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<\/dt>\nThe idea of bigger shoes comes from how long Mercury will be in Libra this year. Instead of the usual two weeks in a sign, Mercury will be spending all but two weeks out of nearly ten traversing Libra’s airy cardinal field of reciprocity.<\/p>\n
That’s because Mercury is slowing down on approach to station retrograde on Oct. 4. The apparent regression will begin during a foray into early Scorpio, but then returns Mercury to Libra on Oct. 10, where it will remain until Nov. 8.<\/p>\n
The upshot is that Mercury will be behaving very much like a bigger planet. The combination of slower-than-usual apparent motion and a double-ingress to Scorpio indicates something of a more deliberate, thorough and thoughtful exploration of what both Libra and Scorpio represent.<\/p>\n
Although Scorpio’s fundamental identification with fixed water would seem worlds apart from Libra’s correspondence to cardinal air, there is subject matter in common. The overlap has to do with the subject of relationship. Libra is concerned with the ideal values that make relating possible in the first place — like fairness, balance and the aforementioned practice of reciprocation.<\/p>\n
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Scorpio, on the other hand, is more substantial — concerned with the unavoidable material exchanges and implicitly shared resources that go with the territory of continuous and sustained interpersonal connection.<\/p>\n
For a Mercury retrograde to integrate the distinguishing properties of Libra and Scorpio is significant unto itself. This year, however, the process (which essentially started as yesterday segued into today) will literally contain a great deal more.<\/p>\n
About a week after Mercury enters the first echo (or ‘shadow’) phase immediately preceding its retrograde station by passing the degree where it will eventually station direct, the Sun will make its own inherently grand entrance into Libra.<\/p>\n
As always, the solar ingress to Libra (as Sept. 22 segues into Sept. 23) will be an equinox, initiating a change of season. The beginning of a new season is probably the most fundamental and global form of reset for life on Earth, with a pan-cultural correspondence to the necessity of everybody changing patterns in unison to live in harmony with the natural world.<\/p>\n
As if the initiation of a new season were not enough to convey the message of changing patterns, the period of Mercury’s motion back from retrograde station in Scorpio to direct station in Libra will contain even more.<\/p>\n
Between the time Mercury’s apparent reversal begins on Oct. 4, and ends with a return to direct motion on Oct. 25, there will be two eclipses. The Full Moon of Oct. 8 will be a lunar eclipse, followed by a solar eclipse during the New Moon of Oct. 23.<\/p>\n
Eclipses (which usually take place in pairs) are semi-annual events that usually coincide with opportune times to change your personal patterns in order to live in greater harmony with yourself. Sometimes that means letting go. More often, however, eclipses represent a chance to catch up with your own evolution and grow into what amounts to a bigger pair of shoes.<\/p>\n
To think it all probably started while you were sleeping last night. That’s appropriate, really. Sleep is the time when children accomplish most of their physical growth, and when all of us digest our waking experiences so as to better achieve personal growth.<\/p>\n
Because it is only the beginning of September, you have something of the same quality of time available to you now. Not to check out, but to check in and process your experiences of the season coming to a close through Mercury’s correlation with thought.<\/p>\n
Because Mercury is slowing down by the day, you have time to think about your relationships, both in terms of what you are putting into and getting out of them. You also have time to consider what new, more responsible and more appropriate patterns of relationship might require of you.<\/p>\n
So take your time, and think within the framework of what relationship means to your personal evolution and growth. If you can begin by doing just that for now, your chances of fulfilling your potential by filling bigger shoes in the future will be greater than ever before.<\/p>\n
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