This week, Mercury stations direct after its three-week retrograde. Mercury retrogrades happen fairly often — three times a year (yes, it seems like a lot more), though they are all a bit quirky. The days around the station (change of direction) are the ones to watch the most carefully. When Mercury stations direct in Pisces early Wednesday morning (in all US time zones, late morning in the UK), the effect may be subtle, though it’s something that can have real manifestations.
These might be emotional or mental; this event is an invitation to perceive carefully, and to use your own mind with discernment. Notice what you’re thinking, notice why if you can, and make sure that you verify your perceptions against one or two other sources. Mercury is in one of its ‘opposite signs’ (it’s more at home in Virgo).
At the same time, Mars is still retrograde in Virgo about 11 more days. It’s coming to the end of its 10-week retrograde opposite two slow-moving planets in early Pisces — Neptune and Chiron. This arrangement, too, suggests employing the mental tool of a reality check. Delay important decisions as long as you can, mainly because Mercury’s station suggests that additional information is pending.
The station of Mars, once we get there, will suggest different causes and directions of action. Things that seem important or even essential today will have another cast on Wednesday and yet another once Mars stations. Patience and awareness will go a long way in this environment. Minimize conflict rather than promote it; the conflict itself will count for little benefit in this kind of climate.
Mercury stationing in Pisces will have an impressionistic or emotional quality. Notice your environment, in all forms of that word: the people and things around you, what you eat, the energy fields if you’re able to perceive them. ‘Energy fields’ encompasses anything from the emotional vibes to the tone quality of conversation to what you may notice on the subtle planes. With Mercury swimming around in Pisces, your dreams may be particularly revealing. As we often suggest, keep a notebook handy.
Notice, as well, your relationship to the past. Pisces is famous for its relationship to everything that we tend to forget, or want to forget. However, you may be remembering, so — remember. Notice what ‘comes up’.
Another quality might be a turning of the tide.
A turning tide really does move water — and the things in it, whether they are nourishing or toxic. There is replenishment of some things and dilution of others in balance. You could also call finding balance ‘getting clear’ on things. And in the case of Mercury stationing direct in Pisces, getting clear means letting the water run. Imagine you’ve poured dye into a pool of water. To get the water back to clear, you either have to let the water run for a while, or gradually drain out the old and add new water.
This is slow, subtle action, not a sudden reaction. Be receptive. Allow the past to come to awareness, then drain away when you’re ready.
Mercury and especially Mars retrograde may have had you diligently searching inward for parts of yourself you need to recognize and heal. Chiron, opposite Mars in early Pisces, has been lending a helping hand in that. And both Mercury and Chiron are associated with Virgo — where Mars is still digging up whatever needs to be washed away. That’s a lot of opposite sign energy on a delicate, long-term mission.
The process is nowhere near finished, but if you allow yourself to hear what this ‘other’ is trying to say, you may find that riding the tide really is the only option – or at least, the most efficient one.
The moment of a Mercury station often has the quality of ‘the truth comes out’. In this case, it may be a subtle truth — that means noticing it will be a conscious act.
Carrie, to echo Patty, it sounds like some precognitive dreaming is going on in your house. I’ve been reading a ton of Jung, and he describes precognitive dreams/experiences that are close matches to yours and your husband’s. But it sounds like you already know that. Take care whatever you decide.
Carrie, I think you should reach out to the ex-boyfriend. He may be about to depart this world, or maybe not. Since both you and Dave dreamed about him, i believe closure is needed, if not forgiveness. Good luck.
My acupuncturist has been instrumental in so much healing for me. I don’t think I’d’ve gotten to this mental stuff if it hadn’t been for her.
I’ve discovered I’ve got a number of misfiring synapses when it comes to sex, and I mostly know why, but I haven’t the slightest clue on what to _do_ with the stuff, nor how to reprogram. Hence the therapist. I was lucky enough to get referrals from my doc, people _she_ trusts, which is a great start for me (as I’m really not a vanilla sort of person in any way…). Definitely not in danger of harming myself… I just want my brain to work better so that I’m happier. 🙂
I asked for timing input ’cause it seems like the answer is there, I just don’t know… which one, you know?
I have been going with my intuition, and it seems to say another week or two. I also happen to have a big deliverable at work next week, and practically speaking, I probably shouldn’t start poking at wonky brain bits until the stress is off…
Maeve:
I resonate with the position you feel you are in. I will say though, you followed your thoughts in asking (references)…you opened a door. Now, I would suggest you follow your intuition on timing, your timing and however long it takes. You’ll know, simply because you asked.
Yesterday, I woke up after dreaming aboutmy ex boyfriend. I mever dream about him. It was weird because in the dream, he spoke to me with far more awale and awareness tha he ever did while I was with him. He was a drug abusing alcoholic so having a conversation with him was never much good. In the dream, he talked and asked me about myself. I told him about Dave and the kids. He was startled that the place we were was different from before. I had no attachment to him at all (after all, I was the one who made him leave in 1985). I woke up from the dream wondering if he had maybe died but his name is not in the obituaries. The dream was so clear that it messed up my concentration and I was unable to get focused on Dave and our intimate time in the morning. Instead I told him the dream and he said that was weird because he also dreamed about my ex (he has never met him but has seen pictures). He said in his dream he thought about him and wondered what our relationship was like and what I was like when I was with him. That was a real Twilight Zone moment for both of us.
I don’t know what that extremely clear dream was about but I do know it was from the past. A past I left a long time ago and never looked back.
Just yesterday am, I had this extraordinary insight into a major breakdown of mine and it stayed with me all day, into today … I couldn’t think why it is that after all this time I finally get such answers to what took me out, broke me into pieces a while ago. I wanted to shout if from the rooftops, I finally SEE!! but as I read here today, I feel sure there’s so much more … not to mention the healing part(s). Thank you for your wisdom. I shall ride the tide and allow the water to drain away clear.
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oooh thanks so much for this piece! over the last days I’ve experienced several ‘reveals’ of past experiences included the realization that me and my brother were neglected (inadequate nutrition, safe surroundings etc) and conditioned into accepting a kind of rejection and abuse from others that has led me to stay in situations trying to prove myself and show my value when I’ve clearly been rejected. Wow! This helped me realize I need to leave my job because I’m in a weird projection dynamic with my boss, who tends to target competent females and disable their sense of agency/confidence. Anyway, I’m realizing more about this as the realizations unfold. ‘Seeing’ is so valuable and I’m grateful for the information.
Maeve, I too am utilizing acupuncture for theraputic reasons, to help with physical healing related to the above. Finding a therapist is hard, because its important to work with the right one. My personal opinion is that you should wait until mid month to select one so you find the right one for you. That is, unless you are in imminent danger of harming yourself.
xxxooo planetwaves family.
High anxiety week for me and I know part of the root so that helps. I had a dream this morning where I was with a group of people and I noticed unusual activity in the sky. Sure enough, as we watched, ships of unknown origin were met with attack. Lights of explosions lit portions of the sky hidden by a few clouds. It was all pretty cool because it was unusual, but then the drama got closer. We then we realized we were “seen.” A ship landed near us; no where to go, five or six of us hid under/behind a park bench. I was squeezing my partner’s leg when a man came from the ship, walked over, and not going for anyone else, he reached for my arm.
All I know is that I didn’t want to go. I woke up scared and tried to have another dream to take the edge off. It didn’t work.
I must be about to have a break through; the “man” is here with a message that I can no longer escape. I have been “seen” and there is no where to go but to find out why he came down from his ship to get me. Since I was clutching onto my partner, maybe it is about independence or hanging onto something that is safe and familiar. The man from the ship wasn’t “alien” so I am guessing that his message is close, known, and not foreign in nature.
Always interesting, but I like the dream I had the night before where I was surrounded by loving rocks and crystals. I guess we can’t always wake up happy.
Or clarity to these perhaps
Maeve it perhaps depends on the dysfunction. For example when I was thinking about thanks for astrologers, I realised that MR was something needing mercury, CS saturn, Willow moon and Tracy sun/child. Or clarity from this source is what they offered me and fitted the need.
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Thanks for this. Was hoping to catch an update before heading to sleep.
A few weeks ago, I discovered some long standing emotional issues that I had no idea were dysfunctional. I finally broached the topic last week with my acupuncturist, and asked for therapist references (which is hard all on its own).
I’ve gotten the sense to delay contacting potential therapists, borne out by some of this post, too. I hear, wait to do this, then the timing will be better (heavily paraphrased, I admit). Could someone shed light on when the better time to move forward would be? In not sure which aspects to go off of… Mars, Mercury…?