These days both Mars and Mercury retrograde. Actually not only these two, but also Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto go opposite to their usual direction in the skies. (Well, the whole world retrogrades now, doesn’t it?) But Mars and Mercury, the planet of action and the planet of thinking, create now the most prominent effect that we need to consider.
I have already written about Mars retrograde and how to deal with this time. But actually, now that retrograde Mercury is in the picture, Mars’s influence will seem and feel much more noticeable.
Mars retrograde started on September 9th and will continue until November 14th. In the time of the Mars retrograde planet Mars is the closest it can be to Earth. And this means it is much bigger and brighter in the skies these days. One can easily spot Mars in the skies. Appearing big and red in the East at dusk, and traveling to the West during the night, to descend at dawn in the West. This is the same path exactly that the sun travels during the day.
Looking at the skies at night you can also see Jupiter and Saturn shining brightly up in the skies at dusk, quite close to one another. You cannot see Mercury these days due to its proximity to the sun, and Pluto is just too far from us to be seen with the naked eye.
If you want to see Venus you will need to wake up 2 hours before dawn and look for her in the East.
But back to retrograding Mars and Mercury …
We should have gotten used to Mars retrograde by now, and usually the worst part of the retrograde is at its beginning. This time the crucial part of the retrograde is now, as it joins with Mercury’s. These two planets now, together, influence us as marionettes unless we understand their influence and are aware of their traps.
It seems absolutely unfair that in these very strange and unstable times these two planets add their troubling influence upon us. But actually it might not be so, it might be the opposite. Is it possible that Mars and Mercury now offer us a pathway out of life’s confusion?
In the automatic level the celestial dance affects people just as it affects flora and fauna. Just as animals in nature cannot resist the awakening frequency of the blossoming of spring, or the drawing in of autumn, so do people react to the universe around them.
With celestial frequencies upon us, they effect our body, our blood, our emotions. On full moon nights our emotions are flooding like the waters of the sea. We are active by day and usually sleep at night at the command of the sun and the moon. By that we, just as the animals, react to nature.
When the planets retrograde the frequency that they send us might make us react in a different way than our self-chosen one. Maybe in a way that does not concur with our chosen path and with whom we would want to be. Mars and Mercury retrograde can make us very harsh, tending to make mistakes, like pressing on the gas pedal while the car is still in neutral. Even going so far as to ruin projects or friendships on the way.
But here comes, with understanding, that humankind is not like any other beast. Humans have the ability to rise above their usual impulses and their automatic reactions, to be aware of what happens to us and to decide to act differently.
Yes much can go wrong during these times. These can be difficult and annoying times . But they can also be remarkably interesting times and even beneficial to our personal development. And if we know how to use these days in the right way they can even be direction changing and life changing.
The whole past half year was meant to teach us to stop our usual and automatic behaviors so that we will be able to recreate ourselves and our future. In these unstable times we might wish to go “back to normal” but actually it is the future we should be looking at now.
Were things in 2019 really normal?
Or do we understand that we have the opportunity now for a brand-new start. An opportunity to do things in a different way. And this is exactly what Mars and Mercury allow us these days. To create for ourselves new thinking patterns and new ways to do things. We really do not want to go back to past behavior patterns, or to working schedules that might not be relevant anymore.
These days it is utterly important to see ourselves, our thoughts, our actions – from the side. It is important to have in US another part, a higher part, that observes everything we do and say and ask: “Really? “, “Is this the way you want to act? “, “Are these the words you want to say?”
During these days if we use our awareness and our ability to look at ourselves from the side, we will be able to avoid surrendering to our usual patterns and our automatic reactions and all of Mars’s and Mercury’s traps. We will be able to use this double retrograde period to start building new patterns. Healthier patterns. Patterns that align to whom we want to be in the future, and not who we were in the past. Patterns of acting, thinking and communicating.
These days it is actually easier than usual to act differently and to start integrating in ourselves new ways. These days are like days in the gym of personal development and we can enjoy them and gain from this special opportunity.