Mercury’s Rolling Us Downhill 5/10/22
It’s Gemini Festival time, and Mercury wants us to know it big-time this year, so its birthday gift to itself is a Retrograde do-si-do.
On May 10th, Mercury goes on its typical wild ride, backwards as we see it on Earth until June 3rd. It starts in airy Gemini, but rolls downhill to earthy Taurus, where its twinned energy gets double-horned. Maybe it’ll kick up bit of mud along the way. Yikes! You may need two heads to manage the usual cosmic jokers, so keep your wits about you all month!
For those who wonder how this will affect us politically, since everything seems deeply politicized these days, the U.S. will drag itself into public hearings about the January 6th presidential transition insurrection starting June 9th after months of highly Mercury-laden research and prep work by the U.S. Congressional Select Committee. This Retrograde should pry open our minds enough to pay attention to what’s really at stake for our democracy and national ethics when that begins. Shades of Watergate rising from history. Not like we have a clean slate in other matters, as the US’s SCOTUS is poised to up-end 50 years of precedent with its leaky ruling to come on Roe v. Wade and zealots everywhere race to to rattle our country’s daily life: everyone and everything. And Covid just keeps mutating, happy to benefit from our habit of ostrich-izing our awareness like we own the planet and are proven masters of any domain. Oy!
But most of all, the world is already in cosmic seizure as mighty Pluto (also tiny in size like Mercury, but at the outer known reaches of our Solar System) spends its last 2 years in the final degrees of Capricorn. It’s shaking every democratic norm, and pummeling the world to the core, while the astonishingly heroic Ukrainians refuse to cave to Putin’s war-crimes-invasion of their beloved Ukrainian homeland, culture, and values.
Here in California, climate is widely top of mind, as we’re entering the first stages of the worst drought we can imagine, with barely the tools or awareness to predict how it’s all going to go. There’s new data (per The Guardian online) showing that despite this drought, water usage leaped 19% in March as denial won out over reality. However, at the same time, Los Angeles put new strictures in place to curb this behavior locally. Help!
So how do we manage our personal lives within the scale of such global events? One day at a time, and one hour or minute at a time, as needed. Panic and cynicism are ill-fitting coping mechanisms, so “adulting” is what needed. Yes, just as that word has lost its cachet, we need to do adulting more than ever. Let’s take the best that Gemini and Taurus can offer: mental clarity and agility, plus grounded values, and apply them generously to our lives with a fresh commitment to sanity every day.
After all, Mercury Retrograde can be a highly productive time, if only we let ourselves explore such a path. Start turning over rugs, acting on neglected tasks, decluttering our attitudes, and making whatever contributions, small as they may seem in any moment, to restore the quality of life we deeply crave. We can create humanity’s best from scratch with redoubled energy. More power to you!
— Warmly, Diane
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P.S.
Why Mercury matters.
It may be small and fast, and appear inconsequential compared to other planets and lights, as it zooms around the Sun at a mad pace. But it oversees daily life from early education to the one-to-one activities of any close community. Retrogrades help us discover what needs attention before life bites too hard IF we pay attention. Yes, attention must be paid and action must follow as day follows night.
When Mercury (the Messenger, Healer, and Commerce maven) warns, please take note! And if you don’t understand the message, research or investigate it for what needs correction. The lives you might save really matter, including your own.
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