Curious about LISTEN, the 2013 annual edition of Planet Waves? Here is an audio introduction:
We seem to be in a moment of Big Lies on our way to Big Truths. The question is, how able are you to see through or mitigate the former? And if the Big Lies trip you up, will you be able to receive and accept the latter?
We’re at the tail end of Mercury’s second shadow (or echo) phase, which is the last leg of the retrograde process. Mercury will finally leave for new ground on Friday, Dec. 14. Before then, we get the third square between Mercury and Neptune in the course of this retrograde period.
Mercury square Neptune is slippery. With it, we tend to be prone to deception, denial, impractical dreaming and difficulty concentrating. Yet events around such an aspect can also conspire to bring out clarity, as we learn from recent prior events or even see the patterns of much larger trends. It can, however, take some determination to get there, which on one level seems to be the point. If you are coming into late-breaking information, the question is: what are you going to do with it? If you are finding out that you made decisions based on a misunderstanding, what are you going to do about that?
Think back (or check your calendar or journal) to these dates and see if you notice a trend involving the qualities just listed: Oct. 29 (just a couple hours before the Taurus Full Moon) and Nov. 13 (just a few hours after the total solar eclipse in Scorpio). Oh — and today. Are you feeling a little fuzzy headed? The third Mercury-Neptune square of the series is exact tomorrow at 7:57 am EST after Mercury ingresses Sagittarius tonight, but we’re in the zone now.
Back in late October Eric wrote of this third square, “This is the moment that may come with the feeling of, ‘I should have known.’ Therefore, starting now, I suggest you take it slow and recognize that you are responsible for what you do not know.”
How have you done with that? Has Mercury’s second shadow phase been kicking your butt with retrograde-like snafus, all because you weren’t quite able to slow down enough weeks ago to see the blind spots you were driving into?