November 22, 2024 • 15 mins
Join Amanda Rieger Green in this bonus episode as she delves into the upcoming Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius. Learn about the potential challenges and opportunities this astrological event brings. Discover how to navigate communication glitches, embrace self-reflection, and unlock profound insights.
Key Takeaways:
Understanding Mercury Retrograde: Learn the basics of Mercury Retrograde and its impact on communication, technology, and travel.
The Power of Sagittarius: Explore the energetic influence of Sagittarius during this retrograde period, emphasizing themes of philosophy, exploration, and truth-seeking.
Embracing Self-Reflection: Discover how to use this time for introspection, recognizing patterns, and releasing limiting beliefs.
Navigating Challenges: Gain practical tips for managing potential communication breakdowns, delays, and misunderstandings.
Leveraging the Energy: Learn how to harness the energy of Mercury Retrograde to fuel personal growth, spiritual awakening, and creative inspiration.
HOST: Amanda Rieger Green // SoulPathology.com // @SoulPatholoy
Recent Episodes:
November Energy Forecast: Confront Your Demons & Ignite New Beginnings
Navigating the Dark Night of the Soul: A Journey of Healing and Spiritual Awakening
Unlocking Spiritual Awakening: Embracing Light After Darkness
Follow Amanda on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulpathology/
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hi, everyone, It's Amanda Rieger Green. Welcome to Soul Sessions.
Thank you for joining me today. If you are new
to this podcast, welcome. This podcast is for seekers of
all sizes and in all walks of your journey. So
if you are wanting to enrich your life, grow and
(00:29):
expand you're at home. And I explore all the mysteries,
the mysteries that are sacred about who we are, why
we are, and how we show up highly authentic and
through our higher selves. I'm a psychic medium and intuitive
and numerologist, astrologist and many more things. But what I
(00:53):
am here for is to help us down to you
with your innate abilities. And if that sounds at home
to you, then you're in the right place. And thank
you for joining me today. We're going to talk about
mercury retrograde because we've got a mercury retrograde coming up
at the end of twenty twenty four. We're just gonna
close it out with a bang, and we're gonna get
it pushed on a little bit more. But I'm so
(01:15):
here for this and I want you to be here
for this because I think it is this really hysterical
cosmic joke divine setup because it's gonna be glitchy, it's
gonna be weird. That's what mercury retrograde is. Mercury will
retrograde in Sagittarius, and it'll be in Sagittarius. It's entire retrograde.
(01:37):
So it's all the themes of sage and we'll talk
about that. But mercury retrograde's on November twenty fifth at
twenty two degrees of Sagittarius at nine forty two pm
Eastern Time. It will be retrograde from the twenty fifth
of November through the fifteenth of December, and it's stations
(01:58):
direct on the fifteenth of December at six degrees at
three point fifty six pm Eastern time, So November twenty
fifth through the sixteenth, So just remember the couple of
days before mercury retrograde and the couple of days around
its stationing direct So like the thirteenth, fourteenth of December
(02:18):
through the sixteenth seventeenth. Those are like the pressure points
where you just want to like take it easy, live
and let live. Pack a little bit of extra time
in your schedule, be patient with yourself and others because
mercury retrogrades do create glitches. It glitches, scheduling glitches, miscommunications,
(02:43):
so it's easier to just go with the flow. If
somebody doesn't show up for a meeting, or you have
a flat tire on the side of the interstate and
you're late for a meeting and you know, all the
things are piling up, life happens. And that's one of
the beautiful things about Mercury retrograde. It teaches us to
(03:04):
relinquish a little bit of control and be flexible, especially
in our minds, because Mercury governs the mind. Mercury is
the planet of information gathering and sharing communication And I
usually say this because this is the clarity I have
(03:25):
around Mercury and feeling the energies and the vibrational exchange
between the gravitational pull of Mercury and planet Earth. And
when it stations retrograde, it is asking us to really
look back and review. And you can put re in
front of anything because you're reviewing or revising. But to me,
(03:50):
my favorite re in Mercury retrograde is to recognize. Recognize
because Mercury is about cognition. It's about intelligence, it's about
how we think about things, and we conceptualize and articulate things.
So it's about recognition and the word that came to
(04:13):
me as I was just channeling and tapping into this energy.
Especially in Sagittarius is epiphany. This is a time of epiphany.
And it's funny because in the Christian calendar, if you
know what epiphany is, it's funny how things fall in
step right. But it is a time of epiphany. It's
(04:36):
a time of aha, Oh, I get it. I didn't
get it until I was backed into a corner and
all of a sudden I had to dig deep. Boom,
there's the epiphany, there's the divine insight. I got it.
Now I understand it. And that's what this retrograde is
doing to us. It is really pinpointing beliefs and our
(05:00):
philosophies of life as they are today, as they have
evolved in us, especially over the course of this year.
Mercury rules Gemini, the air sign of Gemini and the
earth sign of Virgo, so it is about thinking and
information gathering and sharing with Mercury. In Gemini, it is
(05:21):
about communication like literal verbal communication, listening, communicating, gathering facts,
data details. In Virgo, Mercury is about the practical application
of the information you're synthesizing. So it's how you take
practical steps with the information you have, how you make
things happen literally practically. The reason I'm sharing that is
(05:46):
because the opposite of Gemini, the polarity of Gemini, is Sagittarius.
This is an important retrograde. And I love the polarity
of Gemini and Sagittari because Jim and I is about
the data, the details, the investigative journalists, and Sagittarius is
(06:08):
the philosopher, the adventurer. It's used to be called the gypsy,
and I think that's politically incorrect now or something, but
it's the gypsy, the wanderer, the person who is living
life by exploring life. Essentially, Sagittarius is about broadening our horizons,
integrating foreign ways of living, doing thinking, being into our life,
(06:33):
and relating to ourselves. So with Mercury, retrograding Mercury about
the details and the mind, in Sagittarius about our beliefs
and our philosophies. This is magical stuff for us, and
I am excited for it, but I'm grateful for it
because I'm like, yes, help me to clarify and pinpoint
(06:57):
my beliefs because they have been shifting and evolving rapidly
this year, and a lot of you are experiencing this.
You've told me this. I see it day to day
with clients, and I am amazed at the clarity of belief.
And when I talk about belief, a lot of times
(07:18):
in order to clarify my belief our beliefs, I usually
learn through contrast, meaning what I don't believe in, what
I don't jive with, what hacks me off, is usually
what clarifies the polarity, which is my truth. So it
doesn't feel good, right, it doesn't feel good, but it's
(07:42):
also it's awakening, and that's when there's that moment of
ah aha, epiphany. That's what this retrograde is about. And
it's about, ultimately a couple of things, expanding our consciousness,
which as it retrogrades, it's almost going to narrow our
consciousness in order to expand it. So you may feel
(08:06):
like the world is getting smaller. You're stuck in the details,
You're stuck in the minutia of life. People aren't doing
what you want, so you might feel like a super
control freak. And if you already are kind of a
control freak. Your buttons are gonna be pushed, but it's
an opportunity to actually recognize what you're trying to control.
And sometimes the way I conceptualize my controlling attitudes or
(08:29):
behaviors is like a tight grip on the steering wheel
when I'm just like tense and tight, and I can
just loosen my grip a little bit, Like I know
how to drive. I have been driving for a while.
I'm a pretty good driver. I like to drive. But
sometimes I can have like a death grip on life.
My jaw can be tense, my body can be tense.
(08:51):
And when I am approaching life from intensity or tension,
I am actually blocking my expansion. So notice your tension.
Notice where tension is popping up for you, or where
you're just hanging on by a thread, and it's it's
(09:12):
actually not opening you up to higher, more expanded consciousness.
It is keeping you small and limited. That is one
piece of it. So it's like it's pulling back the
rubber band on the like on the bungee. So it's
going to create tension in order to propel further, faster, stronger,
(09:36):
And the sign of Sagittarius is the archer. The archer
is shooting arrows. And what the epiphany is here or
where you can experience epiphany is hitting the bullseye like
this is this is about not just arbitrarily shooting arrows.
It's about hitting a bullseye. And the the other thing
(10:00):
that I feel like is truly happening is we are
getting upgraded and we are the technology. We all know
how technology is advancing so rapidly, the technology in our
biology and our physiology is being upgraded. So to me,
(10:23):
it's like new technology is being turned on within us.
And I am not reducing humans down to linear technology.
I am saying we have all this brilliant biology that
is being activated. So it can feel like we're being
squeezed or contracted. So notice where that's going on for you,
(10:46):
and definitely figure out where this mercury retrograde is occurring
in your natal astrological chart because the house in which
it's retrograding in and it could be just in one house,
or it could overlap to two different houses depending on
your chart. But see what houses your beliefs are being shifted.
(11:08):
And here's what I want you to look out for, dogma,
because the thing about sag is when sag believes something,
it can believe so strongly that it can become self
righteous and so stuck in its beliefs that it forgets
to expand. And that's what Sagittarius is about, is like
(11:29):
expanding beliefs. But they can get stuck in their beliefs
where they become dogmatic or rigid and follow one science,
one philosophy, one spiritual practice and that's it and forget
to expand, and then they get squirrely, they get unhappy,
they don't feel free and adventurous, which is what they're
here for. So notice where you're dogmatic. Notice when you
(11:52):
are saying, oh you're wrong, I'm right, or that's wrong,
or I can't believe this person said this. They don't
know what they're talking about. Anything where you get obstinate
or indignant, and you'll feel that in yourself because it's
almost like a jolt. And Sagittarius is fire energy. So
watch your tongue. You know, don't say something you're gonna
(12:13):
either regret or need to make an amends for unless
you're prepared to show up and own your side of
the street. And if you do and mess up and
say something then have the courage to say, you know what,
I spoke too soon, or I was too harsh on that,
or I was stuck in my own stuff. Tell me
what you're thinking, or I'll listen to your point of view.
(12:34):
It doesn't mean you have to agree with someone else's
point of view, but can you listen? Can you hold
space for them? So finding a sense of openness to
new beliefs, new expanded consciousness. This is a time to
push through and it's a time of massive spiritual growth.
(12:54):
So take some time. This is definitely a time where
I will spend a lot of solitary time journaling and
journaling from the data of my day. What were my
experiences today? Where did I show up and feel enriched
and excited and passionate and full of life, full of vitality,
(13:16):
And what pushed my buttons? Where was I struggling? Who
hacked me off? And it's not about me pointing fingers,
it's what was it about that experience that made me uncomfortable?
So journal, look at your data, look at your day,
and if you can use this time frame between the
twenty fifth of November through the fifteenth of December to
(13:39):
really dig deep and clarify your direction forward your beliefs.
Then guess what you're going to be hitting bulls eyes
as you move forward into twenty twenty five. And guess
what twenty twenty five is a year of where I
want to have the right arrows. I want to have
my training because I want to hit more bulls eyes
than feel like I am shooting raw arbitrarily out into
(14:01):
the sky. We don't have time to over extend our energy.
The energy is intensifying and it is rapidly compounding. So
the quality of our consciousness, our intentionality, and our interactions
is going to be imperative or we will feel and
(14:24):
experience setbacks and destruction and disease in ways that we
haven't quite learned lessons. So use this to strengthen your
muscles around who you are, why you are, and what
you believe. And then how are you demonstrating that. It's
a very enriching time. Don't freak out about it, use
(14:47):
it to your advantage. Turn on new technology, expand your consciousness,
and pull your bow and arrow back and shoot for
the bull's eye in the cosmos. Be well, everyone, thank
you for joining me. Thank you so much for listening
to soul Sessions. If you've got questions, do not hesitate
(15:11):
to reach out. Email us podcast at soulsessions dot me.
If you love this podcast and you want to hear more,
make sure you're following it, liking and subscribing and sharing
it with other people. Send this energy out, share it
with other people. Remember, you can always get your dose
(15:32):
of Soul Sessions. New episodes drop on Wednesdays. You can
also follow me on Instagram, TikTok it's at soul pathology
or check out soulpathology dot com. I appreciate you and
your life. Thanks for listening.
Hi, everyone, It's Amanda Rieger Green. Welcome to Soul Sessions.
Thank you for joining me today. If you are new
to this podcast, welcome. This podcast is for seekers of
all sizes and in all walks of your journey. So
if you are wanting to enrich your life, grow and
(00:29):
expand you're at home. And I explore all the mysteries,
the mysteries that are sacred about who we are, why
we are, and how we show up highly authentic and
through our higher selves. I'm a psychic medium and intuitive
and numerologist, astrologist and many more things. But what I
(00:53):
am here for is to help us down to you
with your innate abilities. And if that sounds at home
to you, then you're in the right place. And thank
you for joining me today. We're going to talk about
mercury retrograde because we've got a mercury retrograde coming up
at the end of twenty twenty four. We're just gonna
close it out with a bang, and we're gonna get
it pushed on a little bit more. But I'm so
(01:15):
here for this and I want you to be here
for this because I think it is this really hysterical
cosmic joke divine setup because it's gonna be glitchy, it's
gonna be weird. That's what mercury retrograde is. Mercury will
retrograde in Sagittarius, and it'll be in Sagittarius. It's entire retrograde.
(01:37):
So it's all the themes of sage and we'll talk
about that. But mercury retrograde's on November twenty fifth at
twenty two degrees of Sagittarius at nine forty two pm
Eastern Time. It will be retrograde from the twenty fifth
of November through the fifteenth of December, and it's stations
(01:58):
direct on the fifteenth of December at six degrees at
three point fifty six pm Eastern time, So November twenty
fifth through the sixteenth, So just remember the couple of
days before mercury retrograde and the couple of days around
its stationing direct So like the thirteenth, fourteenth of December
(02:18):
through the sixteenth seventeenth. Those are like the pressure points
where you just want to like take it easy, live
and let live. Pack a little bit of extra time
in your schedule, be patient with yourself and others because
mercury retrogrades do create glitches. It glitches, scheduling glitches, miscommunications,
(02:43):
so it's easier to just go with the flow. If
somebody doesn't show up for a meeting, or you have
a flat tire on the side of the interstate and
you're late for a meeting and you know, all the
things are piling up, life happens. And that's one of
the beautiful things about Mercury retrograde. It teaches us to
(03:04):
relinquish a little bit of control and be flexible, especially
in our minds, because Mercury governs the mind. Mercury is
the planet of information gathering and sharing communication And I
usually say this because this is the clarity I have
(03:25):
around Mercury and feeling the energies and the vibrational exchange
between the gravitational pull of Mercury and planet Earth. And
when it stations retrograde, it is asking us to really
look back and review. And you can put re in
front of anything because you're reviewing or revising. But to me,
(03:50):
my favorite re in Mercury retrograde is to recognize. Recognize
because Mercury is about cognition. It's about intelligence, it's about
how we think about things, and we conceptualize and articulate things.
So it's about recognition and the word that came to
(04:13):
me as I was just channeling and tapping into this energy.
Especially in Sagittarius is epiphany. This is a time of epiphany.
And it's funny because in the Christian calendar, if you
know what epiphany is, it's funny how things fall in
step right. But it is a time of epiphany. It's
(04:36):
a time of aha, Oh, I get it. I didn't
get it until I was backed into a corner and
all of a sudden I had to dig deep. Boom,
there's the epiphany, there's the divine insight. I got it.
Now I understand it. And that's what this retrograde is
doing to us. It is really pinpointing beliefs and our
(05:00):
philosophies of life as they are today, as they have
evolved in us, especially over the course of this year.
Mercury rules Gemini, the air sign of Gemini and the
earth sign of Virgo, so it is about thinking and
information gathering and sharing with Mercury. In Gemini, it is
(05:21):
about communication like literal verbal communication, listening, communicating, gathering facts,
data details. In Virgo, Mercury is about the practical application
of the information you're synthesizing. So it's how you take
practical steps with the information you have, how you make
things happen literally practically. The reason I'm sharing that is
(05:46):
because the opposite of Gemini, the polarity of Gemini, is Sagittarius.
This is an important retrograde. And I love the polarity
of Gemini and Sagittari because Jim and I is about
the data, the details, the investigative journalists, and Sagittarius is
(06:08):
the philosopher, the adventurer. It's used to be called the gypsy,
and I think that's politically incorrect now or something, but
it's the gypsy, the wanderer, the person who is living
life by exploring life. Essentially, Sagittarius is about broadening our horizons,
integrating foreign ways of living, doing thinking, being into our life,
(06:33):
and relating to ourselves. So with Mercury, retrograding Mercury about
the details and the mind, in Sagittarius about our beliefs
and our philosophies. This is magical stuff for us, and
I am excited for it, but I'm grateful for it
because I'm like, yes, help me to clarify and pinpoint
(06:57):
my beliefs because they have been shifting and evolving rapidly
this year, and a lot of you are experiencing this.
You've told me this. I see it day to day
with clients, and I am amazed at the clarity of belief.
And when I talk about belief, a lot of times
(07:18):
in order to clarify my belief our beliefs, I usually
learn through contrast, meaning what I don't believe in, what
I don't jive with, what hacks me off, is usually
what clarifies the polarity, which is my truth. So it
doesn't feel good, right, it doesn't feel good, but it's
(07:42):
also it's awakening, and that's when there's that moment of
ah aha, epiphany. That's what this retrograde is about. And
it's about, ultimately a couple of things, expanding our consciousness,
which as it retrogrades, it's almost going to narrow our
consciousness in order to expand it. So you may feel
(08:06):
like the world is getting smaller. You're stuck in the details,
You're stuck in the minutia of life. People aren't doing
what you want, so you might feel like a super
control freak. And if you already are kind of a
control freak. Your buttons are gonna be pushed, but it's
an opportunity to actually recognize what you're trying to control.
And sometimes the way I conceptualize my controlling attitudes or
(08:29):
behaviors is like a tight grip on the steering wheel
when I'm just like tense and tight, and I can
just loosen my grip a little bit, Like I know
how to drive. I have been driving for a while.
I'm a pretty good driver. I like to drive. But
sometimes I can have like a death grip on life.
My jaw can be tense, my body can be tense.
(08:51):
And when I am approaching life from intensity or tension,
I am actually blocking my expansion. So notice your tension.
Notice where tension is popping up for you, or where
you're just hanging on by a thread, and it's it's
(09:12):
actually not opening you up to higher, more expanded consciousness.
It is keeping you small and limited. That is one
piece of it. So it's like it's pulling back the
rubber band on the like on the bungee. So it's
going to create tension in order to propel further, faster, stronger,
(09:36):
And the sign of Sagittarius is the archer. The archer
is shooting arrows. And what the epiphany is here or
where you can experience epiphany is hitting the bullseye like
this is this is about not just arbitrarily shooting arrows.
It's about hitting a bullseye. And the the other thing
(10:00):
that I feel like is truly happening is we are
getting upgraded and we are the technology. We all know
how technology is advancing so rapidly, the technology in our
biology and our physiology is being upgraded. So to me,
(10:23):
it's like new technology is being turned on within us.
And I am not reducing humans down to linear technology.
I am saying we have all this brilliant biology that
is being activated. So it can feel like we're being
squeezed or contracted. So notice where that's going on for you,
(10:46):
and definitely figure out where this mercury retrograde is occurring
in your natal astrological chart because the house in which
it's retrograding in and it could be just in one house,
or it could overlap to two different houses depending on
your chart. But see what houses your beliefs are being shifted.
(11:08):
And here's what I want you to look out for, dogma,
because the thing about sag is when sag believes something,
it can believe so strongly that it can become self
righteous and so stuck in its beliefs that it forgets
to expand. And that's what Sagittarius is about, is like
(11:29):
expanding beliefs. But they can get stuck in their beliefs
where they become dogmatic or rigid and follow one science,
one philosophy, one spiritual practice and that's it and forget
to expand, and then they get squirrely, they get unhappy,
they don't feel free and adventurous, which is what they're
here for. So notice where you're dogmatic. Notice when you
(11:52):
are saying, oh you're wrong, I'm right, or that's wrong,
or I can't believe this person said this. They don't
know what they're talking about. Anything where you get obstinate
or indignant, and you'll feel that in yourself because it's
almost like a jolt. And Sagittarius is fire energy. So
watch your tongue. You know, don't say something you're gonna
(12:13):
either regret or need to make an amends for unless
you're prepared to show up and own your side of
the street. And if you do and mess up and
say something then have the courage to say, you know what,
I spoke too soon, or I was too harsh on that,
or I was stuck in my own stuff. Tell me
what you're thinking, or I'll listen to your point of view.
(12:34):
It doesn't mean you have to agree with someone else's
point of view, but can you listen? Can you hold
space for them? So finding a sense of openness to
new beliefs, new expanded consciousness. This is a time to
push through and it's a time of massive spiritual growth.
(12:54):
So take some time. This is definitely a time where
I will spend a lot of solitary time journaling and
journaling from the data of my day. What were my
experiences today? Where did I show up and feel enriched
and excited and passionate and full of life, full of vitality,
(13:16):
And what pushed my buttons? Where was I struggling? Who
hacked me off? And it's not about me pointing fingers,
it's what was it about that experience that made me uncomfortable?
So journal, look at your data, look at your day,
and if you can use this time frame between the
twenty fifth of November through the fifteenth of December to
(13:39):
really dig deep and clarify your direction forward your beliefs.
Then guess what you're going to be hitting bulls eyes
as you move forward into twenty twenty five. And guess
what twenty twenty five is a year of where I
want to have the right arrows. I want to have
my training because I want to hit more bulls eyes
than feel like I am shooting raw arbitrarily out into
(14:01):
the sky. We don't have time to over extend our energy.
The energy is intensifying and it is rapidly compounding. So
the quality of our consciousness, our intentionality, and our interactions
is going to be imperative or we will feel and
(14:24):
experience setbacks and destruction and disease in ways that we
haven't quite learned lessons. So use this to strengthen your
muscles around who you are, why you are, and what
you believe. And then how are you demonstrating that. It's
a very enriching time. Don't freak out about it, use
(14:47):
it to your advantage. Turn on new technology, expand your consciousness,
and pull your bow and arrow back and shoot for
the bull's eye in the cosmos. Be well, everyone, thank
you for joining me. Thank you so much for listening
to soul Sessions. If you've got questions, do not hesitate
(15:11):
to reach out. Email us podcast at soulsessions dot me.
If you love this podcast and you want to hear more,
make sure you're following it, liking and subscribing and sharing
it with other people. Send this energy out, share it
with other people. Remember, you can always get your dose
(15:32):
of Soul Sessions. New episodes drop on Wednesdays. You can
also follow me on Instagram, TikTok it's at soul pathology
or check out soulpathology dot com. I appreciate you and
your life. Thanks for listening.
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