Mercury Retrograde Isn’t a Stop Sign
It’s a Skills Test
Mercury retrograde is here but that doesn’t mean you have to put your dreams on hold until the planets get back on track.
He stationed retrograde last night at 15° Leo, and that of course comes with some hiccups with communication, timing, logistics, and tech. But we have got to stop treating this transit like a brick wall and start treating it like what it really is: another obstacle along the way in our training ground. This is when our skills get sharpened because the stakes are higher and the environment’s less forgiving of our mistakes, especially ego driven mistakes with this retrograde through Leo.
If you can learn something new right now while distractions are pulling at your focus and your emotions are sitting closer to the surface than usual, imagine how much easier it’ll be to hone and master that skill once the pressure lets up. This is the energetic equivalent of training to run track with a weighted vest on. We build the muscle now, and move faster and stronger when the constraints lift from our shoulders.
People love to parrot the same tired advice “don’t sign, don’t launch, don’t commit” under Mercury retrograde like it’s a hard and fast law of the universe. But life doesn’t just stop because Mercury appears to move backwards in the sky. Sometimes the job offer we've been waiting for shows up, and when the opportunity comes in a window you can’t reschedule you should absolutely take it. It's irresponsible to tell you to walk away from the thing you’ve been praying for just because it’s July and Mercury is retrograde.
What I will tell you to do is slow down and think about what you're about to do or say twice. Check your work to make sure you got it done the way you wanted to, and then before you hand it off check it again.
The goal is to be mindful enough so that if something does go sideways, you’re already in a position to pivot without panic. Mercury will retrograde until August 11th, with shadow ending August 25th so we're in an extended period of editing, reworking, and refining.
It's not a time for feeling stagnation, we're just set on refining what we're working toward.
Maybe the path you take now won’t lead exactly where you thought it would, and that could be chalked up to a Mercury retrograde rug pull. But, the launch you're focused on may just need a second version. The first plan often leads us to a better one more well suited for us. But you don’t get to that fork in the road by waiting in limbo or sabotaging yourself with fear of the timing. You get there by putting yourself out there in the game and doing what you've been training for.
Jump in! Try the new skill, go back to the drawing board, accept the offer just make sure you read the contract a few times and have a friend read it too. Travel and enjoy yourself but give yourself room for detours and delays. Learn as you go, and keep your backup plans flexible until the end of August.
Don’t let pop astrology keep you small or Mercury retrograde scare you into inaction.
Do your due diligence, and then do the damn thing 💪💪💪