Mercury Goes Direct
On February 3rd, we have Mercury - the ruler of the mental plane, ruler over communication and information - coming out of his retrograde and going direct in Capricorn energy. So let's rewind back to December 13th. That’s when Mercury moved into Capricorn initially. And of course, when Mercury moves into Capricorn, we are thinking logically. We are thinking practically. We are focused on ambition. We are focused on building. Focused on our future, focused on our roles and responsibility. When it comes to communicating, we are just speaking the truth. We are detached emotionally. We are speaking from a logical and practical place. We only care about taking care of business and getting down to the nitty gritty when mercury is in Capricorn.
So we go through December. We come into January. On the 2nd, Mercury moved into Aquarian energy. So typically speaking our mental planes, aren't the greatest when Mercury is in Capricorn. We tend to have a little bit of a negative narrative. You know negative Nancy. She comes out to play. Betty the bully comes out to support her. We really recognize where our limiting beliefs are. And even more than that, when we move into the Aquarian energy, it becomes even more evident where it is that the dark parts of our mental plane, the not so nice information coming in from the world; is kind of swirling, kind of creating some blockages, some hesitation, some darker vibes.
When Mercury moved into Aquarian energy, suddenly we were free of that. Things get a little bit lighter. Why? Because we were focused on the future more so than focusing on the past, focusing on the heaviness, the weight of the present.
When Mercury moved into Aquarius, we were able to get a bigger vision coming into the New Year on what it is that we wanted to build, what it is we wanted to create.
Of course, we had a new dream, a new vision, a new goal kind of downloaded within us, inspiring us to pursue a new path. So here's Mercury thinking very futuristically in Aquarian energy. Really upping our narrative, freeing ourselves from the negative narrative that got illuminated while in Capricorn energy.
Yes, we took the logical, practical, strategic type of plans that we were making and opened up our minds up to bigger, broader possibilities. We were pushing ourselves to think outside of the box on what it is that we actually wanted to create in this 2022 year, which is a year of building and creating.
So we had Mercury move into Aquarius. It was there for almost two weeks. And then on the 14th, Mercury started retrograding. It started retrograding at 10 degrees of Aquarius. So here we are, we finally just got some clarity. We finally got forward thinking. We finally got a positive narrative. We were finally talking about solutions instead of problems. And then mercury goes retrograde.
We know when Mercury goes retrograde, we're not thinking very clearly. In fact, we are revisiting the past because the truth comes out. When we look back, we start piecing things together and in a retrograde, our whole job is to step back, to reflect, to revise everything that has transpired, to maybe re-edit our plans with the new information coming in.
Of course, communication skills get thrown out the window. Misinterpretations, misunderstanding all over the place. But some really wild things happen when Mercury goes retrograde because we have to visit the karmic lessons of the past. So Mercury started retrograding; moving backwards, retracing his steps back through the degrees of Aquarius.
So then what happened? Well, Mercury crept back into Capricorn energy on the 25th. So essentially; we have this big, bright vision, and we were doing better. We had this foresight. We had this insight. We were piecing things together. We were dreaming up a new vision. We were communicating effectively. We were coming up with solutions and then we creep back into Capricorn energy, which what happens? We put the blinders on. Things become dark again. New information is still coming out, and many of us seen that with the freedom rallies and the rebellion kind of creeping up once we entered into Aquarius season. But Mercury in Capricorn now needs us to go back and retrace our steps. We have to look at the rules and boundaries that we enforced that aren't working for us anymore. We have to take a good look at our responsibility, our roles, whether or not we feel aligned with that anymore. We had to look back at the beginning of the year; at the plans, the dreams, the goals, the ambitions that we came into the year planning to actually manifest, and take a good look at whether or not we're still aligned with that because of course, things have changed.
Our realms are totally different than they were at the beginning of the year. And of course we have to incorporate those changes into our current plans. And then we have to restrategize.
So now we have Mercury coming out of the retrograde. Thank goodness! Our mental planes are going to come back online. We're going to be able to think clearly. We're going to be able to communicate effectively. We are now going to reanalyze all that has transpired from a different set of eyes. We are going to be very clear on what has changed within us, because of course, Venus being retrograde around the same time, has had a major impact on what it is that we feel within ourselves. We now know what we have to do in our routines, and our relationships, and our money matters, because we've upped our game; our worth, our value.
We have a new humbled perspective on life. We just broke free of some karmic lessons that we wrapped up while Venus was retrograde. So now Mercury coming direct at 24 degrees takes us back to the week after Christmas, the week before New Years. That was roughly when Mercury was at the same degree.
So we're rewinding. We almost get like a retake of coming into 2022. The interesting thing about this is, and we've had multiple aspects of this through Mercury's journey from the beginning of December moving into Capricorn, moving into Aquarius, going retrograde, going back through Aquarius, creeping back into Capricorn, and now going direct -is the multiple interactions with Pluto. Pluto is the great destroyer. He brings a certain death to the old constructs that are not going to support us in moving forward. Pluto is in Capricorn. He has been since 2008. This has been a total dismantling of our governments, of our healthcare system, banking systems, all the bigger, greater grander systems going on that are no longer strong enough to support humanity and the collective’s intentions. We are essentially taking our power back. So now that Mercury is going direct, in very close proximity, almost in alignment with Pluto again.
Let me tell you; there is a whole lot more truth going to be revealed, especially with these freedom rallies going on. There's a totally different perspective of all that has transpired, and we need to take the time to forgive ourselves because we were only doing the best with the information that we had at the time.
We have to forgive ourselves for that misunderstanding, that misinterpretation of what was going on in the world. In our own individual realm, we have to sort things out. So Venus, just coming out of her retrograde, she's still trying to get the sleep out of her eyes. Mercury, just coming direct; it's going to take him a while to get the sleep out of his eyes. But they had a very powerful conversation and experience in the underworld. This is essentially our heart and our head.
So as we move through February, which is a very healing month because it's about unifying the dark with the light, unifying old, with the new. It's about building and creating within ourselves a stable place of worth and value in which we want to create in our physical realm. So, if you haven't listened to February's energy forecast, definitely go do that for the full story.
We're still riding off the coattails of the 2/2/222 portal that we just had yesterday. And we're still riding off the coattails of the New Moon in Aquarius, the Chinese Lunar New Year, and Imbolic. We have all of these very high vibrational celebrations and events taking place here, and now Mercury is waking up and it's going to take him a while to get his bearings. But you best believe that our mental plane is going to be super-tunnel-visioned and focused on what we have to make up for.
Now keep in mind, Mercury is going to continue to move through Capricorn. We are going to reenter into the Aquarian energy on the 14th. So it's almost like we have to put our blinders on, we have to get down to earth, we have to go over the details, go over the information.
We have to get a new strategy. We have to really put our sights on what it is that we want to build getting back on track. And then once Mercury moves into Aquarian energy again, that's when we get the vision, that's when we get the clarity, that's when all the pieces of the confusion that we've been going through snap together, and it’ll all makes sense.
And throughout that time, Pluto is still very close to Mercury. This Plutonium energy is deeply transformative, and you best believe we are going to see a very deep transformation of our mental plane, of our perspective, of our inner narrative, of our understanding, and in the way that we are going to speak our truth, because of course, Mercury rules over communication, and that throat chakra. Lord knows we've had so many things happen to us that we're standing in a brand new power, a brand new understanding, a brand new truth. A truth that now we have to actually speak out loud. So this whole Mercurial transit has been quite a time!
Here we are, retracing our steps, getting our bearings back, and very laser focused on the past. What has happened, has happened. We cannot change that. But, from what has happened, we will see major changes in our plans moving forward. What can we build out of this? How can we be better? How can we build a better foundation, a perspective, a narrative, an understanding that is going to be far greater in encouraging us, and supporting us, to get to that big, great grand vision, that dream, that goal, that got a little bit muddy as we floated through the very first month of 2022.