Mercury Retrograde in Aries : The path of the Warrior
Mercury Retrograde in Aries April 1-25th 2024
Mercury retrograde in Aries marks a new beginning....or perhaps the beginning of the beginning...or maybe the end of the end of the beginning....🤷
It’s a potent one, for sure. Aries is the archetype of the warrior. The lower expression of that energy is impulsive, antagonistic and ego-based and doesn’t take much into consideration beyond the end of one's nose.
Most of us can relate at some point or another to being in these situations.
The higher expression of Aries is so authentically connected to its spiritual nature that it’s almost as if it’s solely identified, mind, body and soul with its divine nature. It’s singular in thought, feeling and emotion and action. Neither aggressive nor resentful but without being a people-pleaser either... If you work with manifestation principles, you know that’s one of main goals: line up your energy with your thoughts and it will lead you to take quick action towards manifestation. No split energy. No second-guessing. Not much thought at all, really.
Of course, being human and all, only rarely does it work this way. We’re messy and complicated in how we think about things, even the things we think we want most, maybe especially those. Personally, I can find it challenging to go 5 minutes without second-guessing myself and while I prefer not to make the Mercury Retrograde, which happens roughly once a quarter into something to be overly vexed about, I confess that I find it a time when my thoughts can be especially negative.
With the Sun meeting "wounded-healer" Chiron, also in Aries (through 2027) there's a definite vulnerability with this conversation adding to the intensity of the total solar eclipse and the mercury retrograde.
In his remarkable book Homo Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari discusses why it is that despite a striking increase in living standards over the generations it nevertheless doesn’t seem to translate into much measurable increase in overall levels of satisfaction, fulfillment and emotional well-being. As he notes, at a basic biological level, we are not significantly different from our ancestors where it comes to our neuro-chemistry...(In new thought/new age circles, we recognize this as our “frequency”or your vibrational set-point.) Maybe that's why it can feel, particularly during a retrograde phase where confusion can have us think we're moving backwards, as if things never really change.
Is it fear or guilt in our evolutionary, tribal wiring? Gay Hendricks has famously described in The Big Leap that allowing ourselves experience a more sustained sense of joy, well-being and satisfaction is actually pretty uncomfortable for our -- let's face it -- trauma-stoked human nervous systems.
Of course, as leaders in elevating consciousness on the planet, we have a higher bar. This is our common mission..an entrepreneurial and spiritual one at that (and Aries the Warrior loves the challenge of a Mission:)
If you’re finding yourself in a repeat of an old pattern or lapsing into old negative emotional dramas, try this on for size: what is DIFFERENT here, this time? About a situation, about yourself, about others or your response, abou t how long you stay "there"? Find something, even if it’s subtle that can brake the blame and shame cycle. I can promise you, there HAS been progress, even if it doesn’t feel “enough” or you’re not where you’d like to be. You do have to be willing to look at it and acknowledge subtle, changes.(Yes, it takes a bit of work. But this is definitely a time where it's ok to let our minds run the show.)
You can try this where it comes to your business. To your relationships or personal life. To your finances. To your spiritual connection. Even to the collective geo-political nightmare it appears we are caught in. We live in a holistic universe afterall and while the eclipse offers the most powerful portal for BIG shifts, we can/must? make it a practice to note the smaller, more subtle ones.
Thank you for taking the time to read. I hope it was valuable đź’ś
Signing off with peace and blessings,
Sym
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