How’s it going, with MERCURY now retro in ARIES – in the intense and ‘packed’ ASTRO month of APRIL?
Tomorrow, Apr 11, MERCURY half-way through its retro period meets the SUN (like a New Moon).
The ‘New Mercury’ is born, a.k.a. ‘Point of Enlightening Insight’.
It starts the Promethean phase – the second half of M-r.
New insights and connection with Spirit & Consciousness can lead to new inspired direction – a very auspicious time.
At this occasion, check out my
Seasoned MERCURY Retro Tips & Tool Kit
1) Be mindful, and lead from what’s here-now
There’s a tendency for the mind to be distracted and all over the place, to loose and misplace things & thoughts that later have to be RE-trieved again, in your ‘inner house’.
Avoid getting scattered and disorganized, collect the mind ‘pieces’, be present with any situation & function ‘at hand’, and be present (ARIES). The apparent priority of urgent ‘little’ things & ‘small stuff’ can easily be a distraction and waste of energy.
Practice coming back to the Here-NOW.
2) Retro is an inwards / backwards oriented energy
M-r is a good time to RE-treat, and RE-connect with meditation and mindfulness.
Also an excellent chance (if not necessity) to deal with ‘old unfinished business’, ‘loose ends’, and to clear communication themes from the past, often carried over from a previous M-r times (Aug / Sept and Dec 2023).
3) Every M-r phase is a great time for basically everything that starts with ‘RE-‘, esp. RE-sidual communication
Like: RE-assess, RE-align, REad, Re-search, RE-treat, RE-pair, RE-boot, RE-group, RE-consider, RE-arrange, RE-place, you name it…
One RE-ason for me pointing out all these RE-activities:
During M-r (which also has a karmic undertone), we less likely get away anymore with being sloppy, and with procrastinating or neglecting RE-sidual communication issues with people from the past. They come up like a mirror. Talk about what RE-ally matters, esp. with friends and loved ones.
What do you think about – and want to (re?)discuss, esp. re:
“How it started”, beginnings, starting something new, fresh approaches and also: wars, where they start, and what can heal the terrible wounds they bring (all apropos ARIES – and CHIRON there)?
4) Choose the clearest & most direct mode of communication available
Phone rather than messaging / emailing. Meet and connect in person or at least via video call rather than via phone / text, to make sure an actual dialogue happens and you can face (ARIES) the other person (rather than just your factual monologue in your own head, with the assumption you know what they think, or they know what you think).
Consider communicating in several ways & via different media, to make sure the message comes across.
Re-member people’s minds can be all over the place now.
To the effect that ‘communication’ might be…
~ Scattered / incomplete / jumping from topic to topic without hearing each other out (can be very ARIES).
~ Prone to assumptions: “I thought you got my email!!!”
~ Actually an ‘externalized inner monologue’ – so you might wonder / need to ask them: “Are you just thinking out loud as you talk, or are you actually suggesting something to me?”
5) Be mindful & compassionate in your communication with others
Compassionately put yourself in their position, and address issues directly, rather than getting mad at ‘them’ (possibly based on a lack / deficiency / incompleteness of communication) – so ARIES.
6) Be clear and precise with commitments & agreements
Double-check whether you’ve been understood correctly, and RE-peat / RE-phrase back to them too.
Avoid signing anything hastily / out of perceived urgency (ARIES), before you have all the necessary details / information (often only after MERCURY retro is over, or at least half-way, meeting the SUN = Apr 11). Practice patience.
7) MERCURY Retro RE-minds us…
…that direct connection with one another in an authentic & lively dialogue offers the opportunity to open up, speak freely, and touch on other subjects than the originally intended purpose / agenda of the communication.
Which can eventually lead to even more important outcome or actions (ARIES) than anticipated.
Check out in hindsight why you actually needed to talk to that person…
8) Under M-r, the odds for fabulous unexpected synchronicities are 99%
Been noticing them?
When we act intuitively and out of the ordinary, we let the spontaneous intervention of the Universe show us our interconnectedness! So magical!
9) M-r is a good time to RE-connect with people you have lost sight of – and see them in a new light
With the ARIES flavour, get in touch with people whom you met ‘early on’ or just briefly, but lost sight of.
Trust your intuition, take initiative if you feel called to meet up with them again, and let yourself be surprised by what shows up when you speak to them. No assumptions…
Or you might meet new people whom you spontaneously connect with (ARIES), and feel you already know each other ‘forever’ / ‘from somewhere’.
10) The areas of life (partners, children, career, groups, etc.) that THIS retro phase brings up for YOU…
…have to do with Planet/s and House/s that M-r activates in YOUR personal birth chart, i.o.w. where ARIES is situated (see above).
Let’s explore that in a session if you’re quite M-r affected this time.
11) When ‘glitches’ occur, be fluid and flexible like quicksilver (MERCURY’s metal), think “shift happens”.
No need to get mad at it / them / yourself (ARIES).
RE-frame your way of thinking about things.
What could be the opportunity in this mishap?
What’s ‘even’ actually funny about this?
Is it possible that subconsciously you might have ‘arranged’ that wild alternative to the original ‘plan A’?
Which might lead to something new and better and more fun than what the ‘normal’, ‘usual’, ‘regular’ mind-in-rut-mode could have come up with…
12) Enjoy those unintentional puns, slips, and new mental connections.
Be creative. Brainstorm – esp. together with your MERCURY Retro Friends.
13) Enlightened Insights, anyone…?
The Day of Enlightened Insight – when M-r meets the SUN on the exact half-way point of the M-r phase.
In this M-r phase on APR 11.
Check out what epiphanies & paradigm shifts occur round this day!
14) If you would like to know…
…whether you are a member of the RETRO CLUB (born under MERCURY Retro, as yours truly)
…in which area of Life the MERCURY Retro Trickster in ARIES plays tricks on / with you
…how to consciously, creatively, and mindfully play WITH the energy…
…feel welcome to get in touch with your Astrologer.
Hope to RE-connect with you again soon, online, or even better:
In real life!
Melanie
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