Mercury Retrograde in Cancer: Into the Deep
Mercury retrograde moves back into Cancer today, taking us deep into our emotional selves and our unconscious minds. The feeling function is activated and we are called to examine the parts of ourselves which are most sensitive and private. Mercury comes into his own as the guide who can travel between our different levels of being and experience, bringing material up from the unconscious to be examined, released or even simply acknowledged. Depending on how comfortable we are with our emotional selves, this might feel like a turbulent time, with people and feelings surfacing from our past or memories coming back to haunt us. Any unfinished emotional business has the potential to reappear around this time and we may be evaluating our emotional and spiritual growth.
The habits and emotional patterns Mercury retrograde reveals are not merely personal but go deeper to the feelings and experiences which connect us with our ancestors. Pre-verbal memories might re-surface, visceral experiences which have never been made fully conscious. We may be gaining awareness of inherited psychological traits or habits which can be released, or at least better understood. Mercury retrograde in Cancer asks us to consider our emotional inheritance, what it is and how it affects the way we live our lives. Our emotional needs and bonds with others are also under the microscope so that this transit might find us looking to our relationships with family, partners and friends, the ways that we fulfil our own emotional needs and how we offer others the same support.
Overall, this transit has the potential to show us just how much our unconscious reactions and deep reflex responses influence the way we live and the relationships we build. We are called to find a new balance between our emotional selves and our conscious, analytical selves. We might find ourselves facing emotional responsibilities we've been avoiding or repressing for a long time, which can be challenging but also empowering. This is a brilliant time to work with dreams, journaling or divination, anything which allows us to gain awareness of our unresolved emotional issues. Sometimes, that awareness is all that's needed to shift the energy and release it.
Overall, this transit has the potential to show us just how much our unconscious reactions and deep reflex responses influence the way we live and the relationships we build. We are called to find a new balance between our emotional selves and our conscious, analytical selves. We might find ourselves facing emotional responsibilities we've been avoiding or repressing for a long time, which can be challenging but also empowering. This is a brilliant time to work with dreams, journaling or divination, anything which allows us to gain awareness of our unresolved emotional issues. Sometimes, that awareness is all that's needed to shift the energy and release it.