​Mercury Retrograde steps in retrograde at 25° on September 25th. He is still in the sign of Libra and travel back to 10° before he sta tions direct. Depending on where Libra is in your chart and what aspects you have to Mercury will give you a hint of what the terrain ahead may be like. Knowing full well how interactive energy is and how many facets of expression is possible, the astro weather ahead can work out in so many ways, but there is always a collective theme.

Mercury retrograde will be no different in that respect. Did you happen to notice how electronics and the internet began to slow down a few weeks ago? Just observe anything that has to do with communications in your life and where you might see some skidazzle. And for those of you in the awakening process, pay attention to your emotions and how electronics are acting around you, especially if you have a Moon air sign, or are ruled by Mercury in direct motion, or have a lot of planets in either Gemini or Virgo, and let us never forget any of the aspects with Mercurial energy.

 The mad shapeshifter of air, quick like the wind at the base, or malleable, like clay in his earthenware. Like his counterparts, Jupiter, and Neptune, mutable rulers of Sagittarius and Pisces, and the fixed change, Mercury’s higher octave, Uranus, you have the complete merging of elements and the explicit dualities of fire and water. Mercury is also known as the trickster, amongst other traditions. The symbolism of coyotes, foxes, parrots, serpents (first skink with a blue tail that I have ever seen living here in southwest Florida), ants, bees, and spiders ruled by good ol’ Mercury.

Part of that is his healing ability on the more positive aside. He molds so easily because of his ability to feel what others are about. With his hands, his words, his androgyny, his ease to be on one side as equally as another. In Libra, Venus holds her energy, in balance, in harmony, in justice for the imbalance of harmony, no matter how severe that is. Mercury in Libra can be charming and equally deceitful, lying with a smile, focused on beautifying any form of communication and relationships it touches. After all, most of us of respond to some form of charm that opens the door. This is Mercury’s gift in Libra with others, but Mercury will be forced to looked inward, in our relationships with ourselves and how we respond and project to our relationships.

It’s nearly September and I have been MIA since May. The Saturn-Uranus square that has been kicking my ass since it’s exact conjunction on February 17. It has been double and triple whammies. Talk about heading right on into my Solar Return’s Ascendant and Midheaven angles seated at 29 degrees of all mutable signs. Crisis and reacting like a “swift river” have been rolling along pretty steady, Saturn shining his lessons, as the North Node transiting my 2nd house has pushed me forward, no matter how beat up.
 
When Saturn turned retrograde on May 23rd, 3 days before a Total South Node Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius (my 8th house), 6 days before my chart ruler, Mercury, for the year, turning retrograde as well, my life was once again thrown in another double whammy of upheavals that required some serious reevaluation and retreat time.
 My Soul demanded mindless work even more, demanded movement in body, and demanded that I listen even more closely to my intuition. My Soul also demanded boundaries and stepping into a much different form of power. Spirit guided me all the way, as it always does if I am just willing to listen and not be so stubborn, but that week was a week of total surrender and a spew of epiphanies.

Life has flown by in an even more surreal time warp as I have focused on healing the different pieces of my life while continuing to have Faith, shapeshift my broken moods and ground myself into my body. I have stayed away from the computer and the phone. The idea of being anymore in my head and emotions threatening any sanity that prevailed.
It has not all been chaos, as it never is and the knowledge of “thoughts are things,” kept me chugging along, kept synchronicity flowing, balancing the many “Fuck!” moments with a strange serenity and deep knowing. There has been just as much bliss to experience. Remembering all my lessons from my “first awakening,” kept me going. This awakening deeper than the last, but the philosophy of mastering this damn manifestation game would have to be one of my main missions in this world.
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Back to now, back to my mission, a fusion and blend of all my craziness and collections of information. Guiding others to understand how amazing your mind and body are and its many abilities; astrolove, the importance of touch, of self love, and adjusting through the crazy phases of awakening symptoms. This crazy journey we all walk at one point or another.
I am wiping the dirt off my clothes, the blood off my cuts and bruises, the tears off my cheeks and standing up, proud and not even nearly done. Ready for more in this Warrior Goddess mode, following my callings, whatever and whenever they may be. So on to All is in Divine Perfection!
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