Mercury Rx in Aquarius 2021

Mercury stations Rx Jan 30th, 7:52am PT at 26˚29’ Aquarius. Mercury then conjuncts the Sun in an inferior conjunction Feb 8th, will square mars and trine the North Node in Gemini, as well as make further conjunctions with Jupiter and the other Aquarius stellium celestial bodies. Mercury will then station direct Feb 20th at 11˚01’ Aquarius.

Where do you have this whole story playing out in your chart? Watch this video below to learn more about the specific transits occurring during this Mercury Rx period.

This is a strong AIR year, so renewing our mental maps + reseting our neural pathways is the key to success + fulfillment!

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Pisces Season - Inclusive Integration

This is the season of Yin Mutable Water. Here we are working with receptivity, and making ourselves open as channels or conduits of energy. This is a time where we have extra conscious focus on integration and transcendence, and how these practices involve greater levels of unconditional love, surrender and compassion.

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We have Mercury retrograde bringing extra mental focus on what needs to be integrated, and this information will all be bubbling up from the subconscious. Look at where you have 28˚ Aquarius to 12˚ Pisces in your chart to see what area of your life is specifically being integrated or where you’re working on the dynamic of transcendence in some way.

This is a good time to pay extra attention to the thoughts that come to mind just before you fall asleep, or when you first wake up, as this is when the veil between conscious and subconscious mind is the thinnest, and we can get a pretty good idea consciously about what is really going on behind the veil of our psyche.

We can all benefit from a bit of a brain dump right now. Whatever that means for you, Mercury rx times are always indicating a quieting of the mind in some way. It can be good to intentionally set aside extra quiet reflection time, or to try to watch less TV or take in less information in some way, so that you can work with what you already hav going on. Usually this isn’t a time to start learning something new, but rather to fully digest, assimilate and integrate what’s already been floating around in your psyche.

It’s also a great time to spend doing automatic writing, where you just set a timer and go, or you can be more conscious about a specific question you want to answer, and just let the words flow. However you can access the flow state is perfect, and it’s really your doorway into integration and transcendence.

This is particularly strong energy up until March 29th, so overall we’re with this Mercury Rx energy for about 2 months, including the pre and post retrograde shadow periods. 

Something that’s come up for me in my own reflections is on the nature of transcendence and what it really means. When I go into my reveries or daydreams lately, I’m often pulled back to an old version of self, or an older story or feeling that I somehow need to integrate into my current experience. I find that these memories or thoughts are often coming up for a reason, and are in some way connected to what’s currently going on. You can kind of think of it like your past life information flowing across time to give you some sort of information that can be highly valuable to you now. If you really want to get trippy with this, you can imagine it’s like an older version of you projecting this information forward in time to where you are now, as though on the soul level you knew you would be ready to process whatever was going on at this current time. Just a thought. ;)

This sort of imaginative energy can be helpful right now as we look to transcend the limits of space and time and this third dimension. We’re really offered a glimpse into higher worlds, the worlds that we want to create based on what we’re attaching to in the imaginative realm. The more we soften and allow ourselves to enter the second attention, or take on a softer sight of the world we’re witnessing around us, the more integration naturally happens, often times without our conscious effort.

This receptivity is what Yin Mutable Water is all about. We’re allowing ourselves to soften so we can go with the flow of the stream of consciousness. And now when you’re in this space, what comes up for you? Are you pulled into the realm of negative self-talk? Or are you perhaps pulled into memories that hold something for you? Often times the positive memories are things that we can take the time to reminisce on, and pull more of that into our lives. These positive memories tend to not cause us any trouble. But what happens more often than not is that we humans enjoy using the strengths of our problem solving egos to actually go into our psyches and find problems to solve, so when negative memories come up, you can take the time to process them, and perhaps find a more loving way to engage with them.

This brings up the issue with our typical idea of transcendence. I’ve heard it floating around in the ethers that transcendence is about leaving an old version of yourself behind, or ascending beyond a lesser evolved self into a higher one. I have a problem with this way of looking at it, as it inherently suggests exclusion, and is not very loving of ourselves and the totality of our experience here as humans.

Instead, true transcendence is not about leaving some part of you behind, but is rather about inclusivity. As we evolve and transcend spiritually, we are actually increasing our capacity to lovingly and compassionately contain the older/less evolved parts of ourselves, without rejecting, shaming or guilting those parts of us into the shadows of our psyche. This is really the only way to move into higher states of consciousness, because if we are rejecting parts of ourselves, that isn’t true integration. Rather, that’s denial, and that brings us to a very differently reality and experience. 

Transcendence brings us to a state of unity consciousness, where we’re able to clearly see ourselves with loving attention, and able to love what is. We’re able to then look at the older versions of ourselves with compassion and understanding, without judging. And when we can do this with ourselves, we’re much more easily able to do it with others. This is how we evolve and transcend collectively, through the efforts of individuals learning to love themselves more.

This brings us into a greater realization of Oneness, which is predicated upon being in right relation with All that Is. This means being able to honor and respect each other being on this Earth, without judgement. This is the highest wish of Pisces this season. We have to remember that each archetype inherently carries within it wishes, wounds and wisdom. I’ve mentioned many of the wishes and the wisdom of Pisces, but we have to remember that often we get to the place of wisdom after going through the experience of the wounding.

Some of the wounding or the shadow side of Pisces is linked to escapism and addiction. A good way to be very honest with yourself this season is to look at what you’re addicted to, as we all likely have some tendency, even if we’re not currently engaged with it. We can also look at what triggers us to want to escape. I heard a great quote by Tashi Powers, an evolutionary astrologer and kundalini yogi, where she says that escapism is a normal part of human life. We all need to do it a little bit every now and then. But the important thing is to not stay in escapism too long. When we stay there too long, that’s when we start projecting our limiting beliefs onto reality. 

This is something to take to heart especially if you are working with a lot of Pisces energy or 12th house or Neptunian energy in your chart. It takes profound effort to be consciously aware of what’s really happening on the subconscious level, which is really what sparks the tendencies toward escapism or addiction. Really, our conscious mind has little authority over the subconscious mind. We can say for example that we want to have a different relationship than our parents had, or that we want to transcend a certain habit or attachment, but then our subconscious mind is usually saying something like, I want to have the same exact relationship my parents had, or I want to keep doing that bad habit. 

The subconscious mind does not really have a filter. It just accepts whatever it experiences, and then throughout our lives seeks to repeat the experience, which becomes an engrained pattern or habit. This is why meditation practices or systems like yoga seek to shift our karmic patterns, really our subconscious patterns so that we are not living based on past brainwashing or programming that doesn’t serve us.

This emphasis on relationships comes up this month as well with the Goddess asteroid Juno in Libra being square Jupiter and Pluto in Capricorn. She is also retrograde right now, bringing on heightened emphasis on individuating away from limiting patterns in our committed relationships, and really looking at how our past conditioning or brainwashing is being currently projected onto relationships. Look at where you have Libra and Capricorn to assess how this is manifesting for you.

Something we can do to create a new pattern is to first integrate the past patterns of relating. Being honest about our shadow and owning up to it actually allows us to be more loving to ourselves, which innately makes us more loving to others, or when others are acting out of their own shadow, we can see it for what it is, have loving compassion towards them, and it helps us to integrate our own shadow. So it can work both ways, and having this awareness of what’s going on can make the whole process easier.

It’s also worth noting that when we seek to transcend lower energies in our own life, we have to remember that it’s about inclusivity. We become more easily able to love others when we’ve transcended lower energies, rather than becoming more judgmental about others who may still be behaving from a lower level vibration. We can have compassion and understand that they just are where they are along their path of evolution, and the more lovingly we can accept people as they are, the more we can help them to accept themselves. When we’re loving, we’re really supporting the quantum evolution of the whole. And this loving of other people also can be applied when looking back at older versions of ourselves. We don’t need to hate an older version of ourselves to prove that we’re more evolved. 

In the vein of finding the highest essence of Pisces this season, I encourage you to look at where you currently stand in your connection with all the versions of yourself. You can look at your relationships with others, or with shadow or subconscious patterns to see what needs to be integrated, and therefore loved. 

Something that often comes up during this process is the lovely Piscean dance between confusion and clarity. Often when you throw Mercury Retrograde into the mix, this can potentially bring more confusion, but only if we are trying to work with more information than we can currently handle. This might mean simply taking in less information, trying to do more with less, and not pushing ourselves forward according to a rigid agenda of external achievement. 

Letting ourselves soften and exist in an organic flow state can actually help us get done exactly what needs to get done this season, without over-exerting ourselves, or feeling the need to mentally be in control of everything. This may be a time to enter more surrender on the mental level, and let your spirit guide you to the people you need to connect with, and the places you need to go.

Some tools for clarity and sobriety this season are lavender, who helps us with honest, open and authentic communication, and amethyst who helps to dispel confusion and release escapist tendencies, attachments and addictions. You might also want to try some kundalini yoga, specifically there’s a meditation to work with releasing addiction, and also transcendental meditation. 

Hopefully these tools are helpful as you integrate and transcend this season. Wishing you all the best on your evolutionary journey, namaste.

Love Nura

How do you make meaning? - Sagittarius Season

Welcome to the season of Yang Mutable Fire. This is the cool blue of the slow burn, the fire of longevity and wisdom. The Sun enters Sagittarius Friday November 22nd, at 6:58am PST. Once again, we find ourselves in the spiral of our evolving Truth, looking up to the heavens and pulling into ourselves the light of higher perspective and expansion.

What is inspiring you right now? What is calling to you to be explored or discovered? 

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We’ve been collectively feeling into the expansive energy of Jupiter in Sagittarius this past year, so this isn’t new energy, but it is moving. If you can reflect back to what this year has felt like for you, you can get an idea of what will be intensified via the light of our Sun consciousness this season. Jupiter shows us what is being expanded in our consciousness so we can align ourselves more holistically with our Higher Self Aspirations. The Sun in Sagittarius shows us how we can make meaning of where our paths have brought us, and how to connect the dots of Truth that have been leading us toward greater joy and fulfillment in life.

To me, this is what we are discovering during each Sagittarius season – and the feeling of fullness or fulfillment is something both Jupiter and Sagittarius are quite familiar with. Jupiter expands whatever he touches, and Sagittarius is the cosmic outfit of the philosopher, the astral traveler, or the inner guru that helps us to set our sights on the light of Truth ahead of us.

The goal of Sagittarius is often shifting, and depending on what phase of Sagittarian expansion you are in, you may find you are looking for “more”, or conversely that you’re actually looking for “less”. As we know in life, more is not always better… sometimes less is more. While on the beginning of his quest the archer is full of enthusiasm and optimism for the many unknowns he will face and master on his journey, there comes a point after he’s been traveling a while where he wants to know specifically what he’s looking for. This is when Sagittarius becomes less about ultimate freedom that comes from the infinitude of choices in life, but rather about finding that single-pointed goal that keeps him in alignment with the Truth of life, or Natural Law.

This honing in on a single-pointed focus feels very much like the vibe for this year’s Sagittarius season, as we all come a bit closer to the upcoming season of self-mastery – Capricorn stellium! 

Jupiter is now in the final degrees of Sagittarius, and will be entering Capricorn December 2nd (at 10:20am PST), really solidifying the beginning of this immense Capricorn stellium we will fully feel into in January of 2020.  This is the expansion of focus, concentration and discipline on our path to wholeness, collective healing and fulfillment.

Discipline is simply remembering what we want. On whatever levels you are seeking fulfillment and joy, remember that where you put your efforts and your energy is where you will see the results. We can create structures and systems in our lives that serve our highest good, and much of this is predicated upon us having a solid foundational system, based on Truth. It’s challenging to build a sustainable system whether its individually or for the broader collective when the foundation is based on limiting beliefs or straight-up untruths. It becomes our job this season to weed out those untruths in our individual psyches, so that as a collective we can support each other to thrive. Hopefully we’re learning a thing or two from observing what’s going on environmentally to be able to see how that is reflecting our own human psyches. We are stronger together when we work as a collective toward the greater good of All, but it’s the tricky disagreements and attachments to untruths that get us in trouble and tend to keep us stuck. It’s also the limiting framework of our consciousness that makes us believe that something is only true if we can physically see it, so it’s also our task to expand the realm of our conscious sight and perception to be able to see beyond what has been limiting us.

As we expand our perception, we can invite in the energy of Truth and Love, and we can connect with the Natural World around us and within us to do this. If you feel at all stuck and unsure of where to begin on your quest for Truth, start with what is inspiring to you. What are you curious about? Allow yourself to be guided by your sense of wonder, and trust that you’ll be intuitively guided where you need to go, each step of the way, if you’re listening. We can intentionally attune ourselves to a higher frequency of inspiration, something to lay as the foundation of the new paradigm we are shifting into over this next year.

Sagittarius rules Natural Law, and therefore we can observe the natural cycles to connect deeper with how this Truth moves through us in our own experiences. Let’s take the recent Mercury transit as an example. Mercury has roughly 116-day cycles that repeat 3 times a year, giving us our yearly trifecta of Mercury retrograde seasons. This cycle can be further broken up into phases that emphasize different mental energies and patterns. The Mercury transit, or the interior conjunction (when Mercury is conjunct the Sun in between Earth and Sun) marks the beginning of a new cycle of thought, similar to the energy of a New Moon. Then when Mercury stations direct, he begins to move Westward to his most Western point of elongation, and this phase is where he begins to accelerate, moving faster through his orbit as perceived from Earth, moving into the future. This is similar to the first-quarter phase of Moon/Sun, where we are really getting to work on those intentions that were seeded during the new phase. Since we’re still in that new phase currently, we may not fully be aware of what exactly has been seeded, but trust that when the times comes, you’ll know what the focus is for you throughout the rest of this cycle. You can make educated guesses around what’s being seeded based on where you had Mercury Rx transit through your chart this past season, and just keep that in mind as we continue through this Mercury cycle.

When Mercury conjuncts the Sun again in Capricorn next year, this will mark the exterior or superior conjunction, where Mercury is farthest from the Earth on the other side of the Sun. This is a time similar to the full moon phase, where our mental processes find completion or meaning, and we are working on a practical level to ground down into what information we’ve gathered, and really apply it to our lives in a meaningful way. Then, when Mercury stations Retrograde again next year continuing the water Rx pattern in Pisces, then we will be in that final phase, similar to the balsamic phase before the new moon, when everything is spiritualized to its highest degree and you distill the essence into the most potent medicine of the entire cycle. Then we begin again at the next interior conjunction. 

Observing these natural cycles is what has given us the opportunity to make meaning of these cycles. We didn’t invent Mercury, or his orbital pattern; we’ve simply observed it and correlated to Earthly events and experiences. This is the same approach we can take when connecting to the flows of Natural Law, and then apply it to our lives in a way that has validity based on our perception of reality. The trick here is to not get too comfortable, or rigid, or dogmatic with our observations and correlations, so that we get to the point of believing we have the answer for everyone else. We all have a slightly different quest, but all with the core of learning how to live our purpose and love what is.  We can use this same approach of observing our cycles with each planet, sign and house in our charts, and this is how we construct our story of who we are and what we’re doing here. 

More cycles to observe this month:

Moon is conjunct Juno at 6˚ Libra, square the nodes – what is being mirrored to us about who we are by our soul contracts, committed people in our lives, or the general path of our commitments?

New Moon in Sagittarius Nov 26 7:06 am PST at 4˚03’ – yod to the Moon/Sun, involving a loose sextile between Uranus and the North Node in Cancer, pulling in self-awakening through knowing Truth of Self, trine Chiron

Chiron in Aries trine Sun in Sagittarius – healing our perception so we can expand beyond limiting ideas of self, healing our relationship with our instinctual nature, coming back to a natural wildness

Ceres moved into Capricorn 9:12 pm nov 15, square Chiron – nurturing our personal path of dedication, responsibility, initiation into the greater mysteries of life and service

Mars enters Scorpio Nov 19, will oppose Uranus in Taurus at the beginning of Sag season, then opposing Vesta on the same day that Mercury enters Sagittarius, Dec 9th – taking action on what we’ve learned via the Mercury Rx in Scorpio period, pulling in guidance from Uranus and Vesta around how to shake loose our attachments to certain routines, and instead craft a new loyalty to the rituals that serve us, moving from routine into ritual is more powerful and long-lasting, gives you the space to liberate yourself and change what needs to be changed, while still honoring what is essential in your daily life

Mercury stations direct Nov 20, 11:12 am PST at 11˚35’ Scorpio, Mercury in post-retrograde shadow phase until Nov 26 when he reaches 27˚ Scorpio again – observe these cycles, what is coming up for you in your mental patterns? This is the time to observe what has been seeded during the Mercury transit to the Sun, and connect with how you can use the knowledge of these cycles to your benefit

Venus enters Capricorn Nov 25 4:28pm PST – this pulls our point of attraction into people, situations, and events that support sustainable development, self-mastery, laying practical foundations, all of which can be applied with relationships of all kinds. Venus enters Aquarius Dec 19 10:41pm PST (Venus in Capricorn for 24 days).

Neptune stations direct Nov 27 4:32am PST at 15˚55’ Pisces – coming into greater clarity around connection to spirit, coming out of confusion of boundaries, self, deception, disillusionment, into greater awareness of how love is always operating in our lives

Full Moon in Gemini Dec 11th, 9:11 pm PST at 19˚51’ – this is when we get to observe our process of connecting with Truth in the highest illumination. We can find the balance between the need for a single-pointed focus of awareness on our journey, with the ability to still appreciate and respond to the relativity of Truth, acknowledging that at all moments in our cycles, we are learning, growing and expanding, and that while we can stay on track with our single-pointed focus of our goals, there is always room for considering alternate viewpoints. This can bring the ideal balance of Gemini/Sagittarius, the axis of Truth and Knowledge, where we can see all vantage points, and still be able to use our inner compass that is aligned with Truth to guide us forward in our own personal choices.  This could be a time where you finally find the necessary piece of information that brings greater synthesis to the whole (Full Moon squares Neptune, accessing Timeless Truth).

Chiron stations direct Dec 12 at 7:47pm PST at 1˚26’ Aries – after having been Rx since July, this will be a strong step forward in our personal healing. You may find that what you’ve been reviewing in yourself has found greater maturity, and that you’ve leveled up in your ego awareness. It’s not about transcending the ego, it’s about maturing it, so it knows it serves the heart.

Some thought questions to get you started on your journey:

What has inspired me over this past year? What am I integrating now because of this path?

What 3 beliefs have served me best this past year? What 3 beliefs have brought challenges?

What beings from the Natural World have been guiding me, and what have been their messages of wisdom?

When was the last time I meditated with a tree or plant? Go choose a tree friend to connect with, ask if you can share space with them, and receive anything they wish to share. Make a weekly (or daily) practice of this, and thank them for their wisdom.