Moon in Sagittarius
Mercury turns retrograde today at 4:55p PT | 7:55p ET | 12:55a(M) UT, until March 10 (a little more than three weeks)
That is the center of the Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch which began February 2 and lasts until March 30
You who have been with me for years will know how to work with the above information about the Hermetic Epochs and the current Mercury Retrograde period. This might be called the "left-handed" half of a longer four-month period. It might sometimes seem a "dyslexic" period, but we all know that dyslexic individuals can be very brilliant in their own ways and accomplish a lot. It's just that the method or procedure or style is different. We are more internal, less external; more introverted; more likely to make outer "mistakes" because focused on interior thinking. It is a good period for speculation of the mental sort (not of the gambling sort). It is good for expanding one's viewpoint. It sometimes seems the "nothing works" period, and that is because Mercury and Sol are trying to tell us to figure out what we have been doing wrong, or how we could improve it. At other times there seems no discernible reason why "things go wrong" but with faith in the Cosmic Wisdom we can be sure that Divine Logic is working something out which human logic doesn't comprehend.
For the week Saturday February 15 through Friday February 21, we experience a bundle-shaped solar system (from geocentric perspective) and that gives us individuality. This is a blessing or a curse depending on how we use it. It can be very lucky, but in a left-handed way. Each of us can take charge of his or her own life, with Mars in high focus in Capricorn the sign of its exaltation. We might even do this without regard for other people or their concerns, because the defining trine of the "bundle" is Mars trine Uranus, a highly liberated or "free" aspect, insisting that it knows just what to do no matter what anyone else thinks.
As for warnings, one might consider that there could be trickery, because Mercury is retrograde and also conjoined to Neptune in Pisces the sign of its dethronement. There is the Mars confidence, but a Mercury trickiness in others or oneself which could upset the Mars apple-cart. This is probably not going to be disastrous, because Mars has good aspects including a sextile with the sun. Saturn as the preeminent planet by rulership (enthroned in its own sign Capricorn) means we will be disciplined, organized, willing to take time to sort things out carefully. This is indeed wise during any Mercury retrograde period.
With both the moon and Venus in "dethroned" positions, while Venus is bi-septile Mars, one may have to love more than one is loved back, as it were, to make up for any unloving karma one has acquired. This is not such a really hard thing to do but requires faith. Belief that G*d loves us more than we can love anyone else or ourselves is a huge help toward inspiring and releasing love. "Because he first loved us" is the way it is expressed in hymns. (If you are non-Christian or pagan, you can derive something similar from the divine Mother.)
The dilemma seems to be: You want to push ahead with your own ideas and inspiration, regardless of anyone's opinion, yet the Saturn force of limitation and careful discrimination, to avoid serious mistakes, is also present in your consciousness. "Slow down" is often good advice during a Dark Epoch, especially this Mercury-retrograde period. You might work out really good plans and procedures if you take the time to do it in a plodding, methodical, and "rethinking" manner. And the people you need to work with or cooperate with will also be slow or slowed-down in many cases.
{Week of February 15-21}
Cosmic Piper
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