My #1 Tip for Navigating Mercury Retrograde
Aside from making sure you laugh at the cosmic jokester!
Waving wildly from the dumpster that is Mercury Rx 🙋♀️
I remember the time Mercury Rx landed for me. As in a full embodied experience of it. I was flying to New York for a training with a teacher I had been working with for a while. It was 2014. I had been flying about 90% of the time for 12 years at this point.
Shit would happen from time to time, but I had pretty much projectored the shit out of airline travel. I knew which airlines to fly where, what times to avoid. I did it without even thinking about it.
So, per usual the flight in was great. I flew to JFK because I knew to avoid LaGuardia by this point (this was during the god awful renovation of LGA that took 100 years to complete). I’m walking with my roller board to catch the train and womp. This is where it starts to get weird.
The train was broken down.
Not only was the train broken down, but the chaos of many hundreds of travelers trying to get to the city was super intense.
I had flown in same day, with enough time to get to my hotel and drop my bags before heading to the event. Mercury was laughing so hard at my cute plans! After what felt like being pushed onto the Metro during rush hour, I was finally on a bus to “who knows where” when it landed - omg THIS is Mercury retrograde!!
I did eventually make it to the event that evening! I had to go straight there, luggage and all. It was a sweaty, confusing journey to get there…but I persevered!!
My friends, that is a little window into the ways Mercury Rx is truly a prescription. It will humble you, in sometimes the most frustrating ways. In the end, you’re fine, but you might be a little sore about it for a minute.
All planets go retrograde, actually. It is considered an important part of integration for planetary movements. As Humans, we’ve been navigating these shifting energies forever.
What we have not had forever though is Strategy and Authority, and the best news is S&A never go Retrograde!! If you are Astro curious and have not gone down the Human Design rabbit hole, you are in for a treat. Imagine having access to your own answers in the midst of everyone else losing their minds. That is the magic of knowing your HD!
Mercury in particular scrambles communication channels. It messes with travel and the every day getting from point A to point B. When you have Strategy & Authority, you have access to a completely new level of guidance system.
Sometimes I listen, and sometimes I don’t…but either way I’m learning as I go. I had an experience earlier this week where my authority told me not to do something and deeply regretted not listening to it. It was silly. My authority told me not to get Arthur’s hair cut at the appt Ryan had made for all of the boys to get back to school cuts.
Lo and behold, the barber completely chopped Arthur’s hair. He totally botched it. He heard my instructions wrong, and it was too late to do anything about it by the time he realized it. Will it be ok in the end? Yes, absolutely. Hair grows back.
It definitely upset me more than him (maybe triggered by past bad haircuts I’ve had 🤣). Did it humble me? Absolutely. I should have listened to my Spleen when it said to forgo his haircut.
To add insult to injury, it was just TOO Mercury retrograde in Leo. Leo’s are known for their hair, and my sweet Arthur is a Leo sun!!
Moral of the story?? Persevere my friends. Listen to your Authority. Take the lessons and learn from them. Today is the halfway point, and by the 25th of August Mercury will clear its shadow.
If you want to learn about your strategy and authority from me and my co-host Courtney, we are keeping our HD Fundamentals course at $99 until the end of Mercury Retrograde (Aug 11). I hope you’ll join us!!
In the meantime, expect a lot of tricks and mischef, but know that in the end you will get it worked out!
xoxo, Andrea