by Robert Wilkinson
As I gave you in part 1, on June 26-27 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 many things beginning to pull together that require our immediate attention.
Here we show how we've reworked our productivity and seen our special qualities and/or genius from a different angle of approach and expression. We’re now moving forward with a clearer sense of a bigger picture of what contributes to what, and how our past, present, and future ability to contribute to our world in greater ways can be expressed.
We can now take what we reviewed, rehearsed, researched, or found new information about that helped us reevaluate something and move forward with a larger view and contemplation of what has been and what will be, whether in friendships, goals, ambitions, group work, world service, as well as those areas of life ruled by the house where Mercury’s been retrograde. I gave you some of the possible effects of Mercury in the houses in the article Mercury Retrograde in Aquarius in May-June 2015 – What It Means For Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces
Since it is now direct, if there have been misunderstandings or delays these past 3 weeks, it's all moving forward from here! We should be able to use the different information, views, and approaches we’ve been examining through the retrograde lens these past several weeks to find a new understanding of how to free ourselves from restricting conditions and attitudes.
Many will find fellowship and a freer, happier life coupled with losing old social inhibitions. This is a time to admire various points of view, and value the special qualities in different generational attitudes and approaches. Even when things are challenged, we still have enormous potential to generate power via the Moon in Aries in this chart, and of course, the strong fire trine from Aries to Leo should help light up our lives in big ways!
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 more facets to approaching a happier life and potential, and ways to link with others in cooperative activities.
The Good To Come
There are many good things promised by this direct station. As noted yesterday, Mercury quintile Jupiter and sextile Venus will bring productive excellence in our affairs, with definitive turning points forcing our growth and allowing us to shift the trajectory of events by getting clear about who we are, what roles we’re playing, and what ideals we want to see made manifest. These should bring a favorable, productive, and specializing weaving of the way our lower mind expresses our Higher Genius and sense of ultimate purpose. The long wave productive energies will be set into motion each time the inner planets are in mid-Fire and Air signs.
The long wave specializing energies will be set into motion each time the Moon or inner planets move through 4-8 Gemini, 16-20 Leo, 28 Libra-2 Scorpio, 10-14 Capricorn, and 22-26 Pisces. Obviously if you have a planet or angle in any of these zones, you can expect highly specialized gifts and circumstances to come forth the next few weeks.
Other favorable indicators include the Moon sextile the enlightened Mars in Gemini, Venus conjunct Jupiter and tredecile Uranus, and Jupiter biquintile Pluto. This will bring very favorable unique and serendipitous conditions to planets or angles we have near 1-3 Capricorn/Cancer, 5-9 Leo/Aquarius, 11-15 Virgo/Pisces, 17-21 Libra/Aries, 23-27 Scorpio/Taurus, and 29-30 Sagittarius/Gemini, as well as 17-22 Leo, 29 Libra-4 Scorpio, 11-16 Capricorn, 23-28 Pisces, and 5-10 Gemini.
Of major significance is that the Moon is on the exact degree where Uranus will go stationary retrograde in late July. This is a degree of generating power on the social, emotional, or cultural areas of our life. So this direct station anticipates the theme of the Summer of 2015 that will be in play through January 2017.
Sun conjunct Mars and Venus conjunct Jupiter will be with us for quite a few weeks, and brings fusion and blending to the houses these planets rule. For the Sun-Mars, that means a merging where we have Aries, Cancer, Leo, and Scorpio. The blending is taking place in Gemini, leading us to new understanding and communications both to and from us and others.
Venus conjunct Jupiter will bring fusion and blending to the houses these rule, which involve Taurus, Libra, Sagittarius, and Pisces. The blending is taking place in Leo, leading us to new freedom, creativity, appreciation, and what promises to be an exciting summer!
Another really favorable indicator involves Jupiter quadranovile Neptune and Uranus novile Neptune, extending the harmonic range of these highly spiritualizing aspects. This configuration should bring major spiritual power and realizations to everyone. Affected areas include 8-11 Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, 18-21 Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, 28-30 Virgo, Capricorn, and Taurus, and 1 Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius.
If you have something in these zones, either a) something will come forth in the way of an interconnected realization about your imagination, opportunities, individuality, and ideals, and/or b) something will be put on the shelf a while so that your sense of imagination, opportunities, individuality, and ideals can be completed before that thing moves forward.
So we now begin to move into a time of intense multifaceted activity with major productivity in the Fire and Air parts of our charts. 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 September 2015, when Mercury goes retrograde at 16 Libra and by mid-October goes direct at 1 Libra, the degree of the archetype!
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.
The October 2014 retrograde in Scorpio and Libra gave 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 took a new look at the past to see what needed repair or reconstructions, and then moved forward by retiring in peace in October 2014.
The January-February retrograde in Aquarius gave us a new understanding on some things we didn’t understand before, with the unveiling helping us re-evaluate something related to the areas where we have Gemini and Virgo, as well as any houses ruled by planets we have in these signs. We found ways to free ourselves from adverse conditions, and now are free to move forward into new discoveries.
The retrograde we just finished helped us learn techniques of communications at a distance, and some have begun to develop the beginning of true telepathy. Whether through direct or indirect information or realizations, we’ve 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 open way to learn, discover, communicate, and adapt to conditions, as well as ways to be freer in social situations through seeing what is admirable in diverse attitudes and values. We have now begun a different way of learning and communicating ideas and discoveries, have reconnected with old ideas and people, and now have a different feeling for what our heart’s into and what it’s not.
This will be a totally future oriented period to come, with many heavy realizations about what and who to accept as part of your path to spiritual realization, and what and who you can no longer have jamming your higher awareness. Be willing to accept opportunities to grow, demonstrating what you know in your own unique way. Stay clear about your role, do not indulge put-downs, and stay alert to what stage of development someone or something is at, since that will show you the stages to come.
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 move into varied discoveries we’ll be able to externalize in some social or emotion action.
From here we move forward into a clearer, deeper future! Stay focused on the bigger integrated picture as you move through productive and unique circumstances and developments, and stay open to opportunities to join with others to overcome cold or barren circumstances. So this links past, present, and future in a new way of approaching play, creativity, and natural self-expression. Your vision and understanding will lead the way to know what to do and when. Just remember to honor your feelings after you act, since they’ll help you to a new vision or understanding of the future.
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 Gemini, Libra, or any other past and future retrogrades in all the other signs and houses, you may want to go over to Createspace.com for a paperback copy, or to the Amazon or Barnes and Noble ebook websites, and get the new 2nd edition of my book A New Look At Mercury Retrograde.
The first major work on Mercury retrograde ever written, it offers in-depth information about Mercury retrograde people, Mercury retrograde in the various signs and houses, and what the entire Mercury Retrograde phenomenon is about. I go into how Mercury retrograde people think and work through things, and possible ways that parents of Mercury retrograde children can facilitate the roundabout interpretive and communication styles in their child’s development.
Of course, by knowing more about 2014's Mercury retrograde periods in Pisces/Aquarius, Cancer/Gemini, and Scorpio/Libra, as well as 2015’s Mercury retrograde periods in Aquarius, Gemini, and 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 past events.
Here's the link to where you can order your copy of A New Look at Mercury Retrograde to check out possible ways this Mercury retrograde effect could play out over the next 4 months.
And as usual, here are links to recent articles on what this May-June 2015 Mercury Retrograde in Gemini has been about:
The Guide of Souls in May 2015 - Mercury Slowing Down, Preparing to go Retrograde at 14 Gemini
Mercury Retrograde in May 2015 - How Will the Inferior Conjunction in Gemini Manifest in the Future?
Astrology in May 2015 – Mercury Retrograde in Gemini Events.
© Copyright 2015 Robert Wilkinson
Is it true that if we are born in a Mercury retrograde that we are not as affected by them? Thank you, Joanne
Posted by: Joanne | June 12, 2015 at 08:04 AM
With Gemini Asc, (plus Venus and Mars), I've noticed that I get hit with the effects of transits before they happen. By the time I'm reading your fabulous articles, I've already been through it!
Posted by: Diana | June 13, 2015 at 11:47 AM
Hi Joanne - Well, as I put in my book, I have observed that those with natal Mercury RX are still affected by these periods, but seem to be more at ease with the shifting pace and perspective. It's as though they're more at home with the phenomenon.
Hi Diana - It may be that another configuration helps you anticipate what's coming. I've noticed my Aries energy gets me there early.
Posted by: Robert | June 13, 2015 at 01:28 PM
Very informative post on this Mercury stationary period. So many things are falling into place and hopefully not only for the individual for the collective we call humanity.
Thank you for the wisdom!
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | June 15, 2015 at 02:15 PM