© 3-23-2011 Kachina Houska in2themystics.com
Mercury turns retrograde on March 30th @ 25° Aries with direct station occurring April 22nd @ 13° Aries. The current phase of retrograde comes to closure on May 11th when Mercury clears the shadow of retrograde.
Representative of our thinking aptitudes and perceptions, Mercury rules all forms of communications, methods of transport and commerce. During retrograde periods glitches can occur within communication systems, modes of transport and commerce related dealings that require us to slow down and reassess our approaches and choices.
On a personal level cognitive skills are often challenged and making decisions generally requires extra patience and time. While MercuryRx periods are generally not considered favorable for making contractual agreements or committing oneself to new projects for anything begun from scratch during this time often needs to be reworked later or just doesn’t get off the ground at all. This period is conducive to putting efforts into ongoing projects through a whole slew of “RE-words” such as: reorganize, reedit, renegotiate, re-navigate, reformulate, reconsider, redefine, reprocess, reinstall etc, etc.
When faced with retrograde related snafu’s sometimes the best choice is to just release and relax until the “roadblocks” clear!
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“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” ~Voltaire (Mercury conjunct Ruler of Aries, Mars)
This is the first Mercury Rx period of 2011 and occurs entirely in the fire sign Aries. As an extroverted sign, Aries is driven, individualistic and initiating and has a difficult time accepting “no” for an answer. An “I can and Will do it” attitude is the fortitude of Aries and acceptance of defeat does not come easily, if at all, within this sign. Mercury within Aries can be passionately driven to sharing viewpoints with little concern for social proprieties. This can be a positive attribute for it tends to foster inspiration coming to actualization much quicker than those that would seek the popular majority vote and/or get caught up in the rhetoric of “political correctness” while seeking to bring their thoughts to form .
While some Mercury retrogrades periods are quite benign, and come and go with few snarls and frustrations, I don’t believe this one in Aries is going to be of that nature. Aries detests being held back and with so many planets lining up in the Sign of the Ram for April this Ram is going to be seriously juiced up.
With co-rulers of Aries, Mars and Pluto, squaring one another from Aries(mars) to Capricorn(pluto) for most of the retrograde period we have the potential for these fiery energies to be put into play in some very volatile forms. I wouldn’t be surprised if many feel like a rubber-band stretched beyond it’s comfort zone. On the plus side, if you reach the end of each day with your personal rubber band still intact than you’ll never again doubt that you’re meditation practices, fitness routines, stress-reduction classes etc. truly were worth the time and effort you put into them. 🙂
A bit of caution for the weeks ahead: I think it would be wise these next weeks to stayed tuned in to your environment and avoid as much as possible the company of those that don’t give a darn about how well, or not, they handle their personal volatility. So says the Moon-Pluto-Mars t-square gal…
On a final note, Mercury while traveling retrograde will be making numerous aspects, time frames/events are listed below. Mars and Pluto will be square from April 3rd-20th while applying and separating.
Notable Mercury Aspects while Rx
April 3rd/4th: Widely conjunct the Aries New Moon
April 8th-12th : Applying tightly to the Jupiter-Saturn opposition
April 9th/10th: Sun conj. Mercury exact (inferior conjunction)
April 12th: Mercury conj. Jupiter exact
April 17th-22nd: Applying tightly to conjunction with Mars, opposition w/Saturn, square w/Pluto
April 19th: Mercury conj. Mars exact
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From March 30th-April 22nd we’ll be reworking our thoughts and projects where needed and getting a view from a new angle. Slow down when necessary and don’t expect to be sharp as a tack for we seldom are during Mercury Rx. The weeks following April 22nd until Mercury clears his shadow on May 11th bring the space of integration and far-less snafu’s to deal with!
Blessings~ Kachina Houska
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This scene and dialog has been with me for days and seems appropriate to the themes of our Aries lineup and Mercury Rx Period~
Is it possible that this past week I started feeling the affects of this already? Life seems to be led from inside a blender these days!
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Hi Laura,
As krisy shared we have been in the retro shadow.
Best! 🙂
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perfect! glad to be reading your writings again! 🙂 love to you always! remember, I’m keeping you in my thoughts & meditations…xx
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Thank you Cyndee, I appreciate your holding loving thoughts for me tremendously! xxx
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Love your BLOG!! Great, fantastic! Laura, yep! Things have been nuts for about 1.5 weeks, the time mercury was in its shadow phase. Hurray…Good times…. 🙂
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Thanks so much Krisy! 🙂
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Juiced up,much? ‘ You need me on that Goddamed wall’
LOL!!
(Rather thankful for my Mercury in Pisces for once, enough is enough!)
Sit Tight – love xxx
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Sit tight??
My Uranus opposition is almost here and is making a lovely cardinal cross with my moon, progressed moon, progressed venus and then some….
Am doing my best to rock the boat gently..for now.. 😉
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Actually, me too if you can believe that! Surely the waters are ‘A bit lumpy’ as they say hereabouts. Keeping my head down pretty much (and packing). Cardinal squares are no joke but do tend to get stuck situations moving and turn corners don’t they? I’m sure you will handle it with your usual grace,
Hugs!
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“Mercury within Aries can be passionately driven to sharing viewpoints with little concern for social proprieties.”
Lol! What a nice way to put it. My 8th house Aries placements are definitely guilty of this. Retrograde Mercury has me laying low and reassessing how that’s been working for me. I think Benjamin Franklin summed it up best when he said, “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
There’s a time and place for courageous truth-telling done with integrity, just as there’s a time for diplomatically concealing full awareness through a gentler presentation of the facts. Old as I am, I’m still learning the difference. There’s a lot of very volatile/negative energy out there in the collective – better not to feed the beast. Anyway, I have my hands full dealing with my own internal beast!
I hope you’re doing well, Kachina. I always look forward to your posts.
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Hi LB!
Ah..you caught my Libran Mercury red-handed. 😉 Thanks to my Mercury-Mars/Sag aspect though I would like to think that I never wallpaper over the truth for the sake of diplomacy.
I am so glad you visited. xx
Best to you as you make friends with your beastly self!
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” . . . I would like to think that I never wallpaper over the truth for the sake of diplomacy.”
Oh, I’m sure you don’t and neither do I – I hope my comment didn’t come across as suggesting this (Mercury is retrograde, after all). 🙂 In my case though, there are times when I just need to learn to remain truthfully silent.
Take care!
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Oh no! That is not at all what I thought you were implying LB!
I received your comment as a lovely compliment and appreciate it immensely. 🙂
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