by Robert Wilkinson
As you know by now, Mercury has already begun to slow down, preparing to go stationary retrograde at 30 Pisces on March 5 at 10:19 am PST, 6:19 pm GMT. Today we take a look at some primary factors in the coming retrograde.
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 ways to be guided to our Soul. 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 reviewed, re-examined, reevaluated, 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 related to Pisces energies in March.
We will all get “one last look back” while being offered opportunities to shape the future in conscious ways. This period will boost our “dream visualization” power to determine “the law” of the future period we’re about to enter in April. We may catch glimpses of alternative truths or futures, or understand how the past brought us to where we are now from a different angle of seeing where to put our energies, or how old motives and sorrows created futures that now must be re-visualized so we can move forward unencumbered by old ghosts.
The next 3 weeks will give us a new take on emergent developments, and what must be reviewed and released, or researched and rehearsed to prepare us to move forward in April. Because of the “back to the future” quality of Mercury retrograde, we may also get glimpses of how the last 3 months have given us a new look at our potential and who we might be if we choose to leave parts of the past behind.
As this SRX degree is tredecile the main theme of 2018, we should see serendipitous and specialized events during the coming retrograde period related to the 2018 Mercury SD/SRX platforms of “the power of our spiritual ancestry” related to the house(s) where we have 14 Sagittarius. This one gives us a vast view, a connection to the collective consciousness, and helps us get glimpses into what has moved down the time stream, or needs to move down the time stream, as we stand on the threshold of a new era.
So we enter a time of review, reflection, rehearsal, and new angles of focus on our spiritual life, preparing to fulfill our Pisces functions in some important ways. We will all have opportunities to cultivate intuition in some roundabout ways, or catch glimpses of vaster feelings, collective states of consciousness, or the common human condition with its confusions and sorrows. This can bring forth greater compassionate views of past confusions or lingering ghosts.
Mercury Retrograde Is Shifting Element Emphasis
Though I touched on this in an earlier article, this explains more about the importance of the element of the sign Mercury transits when retrograde. The Mercury retrograde in December 2017 ended a period of 3 retrogrades which began in Earth signs and ended in late Fire signs. These periods began in the practical considerations of Earth, but ended in the inspiration of Fire.
The Dec 2017 RX began in late Sagittarius, and was a “tag team messenger,” as it picked up one degree from where Mercury went direct in January 2017! That retrograde was entirely in the sign of Sagittarius, heralding the Mar-Apr Mercury RX which was entirely in Aries and the Jul-Aug retrograde entirely in Leo. The theme of 2018 was “looking back and within using inspired mind,” as well as finding a way to understand old inspirations in new ways, or find new inspiration by taking a new look at old loves.
We now are in a period of alternating retrograde elements, since the last one began in Fire and ended in Water. This one begins and ends in Water, while the July 2019 Mercury retrograde will begin in Fire and end in Water. The November 2019 retrograde is entirely in Water, while the Feb-Mar 2020 retrograde begins in Water and ends in Air, beginning a new transitional pattern.
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 2016 it shifted to multiple elements again since it began in Capricorn and retrograded back into the Fire of Sagittarius. That began 2017’s blend of Earth and Fire energies during Mercury retrograde.
2018 was entirely in Fire signs until the last one, which paralleled 2012. As 2019 features two Water to Water retrogrades, it will parallel 2013. So we now move from feeling to feeling in March, inspiration to feeling in July, and feeling to feeling in Oct-Nov.
A Bit More
In the next 3 weeks, we can see what life has prepared for us since the last Mercury retrograde in November-December 2018. Besides the more recent past, the coming retrograde period can also give us a new perspective on what’s shifted in our view or understanding because of the things that were left behind or awakened between May 2010 and March 2011 when Jupiter and Uranus both transited 30 Pisces numerous times.
It will also bring echoes of the Total Solar Eclipse of March 2015 which fell at 30 Pisces, so connect the dots between that time and now to what has ended since then. This will help us understand the value of clearing out old lingering ambivalence and uncertainty to facilitate spiritual movement. As that Solar Eclipse is still in play through this Summer, it would imply that this one is like a final exam and reflection on how the dream then created all that has happened since then.
The next 3 weeks are a good time to review recent openings and closings, changes in the roles we want to play in the future, and how many of our issues are part of the generic human condition. This is a dress rehearsal to make sure we’re dreaming the dream we want to live in the future, which will be given wings in mid-April. This is a review of prior closures and ways we were compassionate and forgiving that allowed doors to open to a vaster connection to “the ONE.”
This Mercury retrograde will give us many signs and signals for what will dominate Mercury-ruled areas from early March through early July 2019. The Inferior Conjunction happens on March 14-15 at 25 Pisces. That “fusion of life and mind” will give us interesting insights into a) what needs purification in our personality, and/or b) past events that purified our lives to help us become who we are today. As it happens in the midst of some great aspects, it should help us a great long term understanding of what it takes to step into a future with clean past karma.
So welcome to many things being reviewed or coming back up from your subconscious mind or your connection to the collective these next three weeks thanks to the retrograde. This one allows us to review and get a new look at how we’re using Pisces energy in our lives, and review how we’ve moved forward since December. The retrograde is a great time for new insights into how we’ve been guided to our Souls, as prelude to clearer guidance after the third week of April.
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 the New Moon at 16 Aries in early April, and move into a philosophical completion by the beginning of May.
This will be another important retrograde, where the past will be reviewed so we may reconsider past sorrows and “self-undoing behaviors” in a new light of a vaster understanding. This one can show us where we fit into a much greater Life field, and a greater sense of compassion and forgiveness than we’ve known before. Get ready to say goodbye to a lot of things, and be willing to forgive to create the space for Grace to enter your life in April.
Renewals, returns, reconnections, reunions, and a sense of completion with glimpses of a new life 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 now in its home sign of Capricorn for the first time since 1991, it is the final dispositor of all planets transiting Capricorn and Aquarius from now through 2023. It was a major influence in the Jan-Feb and July-August 2018 eclipses, as well as the more recent January 2019 eclipses, continuing its years-long power behind events.
Saturn continues to hold court in its home sign of Capricorn, and will continue to play a big part due to its biseptile with Uranus, indicating we’re all at a major fork in the road of destiny wherever we have Capricorn, late Aries, and early Taurus. We now have seen what parts we should play in the larger Light/Life field, and are getting ready for more effective functioning in our world.
In order to use your inner Saturn power to shape your destiny by being aware of what to do and why, if you haven’t already, please consider getting a copy of my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. Saturn helps us give form and structure to our quest for Self-realization, and in Capricorn, will help bring an “organized personal structure” to the Uranian energies infused with concentrated doses of spiritual energy that is making our spiritual life come alive.
It was written for both astrologers and non-astrologers, and will help you understand why some things happened when they did. Each time you read any section of this book you will find new insights about your power to steer your personal evolution. You will understand how to throw off all the attitudes which have held you back from finding and living your life and purpose, and fulfill your destiny as an Eternal having human experiences!
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© Copyright 2019 Robert Wilkinson
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Posted by: Chickie | March 03, 2019 at 08:44 PM
Very informative!
Posted by: Secret Pisces | March 17, 2019 at 05:03 PM