Lorna Bevan – Expect to really feel the elemental shift this week from Fire to Earth, as the Sun exits Leo on August 23rd returning to Virgo where Mercury is stationing retrograde on the same day. The Messenger rules Virgo so this retrograde between August 23-September 16th and 21°- 8° Virgo will be especially strong.
This is the 3rd Mercury retrograde of 2023 in an Earth sign – channel the potential by being practical, grounded, strategic and resourceful, tending to the small stuff before it becomes the big stuff.
Literally or psychologically, we have all been scorched in the flames of August and the effects on our nervous systems will only intensify when Uranus stations retrograde in Taurus on August 29th right in the August 28 – September 3 seismic geo-cosmic shock window of the August 30 Blue Super Moon.
Just think about the continuous physical and emotional wear-and-tear/trauma you have endured in the last few years. We all need some gentleness now. We all need some healing. We all need a rest. It starts with being kinder to yourself and then kinder to others.
Gently remind your old self who is used to striving, constantly seeking newness as a distraction, that you need a tremendous amount of alone time, that your body, mind and spirit are crying out for sanctuary, for cocooning, to just sit and be, to befriend yourself.
Give yourself the gift of Mercury/Hermes medicine by making an honest inventory and unbinding and disentangling yourself from the invalidations, compromises and hesitations that weigh down your wings. Open up your connection to your own guidance by simplifying and clearing your space back to essentials.
Make it a priority to resource yourself in practical ways as fully as possible. We have all been under-resourced for far too long in terms of friendship, love, community, support and encouragement.
Keep your connections in balance enough to be creative and emotionally happy but not be overloaded, swamped or trapped. Cut ties with anyone who amplifies drama by virtue signaling or reposting images of emergency situations.
Your soul is always communicating with you, but often in ways that are unexpected and even bewildering to the part of you who believes it is in control.
Chandra Symbol Mercury Rx VIRGO 21: dark river and distant bell.
“So much to be done. So many fragments to move with. Such a confounding.
The one inside is calm and quiet, poised and accepting, knows what shall be. The one outside is frantic with events and experiences which do not add up.
Severe conditions to test the soul and give the mind quite a scare. The process is to keep going into it a little further, despite yourself, and to keep losing who you thought you were in the bargain.
But there is somebody to be when there is nobody left to be, and only then.” Inside Degrees Elias Lonsdale
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