{"id":73583,"date":"2014-01-21T11:57:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=73583"},"modified":"2014-01-21T11:57:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:57:30","slug":"pay-attention-mercury-enters-its-echoshadow-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/pay-attention-mercury-enters-its-echoshadow-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay Attention — Mercury Enters Its Echo\/Shadow Phase"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Mercury enters the echo (or “shadow”) phase before its next retrograde by passing 18+ Aquarius at 3:46 pm EST tomorrow, pay attention. See what is in front of you. Hear the sounds that reach you. Smell every scent, taste flavors, and feel every sensation as if it were an echo (or foreshadowing) from the future, because it just might be. That’s how Mercury retrograde cycles work.<\/p>\n

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To visualize how a Mercury retrograde cycle works on the zodiac circle, think of a windshield wiper making its first three swipes. The first swipe, from right to left (in direct motion) is the echo phase that begins tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The first swipe gives you information about the state of both the windshield wiper (or Mercury) and the windshield (the portion of the zodiac circle that Mercury will traverse two more times).<\/p>\n

The second swipe of the windshield wiper (from left to right) is the retrograde part of the cycle. Mercury’s apparent reverse motion begins Feb. 6 at 3+ Pisces. The retrograde swipe revisits the same swath of windshield (or zodiac) as the first swipe, but in reverse order. Hence, a different perspective on the same information is conveyed, a perspective you will be able to use if you paid attention the first time.<\/p>\n

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Finally, on Feb. 28, Mercury returns to 18+ Aquarius (where it will be tomorrow), beginning the third swipe (from right to left again), by returning to direct motion for the second echo (or “shadow”) phase, which ends on March 20 — the Vernal Equinox.<\/p>\n

When the Sun enters Aries for the Vernal Equinox on March 20, Mercury will cease to behave like a windshield wiper. By leaving 3+ Pisces behind for another year, Mercury will enter new territory at about the same time the Sun begins a new year for astrologers by crossing the Aries Point.<\/p>\n

What happens in the world between tomorrow and astrology’s new year, nobody can predict for sure. If there is something to the windshield wiper metaphor, however, Mercury can give you an idea.<\/p>\n

That’s because Mercury corresponds to ideas, and other forms of experience that either originate in or inform your mind. That’s how it’s a good idea to put an emphasis on paying attention starting tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow will begin your mind’s first pass through information it will revisit from a different perspective beginning Feb. 6. If you pay attention starting tomorrow, the different perspective will not throw you off. You will recognize the information previously experienced, and learn more deeply from it as a benefit of the change in perspective.<\/p>\n

If properly taken, the deeper learning conveyed through the period of Mercury’s apparent reverse motion will prepare you for third swipe of Mercury’s retrograde cycle — the second echo\/shadow phase from Feb. 28 to March 20. Much like the third swipe of a properly functional windshield wiper, the three weeks between Mercury’s return to direct motion and the Vernal Equinox should serve to clear everything up so that you can better see what’s ahead.<\/p>\n

What better time to see ahead clearly than the beginning of a new year? Think of it as a second chance if the inebriations or distractions of the civil new year (which started Jan. 1) got you off on the wrong foot. You could do a lot worse than to begin again with the Sun, and it all starts tomorrow with Mercury. So pay attention for the next several weeks and pay yourself some benefits for the year to come in the bargain.<\/p>\n

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When Mercury enters the echo (or “shadow”) phase before its next retrograde by passing 18+ Aquarius at 3:46 pm EST tomorrow, pay attention. See what is in front of you. Hear the sounds that reach you. Smell every scent, taste flavors, and feel every sensation as if it were an echo (or foreshadowing) from the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}