Focus of consciousness for this Mercury Retrograde:

“I listen carefully, reflect on what I hear and make meaningful and thoughtful connections so the decision-making process is smooth, efficient, interesting and empowering. “

Take a Pause Then Decide

Yes I know it makes perfect sense.  After all astrologers will tell you to slow down, post pone the big-ticket decisions, don’t start or initiate anything new unless in the planning phases only.   Still life goes on.   Your work needs accomplishing and decisions do need to be make.  When you think about it every waking moments puts us at a point of choice where a decision must be made.   The focus of consciousness statement above gives us a strategy.    Go ahead and make those choices but help yourself by liberally using a pause button.  Listen extensively, ask questions, be curious and explore the answers thoroughly before you decide.  This will be easy enough for analytic people who cannot be tied to one option.  Mercury retrograde will seem like a great time.

For the bottom-liners, those of you who like to get to the point (oops –should have mentioned this earlier in the discussion!)  – listening carefully, reflecting and asking questions may be a challenge.

Having to make decisions during MRx can trigger any poor decision-making patterns that no longer serves you.  This is where healing sessions, such as the Aligned for Mercury Retrograde online session(for a short video) that Julie and I offer,  can actually help during a Mercury retrograde.  By looking at the patterns underlying our decision-making and healing them we can resonate with our Mercury Retrograde Focus of Consciousness aligning with the best of this astrological period.

How do you Align Mercury Retrograde? See our latest video on repatterning for Mercury Retrograde

Align for Mercury Retrograde and Take Time for Reflection

The overall general theme of Mercury retrograde is about reflection. It offers us a time to be more reflective about life on planet earth, to contemplate and to create order by eliminating things that block our clarity. Therefore it is generally a good time to write, edit meditate, retreat and organize.

Based on the sign it is in at the time it makes this journey, we find more specific direction about what is required at this time. This period of Mercury Retrograde will be in the sign of Sagittarius. The theme is about seeing. The ability to see often challenges us to be truthful. There is the foot-in-mouth side of truth and then there is the wise side. This Mercury Retrograde period asks us to really look at what we believe in. With Mars in Virgo gearing up for its coming retrograde period (January 23 – April 13th) we are challenged to live our truth in the little things. Mars is on a mission to adjust our life style to match the world situation. No easy task. Most challenging days are: December 2nd – 5th when the Sun, Mars Mercury and Venus tangle with each other. Pay attention to how you get in the way of your own liberation. Evaluate the things you think are too costly or time consuming or just plain difficult in the light of the fact that not doing them keeps you stuck.  So-called ‘austerity measures’ would be ok if everyone participated in them according to their abilities. This Mercury retrograde is quick to react to issues of unjust restriction.

If you notice that there is challenge around the beginning of December you will probably also notice that there is an opportunity for resolution in the post shadow period of the retrograde around New Year’s Day

Blessings

Julie Simmons

Julie will be telling us all about it in the next few days.

If you’ve always found it difficult to be aligned with Mercury Retrograde we’d love to have you join us for our online alignment sessions called Aligned for Mercury Retrograde.  It’s an online program where everyone participates anonymously sending in their main issues or concerns for Mercury Retrograde thereby customizing their slice of the group hologram.  Remotely (yes, that’s the cool part) Julie and I do a Resonance Repatterning Session to align the group energy to make the most of this difficult astrological period.   Your custom report is posted back online a few days after the session.  In it,  you will find the patterns that have cleared as a result. 

Most participants find it is easier to organically flow with Mercury retrograde as a result and never fret when it comes around. 

Here is the link to join  

With love and light

Carolyn

Who defied all and bought a KOBO for mom’s birthday during last August’s retrograde.  It only took 7 weeks to get it going!

Nevertheless she is aligned and calm as well as computerless. Although this may seem like some kind of cosmic insult perhaps it is time to unplug, wash clean the retrograded mind and re-orient. We won’t know till she’s back on line.

Julie

Mercury goes direct at 5:55 PM EDT. See if you can you feel that release of green light energy inviting you to move forward.   The retrograde energy will now fade with each passing day.  We will be completely out of its shadow by September 10^th.

Have a very happy weekend!

With many blessings

Carolyn Winter and Julie Simmons

I have been noticing examples of the pattern everywhere lately ..

- political parties like the Canadian federal Liberals or the USA Republicans (I know – in the same sentence) are kinda over as we have know them.  Their best days seem to be gone and fresh new ideas of governance relevant to the people have not quite arrived.   I am reminded of the recent New York Times columnist David Brooks (the Mother of All No Brainers) writing about his own disappointment in the Republicans calling the party no longer normal.  Here are some other examples:

- the World News publication is over, really over but saying sorry and exposing the truth has not launched a hoped for rebirth.

- on a different scale, in my apartment block ignoring a crumbling balcony situation has given way to a last minute spring time decision made during the last Mercury retrograde to have them repaired on two large buildings. The construction disrupting many households including mine, won’t be over until October. The result will be safety.

- Our city of Toronto is gutting long held ’have to have’ decisions such as the Jarvis street bike lane (gone next year) 50,000 city jobs gone, privatization of many services, planned graffiti programs  eliminated… has the revolution gone too far?  We are likely not arrived at the true new beginning enough to know.

For this August 2, examine the chaos, change and revolution in your life.  What do you resonate with and what ‘entrenched thought patterns’ do you need to let go of? What plans will you make to manage the your own inner revolution?

Your stories are welcomed! Leave a comment below (or click the title of this post and then scroll down to the comment box.)

With light and love
Carolyn Winter

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It’s nearly here again.  In the days leading up to when Mercury is retrograde August 2, 2011 what aspects of this influence do you resonate with – the potential tragedy of it all or the potential?  Through the lens of energy healing, we are all vibrating fields of energy and the laws of physics apply.  What we resonate with is what we experience in our reality. To avoid the worst of Mercury retrograde being mindful of your thoughts and keeping them proactive, patient and positive will pay off.

Take a moment right now and reflect on what your thoughts and reactions are about Mercury Retrograde? Are you anxious or fearing that something bad will happen? Are you feeling the planetary winds slowing things down, but  pushing ahead with an over-extended work schedule just the same? Or are you one of those going with the flow, taking time out for reflection, or re-alignment?

Being aligned with Mercury retrograde is like getting ready for another season pulling out summer clothes and putting away the winter ones.  The Mercury retrograde ‘season’ is not as visible as the climatic ones,  it affects, however  can trigger many things in our psyche that need changing, resolving or repairing.  If we are not up for the transformation we can accumulate feelings of being victimized and anticipate the next retrograde with resentment, anxiety and other typical Mercury retrograde fears. 

However, if we embrace the energy that it is, we align with natures gift to put things in order,  restore our batteries and recharge.  We recycle to start the next phase with more energy, clarity, focus and drive to achieve our potential.

Pay attention to the “flavor” of the Mercury Retrograde period as it changes depending on what part of the year it is in.  Julie Simmons writes about these in a post for each retrograde ( See the one for Aug 2)

What are you resonating with for the Mercury retrograde period?  

By the way, the Aligned for Mercury retrograde program offered by Julie and I provides an energy boost of coherence that organically helps you align with these astrological influences. If you are one of those who always experiences the worst of this energy, you may find this online program helpful.  Who knows? You too may be singing Mercury retrograde’s praises.

Comments and questions welcomed!

With love and light

Carolyn Winter

Refreshed, I sat back down at my desk and not only did I find the missing piece of information but I also found that the file I thought I had to create from scratch is mostly finished! On one hand the morning’s work was pointless effort but on the other hand, well on the other hand Mercury is up to its tricks!!!