{"id":3072,"date":"2017-08-11T22:02:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T02:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2017-08-11T22:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T02:02:05","slug":"mercury-turns-retrograde-august-12-september-5-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/11\/mercury-turns-retrograde-august-12-september-5-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Turns Retrograde (August 12 \u2014 September 5, 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Way of Peace<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This will be some \u201cAugust to remem\u00adber\u201d, what with the Lunar Eclipse of this past Mon\u00adday, the grand Total Solar Eclipse sweep\u00ading cross\u00ading the USA<\/span> from the North\u00adwest to the South\u00adeast on August 21st<\/sup>, and today\u2019s turn\u00ading of Mer\u00adcury or \u201cHer\u00admes, the mes\u00adsen\u00adger of the Gods\u201d from August 12th<\/sup> through Sep\u00adtem\u00adber 5th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Mer\u00adcury turns sta\u00adtion\u00adary ret\u00adro\u00adgrade in Vir\u00adgo at 11 degrees, 38 min\u00adutes. Then ret\u00adro\u00adgrades back into Leo on August 31st<\/sup>. Mer\u00adcury turns sta\u00adtion\u00adary direct Sep\u00adtem\u00adber 5th<\/sup>, on the very degree of the Solar Eclipse of August 21st<\/sup>! As always, in the heav\u00adens and down here too, every\u00adthing (and every\u00adone) is con\u00adnect\u00aded to one anoth\u00ader, and this cos\u00admic dance of spir\u00adit is filled with res\u00ado\u00adnances of mean\u00ading which can guide you upon the path of awakening.<\/p>\n

Of course, Mer\u00adcury does not go back\u00adwards at all. Rather it is pass\u00ading by Earth on its \u201cinside track\u201d orbit around the Sun. But from our van\u00adtage point it appears to stop mov\u00ading for\u00adward and loop back\u00adwards for about three weeks, and then move for\u00adward again against the back\u00addrop of the stars. But what mat\u00adters for you is what does this mean, what are you sup\u00adposed to do dur\u00ading this (and any) Mer\u00adcury ret\u00adro\u00adgrade cycle?<\/p>\n

The ret\u00adro\u00adgrade of Mer\u00adcury, which occurs usu\u00adal\u00adly three times a year for three weeks at a time, is an oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to turn your atten\u00adtion inwards, to focus your won\u00adder\u00adful fac\u00adul\u00adty of per\u00adcep\u00adtion, analy\u00adsis, dis\u00adcern\u00adment and rea\u00adson, and to turn this Promethean gift of the gods back upon itself. Mer\u00adcury ret\u00adro\u00adgrade is your oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to re-con\u00adsid\u00ader\/re-exam\u00adine: \u201chow you per\u00adceive, what you may know and how you may bet\u00adter com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcate with one anoth\u00ader\u201d. You are here as human, to make use of your won\u00adder\u00adful gift of intel\u00adli\u00adgence, so that you may learn to rea\u00adson more tru\u00adly, and parse the phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnal world \u201cout there\u201d which depends upon form\u00ading a bet\u00adter cor\u00adre\u00adspon\u00addence between these out\u00adward real\u00adi\u00adties and your thought-forms \u201cin there\u201d or inside of you.<\/p>\n

Over time, you will become more aware that with\u00adin you is a fac\u00adul\u00adty, the \u201cwatch\u00ader who is watch\u00ading\u201d, your high\u00ader self or beloved, who will help you to align these inner and out\u00ader worlds, and you will under\u00adstand that they are formed by the same under\u00adly\u00ading and uni\u00adfy\u00ading Ener\u00adgy-Form that you know as Life or Spir\u00adit. You will, as you move towards wis\u00addom, come to know that the degree to which you will per\u00adceive the Truth \u201cout there\u201d will be matched by the extent that you come to know your\u00adself too. For as it is said, \u201cAs Above, So Below\u201d, and, \u201cAll is One and the One is in us all\u201d.<\/p>\n

And from this you must remem\u00adber, that you are made of one anoth\u00ader, that you are inex\u00adtri\u00adca\u00adbly formed togeth\u00ader by all your expe\u00adri\u00adences you have had with one anoth\u00ader. This is one of the great\u00adest illu\u00adsions you must over\u00adcome, that your phys\u00adi\u00adcal expe\u00adri\u00adence of being sep\u00ada\u00adrate and apart from one anoth\u00ader is ulti\u00admate\u00adly an illu\u00adsion. For whomev\u00ader is before you, \u201cis tru\u00adly of you too\u201d.<\/p>\n

And this is most espe\u00adcial\u00adly true when con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ading the devel\u00adop\u00adment of your Self-aware\u00adness, which forms your ever-ris\u00ading expe\u00adri\u00adence of Con\u00adscious\u00adness, which will even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly lead you to the ever\u00adlast\u00ading Place of Peace, which is known as the Greater Under\u00adstand\u00ading. You grow in aware\u00adness and under\u00adstand\u00ading pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly by inter\u00adact\u00ading with one anoth\u00ader, by shar\u00ading your expe\u00adri\u00adences, per\u00adcep\u00adtions, insights, expla\u00adna\u00adtions, the\u00ado\u00adries, knowl\u00adedge and wis\u00addom with one anoth\u00ader. It is pre\u00adcise\u00adly this inte\u00adgral matrix of shared Life-Con\u00adscious\u00adness-Spir\u00adit which makes pos\u00adsi\u00adble your growth.<\/p>\n

We are all sto\u00adry-tellers, shar\u00ading our expe\u00adri\u00adences and insights with one anoth\u00ader, and so we become who we are by being part of one anoth\u00ader, being a part of one another\u2019s sto\u00adry. We are the cre\u00adator of our\u00adselves and we are the cre\u00adators for one anoth\u00ader too, and we could not be who we are with\u00adout one anoth\u00ader. We could not be human at all with\u00adout one anoth\u00ader. We could not be or become with\u00adout being there for one another.<\/p>\n

Of course, dur\u00ading much of the day and days to come, life will go on. And you will inter\u00adact with your world and with one anoth\u00ader in your usu\u00adal or ordi\u00adnary ways of receiv\u00ading, per\u00adceiv\u00ading, ana\u00adlyz\u00ading, as well as in how you share your impres\u00adsions, ideas and under\u00adstand\u00adings with the world around you. But do not assume that things are the same\u2026for they are not.<\/p>\n

These weath\u00ader pat\u00adterns in the world of mind, (yes, on a fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal lev\u00adel, the whole uni\u00adverse can be con\u00adceived-expe\u00adri\u00adenced as var\u00adi\u00adous lev\u00adels and forms of mind-stuff, some quite lumi\u00adnous and spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal and some ful\u00adly-formed into dense phys\u00adi\u00adcal real\u00adi\u00adties, so that the whole of cre\u00adation is a hier\u00adar\u00adchy of thought-forms and consciousnesses\u2026the whole uni\u00adverse is Alive, the entire\u00adty of Cre\u00adation is Spir\u00adit or Life, and so it is ulti\u00admate\u00adly formed as One Mind too); Yes, these winds of the mind have shift\u00aded here on Earth as Mer\u00adcury turns, and you need to make use of this time\u00adly gift of the spir\u00adit for you.<\/p>\n

Now, as you turn your lamp of per\u00adcep\u00adtion and aware\u00adness more inward, you are giv\u00aden this time to exam\u00adine how well your inner map\u00adping aligns well or not with the out\u00ader real\u00adi\u00adty, and how well your under\u00adstand\u00ading aligns with those with whom you jour\u00adney. For the next three weeks, you need to be even more atten\u00adtive, more adapt\u00adable and most crit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, even more hum\u00adble that ever before.<\/p>\n

If you are to grow, you must accept that there is far more for you to learn than you have so far, and that you are only begin\u00adning to under\u00adstand the mean\u00ading and pur\u00adpose of your jour\u00adney. For it is through this gate\u00adway of Humil\u00adi\u00adty and Ser\u00advice, which is the Vir\u00adgo Way, it is by this that you will encounter Spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal Grace, Grat\u00adi\u00adtude and Growth.<\/p>\n

By this atten\u00adtive and kind\u00adly spir\u00adit, you will be more open to let\u00adting go of what is less\u00ader with\u00adin your mind, and you will there\u00adby ele\u00advate your own mind and those around you too. For it is by self-reflec\u00adtive refine\u00adment, and the mutu\u00adal shar\u00ading of this with one anoth\u00ader, it is by this that you will receive the great\u00adest gift of Spirit.<\/p>\n

What is the great\u00adest thing you could ever have? Some would say Wealth; some would say Fame or Pow\u00ader. But those who are wis\u00ader know that none of these can be had or enjoyed with\u00adout the great\u00adest gift and trea\u00adsure of all, Peace of Mind. To be at peace is the great\u00adest trea\u00adsure. But it is not to found \u201cout there\u201d (at least not yet). Peace is won and forged with\u00adin, and then you may be able to extend it around your\u00adself and share it with oth\u00aders too.<\/p>\n

This is what is being offered to you here once more. Anoth\u00ader chance to clear your mind and thought-forms of fear, anx\u00adi\u00adety and anguish. To remem\u00adber who and what you tru\u00adly are, a being of Light and Love. You are always at Peace, in your High\u00ader Self, in the Watch\u00ader who watch\u00ades and waits for you to come home to your Place of Peace and Love and Under\u00adstand\u00ading. All you need to know is that Peace of Mind is found with\u00adin, in the place of Inte\u00adgral Whole\u00adness and Heal\u00ading that is the realm of Vir\u00adgo and Mercury.<\/p>\n

Mer\u00adcury in ret\u00adro\u00adgrade is always a time of Heal\u00ading, and there is no bet\u00adter sign to expe\u00adri\u00adence this gift than in sign of Well-Being that is Virgo.<\/p>\n

The key to Life is to be at Peace, or as many would say, \u201cTo walk in Beauty\u201d:<\/p>\n

As I walk, as I walk<\/em><\/p>\n

The Uni\u00adverse is walk\u00ading with me<\/em><\/p>\n

In beau\u00adty, it walks before me<\/em><\/p>\n

In beau\u00adty, it walks behind me<\/em><\/p>\n

In beau\u00adty, it walks below me<\/em><\/p>\n

In beau\u00adty, it walks above me<\/em><\/p>\n

Beau\u00adty is on every side<\/em><\/p>\n

Sur\u00adround\u00aded by Beauty<\/em><\/p>\n

Liv\u00ading in Beauty<\/em><\/p>\n

Lov\u00ading in Beauty<\/em><\/p>\n

May you walk in Beauty<\/em><\/p>\n

May you live in Beauty<\/em><\/p>\n

For all your days<\/em><\/p>\n

May you be at Peace<\/em><\/p>\n

Sur\u00adround\u00aded by Beauty<\/em><\/p>\n

It is done.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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