Truth + What You Don't Know About Mercury Retrograde

Hermes is talking to you. Are you listening?

Dear Friends,

I've started this newsletter several times and all of them have resulted in an explainy fact mission. When that happens I recognize that I'm still digesting something that isn't ready to come out of the crucible just yet. So here I am trying to find my feelings about it, get into the way that it connects with me and the synchronicity that I'm experiencing. The problem is that its so time relevant, that I don't want to hold onto it till next week.

You may have seen the post on Instagram yesterday: "Mercury retrograde. In our quick answer society we blame the missteps in our lives on this messenger of the Gods. Mercury always brings a message, and during retrograde we are asked, "What do we think we know that needs to dissolve, so a new knowing can come through?..." The longer version is that during retrogrades, its very difficult to dissolve our old ideas, right now about the Truth (#Sagittarius), especially when we are running from task to task at break neck speeds. So Mercury breaks out the Trickster archetype to hem us up. To slow us down. So that we can't go through the cycle without receiving the message.

This is just the beginning, the dissolving. Then we need to be open for the new download to our operating system. What new idea or Truth is making itself know to you/me/us right now? I'm still swimming in that one. The last piece of a Retrograde cycle continues beyond its going direct again. The integration phase.

This part can be the most challenging, because we first have let go of the old ideas, we now know something new about ourselves and the world, AND we have to integrate it into our reality. That's right folks, we don't just get to know the new thing. We have to do/be the new thing. This is where it gets dicey. We have to make choices with new information. Sometimes its easier to make the same choices as always because those around us won't push back. But when we do that we pay with our spirits, with our cell tissue. The root of disease lives here. Our Shadows live here.

That place where we've been asked to tread over and over again this summer/fall. Its in this place where we can do the most good for ourselves, our family, and the world. I've stopped thinking of it as punishment and let my joy of this cycle start to be expressed. I've always been fascinated by the darkness. I revel and feel most alive when things are challenging. I believe I was born to for the darkness, knowing I can handle whatever may come. I'm invigorated by the idea of fighting for the light in the dark. (When I was younger I fancied jobs like Exorcist, before I realized girls couldn't be priests--so being trained was going to be a problem.)

I know. How much more will I have to do? Why me? All of the questions and the resounding tiredness of all the "work." Only its not work. Its just the way. The truth, if you will, that change really is the only constant. Our tiredness comes from resistance. From fighting against it, or fighting those who are close to make them understand or come along. But we can just stop resisting. Instead of thinking of all the crazy upheaval that might come from our new understandings, we can just understand. We can observe. And make those small choices one at a time. Will things change? Yes. But probably not at the rocket speed that we imagine. Probably not at the life wrecking level that we anticipate. And yet, they might.

Ah, but what a life we will have.
With love,
Ginger {aka Rachel Lazarus}
December 8, 2017, Cult of Gemini Newsletter