2 main threads here. Mercury goes retrograde today 07/07 and will be retrograding until 08/01. On top of this, on 07/16 we will have a lunar eclipse.
I would like to write few words about Mercury retrograding, cause I have a feeling that, while it’s happening, it has become an explanation for all misfortune in the world and in personal life.
According to common astrological knowledge, Mercury rules mind, communication, communication technology, and transportation. These areas are gonna be affected. Not the best time to go outside so much in terms of physical traveling but also extending, externalizing your mental forces. So what are the benefits of the retrograde period? The way I understand and feel the retrograding (backward-like) movement, is that it tells us to slow down and go inside. The mind will be in a meditative state. Self-focused. Not so much zooming in faraway objects. If you are into photography, think more in terms of the macro-scale lens. It’s time to re-think, re-negotiate, retreat, reflect, and possibly reschedule. And yes, definitely do backups of valuable stuff on your computer. (They say they are 2 kinds of people: those who are making backups and those who will be making backups. I used to be in the second group)
Mercury has left Pisces and is now in the sign of Leo conjuncts Mars. The fire in our hearts and in our minds. Our mind and way of thinking might feel self-centered: what I can create? What I can do? I-myself- am blazing my way through this, because I’m the boss. A short way from idea to action.
But today Mercury goes retrograde and stars seem to be saying: there is still something there in Cancer to go back to and meditate on. Something needs more nurturing (Cancer). Just be in contact with our emotions for a little bit more. Let the Moon rule for a couple more weeks before we will jump into action and start the battle in our cause (Mars in Leo).
So Mercury is beginning his way back to Cancer.
On 07/31 Mercury (in 23rd degree of Cancer) will stop opposing Pluto in Capricorn. He will confront this powerful transformative energy in Capricorn which says: change your old ways of doing things and thinking. Drop all the rigidness and stubbornness. Die and rise from the ashes. This is real. Cause Mercury will be in Cancer we might be vulnerable, we might get scared of this Pluto energy. Our mind might get overwhelmed by the intensity and obsessiveness of thoughts on one hand. On the other- we can have brilliant ideas on how to transform all those old patterns. Our emotional patterns as well. After 08/01 Mercury will go direct, enter Leo again, and hopefully, with all the Reflections, we will lead the way (Leo) in our personal and communal evolution.
Happy Mercury Retrograde.
