By now you've probably felt and witnessed the workings of Mercury retrograde in Gemini. Technology gets sassy, communications are muddled, and even our best-laid plans and visions of timing get interrupted or discarded altogether. Mercury in Gemini, aka The Trickster, is here to help you reflect upon your thoughts, methods, and how you communicate with yourself and others. Depending on which house in your natal chart is ruled by Mercury, this inward-focused, chaotic mental energy is trying to rework, reorder, and redefine a particular area of your life and how you navigate it mentally.
Mercury is in retrograde from May 10th until June 3rd, throwing at us what may feel like obstacles, roadblocks, or complete 180s. Have no fear, however, as Mercury's retrogrades always have our highest good in mind. The chaos and frustration is often born from the non-linear path that the retrograde takes us through, in order to sort some things out and step on our best foot moving forward! At the moment it may feel like things are falling apart but once we have cleared the foggy mist, a smoother, more powerful path will appear and we will see that it was always waiting on the other side. Mercury retrograde is all about the work it takes to get ourselves aligned and cleared out, ready for forward movement once more.
To complicate this retrograde further, Mercury has decided to move back through the first degrees of Gemini and finish out its retrograde in Taurus. This means that this specific retrograde period is even more multi-faceted than Gemini (The Twins) already is! Two energies, two different houses of your chart and areas of your life, come together to help you clean up and shift in tandem. All at once. Phew! As if this wasn't enough work to embody, we began this retrograde in between two powerful, life-changing eclipses. The ground is truly liquid, moving beneath our very feet. But alas, take comfort in the fact that the liquid has a plan, a destination, and a function; the Universe has our back and her planets are guiding us forward, even if we are completely in the dark.
Our support doesn't end there! Just before Mercury slides back into Taurus, for the last bit of its retrograde, in the evening hours of May 22nd, The Trickster meets up with the Sun for what's called a cazimi (when the Sun conjoins with another planet, illuminating its energy and bringing clarity to the surface). This cazimi happens around 3:20 pm (EST) on Saturday, May 21st, and marks a brief moment of clarity. Whatever intel Mercury has gathered from its retrograde thus far becomes a clear message, ready for you to grasp! The trick will be to allow it to come to you in the Mercury retrograde style which it does.
While a typical Sun/Mercury cazimi is supported by outward conversations, hearing your words said out loud and reflected back to you from others through insightful communications, this one may work slightly outside of the box. I have noticed through the years that Mercury retrograde likes to get messages, ideas, and breakthroughs to us through our own communications (within ourselves and with the spiritual world) as well as through the rough reflections we receive from the words of others. Things may feel extra personal and the insights tend to come from our own inner workings as they process our outer experiences, rather than the messages being gifted from outside of us, clear as day.
Keep in mind that this cazimi will be working through the retrograde energy to get our lightbulb moments popping on within our own consciousness. This may involve more inner reflection or even a sticky conversation (or three). These energies are neutral, so even if they feel upsetting or uncomfortable at the moment, know that you create the positivity or negativity that you feel in reaction. Treat your interactions with grace, try not to take things personally on an emotional level, and continue to decode the inner workings of the mysterious, powerful insights that will find their way to you throughout the rest of the week. Especially on Saturday!
If you must make any new, huge changes or decisions (things that weren't necessarily in the works the last couple of months) during this retrograde period (May 10th - June 3rd) Saturday is the best day to do so, as the light bulb in your mind will be shining unmistakenly bright, compared to the dim glow of unsurety that typically comes with Mercury retrograde energies. Treat Saturday as a day to review and discuss what has come up since the beginning of May, specifically what has gone wrong, given you a headache, or just doesn't feel like it's clicking into place how you'd hoped it would. Even if you don't actively reflect on these areas on the day of the cazimi, the energies will help align you with the right people, thoughts, and opportunities to receive your insights. Astrology works for you, whether you use it intentionally or not. But, if you do intentionally keep these energies in mind, you may get more out of it than if you took it on passively.
Remember, these energies happen in a specific house/area of your chart/life. To know more about how these energies are working with you, download the app TimePassages or go to Cafe Astrology Free Natal Birth Chart and enter your date, time, and location of birth. Locate the numerical houses that contain Gemini and Taurus. If Gemini and Taurus start in one house but end in another, look to the house that begins in the energy as that is the house ruled by the sign. Google the astrological house number and read up on the themes which that house represents to learn more about where this energy hits for you.
When it comes to Mercury retrograde and the eclipse energies that we are now moving past (thank goodness!!) know that we are in a state of rebuilding and shifting that will continue into June. It is not quite time to plant major roots but you can trust that the Universe and her planetary energies will always guide you along to the best divine timing for you and your life experiences. Even if that timing changes, rearranges, or falls apart altogether. Now is the time to treat mistakes, mishaps, and misdirections with grace as they serve a much deeper purpose that we may (or may not) get a glimpse of with Saturday's cazimi.
In the end, though, clarity will come when Mercury stations direct on June 3rd and even more so when Mercury exits its retrograde shadow (the path it took backward and then moves forward over once more, after stationing direct) in the late hours of June 18th. All that was taken out and sorted through will find its place and the work you do now will create the platform from which you jump off of come the outward-moving tide of energies in mid-June. In other words, treat your fumbles with dignified grace and find the golden nuggets of wisdom hidden in the humility of what doesn't work or come through. Hold those nuggets of wisdom close and let the ground shift beneath you. Trust in the benevolence of it all and in the divine path this challenge seeks to create for you.
First, we must shift. Then, we can fly!
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