I've heard from quite a few people who have experienced the typical technical glitches associated with Mercury Retrograde periods (this recent one from April 18th to May 11) -- cell phones bonking, emails that won't delete, bath tub faucets turning themselves on, and more.
Retrogrades are times of RE - re-evaluating, re-visiting, re-visioning, re-framing, re-working...you get the gist. Kind of fun, really, and quite useful, when you purposefully play with it.
What you're RE'ing during a retrograde depends on the archetype of the planet in question.
Mercury, the mythological 'messenger to the gods', is an archetype of communication and alchemy (or magic), amongst other things. One excellent overview of this Mercury Retrograde in Taurus highlighted the theme of 'the architecture of the mind'. I'd add 'word magic' or 'mental magic' to that theme.
I had the strange audacity to launch a Blogtalkradio show -- Feminine Mojo -- during the Mercury Retrograde (when all things communication and technology are supposedly temperamental at best and unreliable at worst). I didn't even think about it. Then again, I really REturned to the idea, and REvisioned and REnamed the show that I'd prepped sometime last year but didn't go active with until last week.
For me, this Mercury Rx in Taurus also brought a turning inward, particularly in terms of researching, musing, and incubating writings-to-come rather than feeling particularly inspired or motivated to write newsletters or blog entries.
Oh, I felt like I should be putting writings 'out there', I just didn't really feel like it -- the energy wasn't there, though the ideas were pouring in.
That's a real change from how I operated in the past, writing as disciplined obligation, where you sit down and write for such-and-such a time-frame, or so many pages, or to put the email newsletter or blog entry up regardless of whether the inspiration was flowing.
Why? Because that's what should happen, right on schedule! I wrote my first book this way. After all, the mind is always full of what we should do or should write, and the process-rules get used because they work. In one way, anyway -- they get words on the screen.
The big difference is that writing from inspiration rather than obligation flows more easily, and never fails to connect more deeply with those who find their way to read (or hear) the words that come through. That doesn't mean 'doing' doesn't get done; it does, just perhaps more efficiently and with the added fuel of inspiration.
Something similar happened 8 or so years ago, when I realized that much of what came through in new business -- client projects and sessions and other invitations -- was the result of a select few intuitive, inspired actions, spontaneous connections, and outright synchronicities. The vast majority of 'must do' marketing efforts (those shoulds) didn't yield the results. That was a big 'wow-aha' realization for me.
This sort of REflection has marked this Mercury Retrograde, though I can feel the energies of RE-visioning and RE-emergence stirring the mental alchemy, the word magic, and the architecture of the mind.
Mercury Blessings,
Jamie
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