Mercury Retrograde In Virgo
Mercury Retrograde Cycle
September 3, 2003
August 28th thru September 20th, 2003
Today’s Wisdom teaching is on the Mercury Retrograde Cycle. Mercury has been retrograde since August 28th. Mercury is the planet associated with the mind, communication, and intellect. Mercury’s placement in an astrological chart helps us understand how a person thinks, perceives, and communicates. A Mercury Retrograde cycle calls us to “rethink and “re-perceive,” or “re-communicate.” It is that simple.
Mercury is in the sign of Virgo. Critical concepts for Virgo are service, work, and perfection. Virgo’s here to understand the principle of service and the ideal work situation. Virgo is an earth sign. Earth signs focus on things that are practical, real, and solid. A truly balanced Virgo can lead us to embrace the concept of efficiency and the realistic assessment of any environment. What is needed now?
During this, the assessment and rethinking of practical and real ideas associated with what service you provide to yourself and the world are needed. How can you give the highest service possible to yourself and the world? If you are a teacher, perhaps it will be “rethinking” the highest and most perfect attribute you could explore and perhaps exude in being a teacher. Are you a good listener? Is the information you are providing a genuine service to your students? If you are in the business world, are you operating your business most reliably and practically aligned with your mission statement?
The shadow of this cycle lies in being too overly critical of oneself. And then focusing too much on the perfection of what you are doing. The best way to balance any cycle is to look at the sign opposite the one being assessed. In this case, that is Pisces. Pisces energy is water, which symbolically is about consciousness and flow. So while Mercury is retrograde, see if you can focus on flowing with rather than overthinking the ideas coming to you now. Slowing down and assessing “the big picture” rather than being overly critical of what needs to be done will help you during this time.
“Quote For The Week”
We are the flow,
We are the ebb,
We are the weavers,
We are the web.
~Shekinah Mountainwater
