The Mercury Retrograde Impact on Your Lightworker Mission
Let’s start with the most important part!
Mercury is the planet of communication.
Any time there’s something involving Mercury (retrograde), this means that you’re likely to experience minor interruptions or major delays regarding information exchange and quite literally your everyday conversations. On the plus side, you may also receive sudden breakthroughs and unexpected invitations!
Other disruptions you may experience include:
technological glitches
cancelled travel plans
delays in email replies (this can apply to your response as well)
unexpected endings or cancellations
Next thing to note down and this one is pretty important, too.
Check Mercury in your natal birth chart. What Star sign and what house do you see? This will help you work with the ebbs and flows during a Mercury retrograde with more ease, patience and understanding.
Now, let’s talk about the elephant in the room: Mercury retrograde!
A Mercury retrograde automatically brings some of the themes that you are outgrowing, or have already outgrown, to test your readiness for the next chapter of your life.
This is why people from the past show up seemingly out of nowhere to engage in a conversation, to offer missing details regarding a memory or an experience from long time ago, or to invite you to re-start a connection that ended in a previous season of your storyline.
While some returns are Divinely guided, others represent the final test as part of your ascension journey in the School of Life!
Last thing to explore before or during a Mercury retrograde:
Check in what Star sign is the current Mercury retrograde. Then check where that Star sign shows up in your natal birth chart and in what houses it makes an appearance, which would give you further guidance in what areas of your life to expect changes, growth and transformation!
Now that we’ve covered the basics, let’s explore the 3 phases of a Mercury retrograde and what to expect during each one.
The Shadow Period is about introspection and grounding fresh energy without unpacking it yet ↓
Phase 1: The Shadow Period (2 weeks)
Many people refer to the two weeks before a Mercury retrograde starts as the Pre-Shadow Period, but as someone who’s currently experiencing it — this phase feels more like the Shadow Period itself, because all clarity has been lost and not much is happening.
This period feels like a standstill.
It’s the incubation phase.
You are once again birthing the next version of yourself!
You need time to process all the changes you’ve gone through in the recent weeks, months and years.
Yes, some Mercury retrogrades feel more powerful than others, depending on the amount of work you’ve done (both inner and in the material world) and the milestones you’ve been able to accomplish.
The bigger the quantum jump you’re about to experience, the bigger the standstill you’re going to feel!
During this phase it’s important to honour the sacred pause and allow for the new beginnings to unfold naturally.
Don’t panic!
Lack of clarity from time to time is not a bad thing. It’s actually the window of opportunity for you to reflect on your growth and your current priorities — or even disconnect entirely from your workload and spend some extra time in nature and being playful — so that you are fully aligned with the now version of yourself.
Here are some questions to explore:
What big milestones have you achieved in the last 3–5 years? Who have you become as a result of them? (e.g. author, business owner, parent, marathon runner)
What big shifts have you experienced in the last 3–5 years? What beliefs have permanently changed within your operational system? (e.g. loss of a loved one, breakup, job loss, career change, move abroad, sobriety)
Who are the people that joined or left your life in the last 3–5 years? In what ways has your inner circle or soul tribe changed? (e.g. spiritual community, professional network, friends of your partner)
The Rewind Period is about reviewing your milestones and your priorities ahead ↓
Phase 2: The Rewind Period (3 weeks)
During the actual Mercury retrograde, a period that lasts about 3 weeks, you may experience what looks, feels and sounds like the Spotify Rewind effect!
The Universe will give you a breakdown of everything and everyone you got involved with (had soul contracts to complete) in the last few seasons of your life, especially if there is some unfinished business.
You will remember all the big, bright ideas that once arrived as unexpected breakthroughs and you will have the chance to choose if you want to keep working on some of them during the next chapter of your life.
You will be presented with new options to choose from, whether it relates to your social, romantic or professional life, in order to set the course for the next phase of your own journey in direct co-creation with your Higher Self and your Spirit Team.
You will have the chance to send your feedback directly to your Higher Self and finally declare that you are done with certain people, life lessons and chapters!
But first — you must confront those same people, life lessons and chapters one last time in order for your subconscious mind to give the signal to your conscious mind that you are ready for the next learning phase.
The Rewind Period of the Mercury retrograde is where communication, clarity and movement is resumed, but still limited to what is helping you re-evaluate your current trajectory, so you can make the final necessary adjustments before you can officially depart for the next adventure.
This is why you may run into old friends or colleagues, revisit memories that haven’t appeared in your thought patters for a while, or even receive invitations that speak to an older version of yourself.
After all, when you receive your Spotify Rewind playlist, you get to re-play some of the tunes that once brought you joy and learn more about your own behaviour as a consumer.
You may notice that you’re no longer resonating with what used to make you happy and motivated — and that will show you how much you’ve grown as a result of your commitment to explore what makes you excited to be alive and of service to humanity with your gifts and skills.
Let the data guide you into bettering your skills as a creator and help you become more conscious of your own choices, so you can understand what you need and want in the next chapter of your self-growth journey!
The Rewind Period is about integrating the changes, saying YES with clarity and preparing for action ↓
Phase 3: The Renewal Period (2 weeks)
In the final phase of a Mercury retrograde, it’s time to release and receive:
release what is no longer in alignment with your growth
receive what is going to help you in your next activations
This phase begins as soon as the active Mercury retrograde is completed in order to allow for the changes to integrate and for any transformations to officially take place in your life.
While this period is known as the Post-Shadow Period, it is often a lot less charged — or vague — compared to the two weeks that precede the Mercury retrograde.
During this phase you already know the cards that you’ve been dealt and you kind of have a clue about the cards of the other players (symbolically speaking), so that you can move with increased clarity and appreciate the journey without as much pressure to get to the finish line, because you now know…
The next phase of the journey hasn’t even started yet!
The 7 weeks that surround a Mercury retrograde may feel like you’re making endless loops on one of the Formula 1 circuits, but in reality all that it’s happening is that you’re hearing the commentary that is buzzing all around the world in the weeks leading up to the actual races.
Yes, the race hasn’t even started.
You’re stuck in the pit lane.
I know you’re ready to charge ahead at full speed, but let this thought sink in for a moment…
You’re not racing through the circuit of life alone!
During a Mercury retrograde shifts are happening both at an individual and a collective level, so that it can be determined what energetic level each of us has reached during our own self-actualisation journey, before we are placed in the right race or team again, in order to successfully continue our shared evolution on Earth.
If you’ve been feeling alienated from your peers, I have good news for you: you’re moving to a new environment with brand new team members that will help you channel more of your potential and support you in the next phase of your personal and professional growth.
Has your nervous system been on fire during the Mercury retrograde? ↓
Your Lightworker Mission
When I was younger, and not fully aligned with my Lighworker mission, I didn’t really feel the Mercury retrograde shifts.
But now…
I don’t need anyone to give me astrological updates to sense the changes at the level of my nervous system as soon as they begin!
Old unfinished projects are suddenly highlighted to me.
New invitations unexpectedly lose its significance until I have clarity.
Even the Tarot cards speak louder than usual — yet I am guided not to share any collective readings, but instead to focus my psychic energy towards a complete surrender inwards, so that I can be guided from within.
In other words, the more you align with your soul purpose and Lightworker mission, the more you will feel the energetic shifts that Mercury retrograde brings, which will allow you to strengthen your intuitive gifts further!
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