Mercury - ruler of the mental plane, how we think, process information and express ourselves - is going retrograde today in his place of power. Mercury is at his most strongest energy while in Gemini, but even as strong as he is, he is no fight for the retrograde.
Think of Mercury at the wheel of a car, driving us all into new ideas, thoughts, visions, and dreams for the future. The retrograde essentially drugs him and he starts losing consciousness. Things get blurry, confusing, and he’s unable to communicate how he’s feeling. After a slight swerve, the others in the car grab the wheel from him and safely pull over where Mercury can be taken out of the drivers seat and cozied up in the backseat where he ebbs and flows out of consciousness while the drive continues.
Mercury - while passed out in the back seat on this journey through life, will slip into a dream state where memories and situations from the past resurface for him to reprocess. He will shift his focus to the past reviewing his life lessons and soul contracts. He’ll think about his future plans but may need to reconsider where changes are needed. And although he’s muttering non-sense to the rest of us here in the car, we aren’t fully understanding what he’s talking about.
Mercury actually retrogrades at the exact point in which Venus retrograded in Gemini this time last year. Relationship issues of all kinds came up last year and many relationships dissolved all together. Many relationships decided to sweep things under the rug and ignore the topics and themes of dissatisfaction in life and love. But now, with Venus in Gemini once again, she takes over the drivers seat to lead this journey forward with her heart while Mercury brings up things from the past that she’d rather not think about.
We all have to slow down and pay attention to what needs to be revisited and reviewed. We are in a stage of reprocessing and revising our past in order to close the door on some karmic chapters for good. We cannot move forward - as much as we want to right now - as we are in a time of reflection and recalibration.
We have Mercury, Saturn, and Pluto all in the backseat retrograde. Mercury makes us think, Saturn makes us boss up and prove we’ve learned something from our past lessons, while Pluto wants us to face our deepest and darkest fears and insecurities to put a death to the narrative that keeps those parts of us alive. The 3 of them continue to mutter incomplete thoughts and sentences from the backseat triggering us in the front seat to try and figure out what the hell they are talking about. This is a time of high confusion, thick fog looking forward, and painful memories of the past resurfacing for one final hoorah.
Because Mercury is in his place of power in Gemini, this retrograde will be an intense one. The normal glitches of Mercury’s retrograde - scattered thoughts, past reflection, broken communication, and loads of confusion - will be amplified and intensified.
We are not in control at this time. We are deep in retrograde season and still in eclipse season. We must learn to surrender to whatever is coming up for us. We are being manhandled by the Universe to sort out our karma and to find ourselves more aligned with our soul’s purpose than ever before once this is all over. So get comfortable with chaos and confusion because we have 3+ weeks of it to go before any kind of clarity will be had.
If you require any assistance navigating these energies, please listen to May’s Energy Forecast, the Weekly Energy Forecast, and/or download your Monthly Zodiac Forecast.