🪐 Mercury Retrograde

Mercury Retrograde...

It happens 3-4 times per year, but is it real? 

Does this planet's movements in the Heavens really impact us down on Earth? 

The short answer is yes...sort of! 

The impact is based on our approach. 💡

Mercury Retrograde is our natural time of slowing down. 

Mercury is our planet of communication, commerce, and travel. 

During mercury retrograde the speed of Mercury's movement slows down (relative to Earth). Likewise, we are intended to slow down our communications, commerce, and travel. 

It sounds easy, right? It certainly can be if we willingly choose to slow down, pause, and reflect before sailing ahead after the three-week rest. 

If you match the speed of Mercury, Mercury Retrograde can transform into a beautiful and mindful time of rest, recovery, and replenishment...a natural period of self care that comes around every few months. 

The problems happen when we try to maintain a breakneck speed, becoming out of sync with the energies of the moment. It's like trying to drive 70 miles-per-hour on a 25- mile-an-hour street! Accidents happen when we move too fast.  

Mercury Retrograde is about flowing with what is happening. Adapting; revising our plans. Embracing a gentler, quieter, slower approach. It can be a confusing time, but it can be a beautiful time too. 

Humans were never meant to live a life of 24/7 activities and scrolling. 

To thrive in body and mind, we need times of quiet and rest. Mercury Retrograde periods are those times...if we let them be. 

MERCURY RETROGRADE DATES - 2024/2025 

2024

April 1- April 25th 

August 4 - August 28th 

November 25th - December 15th 

2025 

March 14- April 7th 

July 17 - August 11th 

November 9 - November 29th 

REmember and REveal during Mercury REtrograde!

This article was written by guest writer Vanessa Quintero. 

We may be taking different roads, but they all lead to the same place...home. 

What do I mean by home?  

Not necessarily a physical place- but rather a feeling, a vibration.  

It is vibration of All That Is...The vibration that represents our truth.  

There is a way to free our souls- to liberate us in a way that empowers us to truly live. 

No- it doesn’t involve fixing or learning anything. 

In fact, it is the opposite.  

It is the unlearning of everything that is not truth.  

It is the unmasking.  

It is the undoing.  

It is the revealing, the remembering.

"Remembering what," you may ask? Remembering that we are powerful creators... remembering that we were designed to create with our thoughts. What if we used the creative powers of our thoughts to re-define truth? 

What if we allowed truth to mean "only the thoughts that feel good to us" and then gave ourselves permission release all else...to let go of all the thoughts that do not feel good to our soul? Take a moment to imagine what we could create by giving power to only the thoughts that make us feel good!

There is a reason we feel worry, sadness, and angst when we choose to listen to our ego. It is because the ego is telling us messages that are not true for our soul. 

Our ego tells us that we "are not enough," when our soul knows that being "not enough" is impossible...that we always have been, and always will be, perfect divine beings. 

The best way to move beyond the ego's illusions is to simply shine the light that is inside of us. When we want light in a dark room, we do nothing with the darkness; we simply turn the light switch on....because inside we know that darkness is nothing more than the absence of light. It is not real, it is simply a projection. Darkness is, in so many ways, just another illusion of the ego. 

We are here to extend the light that we are, not to project the illusions that the ego makes us perceive. We can do this by focusing, everyday, on what makes us feel good. Do not worry about the things that make you feel anything less than great. Do not even allow room in for those thoughts. Understand, when you are vibrating at a level of love and Divine Light, you are simply not a match for the beliefs that vibrates at anything lower.

Think of the words DIS-ease and DIS-order. These are ways that our body reacts to thoughts and behaviors that are dis-aligned with the powerful truth of our soul. When we are are experiencing disease and disorder, it is time to take a look at what we believe to be true. 
We only give power to our thoughts when we tell ourselves that they are true — it is time to realize that not all of the thoughts you think have to be believed.  If it feels good, it is truth. If it produces a reaction that does not feel good, it an illusion.  

So what should we do when we have thoughts that feel less than good?

1. Feel your emotions, cradle them, tend to them... do this for a small amount of time only. Then declare, “I will begin to release this thought that no longer serves my well being.”
2. Assess the belief attached to that thought. Is the belief really true? (Probably not!)
3. Then reprogram your mind to a new belief that serves you and produces relief.
4. Hold space, patience, and light for yourself. Forgive and remind yourself that this doesn’t have to be hard, but it can take a bit of time. 

Shifting your mind is possible. After all, it is your birthright to feel good and produce a reality that you enjoy...Remember, you do not have the light within you, you are the light.  

If you need an affirmation to help you embrace this truth, I suggest this one: "I am in the process of remembering my Divine birthright to feel good and vibrate higher than the illusions that the ego produces." 

So much love and light to you all!

Vanessa Quintero

Vanessa is an Intuitive who specializes in helping people heal patterns of control, including eating disorders. You can contact Vanessa at this link and at VanessaLiving8@yahoo.com. Vanessa also produces YouTube videos on a number of topics, check out her most recent video on healing your beliefs. 

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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