By Alex Maravillas

Arts & Entertainment Assistant

As an astrologer, retrograde is paramount. From Jan. 21 through Feb. 11, Mercury undergoes retrograde.

From Jan. 21 all the way to Feb. 11, Mercury is going backwards. This denotes that Mercury is going to stay in the same sign in Aquarius and it indicates an impeccable time to be studying the stars. During retrograde, the mind is no longer fixating on the structure of going in order, especially during the transition into the new year. Things may go haywire. It can feel like you are not in sync with your thought processes.It doesn’t mean that things are chaotic. It just indicates that it is a time to give yourself a chance to get your mind, the business cooperative of all, (the monkey mind that we all auricularly discern about in Buddhism) to shift gears into awareness.

Until we can tell the mind to sit down, the esoteric law is in every spiritual practice. How do I get myself to be able to stay in my observer? This is such a great conversation for Mercury retrograde. When things go wrong, we all get upset. When someone rear-ends your car or when someone decides to cut you off, you enter in attack mode. However, your first replication should be to take a breath when you feel like this.

With Mercury going backwards in Aquarius, you can be in your head and verbalize to yourself, “Does it genuinely matter?” Aquarians are known to think that nothing is as serious as we think.

During this next transit while Mercury enters retrograde, be mindful, and when mental glitches occur, smile and breathe. It is easier for people in their early twenties to authentically watch their internal dialogue in all the patterns of cerebrated processes during Mercury Retrograde. Make a list of the patterns in your thought processes. Whether it is about your income, health, or job, everyone can succomb to these dizzying fixations if not careful.

When the observers on you can optically see your surrounding, all of a sudden you are aware.

Identify your loop according to your natal chart.

Secondly, interrupt it.

Once the pattern is interrupted, you discover yourself.

You all go, “Oh, I’m so emotional”, “Oh, I’m so practical” or “Gee! I’m so captured by enthusiasm.”

You find the juice and frolic in everything.

Or “I’m so verbal!” You can’t keep your mouth shut.

Once you find your fixation, use your vigilance as an off button.

Mercury retrograde, from Jan. 21 to Feb. 11 and while it is going rearwards, focus on the phrenic conception process that got you fixated.

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