Wayfinder - Mercury Retrograde - June 18th to July 12th

 

Many of us may feel as if we are setting out on a new journey this week, as lock-down restrictions are lifted in many countries, and we enter a world that may feel contracted, disconnected, hidden behind masks.

 

Mercury Retrograde has become synonymous with travel plans going awry, computer glitches, misunderstandings, or projects put on the back burner for three weeks. As a celestial messenger, Mercury delivers surprises, annoying “accidents”, or joyous serendipity. What has been lost is found. We re-connect with a dear friend. An important piece of information comes to light.

 

There is nothing linear about Mercury’s reversal. We struggle with Mercury Retrograde cycles when we pedantically refuse to embrace holistic, intuitive thinking. When we forget that delays, set-backs or computer glitches are merely external signals to go within, to learn something new, to question our place of certainty, or to loosen and float for a while as we see the world with new eyes.

 

Every four months, Mercury stations and turns Retrograde. This week, we begin a new cycle through the element of water, emphasising that part of our birth chart where watery Cancer resides. Water shape-shifts and stirs up the sediment, carrying our fears and our holy longings. Cancer is the sign of home and family. This week we re-assess, re-affirm, those bonds of love that bind us to the friends that feel like sisters. To those soulful relationships we treasure in the secret chambers of our hearts. Our emotional yearning for connection in relationship will come to the forefront as we delve deeply into the submerged past.