What is the best advice to handle Mercury Retrograde to receive more positive rather than negative experiences during this time?
How to handle Mercury Retrograde to receive more positive rather than negative experiences during this time
Tricia Gunberg, Intuitive Healer, Wellness Warrior, Author
Well, that’s the rub. When we are unable to rid ourselves of what no longer serves us, along comes the energy of the Universe to help!
This ‘help’ or ‘adjustments, could very well feel negative. (I allowed my teen pregnancy to haunt me and bring me down for 30 years so I have deep understanding.) Know that it is the way we think about what happens not the actual event.
Eckhart teaches us not to resist the present moment, as does Abraham Hicks. I teach people not to resist who they are, to say YES to who they are, in fact.
Mercury in Retro is a time to:
RE-view
RE-wind
RE-lax
RE-consider
RE-work (our relationship with tech specifically)
So, how can YOU receive more positive than negative?
Please take time to do some of the ‘RE’ things listed. Add some Spring cleaning while you’re at it. Tell the Universe you are ready to release all that does not serve you with this symbolic gesture. Do some self-care by slugging off old skin with a dry brush (so relaxing too!) and so on. This is a general ‘reading’ as I know many people ask how to navigate Mercury in Retrograde. I could get more specific if I used your numerology. Your Life Path number, your Personal Year number and the numbers that repeat in your chart are your clues.
Since the retrograde in in Pieces, I have this to say:
Crap-on-a-cracker if emotions are difficult for you. I’m guessing if you are reading this post, it is an issue for you. Mercury is retro in Pieces ….. so it is about emotions! Here is another reason I think it is about emotions:
I saw someone carrying this book yesterday:
The old me would have high-fived 🤚the construction worker carrying the book. Who has time for feelings and emotional crap!? ‘Have a beer 🍺 and get over yourself’, the old me would have said.
The new me chuckled. (I’ve recorded something about it; Using emotions as gears in a car post) I laughed because my life has been so much better since I’ve ALLOWED my emotions to be expressed. This act of allowing transformed into me being able to OBSERVE my emotions. This is more advice drawn from Eckhart, he has the wisdom on this and when I first started listening to him it sounded like the Charlie Browns teacher speaking. I kept listening because I had an inner knowing that told me it was truth. After five years of listening, it makes sense to me now. Pun intended:
I highly recommend listening to the Narrated version by Eckhart himself.
Am I an expert? F*ck no. That baby business I spoke about, well, I placed him for adoption as I was only 16. Long story short, he is back in my life in the most beautiful way.
BUT ….I have not allowed myself to process all the emotions. I know this because his adopted mom gave me videos of him growing up and I can’t watch them without crying hysterically. I can’t get past the first 5 minutes. I still have emotional work to do and the thought of all that pain coming out is overwhelming, no matter how much joy surrounds it now. Having self-loathing and grief wound tightly for 33 years, …..letting loose is difficult.
Thank-you for this question. I will now RE-consider watching my son’s childhood videos so I can allow the grief of giving him up….typing that made tears well up…and ask myself what support I would need in order to do so. The bag of emotional bricks is just so so heavy.
Let this time be a friend to you.
Love and Light,
Tricia