Mercury
went retrograde May 26 at 21.13 Gemini, square
Uranus. Almost at least, for the square is not
reached because Mercury will go retrograde just
prior to its square with Uranus.
June
7 Mercury is conjunct the Sun and starts a new
"Mercury Phase" much like a new Mooncycle,
but now of the mind, our thinking, and our
communication-systems, and in the week thereafter
most of the retrograde effects such as cancellations
or so are likely to occur, although some have been
happening already. Thursday June 19 Mercury goes
direct again at 13 Gemini and will reach its square
with Uranus at 22 Pisces Saturday July 5.
Currently I am without a phone in Holland and the
new one is planned for around July 5.
Gemini
is the sign of communication. And things going wrong
is a very well known feature when Mercury goes
retrograde (such as whole fall outs of systems,
appointments at another date, appointments forgotten,
etcetera), and for astrologers is usually is just
very funny, except once in the so many years that a
Mercury in Aries retrograde makes the car stop on
top of a busy bridge with a boiling motor. Or
the one time that Mercury in Gemini retrograde
refuses to get your mail delivered. It depends a
little really in which house in your own chart
Mercury is transiting.
But
what is the meaning of Mercury retrograde? The
easiest way to understand this is to compare each
direct going planet with Aries , (as if everything
starts to go forward with Aries (which it does of
course:-), and each retrograde planet with Pisces,
as if the 0 point Aries goes back into Pisces, into
never never land. We have two brain
hemispheres, a rational one , on the go towards to
future in the external world, and an intuitive one,
linked to the inner world. It is a well known fact
to astrologers that a child born with Mercury
retrograde can be a total dreamer in the class not
paying any attention to the outside demands, the
child "thinks" in pictures (and in wholes),
not in rational pieces not even linked to one
another ( such as is the case with academic science
-- (but that as an aside). And then, when Mercury
goes Direct (at the maximum age of 21 years)
the child all of a sudden communicates with the
outside world just like every one else!
So
what happens with the collective mind of humanity
when Mercury goes retrograde? We collectively switch
from the rational to the intuitive side. We are
being stopped in continuing with our business as
usual. It is time for reconsideration of things, a
time for a mental holiday, or a time for taking up
those projects from the past which were left too
long already. It is time to touch base with people
you haven't seen in a while, and for astrologers:
quite often clients from the past return.
The
recipe for Mercury retrograde
Realize
that in most instances Mercury retrograde is not the
problem but our own perception and consequent panick
reaction. If you work a lot with computers for
instance, and something seems to go wrong, rather
than get into a panick reaction, stand still for
a while and notice how your brain wants to touch
the keyboard on the lefthand side, but your hands go
to the right (or something like that). We often do
it ourselves! Come to a full stop, take a deep
breath, calm down, THINK (twice), and see what could
be wrong with the connections. Our brainhalves give
crosssignals during Mercury retrograde. As simple as
that. Of course we could be victims of other
people's panick in such times, such as
internetbanking dropping out, and so on and so forth.
The other day I was testing a Skype connection with
a client who installed Skype just for the sake of
the consultation. She could not hear me. Of course,
Skype ALWAYS works fine here, so I presumed it was
her problem. The next day I found out nobody could
hear me on Skype, I put in a 2nd mike, things went
fine and I almost ran out to buy a new mike for the
computer to be in time for the consultation. Then I
noticed something. The mike had a switch on it. It
was on "off".
...
Buying
computers, cars, bikes, software, houses, whenever
Mercury goes retrograde.
It
makes sense in all of those cases where you
considered buying these things a long time before
already. For Mercury retrograde points to ideas
already in our minds. Buying something new on
impulse that you never thought of before, is NOT a
good idea when Mercury goes retrograde, but buying
something for repairs, or something which you
considered already way back, there should not be a
problem. Actually, the Piscean quality of
Mercury is such that the cosmos often helps...
faults can be made, but it is not necessarily to
your disadvantage if you are living in tune with
your inner path. Gifts can come your way too (to
settle scores with the past, or something like that).
Most
of us are not used to using both brainhemispheres
together at once. In fact, it is almost impossible
to do so. If you are a student of astrology, and
studying symbols, it is quite easy to pick up all
the imagery that goes with it, you form pictures in
your mind of the assertive redheaded or
hotheaded person with Sun in Aries, and think, yes,
I get it. But then there comes a time when you need
to translate all the imagery in plain language and
your two brainhalves have not created dendrites (bridges)
between the two hemispheres yet. That is the time
which is the hardest for astrology students.
Learning to verbalize in plain language what it is
they "feel". The wonderful thing of
studying astrology is, that we train ourselves in
making these bridges between the two brainhalves.
And it is even more interesting to become aware of
the emphasis of one brainhemisphere over the other
on the strange day of switching just after Mercury
turns around!
Anyway,
Direct planets are great for getting things
accomplished in the outer world. Retrograde planets
are great for tuning in to our inner lives, they
connect with the world of spirit. Don't
con-fuse the two, but maybe do the hardest thing of
all, fuse them:-)
I
know that this weekahead does not appear each week
anymore -- we started an astrological dating agency
over here in Holland, and it is keeping us pretty
occupied. If you have friends who speak Dutch: http://www.astrologischerelatiemakelaar.nl
:-)
If
you are reading this weekahead and would like to
have future editions sent to you by email, let me
know (chta @ astrologie.ws)
©
Joyce Hoen DF Astrol S, 2008, e-mail chta @
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