Latest / Cozy with the Cosmos with Astrologer Sarah Paasch / Mercury in Astrology: The Full Cycle, Retrogrades & A Hellenistic Timing Technique to Use
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- 0:00Hello, welcome back to our astrology podcast where we light
- 0:03our candles, we cozy up, and we talk all things Cosmos.
- 0:06I'm your host, astrologer and coach, Sarah Posh, and today on
- 0:09Cozy with the Cosmos, we are going to be doing a focus topic
- 0:12episode on the cycle of Mercury and the Sun.
- 0:15I'm going to share in this episode some special Astro facts
- 0:18that you might not already know about Mercury and Mercury
- 0:21retrograde cycles. I'm also going to explain how
- 0:23not all Mercury retrogrades are experienced the same every
- 0:26single year for us and why that is and how you can figure that
- 0:29out for yourself. And then we will cover the full
- 0:32Mercury cycle. I'm going to include some
- 0:34Hellenistic astrology definitions and live chart
- 0:37demonstrations. As we go through this cycle, I'm
- 0:39going to be breaking down what might appear complex at first
- 0:42into something that is easy to understand and also maybe soften
- 0:46our resistance to living through the Mercury retrogrades.
- 0:50And then finally, at the end of this episode, I'm going to leave
- 0:53you with some ways to reflect and personalize all of the
- 0:56information in today's focus topic episode so that you can
- 0:59further your research and understanding of both your Natal
- 1:02Mercury placement as well as starting or continuing to
- 1:05develop any transit tracking practices.
- 1:08So definitely cozy up. You might want to save this
- 1:11episode and return to it. It's going to have a lot of just
- 1:14really juicy, rich information. And so on that note, just
- 1:17knowing you don't have to absorb all of this and one sitting, you
- 1:21can settle in and just take in this episode or take notes if
- 1:25your Natal Mercury so pleases. Before we jump in, just a couple
- 1:29mentions of the things we've got going on with Kozu at the Cosmos
- 1:32in the episode description underneath this video, you will
- 1:35find the link to my one-on-one astrology consultations as well
- 1:38as the free Spotify playlist. It is our community
- 1:41collaborative playlist that comes out custom every lunar
- 1:45cycle at the time of the new moon, really a way to dance and
- 1:48listen and feel through the energies of that entire lunar
- 1:50cycle. And also it's a community
- 1:53collaboration. We have songs that have been
- 1:55added as these transits unfold and we live through them
- 1:58together. And there's also a few
- 1:59different, different digital products.
- 2:00We've got a Saturn and Aries digital workshop.
- 2:03It's over 2 hours. It is packed with so much rich
- 2:06information. It is still very applicable and
- 2:08very useful for the current Saturn and Aries transit that we
- 2:11are all very much living through.
- 2:13And there will also be a link for a video that you can
- 2:15reference to show a little bit more of a visual of some of the
- 2:18things that we're going to cover in today's episode and all
- 2:21things in the cycles of Mercury and the Sun.
- 2:24If you haven't already. It really helps the channel so
- 2:26much if you can hit that like button on this video.
- 2:28Also, subscribing to the channel really helps the channel to
- 2:30continue to grow. And if you'd like, maybe turn
- 2:33those notifications on so that he will be notified as soon as
- 2:35any new videos come out. Before I jump into all these fun
- 2:38things about cycle with the Sun, I want to just give a brief
- 2:41overview of some just major keywords that we might use or
- 2:45think of when we're thinking about Mercury or working with
- 2:48Mercury transits or even looking at Mercury in our Natal chart.
- 2:51So Mercury in traditional astrology has always been known
- 2:53to do with communication, the exchange of information, but
- 2:57also the back and forth, the trade, the exchange range of
- 3:00goods of coins. Mercury was always associated
- 3:03with the coins, with the markets.
- 3:05And Mercury is also known as the one that is able to go both to
- 3:09the underworld and up to the upper world.
- 3:11The great messenger of the God was Hermes.
- 3:13So just as much as Mercury wants to bring us new information and
- 3:17new understanding, Mercury also desires to travel into the
- 3:21depths, into some of those deeper X of the shadowy
- 3:25material, the things that live in the subconscious and the
- 3:28underworld. I also think Mercury has much to
- 3:30do with games and resourcefulness.
- 3:32Mercury is a planet of innovation, of ideas.
- 3:35Right now we have this Uranus and Gemini transit that's
- 3:38happening collectively that is ruled by Mercury, and we can see
- 3:42these leaps in human consciousness and technology in
- 3:46bringing ideas into fruition, almost finding new ways or
- 3:49shortcuts to do so. AI is a big part of this Uranus
- 3:53and Gemini transit, as we all very much know.
- 3:56And then also Mercury has to do with multiples, with Sibley,
- 4:00with friends as part of that exchange, Mercury theory, it's
- 4:04getting into conversations, it's getting into communities, it's
- 4:06our social interactions and that exchange of thoughts, ideas,
- 4:10hopefully maybe leading to new roadways, new possibilities or
- 4:15new understanding. So that's kind of a starting
- 4:18point for you to have for the things to think about when
- 4:20you're thinking about Mercury. Also to remember and remind you
- 4:22that Mercury rules the signs Gemini and Virgo.
- 4:26Mercury also takes its exaltation in Virgo, which means
- 4:29that Mercury is in detriment or in its place of most difficulty.
- 4:33And the signs of Sagittarius and Pisces.
- 4:36Don't worry, you don't have to know any of that or memorize any
- 4:39of that for today's focus topic episode.
- 4:41I just want to make sure to do Mercury justice and make sure to
- 4:44deliver some of the most important key facts about
- 4:47Mercury. Otherwise, I think we're ready.
- 4:49We're going to dive in because we've got a lot of ground to
- 4:51cover and we are calling on Mercury Hermes to come in
- 4:55channeling our most concise and clear communication of all of
- 4:59these things that we're going to packed together.
- 5:00So I'm going to start with what I think is kind of the more fun
- 5:04special facts about Mercury and Mercury cycles.
- 5:07Each year Mercury has on average 3, sometimes 4 retrograde
- 5:11cycles, and each of these retrograde lasts around 3 weeks.
- 5:15Mercury retrogrades also occur every year in the same elemental
- 5:19trigon. And this is really fun to know
- 5:22and to consider because in Hellenistic astrology we use
- 5:25holsign houses and each elemental trigon maps directly
- 5:29onto a specific house triad. So the three houses that are all
- 5:33connected to the similar genre of life all working together in
- 5:37your chart, These are getting revisited, restructured, and
- 5:40updated all year long. And Mercury typically repeats
- 5:44these cycles in this specific elemental trigon about every
- 5:47seven years. And 2026 is a water year, with
- 5:52Mercury's retrogrades occurring in Pisces, Cancer, and Scorpio
- 5:55consecutively. The water through line on the
- 5:58surface for these Mercury retrogrades means that we keep
- 6:00returning all year to these water themes of what we feel,
- 6:04what we remember, what nourishes our emotional needs and what
- 6:09lives below the surface. So if you look to your Natal
- 6:12chart using this whole sign Hellenistic astrology house
- 6:15system, then you're going to look for where Cancer, Scorpio
- 6:18and Pisces. What houses do these signs rule?
- 6:21What houses do these signs fall in?
- 6:23Maybe hit pause on this video so you have a chance to look that
- 6:26up and then check out some of the things listed on this screen
- 6:29that are associated with those houses.
- 6:31And know that in 2026, if you're watching this video live in the
- 6:35year that it's coming out, then you might start to notice and
- 6:38actually really relate to how Mercury's retrogrades are really
- 6:42pulling your attention and focus into these specific areas of
- 6:45life. And like I said, these cycles
- 6:47happen on average every 7 years. So the last time that Mercury
- 6:50was in this same territory in your chart, it was a little bit
- 6:54of a crossover between 2019 and 2020.
- 6:57So that might be another fun way to retro respectively review and
- 7:01look back and kind of study how these current set of Mercury
- 7:05retrogrades impact you personally.
- 7:07And the other fun fact is that not all Mercury retrogrades are
- 7:10experienced the same for us every single year.
- 7:12So if you've never heard of the timing technique called
- 7:15perfections, this is a technique that incorporates your solar
- 7:19return. So your birthday every year and
- 7:21whatever age that you turn on that birthday, a specific house
- 7:24in your chart is activated. You can go ahead and see that
- 7:26chart on the screen here. Maybe find your age.
- 7:29You don't have to memorize is this chart, but depending on
- 7:31what sign is on the cusp of that house on that birthday and what
- 7:35planet rules that sign, that's going to imply a new what we
- 7:38call Time Lord. And really we can think of it as
- 7:41the planet that has the driver's seat, the planet that is picking
- 7:44the music that has the microphone that is guiding our
- 7:47decisions and our way through some of the major events that
- 7:50unfold in that year ahead. And when we are in either a
- 7:53Gemini or Virgo perfected year, so Mercury becomes our perfected
- 7:57Time Lord. Mercury retrograde cycles are
- 8:00actually known to be some of the most important and active times
- 8:03of that year, where normally as astrologers, we're trying to
- 8:06give you a little bit of heed and caution during your Mercury
- 8:09retrograde to not force anything into motion, maybe wait on
- 8:13signing some important contracts or making really important
- 8:16decisions. When you're in a perfected year
- 8:18where Mercury is your Time Lord, that's actually a great time.
- 8:21And sometimes when you look back, you realize those were
- 8:24some of the most important and pivotal turning points for life
- 8:27and events unfolding, pushing you forward into the plot line
- 8:31of your life. So another fun thing to kind of
- 8:33go back, check out or maybe check out if you're in a current
- 8:36Gemini or Virgo perfected year, making this year's Mercury
- 8:39retrogrades a different flavor, a different style, and a
- 8:42different experience of your typical retrograde program.
- 8:47Or maybe you already knew you're an Astro nerd like me.
- 8:50I'd love to hear in the comments, drop in the comments
- 8:52and tell me if you recognize any of these things or these themes
- 8:56showing up within these Mercury cycles with these repetitions of
- 8:59the elemental trigons being activated in your chart.
- 9:02Or if you're in one of those Gemini and Virgo perfected years
- 9:05and Mercury is your Time Lord, Did you notice that the March
- 9:09Pisces Mercury retrograde was maybe a little different and a
- 9:12little bit more proactive than other years?
- 9:15Drop that comment below as well as any questions or
- 9:18clarification that you might need.
- 9:20And now we're going to get into the nitty gritty, some of the
- 9:22technical stuff. And remember, this can seem
- 9:25really complex at first, but I want to go ahead and just set
- 9:29this up by sharing a little Astro secret.
- 9:32So when we track any planet's cycle in relationship to the
- 9:36sun, each planet symbolically has a cycle similar to that of
- 9:40the moon and the sun, the lunar phases and the lunar cycle.
- 9:43So if you know what a new moon is, you know what a full moon
- 9:47is. You know that the moon is waxing
- 9:49as it's moving from a new moon into full moon and that it's
- 9:52waning or shedding its light, returning to darkness after that
- 9:56full moon, moving towards that next new moon.
- 9:58If you have any awareness that symbolism and any of the
- 10:01archetypal implications of what it might mean, then you are set
- 10:05up for success. You can absolutely, after this
- 10:08episode, take away this information and apply it to the
- 10:10cycles of Mercury and Mercury cycles.
- 10:13So this is something I will return to and hopefully make it
- 10:16super clear and super digestible by the end of the episode.
- 10:19We're going to start by just defining what is a synodic
- 10:23cycle. So a synodic cycle is basically
- 10:26tracking any of the planet's relationship to the sun as seen
- 10:29from Earth. The word synodic comes from the
- 10:32Greek Synod, which translates to meeting.
- 10:35So every phase that we're going to go through is actually giving
- 10:38us an understanding of where Mercury is in that relationship
- 10:42to its meeting with the sun. Is it moving towards the sun or
- 10:45away from the sun? Is it a new moon new cycle
- 10:48meeting? Is it something that's growing?
- 10:51Maybe it's something that's coming to some sort of climax or
- 10:53fruition point, or maybe it's coming into that phase of
- 10:57starting to refine, let go and bring into to completion.
- 11:01So the easiest way to track the synodic cycle of Mercury in the
- 11:04sun is to apply the same waxing and waning symbolism that's
- 11:08already used for tracking the cycles of the moon.
- 11:11Mercury has its own new moon. It has a first quarter phase, a
- 11:15full moon phase, a last quarter phase.
- 11:17And each phase, just like the lunar phases, has a different
- 11:21interpretive layer of corresponding action or inaction
- 11:25of growth or decay and just overall corresponding energy of
- 11:29that phase of the cycle. So I just want to name that
- 11:32there is some debate out there in the Astro world, cycle
- 11:36actually begins. However, in my own personal
- 11:39experience, lived experience in tracking the transits and
- 11:41studying the astrology, I personally relate to the idea
- 11:44that Mercury actually begins its cycle at the inferior
- 11:47conjunction with the Sun. So this means that Mercury's
- 11:50cenotic cycle, or the New Moon for Mercury is happening during
- 11:54Mercury's retrograde. The inferior conjunction is the
- 11:56place in the cycle where Mercury is the closest to Earth, and it
- 12:00marks this halfway point in every retrograde cycle during
- 12:04this new moon. We call this a kazimi.
- 12:06We're sitting in the heart of the sun.
- 12:08This is a moment where Mercury has an opportunity to have the
- 12:13king of the sun as their sole audience.
- 12:16So Mercury is receiving the light, the energy, and the
- 12:19wisdom or clarity from the heart of the sun during that
- 12:22conjunction. And while that first half of the
- 12:25Mercury retrograde cycle might feel like it's kind of confusing
- 12:29because it's reformatting, it's reframing something that's lived
- 12:33through an entire Mercury cycle, it's coming to an end.
- 12:36We have to kind of break things down at that point in order to
- 12:40fertilize and nourish the soil of this new cycle that's about
- 12:43to begin. The second-half of the
- 12:44retrograde, after the Kazemi, is actually already planting seeds
- 12:48for the future. And similar to the moon, it's
- 12:51happening in that dark, fertile space underground, outside of
- 12:55our conscious conceptual awareness.
- 12:57And so it's natural to still feel like we don't have a full
- 13:01grasp or understanding of what that new cycle is actually about
- 13:04related to all of our Mercury themes.
- 13:06But hopefully after learning this on today's episode, you can
- 13:09remember this when you're feeling that confusion, Can you
- 13:12trust that there's something being seated in that dark,
- 13:15fertile space? And so while, yes, it's very
- 13:18real, we all sometimes feel Mercury retrogrades as really
- 13:22frustrating times where technology is glitching, we're
- 13:26having delays in travel and there's miscommunications,
- 13:30misunderstandings, there is a confusion or a fog in our
- 13:33brains, our logical ways of thinking.
- 13:35It might be a helpful way to consider or conceptualize the
- 13:39idea that Mercury needs us to power down, to close some tabs,
- 13:44to step away, slow down so that we can actually begin to
- 13:48download, upload, whatever it is, the software updates of our
- 13:54own human systems. And the more that we're willing
- 13:57to trust this process of things slowing down, being delayed,
- 14:01maybe falling apart or becoming less punctuated, shall we say,
- 14:05this all is actually playing into this idea of creating space
- 14:09for that new cycle to be seated, that software update to be
- 14:13processed. Sometimes we have to unlearn
- 14:15something in order for that new information to come in.
- 14:18Sometimes we have to be delayed or be forced to take and travel
- 14:22in new directions or new pathways to get to our
- 14:26destinations in order to simply see that there was more than one
- 14:29way of available to us the entire time.
- 14:31The more we're willing to live with the questions to lean into
- 14:35this time of Mercury cycle that is so fertile for something new
- 14:39to be seated to be started, the more we're going to be available
- 14:44vessels and open minds to receive these updates and these
- 14:48new maybe expansive understandings.
- 14:51I hope that helps a little bit with some of those unavoidable.
- 14:54Hopefully we learn to laugh at them.
- 14:56Mercury retrograde Fiasco's, and I'm going to go ahead and show
- 14:59you. We're going to pull up this
- 15:00chart screen. All right.
- 15:02So we're going to actually just use the most recent Mercury
- 15:05retrograde cycle as our starting point for tracking this full
- 15:08Mercury synodic cycle. So we're looking back to March
- 15:112026 when we had Mercury retrograde in Pisces.
- 15:14And at this point, we can see that Mercury is red, which means
- 15:17retrograde. So it's traveling what appears
- 15:19to be backwards, moving towards the sun in Pisces.
- 15:21And we move this forward just a couple of days.
- 15:23We're going to see that these planets switch positions, which
- 15:26means that on March 7th, 2026, we add our official meeting or
- 15:31Kazimi between Mercury retrograde and the Sun.
- 15:34And then we'll continue to move forward just day by day.
- 15:37You can see that I'm starting to separate, gaining some distance
- 15:40from the sun at this point, Mercury is actually still
- 15:43invisible. It's something that we call
- 15:45combust in astrology techno terms.
- 15:49And so I'm going to actually just keep moving forward with
- 15:51this chart until we get to March 18th.
- 15:54And at this point on March 18th, Mercury has gotten at least 15
- 15:59to 20 degrees away from the sun. We know that there is enough
- 16:02distance between the Sun and Mercury that's starting around
- 16:05this time. If we were to look up in the
- 16:07morning sky before the sun rose, we would see Mercury being
- 16:11reborn and visible in our morning sky.
- 16:14The morning position for planets is sometimes referred to as
- 16:17Oriental. It's usually depicted as a more
- 16:19youthful and also independent flavor of energy for the planets
- 16:23in the morning sky. And so as we reach this phase of
- 16:26emergence into visibility, this is when we actually start to see
- 16:30that light of some of the new beginnings and cycle themes that
- 16:34were seated during that Mercury retrograde Kazimi.
- 16:37We are waxing in new growth, new cycle visibility during this
- 16:41phase. This was also considered in
- 16:43Helenistic astrology to be a very auspicious omen, announcing
- 16:47Mercury's rebirth and intensification of its
- 16:50significations. So this is something interesting
- 16:52to pay attention to if you have something similar to this setup
- 16:55in your Natal chart, because it's almost like Mercury has
- 16:57arrived in your life with this very important announcement that
- 17:02all of the other planets are turning, listening and paying
- 17:04attention to. So now we're moving along.
- 17:07We're waxing into this new phase of the cycle for Mercury in the
- 17:10Sun, and we're going to reach that symbolic waxing quarter
- 17:13phase, that first quarter phase when we get to Mercury's maximum
- 17:17elongation. So maximum elongation basically
- 17:20means that Mercury is getting as far away from the Sun that it
- 17:23possibly can in its cycle. Did you know that Mercury can
- 17:26only get about 28° away from the Sun?
- 17:29So no matter whose chart we're looking at, we are always going
- 17:32to see Mercury in the same sign or in the previous or following
- 17:35sign of the Sun's placement. And symbolically this is the
- 17:39first quarter phase. It is about greater autonomy,
- 17:41function and clarity for all things Mercury.
- 17:44At this point, Mercury has peak visibility as well as peak
- 17:48strength in its morning star position.
- 17:51This is a condition that astrologers considered
- 17:53particularly effective for the Mercury significations,
- 17:56especially sharp cognition and swift communication.
- 18:00So we are putting our ideas into action, into motion during
- 18:03Mercury reaching this maximum elongation phase.
- 18:06And I'm going to go ahead, we're going to come back to this
- 18:08chart. Let's go ahead and get Mercury
- 18:11to that phase. So as we continue to move
- 18:13forward day by day, we're going to see Mercury's continuing to
- 18:16gain speed and distance from that Sun.
- 18:19And by the time that we reach around April 3rd, this is when
- 18:23we're going to have Mercury reaching its official maximum
- 18:26elongation. We're still gaining distance,
- 18:29but it looks like right about here we are actually starting to
- 18:32just stay within the same range and then eventually we're
- 18:35starting to lose a little bit of that distance.
- 18:38Mercury is going to start closing in, which means we are
- 18:40turning the corner towards Mercury's next major phase in
- 18:44its nautic cycle, bringing us into Mercury approaching its
- 18:48direct conjunction with the Sun, also known as a superior
- 18:51conjunction. And this is what we would call
- 18:53Mercury's full Moon phase. At this point, Mercury is
- 18:56positioned on the other side of the Sun, so as far away from
- 19:00Earth as Mercury can possibly get.
- 19:01What's interesting, I think and kind of fascinating about
- 19:04Mercury at the time of the superior conjunction is that
- 19:06it's actually the most bright and brilliant in the sky because
- 19:10of its illumination on that other side of the Sun.
- 19:13However, from our vantage point here on Earth, we can't actually
- 19:16visibly see it. Such a trickster thing of
- 19:19Mercury to do. And in this window, from maximum
- 19:22elongation, building up to the superior conjunction with the
- 19:24Sun, Mercury is said to be in its phase of highest motivation
- 19:28and inspiration for all things Mercury, for writing, for
- 19:31teaching, for speaking. We can feel that sort of build
- 19:34up energy that we also feel maybe similarly to when we're
- 19:37building up to that full moon and every lunar cycle.
- 19:40It's also after this conjunction, this Kazemi with
- 19:43the sun, this audience with the king, that Mercury is going to
- 19:46re emerge as evening star. So remember, as the planets get
- 19:50closer and closer to the sun, they're said to be burnt up by
- 19:53the rays of the sun. And so we can't actually see
- 19:55them. And they have this magical
- 19:57effect where they are reborn on the other cusps.
- 20:00Of our horizon, our sunrise and sunset.
- 20:02So this is the moment during Mercury cycle that we're going
- 20:05to see Mercury transition from that Oriental morning star
- 20:08position into the Occidental or evening star position.
- 20:12And so I'm going to go back to the chart and we will go ahead
- 20:15and just continue to move forward closer and closer.
- 20:19And you'll see that it's actually not going to be until
- 20:21about mid-May 2026 when we're going to see Mercury pass
- 20:26through that conjunction or Conzemi with the Sun, which if
- 20:29you, that was a very special Mercury Kazimi in Taurus new
- 20:34moon. And then we know that Mercury is
- 20:35actually going to be invisible. We're not going to be able to
- 20:38see Mercury. But at this point, as we move
- 20:40forward, we're going to gain enough distance from that Sun
- 20:43moving forward in its cycle until it reaches a point outside
- 20:47of that range of about 15° or so from the sun that's going to re
- 20:50emerge in the night sky. And so coming back to this
- 20:54visual of Mercury re emerging as the evening star, this is like
- 20:58the moon waning in light after that full moon.
- 21:01Instead of Mercury heralding or emerging with the announcement
- 21:05ahead of the sun to follow, Mercury is now the planet that
- 21:09is following the sun that is really having more of this
- 21:12backward looking brother. There's more wisdom, age and
- 21:16maturity in this phase of Mercury.
- 21:18Mercury's already gone through a majority of its full synodic
- 21:22cycle with the sun. And there's also an energy shift
- 21:24from this wanting to launch something, try something new and
- 21:28initiate like we had in that Morningstar Mercury.
- 21:31Now we're getting into more of the assessing, integrating and
- 21:35really refining what was started back in that March conjunction
- 21:38where the cycle started during that retrograde.
- 21:41And then just as Mercury did on the other side of its cycle,
- 21:45Mercury's going to continue to travel forward, travel into
- 21:48greater visibility in our night sky and travel in greater
- 21:51distance from the Sun until it reaches once again its place of
- 21:54maximum elongation. And so this is what we would
- 21:57consider our next critical turning point in the Mercury
- 21:59cycle, correlated and similar to the third quarter lunar phase.
- 22:03Those themes that have to do with deeper digestion of
- 22:06something that's been previously considered or more fully
- 22:09understood through experience and time.
- 22:12There's also bringing forward some memories from the past and
- 22:16really getting prepared, bringing a cycle of
- 22:19understanding to completion and also getting some clarity of
- 22:23what about this cycle or these themes.
- 22:25Now it's reaching this place a starting to understand what it
- 22:29is. It needs to be further
- 22:30developed, what it is that needs to be further researched or
- 22:33revised before it's truly brought into its phase of
- 22:36completion, which we will have when we reach that next Mercury
- 22:39retrograde, Kazemi. So let's go ahead, Let's go back
- 22:42to this chart and we're going to just show it moving forward.
- 22:44OK, so moving this forward, and it's when we get to right around
- 22:49June 5th that we actually reach 3's maximum elongation again.
- 22:53This means at this point, Mercury is going to start to
- 22:55slow down and start to move what appears to be backwards towards
- 22:59the Sun because Mercury can only get so far away, but it still
- 23:02has that maximum distance. So it has that maximum autonomy
- 23:05and clarity and also kind of relief from any outside
- 23:09influence or impact, anything that might fog or distort our
- 23:13clarity as we move towards the next Mercury retrograde cycle.
- 23:16And for the purpose of this episode, we'll just go ahead and
- 23:19move that forward. It's basically going to show you
- 23:21that we are going to end up where we started back in the
- 23:26previous retrograde. You can see Mercury is now
- 23:28retrograding in the next water sign Cancer, and this time we'll
- 23:32reach that end point of whatever developed and started in our
- 23:36previous retrograde cycle in Pisces.
- 23:38Now around mid-july, we reach the set point, the beginning
- 23:42point for where the new cycle or next new beginning and
- 23:46development of the themes Mercury is reworking, revising,
- 23:50rethinking in those water houses in your chart and in your life.
- 23:54So I would love to hear drop in the comments if you have any
- 23:57questions or you'd like any further clarification.
- 24:00It's also really fun to go deep into Mercury in your chart and
- 24:04to look ahead for important Mercury times in your life that
- 24:08might be coming up or you might currently be living in and how
- 24:11to work with them, looking at the houses that Mercury's
- 24:13activating through these cycles. Also just going deeper into all
- 24:16these layers of interpretation that impact your Natal Mercury
- 24:19and its function, its ability to carry out and follow through on
- 24:24the things that it's responsible for in your Natal chart and your
- 24:27Natal context. So definitely if you're Astro
- 24:29curious about your Mercury or you'd like to get some even more
- 24:32personal information on understanding Mercury in your
- 24:35Natal chart, check out that link below this episode in the
- 24:37description for my one-on-one consultations, we could easily
- 24:41talk about Mercury for a full hour.
- 24:43In fact, we do that in our living chart work program level
- 24:461. We spend an entire two hours
- 24:48solely on Mercury, all things Mercury, looking at Mercury in
- 24:52different charts, talking about Mercury in big group and small
- 24:55group, Mercury in aspects, all of these things.
- 24:57So don't worry, I am not playing any Mercury tricks when I say
- 25:01there is endless amounts of things that we can talk about,
- 25:03unpack, and also maybe plan for and with for any upcoming or
- 25:08current transits happening for you in your life.
- 25:10And if you're still here and you haven't already, please hit that
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- 25:17comment below. I'd love to hear what you
- 25:19thought of this focus topic episode.
- 25:20Let me know if there's any other focus topic that you'd be
- 25:22interested in having on the Cozy with the Cosmos channel.
- 25:25And otherwise, I will see you back here for our usually
- 25:29scheduled program, our weekly astrology podcast, dropping
- 25:32every Thursday to get cozy and talk all things Cosmos about the
- 25:36current transits and the current Astro weather unfolding week by
- 25:39week. And remember, it might be
- 25:41helpful to save this video and maybe come back, maybe take some
- 25:44screenshots of some of the diagrams that I offered in the
- 25:47presentation of today's episode to have and look back and use as
- 25:51resource and reference as you continue your curiosities with
- 25:54Mercury. All right, everybody, thank you
- 25:56so much for being here. I will see you next time on Cozy
- 25:58with the Cosmos.