Episode Transcript
Welcome to the Making of you. I'm Alexandria, founder of the Mastery Project and your Transformation Hub. This podcast is dedicated to the wires and ways to transform doable into enjoyable, successful, and purposeful, while of course, becoming the architect of your own life.
Okay, so let's get into it. Today's episode is 5 Ways Mercury Retrograde can help you.
Now, I know it's one of the big astrological jokes, Mercury retrograde. There's even birthday cards or greeting cards out there going, mercury retrograde made me do it.
So, yeah, my number one is, what is Mercury and how does it affect our energy?
Well, for me, astrology is very simple. It is the mastering of our energetic connection with the planetary energies in the solar system.
And it's about our relationship with them and how they affect us as they move around our galaxy and how our relationship changes as they changes. They change signs, they change elements, and how does that color our life? And how can we actually be an active and conscious player in that relationship? I personally don't believe that astrology gives you no choice and that the universe is ganging up on us. The planets have energy. It's been proven by the NASA probes that each planet has a resonant sound, has a vibrational nature. And of course, we are all energy, all right? We're all connected to everything on some level within ourselves. And so this is why astrological wisdom is so helpful in creating and navigating through our daily lives.
Okay, so number one, Mercury is the planet of communication. And it is also tasked with the movement of information, the flows of journey such as travel, and looking at the development of ourselves, of our humanity, our species, through technological advance. Mercury has some influence in that, but it's more about information technology and how Mercury gets people together, communicates such that we find resonant communities, we find people that we have something in common with, and also the way we can share what we have in a creative sense, in a cultural sense, through the empowerment of communication.
So Mercury is getting it out there and is moving and shaking around the zodiac on the quicker side than some of the slow moving planets such as Pluto or as Neptune. Those are much longer orbits.
So what we have with Mercury is it normally goes through signs between 15 and 60 days, and that is dependent it stay in each sign is dependent on these retrograde periods.
So what happens when Mercury goes retrograde? Well, it simply gets influenced by all the planets around it, its demons demonstrating influence in all its shapes and form. And what Mercury is doing is it's sort of slowing down we like to think it's going backwards, but it's more going inwards. And that's my first point today.
You need to be looking at Mercury not as good or bad, but as Mercury's influence inside ourselves. And then how is it translating into experience creativity opportunities in our outside world?
So Mercury is agile, it's flexible, it's adaptable, and of course it even has the adjective mercurial meaning to change quite quickly.
This can be to our advantage sometimes. It can be what we like, it can also be what we don't like. But I think Mercury in its essential values and qualities is simply asking us to align with change and Mercury saying, hey, here's a path and just see how we can work together. See how we can communicate, co create and cooperate to have a beautiful harmony where everyone benefits from.
Okay, so my number two, what does Mercury Retrograde start doing for us? Well, if you imagine Mercury as that influencer in the zodiac, then it's definitely going to be regulating our sense of movement and it is the first sort of rebalancing or initiation that Mercury retrograde can deliver for us. Is the question for us to answer, are you in balance with your outside world? Are you forcing and pushing? Have you jumped into your mind, into your mental body and you're reaching a little bit too quickly or too far into the future and displacing your heart mind alignment?
Okay, so what I mean by that, well, anyone who's listened to my episodes knows I am a massive fan of the heart mind alignment and I believe it really can help us to create relatively effortlessly and to really enjoy being or becoming the friend of the unknown.
So Mercury is one of the planets that's going to tell us if we are aligning. Our heart and mind is going to be a bit of a barometer of that process.
When we are in our hearts, then we are in the infinite portal of opportunity and we are aligning, if you will, with the infinite flows of energy a little bit like if you imagine a drain pipe going to the center of yourself, then we are connected to a flow of energy that's going to come straight down that drain pipe and fuel what we choose, what we think, what we feel and help us create our reality.
Now when we get a little bit out of balance, like we're rushing around, we're forcing our life, we're reaching far too far into the future. Panicking or worried, we will have a tendency to get sort of step away from our true heart center and go into our mind. And the mind for me is the place where we, of course, make plans, sketches, we have lists. We look at the strategies that we need to undertake in the physical world, in the daily life and material world, in order to ground the dreams, inspiration, and innovation that we are choosing.
So when we are exclusively in our mind, we'll get a poor combination or a poor overlap with our heart. And that means we're going to have less fuel, we're going to have less connectedness and probably less enjoyment and more stress because we're out of our balance point.
So in Mercury Retrograde, if you are out of your balance point, then you're going to feel it. And sometimes, sometimes Mercury retrograde means that life kind of seems to fall apart a bit, or one gets let down, or there's little mini mishaps, accidents, or a sense that we are perhaps going against the flow.
So the key to Mercury Retrograde is to say, hey, I am choosing to listen to my inner outer balance, and I'm also choosing to understand if I do need to go back inside with myself, so to rebalance, realign, and find out and catch up with where I am truly at.
So if we look at it like that, Mercury Retro can be a fantastic time to take a break, a fantastic time to take stock. A fantastic time to be in that inner awareness and to see what it's teaching us and how to bring our heart and mind together such that we can get the full benefit and use a hundred percent of our creative resources.
So number two for Mercury retrograde, think regulating inner and outer balance, think am I digesting the cycle I am in? And Mercury can help me with that, with the qualities of the zodiac sign that it is retrograding in.
In 2025, there's a lot of retrograde in Fire. Mercury is doing some retrogrades.
So what that is doing is saying to us, if it's the fire element, it's the quality of clarification, purification, but also digesting acceleration.
And we all know our world is appearing to speed up. A lot of elements are sort of here and gone tomorrow. But also we know that from the inside out, we are actually raising our consciousness, we're raising our frequency, and we're becoming more aware and more expanded about our inner perspectives and how that relates to our outer reality.
So Mercury Retrograde in Fire is asking us to clarify, to find the core values, the essential nature of what we're undertaking and what we're going through. So not to lose our temper, which is a common thing. In Fire, our ego's expectations aren't met. So we lose our temper. But if we are commanding change, commanding the rate of change and transformation, then Mercury retrograde can be a great time to slow down in order literally to speed up, because we are reconnecting with the vital nature of balance and also being able to ground what we are achieving rather than rushing around and perhaps not receiving that full benefit.
If you want to know about grounding practicalizing your life, then I've got an episode on that. So why grounding doesn't cramp your style so you can search for that episode if you want to know more.
So, number two, Mercury retrograde is helping us with the inner outer balance. It's helping us with that connection between how fast we're traveling in the external and actually, is that relating to what we want to achieve in the inside and the origin of our choices and reality creation.
Okay, number three, what's the dark side of Mercury? All right, we've heard quite a lot from Pink Floyd about the dark side of the moon and also about the mysteries of the Trans Neptunian, the Kuiper Belt planets, and of course, all of the asteroids that from time to time are coming to the planet and are potentially threatening our planetary existence. Well, Mercury isn't going to do that, but Mercury is going to ask us to look at the true nature of communication and authenticity and truth. Because Mercury can, of course, be strongly involved with information dissemination, but it can also, on the dark side, be involved with being fickle, being lazy, not committing to things, things sort of being flim flam or lacking a sense of groundedness or a sense of authentic connection with what we're creating or what we're experiencing.
So Mercury does get criticized for causing a fickle behavior. But in Mercury Retrograde, we've got a great opportunity again to be looking at what perhaps we've been exploring, but it's really a bit of a fad or to understand the difference between what we like and what we truly love.
So like is often, of course, experimentation. We're looking into the experience and we're exploring whether it resonates, whether it is part of our authentic truth.
But if we just keep going in a spiral of like, then of course, we can deviate off into what isn't really very supportive or very relevant. Or we can escape, if you will, from what is actually the essential core foundation, which would help us. So Mercury can, on the dark side, cause that sort of escapism into our heads, a dancing romance with our ego that says, oh, I've got everything you need. We can just do this and then after this we can do that. And before you know it, you're spending a a lot of your energy outside of yourself. You're confused, you're drained, or you really actually aren't getting any particular creative benefit from where you're fueling or what you're putting your energy into.
So the dark side of Mercury is always to recognize am I creating authentically from the inside out? And I've got to watch when Mercury on the dark side tries to take me on a lap of, for example, procrastination or denial or basically what I like, but not necessarily what is going to be helpful or of service to my long term development.
Okay, number four, well, let's check out the really positive qualities that you can call upon or draw upon during a Mercury retrograde.
Surrender is a great one. All right? So being able to say I want to slow down and I am choosing literally to recline inward and to feel the qualities of the astrological sign that Mercury is in. So let's give an example. If Mercury were in Leo, then you're going to be looking at personal joy. You're going to be looking at the immaterial values that bring you joy and that bring you fulfillment and being able to connect with those. And probably quite a few of those are going to be immaterial in their nature.
So number five, please don't give Mercury retrograde a bad rap automatically. All right? And look at Mercury retrograde as an ideal time in your calendar and the yearly calendar to take a rest, to enjoy who you are becoming and to take stock and appreciate the journey when the Mercury retrograde arrives. Appreciate how far you've come during your astrological year.
Okay, it's been my pleasure to talk about the benefits of Mercury retrograde today. If you're enjoying this content, I hope you learned something. I hope you've got things to go away and apply and think about.
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