by Robert Wilkinson
Mercury is rapidly slowing, preparing to go retrograde soon! Lots of Gemini 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 25 Gemini on May 29. It will retrograde back to 17 Gemini, where it goes stationary direct on June 22.
That puts the shadow zone between 17 and 25 Gemini, and as of about 3 pm PDT May 12, Mercury will enter 17 Gemini, the degree where it’ll go SD in late June. I’ll be writing quite a few articles about the coming retrograde which will post as it comes closer.
We’ll have returns of old ideas, memories of old friends and people who were like brothers or sisters to us, with a sense of finding new riches in old perspectives. This is “a look back” at ideas and perceptions forged in the past helping us figure out how to shape or re-shape them to express something of our inner nature.
During a Mercury retrograde, we often see how we dealt with something in the past and come to new insights about how it affected our ways of relating to similar things since then, or we could come to a new way to apply those old insights into life experiences. The sign where Mercury “looks back” opens us to new ways to view those things, giving opportunities to weave, unweave, or re-weave our understanding of how to apply our “second sight” as we are “guided to our Soul.”
Since Mercury last went stationary direct in February, we’ve been in a period of understanding what and who we look up to, and seeing who we need to help to a higher level. We’ve also been seeing where we’re at on the evolutionary ladders, and gotten signs and signals of things and people we have to leave behind.
This is happening within the larger 2021 theme showing us how to demonstrate “the alternating use of hard power and soft power” in our interactions. We’ve had to see when we needed to express our heart, and other times our mind. We’ve been expressing our ability to be “an adept” in some way in our lives related to where 26 Libra falls in our chart, and we can use that skill to navigate the coming Mercury retrograde period. As this retrograde station trines the previous direct station, expect lots of new interactions and ideas!
It will be a great time to re-think how we view what we’re expressing to our world, and how we’re showing “active care for our possessions.” This period should bring insights into how something spoken might be taken different ways, with a lot of roundabout activity in the house where we have the second half of Gemini. This will be a good time to review or take “one last look back” to see how we grew through prior times of “pruning and shaping our lives,” and give us a new look at how to turn ideas into action.
This Mercury retrograde period will definitely bridge the past and future! Its retrograde track through the past gives us all a new look at how previous Gemini transits shaped our lives. We may get glimpses of a new understanding of what we went through in 2002 through early 2003 when Saturn transited late Gemini, and a new look at higher awareness which opened for us when Jupiter was last in this part of Gemini late 2012 and early 2013. To note, Jupiter went stationary retrograde at 17 Gemini in October 2012, so by the end of our current retrograde journey, we may regard the understanding which opened then from an entirely new angle of perception!
Time To Adjust to A Different Pace
The Mercurial data you notice over the next 3+ weeks will be clarified after the Sun crosses the Mercury SRX degree around June 14-15, just a week before Mercury goes SD. So during the rest of May adapt to the slowing pace of things, get all your papers in order, finish what you can in the next 3 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 late June. 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 25 Gemini, get ready to go inward and explore your view of how you’re expressing yourself and your ideas, with an eye to “pruning and shaping” your expression over the next few weeks. Be willing to share information, and listen to what others are sharing. Move backward, sideways, or to a different view to open to offering what you know to others. The coming review will show you different angles on previous ideas, perceptions, and close relationships, and allow you to take a last look back on what needs to be dropped, what needs to be trimmed, and what needs to be shaped. I’ll give you more about Mercury’s SRX degree in a week or so.
if you want to know more about Mercury retrograde and how it may operate in Gemini and how it affects your chart, please consider getting your copy of the 2nd edition 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 2nd edition of A New Look at Mercury Retrograde, and if you want an Kindle ebook copy you can get it there as well, or if you prefer, go to B&N's site and get their copy in Nook. Just make sure you get the much improved 2nd edition rather than the earlier one from 1997.
A Look Back At Our “Graduation into a new realm of Being” since March 2020!
In 2020, Mercury went retrograde in February-March which launched a transfiguration phase in all our lives which is still impacting us through 2023! So I figured I’d leave it in so you can take a new look at how we’ve “graduated into a new realm of Being” since March 2020 which was activated by Mars’ transit through the Transfiguration Zone in mid-May 2020. However we chose to transfigure our lives since then has now begun a process of radical expansion into greater truths, opportunities, and adventures due to Jupiter’s first transit of the zone. Jupiter will greatly bless and expand the promise three times this year; April 28-May 13, July 28-August 14, and December 18-29.
The theme of the “Transfiguration Zone” at the last two degrees of Aquarius is the future of humanity, as it is the entry zone to the coming Age of Aquarius. You ARE a “Being of Light.” WE are “Beings of Light.” We are One Light/Life all together, simultaneously existing in a vast field of Light/Life. And our nature, and the nature of “All-That-Is,” is Love. Unconditional, eternal, dancing waves of Love across dimensions, an infinite perfection of harmony, movement and all enveloping Love. This is the nature of humanity and all of Life. These were the themes cut loose globally between January and May 2020 which will be made manifest in many ways over the next two years.
Originally published on January 30, 2020, for your reconsideration,
The End of Aquarius is the Beginning of the New Age
Mercury is the second inner planet to enter the last two degrees of Aquarius in 2020. This zone is one of transfiguration and entrance into a greater realm of Light/Life, where we can catch glimpses of the Age to come, as well as what’s up for the years between 2050 and 2190.
So at 10 pm PST February 1, Mercury enters the 29th degree of Aquarius, occupying the last two degrees of Aquarius until 3:37 am PST when it enters Pisces. This year the Sun will be the next to transit this span between 10:55 pm PST February 16 and 8:57 pm February 18 when it too enters Pisces.
Due to our global precession from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius, we leave Pisces at the beginning of the first degree of that sign, and enter the Age of Aquarius via the last degree of that sign. By my calculations, at this point between Ages we are still at the first degree of Pisces and will enter the Age of Aquarius sometime in the third quarter of this century.
Since a Great Age is about 2160 years, mas o menos, it means each degree of a great Age equals about 72 years. Thus the transition between Ages runs around 210-360 years. We’re directly in the heart of that transitional era.
The New Age began to “pre-form” some of its bridging structures when Saturn occupied 29 and 30 Aquarius and 1 Pisces between mid-April and early August 1993 and January 1994. Jupiter expanded our growth in those late Aquarian themes in late January and early February 1998 and again in January 2010. After 2010, Mars activated these “cusp of the Age” themes in late February 2011, late January and early February 2013, January 2015, December 2016, and November 2018. It will activate them again in early May 2020.
After that, these late Aquarian themes will begin to be expressed in new long terms forms which will bridge the current Age and the coming Age when Jupiter again transits the last 2 degrees of Aquarius and first degree of Pisces between late April and mid-August 2021 and late December 2021. Mars will activate those expanded and renewed themes of 29 and 30 Aquarius in April 2022, with Saturn crystallizing the Mars-activated Jupiter pulses when it transits the last 2 degrees of Aquarius in February and March 2023.
Those will be set into motion by subsequent Mars transits, and expanded in newer forms at the next Jupiter transit in 2033. Pluto eventually transits this span of degrees in 2041-2044, which will initiate the seeds of the Age of Aquarius sprouting in widespread forms.
Anyway, on February 1 and 2 Mercury transits the last two degrees of Aquarius, giving us Mercurial signs and signals about the 140+ era to come in the last half of this century and the beginning of the next. The last two degrees of Aquarius are “Butterfly emerging from chrysalis” and “The field of Ardath in bloom.” I’m not going to go extensively into these portentous degrees today, but will note that the former is a degree of transfiguration and “graduation into a new realm of being,” and the latter is one where “everyone may count on the inherent friendliness of the universe” and find the fruits of their more positive labors as "we all shine on, like the Moon and the Stars and the Sun, and we all shine on, on and on and on and on...."
In these degrees we find our ability to emanate our Light through our lives, find “an uncompromising faith in the promise of existence itself and in the wonders of a continuing creation,” as well as “self-illumination through exceptional service to others.” Here we transform the implications of our Light/Life through our new ability to self-transcend, and can experience ourselves as Lights within a greater field of Light, with infinite particles within waves showing the vaster unified field of existence.
Imagine this is the future of humanity. This is the Mercurial signal of this Cosmic Moment in Time.
You can find out more about this larger transitional Era between the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius by revisiting these two recent articles:
Are We In The Age of Pisces Or Have We Begun The Age of Aquarius?
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