Mercury Retrograde, A Blast From The Past

It is Mercury Retrograde. How are you holding up? 

If you're anything like me, you've been hiding out and sleeping since Mercury Retrograde began on Wednesday. As the most sensitive among us know, things change during retrograde. Mercury retrograde is known to cause delays, communication failures, electronic mishaps, and cloudy minds. Retrograde also brings up things from the past... be they old friends and lovers, lost items, or unresolved problems.

Sometimes we solve problems, resolve challenges, and break bad habits. Then, all of a sudden, the problems, challenges, and habits return! This return often comes during Mercury Retrograde. Although it sometimes pains me to say it, retrograde is a gift. It is an opportunity to learn from our past, clean up, and truly heal.

When something unsavory returns, it is because this thing has not fully taught us the lesson our soul needs for evolution and healing. Instead of getting angry, ask yourself, "what is this trying to teach me that I didn't learn last time?" Maybe you "cured" unhealthy eating habits with a diet and then your cravings returned, ten fold, at the start of retrograde. Instead of upping your discipline, retrograde invites you to get to the root of the problem. Are you turning to food for the sweetness that you are depriving yourself of in day-to-day life? What does your soul want....cake or laughter? Challenges are like teachers. If we delay learning our core lessons, the challenges will keep showing up and giving us another change to learn.

So go deep, explore your mind, and ask yourself, "what is my soul really trying to teach me?" If you learn the lessons, the problems will stop returning...  next retrograde you might just have a ball!

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