How Can We Repattern Mercury Retrograde?

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Carolyn Winter, Life Repatternign Coach

LOL looking back at the early days of doing this online healing program, I sometimes think I was tempting fate or Mercury the Trickster himself.   Throughout the creation of the program design and website, my internet connection would go down, the phone started acting up, if anything could go wrong it did and Mercury wasn’t even in retrograde.  It was almost as though the Trickster was in the room with me saying “Oh yeah?”   You can’t make me change!

So a Capricorn healer and an astrologer meet the Trickster head on with a repatterning concept to help everyone resonate with aligning their energy for Mercury retrograde.

As a macro pattern of sorts, of course, the earlier problems in setting up the program were related to the clearing of an energetic pathway for this particular group proxy concept to be birthed.   The first few sessions Julie and I facilitated felt like we were clearing the birthing issues for the planets retrograde reputation.  At that time in 2004, you couldn’t find many positive things written about Mercury retrograde on the web.  Astrologers and seekers alike were focusing on the doom and gloom of it all.    A quick internet search today and I am happy to report that many if not most reputable astrologers are writing about the opportunity or upside of Mercury retrograde. So perhaps we’ve changed the hologram for this lens of astrology by offering this program.

So what does it mean to repattern anything let alone Mercury retrograde?  In the Resonance Repatterning healing system,  an underlying principle is to clear energy pathways so that we resonate with what we want and clear our resonant patterns of pain, limitation or blocks we think we don’t want.   This system of self-healing is all about awareness, and being aligned with our most perfect energy state.   There are no magic bullets.  We chip away at patterns as life happens, including Mercury retrograde.   With every session we do, we uncover patterns that need to come to awareness in order to release them or new patterns to integrate into our awareness and psyche for our desired outcomes.    The resonance repatterning system uses muscle checking (sometime known as testing) to check the energy of the group for resonance.  We are either “ON” for something vibrating in our energy field or “OFF” for something.

Typically in a repatterning session, even though we mentally are clear about things we don’t want, we find that often our problems stem from an invisible resonance with the pattern or problem we are trying to release.  We are “ON” for having the problem.  What we resonate with is then what we experience in our reality.  It can be very frustrating!

Throughout the AMR session Julie and I find the coherent pattern needed for each astrological house for this group in conjunction with this retrograde.  Then we check on the precise healing modality needed to shift the energy of the group so that we resonate with the positive and life enhancing patterns  and stop resonating with the negative.  Typically we also recommend an optional action that group members may do for themselves in relation to the session to integrate the session.

What problems do you typically face during Mercury retrograde?  If you consistently experience Mercury retrograde with many negative outcomes that you feel are related, chances are you are resonating with having a problematic Mercury retrograde or the issues it triggers.  There are all the usual ones to do with contracts, communications, travel and equipment breaking down etc.  Additionally, it may also be that there are core issues trying to get your attention at this time for healing and transformation.  Afterall, Mercury retrograde LOVES cleaning up unfinished business!!!!

A resonance repatterning session either in person or as part of an online group session such as the one Julie and I offer, can help you become aware of the problem and dynamically take action you could not do in the past OR attract a more positive response from the people around you.  I fondly remember being double booked for a session without knowing it and the two clients involved called me the day before to alter their schedules!  That’s alignment in action drawing out the positive from others!

Follow us at this blog when  Mercury is retrograde to remind yourself of what you need to be doing.  If you would like to deepen your experience of this astrological event, Julie and I would love to support you.  Visit our registration links for more information.

With light and love

Carolyn Winter

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Mercury Retrograde August 2 – 26, 2011

Posted on June 26, 2011 by juliesimmons

Mercury will make it’s retrograde station on August 2nd at 1 degree of Virgo. First I will give a general description of the theme of this retrograde period. Below that I will give a more detailed astrological discussion of it.

What this means for us mundane characters trying to get along in our lives as best we can is that this retrograde period is a time to sort through old, worn out perspectives; a time to clear the clutter of ideologies and thought patterns that are entrenched but not useful any more. Retrograde Mercury suggests a time to contemplate this; not to take radical action. Consider the conversation of your life. Is it interesting? Do your friends and associates get what you get or is there a gap? Is the gap only a mental gap? If so maybe the heart connection makes it worthwhile.

The actual station on August 2nd is loosely opposite Neptune who will be leaving Pisces and returning to Aquarius for one last fling on August 4th. Neptune will not return to Pisces again till February 4th.
The interesting thing about this is that the actual opposition is not exact until August 8th and will be in 29 degrees of Leo; bringing out the 29 degree theme once again. (The theme of the end of the end but not quite the beginning of the beginning. Chaos, change and revolution. This theme has been strong at least since at the eclipse on the Winter solstice.)

These factors suggest that our retrograde experience might have something to do with the need for radical change in the ways we think as well as the things we think about. The last degree of Aquarius is a difficult transition because Aquarius is a sign, more than any other, that likes to hold on to it’s way of thinking. Whereas Pisces is about letting things be just as they are. You can see that Aquarius needs Pisces because it can be too attached to ideas and ideals and Pisces follows Aquarius because a well cultivated mind prepares us to let go with awareness rather than ignorance.

The conjunction of Mercury to the Sun which is the heart of the retrograde will also include Venus and it is exact on the 16th of August at 23 degrees of Leo. The days leading up to and just after this date are good for the deepest contemplation of your attachments. A time to look at attachments of the heart vs. attachments of the mind. Do you think you love this person or do you really love them? What is love anyway? (Good question. No problem if you can’t answer it, more problem if you think you can!)

All in all, this Mercury retrograde is about Virgo and Pisces as well as Leo and Aquarius: Our sense of compassion and service as well as our social reality. Becoming more aware of your social reality will help you move into a more compassionate caring for this world which will be intensely required when Neptune moves into Pisces next February.

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What do you love about Mercury retrograde?

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Carolyn Winter, Life Repatternign Coach
 

First the balcony is cleared off...

There are a few more days of mercury retrograde left but the fun continues. True to Julie’s insights for Mercury doing it’s retrograde trip in Aries, the tenants in my apartment complex were served with 10 days notice that the buildings were being outfitted with new balconies. Work ensued as announced to the minute 10 days later. So what is Mercury retrograde about all of this and where does aligning fit in?

The work on the balconies I figure must be long over-due as I have personally, witnessed large chunks of cement fall from the balconies over the past few years. Quick Aries action is addressing the retrograde issue of getting important things fixed – in this case immediately and with gusto. It looked like an army of construction workers on several scaffolds turned up to do all this work. In little over a week and a half the balconies of the front of 2 buildings are now completely gutted.

So what is aligned about all of this for me? For most people the short notice and dawning

 

realization they would be without a balcony for the summer months was difficult to receive. There have been no less than 3 resident meetings with angry complaints to address the situation. People are upset. However, for me, my family and friends showed up almost immediately to help with all the stuff that needed to be removed from the balcony, cleaned of its outdoor winter grime and artfully placed inside the apartment. Some bigger items are going to a friend’s garage. I was inspired to use my new aroma oil diffuser and an oil called Purification for several days and the atmosphere now feels remarkably settled. It also feels lighter as I took the opportunity to let go of planters and bits of gardening things I hadn’t used in several years.

The drilling and banging construction sounds have been annoying but so far with

and then there is no railing!

 the exception of one coaching call that had to be rescheduled, all of my telephone work has so far (crossing fingers) happened between the drilling spells. I feel like Mercury is just smiling on me while others are fighting the flow of things or finding it difficult.

Getting new balconies with Mercury retrograde or not, was likely inevitable. Going with the flow and appreciating the positive in the situation for me is the result of alignment of the group Resonance Repatterning session. There may have been only 1 or 2 patterns that applied to my situation but they have made all the difference to my well being.

What is your March 30-April 23 Mercury retrograde story?

With love and light,

Carolyn

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The Subtle Side of Aligning with Mercury Retrograde

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Carolyn Winter, Life Repatternign Coach

Supermarket shopping a few days before Mercury went retrograde, but well into the shadow, I found myself intrigued by a  store display of the new Martha Stewart CLEAN products.  Since they were on sale or perhaps it was  some promotional deal, I decided to try at least the household cleaner.  10 days later I am chuckling at the trickster planet or what it means to be aligned with Mercury retrograde as I am now fixated on these cleaning products and how well they work. This is not a paid advertisement for Martha for those of you ready to choke. (…but FYI Martha – Mercury retrograde may be the best time to promote these products!)

First of all – seriously – they are great products. They are organic, plant based and have no odor. Best all – they have amazing cleaning properties.  I used the cleaner on my worn out counter which actually started to shine after a few squirts and I am not sure if this is possible but it felt new. So I went back to get the bathroom cleaner and the dishsoap liquid.  My ancient Denby stoneware plates are looking new, my flatware is shiny and the bathtub is now fun to wipe down if ony to see the glow.  Everytime I am near the cleaning stuff I am now tempted to see what it will do for the next corner of my apartment. I was spraying away at 7:00AM while waiting for coffee when it hit me – wait a minute! This is out of character for me – but very aligned for Mercury. 

But that is not all.  I did have the intention “My home is in order” happening for the Spring Equinox repatterning as well as Aligned for Mercury retrograde.  Having Martha show up with motivating products was one thing.  However, my building seems also to be included.   This is an example of the relationship coherence that can happen when your energy field is coherent.    Last week management decided to deal with the long standing ant problem in the building and sent experts in to deal with that. Next, I have been told that of all the capital repairs to make on the building giving my suite a new balcony is on the top priority list.  It will happen next week.  I am wondering if there is a Martha Stewart product to clean up balconies.  LOL

So Julie – what do  you think? Is Mercury just rolling with laughter.  Am I aligned or what?

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