Help is always on the way, but often you have to reach out for it, or it will pass you by. When you are in need, in pain, in desperate search of something important and don’t know where to turn, turn first to your heart center. Get calm and quiet and ask your question of this most responsive and responsible part of yourself. Waiting for help without hope, without heart-centered insight, without alignment with a higher energy, may leave you feeling stranded. No matter the situation, if you don’t have immediate right reaction and know what to do, then take the time to calm down and ask the High Self, the Great Oneness within, to help you out. You will not be left alone. Something will come to aid you. It always does. Just wait.
We are seriously into the final occurrence of a Mercury retrograde for 2026, which spans from 10/24 through 11/13. During a retrograde the planet Mercury gives the appearance of moving backwards, generating a glitch in the normal orderly flow of life.
Astrologically, Mercury is the ruler of the domain of communication, hence, expect all kinds of communication mishaps with people, as well as with the machines of communication.
Retrograde is also a a time of retros, throwbacks into issues from prior times, most especially the disheartening experience of feeling stuck by lifelong limiting beliefs. The danger lurks to get swallowed up in negative thoughts, and consequent feelings, of deep failure.
On the bright side, these sudden glitches in time may afford a different perspective as we suddenly awaken from the sleep of our habitual self with a start. In such a moment, we may gain an insight or experience, a new feeling that frees us from the reigning view of our habitual self.
If, in this moment of enlightenment, we claim ourselves to now be the change we desire, closing the door to the habitual conception of our life, we enter into the energy of infinity and timelessness. It is here that we have the opportunity to reshape our living experience into what we truly desire. Embracing the forbidden of the habitual self is the immaculate conception of the desired self.
Perhaps we have been focused arduously at manifesting a core desire and feel befuddled by setbacks to old defeatist habits. It may help to achieve an objective perspective, which acknowledges that this is a time of retrograde, for all. It’s simply not personal.
What is personal is what we are being shown, the unfinished business that has secretly been undermining the best of our suggestions to our subconscious mind. For instance, if behind it all, we still harbor a belief of unworthiness, or undeservedness, this retrograde might shine a bright light upon this tucked away shadow.
The law of creation is quite clear. What we currently believe ourselves to be is the state of our being. We simply can’t be that which we can’t conceive ourselves to be.
This awareness enables us to move beyond the defense of defeatism by imagining, in a deep way, living in the world of our desire, fully manifested. The key is to deeply feel the self fully realized as the person in the circumstance we truly desire. If we can sustainedly feel it in our imagination, we’ve made room for it in the physical actuality of our being. For once something is imagined, it exists, in some form.
The key is to allow the subconscious its own time and means to further our dream into waking life. The gift of retrograde is to illuminate blockages and focus the imagination on the task of truly becoming receptive to what we desire by allowing ourselves to become it, in a truly impassioned way.
This is a positive path to obtaining the holy grail of our life, by defeating the old guard of protectionism of the heart. If we can truly feel our deepest desire realized in our imagination, we are already there, living it within, as it finds its way without.
Love in the time of retrograde is gratitude for all the gifts we are given. We must pay our dues to the tao of everything. Seasons of retrograde, however challenging, are course corrections, which if heeded, hold the karma of ultimate success.
If we face, and live, our revealed truths, regardless of our necessary bouts with failure, and love ourselves for our ability to do so, we are graced.
Farsighted people are usually the most optimistic. Learn from them how to envision a new and better world. Begin by imagining something that you find beautiful; the sunrise over the ocean, a rose in full bloom, the sun setting behind a mountain range, the face of your beloved. Start with something positive in your own life and keep recalling it throughout the day. This will train you to shift away from negativity and turn your intention upon that which you love and desire more of. As you do this throughout your day, notice what happens to your energy. Are you not experiencing a new kind of control over your thoughts? Over the thoughts of others that have infiltrated your serene space? Are you not more easily able to turn to thoughts of peace and goodness the more you do this? Keep training your thoughts in this way. It is the way of all farsighted people, all optimists, and all who call upon the power and magic of thought. And it is the way to a beautifully changed new world.
As things rapidly unfold in chaotic force and misalignment, do not lose faith in the possibility of true change for the good of all. With so much to look forward to, as if just beginning life as an innocent child full of expectation, remain attached to the possibility of goodness, kindness, and compassionate care to become the new norm. There is still so much that can shift into a better and more loving energy, that of the energy of good. Stay the course in your own life. Don’t give up hope. Keep saying the positive things that you wish to see in the world; say them in thought, word and deed by acting as if you are living in the world you dream of.
Let there not be dispute about what is right and what is wrong, about who knows what or who has the answer. There is something that has the answer to everything and that is the human heart, the organ of perception, intuition and creativity. When people learn to speak and respond from the place of heart then divisiveness and dispute will dissipate, and life will resort to what it is meant to be, a lifetime of learning, creating and loving. For with the heart taking center stage, in the individual and in the world, everything will catapult forward into the real new millennium.
