My Beloved (NOT) Mercury Retrograde is Back
Thoughts on messages from the Universe and Survival
Look, if you’ve known me a while, and read some of my stuff, you know that I am not friends with Mercury Retrograde. If you want to know why I DO believe in Astrology, then here it is: Mercury Retrograde. Back when I believed it was sinful to believe in Astrology, I could not escape the fact that all the stuff that went wrong ALWAYS happened during Mercury Retrograde. Now, I have a much more balanced view on Astrology, which is basically, NO, it can’t predict the future, BUT it CAN suggest patterns of energy that you can work with (or against, if you’re stubborn like me), and learn from it. And, if you DO believe God created the Universe, then OF COURSE God is smart enough to create it with these energies that we can use. That’s the Cliff Notes version, but if you want to have a more in depth chat, you know where to find me.
ANYWAY, the cosmic energies right now are NUTS, and I have known that, so I have acted accordingly. Even though I’m BORED TO DEATH resting, I keep taking the advice to rest.
However, I do have to live my life, I do have to do my job, and I have yet to meet the benevolent billionaire who will say, “of course, Danica, all the signs say you should rest, so here’s the key to my villa in Bali, with servants, and don’t worry, all your bills will be paid until the time passes.” I’m sure I wouldn’t be bored to death if that offer accompanied the messages to rest. So, here you go, Universe, and friendly internet connections who might know such a person, please bring them into my life. What? It could happen. I have no idea who reads this who might know someone. You don’t know unless you put it out there.
So even though I AM resting, and I AM trying to be good and patient and all that stuff, the Universe has spoken…
Yesterday, I was putting away something, and I accidentally knocked a ceramic plate off the shelf, and it fell and broke on my foot. I spent the afternoon playing the “do I need stitches or not” game. I decided on not, and when my mother, a former nurse, called me back today, she said I made the right decision. However, guess who can barely walk now?
So here’s the thing: YES, I believe this happened because I was not listening to all the signs. Well, I totally was, because I HAVE been resting, however, I have also been ignoring my intuition on some things.
Like: When I put that plate on the shelf, I thought, “this really isn’t safe. I need to get this organized better, so everything has a better place.” DID I DO IT? NO!
Mercury Retrograde didn’t cause me to hurt my foot, but because the energy is about slowing down, re-examining things, and listening to your intuition, it means that when I am not doing that, something will happen to say, “YO!”. It’s about taking the time to re-align with what’s important to you and pause to get your house, literally, and figuratively, in order. In my case, this was a very literal, “you’ve been saying you want to organize this shelf for months and haven’t done it, so I’m going to make you do it,” thing. To be clear, I have not yet started organizing it. I cleaned up the glass and have been hobbling around ever since. HOWEVER, once I am mobile enough to clean that shelf, I WILL.
I started following things like moon phases and important astrological events because it’s an easy way to look at natural rhythms and follow them. We were not built to live this frenetic life that most of us live, rushing from one thing to the next, putting off things that really matter, and not taking time to simply rest. Okay, I would argue that cleaning that shelf doesn’t really matter, except it does. My inner knowing told me to clean it, and I didn’t do it. How am I supposed to get intuitive hits on other important things when I can’t do the basic stuff, like listen when I’m told to clean a shelf?
Some of you probably are thinking, I don’t believe in Mercury Retrograde. And that’s cool, if that works for you. However, if you have weird things going wrong, I would reccomend taking a pause to see where in your life you need to slow down and bring things back into alignment. And if you DO believe in Mercury Retrograde, it really isn’t a time to freak out. Instead, pause. Ask yourself what is or isn’t in alignment in your life. Are you too busy with things you shouldn’t be doing? Mercury is the planet of communication. Are you listening to your inner voice? Are you even quiet enough to do so? And if you aren’t listening and communicating well with yourself, then how can you be expected do so with others?
Whether you believe in Mercury Retrograde or not, I hope you spend the next couple of weeks finding ways to slow down, take time to listen to your inner voice. And, if you get that intuitive nudge, obey. Don’t just say, “I’ll do it later,” because that’s when you’re going to see weird things go wrong, even if it’s not directly related, or you can’t see the correlation.
Me, I’ll be sitting on the couch, resting my foot, and really listening… and, even if I don’t like it, obeying.
Hi Danica. As someone who was born just as Mercury stationed direct in Pisces, meaning it was coming out of a Retrograde cycle, I have retained the imprint of this energy all my life. As such, Mercury Rx IS one of my favorite cosmic cycles. I think you're really "getting it," as in coming to a realization that misleads most people about Mercury Rx. But your emphasis on RESTING tells me that you may not have completely accepted its gift as yet. My life experience doesn't lead me to believe that the Rx is about resting, unless you append to it "resting from the relentless focusing on the outer world." But your article clearly shows that you understand why and what the gift actually is. I have found that the Rx means stop making decisions and stop looking at the outer world and outer events as a first go-to determining where you are and why. It often means looking "back" and looking "inward" to gain a better understanding of what brought you here, to this point, in everything. There is no need or drive to make any decisions about what you see. But there is a deep inner pull to See it and to understand. And to be enriched by that understanding. In the rush of the 21st Century it's difficult to let go of the drive to move forward. And yet time does continue to move forward even during a Rx cycle. But it will do so just fine without our decisions and plans. I think if you sit with yourself and your recent past, without judgment, in full permission to do nothing about what you See inwardly, you might write this same article, but changing the title, taking out the NOT. Or maybe not, but I hope you hear what I mean. Don't fight it. Celebrate it. Accept it. Plunge lovingly and forgivingly into Life from the Inside. The time for making decisions will come again very soon. But the Rx is more than just about resting. It's about accepting divine gifts from within and getting ready for forward motion again when Mercury comes to Station and says, "Okay! Let's Go!" Again.