Mercury Stations Direct
Mercury Stations Direct
28th PST 14:14 / 29th AEST 9:14
Mercury goes direct on Leo’s 21 degree, corresponding to the Sabian symbol “A Carrier Pigeon Fulfilling Its Mission”. Is a message landing for you? Has your own personal carrier pigeon, lost for several weeks, diverted off course by rogue weather or rival pigeon drama, finally made its way to its intended destination? Mercury will be in its post retrograde shadow until September 11, but confusion is already beginning to dissipate.
This is a good time to take stock of conversations that have transpired since August 4. Consider where clinging to your point of view as a point of pride has landed you in compromising situations. How much have you relied on theatrics as a crutch to get your message across? In what ways have you pandered to others? You have probably noticed, with some despair, that this is not an effective way to communicate. Audiences pick up on false confidence. Their subsequent inattentiveness can bruise the ego of someone who is simply trying to be heard.
But as Mercury stations direct, and our metaphorical carrier pigeon forks over what I am picturing as an adorable parchment scroll, everyone remembers that they are not talking to hear themselves talk. We are talking to *connect*. We are talking to *relate*. Healthy conversations are difficult. Communicating our convictions is difficult, especially when to express oneself authentically is to invite criticism. But as Mercury retrograde has yet again poetically demonstrated, it is in the back and forth, in listening to one another, in acknowledging our mistakes, and in being willing to edit our script, that the performance becomes meaningful.
This is a good time to take stock of conversations that have transpired since August 4. Consider where clinging to your point of view as a point of pride has landed you in compromising situations. How much have you relied on theatrics as a crutch to get your message across? In what ways have you pandered to others? You have probably noticed, with some despair, that this is not an effective way to communicate. Audiences pick up on false confidence. Their subsequent inattentiveness can bruise the ego of someone who is simply trying to be heard.
But as Mercury stations direct, and our metaphorical carrier pigeon forks over what I am picturing as an adorable parchment scroll, everyone remembers that they are not talking to hear themselves talk. We are talking to *connect*. We are talking to *relate*. Healthy conversations are difficult. Communicating our convictions is difficult, especially when to express oneself authentically is to invite criticism. But as Mercury retrograde has yet again poetically demonstrated, it is in the back and forth, in listening to one another, in acknowledging our mistakes, and in being willing to edit our script, that the performance becomes meaningful.
Written by Nyssa Grazda
