Unifying … Mercury in Retrograde

By reading my account of the challenge and opportunity of being in Mercury in Retrograde, you will gain insights into reframing your own relationship to Mercury in Retrograde. If you apply these words to your life, you may gain the gift of clarity during these potent times.

SUMMARY & CONTEXT:

I describe my internal journey through phases of Mercury in Retrograde…and the clarity we gain from its invitation.

THE POST:

I am unifying…. this Mercury in Retrograde with the deeper processes of Unifying.

This Mercury retrograde starting Thursday is going to be a doozy. I won’t go into all of the esoteric astrology, but just know that it is going to be unusually focused in the energies of Scorpio. And that means: intense, deep, challenging, and potentially revelatory.

I have spent a significant amount of time realizing how to reframe mercury in retrograde from a bad thing to a powerful opportunity. Typically our attitude about Mercury retrograde is “oh this sucks, what a drag, everything is going to slow down, I can’t move my projects forward, my communication and travel will be disrupted,” etc. etc. The usual bitching.

But I have learned over studying this process for many years in my own life, that mercury in retrograde gives me a powerful opportunity to revisit, reassess, re-new, recommit, and revise what is most important in my life and to me in my heart.

This is particularly true of this Mercury retrograde — with so much Scorpio influence. Scorpio, after all, is ruled by Pluto — think death and rebirth.

So I challenge myself during this period! To be extra mindful of my connection to physical reality. Why just this morning I walked out of the house without my computer. What a reminder to get grounded as the retrograde intensifies in the next week and weeks.

But more than that, it really is the time when I can thoughtfully review my commitments and priorities – beyond just getting errands done and taking care of 3-D reality, which seems to consume so much time.

It does take a special focus, clarity, and energy to move my life into unifying within myself, with others, with the earth, and with causes, I believed to be important for humanity’s potential transformation.

EXAMPLE: In the domain of Unifying with others, over the past number of weeks, I have entered into a new business collaboration. We both recognize that we have been in a honeymoon. This Mercury in retrograde is perfectly timed to bring us into a better unification of (a) the honeymoon version with (b) three-dimensional reality and pressures.

Knowing this, embracing this Mercury in retrograde, surfing this undercurrent, we were able to have a deep and productive discussion this morning — about how to more effectively work with some of the pushes and pulls of this collaboration, within the demands in our own lives as well.

And we embraced that discussion, because as above, so below. As the heavens are in mercury in retrograde, we’re sitting in the coffeeshop — revising revisiting and renewing our collaboration. That’s unification.

TIPS FROM THE FRONT LINES:

1. As with almost every other life process, EMBRACE mercury in retrograde. Catch your dumb, old, conditioned attitude towards it as a sucky time. Open up to a new perspective that this is giving you an opportunity to clean, up-level, integrate, and unify your life at another level.

2. Having embraced it more deeply, ask yourself the question right now from our Unifying Way community……

Which of the four major domains do I need to renew, revisit, retest, and re-examine: within myself, with another, with the earth, with my spirituality, and important causes?

Use this community here to post your new thinking on this. (don’t just comment below me. Make this a new post, so all of our community can read it and learn from you).

3. Not only be proactive in these ways above but read the signs that are being brought to you in the next several weeks. Be the attentive Native American deep in the forest, listening to every twig that snaps, every bird that cries out. What in your life wants to crack? What in your life is crying out for revision, retesting, renewal?