March 14, 2025 • 35 mins
Mercury retrograde, a period often shrouded in apprehension, presents a powerful opportunity for internal reprogramming and conscious evolution. This phase, particularly the upcoming cycle spanning March and April, encourages us to step back, trust the process, and flow with the cosmic currents. Mercury, governing the mind, invites us to review and revise our thought patterns, offering a chance to accelerate our consciousness. During this time, notably with Mercury retrograde in Aries and then Pisces, we are called to redefine our truths and strengthen our inner voice.
Mercury Retrograde in Aries: Redefining Your Voice and Assertiveness
Starting March 15th, Mercury retrograde in Aries at 9 degrees, and intensifying around March 24th when conjunct with the sun, initiates a period of internal reprocessing. Aries, a fire sign, amplifies vitality and impulsiveness, prompting us to review past decisions made in haste or fear. This phase encourages mindful communication, conflict resolution, and revisiting leadership strategies. It's a prime time to redefine your self-expression, aims, and goals for 2025, fostering assertive yet compassionate actions. Pay attention to self-doubt, address insecurities, and use journal prompts like "Where am I being called to pause before acting?" to deepen your introspection.
Mercury Retrograde in Pisces: Navigating the Subconscious and Spiritual Awakening
Moving into Pisces on March 29th, Mercury retrograde shifts focus to the spiritual, emotional, and mystical realms. This phase, culminating with Mercury stationing direct in Pisces on April 7th, delves into the subconscious, bringing unconscious patterns into conscious awareness. Expect heightened emotional sensitivity, potential confusion, and the surfacing of old wounds. This period is ripe for spiritual awakening, creative breakthroughs, and emotional healing. Strengthen energetic boundaries, revisit spiritual practices, and use journal prompts like "How can I create stronger energetic boundaries?" to navigate this introspective journey.
This Mercury retrograde period is an invitation to rewrite your story. By revisiting past decisions, addressing insecurities, and refining your inner voice, you can emerge with deeper wisdom and clarity. Embrace the opportunities for growth, practice patience, and focus on mindful communication. Use this time to redefine your intentions, strengthen your emotional boundaries, and align your head with your heart. Remember, this is a powerful phase for healing, self-discovery, and creating a more meaningful life.
Additional Resources:
March 2025 Eclipse Season: Surrender to the Mystery
Your Guide to Venus Retrograde
March Energy Forecast: Intense Transformation and Uncharted Territory
How to Clear Your Energy with Epsom Salt
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hi, everyone, it's Amanda Rigo Green. Welcome to Soul Sessions.
Today is a full on Mercury retrograde episode. If you've
listened to this podcast before, you've heard me say, bring
it on Mercury retrograde. I don't know if it's masochistic
or what, but I like Mercury retrograde because I know
I'm getting an upgrade. Yes, all the delays and miscommunications
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and frustrations are annoying, but I've gotten aware. I embrace
them because I know deep down there's a reprogramming happening.
Mercury rules the mind, our communication, how we gather and
share information, how we cognize information, process it. But this
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retrograde is massive, and there are multiple things going on
astrologically that basically take it to another level. We've got
a Clip season. The link to that is in the
show notes. There's a podcast on aclip season. So that's happening.
Venus is retrograde, and there's a long in depth podcast
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on that where I talk a little bit about eclip
season and Mercury retrograde and Venus is retrograding basically over
the same degrees Mercury is. And then we have mercury retrograde.
So there's a lot of layered energy happening in a
very compact period of time. March and April of twenty
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twenty five are really compressing us and asking us to
show up and receive, to do the work. Make it sacred.
Trust the process, and during mercury retrograde, sometimes it's hard
to trust the process because you feel like you're in
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a spend cycle or nothing feels like it gets completed
with ease and clarity. It's reworking, rethinking, revising, and of
course there can be it glitches, miscommunications, delays, misunderstandings, misinterpretations.
That's par for the course. The better you can step
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back go with the flow, the greater acceleration you will
feel in your consciousness through this. So let's go through
the key dates first and then I'm going to break
it down. Mercury retrogrades on March fifteenth at two forty
six am Eastern Time, so very early in the morning
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or late at night, depending on where you are. Late
at night on the fourteenth, I mean, depending on where
you are. So March fifteenth to forty six am nine
degrees of aries. The next key date that you want
to be aware of is March twenty ninth, when Mercury
retrogrades back into Pisces. So from March fifteenth to March
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twenty ninth, Mercury will be retrograding in Aries and have
that flavor. I'm going to break that down. From March
twenty ninth through April seventh, Mercury will be retrograding in Pisces.
On the twenty ninth of March, Mercury retrogrades and enters
Pisces at ten eighteen pm Eastern Time, so when you
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wake up on the thirtieth, essentially it will be retrograde
through April seventh, when it's stations direct at twenty six
degrees Pisces at seven oh seven am Eastern Time. So
March fifteenth, Mercury station's retrograde nine degrees Aries. March twenty ninth,
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Mercury backs into Pisces. April seventh Mercury station direct at
twenty six degrees Pisces. Those are three key dates that
you want to be aware of. The energy will shift
once Mercury moves into Pisces. They're two different flavors with
two different sets of attributes and things that you can
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focus on, recognize and level up through I will walk
through those two more dates I want to add in
that are important. On March twenty second, the Sun and
Venus will conjunct. Remember, Venus is retrograde, and that conjunction
will happen at two degrees of Aris, so Mercury will
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be retrograde. Venus is retrograde, but Venus is going backwards
in the retrograde station and conjuncts the Sun at two
degrees of Ares. Then on March twenty fourth, Mercury, moving
retrograde at four degrees of aries, will conjunct the Sun.
Why are these two dates important in the retrograde cycle?
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Any time Mercury and Venus are retrograde, because they're inner planets,
they move faster, they track more in line with the Sun. Essentially,
in their retrograde phase, they create something called a kazimi,
which is a conjunction with the Sun. And once the
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planet crosses back over the Sun moving retrograde, usually some
things start to click. Even though we're in a retrograde
phase where you're revising, reviewing, reorganizing, whatever it may be,
it's like there's a little more traction or a little
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more information or clarity. So just know March twenty second
and March twenty fourth are power days in this where
you may get a flash of insight or an idea
or something that hasn't been quite coming together yet, or
you've been frustrated around and if it's around venus, relationships, values,
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money and finances, how you relate to other people, something
may surface or come to a head where it gets
to be confronted or you understand it better and it
clicks for you. As it relates to mercury retrograde and
the sun coming together, it's the mind. Something clicks mentally
in your communication wherever that is transiting in your chart,
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and there's like an aha or a little bit better
insight and direction forward. So know that those are power
dates all right with mercury retrograde. One thing I want
to say astronomically about mercury retrograde is what happens is
the planets do these loop de loops. And if you
ever look astronomically at the orbits of each of the planets,
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whether it's Mercury or Neptune or Pluto, it's like sacred
geometry search it sometime look at the orbits of the
planets and they almost make these beautiful flower designs, especially Venus.
Venus is quite beautiful in its design. Imagine that Venus
love beauty and Mercury. It's very interesting to look at
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their orbit. But when they go in their little loop
de loop, the way astronomically that Mercury is or Venus,
which or any planet restrograde is in perspective to Planet Earth,
it appears as if it's moving backwards because it's in
that loop de loop phase. So all of the energy
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and the vibration or the frequency field, the energetic force
field and gravitational pull, energetic exchange between the Earth and
that planet, it turns inward. So it's not about external
movement immediate gratification momentum. It's more about an internal reprocessing
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around the end attributes of any planet. So with Mercury,
it is about our thinking mind, and Mercury will station
retrograde at nine degrees of Aries in Aries. In general,
Aries is a fire starter. It focuses on our individuality,
our mighty I am, bold, momentum, courage, fight, aggression, vitality, passion, impulsiveness,
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rash behavior, jumping to conclusions. There's so much beauty in
that fiery momentum and it's firing in the mind, so
the mind can be working over time with a lot
of impulsive, compulsive thoughts and behaviors like I need to
do this, I need to get this reconciled or resolved
right now. That may feel very intense and immnts in
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your mind as mercury stations and starts to move retrograde
in aries. Anything that you find yourself in consternation about
that feels rash and harsh and immediate and like have
to I have to say this, or I have to
have this conversation, or why aren't these people doing this?
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That kind of like fighting energy with yourself and in
your mind and dialogues with other people in your head
when they're not sitting there next to you. That is
mercury retrograde in aries. When you feel that, recognize it,
sense it, give yourself a little smile and be like, oh,
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there's that energy. Ah Aha, I get it. I see
what Amanda was referencing. Okay, let me take a breath
and let me step back and really be the observer
of the monkey mind and what is going on. It
will be very helpful because you're reviewing your revising the
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information that you have gathered before you take action, So
be mindful of impulsive communication, an increased tendency for heated words,
reactive conversations, speaking before thinking, And it's a good time
to rethink your actions. Aries is about action, so it's
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a good time to revisit past decisions that maybe you
made in haste or were driven from some form of
your ego or fear, where the motive was fear based,
because it was I'm not going to have what I
need or I'm I'm going to lose what I have.
That is a great place to revise your actions, more
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so in your journal, more so in your thought process,
as woe I jumped to conclusions there and here's the
fallout it cost, or I didn't have all the information
and then I had to redo this, I had to
revise it. It's also a really healthy time for conflict resolution.
But when I say it's a healthy time for conflict resolution,
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I'm really implying that it's more about revising it in
your head and your heart versus sitting down with somebody
and having that conversation to me, unless it is divinely orchestrated,
organic and necessary, or absolutely necessary or imminent that I
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resolve conflict during mercury retrograde, especially mercury retrograde in aries,
I usually wait and allow the information to really be
revealed to me. So when it is time to reapproach
a subject or a project or something that has created
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discord or disharmony, I wait so my head is more
aligned with my heart, and I come at it from
a place of peace and neutrality and a place of
trust and acceptance, while also standing in my own truth,
because ultimately, mercury retrograding in aries is helping us to
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really speak our truth better and more holistically. And when
I say holistically, what I am referring to in terms
of your whole self, what you need, what feels ideal
and true to you, and saying it in integrity, in
your highest character or in the highest light. And sometimes
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that denotes not saying anything at all. So you may
come through this retrograde phase with mercury and venus where
it's like, maybe I don't even need to say anything.
Maybe God and the spirit of the universe and my
guides are divinely orchestrating a path forward for me. Maybe
it is only time for me to listen. So there
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can be a lot of wisdom revealed during mercury retrograde
in both aries and pisces. Additionally, in Aries, it's a
time of really recognizing our personal identity, individuality and self
expression and how maybe we've been limiting it or hiding
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it or over expressing it. So there's a lot of
encouragement around redefining your voice, your boundaries, your personal truth.
It's also a great time because it's going to create anything.
But what I'm about to say is to practice patients
because mercury in aries period is not patient. Mercury retrograde
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in aries is going to be an internal battle that
feels hasty and impatient and impulsive. So it's a wonderful
time to practice patience and strategy. When challenges arise, be
mindful of not pushing forward too quickly or in a
reactive manner. This phase invites reflection before reaction, so it's
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creating an element of responding more holy and truly. There
are massive opportunities for growth with mercury in areas practicing
mindful communication around any misunderstandings and being flexible with yourself
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and other people. You know, if someone cuts you off
in traffic, let's just use that as an arbitrary example.
A lot of us are like, oh, why do they
do that? I can't believe that. Aren't they paying attention?
And we all do that. That's pretty human, right, and
also it scares us a little bit. It frustrates us
a little bit. But also we've done that to other
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people knowingly or unknowingly if we're in a mood and
we're in a hurry, or we're running late, or we're
just not paying attention to the road and spaced out,
or something's going on. So we've put yourself in someone
else's shoes and say, I don't know what's going on
with them. At least we're both safe. Let me give
them a whole pass. It's a good time to revisit
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leadership strategies, your personal leadership, and even your personal aims
and goals. I think this is a phenomenal time, especially
in conjunction with eclipse season, to redefine and revise your intentions,
your aims for twenty twenty five. I think we are
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being given a gift of revision to come from a
place of deeper wisdom and clarity. Also, with mercury retrograde,
there's an opportunity to strengthen our ability to be assertive
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while also fostering an element of compassion in our interactions.
And that's what I was referencing when I was saying,
this interconnection of the head and the heart. Being able
to stand up for yourself and to assert yourself and
be in your power or empowerment, but do it from
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just a very true and compassionate and heart centered place.
We all know what that feels like when we've been
frustrated around something and we can't quite put our finger
on it or figure out how to resolve or reconcile it,
and then all of a sudden, there is like a
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peace or an ease or a trust or an acceptance
that happens through prayer and meditation and wise counsel and
it's like, oh, I'm okay. Oh I can really share
how I'm what I'm thinking and feeling and how this
impacted me or what my behaviors might have caused, or
hear are my needs and feeling really true and on
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authentic and safe when we communicate that, And it's amazing
because usually things unfold more beautifully and divinely than we
can humanly imagine. So focus on your inner voice, your
inner courage, and pay attention to when self doubt comes up.
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I think this right here might be the biggest achilles
during Mercury retrograde in aries and through this eclipse season
and Venus retrograde is massive self doubt and then acting
from the place of that doubt or insecurity. So I
would if I were you, I'd write out your insecurities,
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like what do you know that are your two or
three biggest insecurities? And I don't care if it is
your body, your intellect, your voice, like write it out.
This is for you. Rite out what do you know
that you have some insecurity around and are you ready
to heal that and create a greater sense of worth
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and value and wholeness. And that ties into venus retrograde
as well. It's an opportune time for discernment and conscious
decision making. Here are a couple of journal prompts. If
you have the twenty twenty five Astro Numerology Guide, there's
a lot more information and details around this Mercury retrograde
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phase and really great journal prompts not only for Mercury retrograde,
but the eclipses and Venus retrograde alike. But I'm going
to give you a couple of journal prompts. Where in
my life am I being called to pause before acting
or speaking? Where can I practice some restraint in my
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voice and my communication? Here's another one, what situations trigger
my impulsive reactions? And how can I cultivate more mindfulness
in those moments? Those are good bull of journal prompts.
And maybe another one is what bold ideas am I
ready to refine before taking action? That one really resonates
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with me because I've been thinking a lot about ideas
that I have and things that I know and want
to put into motion. But because I know to ride
the waves of energy that more will be revealed. I've
been thinking about these bold ideas and initiatives I have,
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but I'm not pulling the trigger yet because i feel
like I'm still in a fact finding phase. And there's
something kind of amazing with that, because it forces me
to be very present in the now and trust deeper
and go along with divine timing versus creating everything on
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Amanda's timing, and usually Amanda's timing is fear based. I'm
afraid I'm not gonna have or I'm going to run
out of time or this is gonna happen. I know
that feeling in that consternation, and I've been setting that aside,
and like I've shared in a couple of the episodes,
surrender to the mystery, And that's a beautiful segue to
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mercury retrograde in Pisces. Now, y'all, Mercury retrograde in Pisces
is a whole different flavor than mercury retrograde in Aries.
Mercury retrograde in Pisces is more spiritual, emotional and working
with the subconscious and the collective. It's mystical, so it's
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not gonna feel clear cut, action oriented, precise while you're
working it with mercury. In Aries, there's a lot of ping,
ping like precision coming through and immediacy and jabs and
punches and ideas. It's firing and wire in that way.
With Pisces, it it's more fluid and dreamlike and creative
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and watery. And the greatest challenge with mercury retrograde in
Pisces has to do with the subconscious. Because mercury is
about the conscious mind, Pisces rules the subconscious and our
unconscious terrain. So it's bringing the subconscious into conscious awareness,
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and that can feel extremely uncomfortable. It can feel crazy making, delusional, depressive, blurry, foggy, uncertain,
lacking direction. Go with it and trust it. Remember I said,
mercury will back into Pisces on March twenty ninth and
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be retrograde in Pisces through April seventh, and then it
will go direct after April seventh, and it's going to
re travel over the places it retrograded after March seventh,
but there will be more data, more clarity, but it
will feel a little bit confusing, especially emotionally, so emotional confusion,
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which denotes heightened emotional sensitivity, foggy thinking, difficulty distinguishing intuition
from illusion. I'm going to repeat that, difficulty distinguishing intuition
from illusion. Intuition is interesting here because with mercury retrograde
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in Pisces, what you're most likely going to be cognizing
or hearing is the subconscious. And so the subconscious may
be saying things like you're not enough, you need to
move faster, you don't have enough money, You're never going
to be able to do this, or oh, this is
so frustrating today, like it may have a lot of
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heavy chatter, and that is not your intuition. That is
the gift of what is running on auto program in
your subconscious. So when you hear all of that, you
get to say, oh, that's the dialogue that I am
running off of in the background, that's the hard drive
that is being upgraded. Okay, I hear you. That's not true.
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I am worthy, I am clear, I am loving, I
am capable. It's a really good time to not buy
into that rhetoric, but recognize the rhetoric and dialogue that
is coming up from the inside of you that is
creating a limiting circumstance or limiting circumstances, a sense of
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hyper ego, old programming that you may be autonomically running
on that you don't recognize. So as far as intuition
goes my adage or rule of thumb there would be
to say to your higher self, hey soul, hey higher self,
show owe me the next indicated step today, give me
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the trust in the patients. Help me with this. And
then when you see a synchronicity or you get a
phone call from somebody you were thinking about, embrace those
divine moments and synchronicities, and then continue to go with
the flow, but really be cognizant of the unconscious running
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the show and what auto program is running. Another theme
or implication of mercury retrograde in Pisces is experiencing creative
blocks and then also creative breakthroughs. So it sounds a
little paradoxical, but you may feel creatively blocked, or your
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vitality and creativity, your passion may feel really off kilter
or low or out of whack, and then all of
a sudden boom, you get an insight. So when you
get an inspired idea, write it down, make note of
it so you don't forget it. But if you feel scattered,
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take a breath, recognize, oh wow, something big is transitioning
and transforming within me, and the only way through is through.
Another thing that can really really come to the surface
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is spiritual awakening, increase streams, synchronicities, and big cosmic downloads.
The deal with that, especially with mercury in Pisces and
mercury retrograde in Pisces, is it's like you're gathering information,
but your body, mind and spirit are going to need
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some time to modulate and integrate the new language that's
coming through. Think of this entire retrograde eclipse season, Venus
retrograde as new language is coming through, and you may
not yet have the words or understanding or education and
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experience to interpret it yet. So the fogginess, it's like
you can get just this download and insight and it's
so clear internally, but you wouldn't even know how to
explain it to a friend or someone else. I have
that happen multiple times this morning, and it was illuminating
and enlightening, but it was like, what do I do
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with this information? I just smile. I just receive it
and allow it to integrate into my cells DNA cognition
until it is time for me to communicate it where
I understand it better. And usually as I start to
comprehend it, it starts to show up in my external
world through conversations, dialogues, people, synchronicities. So spiritual awakening, higher
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levels of consciousness is happening. And the Pisces phase of
the mercury retrograde and the Venus retrograde and eclipse season
is really massively alchemical. Allow it to happen and know
that through this mid April and onward the language will
start coming, so don't feel like you're missing the mark,
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are you losing your mind? Just let it ride and
know that more will be revealed and you will have
clarity around it as the months ahead progress. Emotional healing
throughout mercury retrograde and pisces is huge, so old wounds
and trauma, especially related to loss and grief or martyrdom
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self sacrifice may surface or resurface. So anything that you
are confronted with that brings up old pain, trauma and
suffering an old storyline, sit with it, reflect on it,
pray about it, meditate about it, get some wise council
around it, some support, and know that it's almost like
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a last gasp of air for some of us in
some old storylines pains and traumas, because we're ready for
some new beginnings and new and new adventures, which I
feel like we're going to see waves of, especially at
the end of the month and onward with Neptune entering
aries and then Saturn joining Neptune in aries in May.
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So just remember any miscommunications and interpretations, jumping to conclusions,
passive aggressive behaviors within yourself or with others. Just let
it ride and know that you will have a better
understanding on the other side of this last, but not
least with mercury retrograde in Pisces is massive challenges with boundaries.
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So when I say boundaries with this energy, I mean
energetic boundaries. There's a greater susceptibility to absorbing other people's energy, emotions, feelings,
so you may be pulled into some confusing dynamics. It
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is a really healthy time to ground and pull your
aura in and strengthen your aura because you will be
hyper sensitive and feeling like on crack for lack of
better words, your feelers, your antennas are like on steroids, right,
So that's exhausting. So some self care and grounding and
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getting out in nature and letting the sunlight hit your
face and a good cold shower whatever you know, a
good night's sleep or ten whatever that looks like to you.
That self care, energetic cleansing and clearing. I'm gonna say,
do an EPSOM salt cleanse link that in the show notes.
That's one of my go to tried and truths is
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clearing my energy with EPSOM salt. That is a wonderful
practice any time. But I think through this eclipse season
and retrograde phase that'll be very helpful. So the opportunities
for growth with mercury, retrograde and pisces are truly around
cultivating mindfulness and grounding practices to stay centered. And I'll
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reference Pam Gregory, the astrologer that I love. She says,
stay on your eagles perch. I think that is the
most lovely and appropriate theme. Am I on my eagles perch?
Am I rising above and stepping back and observing without
getting caught up in all the drama and the minutia.
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And am I really really trusting that there is something bigger,
greater and higher guiding me and supporting me through this phase.
It's a wonderful time to revisit your spiritual practices or
creatives or therapeutic work. So rolling up your sleeves. I
mentioned that in the March forecast. If there's a time
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to go to the spiritual gym, it's the next six weeks.
Rolling up your sleeves, getting back to basics in your
personal growth and work and spiritual practices. It will pay
out in the months ahead. It's also a very healthy
time to develop stronger emotional boundaries to really be mindful
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of your energy. Are these my emotions or are these
someone else's emotions? Being very mindful of emotional and energetic boundaries,
embracing stillness and quiet reflection in solitude will be very helpful.
And whether you have five minutes in your morning or
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two hours in your evening, or between home and picking
up a child at school, carve out the time to
go within, to listen to your heart, to talk to
your guides and your higher power. A couple of journal
prompts around mercury retrograde in Pisces would be things like,
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how can I create stronger energetic boundaries to establish healthier
emotional well being? Or what unconscious fears or limiting beliefs
are coming to the surface for me to heal? What
unconscious fears and limiting beliefs are confronting me right now
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that I am ready to heal? And also how can
I practice balancing my spiritual insights and downloads with grounded
practical action and patience trust. Really think about the cultivation
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of patience and trust through this retrograde phase. I'm here
for it or here for Remember that mercury retrogrades on
the full moon lunar eclipse in Virgo, it's very, very poignant.
Mercury rules Virgo and even though it's in arees, when
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it retrogrades, it's a power day the fourteenth fifteenth because
mercury is basically standing stills. So it's a great time
to journal. And because it's a full moon eclipse, there's
this element of stuff bubbling up to the surface that
has out moded its purpose, its meaningfulness. Something that might
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have been purposeful or meaningful in the past may be
becoming extinct. And I think about that from the vantage
point of coping mechanisms. Sometimes our coping mechanisms are developed
as survival skills, you know, especially when we're young, we
develop certain strategies and coping mechanisms based on our environment.
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And then thirty years later, forty years later, we're grown
up and we're still behaving from that point of awareness,
and it's not true in our reality today. This is
the time to draw those correlations and recognize what has
outlived out motives, moded or served its purpose. And are
you ready to rewrite the script? And you're the author
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alongside of the divine intelligence of the cosmos, of God,
of the Highest Creator, So rewrite your story. What do
you want it to look like going forward? And what
needs to be reorganized, revised within your head, your heart
so you can truly live more meaningfully, happy, free and inspired.
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Let's make this mercury retrograde magnificent and I'll see you
on the other side because that's where that's where the
new awakening is happened. Be well, everyone, Thank you so
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Hi, everyone, it's Amanda Rigo Green. Welcome to Soul Sessions.
Today is a full on Mercury retrograde episode. If you've
listened to this podcast before, you've heard me say, bring
it on Mercury retrograde. I don't know if it's masochistic
or what, but I like Mercury retrograde because I know
I'm getting an upgrade. Yes, all the delays and miscommunications
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and frustrations are annoying, but I've gotten aware. I embrace
them because I know deep down there's a reprogramming happening.
Mercury rules the mind, our communication, how we gather and
share information, how we cognize information, process it. But this
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retrograde is massive, and there are multiple things going on
astrologically that basically take it to another level. We've got
a Clip season. The link to that is in the
show notes. There's a podcast on aclip season. So that's happening.
Venus is retrograde, and there's a long in depth podcast
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on that where I talk a little bit about eclip
season and Mercury retrograde and Venus is retrograding basically over
the same degrees Mercury is. And then we have mercury retrograde.
So there's a lot of layered energy happening in a
very compact period of time. March and April of twenty
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twenty five are really compressing us and asking us to
show up and receive, to do the work. Make it sacred.
Trust the process, and during mercury retrograde, sometimes it's hard
to trust the process because you feel like you're in
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a spend cycle or nothing feels like it gets completed
with ease and clarity. It's reworking, rethinking, revising, and of
course there can be it glitches, miscommunications, delays, misunderstandings, misinterpretations.
That's par for the course. The better you can step
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back go with the flow, the greater acceleration you will
feel in your consciousness through this. So let's go through
the key dates first and then I'm going to break
it down. Mercury retrogrades on March fifteenth at two forty
six am Eastern Time, so very early in the morning
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or late at night, depending on where you are. Late
at night on the fourteenth, I mean, depending on where
you are. So March fifteenth to forty six am nine
degrees of aries. The next key date that you want
to be aware of is March twenty ninth, when Mercury
retrogrades back into Pisces. So from March fifteenth to March
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twenty ninth, Mercury will be retrograding in Aries and have
that flavor. I'm going to break that down. From March
twenty ninth through April seventh, Mercury will be retrograding in Pisces.
On the twenty ninth of March, Mercury retrogrades and enters
Pisces at ten eighteen pm Eastern Time, so when you
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wake up on the thirtieth, essentially it will be retrograde
through April seventh, when it's stations direct at twenty six
degrees Pisces at seven oh seven am Eastern Time. So
March fifteenth, Mercury station's retrograde nine degrees Aries. March twenty ninth,
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Mercury backs into Pisces. April seventh Mercury station direct at
twenty six degrees Pisces. Those are three key dates that
you want to be aware of. The energy will shift
once Mercury moves into Pisces. They're two different flavors with
two different sets of attributes and things that you can
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focus on, recognize and level up through I will walk
through those two more dates I want to add in
that are important. On March twenty second, the Sun and
Venus will conjunct. Remember, Venus is retrograde, and that conjunction
will happen at two degrees of Aris, so Mercury will
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be retrograde. Venus is retrograde, but Venus is going backwards
in the retrograde station and conjuncts the Sun at two
degrees of Ares. Then on March twenty fourth, Mercury, moving
retrograde at four degrees of aries, will conjunct the Sun.
Why are these two dates important in the retrograde cycle?
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Any time Mercury and Venus are retrograde, because they're inner planets,
they move faster, they track more in line with the Sun. Essentially,
in their retrograde phase, they create something called a kazimi,
which is a conjunction with the Sun. And once the
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planet crosses back over the Sun moving retrograde, usually some
things start to click. Even though we're in a retrograde
phase where you're revising, reviewing, reorganizing, whatever it may be,
it's like there's a little more traction or a little
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more information or clarity. So just know March twenty second
and March twenty fourth are power days in this where
you may get a flash of insight or an idea
or something that hasn't been quite coming together yet, or
you've been frustrated around and if it's around venus, relationships, values,
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money and finances, how you relate to other people, something
may surface or come to a head where it gets
to be confronted or you understand it better and it
clicks for you. As it relates to mercury retrograde and
the sun coming together, it's the mind. Something clicks mentally
in your communication wherever that is transiting in your chart,
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and there's like an aha or a little bit better
insight and direction forward. So know that those are power
dates all right with mercury retrograde. One thing I want
to say astronomically about mercury retrograde is what happens is
the planets do these loop de loops. And if you
ever look astronomically at the orbits of each of the planets,
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whether it's Mercury or Neptune or Pluto, it's like sacred
geometry search it sometime look at the orbits of the
planets and they almost make these beautiful flower designs, especially Venus.
Venus is quite beautiful in its design. Imagine that Venus
love beauty and Mercury. It's very interesting to look at
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their orbit. But when they go in their little loop
de loop, the way astronomically that Mercury is or Venus,
which or any planet restrograde is in perspective to Planet Earth,
it appears as if it's moving backwards because it's in
that loop de loop phase. So all of the energy
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and the vibration or the frequency field, the energetic force
field and gravitational pull, energetic exchange between the Earth and
that planet, it turns inward. So it's not about external
movement immediate gratification momentum. It's more about an internal reprocessing
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around the end attributes of any planet. So with Mercury,
it is about our thinking mind, and Mercury will station
retrograde at nine degrees of Aries in Aries. In general,
Aries is a fire starter. It focuses on our individuality,
our mighty I am, bold, momentum, courage, fight, aggression, vitality, passion, impulsiveness,
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rash behavior, jumping to conclusions. There's so much beauty in
that fiery momentum and it's firing in the mind, so
the mind can be working over time with a lot
of impulsive, compulsive thoughts and behaviors like I need to
do this, I need to get this reconciled or resolved
right now. That may feel very intense and immnts in
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your mind as mercury stations and starts to move retrograde
in aries. Anything that you find yourself in consternation about
that feels rash and harsh and immediate and like have
to I have to say this, or I have to
have this conversation, or why aren't these people doing this?
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That kind of like fighting energy with yourself and in
your mind and dialogues with other people in your head
when they're not sitting there next to you. That is
mercury retrograde in aries. When you feel that, recognize it,
sense it, give yourself a little smile and be like, oh,
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there's that energy. Ah Aha, I get it. I see
what Amanda was referencing. Okay, let me take a breath
and let me step back and really be the observer
of the monkey mind and what is going on. It
will be very helpful because you're reviewing your revising the
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information that you have gathered before you take action, So
be mindful of impulsive communication, an increased tendency for heated words,
reactive conversations, speaking before thinking, And it's a good time
to rethink your actions. Aries is about action, so it's
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a good time to revisit past decisions that maybe you
made in haste or were driven from some form of
your ego or fear, where the motive was fear based,
because it was I'm not going to have what I
need or I'm I'm going to lose what I have.
That is a great place to revise your actions, more
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so in your journal, more so in your thought process,
as woe I jumped to conclusions there and here's the
fallout it cost, or I didn't have all the information
and then I had to redo this, I had to
revise it. It's also a really healthy time for conflict resolution.
But when I say it's a healthy time for conflict resolution,
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I'm really implying that it's more about revising it in
your head and your heart versus sitting down with somebody
and having that conversation to me, unless it is divinely orchestrated,
organic and necessary, or absolutely necessary or imminent that I
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resolve conflict during mercury retrograde, especially mercury retrograde in aries,
I usually wait and allow the information to really be
revealed to me. So when it is time to reapproach
a subject or a project or something that has created
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discord or disharmony, I wait so my head is more
aligned with my heart, and I come at it from
a place of peace and neutrality and a place of
trust and acceptance, while also standing in my own truth,
because ultimately, mercury retrograding in aries is helping us to
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really speak our truth better and more holistically. And when
I say holistically, what I am referring to in terms
of your whole self, what you need, what feels ideal
and true to you, and saying it in integrity, in
your highest character or in the highest light. And sometimes
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that denotes not saying anything at all. So you may
come through this retrograde phase with mercury and venus where
it's like, maybe I don't even need to say anything.
Maybe God and the spirit of the universe and my
guides are divinely orchestrating a path forward for me. Maybe
it is only time for me to listen. So there
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can be a lot of wisdom revealed during mercury retrograde
in both aries and pisces. Additionally, in Aries, it's a
time of really recognizing our personal identity, individuality and self
expression and how maybe we've been limiting it or hiding
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it or over expressing it. So there's a lot of
encouragement around redefining your voice, your boundaries, your personal truth.
It's also a great time because it's going to create anything.
But what I'm about to say is to practice patients
because mercury in aries period is not patient. Mercury retrograde
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in aries is going to be an internal battle that
feels hasty and impatient and impulsive. So it's a wonderful
time to practice patience and strategy. When challenges arise, be
mindful of not pushing forward too quickly or in a
reactive manner. This phase invites reflection before reaction, so it's
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creating an element of responding more holy and truly. There
are massive opportunities for growth with mercury in areas practicing
mindful communication around any misunderstandings and being flexible with yourself
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and other people. You know, if someone cuts you off
in traffic, let's just use that as an arbitrary example.
A lot of us are like, oh, why do they
do that? I can't believe that. Aren't they paying attention?
And we all do that. That's pretty human, right, and
also it scares us a little bit. It frustrates us
a little bit. But also we've done that to other
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people knowingly or unknowingly if we're in a mood and
we're in a hurry, or we're running late, or we're
just not paying attention to the road and spaced out,
or something's going on. So we've put yourself in someone
else's shoes and say, I don't know what's going on
with them. At least we're both safe. Let me give
them a whole pass. It's a good time to revisit
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leadership strategies, your personal leadership, and even your personal aims
and goals. I think this is a phenomenal time, especially
in conjunction with eclipse season, to redefine and revise your intentions,
your aims for twenty twenty five. I think we are
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being given a gift of revision to come from a
place of deeper wisdom and clarity. Also, with mercury retrograde,
there's an opportunity to strengthen our ability to be assertive
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while also fostering an element of compassion in our interactions.
And that's what I was referencing when I was saying,
this interconnection of the head and the heart. Being able
to stand up for yourself and to assert yourself and
be in your power or empowerment, but do it from
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just a very true and compassionate and heart centered place.
We all know what that feels like when we've been
frustrated around something and we can't quite put our finger
on it or figure out how to resolve or reconcile it,
and then all of a sudden, there is like a
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peace or an ease or a trust or an acceptance
that happens through prayer and meditation and wise counsel and
it's like, oh, I'm okay. Oh I can really share
how I'm what I'm thinking and feeling and how this
impacted me or what my behaviors might have caused, or
hear are my needs and feeling really true and on
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authentic and safe when we communicate that, And it's amazing
because usually things unfold more beautifully and divinely than we
can humanly imagine. So focus on your inner voice, your
inner courage, and pay attention to when self doubt comes up.
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I think this right here might be the biggest achilles
during Mercury retrograde in aries and through this eclipse season
and Venus retrograde is massive self doubt and then acting
from the place of that doubt or insecurity. So I
would if I were you, I'd write out your insecurities,
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like what do you know that are your two or
three biggest insecurities? And I don't care if it is
your body, your intellect, your voice, like write it out.
This is for you. Rite out what do you know
that you have some insecurity around and are you ready
to heal that and create a greater sense of worth
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and value and wholeness. And that ties into venus retrograde
as well. It's an opportune time for discernment and conscious
decision making. Here are a couple of journal prompts. If
you have the twenty twenty five Astro Numerology Guide, there's
a lot more information and details around this Mercury retrograde
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phase and really great journal prompts not only for Mercury retrograde,
but the eclipses and Venus retrograde alike. But I'm going
to give you a couple of journal prompts. Where in
my life am I being called to pause before acting
or speaking? Where can I practice some restraint in my
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voice and my communication? Here's another one, what situations trigger
my impulsive reactions? And how can I cultivate more mindfulness
in those moments? Those are good bull of journal prompts.
And maybe another one is what bold ideas am I
ready to refine before taking action? That one really resonates
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with me because I've been thinking a lot about ideas
that I have and things that I know and want
to put into motion. But because I know to ride
the waves of energy that more will be revealed. I've
been thinking about these bold ideas and initiatives I have,
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but I'm not pulling the trigger yet because i feel
like I'm still in a fact finding phase. And there's
something kind of amazing with that, because it forces me
to be very present in the now and trust deeper
and go along with divine timing versus creating everything on
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Amanda's timing, and usually Amanda's timing is fear based. I'm
afraid I'm not gonna have or I'm going to run
out of time or this is gonna happen. I know
that feeling in that consternation, and I've been setting that aside,
and like I've shared in a couple of the episodes,
surrender to the mystery, And that's a beautiful segue to
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mercury retrograde in Pisces. Now, y'all, Mercury retrograde in Pisces
is a whole different flavor than mercury retrograde in Aries.
Mercury retrograde in Pisces is more spiritual, emotional and working
with the subconscious and the collective. It's mystical, so it's
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not gonna feel clear cut, action oriented, precise while you're
working it with mercury. In Aries, there's a lot of ping,
ping like precision coming through and immediacy and jabs and
punches and ideas. It's firing and wire in that way.
With Pisces, it it's more fluid and dreamlike and creative
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and watery. And the greatest challenge with mercury retrograde in
Pisces has to do with the subconscious. Because mercury is
about the conscious mind, Pisces rules the subconscious and our
unconscious terrain. So it's bringing the subconscious into conscious awareness,
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and that can feel extremely uncomfortable. It can feel crazy making, delusional, depressive, blurry, foggy, uncertain,
lacking direction. Go with it and trust it. Remember I said,
mercury will back into Pisces on March twenty ninth and
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be retrograde in Pisces through April seventh, and then it
will go direct after April seventh, and it's going to
re travel over the places it retrograded after March seventh,
but there will be more data, more clarity, but it
will feel a little bit confusing, especially emotionally, so emotional confusion,
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which denotes heightened emotional sensitivity, foggy thinking, difficulty distinguishing intuition
from illusion. I'm going to repeat that, difficulty distinguishing intuition
from illusion. Intuition is interesting here because with mercury retrograde
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in Pisces, what you're most likely going to be cognizing
or hearing is the subconscious. And so the subconscious may
be saying things like you're not enough, you need to
move faster, you don't have enough money, You're never going
to be able to do this, or oh, this is
so frustrating today, like it may have a lot of
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heavy chatter, and that is not your intuition. That is
the gift of what is running on auto program in
your subconscious. So when you hear all of that, you
get to say, oh, that's the dialogue that I am
running off of in the background, that's the hard drive
that is being upgraded. Okay, I hear you. That's not true.
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I am worthy, I am clear, I am loving, I
am capable. It's a really good time to not buy
into that rhetoric, but recognize the rhetoric and dialogue that
is coming up from the inside of you that is
creating a limiting circumstance or limiting circumstances, a sense of
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hyper ego, old programming that you may be autonomically running
on that you don't recognize. So as far as intuition
goes my adage or rule of thumb there would be
to say to your higher self, hey soul, hey higher self,
show owe me the next indicated step today, give me
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the trust in the patients. Help me with this. And
then when you see a synchronicity or you get a
phone call from somebody you were thinking about, embrace those
divine moments and synchronicities, and then continue to go with
the flow, but really be cognizant of the unconscious running
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the show and what auto program is running. Another theme
or implication of mercury retrograde in Pisces is experiencing creative
blocks and then also creative breakthroughs. So it sounds a
little paradoxical, but you may feel creatively blocked, or your
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vitality and creativity, your passion may feel really off kilter
or low or out of whack, and then all of
a sudden boom, you get an insight. So when you
get an inspired idea, write it down, make note of
it so you don't forget it. But if you feel scattered,
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take a breath, recognize, oh wow, something big is transitioning
and transforming within me, and the only way through is through.
Another thing that can really really come to the surface
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is spiritual awakening, increase streams, synchronicities, and big cosmic downloads.
The deal with that, especially with mercury in Pisces and
mercury retrograde in Pisces, is it's like you're gathering information,
but your body, mind and spirit are going to need
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some time to modulate and integrate the new language that's
coming through. Think of this entire retrograde eclipse season, Venus
retrograde as new language is coming through, and you may
not yet have the words or understanding or education and
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experience to interpret it yet. So the fogginess, it's like
you can get just this download and insight and it's
so clear internally, but you wouldn't even know how to
explain it to a friend or someone else. I have
that happen multiple times this morning, and it was illuminating
and enlightening, but it was like, what do I do
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with this information? I just smile. I just receive it
and allow it to integrate into my cells DNA cognition
until it is time for me to communicate it where
I understand it better. And usually as I start to
comprehend it, it starts to show up in my external
world through conversations, dialogues, people, synchronicities. So spiritual awakening, higher
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levels of consciousness is happening. And the Pisces phase of
the mercury retrograde and the Venus retrograde and eclipse season
is really massively alchemical. Allow it to happen and know
that through this mid April and onward the language will
start coming, so don't feel like you're missing the mark,
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are you losing your mind? Just let it ride and
know that more will be revealed and you will have
clarity around it as the months ahead progress. Emotional healing
throughout mercury retrograde and pisces is huge, so old wounds
and trauma, especially related to loss and grief or martyrdom
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self sacrifice may surface or resurface. So anything that you
are confronted with that brings up old pain, trauma and
suffering an old storyline, sit with it, reflect on it,
pray about it, meditate about it, get some wise council
around it, some support, and know that it's almost like
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a last gasp of air for some of us in
some old storylines pains and traumas, because we're ready for
some new beginnings and new and new adventures, which I
feel like we're going to see waves of, especially at
the end of the month and onward with Neptune entering
aries and then Saturn joining Neptune in aries in May.
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So just remember any miscommunications and interpretations, jumping to conclusions,
passive aggressive behaviors within yourself or with others. Just let
it ride and know that you will have a better
understanding on the other side of this last, but not
least with mercury retrograde in Pisces is massive challenges with boundaries.
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So when I say boundaries with this energy, I mean
energetic boundaries. There's a greater susceptibility to absorbing other people's energy, emotions, feelings,
so you may be pulled into some confusing dynamics. It
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is a really healthy time to ground and pull your
aura in and strengthen your aura because you will be
hyper sensitive and feeling like on crack for lack of
better words, your feelers, your antennas are like on steroids, right,
So that's exhausting. So some self care and grounding and
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getting out in nature and letting the sunlight hit your
face and a good cold shower whatever you know, a
good night's sleep or ten whatever that looks like to you.
That self care, energetic cleansing and clearing. I'm gonna say,
do an EPSOM salt cleanse link that in the show notes.
That's one of my go to tried and truths is
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clearing my energy with EPSOM salt. That is a wonderful
practice any time. But I think through this eclipse season
and retrograde phase that'll be very helpful. So the opportunities
for growth with mercury, retrograde and pisces are truly around
cultivating mindfulness and grounding practices to stay centered. And I'll
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reference Pam Gregory, the astrologer that I love. She says,
stay on your eagles perch. I think that is the
most lovely and appropriate theme. Am I on my eagles perch?
Am I rising above and stepping back and observing without
getting caught up in all the drama and the minutia.
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And am I really really trusting that there is something bigger,
greater and higher guiding me and supporting me through this phase.
It's a wonderful time to revisit your spiritual practices or
creatives or therapeutic work. So rolling up your sleeves. I
mentioned that in the March forecast. If there's a time
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to go to the spiritual gym, it's the next six weeks.
Rolling up your sleeves, getting back to basics in your
personal growth and work and spiritual practices. It will pay
out in the months ahead. It's also a very healthy
time to develop stronger emotional boundaries to really be mindful
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of your energy. Are these my emotions or are these
someone else's emotions? Being very mindful of emotional and energetic boundaries,
embracing stillness and quiet reflection in solitude will be very helpful.
And whether you have five minutes in your morning or
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two hours in your evening, or between home and picking
up a child at school, carve out the time to
go within, to listen to your heart, to talk to
your guides and your higher power. A couple of journal
prompts around mercury retrograde in Pisces would be things like,
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how can I create stronger energetic boundaries to establish healthier
emotional well being? Or what unconscious fears or limiting beliefs
are coming to the surface for me to heal? What
unconscious fears and limiting beliefs are confronting me right now
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that I am ready to heal? And also how can
I practice balancing my spiritual insights and downloads with grounded
practical action and patience trust. Really think about the cultivation
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of patience and trust through this retrograde phase. I'm here
for it or here for Remember that mercury retrogrades on
the full moon lunar eclipse in Virgo, it's very, very poignant.
Mercury rules Virgo and even though it's in arees, when
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it retrogrades, it's a power day the fourteenth fifteenth because
mercury is basically standing stills. So it's a great time
to journal. And because it's a full moon eclipse, there's
this element of stuff bubbling up to the surface that
has out moded its purpose, its meaningfulness. Something that might
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have been purposeful or meaningful in the past may be
becoming extinct. And I think about that from the vantage
point of coping mechanisms. Sometimes our coping mechanisms are developed
as survival skills, you know, especially when we're young, we
develop certain strategies and coping mechanisms based on our environment.
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And then thirty years later, forty years later, we're grown
up and we're still behaving from that point of awareness,
and it's not true in our reality today. This is
the time to draw those correlations and recognize what has
outlived out motives, moded or served its purpose. And are
you ready to rewrite the script? And you're the author
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alongside of the divine intelligence of the cosmos, of God,
of the Highest Creator, So rewrite your story. What do
you want it to look like going forward? And what
needs to be reorganized, revised within your head, your heart
so you can truly live more meaningfully, happy, free and inspired.
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Let's make this mercury retrograde magnificent and I'll see you
on the other side because that's where that's where the
new awakening is happened. Be well, everyone, Thank you so
much for listening to Soul Sessions. If you've got questions,
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