Mercury Retrograde is over

We’ve reached the end of Mercury Retrograde , for the third and final time in 2019. The effects have been particularly poignant this time around, thanks to its proximity to two eclipses.

A planetary retrograde can bring on a heightened awareness to issues, opportunities and situations that correspond to the domain of each planet.

As Mercury rules communication, learning, thinking, reasoning and negotiating, during this planet’s retrograde period, we can expect mishaps and mistakes in these domains. It’s not ALL bad, but it can certainly feel that way!

I’m aware that lots of people have been experiencing heightened states of consciousness, dealing with tricky emotions and facing various life challenges at the moment. As a practitioner working in healing, it is important to honour this and take it as an opportunity to do less and go inwards to allow reflection. Allow yourself to really feel your emotions and ride them out, so that they can pass.

A retrograde can be seen as an opportunity to simply step back, press pause and reassess. They are absolutely essential for growth, evolution and progression in all areas of our life whether that is our fertility journey, a personal healing journey or a big life change.

Retrogrades are very much about HEALING. They help us recognise and break the patterns that are holding us back and preventing us from growing and living in our light.

During periods of planetary retrogrades, there is a lot of revelation and realisation. Perhaps you’ve been able to step out of a repeat cycle of victimhood and wallowing. Or maybe some truths have come to the surface regarding a toxic situation or person who has been holding you back.

Mercury oversees computer coding, travel and transportation, as well as formal paperwork such as contracts and leases, in addition to wills, manuscripts and agreements. As it happens, we made the bold assumption that Mercury might not delay or interfere with our recent 5 Days of FERTILE Wisdom mailer, but we were wrong.

Emails indeed went awry and Mailchimp seemed to have a mind of its own this Mercury Retrograde. So, apologies to any subscribers who were inconvenienced by technological glitches this month. If you too have suffered from electrical errors, business blunders and speaking slip ups this retrograde, know that we are now through the worst of it.

To experience true love and joy, we must also deal with pain, loss, trauma and anger.

To see our true light, we must also embrace our shadow. All of our parts make us whole and we have to work with all parts of who we are in order to turn our wounds into wisdom. When we are able to acknowledge and honour the bad with the good, we become more conscious and connected to our inner super powers.

“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.” L.R. Knost