The first Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade is here and this is what I wrote in my Gen­er­al Forecast:

Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade (Feb­ru­ary 6 until Feb­ru­ary 28)

Mer­cury begins the first of three ret­ro­grades of the year, this time mov­ing from around 3 degrees of Pisces and back to around 18 degrees of Aquar­ius. While in Pisces you are asked to look with­in and to pay par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to your pow­er of Imag­i­na­tion, to con­sid­er your Dreams and face down your Fears. While in Aquar­ius, your atten­tive­ness should be drawn to the recon­sid­er­a­tion of your Social Con­scious­ness as ful­filled and made pos­si­ble in and through your Dream-Liv­ing Com­pan­ion­ships. As usu­al, many issues in your present day life may slow down or be put on hold as you go back to fin­ish some mat­ters that you left behind.

Your Avatar of Mind is skip­ping around for the next cou­ple of months, so you bet­ter get ready to bend along with those Mer­cu­r­ial rays. One of your great­est gifts is your Intel­li­gence, and it is cer­tain­ly nec­es­sary now to show how adept you are with this most mar­velous fac­ul­ty, it is time to show how nim­ble, agile and adapt­able you are when it comes to your Per­cep­tions and Thoughts. This World is the sub­stan­tial result, it is the con­cretized embod­i­ment of Thought-Forms that you formed and made into your Reality…For as you think so shall you become.

Mer­cury moved into the Water sign of Pisces on Jan­u­ary 31, but he will only be there for less than two weeks…why so short a time? Because today, Thurs­day Feb­ru­ary 6, he is turn­ing ret­ro­grade for three weeks. Which means Mer­cury will move back out of Water and into the Airy sign of Aquar­ius by Feb­ru­ary 12. Mer­cury will turn direct on the last day of Feb­ru­ary, and on March 17 Mer­cury will return to the sign of Pisces and remain there until April 7. Now that is a quite a lot of skip­ping and jump­ing around between the Watery Worlds of Pisces and the Airy Spaces of Aquarius…and that is pre­cise­ly the point, that is exact­ly the gift you are being offered here.

You are about to have an extend­ed invi­ta­tion to work the “weav­ing way” that leads to a more adept and nuanced sen­si­bil­i­ty. By mov­ing back and forth between Watery Pisces and Airy Aquar­ius, you will be bet­ter able to appre­ci­ate the qual­i­ties of both, and more exact­ly see how they both inform and enhance one another.

For your Feel­ings form the con­tex­tu­al back­ground upon which your Thoughts seek to con­struct your ratio­nal view of your world, and it is this which cre­ates the per­cep­tu­al frame­work of your under­stand­ing. Your Thoughts in turn form the medi­um and means of com­mu­ni­cat­ing your Feel­ings, so that you may bet­ter com­pre­hend your Intu­itive (non-ratio­nal) per­cep­tions that per­mit you to per­ceive what is beyond your con­scious know­ing. It is by weav­ing togeth­er these two ways of expe­ri­enc­ing your rela­tion­ship to your­self and of the world around you, by bal­anc­ing and blend­ing the Mental/Rational and Feeling/Intuitive that you cre­ate the expe­ri­ence of your real­i­ty that not only makes sense but feels right too.

The move­ment of Mer­cury through Pisces inclines your per­cep­tions and thoughts to the more Intu­ition­al Way of Know­ing, for it is here that the focal lens­ing of your mind seeks to slip between or tran­scend the lim­its of any one bound­ary or realm of com­pre­hen­sion. You find your­self inspired by con­sid­er­a­tions of the ulti­mate ques­tions of your Life: of Self­less­ness and Sac­ri­fice, of Com­pas­sion and Uncon­di­tion­al Love, of your Faith and your Fear, of your Ego-Lim­i­ta­tions and your Self-Transcendence.

With Mer­cury ret­ro­grade in Pisces, you need to take time to look more deeply with­in your­self to recon­sid­er your most pre­cious gifts of Dream­ing and Imag­i­na­tion, for they form the core of the pow­er of your Ever-Becom­ing, that you are here quite sim­ply to Grow. But to tru­ly release this won­drous gift, you must nev­er cease to chal­lenge your­self to remove what might fore­stall or impede your spir­i­tu­al progress. And what is that? The shad­ow on your path is prin­ci­pal­ly formed by those haunt­ing echoes of your past fail­ures which form your present day fears, and togeth­er these weigh upon your capac­i­ty to believe in your­self or your fel­low companions.

With Mer­cury ret­ro­grade in Pisces you are asked to lis­ten to your inner voice, your calm and steady com­pan­ion, and remem­ber what has been the source of you and of all that is around you too. That at your core you are of the Divine, and it is this lov­ing Pres­ence that pro­vides you with your Foun­tain Source of Hope. It forms your firm and unshake­able Foun­da­tion that becomes sub­stan­tial and shines forth in the Love you have and the Love that you share and is known to you as your Faith. That from this you know you can rise above any past error or mis­take, that you can learn to do and be bet­ter and that you have noth­ing what­so­ev­er to fear, “for thou art with me”. 

When Mer­cury re-enters Aquar­ius on Feb­ru­ary 12, you will find your­self drawn to reex­am­ine your­self and your world through your Rational/Reasoning Mind, for you need to bet­ter under­stand how you do this, how through your Thought-Forms you are able to cre­ate a New­er, Bet­ter World from the Old in which you abide.

For hav­ing had your Thoughts and Beliefs, your very Hopes and Dreams formed with­in the World as it is, how or from where would the Seed of the New arise, from where would come those won­der­ful­ly dis­rup­tive and free­ing Ideas of Inven­tive­ness, Orig­i­nal­i­ty and Spir­i­tu­al Progress?

Again, you must recon­sid­er and return to source, for here at the Aquar­i­an part of the Heart of you, it is here that you will find that your High­er Mind ever seeks to be as free as pos­si­ble from con­straint and con­ven­tion. That you as a fun­da­men­tal­ly Spir­i­tu­al Being, when you hold your­self with­in these High­er Thought Realms, are able to con­sid­er the world that is and the world that could be from out­side the Per­cep­tu­al Hier­ar­chy of the sta­tus quo. You can ride along with these high­er Thought-Forms which will then take you beyond the accept­ed and rea­son­able of today and show you a Brighter Tomor­row, your High­er Con­scious­ness can show you a New You and a New Earth too.

But just as your Intu­ition­al Know­ing in Pisces must be formed into Thoughts so that you might share your Faith, your Greater Know­ing in Aquar­ius is more Lov­ing­ly expressed when com­bined with those Feel­ings of Fel­low­ship that you share with one anoth­er. For this is most cer­tain­ly true, you must have Faith and you must Believe if you are to See and Know a bet­ter Way too.

This is the Dance of Mer­cury now.…

As you work the “weav­ing-way” of your Ratio­nal and your Intuitional.

You are here To Know and To Feel,

To Keep Togeth­er your Airy and Watery ways.

For In Wis­dom and by your Faith…

You are here to make…

Your Dreams come True.