Mercury Retrograde: A Communication Upgrade

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There´s Something Strange Happening...

During a Mercury Retrograde, it’s common to feel as if something strange is happening. You may feel a shift coming on but it’s hard to know how the shift will turn out: good or bad? You feel uncomfortable and want to know what the universe is saying to you.

Here’s what you need to know about Mercury Retrograde.

The Messenger Planet

Mercury Retrograde invites us to go more deeply into our patterns of communication and sharing information. Mercury is the messenger planet, influencing the ways we think, use words, and share those thoughts with words.

Because Mercury is such a deeply-woven part of our everyday experience (when are you not thinking or talking?), when it goes Retrograde your life can feel like it’s turned inside out or ground to a halt.

Don’t Blame Electronic Snafus on Mercury

The mythos around Mercury Retrogrades suggests electronic communication snafus and other disruptive activities involving communication devices (phones, etc) occur during times of Mercury Retrograde.

And while certainly there are many anecdotal incidents connecting these events to Mercury, they may be influenced by the larger Retrograde energies but are more likely brought about from the expectations of the individuals involved — if you expect your phone to go on the blink during a common (three-times-a-year) astrological occurrence, then it’s more likely affected by the power of your expectation rather than Mercury itself.

In other words, if you expect something to go wrong, you’re sending energy to that outcome. So stop doing that and then see how you feel about Mercury, who is here to HELP us make our communication better.

Invitation To Go Deep

Remember, Retrograde energies are an invitation to go more deeply into the aspects ruled by that planet. Since Mercury is all about thought, words, and hence communication, this is the perfect time to evaluate your communication skills.

Are your words landing the way you want them to? Do people “get” you, or do you find yourself explaining things way more than you think you should need to?

It’s All About Communication

Communication is a two-way street — it’s 100% of the responsibility of the speaker to ensure they are understood by the listener, AND it is 100% of the responsibility of the listener to make sure they understand what is being communicated to them.

Opportunity To Improve Communication

Mercury retrograde invites a closer inspection on both sides, the speaker and the listener. During these three weeks we get the opportunity to hone our speaking and listening skills, because we get more feedback than usual.

So, during a Merc Retro your words probably won’t land well sometimes. Consequently, you may anger or alienate someone you wanted to express, say, appreciation to. Your friend Merc Retro threw a wrench into the works. A loving wrench that gives you the opportunity to fine tune your message and learn from the experience.

Does this kind of thing happen often? Then you have the opportunity now to use the energies of your friend Mercury to learn what you did and how to do it better next time so your words land the way you intend.

Conversely, you may completely misunderstand what a friend says to you, blowing the whole thing out of proportion. It wasn’t the words so much as how you received them, but here is our friend Mercury again with his wrench.

So delve deeply and ferret out what you said to yourself in your head when you heard your friend’s words that changed the meaning of the actual words said. Chances are, this is a pattern for you. Mercury invites us to see our patterns of communication and learn from them.

Merc Retro Affects Us Globally

On a wider scale, Mercury Retrograde affects us globally. If you’ve got some little communication snafus happening in your sphere, imagine what can occur on a world stage. The players on that stage are playing for high stakes — the future of the entire planet — and are unconscious to the astrological factors and influences that cause either ease or discord in their communication.

If you’re sensing foreboding or unease about world affairs, it’s because you are aptly tuned in to Retrograde energies and the power they have to help us go within and learn from our foibles.

World players for the most part do not honor their foibles and instead resist them, which builds up increased energy ready to support further errors and huge misunderstandings. Obviously, huge misunderstandings in high-level negotiations can result in multiple devastating effects including sanctions, economic punishments, and warfare.

Global Unease

If you’re feeling global unease right now, it is because we walk a precarious path at this time, and this period of Mercury Retrograde may be the catalyst to send the world into greater formal armed conflict (“war”, though it won’t be formally called that so as to obfuscate its intention).

Ease Your Unease Two Ways

Connect to Nature. A way to ease your unease is to connect with nature. Just being outdoors among plants, breathing and appreciating their beauty and the contribution to life can help. It gets you closer to a feeling of interconnection.

Breath meditation. Another way is a breathing meditation where you imagine you are drawing your breath from a huge beautiful and powerful crystal at the center of the earth. You bring this energy/breath up through the soles of your feet and then into your heart. You’ll need to do at least 7 breaths like this, while imagining the radiant loving crystal and that you are breathing breath up from it into your heart. Powerful and relaxing.

Love and wishing you ease,
Talyaa

I’ve spent the past ten days in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, far from my present home in the northeast but closer, much closer, to my true spiritual home, and during this time one of my specific goals was to immerse myself into a deeper connection with Nature. Though my home is in a semi-rural area, affording me an opportunity to frequently bike through rolling hills amid cornfields and farmhouses, I really don’t feel all that connected with the nature element of it usually. Perhaps it’s because I don’t connect energetically with the space, or resist a deeper connection; perhaps it’s the human element in a long-inhabited space that has overwritten the elements of nature, but in any case I felt a huge difference in my little cabin in the forest, a short walk from the beach, easily moving into a space of love and appreciation for Nature and my place within it. I spent several hours roaming the trails through the forest, meandering along the beach, and standing in the rain under the trees at night.

And then I upped the ante considerably and spent some time in a different forest last night.

I entered the forest under a nearly-full moon, bright on a cloudless night, and instantly I felt a different sort of welcoming, an embrace, an invitation. Through connecting with the trees who are themselves all connected and always aware of that connection to one another, to the earth, and to All That Is, I could reach back into time and feel roots tapping into the dawning of human consciousness on the planet with such primordial innocence that it took my breath away.

At the same time I was aware of every possibility that continues to stretch before us in time: possibilities for each one of us and all the myriad possibilities available at any given moment, every choice, every road taken and not taken, and I felt vast, knowing that I was a part of everything that ever has been and everything still yet to come. I was as tall as the trees and as bright as the moon, and I turned my face toward her, accepting the spotlight, fully acknowledging my completeness and perfection.

To say this was a joyous and magical experience doesn’t quite do it justice.

But it served as a wonderful reminder, one that I will take back to my home with me and one that I offer you now, that our connection with Nature is an essential of simply being human. It’s part of us, and to deny it is to deny part of Self.

Afterwards, I channeled this:

There is of course value in connecting with animals, trees, and other elements of what you consider to be “nature”. These elements, are of course, part of your home, part of your world, and are as such connected to you, to humans, in a very intimate way. You share space. You share air. You share resources. Not only that, but you share in the creation of your world, the global creation of the reality you know as life on the physical plane. And because of that, there is an undying connection between you as a human and ALL of the so-called “natural” elements of Nature.

Some of you feel this connection more deeply, more emotionally, than others. Some feel a return, when confronted with Nature, especially in her most raw state, to that innocent and childlike state of simply Being, existing, that lies dormant within all of you. And as such, you feel it deeply when one of nature’s children, one element of the intricate tapestry that is constantly being woven and re-created, moves through natural transition into another state. There is, for you, a deep sense of loss, as there is the recognition not only of the timelessness of transformation and the cycles of life on the planet, but also of the transference of human-type connection to an element of nature. You can mostly only experience connection with nature by transferring those feelings to a more human perspective, and when loss of an element of nature, such as a pet or tree, occurs, there is transference to the human state of grief.

We have mentioned the energetic connections between you and your pets and we wish to elaborate. Again, not only is there a very real symbolic connection here (discovery of Self, of Love, of perspective: these things were gained through and with your interaction), but also there HAVE in most cases indeed been some past-life associations. Though most animals live lives in mainly hive-type soul arrangements, there is a constancy of energy that can flow generation after generation through one individual animal to another, and even of course crossing boundaries of species. There has been for many of you, then, a common thread through many lifetimes of connection with various elements of nature, and it is this thread, now running through you and the pets you love, that has touched this present lifetime.

The lessons from connection to Nature are many and varied and often depend on the individual, but regardless of perspective there is ALWAYS growth opportunity through human connection with Nature. After all, it is your home. It is your LIFE. To deny Nature is denying an aspect of Self, and to fully EMBRACE Nature, to ACCEPT it in all its splendor, ugliness, and beauty, is a HUGE step in actually accepting your Self.