Weekend Astrology Forecast: Mercury Retrograde Edition

Week Ahead Astrology
@anamariapinedacom

Mercury is going retrograde on March 15th at 2:46am EDT at 9 degrees of Aries.  Mercury will be retrograde until April 7th 2025, and will be activating all Cardinal (Aries, Libra, Cancer and Capricorn) and Fire Sign (Aries, Leo and Sagittarius) placements in your Natal Chart.

Mercury (mind, communications, commerce and travel) is in the sign of Aries, hanging out with Venus (what we desire and love). Mars (action, passion and drive), the ruler of Aries, is in Cancer. We are being taught to think before we act. Mercury in Aries can be impatient and wants what it wants when it wants it. The retrograde invites us to slow down, take stock of our approach and feel our way through any problems, challenges, obstacles and blockages. Mercury in Aries invites us to think about how we are investing our energy and time. What works. What doesn’t. We get an opportunity to review our lives and our actions. We get an opportunity to think about our methods, our habits and find new approaches to doing things that makes sense for us now.

Mercury in Aries Retrograde is a great time to restart a goal, habit, project or hobby. Aries energy is great at initiating and getting the ball rolling. This would be a great time to think about your New Year Resolutions. Did you keep up with them? If not, this would be a great time to go back and start again. Mercury teaches us about movement and Aries is a highly competitive and energized sign so starting a new exercise routine like walking (or something else that your Physician recommends for you to do) would be great at this time.

The Aries energy in the sky wants us to start something new somewhere in our lives. Whether we restart something with fresh, new energy, or start something brand new. It is up to us and what our lives are saying to us. The important thing right now is to pay attnetion and notice where life is asking us to write a new chapter. Take a fresh approach to life. This is the time to do the inner work, the prep work, the leg work before you manifest what you want and desire in your life. Clear your mind. Get clear on your intentions. Make decisions. Set up a plan. Get inspired. The energy of the Mercury Retrograde will be active until the end of April. You have time. Use your time wisely.

The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse we had this week is also teaching us about the things we do on a regular basis.  How are you spending your days? How are you spending your life? Think about it. What is your daily routine like? What are your days and evenings like? How is the passing of the hours, minutes and seconds of your life? What do you like and not like? What about your life and the way it’s playing out makes sense and what doesn’t? What needs to change? Mercury in Aries (one of the planetary rulers of the Eclipse we just had) is asking us to self-review. Aries rules the self. Mercury helps us think, question, and explore ourselves and our lives. This Mercury Retrograde is a great opportunity for self and life review.

How I’m using these energies:

Early this morning, I saw the Lunar Eclipse and asked the Universe, what am I learning from this Eclipse? The answer came when I was at the gym. I was working hard the whole week on a particular pose during my yoga practice, when I accomplished an expression of the yoga pose that felt like “I got it,” then the spiritual lesson came. Once I did it, I noticed an inner moment of “now what?” And that is the lesson…We strive for goals, dreams, people, places, things, and circumstances that we feel once we arrive then “we made it” or we will feel “complete”,” happy”, “successful” (place whatever word you want, you know what I mean). Once we arrive to the top of the mountain, there is another mountain to climb. It’s just the nature of life. So the spiritual lesson for me with Mercury in Aries is to keep focusing on goals but remember that the joy can only be found in the now…and that joy is like mist in the morning, it comes and goes…it's like the pearls on a pearl necklace, what makes the pearls stand out is the empty spaces…a lot of life is lived in the empty spaces…in the “meantime” before we get to our goals, desires, wants….life is the space between the pearls…so taking the lesson in, I realize the old saying…the joy is in the journey not the destination. I invite you to ask the Universe, what is the spiritual lesson I am learning from the Lunar Eclipse? And now from the Mercury Retrograde?

The Planets and Stars are the tapestry of the Divine Architect…they are language of the Divine Speaker…if we ask they speak….if we listen, then we receive an answer…open your heart to receive the lessons coming in from the Divine…the Universe is speaking to us.

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