Mercury retrograde 2020 in Scorpio

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What are the dates for Mercury retrograde in 2020?

The Mercury Retrograde transit started on 13 October continuing onto 3 November 2020, in the signs of Scorpio and Libra.

However, Mercury entered the retrograde shadow period from 23 September 2020, when Libra season started. In this Libra season, we once again travel through the Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio, where there has been a collective sense of lingering feelings in actions that want to remain. Energies that like to lean on the last remanence of patience regarding our emotional relationship with life. Let’s delve in.

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Is Mercury Retrograde an illusion?

As a planet, busy Mercury moves the fastest around the Sun, travelling at such speed that it can take 88 days to orbit the Sun. During its transit around the Sun, it enters a retrograde phase, occurring three times a year, during this phase from our perspective, Mercury creates the illusion of changing its motion into reverse rotation.

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What does it mean when Mercury is in retrograde 2020?

Mercury retrograde motion from the 13 October 2020, 11° Scorpio started to feel the energies of Scorpio in our conversations. Collectively, it feels like the return of something, an Ex or an “ex-type of situation”, like an emotional situation that already made a mark and now has come back to make their presence known because they made such an impression in less time. I am not sure what they expected this with their return as we saw it coming and have almost been emotionally prepared.

This Mercury Retrograde season is possibly going to be one the most emotionally expressive times of the year as we navigate through a sense of what is supposed to be and what feels fair. Some now know that what they are experiencing emotionally had to follow from being led by their actions without consideration of others, it was easy sailing. For others, there is this tremendous feeling of wanting to be released from something that feels like a weight, a burden, an emotional drain. Depending on their point of view, some will fight back to regain their sense of fairness or balance and in extreme circumstances, justice.

As Mercury relates to our communication, during the Mercury retrograde, it is also connected to our caution of words, especially in agreements. The sound of each word creates an energetic expression of the language we are communicating, carrying with them the use of our emotional intent, only felt through the response of our hearing.

The Mercury retrograde places caution over these agreements, even if signed and secured, for some reason agreements made during this time may face a level of inconsistency. At this time, the energy within a contractual agreement is conceived in a period of energetic reflection, which could create an unravelling experience down the line. Usually having an attachment to unresolved personal karmic issues, further creating a relationship of reflective consideration. We all believe when we get into an agreement, we feel as though we are ready to say yes, however, during the retrograde time and the sense of reversal means a yes has a subconscious energetic magnetism to a yet unknown reason. In the Mercury Retrograde, agreements will face an inclination of unpredictability reflected from the influence of a reversal in motion. Imagine the idea of walking backwards for 30 minutes, what would happen during that time?

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How will Mercury Retrograde affect communication?

In Astrology, Mercury is considered the messenger between the subconscious and conscious with associations of being the Trickster, the master of games. When in the Mercury Retrograde this links directly with the motion in our world of communication. Mercury, the ruler of Gemini and our planet of information, communication and anything that is considered fast-moving, has a relationship between the head and mouth connection that feels free, this could be problematic in a Mercury Retrograde. Previous conversations that had an emotional trigger could be brought up. At the least, our frustration with the workings of electronics will increase, making us find more time to spend in attending to the details.

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What not do during Mercury Retrograde 2020

Mercury and its relation to speed and communications, is energetically travelling through spaces that cannot be seen with the naked eye. During the Mercury retrograde, we will experience interruptions that can make us pay attention to detail, placing caution about plans that use movement and involve moving forward. This can include travel plans and items that utilise electrical connections and signals. When we fly on a plane, we travel in the sky through space, we can only sense through movement until we see land and our final destination. Likewise, electrical connections are only seen by us when indicated to have a specific use, such as using a mobile phone, devices even wifi and vehicles.

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What Can Mercury Retrograde Teach Us This Time?

Once we review this space emotionally, we will be best prepared for the forward motion of these spaces from the 3 November 2020. These moments will feel impactful, especially through the Scorpio season.

In a commercial setting, we have already started to see the relationship with ourselves brought to the surface with the rise of marketing unconventional beauty, and there is still more to see. Really, it is just us sharing ourselves and showing all the quirks that would have led to previous insecurities. They have been brought to light to say, ‘This is me, I love me and maybe you will too”. Look at how much we love freckles now, with most of us admitting we secretly liked them, or two different coloured eyes or having piercing and tattoos. All of those things would have been met with a no no no no no, not going to work, that does not look good. Now we can see the beauty in things we considered alternative because we have been inspired to see things differently. It is not to say that it will always stay in this momentum as this is what we perceive as attractive now. Beauty is becoming more diverse compared to an archetypal point of view, it is here to grow our outward thinking. Who knows what could happen in the future’s future, where we could see another representation of beauty, completely different from now, it will be a reflection of how we feel at the time, and it will be just as impressive.

Mercury stations and turns direct on 3 November, 2020, at 12:44 PM at 25° Libra and goes into its Post-Shadow journey, where we energetically prepare to make our onward journey, creating a sense of forward clarity, momentum with a gained awareness brought into our consciousness.

Mercury leaves retrograde the shadow on 19 November, 2020, at 4:04 PM at 11° Scorpio, leaving us where it started on the week of the 13 October with a greater understanding with our relationship with life.

Thank you so much for joining me.

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