Flavor of Mercury retrograde June 29 – July 23rd 2026
Shadow in – June 12th. Shadow out – August 6th.
Drowning, as we are, in a sea of information, minus wisdom, what’s missing? Maybe our feelings, our empathy, the ability which all humans have to mirror each other, to know how it feels to be someone in a different skin, and to recognize our kinship with all that lives.
Mercury is always about the mind, that untrustworthy trickster who makes us think that there really is a pot of gold somewhere, waiting for us. But the Trickster has bigger fish to fry when it’s retrograde. Turned inward, toward the soul, Mercury opens us to the possibility that this inner landscape is the territory that belongs to me alone. Here is my felt sense, the great big sea of imagination that gives rise to my best ideas. And so it has always been, since the beginning of humans.
How can we know our subconscious thoughts? Through dreams and synchronicities, reactions in the gut, and instinctive reflexes. We have become a species that likes to categorize and pathologize our behaviours. Mercury retrograde in Cancer reminds us that the way we inhabit and express ourselves makes some kind of sense in relation to our lived experience.
Want to know what your subconscious thoughts are? They are written in your body, in your weaknesses as well as your strengths—messages in a bottle, or a body. Plain as day, or the nose on your face. What if you didn’t judge them as flaws but understood them as messages from within?
What if you imagine, while Mercury is retrograde, how it was for your grandparents and their grandparents? If you con-sider (with stars) that your mother was once an infant at the mercy of her parents, or your father was a toddler reaching for his future? Cancer takes us back—not always to the good old days. Sometimes looking back tells a story of difficulty or wounding, mistreatment and neglect. But always there was something that nourished your soul, your cells. What was it?
You don’t need to extract it and use it toward some end. You need to receive it—to allow yourself to know that you wouldn’t be here, reading this, looking for sea glass amongst the stones, if there hadn’t been some kind of connection.
Jupiter has been in Cancer since the summer of 2025 and will move away on June 30th. If this Mercury recapitulates, it is reminding us of all the needs of all living beings in a world that appears to be in self-destruct mode. How do you hold this? What have you learned about yourself or the peoples of the world?
Wars create horrifying deprivation, which goes against the grain of all that Cancer and Jupiter are meant to bring. Mercury asks us to hold that awareness without blame (although that’s challenging), without fear for our own security (also challenging), so much as to consider what might allow a species to self-destruct—to lose connection with itself.
The essence of any Mercury retrograde is felt most strongly when it conjuncts the Sun (July 12). That is when the winged messenger, Mercury, offers messages for us to use or ponder as we turn to the second half of the retrograde journey. What form of meditation will you use to still yourself and listen for such a message?
Warmly
Julie Simmons
P.S. If this Mercury retrograde is stirring the waters a little more deeply than usual, you don’t have to navigate it alone. Join us for the next Aligned for Mercury Retrograde repatterning session, where we’ll work with these currents consciously and kindly—so you can receive the messages, not just react to the turbulence. Reserve your spot here: Aligned for Mercury Retrograde Repatterning Session.
That’s a big question. A rather large ask. Still, somewhere in the drawers or cabinets of our minds we have an idea of what the Age of Pisces was about. While Mercury is retrograde in Pisces we might find ourselves ruminating about our past. Our time would be better spent considering the collective past over the last 2000 years or even just since you were born. How has the world changed? What does the word ‘evolution’ mean to you? How does it feel to be carried along the tides and turns of a world you most definitely didn’t create? These are Pisces questions. They don’t necessarily have answers. In fact, they often give rise to more questions.
For our personal considerations, this retrograde will conjunct Venus, only once at the beginning, trine Jupiter, and conjunct the North Node, all aspects of hope and possibility. The effort of looking back and considering is meant to increase our connection to the soul, to help us grow in faith rather than belief. Which is to say, not the blind kind, more the felt kind. The faith we have when we smell spring coming around the bend, when we watch little ones take their first steps or learn to talk. Faith in the power and desire of life itself to rise up and become what it needs to, so it can keep on keeping on.
The essence of any Mercury retrograde is when it conjuncts the Sun (March 7th). That is when the winged messenger (Mercury) offers messages to us to use or ponder as we turn to the second half of the retrograde journey. What form of meditation will you use to still yourself and listen for such a message?
During Mercury retrograde—especially when it rubs against Uranus—we feel the paradox of tech: it empowers our work and relationships, and it can destabilize them in a heartbeat. Frozen screens, lost files, misfiring emails, and video call chaos are invitations to set boundaries, slow down, and choose consciousness over reactivity. The goal isn’t to fear retrogrades; it’s to outsmart the meltdowns with practical rituals and a sense of humor.
Start with intention. In energy work, intention organizes outcomes; what we focus on grows. Imagine your systems “Teflon-protected,” then translate that energy into basics: commit to caring for your setup, learning a little more each week, and staying vigilant. Empowerment here is practical—small habits that keep destabilization at bay.
Practical habits make the difference: • Don’t ignore update prompts—schedule them at day’s end so you’re never caught mid-meeting. • If you click a link and your intuition pings “suspicious,” pause and investigate; change passwords and run a quick security scan. • Clean up files weekly, run backups, and book a quarterly tune‑up with your tech support. • Review credit card statements for unused subscriptions and cancel them—free your money and your mental bandwidth. • Read critical emails twice, then once more aloud before pressing send. Retrogrades love rushed messages; you don’t have to feed them.
When things go sideways on a video call, breathe. Name what’s happening, offer a quick plan (“I’m switching audio; give me 30 seconds”), and keep your humor. Establish a backup: a dial‑in number, a co‑host who can screen‑share, or a pre‑sent slide deck so the room stays anchored.
Keep Your Sense of Humor: I remember my colleague Jennifer Johnson, tentative about technology, hosting one of her first World Peace Hologram repatterning sessions as a YouTube live stream. She did everything right—or so she thought—and began her monologue using Hearing Repatterning to tune the group for world peace. Unfortunately, she forgot to unmute. It took 20 minutes for participants to sleuth her number and reach her husband to get the audio back on. The irony wasn’t lost on viewers who sent multiple LOL messages. The lesson: build a ritual pre‑flight checklist—audio, video, screen share, links, backups—and laugh when retrograde reminds you you’re human.
To protect family well‑being during these cycles, set “digital sabbath” windows where devices live in another room, create household norms for respectful texting and response times, and agree on a bedtime tech cut‑off that honors nervous systems. Uranus may jolt the system; your boundaries give it somewhere safe to land.
Mercury retrograde is back Nov 9–29, and before you clutch your pearls and your Wi‑Fi router, hear me out: this can be a really good time to get curious. Not doom, not drama—just a season for asking better questions and noticing what wants to shift. Curiosity takes the edge off change. It turns “why is this happening to me?” into “what if this is giving me a nudge?”
The timing is chef’s kiss because it lands right as holiday plans kick in. Traditions are wonderful—until “that’s how we’ve always done it” becomes the house rule no one remembers voting on. Menus, game-day requirements, decorations, the exact placement of the nutcracker brigade… these expectations can help us connect when we don’t see each other often. They give the gathering a backbone. But rituals were born from circumstances, not commandments. The pan was smaller once. The kids were younger. Aunt Lisa worked nights. When someone suggests a tweak and everyone gasps in unison, that’s your retrograde bell ringing. This is the perfect window to review what stays, what softens, and what can gracefully retire. Mercury’s trickster energy actually helps here—curiosity loosens the rules just enough to let something new slip in.
Case in point: the classic ham story. A newlywed follows a tattered family recipe and asks, “Why do I have to cut three inches off the end?” One aunt says it braises better. Another swears it’s all fat. A third shrugs, “We’ve always done it this way.” Eventually she asks the original recipe author, a great‑aunt who wanders in after a few years away. The verdict: “Honey, I cut it off because it didn’t fit in my pan.” Tradition: explained. Curiosity: vindicated.
So, during this Nov 9–29 retrograde, try a gentle audit of your holiday habits. Not a courtroom cross‑examination—more like a curious tour.
Try this: name one ritual you adore and why it still feeds you; name one that secretly drains you and what tiny tweak would help; name one you’re ready to retire and what meaningful thing could take its place. If you’re feeling brave, ask the room: what tradition did we invent for a problem that doesn’t exist anymore?
Journal sparks for this Mercury Retrograde: where am I acting on autopilot? what am I scared will happen if we change this? what tiny action would make this a little kinder or a bit easier?
Retrograde doesn’t mean break everything. It means review, revise, and re‑align with what’s real right now. If you sprinkle in curiosity, even the trickster energy becomes an ally.
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Mercury Retrograde in Cancer: How We Feel is Who We Are
Flavor of Mercury retrograde June 29 – July 23rd 2026
Shadow in – June 12th.
Shadow out – August 6th.
Drowning, as we are, in a sea of information, minus wisdom, what’s missing? Maybe our feelings, our empathy, the ability which all humans have to mirror each other, to know how it feels to be someone in a different skin, and to recognize our kinship with all that lives.
Mercury is always about the mind, that untrustworthy trickster who makes us think that there really is a pot of gold somewhere, waiting for us. But the Trickster has bigger fish to fry when it’s retrograde. Turned inward, toward the soul, Mercury opens us to the possibility that this inner landscape is the territory that belongs to me alone. Here is my felt sense, the great big sea of imagination that gives rise to my best ideas. And so it has always been, since the beginning of humans.
How can we know our subconscious thoughts? Through dreams and synchronicities, reactions in the gut, and instinctive reflexes. We have become a species that likes to categorize and pathologize our behaviours. Mercury retrograde in Cancer reminds us that the way we inhabit and express ourselves makes some kind of sense in relation to our lived experience.
Want to know what your subconscious thoughts are? They are written in your body, in your weaknesses as well as your strengths—messages in a bottle, or a body. Plain as day, or the nose on your face. What if you didn’t judge them as flaws but understood them as messages from within?
What if you imagine, while Mercury is retrograde, how it was for your grandparents and their grandparents? If you con-sider (with stars) that your mother was once an infant at the mercy of her parents, or your father was a toddler reaching for his future? Cancer takes us back—not always to the good old days. Sometimes looking back tells a story of difficulty or wounding, mistreatment and neglect. But always there was something that nourished your soul, your cells. What was it?
You don’t need to extract it and use it toward some end. You need to receive it—to allow yourself to know that you wouldn’t be here, reading this, looking for sea glass amongst the stones, if there hadn’t been some kind of connection.
Jupiter has been in Cancer since the summer of 2025 and will move away on June 30th. If this Mercury recapitulates, it is reminding us of all the needs of all living beings in a world that appears to be in self-destruct mode. How do you hold this? What have you learned about yourself or the peoples of the world?
Wars create horrifying deprivation, which goes against the grain of all that Cancer and Jupiter are meant to bring. Mercury asks us to hold that awareness without blame (although that’s challenging), without fear for our own security (also challenging), so much as to consider what might allow a species to self-destruct—to lose connection with itself.
The essence of any Mercury retrograde is felt most strongly when it conjuncts the Sun (July 12). That is when the winged messenger, Mercury, offers messages for us to use or ponder as we turn to the second half of the retrograde journey. What form of meditation will you use to still yourself and listen for such a message?
Warmly
Julie Simmons
P.S. If this Mercury retrograde is stirring the waters a little more deeply than usual, you don’t have to navigate it alone. Join us for the next Aligned for Mercury Retrograde repatterning session, where we’ll work with these currents consciously and kindly—so you can receive the messages, not just react to the turbulence. Reserve your spot here: Aligned for Mercury Retrograde Repatterning Session.
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