My dearest closet witches….
How are you, truly?
My hope is that nature’s invitation: Mercury Retrograde, which visits us three times a year offers you the awareness it was designed for: to slow down and refine the consciousness of the mind to invite more acceptance and solutions to our situations.
Mercury RX invites us to work with the mental quadrant of health the often-overlooked pillar that influences the emotional, physical, and spiritual realms. Because everything begins with thought:
What we think
becomes what we believe,
which shapes how we feel,
and ultimately how we act.
(And repeat.)
Mercury Retrograde disrupts to create one thing in the matrix: pattern interruption.
Why? because the crunchy, confronting moments are portals for us to slow down and meet life with more patience, presence, and self-awareness.
As the classic trickster archetype, Mercury stirs friction not to frustrate us, but to evolve us. He moves backwards in a forward-moving world to remind us of something powerful:
As Homo sapiens with brains:
We are wired for change.
We can create new neural pathways.
We can rewire how we think, speak, and act.
We can bend the rules, play silly and build new realities from our thoughts alone.
Mercury Retrograde is your permission slip to close down all ways of being and start fresh: on purpose.
Play by the rules of retrograde (pause, reflect, revise) and you don’t just survive — you shift timelines.
Mercury in Leo shines a spotlight on the heart.
It’s a call to express ourselves with courage and authenticity.
To align our thoughts with truth, not fear.
To speak from vulnerability and not from the old scripts of survival.
To share our voice where it feels truly heard.
But in order to do this
we must make peace with the loudest voice in the room…
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