Mercury
Retrograde in Pisces & Uranus into Taurus
at
the New Moon in Pisces:
Dreaming
the Future into Being
It’s time to slow the Mind
down. It’s time to stop listening to outside news and tune into
the inner news. There’s a lot going on in there this month, so
whose news would you rather tune into? Fox News or your news?
Mercury, the Messenger God and
Psychopomp, is no longer in the Shallow. He’s into the deep
end now. After navigating his way through the entire sign of Pisces,
he’s decided to heed the call of Mother Ocean and turning, dives
deep into his retrograde back through Pisces. There’s nothing
shallow about our Mother Ocean so his journey will be deep,
mysterious and perhaps dangerous, for Pisces is also the sign of the Collective Unconscious
– the source of our collective longings and hopes, our fears and terrors. The Source that
gave us birth.
I’m sure Mother Ocean has a
lot to say to us. If we choose to listen.
Pisces is the last sign of the
zodiac. And Mercury turns back in the very last degree of Pisces.
The End of the End.
We are indeed at an End Time.
The end of patriarchy, perhaps even the end of our civilization.
Mother Earth is wounded and we humans get to choose if we kill her
and us, or if we step up, as AOC says, and choose the
transformational cost of a new Green Deal over the cost of war and
pollution and unrelieved climate change.
The Sabian Symbol for this
very last degree of the zodiac, 30* Pisces is: A majestic rock
formation resembling a face is idealized by a child who makes it the
ideal of greatness, and growing up, begins to look like it.
This
message of
potential transformation
is clear. Nature’s amazing grace and beauty is our foundation and
strength. Spirit is alive in Nature and her laws, and if we pattern
ourselves after one
of
these archetypal principles of life, we transform ourselves and our
world. We allow that archetypal value to live through us and in us.
This
is the perfect message for us right now. With
the Pisces New Moon occurring hours after the Great Awakener, Uranus,
thunders into Taurus (when he was there for
a few months
last year, Hawaii’s Kilauea
erupted for over a month), we get to plant the last seed of the 2018
astrological year with a bang. Uranus in Taurus will bring up new lands and new manifestations of life.
We can plant the seeds of our
imagination for a transformed life and a transformed world and
Neptune, which is conjunct the Pisces Sun, will carry it into his
watery realm to share with the dreams of not only humanity, but of
Mother Earth herself for all her children.
So
find time Tuesday night or Wednesday to plant those seeds of hope and
possibility. Worry is the negative use of the imagination, so don’t
waste this precious New Moon gift on fear or worry. Be playful and
use the imagination as it was created to be used – as a
blueprint of possibilities and
the workshop of the soul.
The
best way we can work with the
whole
Mercury retrograde cycle
this month is to decide
on an
archetypal principle or
deity to meditate on,
and use our creative imagination to develop
a personal relationship with the energy we want to incarnate. With
this kind of meditation, we’ll be exploring our
own
inner depths and
discovering
what is waiting to be unveiled and
understood.
Pick
an energy you want to incorporate into your life, such as courage or
intelligence, beauty or love, discipline or artistry.
Pick
a Goddess or God image that incorporates that power. Or
open up and see which energy wants to choose you. One Mercury
retrograde cycle, Grandmother Spider came to me and taught me many
things about myself for those three weeks of Mercury’s backward
travel.
So
work with your image or symbol and
do active imagination with this archetypal energy.
Saraswati
Perhaps
you want to find backers for your project. Talk with the Hindu
goddess Saraswati,
the
energy that flows into language and insight and sound. Perhaps
you’re completing school and need to focus on studying – talk
with Athena,
goddess of strategic knowledge. Perhaps you want to do more of your
inner work – talk with Vesta,
the virgin priestess of flames, to inspire you to
find your Self.
Perhaps you need to let go of a relationship without the drama and
pain – talk with Aphrodite,
who after love-making goes to her bath to restore her virginity (she
belongs to herself). Perhaps you need to defend your people –
talk with Arthur
or Lancelot
about getting the Round Table to muster and help stand
against injustice.
The
Divine Feminine is the life-force behind all evolution and change,
the ground of all being. The Divine Masculine is the source of
consciousness and self-awareness. Just as Sophia is Divine Wisdom
and Jesus is Christ-consciousness – knowing we are Spirit as well
as flesh.
Every time
we journey or do active imagination with our inner guides and
goddesses and gods, we glean new information to help us with our
lives. What better time to do it than during Mercury retrograde?
This
year, all three of the Mercury retrogrades are in water signs. That
means we’re dealing with our emotional bodies. How do we heal the
trauma that’s being inflicted on the people, animals, plants and
landscapes of the world? How do we heal ourselves (so we can heal
the world)?
We
heal ourselves through the play of the creative imagination. Not the
stuck ‘daydreams’ of unfulfilled desires, but the moving, active
creativity that fills our hearts and whets our appetites. The
imagination is where creation begins – the quantum field of dreams
that creates
the vision that only
needs to be filled with our passion
and our intentions to manifest.
If
we could dream a collective dream, what would it be? What about a
peaceful world, where war is a distant memory and creativity and
beauty are the norm? Where love comes into its own and is no longer
bought and sold, or
held
in ransom to
make sure it’s returned in full measure. Where men and women are
equally
valued and honored for their different gifts and their cooperative
endeavors. Where the community is at the center of the Circle of
Life rather than the economy?
Where
humans are once more part of Mother Nature’s biosphere, taking up
our rightful place as stewards of this amazing planet.
That's my dream. What's yours?
This
amazingly fertile Mercury retrograde waits for you to dive in and
renew yourself in the life-giving waters of the Anima Mundi—the
World Soul.
Bring
back your treasure!
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