselves what we really want our lives to be about. We may find ourselves open or even eager to explore our subconscious minds to find answers. Some of us may even begin delving (if we haven’t already) into our intuition and psychic abilities as our investigation methods of choice.
What we really want our lives to be about is extremely important right now because one thing I‘ve noticed over the week or two is an emerging abundance of people saying, ”I don’t have a vision yet” or “I don’t know what I want to do” or “I don’t know how to do that” and the like. The common thread I recognized is a focus on dreams, visions, and a desire to find their life purpose and honor their call to loving service. It helped me realize what is being asked of us as we move through this time and into this Mercury Retrograde in Pisces.
Mercury in Pisces, at its best, can bring amazing inspiration for creative and artistic visions and ideas. Pisces gives our mental-intellectual Mercury energy license to roam freely around Neverland, Wonderland, Oz, and places like that. Those crazy ideas we brainstorm may be just the ideas we are looking for to inspire us into a new vision for our lives now and forward.
The fact that Mercury is retrograde means it also brings us a “do-over” energy – giving us a chance to revisit moments in our lives, possibly saying or doing something that we missed an opportunity to say or do, or giving us a chance to say or do something again differently. Maybe we get to say what we wanted to say the first time but didn’t have the courage to speak up about or the creativity to think of at the time. When I consider “do-over” and factor in the statements people are making about “not knowing”, I realize that this Mercury Retrograde in Pisces has a two-fold purpose:
1) It is an opportunity for us to allow our intuitions and psychic abilities to come forth and guide us into our Divine life purposes. And yes – to all of you skeptics, I typed “psychic”.
2) It is an opportunity for us to revisit our old ideas, visions, and dreams. Yes, those dreams that you tossed aside, believing that their time had passed and that you’d never get that chance again or never really get that off the ground, etc. Guess what? Now just may be their time to shine.
If you’ve pushed aside or long denied your intuitive or psychic gifts and find that you are getting a lot of repetitious messages (such as hearing the same songs over and over again in different places, or seeing the same signs or numbers or such again and again), you may want to consider that the Universe is trying to tell you something: STOP AVOIDING OR DENYING and PAY ATTENTION!
Also, if someone or something is on your mind and won’t seem to go away (especially if it’s from your past), it’s something you need to address. Ask yourself why you’re thinking about that person or experience now– ask why it is coming up for you. Chances are, there’s something that memory that can offer you, possibly some clarity and direction in regard to “what to do” now. Chances are that your past dreams, ideals, and visions may hold a key to your present and your future.
Some of you may be quick to say that there’s no good in looking back at the past – it’s old, it’s done and gone, time to move on. But if you’ve been finding yourself really thinking about something that happened before, ask yourself what there is to see there. What you can learn from that experience that you weren’t open to learning then…or maybe that you didn’t even think to see then? You may not have been willing or ready to see it then and only now, after the experiences you have had since that time, are you able to recognize the treasure that experience has for you.
So embrace the weird, wild and wacky abundance of Pisces energy available to us now, and especially embrace this Mercury Retrograde in Pisces. Your past may be the one stable thing you’ve got for a few weeks – enjoy the blessings it has to give you, your present, and your future during this time. You may find that the “oldies” prove to be goodies in the midst of it all.
Mercury in Pisces goes back into direct motion on March 17th, 2013.
Thanks for reading and sharing, Until next post…
~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
