Merc’s Eclipsing Retrograde
Collage art @bethhoeckel
Nearly through the first scrambling week of Mercury's retrograde, its partnership with the eclipse portal is becoming more apparent. So too our collective need to move beyond hysterical reactivity, starry eyed bypassing and random planetary excuse generation.
This all too regular rx transit amplifies Mercury's rulership, and too our chronic dependency on tech. We have long traded our bodies and their innate guidance systems for EMFs and little black boxes, housing screens that constantly pull us away from the truth that lives in our cells.
Merc in Taurus offers a standing invitation to relink head to body, rework thoughts through feelings and renew life itself via all that sustains it. This retrograde pinwheeling can unearth where our minds may have got stuck in the mud of the old world and its inhumane tenets. As eclipse season moves us all ready or not, Merc makes us play catch up fast. Deftly bouncing off the big players and dinging all the old bells.
The realm of the senses is our ground zero. The body is the temple that houses spirit and intellect. As this retrograde conjures memory and nostalgia we are challenged to raise our frequency in tandem with the earth and beyond its past norms. Making peace with our histories, stitching in our past and leaving space to tuck evolutionary understanding into the marks it has left on us.
In cahoots with this evolutionary eclipse season, Merc's retrograde towards the north node is playing for keeps. Our synapses crackle and reach forwards, plunging us more deeply in our soul's purpose. No longer tangled in the past and its old ideas, grounded firmly in our humanity.
Merc's rx moves the goalposts and changes our understanding of the game. Intuition whispers codes into the old stories and hides the keys in plain sight. Communication basks in deeper perceptions that no longer ignore somatic consequence or glory. This transit is portal to a new way of seeing and being in our bodies, utilising all of our cellular capacities for intelligence and dynamic evolution. Make it count.
Words c. Kerrie Basha 2023