by Robert Wilkinson
As I gave you in part 1, on November 10 Mercury will move out of its shadow span and enter its next phase of moving through "unknown zones" where the themes of this retrograde will be played out in forward motion. So for the next three weeks, expect some very productive intersections of past and future, with a promise of a many things beginning to pull together that require our immediate attention.
Here we show how we've learned from old challenges and triumphs as we move forward with a larger view and contemplation of what has been and what will be, both in relationships and what has needed repair, or needs repair. We can now reconstruct old dramas, how they came to be, and distill wisdom from those experiences.
This begins a period of finding peace and compassion through getting a different perspective on old relationships and opportunities that seemed to fail. This is the time to shut down old ways that no longer work, and accept that some unique gifts and circumstances are there to receive if we open to newer, deeper, and more authentic interactions.
Of note is that as Mercury goes direct, the Sun is on the same degree on which it went retrograde, along with Venus. This is very favorable for learning cooperation and a greater sense of connection with others with whom we are constructively building something. If there have been misunderstandings or delays these past 3 weeks, it's all moving forward from here!
This is now the time to move into a new vision of social self-expression, based in a new sense of what’s fair, what’s elegant, and what was recalibrated during the first 6 months of this year. By what we learned in the way of moderate or balanced response in that time, we'll see what dramas are done and why, or which ones must be ended as reasonably as possible. In any case, fairness and justice are keys to perceiving how things really are.
From here we should be able to find a new understanding of why some things had to be pruned back and trimmed from our lives these past 4 months, and can move forward into newer and deeper ways of connecting with life and others. Communications will become more direct and balanced, preparing us for the deepening in November. So now that we've done our rehearsals, reviews, revisions, and/or research on how we can coordinate the parts of this emerging process during the past 3 weeks, it's again time to get it on!
Here we face the future, and do what we must to weave elements of that future into our current life and affairs. We will continue to see ever-greater pictures of potentials, and over the next few weeks will mobilize toward a future that we've already set into motion in late September and early October.
The Good To Come
There are many good things promised by this direct station. The Sun and Venus trine Neptune shows a stable course in front of us, where we can gather "emotional substance" related to some need, and through a willingness to go beyond, into the unknown, we'll facilitate favorable "karmic adjustments" that relate back to the emotional intelligence we began to gather in June, July, and August 2013.
These water trines can help reinforce our "feeling-knowing," allowing us to have faith in our inner Truth as it expresses our ideal within collective consciousness. Sun/Venus trine Neptune should bring an ease of expressing our Spiritual Self in pleasing forms of our worldly self. And of course, these trines will be very favorable for those with planets in the first decan (1-10 degrees) of Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces.
There are several powerful harmonious aspects right now, including Mercury quintile Mars and sextile Jupiter, and Mars sextile Neptune. Mars is on a Sabian symbol promising a blessing to us or from us, and shows we're about to enter a time when Mars is in Capricorn, the sign of its exaltation (grounds for greatest growth and best self-expression.)
Mercury, the Guide of Souls, in long term sextile to Jupiter, followed by a quintile when it's in early Scorpio, shows that the areas and planets in our charts involving Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces will be harmonized productively through the Libra-Leo sextile, and specialized through the Scorpio-Leo quintile. This will echo effects from the recent Solar Eclipse, which featured the Moon, Sun, and Venus all exactly quintile Jupiter. I TOLD you it was going to be a very unique Eclipse, with great gifts and blessings for those affected by the quintiles!
We now begin to move into a time of intense restructuring so we can ride the edge of extremely dynamic change once the inner planets make it to Sagittarius and flame on! Mercury direct will open many views and perspectives over the next 3 months, and the insights we receive and weaving we do in that period will lead us to a new Mercury retrograde era by January 2015, when Mercury goes retrograde at 18 Aquarius and by mid-February goes back to 2 Aquarius.
Past Mercury Retrogrades and What They Taught Us
In the 2012 Mercury retrogrades, we went through a process of learning how to look at the past with different eyes, seeing the storms and trials we had overcome as rehearsals for what was yet to come. Through retrospection, we called up old powers in new ways that helped us in late 2012. Mercury retrograde in November 2012 put us on the threshold of being able to know without thinking, directly experiencing communication rather than having to go through a linear evaluation of hearing and interpreting words.
Due to the Mercury direct point at 6 Pisces in March 2012, the same degree where Neptune went stationary retrograde in June 2012, we awakened to a new dedication, a new set of motives, a new intuition, and a new way of bringing closure to old ghosts. We then finished letting go of those ghosts, and after the June-July 2013 Mercury retrograde in Cancer, we felt a new permanence, a new courage, a new fearlessness, and a new way of knowing how to live whatever “Ageless Wisdom” is ours to live.
The Oct-Nov Mercury retrograde in Scorpio helped us reorient and focus, and eliminate desires and stuck feelings we no longer needed to carry. We found a deeper togetherness with people and experience, and found an ability to cooperate with others in building something.
The February 2014 Mercury retrograde in Pisces and Aquarius gave us new insights into collective consciousness, and through a sequence of “graduating into a new realm of being,” rose to a challenge and cooperated with others to bring a metaphoric “forest fire” under control. We saw our interconnections, examined our deeper feelings and aspirations, and found new ways of managing our energies at the close of an old life cycle, all of these wherever we have 19 Aquarius through 4 Pisces in our charts
The June 2014 Mercury retrograde in Cancer and Gemini gave us new insights into needs, habits, and feelings, where we went through arguing pros and cons relative to a major life shift that already happened previously. We learned to practice adaptability and patience as we saw what had to be pruned back or reshaped in our world.
This retrograde has given us a new understanding of how we and others are or are not cooperating as we build some things to be enjoyed in common, and now we can find peace in "letting go, letting G_d." We've now gone back over some old information on more time, and are prepared to move forward now in October 2014. Whether through direct or indirect information or realizations, we’ve also gotten insights, returns, and understanding about things we didn’t know about before the retrograde began.
So as Mercury now goes direct in motion, open up and be receptive to a more authentic self-expression, and a different way to communicate in social setups. We have now begun a different way of communicating feelings, and different ways of feeling ideas. This has been a look back at what we learned in 2011-2012, and we can now build on the benefits of Jupiter in Leo through the favorable Mercury sextile in play at the current time.
As the Sun and Venus trine Neptune is front and center, keep moving into your higher dedication and more perfect self-expression, and remember that having heard a call to renewal, you’ve quickened and now are a master of a realm you weren’t before now. Accept the challenge of allowing what inspires you to take you to a higher level of living and functioning. Shake off discouraging attitudes, and take command of your emotional power in focused responses!
This is the last look back at a “challenge to transformation” set into motion in February-March 2014, and whatever was shaped in our self-expression between late May and early July related to that earlier transformation. Those who accepted the challenge in February-March have experienced knowing themselves to be “a particle of Light within an infinite Field of Light,” or perhaps “a particle of Love within an infinite Field of Love.”
We now know the old ways are no more, have a greater understanding of the feeling-flow in us, others, and circumstances, and can now move forward, letting go of old ways that created needless dramas. So find the right rhythm, perspective, or sense of proportion, keep moving with the flow, keep finding focused ways to understand and express feelings, and get ready for an acceleration in the pace of a new life adventure that’s already prepared for you.
Things related to Mercury will speed up considerably for the next three months, so flow with the greater vision and understandings that have been revealed and will continue to be revealed over the next weeks and months. We’re now at a state where we can see a greater perspective on our life narrative, and repair some things while continuing to withdraw from others.
From here we move forward into a clearer, deeper future! Stay balanced as you move through productive and unique circumstances and developments, and join with others in building enterprises. Because of Mercury's track these past few weeks, by 2016-2017 when Jupiter is in Libra, we'll see a bigger truth or application to the Saturn in Libra lessons we've been reviewing.
So this links past, present, and future! The coming weeks will help us focus on knowledge of lasting worth so we can express a new individual way of compassionately linking with others to overcome a season of "coldness."
In a final plug as Mercury goes from retrograde to direct, for those who want to know more about the qualities of Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, Libra, as well as all the other signs and houses, if you haven't already gotten your copy, you may want to go over to the Amazon or Barnes and Noble ebook websites and get a copy of the new 2nd edition of my book A New Look At Mercury Retrograde. It was written for both astrologers and laypeople, and has just about everything you could want to know about Mercury retrograde, from how it works, what it means, celebrities who have it in their charts, historic events that happened during Mercury retrograde, and what signs are involved in future Mercury retrograde periods.
By knowing more about 2014's Mercury retrograde periods in Pisces/Aquarius, Cancer/Gemini, and Scorpio/Libra, you may see patterns in what was going on in your life, what you were taking a new look at and why, and how this "looking back" influenced your choices as you moved through the past year's events. Here's the link to where you can order your copy of the new edition of my ebook, A New Look at Mercury Retrograde to check out possible ways this Mercury retrograde effect could play out over the next 4 months, and because it was retrograde during the past two eclipses, the next 4 years.
And as usual, here are links to recent articles on what this October 2014 Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio and Libra has been about:
The Guide of Souls in September 2014 - Mercury Slowing Down, Preparing to go Retrograde at 3 Scorpio
© Copyright 2014 Robert Wilkinson
Linear evaluation does seem to be a waste of breath as of late. :D
Posted by: caliban | October 27, 2014 at 07:49 AM