Little Miss Mercury turns retrograde at just 1 degree Virgo. Just. One. Degree. You’re a tease, Mercury!
Mercury Retrograde is famously the time we’re not supposed to sign contracts or buy electronics and also the time we are supposed to RE i.e. REvisit, REdo, REvise, REview, REnew! Yes, renew your… connection to Mercury and Mercury matters: communications, writing, siblings, your immediate environment/neighbors, your hands, your nerves, your thinking, your 3rd house, your 6th house, the place where you have Mercury in your chart, any aspects it makes. What sign is it in?
In mythology, Mercury was able to travel to the Underworld and back out again, the only God permitted to do this. Mercury the Messenger, a cosmic mailman.
So here’s an exercise for ya: become Mercury this Retrograde period. Travel (3rd House) short distances (whatever that means to YOU) without a map, without a plan.
See, Mercury Rx may mess up your plan, BUT if you travel without one? Without a guide, without a map? Well, that’s the kind of trouble, or, freedom, the trickster wants from you. The freedom to let yourself get lost. Mercury in Virgo may not like getting lost but Mercury Retrograde in Virgo DEMANDS it. No plan!
Travel backwards in your mind in your Virgo/Leo House(s) and what do you find? What/Who do you need to revisit? Refine? REfind? REmember? Then go DO IT.
Mercury Retrograde (to paraphrase Robert Frost) is that guide who only has an interest in your getting lost. It’s okay, though. Really, it’s okay.
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7 thoughts on “Mercury Retrograde: Travel Without A Map”
I really like this post. All sorts of layers.
I ran a mad dash last week trying to get organized before retro Merc hit…now I can relax and meander about, re-organizing:)
Something curious…my progressed Mercury has been retrograde for around 20 years and is due to go direct soon. I have always felt held back, experienced confusion in communications, misplaced things, etc. Since my midheaven and Venus are in Mercury ruled signs, I hope to god this means a new time of finally moving forward in my life…although the economy sucks….
thank you anita! I wish I could un-layer my writing actually and be a simple writer! Impossible!! 🙂
Should be interesting about your Merc…. I bet, if you feel unique changes, other transits will be supporting this. Just a thought….. I hope you get to feeling like you are moving forward. And why the hell not?????
It is truly intriguing how you layer. 🙂
Truth is I can’t help it. It’s innate. Whenever I’ve tried to change it? I’ve failed WORSE. Truth. My plays are the same way. People either are intrigued and want to work with me. Or people are intrigued and stay away. :::sigh:::
But thanks 🙂 I appreciate knowing how I come across. Always valuable info. I also like those Mercury Rx posts.
Maybe they are intrigued and they need to go away awhile to process. (referring to people who wander off and seem to not want to work with your plays)
It’s really weird how info pops up in several places at once and sometimes we don’t notice. I think our minds work on all the input and sometimes it suddenly falls together. (Here I think I’m being profound, yet you, the writer, are well aware of the mind’s creative process!)
Yes, I love the title to this post. It reminds me of better days.
Thanks anita