Mercury entered the sign of Taurus at 9:30a PDT on Friday, 31st March 2017. By moving into Taurus, Mercury’s thoughts and communications are now focused on lifestyle, specifically the following aspects of your personal lifestyle:
- your physical comfort and pleasure
- your material comfort and security
- your financial stability and security
Under Mercury in Taurus, you may find yourself seeking out more ideas, information, and dialogue about (your) lifestyle resources. It’s a good time to examine how you’re managing your resources and to get things in order, especially with this placement initiating for most of the world on the last day of a 4 universal month (a month for establishing security and stability), or for a few of you in the far east, on the first day of a 5 universal day (a month for changing the status quo).
With Ceres and Mars both in Taurus as well, it’s more than likely you’ll take action to align your lifestyle with your values or take action to align your values with your lifestyle, whether you’re acting to stabilize or acting to make changes.
However, this 2017 Mercury in Taurus has an interesting quirk. It’s only in the sign for 9 days before beginning a retrograde period on 9th April. Mercury then moves back into Aries on 20th April. It returns to direct motion on 3rd May before moving back into Taurus for its earnest run through the sign on 15th/16th May. While Mercury in Taurus is direct, you’ll be able to use your thoughts and words to set intentions to create a solid lifestyle resource structure. Yet once Mercury goes retrograde, you’ll begin getting feedback from the Universe (likely through synchronicities and repetitions) about what is really needed in order to align your intentions with your lifestyle reality.
There’s actually not a whole lot of transit activity for Mercury over the next three weeks. In fact, two of the transits are trines with the Virgo North Node – the first with Mercury Direct in Taurus most exact on 3rd April, the second most exact on 18th April with Mercury Retrograde in Taurus. In both cases, there is a strong intention to find practical, workable solutions to any misalignments of your lifestyle, resources, and personal values so you can move forward in serving and fulfilling your life purpose. With Mercury direct, this is more of a pro-active, initiative approach to aligning your desires, values, and resources. With Mercury retrograde, it’s more about the Universe letting you know what is realistic in regard to aligning your desires, values, and resources. You may realize that you’re going to need to do more than you may want to in order to get all of your ducks in a row or to make the changes you want to make.
The only other transit occurring in the next three weeks is a semi-sextile with Aries Venus Retrograde, most exact on 1st April, through which your partnerships and one-on-one relationships of all kinds may be helping you figure out what you really want for your life.
These transits reveal the two primary objectives to round one of this 2017 Mercury in Taurus:
- The first objective is to align your personal values to your life purpose. If you are finding that you’re challenged in acquiring or managing the resources you need in order to “achieve your goals”, you may not be in alignment with your actual, practical life purpose. The transits with the Virgo North Node will assist you in having the reality checks you need in order to find clear alignment between your purpose and your values.
- The second objective is to align your lifestyle you’re living to your newly-aligned purpose and values. If you find that you’re not able to achieve the lifestyle you (think you) want, or if you find yourself struggling to achieve or sustain yourself in a particular lifestyle, you may need to reassess your lifestyle ideals through the reality of your resources and purpose. What do you really need in order to be who you’re here to be and do what you’re here to do? This – especially the Mercury Retrograde-Virgo North Node trine – is the reality check you may need in order to propel you into a lifestyle which truly aligns you with genuine physical, material, and financial comfort and ease.
So, make the most of these first 20 days of Mercury in Taurus. Use them to start plotting your course – to align your lifestyle with your personal values which are aligned with your life purpose.
That way, when Mercury comes back into Taurus in May, you can earnestly put your solid plans into action.
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~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
