How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl,
year after year,
running over the same old ground. What have we found?
The same old fears - wish you were here.
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Just as Mars (the planet of action, assertion, anger and motivation) starts to go forward after 75-or-so days wandering in the retrograde wilderness, Mercury (the planet of communication, connections, messages and thinking) flips us the finger and signals that it's time for another 3 week period of wandering around, going over the same old ground... what will we have found? The same old fears? Wish YOU were here?
Yes, over the same old ground. As Mercury goes retrograde, Mars is getting set to go forward over the same territory it has been retrograding over since mid November last year. If you want to refresh your memory about Mars retrograde read this: Retracing the Steps of Mars and Getting it Right. Well, did we get it right? We have the opportunity to retrace those steps between now and the first week of April. What have we learnt? Have we reached out for others as Mars was asking; extending our hand, our heart, our selves? Have we had our hand slapped or our heart broken?
Sometimes, no strike that, often with Mars retrograde, our motivations, objectives and impulses are taken the wrong way, we take the wrong turn OR we stay where we are when we should move. Perhaps we're being taken for granted, not speaking up, whatever - it all builds up until it explodes in a big volcanic way, leaving just remnants of our lives, our selves, our past, or whatever it is that we've been sowing the seeds for. How's the harvest looking? Well, it seems that we won't know for a little while... all the while we've got to keep planting, keep plugging, keep being our authentic selves because Mars will take a shot at us unless we aim for just that. Mars went a bit haywire, ungrounded or split while going backwards in
the last degrees of Gemini and right now it's going forward again through those last 6 degrees of
Gemini. Right now, Mars is on Gemini 25: A Man Trimming Palms. This seems to be telling us to get cracking with maintaining our lives, to do the essential maintenance, caring for one's possessions, weeding out the unnecessary and getting rid of those things that are hanging on way past their use-by-date. We have to clear away remnants of the past that clutter or sabotage in order to get a fresh, clean slate - a fresh, clean image.
So, now, at the beginning of February, Mars is starting it's slow climb through Gemini and into Cancer.
Along the way, in the weeks leading up to March 5, Mars is
rewriting the rules in the sign of Gemini. We may be feeling the effects
of the cold (being 'left out in the cold' or 'getting a cold shoulder'); and
things being in a rather stagnant state, we'll be looking far
afield at vistas foreign to us. At this time we'll need to remember where we
are in order to let ourselves (and others) off the hook. Another
important message from Mars is not judging people by how they look,
dress, carry themselves. Our tendency to do this is largely superficial at this point in
our evolution - the essence of a person can't be told by external
appearances as there's often far more going on beneath the
surface.
The trick is that Mercury is now retrograde, right when Mars
goes direct (forward). However, even though the universe seems to like
to play tricks on us, Mercury and Mars are in rather harmonious aspect
to each other (120 degrees - a trine), which means that they do have a
sense of communication - at least in the early days of the retrograde
(late January and early February).
Mercury went retrograde on January 30 at Aquarius 24: A Man Turning His Back on His Passions Teaches Deep Wisdom From His Experience.
This degree can show the need to conquer one's base nature, to come to
terms or to learn something through experience and maturation - we've
come a long way and learned much, and now we have to integrate
those lessons and feelings into our core self. We have to accept
various aspects of ourselves, sort out what's working and what's
acceptable, and integrate those elements into our lives so our lives are
more authentic, more meaningful, even a good example for others.
Mercury will be retrograde until February 19 - giving us the chance to once again be analyzing our lives and sorting out what's worth keeping and what's not. The usual warnings apply to Mercury retrograde; be wary of what you commit to, what you sign, how you operate machinery, how you interpret the messages you receive (or don't receive), the signals you're giving off...
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