Mercury Retrograde Ahead!
Friday September 4, 2009
Mercury's retrogrades turn things upside down, with snafus, technical crashes and delays. There's a warpy lens on what we see, and that can lead to bad decisions we later regret. Ways to deal: give yourself extra time to get places; if in doubt, don't make major commitments; stay open to seeing situations anew; watch for serendipity.
Mercury is in the harmonizing, justice-loving sign of Libra. But through mid-month, the messenger planet is rigged in squares to hot aggressive Mars and Pluto. This makes the misunderstandings and frustrations more volatile, especially the things that throw you off balance. And yet, it's the dynamite of fightin' words to force a change. Libra here has a righteous, angry eye, and in Mercury is on edge with these aspects, looking for what's out of whack.
Mercury plays a starring role this month, as it works on our minds so we can adjust to dramatic change. Ideas, projects, paths are cycled back to you, possibly as the result of working partnerships or a love or friend relationship. And under these conditions, there's a "do or die" urgency to it. It may feel as those the gap is too great to bridge, as in "how am I going to get from here to there?" As Mercury goes into Virgo and aligns with Saturn (the 17th), it will be more possible to work out the steps.
Until then, the upheavals of transition this year have us bumping up against each other's perceptions of "reality." The loss of security, and the struggle to stabilize things has brought the skeletons out of the collective closet. The root chakra issues of survival are engaged, making even everyday discussions more intense, personal and dynamic. This Mercury retrograde cycle is a challenge to objectively see unconscious fears, look at the resources we have, and work toward a new equilibrium. Seeing the retrograde as a time of fated events gives it a special charge. We can know some how, some way, this time to review, remember, rethink is working on us toward the highest good.
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