by Robert Wilkinson
As you know by now, Mercury has begun to slow down, preparing to go stationary retrograde at 30 Sagittarius at 11:34 pm PST on December 2, 7:34 am GMT (UT) on December 3. Today we take a look at some primary factors.
An Overview of the Retrograde
The coming retrograde will show us a new look at recent signals and information that we sent or received, and we’ll have opportunities to take a new look at how we’ve been blessed in 2017, even if in roundabout ways. This one will give us multiple angles of understanding about how our past created our present, or how our present will create our future.
As with all Mercury retrograde periods, this will give us a new look at recent signals and information that we sent or received, and things from the past will be reevaluated, re-examined, or understood differently. We can get a new look at ideas, ways we’re communicating and understanding what others are communicating to us, and get new insights into all things ruled by Sagittarius.
We may find different ways of seeing the bigger picture, or an alternative view of what we believe to be true. We may understand how the past brought us to where we are now from a different angle of understanding, or remember past ethical or legal events which shaped our view of the truth of something. The next 3 weeks will give us a new take on how we’ve moved toward what we’ve longed for in the past, or maybe how the last 3 months have been “a critical point in emergent evolution,” specifically all things related to the house(s) where we have 29 Leo through 12 Virgo.
So we enter a time of review, reflection, rehearsal, and new angles of using imagination with a blessing to prepare to fulfill the Sag function in our chart in some important ways. We are finding new ways to view things in the abstract or in a broader context, examining them from angles we didn’t consider before. These will work out wherever we have late Sag in our chart.
Mercury Retrograde Is Shifting Element Emphasis
With this retrograde, we leave the phase of the past 3 retrogrades that began in Earth signs and ended in late Fire signs. It is as though this is a tag team affair, since this retrograde that begins in late Sagittarius picks up close to where Mercury went direct in January 2017! This heralds the Mar-Apr Mercury RX which is entirely in Aries, and the Jul-Aug retrograde entirely in Leo.
To give you a sense of the larger pattern, all the 2014 Mercury RX periods began in early Water signs, with Mercury retrograding back into Air signs. So in 2014 we danced between Feelings and Ideas, experiencing and relating. All the 2015 Mercury retrograde periods began in an Air sign and stayed in that sign the entire retrograde period, making 2015 entirely an Air affair!
In 2016, this shifted again, as the January Mercury retrograde began in the Air sign of Aquarius, but retrograded back through the last half of the Earth sign Capricorn. So we danced between ideas and practical necessities, relating and taking a new look at what is in our “enlightened self-interest.” That completed a run of Air sign retrograde emphasis.
As noted, the April-May 2016 retrograde was entirely in the Earth sign of Taurus, and the Aug-Sept retrograde was entirely in the Earth sign of Virgo. In December it shifted to multiple elements again since it began in Capricorn and retrograded back into the Fire of Sagittarius. That began the past year of a blend of Earth and Fire energies during Mercury retrograde. To learn more, A New Look at Mercury Retrograde” will help you get a fix on all of the above and more!
A Bit More
In the next 3 weeks, we can see what life has prepared for us since the last Mercury retrograde in August and September. This can give us a new perspective on what’s shifted in our view or understanding since then, and this will give us a look back so we can find a more well-rounded perspective as we come to a new understanding of those past events.
This Mercury retrograde will offer us opportunities to look back and find value in learning what we had to learn in 2016-2017 while Saturn occupied the second half of Sagittarius. We will gain insights and understanding we may not have seen before now related to Saturnine lessons we’ve been going through, and because this retrograde begins with Mercury conjunct Saturn, we should be able to bring our ideas in line with our ability to act on those ideas in practical, structured, yet inspired ways.
Consider the next 3 weeks as a review of how we’ve seen a greater truth and received a blessing to move forward into a wider sphere of effectiveness, all concentrated and moving forward over the next 4 weeks! We’ve now completed the process of being “liberated from a narrow destiny” since September 2016, and now will be educated on multiple levels of understanding via the 30 Sag SRX point. Open to new perspectives on all things related to Sagittarius people and experiences.
We’re now either preparing to receive a blessing, or get a new look at the blessing we’ve received about to take shape in the next few weeks! I am taking the attitude that I am now “goal fit” to accomplish what I need to, and there are “promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
This Mercury retrograde will give us many signs and signals for what will dominate Mercury-ruled areas from late December through mid-March. Here we take a new look at what’s behind us before moving forward anew at the end of the RX period just before the Solstice. We can get all kinds of new insights into future potentials, while seeing things in the recent past differently.
The Inferior Conjunction happens on Dec 12 at 22 Sagittarius, which is of course the exact degree where Saturn went stationary direct in August. That “fusion of life and mind” is therefore directly related to any and all Saturn experiences related to 22 Sagittarius. This may give us very important insights into how we have fulfilled Saturn’s lessons since then, or give us a new way of interpreting those lessons and skills for use in the future after Mercury goes direct. After that Mercury begins to speed up, taking us to the threshold of a new life in late December as it goes stationary direct on the degree of “The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx.”
So welcome to many things being reviewed or coming back up to surface these next three weeks thanks to the retrograde quality of the time. Some will review past truths, philosophical or religious views, and remember when they were blessed to go forth into the world and live truth the best they were able, while of course others will experience returns, rehearsals, or echoes of the past and its views, misunderstandings, dilemmas, paradoxes, and dualities.
This one allows us to take a look back at how we’re using Sagittarius energy in our lives, and review how we’ve moved forward since last September. Despite the retrograde, it’s a great time for new insights into our blessings and spiritual strength, as well as our community. This is the last Fire trine of the year generating the Leo void, giving us a review of our heart strength, creativity, and inspired radiance as we’ve developed it all year.
We’re already living a future that took hold this time last year, so take a new look at the heart power or inspiration you’ve experienced since last July, as that will help you remember and capture the essential elements of understanding we need to be ready to accept as part of “the power of our spiritual ancestry” moving into 2018.
For all of us, during the next several weeks the future that's already rolling forward will slow a little so we can get a new look at crucial elements of the process we cannot afford to ignore. All of us will have a new understanding of multiple elements of our lives by late December, and capture a valuable or pleasing form of it during that time, which will move forward dramatically beginning mid-February.
This will be another important retrograde, where the past will be reviewed so we may count the blessings we have received, are receiving, and will receive based in the expectancy of a greater, more loving and beautiful life incorporated into our perceptual patterns last September. This is both a look back and a rehearsal, a blessing of things past, present, and future, ready to move forward by the December Solstice. At that time we should be clear about what we know, what we need to know, and what must happen if we are to move forward into living a more blessed life.
Renewals, returns, reconnections, reunions, and new beginnings are promised by this retrograde. And of course, more on this Mercury retrograde period will come soon!
Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend
Because Saturn is important as a stable leg of the Fire trines happening during these months, as well as the current focus of Mercury via its conjunction both direct and retrograde, we are still in a time when we can see how to blend past and future together and craft our future destiny. We have just finished a season of stabilizing Electric Fire with Distributive Fire by Friction, and learned to express it in loving, creative forms of Solar Fire between July and September during the Grand Fire trines. This is the next step in understanding the movement of Fire in our lives this past year!
You can learn more about mastering the Saturn and Uranus part of generating your future destiny by taking a look at my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. Saturn helps us give form and structure to our quest for Self-realization, and in Sag, brings an “expansive structure” to the Uranian energies infused with concentrated doses of spiritual energy that is making our spiritual life come alive.
Our inner Saturn gives us the power to take command of our lives and destiny. Saturn shows us those things we must master to become spiritual adults and fulfill our purpose for being alive on Earth. By knowing our Saturnian strengths, we can overcome fear and any sense of victimization or powerlessness.
It was written for both astrologers and non-astrologers, and gives the reader the power to understand why some things happened when they did. Throughout the book, it offers ways for us to “make friends” with this part of our existence and take command of our destiny. As you read each chapter, you’ll become more aware of all the factors assisting Soul growth through understanding how our Saturn lessons relate to Dharma (our Highest Spiritual Function) and various types of karma, both those we cause and those which are "Sacred Wounds" leading us to a greater compassion and understanding.
This is a book you will reference many times for many reasons, and each time you pick it up you’re sure to find undiscovered gems of insight on each page. This book can help you throw off all the attitudes and memories which have held you back from finding and living the life and purpose you’ve been searching for since you were young. Welcome to the journey of self-discovery, and finding your power to live your life on your own terms, fulfilling your reason for being alive as an Eternal having human experiences!
Please order your copy today! You can go to the Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend page and order your copy of either the paperback or the ebook. It's also available as an ebook on B&N's Nook. I’ve been told that people who live overseas can get their copy much faster by going through Amazon. And if you would, please write a review on the Amazon site, since the more reviews, the bigger the boost on their site.
Copyright © 2017 Robert Wilkinson
Comments