Into the Mystic

Whew! This Mercury retrograde was quite a whopper for me!

I’ve been noting many others sharing that sentiment, and undeniably, we have a lot occurring around this retrograde making it a little more difficult to try to isolate what was effecting what and in what manner.

I have had days these past weeks that putting together a sentence was more effort than it was worth leaving me exhausted for hours after (and no, sadly that is not an exaggeration).

Too, my conversations have really been out in left-field, even my Merc-Jup-Uranus stellium has been a little surprised by the stuff coming forth from my mouth.

I was talking to a friend yesterday, and out of the blue while I am giving him the rundown on his current transits, I interject with, “I need to go swimsuit shopping”, and then proceed to tell him all about it, whatever it was that I was prattling on about concerning swimsuit shopping, for I am not even certain what I said.

Maybe I was channeling Elle MacPherson {{laughs}}, hey it’s a possibility she’s been on my mind quite a bit lately and I have no idea why, afterall, my brain is amped out on retro of late.

Whatever it was all about, it worked for him though{{big smile}} for he readily offered to go swim suit shopping with me.

Men are visual creatures, and that is a good thing in this case, for I am not certain what all I said in that conversation, and just in case he picked up on Elle, well let’s just say he is going to have to spin a really good projection my way to be seeing that.

At 40, I don’t mind nearly as much as when I was younger, as long as I benefit in a way that pleases me, it’s all good, right?{{HUGE grins}}

Too, after sharing this conversation I had with one male friend with another male in my life, I received a hearty second offer of companionship for my swimsuit shopping excursion. 😉

Now that I’ve digressed, and confessed, my personal stuff again for the zillionth time this year so far…back to my attempt at talking Mercury Retro.

With this retrograde occurring in my 7th house I felt as if my normal ways of communicating with other (7th house) was totally 86’d.

For instance, if it were not a conversation (meaning totally one-sided in nature), there was a huge disconnect for me.

I could not relate in the least to what the other was saying nor was I able to respond in any way that was half-expected by the other, I was lucky to just be able to give a nod (and let me tell you something, unless the other is seriously in-tune, that doesn’t work well in a phone conversation and pass as a response). 🙂

No matter how hard I tried to understand the words coming at me, nothing registered, like the other was speaking alienese.

Within the 7th house it takes two baby, so apparently this is how my Mercury was functioning…if there was not “two” equal participants then there was no function at all, for “one” was just not enough to meet the criteria of the 7th house.

There is much more that’s been happening than all of that, in fact everyday of this particular retrograde has been an uphill march for me, yet I will not drone on and on upon all the oddness this retro brought to the stage.

Being that we are still in it, I am not even sure I could get it all straight right now anyway.

I have had some incredibly useful insights arrive too though and I thought I’d share a bit on those.

The term that comes to mind with these insights is “Economizing Communication”.

Since my usual gift of easy gab (both verbal and through written word) was short-circuited in the extreme, I found myself brainstorming (as much as a retro-brain is capable of anyway) for ways I can communicate more effectively and make better usage of my energy to communicate with more people as opposed to using so much of my energy in one-on-one sharing.

Yes, that is related more to my Midheaven and 10th/11th houses (the sharing with more part), but Mercury was tossing out his reach there through sextile to MC and trine to my 10th/11th Saturn, so it counts. {{winks}}

Now I mentioned my Uranus in all of this, and while my Uranus is heavily aspected natally, I can not say I have been the techie-type, at least not until now.

Suddenly though, I am quite interested in utilizing that Uranus of mine to communicate in manners that allow me to economize my energy and cover more that I wish to share with less energy expended.

So the next weeks when Mercury travels direct again through my 7th and traces the same degree’s for the 3rd and last time, I am going to attempt to put my toes in the water and join the ranks of those out there utilizing all these modern day gadgets and widgets that I have previously shunned.

I am hoping to test my skills at audio files and video’s which would save me a tremendous amount of time in typing out a post.

While I truly love writing, and I know there is absolutely no way I shall ever cease being a writer, I do see the beauty in communicating in one of these other forms.

Often it is just so much easier to just speak something to get across what you wished to.

I have found repeatedly that when I am one-on-one via phone or in person, in a few minutes I can accomplish the same amount of work with someone in my counsel services, then when I am trying to commune with them via email.

Much gets lost in translation without the nuances afforded by connecting through oral communication.

I am thinking too, if I economize my communication in the area’s where I can with audio and video files, then I will have much more energy to devote to my writing and may just actually be able to complete one of the books I have had in process these past 3 years. 🙂

So while this has been a bear of a retro for me, I knew there would be a prize at the end, and I think I have glimpsed at least a portion of what that is for me, and I am thankful!

How did you fare with this Mercury Retrograde? New insights to share?