In Leo, Mercury asks us to consider the power of our creative fire, our passion to express ourselves as well as any insecurities or fears we might have of how others receive our creativity. If the measure of our creative expression is found in others, something is amiss.
Consider Creation itself: the unlimited generosity of the way Life continues to flow onto the planet, even in times of distress. Babies of all species are born. Plants grow where and when they can, given half a chance. The Sun rises and the tides ebb and flow. Creation doesn’t stop. It gives fully and without restraint. Our alignment with this powerful energy is the consideration, not whether we should bother and definitely not if others will or won’t like it. (Virgo is where we edit that which we have created in Leo. A different process.) For now it is about Creation and the power of the heart to open the gates of love through what it creates. A good ruler loves and serves the people and helps them create a good world to live in for themselves and generations to come. Leo is all about the heart which some say is the ruler of the country of our body which is to say, our existence.
At the start of the retrograde period on July 18th Mercury will sextile Venus, encouraging us to keep a notebook or maybe a sketchbook handy during this period. Good ideas will be plentiful. At the end of this period, as it moves through the exiting shadow, on August 18th Mercury will sextile Mars which appears to be a call to action.
Mercury retrograde in Leo will come close to making trines to Saturn and Neptune as well as an opposition with Pluto. This suggests that taking the time to step back and reflect upon what and how the heart is called to offer will make a real difference to the quality and the power of your creativity. The midpoint of this particular retrograde period is July 31st: A day to listen deeply to the longings of the heart. To let love tell you a thing or two.
Warm regards,
Julie
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Grass-Stained Genius:
Rediscovering Childhood Creativity During Mercury Retrograde
Growing up as the eldest of five on our family farm, I learned early to find magic in solitude. I was eight or nine when I discovered I could make ink from grass. On a sun-drenched summer afternoon, while my younger siblings napped, I escaped to our farmhouse’s back hill thick with crabgrass. There, alone with my thoughts, I channeled my inner pioneer. Armed with rocks and determination, I ground handful after handful of green blades into a makeshift mortar, watching with delight as the grass released its vibrant pigment. My heart soared as I mixed in water, creating what I was certain would be the next great innovation in writing technology.
My mother’s horror at my grass-stained clothes and the potential for five grass-covered children quickly deflated my publishing dreams. But looking back now, during this Mercury retrograde in Leo, I’m struck by how that moment captured something essential about creativity – that pure, uninhibited spark that comes before we learn about stains, practicality, or what others might think.
That solitude on the farm was both gift and challenge – a vast canvas where creativity could flourish without judgment, yet tinged with the quiet ache of childhood loneliness. With few children my age nearby, I became my own teacher in what I now recognize as a kind of accidental Waldorf education. The farm itself became my classroom, teaching me to find comfort in my own company and entertainment in careful observation and endless experimentation. Each quiet moment became an invitation to discovery, whether grinding grass into ink or dreaming up new worlds in the shadows of corn stalks.
Now, as Mercury stations retrograde in creative Leo, I find myself drawn back to that grass-stained afternoon. Perhaps this is the perfect time to reclaim that uninhibited creative spirit – not to make ink from grass (though who knows?), but to remember what it felt like to create without boundaries, to experiment without fear of failure. What forgotten dreams might we all rediscover if we allowed ourselves to play like children again, even just for these three weeks of celestial reflection?
With light and love
Carolyn
Life Repatterning Coach
http://www.LightTravels.com
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