What The Mercury Retrograde?!

Exploring the deeper implications of mercury retrograde and why astrologers put so much emphasis on it. I end the episode by going through mercury in each of the 12 signs. I hope you enjoy!

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Hello, my name is Jasmine Lee, and I am not your mama's astrologer. I have a special episode. This is my special episode song. I don't know. Yeah. I wanted to do something different. I want to branch out. I want to try to bring more focus and awareness towards, you know, the things in astrology life that I feel like get over-mystified, over-hyped, or over-dramatized in the, you know, bigger culture of it all. And what is the first one that comes to mind? Well, it is the one we're in right now. That's right. It is Mercury goddamn retrograde. And you know, I am the worst for it. I will stub my toe, I will trip, I my phone won't work right, which, oh my God, have your guys' phones been like demonic? Mine certainly has. It's been wild. Our lights flickered. Certainly that happens, but I always say, oh, it's Mercury retrograde. Ooh, I'm feeling really Mercury retrograde-y. I mean, we use it often. We use the term. And I think that over time it becomes much like a full moon, much like Friday the 13th, much like a black cat crossing your path. It gets this black mark as if it is something really terrible. And is technology going down so terrible? I mean, the world, the way it is shaping up in this world, maybe it is. Maybe it will be more so. But I wanted to break down Mercury retrograde in a different kind of way. Because here we are at the midway point of this Mercury retrograde. And I'm sure each and every one of you who pressed play on this podcast today has had an experience over the last few weeks with Mercury retrograding your AS. It's been a big thing this month, you know, and I think that it's been a big thing this month because Mercury is in Pisces. There's been loads of planets in Pisces, there's been eclipses in Pisces, so it's been very extra. So I thought that it was just a good time to break down Mercury retrograde and what the real ask is. And if you look at Mercury in its history, Mercury in astrology rules communications, it rules neighbors, it rules our thoughts, it rules how we are delivering information via technology, via our mouths, via our thoughts. All of these things, our writings, the ways in which we express ourselves is all up for grabs with Mercury. Mercury is ruled, or rather, Gemini and Virgo are ruled by Mercury. So you have two signs. And you know, there's been argument. There's traditional astrology that puts Virgo somewhere else. I like to think of Virgo as being more ruled by Chiron personally, but that's neither here nor there. That's for another conversation. There's two planets that are ruled by Mercury, and one is very fastidious and earthy, Virgo. Virgo is all about our daily life and rituals, how we're managing our tasks, being of service, being organized. These are high roads. Low road is judgment, perfectionism, the need to have it your way. It can be extremely stifling to creativity because then you have Gemini who comes around and is the twins. It is the Jekyll Hyde. It is hot and cold, this and that. Very Cheshire cat energy. Go this way, go that way, go anyway. But honestly, having these two signs speak to Mercury is really powerful to me because there is always and forever a high road and a low road to go. And in a Mercury retrograde, oftentimes I feel that we are drugged down to our low road selves because things aren't just right where we want them, when we want them. And our technology doesn't just kick up whenever we need it to. And it is a time of retrograde, retrospective, going backwards. And we are a sick society of forward at all cost motion, of I don't want it later, I want it now. Of I don't want to have to wait for that. I don't want to have to go through the hard parts of that. I just want it to work out. And Mercury Retrograde happens a few times a year to tell us, no, no, no. There isn't always a way out of this. There isn't always a jumping over the hurdle. There isn't always a ready solution to your problems. And Mercury Retrograde always asks us, okay, where are you rushing? Where are you moving too fast? In Greek mythology, Mercury is represented by Hermes. Hermes was the god and the communicator with Zeus. Hermes could go into the underworld. Hermes could travel the different realms. Hermes was the messenger. Hermes was quick-witted. Hermes sometimes could be quite cantankerous. And I really see both the Virgo and the Gemini placements in the different stories that you'll hear with Hermes involved. I think that I bring that up because I see Mercury retrograde too, as a messenger, as a deliverer of something that we're missing. Something that we haven't been willing, wanting, or able to see. And so, if for instance, you've been putting off changing the oil in your car and Mercury retrograde comes around, it's going to be a problem. It's going to holler at you because it is meant to fail, meant to break. It hasn't been taken care of. And so it's going to start to bark louder. Our bodies, if we haven't been taking care of our bodies well, are going to start to be prone to accidents, going to be prone to collecting and getting all of these horrible illnesses that are going around this year. So that's our bodies in our spirit. If we are spiritually bypassing, if we are not doing the work, then we're going to be getting into arguments more. We're going to be getting triggered more. And the goal of Mercury Retrograde is not to resist it. The goal of Mercury Retrograde is to surrender to it, is to understand that if something is not working, if something broke, if a fight broke out, if a car accident happened, if your stereo system breaks down, if your TV isn't working, maybe you're supposed to be turning that stuff off. Maybe you're supposed to walk a little slower. Maybe it takes more time to read through a contract. The reason why they say don't sign contracts, don't do those kinds of things in a Mercury retrograde is because oftentimes we miss the fine print. We miss what's trying to be told more subtly. And the gift of this Pisces Mercury retrograde is Pisces rules spirit. It rules our intuition, it rules that other intangible realm. And the high road of that in this Mercury retrograde season is that it is really quite strongly asking us to listen to a different side of ourselves, to a more spiritual side of ourselves, to a more intuitive-based way of living. And if you're not used to that or you haven't been doing that, boy, are you gonna get spirit checked? You're gonna get checked. And I'm sure that it hasn't felt good. I myself have stumbled in to a few uncomfortable situations because I didn't think before I spoke, because I didn't make proper plans. And also I've been tired AF. And maybe you guys have too. Because with all these damn planets in Pisces plus the Mercury retrograde in Pisces, Pisces loves to sleep, you guys. Pisces loves the subconscious, the dream world, the going elsewhere. I bet your dreams have been righteous. So that's the vibe. It's the same thing with a full moon is look at what sign it is in, because the sign really dictates the flavor of the Mercury retrograde. So this one being in Pisces, it's going to be way more drawn and focused towards our spirit life, towards our felt senses, towards overwhelm, towards burnout, towards not feeling like you got a lot of giddy up. But if Mercury retrograde had been in Aries, the sign next to it, Aries rules the body and it's fiery and it's all about how we're moving. So accident prone, um, quick to temper, fights. These are kind of the flavors that you could expect from an Aries Mercury retrograde. So your homework as we're discussing Mercury and Mercury being in retrograde is that if Mercury is our thoughts and our collective thought processing system is in retrograde, in Pisces, particularly, we're not going to be getting a lot of clarity. We're not going to be able to be making plans with as much accuracy. Though I will say that last weekend we got to have that beautiful Mercury kazimi where Mercury was in the sun. And so we can get breaks depending on how the other planets are responding to this Mercury retrograde. But for all intents and purposes, this is a time to cancel plans more often, to stay home a little bit more. As you have one more week of this Mercury retrograde, take it slow. Let your mind rest a little bit more. Turn off the TV, particularly, a little bit earlier. Put your phone in the kitchen instead of having it in the bedroom with you. These are ways that we can combat what the flavor of Mercury retrograde is. Again, using Aries as an example, if Mercury retrograde was in Aries, then you would need to protect your body more. You would need to be exercising more. You would need to be, you know, eating the right food, having more protein, making sure your diet is balanced, making sure your emotions are on point. Like these are the kind of reflections that would be being asked of you. So the question is: why do astrologers put so much emphasis on Mercury retrograde? So much so that it's become a stereotype, so much so that it's become more of a trending thing than an actual thing itself. And it is the same thing to me as where we've put in the category of a full moon is that there is directed focus. Now, full moon opposes the sun, which means the energy that's going on in the world opposes the felt sense of the world. So that can create a lot of calamity, you can imagine. It's like if you were born on a full moon, forever your chart would be about the opposition between your lived self and your felt self. With Mercury, especially if you're born in a Mercury retrograde, well, I always say those people have a special superpower. The Mercury retrograde doesn't inflict as much torture on them, or maybe more so, but the more people I've met that have been born under a Mercury retrograde can roll with these punches. And what it's really about, my friends, is it is about control. Forever and always, as humans, we seek control because that is what makes us feel safe. Most of us. Some of us, you know, which is ironic because the Geminis of the world maybe aren't seeking control so much as the they are attracting calamity in order to self-define in order to find control again. But really, control is an interesting theme in humanity. And we all think we have a grasp on time. We all think we're just gonna be here tomorrow. We all think, think, think. So much thinking. And our thoughts are really secretly, guys, our garbage cans. Okay, because it is all of the stuff. Our brains are a filter just like our organs are. Our brain is filtering all of the things that we're seeing all day, all of the things that we've communicated all day, all of the things that have been communicated to us all day. And then we take it home and then we pontificate on it and toil on it and go to sleep on it and dream on it. And that's what creates psychosis over time, is a mismanagement of how we're processing, how we are filtering all of these thoughts that are coming up in our minds. And the truth is plot twist, your thoughts are not you. And Mercury Retrograde wants to remind you of that. That when your thoughts get taken away from you or the calamity of thought is ever present, how do you find yourself again? How do you take a moment? How do you get more sleep? It is Mercury Retrograde for me, is like the red flag of self-care. If you are not taking care of yourself, if you have not been taking care of yourself, if your relationship has not been feeling cozy, if your work life has not been feeling fulfilling, then these things are going to get amplified because our thoughts can no longer trick us into our strange autonomic nervous system of I wake up at this time, I do this, I go to bed at this time, I eat this. It's like everything kind of gets a little short-circuited. And then all of a sudden we're in this new weird playing field of I don't really know how I feel right now. I feel like I don't get to control anything. And the truth is, we don't. We don't. Time is a paradox, and it's never been made more clear to me than the time change, than the spring forward bullshit of our lives. It's like, oh, okay, we're just gonna spring forward an hour so that we can get more sunlight. Time isn't real. And you know, as being not your mama's astrologer, I am not someone that really enjoys our loves deep, deep hippie culture. Because I do feel that for a lot of reasons, things that started out as very true and very healing and very powerful got turned into a racket. That, you know, sound healing, sound baths, Reiki, energy work, hugging trees, all of these things, Mercury retrograde, they've been hijacked by the spiritual bypassers and turned into something that I don't all the way ascribe to or love. And so for me, I always want to be putting all of this information into the practical, into the lived, felt sense. Because the truth is, you can use this shit. You can use what is going on to manifest some stuff, to slow down, to figure some stuff out on a much more profound level. I've been teaching astrology long enough to know that when you're ready to turn your power all the way on and you are engaging with your astrological chart and you are working with the planet shifts and the energy that is available to all of us all the time, you really become a boss bitch. You can really get a lot of things done. But Mercury retrograde is a time that fact checks, okay? And it's like if you have not been keeping your books, if you have been slinging some shit that just won't stand, well, Mercury retrograde is gonna come in and like a cat, knock that off the table. All of it. And some are worse than others. I feel that this one has been increasingly powerful due to the eclipses and all of the different outer planets, Saturn, Neptune changing signs, and Jupiter going direct this week. So there is a lot of other things deeply affecting Mercury retrograde, but at its core, at its true core, it takes what we think and turns it a little bit upside down. And no one likes to get their cookie taken from them, okay? Like nobody wants to be told they're wrong, nobody wants to readjust their thinking or their lifestyle because that takes a lot of work. But Mercury retrograde is the opportunity, the clues, the stop sign that you need to say this part of your life is struggling. And now that is a whole nother level because where Mercury retrograde falls in your chart, it's going to be affecting you differently because everybody has Pisces in a different place in their chart. This one happens to be in Pisces. But I also invite you to look at your own natal mercury and to figure out what is the energy that your birth mercury has to give you. Most of the time, Mercury travels really close to your sun. So you're either going to have your mercury in the same sign as your sun sign, or one sign before, or one sign after. And that is so because our thoughts stick close to us, but they're still not us. And so how we work with if it's in the same sign, the different degree that it's in, or in a different sign, the different energy it's trying to bring, there's really a lot of power in taking control of your thoughts and being like, nah nah nah, I am the boss here, not you. And when you can own up to that, when you can own up to the traps that your different mercury sign falls into, the different mercury signs that your children fall into, the different mercury signs that your parents fall into, that your lover falls into, that your coworkers fall into. Imagine how conflict could change if we understood this very basic notion that we are all operating under different thought systems. That what feels really hard to me might be super easy to someone else. That what feels really easy to me might be incredibly difficult for someone else. And Mercury retrograde, it's like the holidays. We all suffer, okay? We all suffer under the guise of our sky mercury not having fundamentally high operating value system. And so when that is going on, we look to ourselves, we look to each other, and we find more compassion. And your homework right now is to go find where your mercury is. What sign is your mercury in? Because I guarantee you, understanding where your thought sector is versus your partner, your kids, like anybody that you talk to every day's thought sectors, you're really gonna start to make some headway with understanding how we're all different, understanding how we're all going to have different fear-based realities. We're all living in like our own shadow. And the thing I love the most about astrology in general is that it opens up my compassion. It opens up my ability to understand that, you know, not everybody is cooking with the same eggs I'm cooking with. And if I can understand that and not only be compassionate but excited about learning how other people cook eggs, then, you know, you got a motherfucking obelage, you got a hard-boiled egg, you got some scrambled shit. I mean, you've got all kinds of ways to eat food. It's just flavor-based. And that's kind of our mindsets, too, is that when you really start doing the research, then you can really start to get to know people better. So now to end this podcast, I'm gonna go through each sign and give you a little flavor of how their mercury might show up. So find yours, find your kids, press pause, go find there's all kinds of mercury calculators online. You can go plug in your information and find out what your mercury is and what your families, your coworkers, whoever you're struggling with maybe. Start there. Start with the person you most recently fought with, and great mercury retrograde exercise, and compare yours to theirs. So we will go in order. We'll start with one, Aries. Someone with an Aries Mercury is someone who is going to be fiery. They're going to not have a lot of patience when it comes to their thinking. So they're going to be the kind of thinkers that want to produce. They want to go do it right now. They want, when they think something, they want to make it real. They're big dreamers. They're people who think that success is very much tied to how powerfully they can manifest, what they're creating. It's a very self-based thinking system. Not necessarily. High road is centered in self. They're going to be thinking from their own self-center, but low road is very selfish. They're going to be thinking about how they're affected by the environment first. And so their filter system, just see mercury as your filtration system. Their filtration system is through them first, for better or for worst. Sometimes for worst. Next, we have Taurus. And someone who has a Taurus Mercury is someone who is going to need the information slower. Their thinking process. Don't move like Aries. It's ruled by Earth and it needs foundations. It needs to really understand the thing all the way through before they're going to talk about it. So they might be a little bit more on the quiet side. Communication might be harder. They're the types that won't say a lot, but then when they do say stuff, it's pretty profound because they have been taking the time. That's what a Taurus Mercury does. It takes the time to know something before it decides to do anything about it verbally. So they're definitely the slower thinkers. That doesn't make them dumb. Don't be dissuaded. That makes them incredibly high value intelligent because they choose to think before they speak. This bitch knows nothing about that. Next, we have Gemini. So Gemini is ruled by Mercury. So a Gemini brain is the proverbial waitress brain. They're getting you a diet Pepsi while they're filling your ranch order, getting you a fry refill, and asking you what you'd like on the side. They're the ones that always need a lot going on. They like high stimuli. They can have the TV going while they're reading a book and their kids are screaming in the background and they're like, what? It's not that big a deal. There are people whose nervous systems can get overtaxed because they allow a lot of calamity around them. They're very fast thinkers. They're very fast communicators. They'll communicate anything. Is it the truth? That's something you're gonna have to think about with a Gemini Mercury because oftentimes the coyote energy in them can come out and they use their words to see what happens. Because they have so many. There are writers, there are creatives, they're the ones who can really win an argument just by like saying, uh, gotcha, getting you to say something. Oh my God, my son told me this joke about saying the word yellow, and I didn't say it. And he said, You said the word yellow. And I said, I didn't say the word yellow, and he's like, You just did. And then I got got. That is such a Gemini Mercury example. I got got because I just like that was moving too fast for me. Having a conversation with a Gemini can be an experience. It's a whirlwind because they're very fast talkers. So that would be a Gemini Mercury. Next we have Cancer Mercury. Cancer is ruled by water, cancer is ruled by the moon. Cancer is our mama vibe. So a cancer mercury is someone who is going to process their thoughts also through their felt sense. Oftentimes, people that have cancer mercury can get their feelings hurt very easily. There are people that don't always have the ability to find the words to say why their feelings are hurt. It can just get flooded. Their brain can get flooded if there is a high-tense, high impact situation. They will oftentimes get very quiet because they are busy processing. They have a very busy processing mechanism and have the capability to feel things very deeply. But the caveat to that is that sometimes it can steal their words from them. I once had my favorite cancer tell me, I feel so much, I just don't have the words to describe what those feelings are, which is the opposite of Gemini, right? Gemini will describe shit all day, but do they actually know? I don't know the answer to that all the time with you, Geminis. But a cancer Mercury is someone who is going to be thinking from the realm of nurturing. They're great nurses. They're people who in the world want to be helpers, want to be people who make other people feel better, but oftentimes can then get lost in their own emotional thought body. Next we have Leo. We have the Leo Mercury. Leo's ruled by fire. And a Leo Mercury, much like Aries, because they're both fire, is going to be a very embodied thinker. They're going to be the actors. They're going to be the ones that think from a very performative place. They probably have like a soundtrack in their head that plays all the time. And they are the lead role in their own thought bodies. And so you guys are all just character bitches. Like, don't get it twisted with a Leo. Even the repressed Leo needs to feel seen. And as a result, what they do with their thoughts are very powerful because if they're not feeling seen, if they're not feeling safe in an environment, they can become incredibly reserved, upset, mismanaged in their thoughts. If they feel like at work they don't get validated for what they're doing, if they don't get good grades on tests, if they don't perform well in their mind, then they can really bag on themselves and they can really get down on themselves because Leo wants to be seen for their gifts. And with a Leo Mercury in your thoughts, if you have your thought processing going through the Leo lens, it's all gonna be, how am I being seen? Oh my God. They'll go to a dinner party and they'll say something and then they'll go home and like hate everything they said and rewrite the script over and over and over. They probably remember something horrible they said 10 years ago. That's Leo Mercury. The next we have Virgo Mercury in Earth, back to Earth, and a Virgo Mercury, also ruled by Mercury, guys. So they are the thought processing units. They are like the thought machine 5,000. They know how to make a list. They know how to organize stuff. Oh, you're so blessed if you are in contact with a Venus or sorry, with a Mercury Virgo, because they are so organized, because they so have it under control. The problem with that is, is they're so busy controlling it that they don't allow for paradox as much as maybe their mutability would want them to. That in their thoughts, they're really gonna should themselves a lot. Oh my God, a Virgo is not gonna take my advice about Mercury retrograde. It's not gonna take a nap. No, there's too many things to think about. They could be taking a rest, I put that in air quotes, but they're still thinking about what their next thing to do is and the next thing and the next thing. And oh my God, I feel like my eye circles are darkening just thinking about having a Virgo Mercury because they hold a lot of mental power and they want to use it to be of service, to be organized, and to get things done. But that can't always happen. So a Virgo Mercury has to make sure that they have all of their ducks in a row before they can relax their brains. Good luck with that. Next, we have a Libra Mercury. That's this girl. I am also a Libra with a Libra Mercury, so very true to Libra. Making decisions are hard, so hard. Always taking people, other people into consideration in my thoughts is real. They're the type of Mercuries that love beautiful art, beautiful ideas. They love to debate, they love the lyrics of music, they love all of the things that words have to offer, but sometimes they use them a little duplicitously. Sometimes they use it for gossip, sometimes they use it to get the tea, sometimes they use it to lie, sometimes they use it just to make other people happy. So they can also be yes people. Yes, yep, yep. I can do that. I can do that until the Libra Mercury burns out. And then they close the shutters, guys. They get closed for business. And you can't talk to a Libra for like a week after that happens. So you always have to be taking care of that thought processing system. Next, after that, we have Scorpio Mercury, and a Scorpio Mercury heads back into the depths of water. Scorpio Mercury's tend to be the detectives, the lie detector tests. They're the ones that'll sit and mentally process every last detail. So don't you go in there thinking that you are going to beat the Scorpionic lie detector test that is that beautiful brain of a Scorpio Mercury, because you're not. They think about every single worst case scenario. You think you know, you don't know, they know. They know. They know they know how to get away with murder, they know how to protect their friend from getting away with murder, they know all of the ins and outs of their own mental cavity. And the low road to that is that oftentimes it can breed mistrust. Oftentimes you can't always believe that nagging voice in your mind, Scorpio Mercury. You can't always trust that everybody is lying to you, okay? Because that's not always true. And so the mental fortitude of the Scorpio to be vulnerable, to let go of control of the other person, to let go of control that you really don't have any in the first place is such a great Scorpio Mercury activity. Next we have a Sagittarius Mercury, and a Sagittarius Mercury is the proverbial philosopher. They are the ones that are off on soul missions in their mind to change their mind all the time. They want to learn new things, they want to fill that brain so full of stuff that eventually you have to say to the Sagittarius Mercury, it's time to take a break. It's time to actually, as a matter of fact, put into practice all of this shit you've been thinking about. And then Sagittarius lives. A Sagittarius Mercury has a harder time doing that. A Sagittarius Sun will be able to embody lived experience, but a Sagittarius Mercury is always going to want to be developing philosophy around how they're thinking. They're always wanting to expand their thoughts. And as a result, they don't really come off as very committed. Because a Sag wants all of it. It wants every flavor of ice cream. And you can't always have that, Sag Mercury. So sometimes you have to work on sitting with what you just thought about. Sit with it. Go take a time out and see how you really feel about it. Next, we have a Capricorn Mercury, and a Capricorn Mercury is always going to be like, how can I put work to my brain? They are the ones that want to get the straight A's on tests. They are the ones that get extremely frustrated when they do not get straight A's on the test. The problem with a Capricorn Mercury is they think that they should just be amazing at everything first try. And that's just not how that works. And so a Capricorn Mercury is going to process really hard and at the end of the day be quite exhausted from trying to be one step mentally ahead of everybody else. I call the Capricorn Mercury really the chess players in their own mind because they're always overprocessing, always trying to stay one step ahead in their thoughts. And medicine for a Capricorn Mercury is to allow presence to just be here, to sit a little more peacefully. Because a Capricorn Mercury is awfully quiet most of the time because they're processing so much. So going out and having fun, doing something that stimulates the brain in a way that's fun is a great release valve for a Capricorn Mercury. Next we have Aquarius, Mercury, and good luck with them! Good luck, folks, because Aquarius does not want to be pinned down to anything. It doesn't matter where Aquarius falls in your chart, whether it's your love sector, your fight sector, your thought sector, Venus, Mars, Mercury, it doesn't matter. Wherever you have, Aquarius is where you need to be different. So Aquarius might mentally can be the contrarian, can be the rebel, can be the one that says, but what about this? But what about that thing? But what about? They're macro thinkers. They don't think about like a Virgo Mercury details. They think about the innovation of grand scale thoughts. So they're very imaginative as children. They're the kind of kids in Aquarius Mercury that's gonna say the most outlandish of things and how beautiful. We need Mercury Aquarius in this world to show us how to do it different and to love the difference in each and every one of us. And last but not least, my dear friend, where we began is where we end with Pisces Mercury. That is where Mercury is retrograde right now. If you have a Pisces Mercury, you're feeling it extra, extra, extra special sauce. Because Pisces is that intuitive felt sense. So a Pisces Mercury is going to have the ability to think not only with their mind, but with their soul. That they're going to have these beautiful downloads, these intuitive hits, these things that they can say that'll give you goosebumps. This ability to understand that everything happens for a reason, actually. And how they make those connections in their brain is not logical like Capricorn. It's not off the cuff like Aries. It's not changeable like Gemini. Pisces is truly soulful waters, because only Pisces knows how to truly touch spirit. And when you have a Mercury doing that, then the way you think really changes your reality. All of us, how we think changes our reality. That's absolutely true, but none more so than a Pisces. They're always bending reality to their own thought patterns. And that's what this Mercury retrograde is showing us now, my dear friends, is that everything is a mirror reflection of your own thought patterns. And when Mercury does go into retrograde and it asks you to slow down, the places in your life that start getting harder, that start getting mixed up, are the places that haven't been working for a while. And depending on where you have Pisces in your chart, because all of these signs I just named have houses. And not all of the signs are in their assigned houses. And so you can have Pisces all over the chart. You can have Pisces in the house of Aries. And if you have that, then this Mercury retrograde is going to be affecting your body. And on and on and on we could go. It's why booking a reading with an astrologer is so important because understanding, like, listen, we just went over all the signs just through our thoughts. The way I just described all of that is just how you think. It's not how you feel, it's not how you love, it's not necessarily how you fight, it's not what you do, it's how you think. So imagine your chart with all of these other placements, with all of these other signs, making all kinds of aspects or relationships to each other. How do you navigate that? It's part of self-knowledge. And to me, it's not hippy-dippy, it's not woo-woo. It is taking charge of your birth chart to make righteous change. The second you understand why your patterns keep on going, the second you get curious about the things that you're sick of doing all the time, that's when you really start to engage your chart and say, I'm gonna make the right change for me. Sometimes it's just knowing where certain things are. Now that I know that I have a Mercury in Libra, which means decision making is hard, which means I'm always trying to keep the balance in my mind. I understand why there are weekends where I am like no one is allowed in the house. I don't want to talk to anybody, I don't want to do anything, I just want to be quiet because my mind is processing so much. So, what's a nugget you could draw from your mercury? Please feel free to leave in comments, leave me some information, send me how that resonated. There's a spot below on my podcast. You can send me fan mail that says that you can send me a little note. Tell me how Mercury has developed for you. Where's your mercury? How does that show up for you? And maybe I'll share it on my next podcast. Thank you so much for listening. Don't let Mercury retrograde get you down. See it as an empowering piece. See it as a way to break through, see it as a way to heal, see it as a way to get a glimpse into what in your world needs a little redoing. Thank you so much, and I will see you next week for my weekly podcast. Bye.