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Mercury Retrograde happens 3-4 times a year and has quite the reputation for cleansing and disruption. The two weeks before this big event is when the energy starts to shift. If you are paying attention during this two week sneak peek, there are lots of hints about the energy to come and areas of your life that are in for a big shift.
In this episode, we'll unpack what the Pre-shadow period of Mercury Retrograde is and how to decipher the clues that she is leaving you. When you are paying attention to the themes of your Mercury Retroshade you can lean into the changes, welcome the energy, and find wisdom in the messages.
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Steve, welcome to the Modern Life and Spirit podcast,
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where we explore spiritualtopics relevant to today's
world. Your hosts, certifiedpsychic medium Christina Wooten
and Reiki master teacher RobertWooten, break down how to work
with spirit to create morepositive growth in your life.
Consider this podcast your go tospiritual resource for
navigating the modern world. Hey
Christina Wooten (00:27):
there Kinderd spirits. Welcome to Modern Life
and Spirit podcast. This isChristina Wooten, certified
psychic medium at Sedonamedium.com Welcome to our
episode today. We have lots totalk about. I'm excited about
breaking down what the preshadow period of Mercury
Retrograde is all about. Butfirst, did you guys see the Pink
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Moon rising? I saw it lastnight. It was amazing. It came
just over the reddish mountains.
This like full, hot pink,powerful moon, almost full. It
was incredible gorgeous. And ithad this amazing contrast,
because there was still a littlebit of orange sunset, and it was
that against the reddishmountains. It was absolutely
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breathtaking. And I watched itfor the longest time, just in
gratitude and awe that thesebeautiful things are happening
in the world, what an amazingworld we live in. And honestly,
I would have missed it ifsomeone had not called me and
said, Hey, go outside and checkout the moon. So if you are one
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of those people who call or textand say, go outside and look at
the moon. Thank you. Thank youfor being that person, because I
would have completely missedthat amazing opportunity that's
still kind of staying with metoday, that beauty and gratitude
and appreciation. It's littlemoments like that where someone
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just reminds you to look up, tonotice, to pause, that really do
help us to reconnect with therhythm and the flow of the
universe and the things that arearound us. And in a way, that's
exactly what Mercury Retrogradeis inviting us to do. It moves
through our year with aninteresting rhythm, and part of
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our journey is really aligningwith that rhythm so that we can
develop and continue our growth.
If you've only heard dramaticwarnings and travel or tech
horror stories about MercuryRetrograde, you might be
surprised to hear me say that Iactually really look forward to
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Mercury retrograde. Now that hasnot always been the case, but
now I really do, and that shiftcame when I began to really
understand that it has a deeperpurpose that is serving us,
especially the feminine healingenergy that comes through when
we are willing to be open andlisten to what those messages
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are. In fact, if you haven'talready, I highly recommend for
you to go back to Episode 30,thriving in Mercury Retrograde,
where I share the intuitivemessages that spirit gave me
that completely changed myrelationship with that cycle and
with the next Mercury Retrogradeapproaching really soon, on July
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17. You might be wondering, whybring it up now? Because we're
nearly a month away, right? Thisseems a little bit early for us
to be talking about it, butright before Mercury Retrograde,
there is a pre shadow periodthat begins two weeks before
Mercury goes into retrograde,officially, and I'm recording
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this in June 2025 and our nextpre shadow period is June 29
through July 16, 2025so we are steadily approaching
this energy right now. It'll behere in just a couple of weeks
during the pre shadow period,Mercury appears to start to slow
down before it stations fullyretrograde. So you start to see
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these little wobbles, littlewaves of precursor energy start
to show up during the pre shadowperiod. And when we understand
that and we use that energyproperly and we reflect on it,
it can really help you to seethe patterns that are coming up,
to see their messages, so thatwhen you do enter the retrograde
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period itself, you are more opento the transformation that is
being offered to you, we canalways go deeper when we are
conscious, when we areintentional, we are allowing and
encouraging the healing to takeplace. But that comes with
awareness. We can be consciouswhen we are more aware. So
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that's what paying attention,learning what to look for in the
pre shadow of mercury.
Retrograde is all about, andthat's what we're going to be
talking about today. So you canthink of the pre shadow period
as like the energetic previewbefore the main feature. So this
is when Mercury begins itsslowing down process. It starts
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to cross the degrees that it'sgoing to retrograde over later.
And this is when the themes andsometimes the issues of that
period for you start to emerge.
So it's kind of like theuniverse starts, like
highlighting the text thatyou're going to be studying, or
needing to learn a little bitmore about where the
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transformation is trying to comefrom in your life. So some of
the common things that you mightsee during this time as that
energy starts to slow down is wesee the beginnings of those tech
issues start to bubble up, whichare a lot of times people's
first clue of, uh oh, issomething going on? What's
happening? Let me check thecalendar and see, are we
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actually in the retrograde ornot, so it can be a nice little
warning sign of all right, it'stime. Here we go. Pay attention.
Miscommunications can start tobuild up or brew, but it's
usually small minute, justlittle glitches here and there,
nothing that has a majorconsequence. You might start to
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have recurring thoughts aboutthings begin to surface or come
up, or you might be thinking alot about some unresolved
decisions that maybe you kind ofput on the back burner, or
thought you would deal with alittle bit later. But now it
starts to come back up to thesurface again, and you're
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thinking, Oh, I really need toget back to decision making.
What am I going to do about thisparticular topic? Now you also
may notice feeling like you'resecond guessing plans. You start
to notice that little wobblewithin yourself where you're
second guessing things. You'resecond guessing the way that you
were going to undertakesomething, the plans that you
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had, or maybe you start to askyourself lots of questions,
because you're feeling a littlebit uncertain, whereas
previously you were thinking,Oh, I've got this taken care of.
This will mean no big deal. Andsuddenly you start to as it gets
closer, feel a little bituncomfortable, feel a little
less secure, feel more and moreuncertain about things. You
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might start to feel a little bitwobbly about a direction that
you have been taking. So thismay be something that you have
already instituted, a decisionthat you've already made, and
that can start to bring up someself doubt and some confusion
and some uncertainty, and maybebring things to halt if you feel
like you're not fully resolvedor not fully committed to that
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direction that you had alreadystarted to institute. So you're
going to start to see theselittle like things popping up,
okay, here and there, and thepre shadows purpose is really
just giving you a hint at thisis where we're transforming.
This is where we are making thebig change. Now, the pre shadow
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period and the MercuryRetrograde period are always
here to help us and to serve us,as we learned in Episode 30. You
can think of it in a way, like ajob review that you get about
once a quarter, so where you'rereflecting on your mission, the
things that you are doing tobring that energy forward and
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how you are accomplishing it, ifthat is working for you, gives
you a chance to really reviewand reflect and process so that
you can continue your journey,moving forward in a way that's
really in alignment. If we didnot have that review process, we
could be wasting our energy. Wecould be moving in directions
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that aren't taking us in a waythat feels right, truly for us,
and if we don't slow down, if wedon't pause, we don't really
have the chance to do that innerwork to check in and make sure
that our evolving consciousnessis still keeping up with the
things that we are institutingbecause we're constantly
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growing, we need this constantreview process to help us revise
and check back in from our Newstates of consciousness as we
continue our growth, especiallyif you have been in a really
strong spiritual growth patternover the last few years, you may
have noticed this, how valuablethis time can be for you. So
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when this period comes up, it'sgoing to start revealing the
themes of the retrograde periodfor you. It's a little bit like
a subtle sample. It makes methink a little bit about that
feeling that you get when youare getting in to a roller
coaster. And then the very, verybeginning, the cars start moving
up the track, going up the steephill, just really slowly, it's
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pulling you up and up and up andup and up. And then you stop for
just a minute before. Where itreally lets loose, and then
you're like, full steam aheadand you're going forward. So
that is what is happening here.
So as you enter that pre shadowperiod, you want to be paying
attention. You want to see whatis coming up around you and also
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within you. Because these arethe hints. A lot of times,
people's focus is on what'soutwardly happening in their
lives, in the MercuryRetrograde, until they're really
learn how to use that energy,and not only are they focusing
on what's happening in theirexternal manifestations, but
really start to look at what isbeing inspired inside of
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themselves, and what does thatmean for their journey forward?
The beautiful thing is that thelight of healing and truth is
entering your life in theseareas that are popping up, and
this is where you're going toexperience some transformation
during the retrograde perioditself. So during the pre shadow
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period, there's some things thatyou can ask yourself to really
get some hints and some cluesabout what might be coming up
for you. So you want to thinkabout what patterns or themes
are showing up again and again.
Are you feeling the call, or areyou being asked to slow down and
revisit something. So what keepscoming back up for you, even if
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it's something that you thoughtyou had resolved or you had
completed, if you start to feelthat uncertainty come up, that
self doubt coming up, that maybe something that is really
calling for you to revisit sothat you can get more in
alignment. Something's out ofalignment there. Where are you
feeling doubt and uncertainty ingeneral? Is there an area of
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your life you just begin tonotice that you're feeling a
little bit more uncomfortable orreactive in your life? Start to
look at that. What conversationskeep circling back? So what
questions are other peopleasking you or what emails are
people sending you right now?
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What are some of the themes thatyou are seeing in your
friendship conversations, butalso in just the other
conversations that are happeningaround you? What are influential
people in your life talking toyou about something that kind of
sticks with you? So maybe youheard a podcast, or maybe you,
like, watched a YouTube video,and something really stuck out
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for you in that and for whateverreason, you haven't been able to
fully let go of it, you're justprocessing it, or feel like I've
only scratched the surface ofthis, something deeper is
happening here that can bereally, really helpful, because
it's a wonderful thing for youto explore during the Mercury
Retrograde itself is what feelsincomplete? Where can you get
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more knowledge, moreinformation, more understanding?
This is a great time to get moreclarity around that. And then
the last question, I would say,is, what's feeling uncomfortable
or restrictive in your liferight now, that can be important
insight about where you need tobreak free, whether that's
breaking free mentally, whereyou're expanding your mind,
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expanding some of yourdefinitions, letting go of
limiting beliefs, or whether itis in some way, creating more
concrete steps towards freedomin your life. So asking yourself
some of those questions helpsyou to highlight or understand
what may be coming up for you inthis period. Now, because this
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is a two week process, the preshadow period, you're going to
start to see some of that comingup in the very first week of the
pre shadow period, but youshould be able to identify more
or answer more of thesequestions as you move into the
beginning of the second week,because all of that information
at this point is being laid outfor you already. It's not going
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to be a surprise. The areas thatyou're feeling uncomfortable,
where you're having more selfdoubt, where you are finding
yourself kind of circling backbecause it feels unresolved,
you're starting to noticecertain themes those will be
coming up within that very firstweek. So you don't need to have
gone all the way through thewhole pre shadow period in order
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to be able to answer thesequestions by week one, you ought
to be pretty deep in thatinformation. And because mercury
has a lot to do withcommunication, how we are
communicating in the world, thisis connected strongly with our
throat chakra. It's also ourthroat chakra is very connected
as well with how we arecommunicating and living
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authentically in the world, soour outsides matching our
insides. So what we truly holdimportant in our values? Are we
living that and expressing that,or are we compromising that in
some way, or are we living in away that's ex. Affected, because
we just haven't taken that bigleap or taken the big risk so
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that we could live truly in ourhighest level of alignment. So
thinking about what kind ofthings also are coming up around
your feelings of impostersyndrome, is there a sense of
I'm being inauthentic in someway, in the values and how I'm
expressing those outwardly inthe world. So maybe you are
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working in a high poweredposition, a high powered job,
but inwardly, you keep watchingall these YouTube videos about
tiny house living or thehomestead or the animal rescue
that you've always wanted tostart and you just keep finding
yourself, Oh, wow. This would bewonderful. This would be great.
But every day you get up anyway,and you go to work and go do the
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thing that is expected of you,or that you feel like has a
stronger sense of security. Thatwould be an example of what I'm
talking about, where our insidesaren't necessarily matching our
outsides. So think about whatmay be left unsaid in
relationships or things that youneed to communicate out in the
world. You're probably going todo that either intentionally or
in a messy way during Mercuryretrograde. So sometimes it just
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kind of comes out during thisperiod. And you know, that is
what it is we have to deal withthe consequences of that when
that happens, and also, whereare we needing to align
ourselves energetically andauthentically? So one thing that
you can do if you really want totap into your intuition is just
start with a little bit of ameditation prompt. You can light
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a candle, just create a littlebit of a sacred atmosphere. So
you know, like, Okay, I'm divingwithin. I'm going within for the
answers here and ask yourself tomeditate on, what is mercury
trying to help me revisit orrealign?
And just sit with that question.
Like, allow it to be in yourheart. Allow your mind to take a
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back seat, because the mind willtry and jump in and answer that
be like, oh, you know what? Iknow your problem. Let me tell
you what your problem is. Youknow, this, this and this, and
this and this. You're not greatat this, or you haven't done
this very well. Blah, blah,blah. Our mind can be very
critical and loves to jump onthe bandwagon about what we need
to fix. You know, what we needto realign? You know, it can
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take over that and turn thatinto a very disempowering sort
of question. So, you know, ifyou get a disempowering answer
that you know that's coming fromyour critical mind and not from
your true spirit and from themessages that you're receiving.
So really holding it in yourheart, what is mercury trying to
help me revisit or realign, andthen pay attention to the things
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that do come forward for you,whether that is images that you
might see or flashes, maybe youjust have a feeling or an
impression that comes back.
Maybe use your mind starts towander to an area of life, and
as you kind of bring yourselfback, you realize that that area
of life seems to be holding somepower for you, or some direction
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for you. And also, of course, ifyou're having a reading sometime
around the Mercury Retrogradeperiod, definitely ask, What do
I need to be aware of duringthis pre shadow period, or
during the Mercury Retrogradeitself? Because this can really
give you some big insight again,because the more that we have
awareness, the more we can beintentional, the more that we
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can open ourselves to truetransformation and not resist
and not be in the fear when weknow that the circumstances
within and outside of ourselvesare helping us and bringing us
to greater growth. We're not asresistant, we're not as scared
of it. I mean, sure we're alwaysgoing to be fearful of change,
because fear really guards thedoor of transformation. In order
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for us to be able to moveforward, we have to resolve
ourselves and find peace withthe fear that is guarding the
door to that transformationitself. So that's going to be
there, but we can move throughthat more easily when we know
that this change is truly comingfrom the higher realms that are
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helping us, helping us to grow.
Now you also want to considerhow you can help yourself to
prepare for the full retrogradeduring the pre shadow period. So
we know things are a little bitwobbly right now, but they're
about to really, really slowdown into a big halt once it
officially stations retrograde.
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So this is an important time toreally, like, slow down in your
communication, double check yourmessages, reread things, if
something has like a highemotional content to it, reread
it, process it, maybe giveyourself permission to respond
slowly and more intentionally.
So maybe you're used toresponding to people really
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quickly, shooting an email backto them, but giving yourself the
gift. Gift of time to process,especially if something is a
little bit heavier emotionally,and you want to really be
present with what it is thatthey've brought forward for you,
knowing that you might bemissing a few things because
we're in this kind of cloudierperiod, a Mercury Retrograde,
where we're really withdrawn andwe're really kind of doing the
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within type of work. It takes alittle bit more muscle, if you
will, brain muscle to process,to receive and to understand
some of the things that arebeing shared. So slow down. It's
okay if you get back to thatemail the next day, versus
immediately feeling the need torespond, you will probably
respond much more purposefully,intentionally and meaningfully
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to that person. And honestly,people would much rather feel
truly heard than they would youjust rush into a response and be
very intentional with yourwords. Sometimes I'll reread
something, especially if I knowif there's an emotional charge
to something, I'll reread it afew times, kind of like
listening through differentfilters to just make sure that
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I'm communicating my heart in asituation versus communicating
too much with my head in yourpreparations. Also think about
doing a few extra things likerunning backup on your computer.
We know that technical problemsreally come up around Mercury
Retrograde, because mercury isvery responsible for those types
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of advancements. So backing upyour files, backing up your
computer, backing up your phone,back up your contacts, back up
your photos and your videos thatyou have on your phone that are
special to you, you just neverknow when that's going in the
water or something happens toit, so be extra careful about
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doing backup during this time,even if you're working on
presentations and so forth, justmaybe halfway through, make sure
you're always saving it more sothan you would normally, because
you'll find that that willusually save you when something
crashes or something happens andyou don't want to have to start
all over. So doing behavioralmodifications like that can be
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very helpful clarify your travelor contracts. So make sure that
you're reading through the fineprint that you're double
checking your rental car, you'redouble checking the airport and
your timing and making sure thatyou have all of the things that
you need laid out and everythingis nice and confirmed, so that
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all of that is very clear foryou, and then revisit anything
that you feel like you've kindof left half finished, if
there's a way for you to wrap itup before Mercury officially
goes retrograde. Get it done.
Wrap it up. Make sure that youknow your heart's in it and
you're doing what needs to bedone, right. But if you can wrap
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it up before this time, thatgives you a lot of extra energy
to really focus on the thingsthat are coming up during this
period. If you are resolvingsome of the extras and the half
finished stuff, you can bereally present with what is
trying to come through. So justthink of the pre shadow period
as it's time to get your housein order. Things are happening.
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They're happening, you know,literally, they're happening.
Energetically, they are hintingat what is coming forward for
you in this healing andtransformation during the
Mercury Retrograde, and our jobis to become more open to that,
recognizing with curiosity.
Okay, I'm seeing these patterns.
I'm seeing these themes. Let meexplore that actively and
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intentionally as we move throughthis period, and just remember
that the universe isn't out toget you, that Mercury retrograde
and its pre shadow is just achance to realign, to re
evaluate, to fully open up yourawareness outside of our normal
kind of limited just movingforward perspective, one thing
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you can do knowing that thisisn't the time to, like, push
forward and just make thingshappen. And you know that's not
going to work so well duringMercury Retrograde, it's more
this reflective time we have topause. It's more of a struggle
to get things launched andmoving and so forth. So this is
a time to just process. It's agreat time for you to learn
more. It's a great time for youto revisit the books that you
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have on your shelf that youhaven't had a chance to read or
finish reading. That's a greatthing for you to do during
Mercury retrograde. Build upyour knowledge, build up the
level of growth that you haveavailable to you. Tap into those
resources. That's very helpfulduring the mercury retrograde.
And, of course, setting up, youknow, self care practices can be
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really nice during this period.
So if you know that you're thekind of person that gets a
little anxious and gets a littlestressed, or you get very
overwhelmed during these times,you're just feeling kind of more
jittery because. Sensitive tothe energies that are at play,
or you're feeling a lot of otherpeople's stress. Set yourself up
for some self care, you know,grab a new nail polish that you
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might like, a new favoriteincense that you might love. Set
up a massage session. Sign upfor a new yoga class, that sort
of thing. But set yourself upwith some positive things that
you can look forward to, so thatyou're not like dreading or
feeling stressed and anxiousduring this period, that you're
recognizing that this is atransformative time, and I'm
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also going to do that withalignment to joy and play and
curiosity and sensitivity aswell. Now if you want to stay
connected with these cycles likeMercury Retrograde, the pre
shadow and post shadow periods,the full moons, new moons, and
slow down and get more consciousand aware of the energy all
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around you, I just invite you. Iwould, I would miss this
opportunity to invite you tojoin the inner circle at Sedona
medium.com, forward slash, innercircle, and you can get access
to the energetic calendar forthe year that integrates
directly into your digitalcalendar so that you won't miss
any of the important dates. Tobecome more conscious and more
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aware. It's going to tell youwhen these moon cycles are
shifting and changing. It'sgoing to let you know when
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calendar, you see it there, aswell as helpful information
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just it's a great opportunity tolive in more harmony With the
energies that are available forus fully in a resourced way.
That's at Sedona medium.com,forward slash inner circle. And
of course, we have other thingsthat are happening. We have the
in person Reiki classes that arecoming up soon. And we also have
the online intuitive heartcircle that is starting in just
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a week or so, I'd love to seeyou there at Sedona medium.com
forward slash intuitive heartcircle. All right, everyone,
thanks so much for joining me. Ilook forward to our time
together next week. Manyblessings. The
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Steve, welcome to the Modern Life and Spirit podcast,
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where we explore spiritualtopics relevant to today's
world. Your hosts, certifiedpsychic medium Christina Wooten
and Reiki master teacher RobertWooten, break down how to work
with spirit to create morepositive growth in your life.
Consider this podcast your go tospiritual resource for
navigating the modern world. Hey
Christina Wooten (00:27):
there Kinderd spirits. Welcome to Modern Life
and Spirit podcast. This isChristina Wooten, certified
psychic medium at Sedonamedium.com Welcome to our
episode today. We have lots totalk about. I'm excited about
breaking down what the preshadow period of Mercury
Retrograde is all about. Butfirst, did you guys see the Pink
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Moon rising? I saw it lastnight. It was amazing. It came
just over the reddish mountains.
This like full, hot pink,powerful moon, almost full. It
was incredible gorgeous. And ithad this amazing contrast,
because there was still a littlebit of orange sunset, and it was
that against the reddishmountains. It was absolutely
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breathtaking. And I watched itfor the longest time, just in
gratitude and awe that thesebeautiful things are happening
in the world, what an amazingworld we live in. And honestly,
I would have missed it ifsomeone had not called me and
said, Hey, go outside and checkout the moon. So if you are one
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of those people who call or textand say, go outside and look at
the moon. Thank you. Thank youfor being that person, because I
would have completely missedthat amazing opportunity that's
still kind of staying with metoday, that beauty and gratitude
and appreciation. It's littlemoments like that where someone
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just reminds you to look up, tonotice, to pause, that really do
help us to reconnect with therhythm and the flow of the
universe and the things that arearound us. And in a way, that's
exactly what Mercury Retrogradeis inviting us to do. It moves
through our year with aninteresting rhythm, and part of
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our journey is really aligningwith that rhythm so that we can
develop and continue our growth.
If you've only heard dramaticwarnings and travel or tech
horror stories about MercuryRetrograde, you might be
surprised to hear me say that Iactually really look forward to
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Mercury retrograde. Now that hasnot always been the case, but
now I really do, and that shiftcame when I began to really
understand that it has a deeperpurpose that is serving us,
especially the feminine healingenergy that comes through when
we are willing to be open andlisten to what those messages
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are. In fact, if you haven'talready, I highly recommend for
you to go back to Episode 30,thriving in Mercury Retrograde,
where I share the intuitivemessages that spirit gave me
that completely changed myrelationship with that cycle and
with the next Mercury Retrogradeapproaching really soon, on July
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17. You might be wondering, whybring it up now? Because we're
nearly a month away, right? Thisseems a little bit early for us
to be talking about it, butright before Mercury Retrograde,
there is a pre shadow periodthat begins two weeks before
Mercury goes into retrograde,officially, and I'm recording
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this in June 2025 and our nextpre shadow period is June 29
through July 16, 2025so we are steadily approaching
this energy right now. It'll behere in just a couple of weeks
during the pre shadow period,Mercury appears to start to slow
down before it stations fullyretrograde. So you start to see
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these little wobbles, littlewaves of precursor energy start
to show up during the pre shadowperiod. And when we understand
that and we use that energyproperly and we reflect on it,
it can really help you to seethe patterns that are coming up,
to see their messages, so thatwhen you do enter the retrograde
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period itself, you are more opento the transformation that is
being offered to you, we canalways go deeper when we are
conscious, when we areintentional, we are allowing and
encouraging the healing to takeplace. But that comes with
awareness. We can be consciouswhen we are more aware. So
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that's what paying attention,learning what to look for in the
pre shadow of mercury.
Retrograde is all about, andthat's what we're going to be
talking about today. So you canthink of the pre shadow period
as like the energetic previewbefore the main feature. So this
is when Mercury begins itsslowing down process. It starts
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to cross the degrees that it'sgoing to retrograde over later.
And this is when the themes andsometimes the issues of that
period for you start to emerge.
So it's kind of like theuniverse starts, like
highlighting the text thatyou're going to be studying, or
needing to learn a little bitmore about where the
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transformation is trying to comefrom in your life. So some of
the common things that you mightsee during this time as that
energy starts to slow down is wesee the beginnings of those tech
issues start to bubble up, whichare a lot of times people's
first clue of, uh oh, issomething going on? What's
happening? Let me check thecalendar and see, are we
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actually in the retrograde ornot, so it can be a nice little
warning sign of all right, it'stime. Here we go. Pay attention.
Miscommunications can start tobuild up or brew, but it's
usually small minute, justlittle glitches here and there,
nothing that has a majorconsequence. You might start to
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have recurring thoughts aboutthings begin to surface or come
up, or you might be thinking alot about some unresolved
decisions that maybe you kind ofput on the back burner, or
thought you would deal with alittle bit later. But now it
starts to come back up to thesurface again, and you're
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thinking, Oh, I really need toget back to decision making.
What am I going to do about thisparticular topic? Now you also
may notice feeling like you'resecond guessing plans. You start
to notice that little wobblewithin yourself where you're
second guessing things. You'resecond guessing the way that you
were going to undertakesomething, the plans that you
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had, or maybe you start to askyourself lots of questions,
because you're feeling a littlebit uncertain, whereas
previously you were thinking,Oh, I've got this taken care of.
This will mean no big deal. Andsuddenly you start to as it gets
closer, feel a little bituncomfortable, feel a little
less secure, feel more and moreuncertain about things. You
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might start to feel a little bitwobbly about a direction that
you have been taking. So thismay be something that you have
already instituted, a decisionthat you've already made, and
that can start to bring up someself doubt and some confusion
and some uncertainty, and maybebring things to halt if you feel
like you're not fully resolvedor not fully committed to that
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direction that you had alreadystarted to institute. So you're
going to start to see theselittle like things popping up,
okay, here and there, and thepre shadows purpose is really
just giving you a hint at thisis where we're transforming.
This is where we are making thebig change. Now, the pre shadow
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period and the MercuryRetrograde period are always
here to help us and to serve us,as we learned in Episode 30. You
can think of it in a way, like ajob review that you get about
once a quarter, so where you'rereflecting on your mission, the
things that you are doing tobring that energy forward and
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how you are accomplishing it, ifthat is working for you, gives
you a chance to really reviewand reflect and process so that
you can continue your journey,moving forward in a way that's
really in alignment. If we didnot have that review process, we
could be wasting our energy. Wecould be moving in directions
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that aren't taking us in a waythat feels right, truly for us,
and if we don't slow down, if wedon't pause, we don't really
have the chance to do that innerwork to check in and make sure
that our evolving consciousnessis still keeping up with the
things that we are institutingbecause we're constantly
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growing, we need this constantreview process to help us revise
and check back in from our Newstates of consciousness as we
continue our growth, especiallyif you have been in a really
strong spiritual growth patternover the last few years, you may
have noticed this, how valuablethis time can be for you. So
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when this period comes up, it'sgoing to start revealing the
themes of the retrograde periodfor you. It's a little bit like
a subtle sample. It makes methink a little bit about that
feeling that you get when youare getting in to a roller
coaster. And then the very, verybeginning, the cars start moving
up the track, going up the steephill, just really slowly, it's
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pulling you up and up and up andup and up. And then you stop for
just a minute before. Where itreally lets loose, and then
you're like, full steam aheadand you're going forward. So
that is what is happening here.
So as you enter that pre shadowperiod, you want to be paying
attention. You want to see whatis coming up around you and also
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within you. Because these arethe hints. A lot of times,
people's focus is on what'soutwardly happening in their
lives, in the MercuryRetrograde, until they're really
learn how to use that energy,and not only are they focusing
on what's happening in theirexternal manifestations, but
really start to look at what isbeing inspired inside of
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themselves, and what does thatmean for their journey forward?
The beautiful thing is that thelight of healing and truth is
entering your life in theseareas that are popping up, and
this is where you're going toexperience some transformation
during the retrograde perioditself. So during the pre shadow
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period, there's some things thatyou can ask yourself to really
get some hints and some cluesabout what might be coming up
for you. So you want to thinkabout what patterns or themes
are showing up again and again.
Are you feeling the call, or areyou being asked to slow down and
revisit something. So what keepscoming back up for you, even if
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it's something that you thoughtyou had resolved or you had
completed, if you start to feelthat uncertainty come up, that
self doubt coming up, that maybe something that is really
calling for you to revisit sothat you can get more in
alignment. Something's out ofalignment there. Where are you
feeling doubt and uncertainty ingeneral? Is there an area of
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your life you just begin tonotice that you're feeling a
little bit more uncomfortable orreactive in your life? Start to
look at that. What conversationskeep circling back? So what
questions are other peopleasking you or what emails are
people sending you right now?
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What are some of the themes thatyou are seeing in your
friendship conversations, butalso in just the other
conversations that are happeningaround you? What are influential
people in your life talking toyou about something that kind of
sticks with you? So maybe youheard a podcast, or maybe you,
like, watched a YouTube video,and something really stuck out
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for you in that and for whateverreason, you haven't been able to
fully let go of it, you're justprocessing it, or feel like I've
only scratched the surface ofthis, something deeper is
happening here that can bereally, really helpful, because
it's a wonderful thing for youto explore during the Mercury
Retrograde itself is what feelsincomplete? Where can you get
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more knowledge, moreinformation, more understanding?
This is a great time to get moreclarity around that. And then
the last question, I would say,is, what's feeling uncomfortable
or restrictive in your liferight now, that can be important
insight about where you need tobreak free, whether that's
breaking free mentally, whereyou're expanding your mind,
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expanding some of yourdefinitions, letting go of
limiting beliefs, or whether itis in some way, creating more
concrete steps towards freedomin your life. So asking yourself
some of those questions helpsyou to highlight or understand
what may be coming up for you inthis period. Now, because this
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is a two week process, the preshadow period, you're going to
start to see some of that comingup in the very first week of the
pre shadow period, but youshould be able to identify more
or answer more of thesequestions as you move into the
beginning of the second week,because all of that information
at this point is being laid outfor you already. It's not going
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to be a surprise. The areas thatyou're feeling uncomfortable,
where you're having more selfdoubt, where you are finding
yourself kind of circling backbecause it feels unresolved,
you're starting to noticecertain themes those will be
coming up within that very firstweek. So you don't need to have
gone all the way through thewhole pre shadow period in order
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to be able to answer thesequestions by week one, you ought
to be pretty deep in thatinformation. And because mercury
has a lot to do withcommunication, how we are
communicating in the world, thisis connected strongly with our
throat chakra. It's also ourthroat chakra is very connected
as well with how we arecommunicating and living
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authentically in the world, soour outsides matching our
insides. So what we truly holdimportant in our values? Are we
living that and expressing that,or are we compromising that in
some way, or are we living in away that's ex. Affected, because
we just haven't taken that bigleap or taken the big risk so
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that we could live truly in ourhighest level of alignment. So
thinking about what kind ofthings also are coming up around
your feelings of impostersyndrome, is there a sense of
I'm being inauthentic in someway, in the values and how I'm
expressing those outwardly inthe world. So maybe you are
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working in a high poweredposition, a high powered job,
but inwardly, you keep watchingall these YouTube videos about
tiny house living or thehomestead or the animal rescue
that you've always wanted tostart and you just keep finding
yourself, Oh, wow. This would bewonderful. This would be great.
But every day you get up anyway,and you go to work and go do the
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thing that is expected of you,or that you feel like has a
stronger sense of security. Thatwould be an example of what I'm
talking about, where our insidesaren't necessarily matching our
outsides. So think about whatmay be left unsaid in
relationships or things that youneed to communicate out in the
world. You're probably going todo that either intentionally or
in a messy way during Mercuryretrograde. So sometimes it just
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kind of comes out during thisperiod. And you know, that is
what it is we have to deal withthe consequences of that when
that happens, and also, whereare we needing to align
ourselves energetically andauthentically? So one thing that
you can do if you really want totap into your intuition is just
start with a little bit of ameditation prompt. You can light
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a candle, just create a littlebit of a sacred atmosphere. So
you know, like, Okay, I'm divingwithin. I'm going within for the
answers here and ask yourself tomeditate on, what is mercury
trying to help me revisit orrealign?
And just sit with that question.
Like, allow it to be in yourheart. Allow your mind to take a
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back seat, because the mind willtry and jump in and answer that
be like, oh, you know what? Iknow your problem. Let me tell
you what your problem is. Youknow, this, this and this, and
this and this. You're not greatat this, or you haven't done
this very well. Blah, blah,blah. Our mind can be very
critical and loves to jump onthe bandwagon about what we need
to fix. You know, what we needto realign? You know, it can
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take over that and turn thatinto a very disempowering sort
of question. So, you know, ifyou get a disempowering answer
that you know that's coming fromyour critical mind and not from
your true spirit and from themessages that you're receiving.
So really holding it in yourheart, what is mercury trying to
help me revisit or realign, andthen pay attention to the things
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that do come forward for you,whether that is images that you
might see or flashes, maybe youjust have a feeling or an
impression that comes back.
Maybe use your mind starts towander to an area of life, and
as you kind of bring yourselfback, you realize that that area
of life seems to be holding somepower for you, or some direction
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for you. And also, of course, ifyou're having a reading sometime
around the Mercury Retrogradeperiod, definitely ask, What do
I need to be aware of duringthis pre shadow period, or
during the Mercury Retrogradeitself? Because this can really
give you some big insight again,because the more that we have
awareness, the more we can beintentional, the more that we
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can open ourselves to truetransformation and not resist
and not be in the fear when weknow that the circumstances
within and outside of ourselvesare helping us and bringing us
to greater growth. We're not asresistant, we're not as scared
of it. I mean, sure we're alwaysgoing to be fearful of change,
because fear really guards thedoor of transformation. In order
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for us to be able to moveforward, we have to resolve
ourselves and find peace withthe fear that is guarding the
door to that transformationitself. So that's going to be
there, but we can move throughthat more easily when we know
that this change is truly comingfrom the higher realms that are
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helping us, helping us to grow.
Now you also want to considerhow you can help yourself to
prepare for the full retrogradeduring the pre shadow period. So
we know things are a little bitwobbly right now, but they're
about to really, really slowdown into a big halt once it
officially stations retrograde.
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So this is an important time toreally, like, slow down in your
communication, double check yourmessages, reread things, if
something has like a highemotional content to it, reread
it, process it, maybe giveyourself permission to respond
slowly and more intentionally.
So maybe you're used toresponding to people really
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quickly, shooting an email backto them, but giving yourself the
gift. Gift of time to process,especially if something is a
little bit heavier emotionally,and you want to really be
present with what it is thatthey've brought forward for you,
knowing that you might bemissing a few things because
we're in this kind of cloudierperiod, a Mercury Retrograde,
where we're really withdrawn andwe're really kind of doing the
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within type of work. It takes alittle bit more muscle, if you
will, brain muscle to process,to receive and to understand
some of the things that arebeing shared. So slow down. It's
okay if you get back to thatemail the next day, versus
immediately feeling the need torespond, you will probably
respond much more purposefully,intentionally and meaningfully
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to that person. And honestly,people would much rather feel
truly heard than they would youjust rush into a response and be
very intentional with yourwords. Sometimes I'll reread
something, especially if I knowif there's an emotional charge
to something, I'll reread it afew times, kind of like
listening through differentfilters to just make sure that
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I'm communicating my heart in asituation versus communicating
too much with my head in yourpreparations. Also think about
doing a few extra things likerunning backup on your computer.
We know that technical problemsreally come up around Mercury
Retrograde, because mercury isvery responsible for those types
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of advancements. So backing upyour files, backing up your
computer, backing up your phone,back up your contacts, back up
your photos and your videos thatyou have on your phone that are
special to you, you just neverknow when that's going in the
water or something happens toit, so be extra careful about
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doing backup during this time,even if you're working on
presentations and so forth, justmaybe halfway through, make sure
you're always saving it more sothan you would normally, because
you'll find that that willusually save you when something
crashes or something happens andyou don't want to have to start
all over. So doing behavioralmodifications like that can be
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very helpful clarify your travelor contracts. So make sure that
you're reading through the fineprint that you're double
checking your rental car, you'redouble checking the airport and
your timing and making sure thatyou have all of the things that
you need laid out and everythingis nice and confirmed, so that
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all of that is very clear foryou, and then revisit anything
that you feel like you've kindof left half finished, if
there's a way for you to wrap itup before Mercury officially
goes retrograde. Get it done.
Wrap it up. Make sure that youknow your heart's in it and
you're doing what needs to bedone, right. But if you can wrap
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it up before this time, thatgives you a lot of extra energy
to really focus on the thingsthat are coming up during this
period. If you are resolvingsome of the extras and the half
finished stuff, you can bereally present with what is
trying to come through. So justthink of the pre shadow period
as it's time to get your housein order. Things are happening.
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They're happening, you know,literally, they're happening.
Energetically, they are hintingat what is coming forward for
you in this healing andtransformation during the
Mercury Retrograde, and our jobis to become more open to that,
recognizing with curiosity.
Okay, I'm seeing these patterns.
I'm seeing these themes. Let meexplore that actively and
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intentionally as we move throughthis period, and just remember
that the universe isn't out toget you, that Mercury retrograde
and its pre shadow is just achance to realign, to re
evaluate, to fully open up yourawareness outside of our normal
kind of limited just movingforward perspective, one thing
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you can do knowing that thisisn't the time to, like, push
forward and just make thingshappen. And you know that's not
going to work so well duringMercury Retrograde, it's more
this reflective time we have topause. It's more of a struggle
to get things launched andmoving and so forth. So this is
a time to just process. It's agreat time for you to learn
more. It's a great time for youto revisit the books that you
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have on your shelf that youhaven't had a chance to read or
finish reading. That's a greatthing for you to do during
Mercury retrograde. Build upyour knowledge, build up the
level of growth that you haveavailable to you. Tap into those
resources. That's very helpfulduring the mercury retrograde.
And, of course, setting up, youknow, self care practices can be
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really nice during this period.
So if you know that you're thekind of person that gets a
little anxious and gets a littlestressed, or you get very
overwhelmed during these times,you're just feeling kind of more
jittery because. Sensitive tothe energies that are at play,
or you're feeling a lot of otherpeople's stress. Set yourself up
for some self care, you know,grab a new nail polish that you
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might like, a new favoriteincense that you might love. Set
up a massage session. Sign upfor a new yoga class, that sort
of thing. But set yourself upwith some positive things that
you can look forward to, so thatyou're not like dreading or
feeling stressed and anxiousduring this period, that you're
recognizing that this is atransformative time, and I'm
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also going to do that withalignment to joy and play and
curiosity and sensitivity aswell. Now if you want to stay
connected with these cycles likeMercury Retrograde, the pre
shadow and post shadow periods,the full moons, new moons, and
slow down and get more consciousand aware of the energy all
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around you, I just invite you. Iwould, I would miss this
opportunity to invite you tojoin the inner circle at Sedona
medium.com, forward slash, innercircle, and you can get access
to the energetic calendar forthe year that integrates
directly into your digitalcalendar so that you won't miss
any of the important dates. Tobecome more conscious and more
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aware. It's going to tell youwhen these moon cycles are
shifting and changing. It'sgoing to let you know when
Mercury Retrograde is coming, soit's when you look at your
calendar, you see it there, aswell as helpful information
about how to navigate that andwith intuitive messages, plus
you're going to get exclusiveaccess to the monthly reading,
so you can get spirits adviceabout the energy every month and
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just it's a great opportunity tolive in more harmony With the
energies that are available forus fully in a resourced way.
That's at Sedona medium.com,forward slash inner circle. And
of course, we have other thingsthat are happening. We have the
in person Reiki classes that arecoming up soon. And we also have
the online intuitive heartcircle that is starting in just
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a week or so, I'd love to seeyou there at Sedona medium.com
forward slash intuitive heartcircle. All right, everyone,
thanks so much for joining me. Ilook forward to our time
together next week. Manyblessings. The
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