Here we go again, but don’t
complain…understand what the uni­verse is offer­ing to you and you will turn
frus­tra­tion into won­ders, joy and greater understanding!

I com­ment­ed upon this in the 2013
Gen­er­al Fore­cast. Here is what I wrote:

Mer­cury
Ret­ro­grade in Pisces (Feb­ru­ary 23 until March 17) 

The first
of three Mer­cury ret­ro­grades this year and there is some­thing special…all
three ret­ro­grades will take place in one of each of the three Water signs, Pisces,
Can­cer and Scor­pio (in that order). It looks like the uni­verse is bring­ing you
an inten­sive oppor­tu­ni­ty to work on your Mind/Feeling integration.

This first
ret­ro­grade is in Pisces, so it is time to pay par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to your
dreams and imag­i­na­tion in this one. You need to re-con­sid­er what you dream of,
what you imag­ine will be and how to make it so. As usu­al, many issues in your
present day life may be put on hold as you go back to fin­ish some­thing left
behind.

When plan­ets “turn” retrograde
their ener­gies (and influ­ence) actu­al­ly become stronger and more focused for
you. No plan­et ever goes back­wards real­ly, it is all a mat­ter of relative
posi­tion­ing in regards to Earth­’s orbital path around the Sun and how that
cor­re­sponds to the oth­er plan­et’s orbital path. In the case of Mer­cury, he has
come around on the “inside track” and is pass­ing Earth as he makes
his clos­est approach to us, and so in terms of Zodi­a­cal posi­tion­ing he appears
to stop, go back­wards for 3 weeks and then resume for­ward motion for the next
sev­er­al months until he catch­es up with us again…and the next retrograde
begins. Three times a year, for 3 weeks each time this reg­u­lar rhythm repeats.
But what you need to know is…what does it mean?

The gift of Mer­cury ret­ro­grade cre­ates a
shift in the nor­mal day-to-day process­es of your mind and your connectivity,
both with­in and around your­self. Mer­cury, as Her­mes the Mes­sen­ger gov­erns both
the devel­op­ment inter­nal­ly of your ner­vous sys­tem, intel­li­gence and consciousness,
and then exter­nal­ly through all the means and ways in which you are networked
in your world, all of your pow­ers of receiving/transmitting whether by touch,
taste, smell, sound or sight…and per­haps oth­er ways that are awak­en­ing with
you as well.

When ret­ro­grade all of these functions
and oper­a­tions become altered, and if you were per­fect­ly aware of this you
would wel­come this chance to bend your mind back on itself, for then you would
be able to more deeply reflect upon what you have learned, how well you know
and what you know, and equal­ly be enabled to revise and renew the var­i­ous means
in which you con­vey your­self to others.

But for many if not most, this shift of
ener­gies is often not even noticed for what it offers, or it is most certainly
mis­un­der­stood as just annoy­ing, and so many will pro­ceed as if noth­ing has
changed and find that the ordi­nary becomes extra­or­di­nar­i­ly dif­fi­cult, annoying
and frus­trat­ing. It as if some­one has let the “Grem­lins” out and perceiving,
think­ing and com­mu­ni­cat­ing become fraught with a host of trou­bles. Moreover,
even if you are aware many if not most of whom you are deal­ing with are not, so
mis­com­mu­ni­ca­tions, mis­un­der­stand­ings and mishaps mount up…no won­der so many
wor­ry about these periods!

Of course a great many of these
“prob­lems” arise from the fact that life for most, cer­tain­ly in our so-called modern
world, “goes on” and you real­ly may find it quite incon­ve­nient or
impos­si­ble to take three weeks off so as to turn your con­scious­ness towards
what it should attend to now, to be more pen­sive, reflec­tive and
introspective…but it cer­tain­ly would help you and the world if you could!

So the ques­tion remains, what do you do? 

First, to min­i­mize the mis­un­der­stand­ings and frus­tra­tions you must understand
that you have to be even more atten­tive now. Hon­or this shift by tak­ing more
time to reflect upon your own mind, upon the ways in which you per­ceive and
rea­son and make this is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to revise your think­ing upon various
mat­ters, to ques­tion what you think you know, and review how well you are
com­mu­ni­cat­ing with your world. Lis­ten more care­ful­ly, speak more thoughtfully
and be patient with one anoth­er, and yourself…and most cer­tain­ly lean on your
sense of humor as the uni­verse reminds you again and again that you just cannot
know what you do not yet understand…and you will begin to move clos­er to true
wisdom.

The ret­ro­grade in Pisces pro­vides the
theme for you in this reflec­tive phase of Mer­cury. You will need to especially
focus upon your most pre­cious and dis­tinc­tive­ly human pow­ers of Dream­ing and
Imag­i­na­tion, for these form the true Foun­tain-Source of your Faith. It is through these pow­ers that you encounter the world as it is, you then Dream
of and so Imag­ine a bet­ter world…and then by your now Illu­mined and Faith-filled Will
you are able to con­tin­u­ous­ly, con­scious­ly cre­ate the future you wish to move
into…and it is this which forms the abid­ing proof of your Faith in your­self as the Dreamer/Creator
of this world.

But for these pow­ers to be real­ized you
must free your­self from the shad­owed echoes of your past, those fears of what was not to
be or failed to be yes­ter­day, last week and a thou­sand years ago.…and you
must con­front these mis­be­got­ten attempts and real­ize that you have grown wiser
now, more inclu­sive and exten­sive in your under­stand­ing as a Creator…and so you
can accept and believe those lov­ing inti­ma­tions from your High­er Self, and now behold the won­der as you unfold from within
what you were meant to become.

You are able to become more of what you
were meant to be pre­cise­ly because you have this abil­i­ty, to be this ever-unfold­ing, self-reflective
con­scious­ness, and it this which allows you to dis­cern why and how you could be or do
better…and then you will make it so.

Let Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade help you to
redeem your Past, to become free of fear…

For it is time…

It is time to Dream, it is time to
Imagine…

It is time to be Faith-Full…

It is your time to be Full-Filled.