As each new day comes, keep in mind your intentions for self and other. Keep a positive outlook always at-the-ready in your mind and heart. Do not get discouraged by the rampant negativity and despair all around you. Step up to the power you hold within your own mind and heart to interact with the negative energies you encounter by becoming the positive magical being you know yourself to truly be. It’s okay to go against the norm when there is goodness and kindness in your heart. It’s okay to be different, to live and breathe a loving world into fruition. It’s okay to swim against the negative tide, fighting your way upstream to what you know is possible, difficult though it may be.
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.
We often speak of listening to the voice of your Spirit, of your High Self, of something that may feel as if it is not really you speaking. But the more you listen the more you realize that it is actually a part of yourself that is always present, always observing and always a participant in your life. In this sense, you discover that you are never alone but instead always cared about, protected, and aligned with something greater that wishes you only the best. Once you tap into this other Self, this Spirit Self, this High Self, you will never doubt that it truly is a reality in your life, and just how important it really is.
We often suggest that you take time to sit quietly, in solitude, and allow yourself some time away from your busy life. In quiet sitting, in learning to tune out and tune down the outside world something else inside of you has the opportunity to be heard. Let this inner voice be heard more often by tuning out and tuning down a little more often. It’s a practice that will grant you some good, and it may just be what you truly need.
There is no need to look outside the self for the answers anymore. The world outside of you is in chaos and that which you seek is no longer available as it once was. Look inward now instead, deep into the recesses of the self where all the knowledge you seek lies waiting to be discovered. For you are a being of so much more. You are an eternal being, carrying within you all the accumulated knowledge of every life you have lived, of every experience you have had, gained over lifetimes of trial and error. Turn more often to the sage within the self to guide you and help you as you try to figure out where to go next and how to navigate the great changes ahead. You really do know what to do, how to be and where to go. The guide and the guideposts are all waiting within.
