by Robert Wilkinson
Which means that Mercury is rapidly slowing, preparing to go retrograde soon! Lots of Pisces action ahead!
The shadow zone is defined by the span between where a planet goes retrograde, and where it goes direct after the retrograde period. In this case, Mercury goes retrograde at 30 Pisces at 10:19 am PST, 6:19 pm GMT on March 5. It will retrograde back to 17 Pisces, where it goes stationary direct at 6:59 am PDT 1:59 pm GMT March 28.
That puts the shadow zone between 17 and 30 Pisces, and around 6:30 am PST, 2:30 pm GMT February 19 Mercury crosses into the exact degree and minute where it’ll go SD in late March. As it happens just hours after the Sun enters Pisces and the Moon is at the last degree of Leo before it is a Super Full Moon at 1 Virgo, this is a VERY significant entry into the shadow zone! I’ll be writing quite a few articles about the coming retrograde which will post as it comes closer.
There are fortunate tides right now despite the friction of Mercury semisquare Mars, since Mercury’s very favorable sextiles to both Venus and Saturn assist sane thinking and evaluations. While Mercury is square Jupiter, being ruled by Jupiter it indicates favorable social renewals for those who are flexible, willing to interact and exchange information, and allow their “will to wholeness” to “break up old complexes.”
Explosions of repressed material will educate us, and what has been stuffed down will claim its due. Look at it as an opportunity to deal with things you may not have examined before now, but required if you are to move cleanly and clearly into a new life once Mercury and Venus move back over the SRX degree. This is the time to see why you’re visualizing what you are, and let old fears, ghosts, and echoes of memories of perceptions of echoes of memories of perceptions of echoes of memories… flow down the timestream of the movie of your life.
Mercury will make some extraordinarily favorable aspects to the stellium in Capricorn before going retrograde and making all those aspects again. Consider Mercury as “the Guide of Souls” teaching us Pisces navigational skills utilizing Capricorn energies skillfully while releasing the potential through Jupiter in Sagittarius. There are renewals and blessings to be embraced during the coming Mercury retrograde period, so dream carefully, since we now enter a time when what we bless and forgive creates the space in our lives for a greater Divine Manifestation!
The Mercurial data you notice over the next 2+ weeks will be clarified after the Sun crosses the Mercury SRX degree around March 6-7. For the rest of February and early March, adapt to the slowing pace of things, get all your papers in order, finish what you can in the next two weeks, and prepare to put some things on hold for a little while.
Take a look at what's been set into motion with an eye to building in delays, rehearsals, or more research before things again begin to move forward in early April. The time before Mercury goes retrograde is good for doing what must be done so that other related things can be done later, as well as reconnecting with people and activities from the past that are somehow related to the future.
With Mercury’s retrograde station at 30 Pisces, get ready to go inward and see the vast seascape of your life, and how what is ending opens the door to forms of self-renewal, healing, and expressing your Higher Self in April. This is a degree of Archetypalization, where the future “law” is dreamed before it is made manifest. I’ll give you more about this degree once Mercury goes SRX in early March.
if you want to know more about Mercury retrograde and how it may operate in Pisces and affect your sign, please consider getting your copy of A New Look at Mercury Retrograde where you can find out all you need about this retrograde, as well as past and future retrogrades. Here's the Amazon link to where you can order the paperback or ebook 2nd edition of A New Look at Mercury Retrograde.
Enjoy the entrance into late Pisces retrograde energies for 2019, and I’ll post more about the coming Mercury retrograde in late February and early March.
Copyright © 2019 Robert Wilkinson
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