{"id":1771,"date":"2013-02-22T20:22:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T01:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/mercury-turns-retrograde-february-23-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-02-22T20:22:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T01:22:01","slug":"mercury-turns-retrograde-february-23-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/mercury-turns-retrograde-february-23-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Turns Retrograde (February 23,&nbsp;2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/astrologerbillattride.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0133f538e9e4970b017c37080e1f970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Mercury-in-Pisces-Rx\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0133f538e9e4970b017c37080e1f970b\" src=\"http:\/\/astrologerbillattride.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0133f538e9e4970b017c37080e1f970b-500wi\" style=\"width: 500px;\" title=\"Mercury-in-Pisces-Rx\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here we go again, but&nbsp;don\u2019t<br>\ncomplain\u2026understand what the uni\u00adverse is offer\u00ading to you and you will&nbsp;turn<br>\nfrus\u00adtra\u00adtion into won\u00adders, joy and greater understanding!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">I com\u00adment\u00aded upon this in the&nbsp;2013<br>\nGen\u00ader\u00adal Fore\u00adcast. Here is what I&nbsp;wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Mer\u00adcury<br>\nRet\u00adro\u00adgrade in Pisces (Feb\u00adru\u00adary 23 until March 17)<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The first<br>\nof three Mer\u00adcury ret\u00adro\u00adgrades this year and there is some\u00adthing special\u2026all<br>\nthree ret\u00adro\u00adgrades will take place in one of each of the three Water signs, Pisces,<br>\nCan\u00adcer and Scor\u00adpio (in that order). It looks like the uni\u00adverse is bring\u00ading&nbsp;you<br>\nan inten\u00adsive oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to work on your Mind\/Feeling integration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This first<br>\nret\u00adro\u00adgrade is in Pisces, so it is time to pay par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar atten\u00adtion to&nbsp;your<br>\ndreams and imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion in this one. You need to re-con\u00adsid\u00ader what you dream&nbsp;of,<br>\nwhat you imag\u00adine will be and how to make it so. As usu\u00adal, many issues in&nbsp;your<br>\npresent day life may be put on hold as you go back to fin\u00adish some\u00adthing&nbsp;left<br>\nbehind.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When plan\u00adets \u201cturn\u201d retrograde<br>\ntheir ener\u00adgies (and influ\u00adence) actu\u00adal\u00adly become stronger and more focused for<br>\nyou. No plan\u00adet ever goes back\u00adwards real\u00adly, it is all a mat\u00adter of relative<br>\nposi\u00adtion\u00ading in regards to Earth\u00ad\u2019s orbital path around the Sun and how&nbsp;that<br>\ncor\u00adre\u00adsponds to the oth\u00ader plan\u00adet\u2019s orbital path. In the case of Mer\u00adcury, he&nbsp;has<br>\ncome around on the \u201cinside track\u201d and is pass\u00ading Earth as he&nbsp;makes<br>\nhis clos\u00adest approach to us, and so in terms of Zodi\u00ada\u00adcal posi\u00adtion\u00ading he appears<br>\nto stop, go back\u00adwards for 3 weeks and then resume for\u00adward motion for the&nbsp;next<br>\nsev\u00ader\u00adal months until he catch\u00ades up with us again\u2026and the next retrograde<br>\nbegins. Three times a year, for 3 weeks each time this reg\u00adu\u00adlar rhythm repeats.<br>\nBut what you need to know is\u2026what does it <em>mean<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>The gift of Mer\u00adcury ret\u00adro\u00adgrade cre\u00adates&nbsp;a<br>\nshift in the nor\u00admal day-to-day process\u00ades of your mind and your connectivity,<br>\nboth with\u00adin and around your\u00adself. Mer\u00adcury, as Her\u00admes the Mes\u00adsen\u00adger gov\u00aderns&nbsp;both<br>\nthe devel\u00adop\u00adment inter\u00adnal\u00adly of your ner\u00advous sys\u00adtem, intel\u00adli\u00adgence and consciousness,<br>\nand then exter\u00adnal\u00adly through all the means and ways in which you are networked<br>\nin your world, all of your pow\u00aders of receiving\/transmitting whether by&nbsp;touch,<br>\ntaste, smell, sound or sight\u2026and per\u00adhaps oth\u00ader ways that are awak\u00aden\u00ading&nbsp;with<br>\nyou as&nbsp;well.<\/p>\n<p>When ret\u00adro\u00adgrade all of these functions<br>\nand oper\u00ada\u00adtions become altered, and if you were per\u00adfect\u00adly aware of this&nbsp;you<br>\nwould wel\u00adcome this chance to bend your mind back on itself, for then you&nbsp;would<br>\nbe able to more deeply reflect upon what you have learned, how well you&nbsp;know<br>\nand what you know, and equal\u00adly be enabled to revise and renew the var\u00adi\u00adous&nbsp;means<br>\nin which you con\u00advey your\u00adself to others.<\/p>\n<p>But for many if not most, this shift&nbsp;of<br>\nener\u00adgies is often not even noticed for what it offers, or it is most certainly<br>\nmis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstood as just annoy\u00ading, and so many will pro\u00adceed as if noth\u00ading&nbsp;has<br>\nchanged and find that the ordi\u00adnary becomes extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnar\u00adi\u00adly dif\u00adfi\u00adcult, annoying<br>\nand frus\u00adtrat\u00ading. It as if some\u00adone has let the \u201cGrem\u00adlins\u201d out and perceiving,<br>\nthink\u00ading and com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00ading become fraught with a host of trou\u00adbles. Moreover,<br>\neven if you are aware many if not most of whom you are deal\u00ading with are not,&nbsp;so<br>\nmis\u00adcom\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtions, mis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstand\u00adings and mishaps mount up\u2026no won\u00adder so&nbsp;many<br>\nwor\u00adry about these periods!<\/p>\n<p>Of course a great many of&nbsp;these<br>\n\u201cprob\u00adlems\u201d arise from the fact that life for most, cer\u00adtain\u00adly in our so-called modern<br>\nworld, \u201cgoes on\u201d and you real\u00adly may find it quite incon\u00adve\u00adnient&nbsp;or<br>\nimpos\u00adsi\u00adble to take three weeks off so as to turn your con\u00adscious\u00adness towards<br>\nwhat it should attend to now, to be more pen\u00adsive, reflec\u00adtive&nbsp;and<br>\nintrospective\u2026but it cer\u00adtain\u00adly would help you and the world if you&nbsp;could!<\/p>\n<p>So the ques\u00adtion remains, what do you&nbsp;do?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First, to min\u00adi\u00admize the mis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstand\u00adings and frus\u00adtra\u00adtions you must understand<br>\nthat you have to be even more atten\u00adtive now. Hon\u00ador this shift by tak\u00ading&nbsp;more<br>\ntime to reflect upon your own mind, upon the ways in which you per\u00adceive&nbsp;and<br>\nrea\u00adson and make this is an oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to revise your think\u00ading upon various<br>\nmat\u00adters, to ques\u00adtion what you think you know, and review how well you&nbsp;are<br>\ncom\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00ading with your world. Lis\u00adten more care\u00adful\u00adly, speak more thoughtfully<br>\nand be patient with one anoth\u00ader, and yourself\u2026and most cer\u00adtain\u00adly lean on&nbsp;your<br>\nsense of humor as the uni\u00adverse reminds you again and again that you just cannot<br>\nknow what you do not yet understand\u2026and you will begin to move clos\u00ader to&nbsp;true<br>\nwisdom.<\/p>\n<p>The ret\u00adro\u00adgrade in Pisces pro\u00advides&nbsp;the<br>\ntheme for you in this reflec\u00adtive phase of Mer\u00adcury. You will need to especially<br>\nfocus upon your most pre\u00adcious and dis\u00adtinc\u00adtive\u00adly human pow\u00aders of Dream\u00ading&nbsp;and<br>\nImag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion, for these form the true Foun\u00adtain-Source of your Faith. It is through these pow\u00aders that you encounter the world as it is, you then&nbsp;Dream<br>\nof and so Imag\u00adine a bet\u00adter world\u2026and then by your now Illu\u00admined and Faith-filled Will<br>\nyou are able to con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adous\u00adly, con\u00adscious\u00adly cre\u00adate the future you wish to&nbsp;move<br>\ninto\u2026and it is this which forms the abid\u00ading proof of your Faith in your\u00adself as the Dreamer\/Creator<br>\nof this&nbsp;world.<\/p>\n<p>But for these pow\u00aders to be real\u00adized&nbsp;you<br>\nmust free your\u00adself from the shad\u00adowed echoes of your past, those fears of what was not&nbsp;to<br>\nbe or failed to be yes\u00adter\u00adday, last week and a thou\u00adsand years ago.\u2026and you<br>\nmust con\u00adfront these mis\u00adbe\u00adgot\u00adten attempts and real\u00adize that you have grown&nbsp;wiser<br>\nnow, more inclu\u00adsive and exten\u00adsive in your under\u00adstand\u00ading as a Creator\u2026and so&nbsp;you<br>\ncan accept and believe those lov\u00ading inti\u00adma\u00adtions from your High\u00ader Self, and now behold the won\u00adder as you unfold from within<br>\nwhat you were meant to become.<\/p>\n<p>You are able to become more of what&nbsp;you<br>\nwere meant to be pre\u00adcise\u00adly because you have this abil\u00adi\u00adty, to be this ever-unfold\u00ading, self-reflective<br>\ncon\u00adscious\u00adness, and it this which allows you to dis\u00adcern why and how you could be or&nbsp;do<br>\nbetter\u2026and then you will make it&nbsp;so.<\/p>\n<p>Let Mer\u00adcury Ret\u00adro\u00adgrade help you&nbsp;to<br>\nredeem your Past, to become free of&nbsp;fear\u2026<\/p>\n<p>For it is&nbsp;time\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It is time to Dream, it is time&nbsp;to<br>\nImagine\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It is time to be Faith-Full\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It is your time to be Full-Filled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again, but&nbsp;don\u2019t complain\u2026understand what the uni\u00adverse is offer\u00ading to you and you will&nbsp;turn frus\u00adtra\u00adtion into won\u00adders, joy and greater under\u00adstand\u00ading! I com\u00adment\u00aded upon this in the&nbsp;2013 Gen\u00ader\u00adal Fore\u00adcast. Here is what I&nbsp;wrote: Mer\u00adcury Ret\u00adro\u00adgrade in Pisces (Feb\u00adru\u00adary 23 until March 17)&nbsp; The first of three Mer\u00adcury ret\u00adro\u00adgrades this year and there&nbsp;is&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fx6K-sz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}