After an unusually long (4-week) retrograde period, Mercury in Taurus is now moving in direct motion as of 6:20a PDT on Sunday, 22nd May 2016. Now that it’s marching forward, let’s take a look at what we’re coming out of…and what we’re moving into.
Retrogrades are feedback and/or ‘do-over’ energy. Mercury is about the exchange of ideas, information, and insights – communication and education. Taurus is about lifestyle resources – making sure your physical, material, and financial needs are being met. So this 2016 Mercury Retrograde in Taurus may have found you getting a lot of opinions from others or you may have been confronted by harsh truths about certain elements of your lifestyle being more familiar than actually comfortable for you, or how certain resources were not coming as easily to you as you hoped or needed them to. Mercury Retrograde in Taurus may have had you considering options to establish security and stability in your life – options you may not have considered that you hadn’t really considered before this last month.
Your words and thoughts create your reality, and now that Mercury in Taurus is in direct motion, your creative power is back in full! You’ve been given a chance at a ‘do-over’ – a second chance to align your lifestyle with your True, authentic self-expression. You are being given an opportunity to apply what you’ve learned from this difficult retrograde month to create a new and/or different lifestyle for yourself.
Ask yourself:
- What did you learn about what you actually need physically, materially, and/or financially to feel stable, safe, secure, and sustained in your self-identity?
- How much physical, material, and financial resource do you really need to have your needs met? How much is enough for you?
- Are you communicating your desire or necessity to have those resource needs met? Are you asking for what you need?
- Are you comfortable with what you currently have or the lifestyle and resource circumstances you are living with? Or are you familiar with the way things are and afraid to change them?
I ask you to ask yourself those questions because now is the time to use your answers to assist you in creating the life you really want to be living. It’s important that you apply what you learned from the retrograde period and use your new-found knowledge to create your lifestyle in alignment with your authentic self. When your communicative and creative energies are aligned with your truth, whatever you build is truly solid and enduring. That is the power of this 2016 Mercury Direct in Taurus.
But just like when you make a U-turn when you’re driving, Mercury Direct is not going to be at full speed ahead right away. It’s going to take a couple of days for Mercury to get up to its usual speedy pace. Yet when it does pick up its pace, it’s going to make some changes pretty quickly. The only difference between the changes now and the ones during retrograde – the changes will likely be of your own choosing. All you’ve got to do is ask for what you want, and take the steps to clear space for what you ask for to come into being.
You’re the one creating your reality. The power is in your hands…or rather, in your mind and your mouth. Choose your thoughts and words wisely as your creative power is carried through them into the world and Universe around you.
Let’s take a look at the upcoming transits for 2016 Mercury Direct in Taurus:
Taurus Mercury trine Capricorn Pluto Retrograde most exact on 30th May (17.07°) – Be careful what you wish. Your thoughts and words create your reality, and in order to make room for your new creation, the old stuff that no longer serves you needs to be cleared out. There will be some losses, but trust that whatever is ending or leaving needs to go. Something better is coming…
Taurus Mercury sextile Pisces Chiron most exact on 8th June (25.10°) – There is great emotional healing possible through you recognizing and acknowledging how your lifestyle needs are being met. Be grateful you have what you need to survive, yet don’t be afraid to ask for what you want or need to thrive!
Thanks for reading and sharing Signs and Numbers. Until next post…
~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
