Retro Review 4
A Turning Time standalone blog, focusing on the energy of Uranus and Mercury, with what’s to come with Mars.
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Recognize Your Retrograde Energy
Leveraging Your Individuality with Uranus
These Retro Review periods are an opportunity to look at the past with a fresh perspective to gain higher understanding from the experiences, with specific themes highlighted through the collective.
Explore the Pluto Retrograde 2022 in process: Retro Review 1.
Or Saturn and Neptune Retrograde 2022 in process: Retro Review 2.
And most recent, Chiron and Jupiter in process: Retro Review 3.
Uranus Retrograde at a glance:
Let go and let God.
Uranus likes to disrupt the status quo so say goodbye to the way you’ve always done things as new doors will open for you to explore and experiment with as innovation and individuality become a stronger focus.
You can expect accelerated transformation with your structures {as Uranus is in Taurus}, including the way you manage money and relationships.
It is through your connection to spirit that you can dis-attach from any conditioned patterns or perspectives that are not truly you.
While Uranus has been in the shadow since early May 2022, when it reached the energy that it will end the retrograde at,
The retrograde officially begins August 24th and ends January 22, 2023.
What is your Uranus in?
Individual your experience by looking to the Element of your natal/birth Uranus. Each element presents through a trilogy of astrological signs and represents a different energy approach for you to utilize towards transcendence and inspiration.
Here is how your natal Uranus reacts to Taurus Earth:
Earth {Signs: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn} have increased stability and receptiveness to ground with a focus on material/physical security and senses, self-realizing in the midst of external pressure.
Air {Signs: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius} becomes increasingly practical with innovative ideas to bring form and create in this reality.
Fire {Signs: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius} organizes the fuel {passions} to spread warmth and shed light with others.
Water {Signs: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces} receives a container that nourishes the inner world of intuition and emotion to give form to feelings.
As a honing in energy, Taurus focuses in on a moment or point in time to make something tangible supported by the Earth element that grounds to bring into form.
What will Uranus focus on in this retrograde?
Uranus begins at Taurus 18 degrees, 55 minutes and ends at 14 degrees, 56 minutes which is designated as follows:
In energy design, it starts at Gate 23.1, the Gate of Stabilizing, through investigative line 1 which focuses on validating your values by giving attention to what really needs looking at to deepen your inner conviction.
Uranus then moves into Gate 2, the Gate of Receptivity, with an overall focus on finding your natural connection with the unseen and inner guidance system of the higher self, establishing the difference between knowing and knowledge.
By taking you through the progressions of energy in reverse {to revisit the past with a fresh canvas} from lines 6 through 2 as follows:
~ {6} recognize you’re the medium, not the creative resource. Pre-occupation with individual intention limits capacity to truly evolve and be as one.
~ {5} wait to act until the timing is aligned, accepting that the connection is always there even if it’s simply felt solely by you.
~ {4} be reserved with knowledge to protect its understanding {and treat it as a gift} by giving that which can be readily learned instead of what is unable to be translated.
~ {3} recognize that life is continually giving lessons with an understanding that patience is part of the journey and it all happens in divine timing.
~ {2} attain what is aligned without special attention to it by utilizing an inner sense of knowing that goes beyond experience or accumulated knowledge.
To deepen your understanding of the energy themes and integrate the above themes further, sit with these brief overviews of the applicable astrology Sabian Symbols simplified to ground your energy and again, follow the flow from one to the next…
Taurus 19: a newly formed continent, re-evaluating one’s perspective with a new outlook based on experiences or seeing the opportunity that experience could hold.
Taurus 18: a woman holding a bag out of the window, signifying emptying the mind, focusing on the “little” things and letting them bring you pleasure.
Taurus 17: a battle between the swords and the torches, depicting competing priorities which can be reconciled when you understand the motivation behind each one.
Taurus 16: an old man attempting vainly to reveal the mysteries, signifying the desire to share enlightened wisdom which can be communicated successfully when the language matches an individual’s current understanding.
Taurus 15: a man muffled up with a rakish silk hat, depicting the ability to not let the current challenges detour your vision.
Is this Uranus Retrograde significant for you?
Let’s get specific with your energy design/astrology degree to find out:
While all will feel the retrograde to some degree, Uranus’ retrograde is significant for those with these energy gates/lines in their design: 23.1, 2.6, 2.5, 2.4, 2.3, 2.2; 47.3, 47.2, 47.1, 64.6, 64.5, 64.4; 54.5, 54.5, 54.3, 54.2, 54.1, 38.6.
If you’re unfamiliar with the focus of these additional gates, access the following pdf for a general summary: Living with Your Lunar Cycle.
Those who have planets or points in Earth {Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn} from 15 through 19 degrees will feel Uranus’s retrograde the strongest.
Notice the themes of these planets/points as they will be emphasized for you.
Mercury Retrograde at a glance:
Balance and communication.
You’ll revisit what to improve to restore your vitality, leaning into the surrender that synchronicity offers while discovering new ways to maintain your emotional balance.
Your communication has the potential to be more grounded as you clarify what inspires you individually to share.
Upon creating awareness on what needs to change, you can bring in a new perspective and take the typical Mercury steps {delete it or do it}.
This retrograde lines up to trine with Pluto’s journey, bringing a fresh perspective to the concept that experiences are given to us for a higher understanding.
With Pluto and Mercury, the collective {that’s everyone} is presented with opportunities to regenerate and rebirth through surrender/control while shifting perspectives and choosing what/how to express individually.
Pluto recap:
The regeneration and control/surrender to rebirth theme is met with the energy approach of initiation, perseverance and determination.
With the specific focus on limiting to define self in a new way with a bit of truth and mystery, utilizing the elements of the unseen.
When Pluto is in Capricorn, it impacts the way the physical shows in our reality…structures, processes and practices…by lessening rigidness. After all, Capricorn is a divine feminine energy so it asks for surrender to the flow of the experience.
See more about Pluto here: 1st Retro Review
There is also a revisit to the themes in the 1st Mercury retrograde as they also line up to trine with this 3rd retrograde.
Specifically, Mercury will continue the journey by looking at all manners of contemplation, supporting one to detach from any specific outcome a perspective brings and to instead use if for self-evaluation.
You’ll also gain the benefit of sensing when the timing is aligned to communicate.
Mercury has been in the shadow since mid-August 2022 but the retrograde officially begins September 10th and ends October 2, 2022.
What is your Mercury in?
Individual your experience by looking to the Element of your natal/birth Uranus. Each element presents through a trilogy of astrological signs and represents a different energy approach for you to utilize towards transcendence and inspiration.
Beginning in Air, here’s how your Natal Mercury reacts…
Air {Signs: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius} has enhanced innovation and stimulated movement in balance with your environment.
Fire {Signs: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius} keeps going with passion, increasing the spread of light and warmth.
Water {Signs: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces} is increasingly thinking and dispersing ideas to flow into concepts.
Earth {Signs: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn} feels the desire to create movement more.
Then once Mercury moves into the Earth element, here’s how your Natal Mercury reacts…
Earth {Signs: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn} are increasing stability and receptiveness to ground with a focus on mastery of service and finding personal happiness with potential social encounters.
Air {Signs: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius} becomes increasingly practical with innovative ideas to bring form and create in this reality.
Fire {Signs: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius} organizes the fuel {passions} to spread warmth and shed light with others.
Water {Signs: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces} receives a container that nourishes the inner world of intuition and emotion to give form to feelings.
What will Mercury focus on in this retrograde?
Mercury begins at Libra 8 degrees, 55 minutes and ends at Virgo 24 degrees, 11 minutes which is designated as follows:
In energy design, it starts at Gate 18 with a focus on Improving to remove stagnation through unattached review of current practices or processes to ensure they are supportive of evolving.
Here’s the progression of energy as it happens:
~ {6} be the sage that recognizes the importance of values, even when practicing from a distance by dedicating self to universal concerns and spiritual development for all, going beyond individual conditioning.
~ {5} resolve conditioning by working with others to correct practices and create reform, while being watchful of past behavior in self to correct as you go.
~ {4} recognize hesitancy to institute changes keeps one attached to the past. Meditate to move past fixating on the symptoms and find the true practices that can evolve stagnation.
~ {3} support change now, rather than later by seeing the possibility of releasing what is no longer needed.
~ {2} gently proceed with unattached review, observing the feminine practices of intuition and emotion to lessen fear.
~ {1} release rigidness to practices based on history, opening up to reform by reviewing traditions based on present relevance.
Then, Mercury moves through all of 46, the Gate of Serendipity, which looks at drawing strength from spiritual significance and patient perseverance to support aligning to “being in the right place at the right time”.
Here’s the progression of energy as it happens:
~ {6} choose who, what and where serves your energy at any given moment as advancing for the sake of advancing leads to exhaustion.
~ {5} proceed forward with calm, steady progress and be cautious of getting intoxicated by success.
~ {4} fulfillment is supported by an inner willingness to evolve. Adapting through gained insights provides an easier flow towards movement forward.
~ {3} move upward without hesitation and find ease in the journey by being clear and removing doubts when proceeding into what is unknown.
~ {2} grow upward through simply being you as having a strong character can see you through any experience, with others’ approval or not.
~ {1} commit to growth as inner conviction creates an affinity for others who are aligned and willing to support.
And completes in 6, the Gate of Emotional Balance, which guides you through conflict to observe feelings without attachment, bringing harmony through vision with objectivity and clarity.
Here’s the progression of energy as it happens:
~ {6} while resolving emotional upsets may occur more easily, it can attract more until one recognizes that resolving upsets sometimes serves and other times doesn’t.
~ {5} combine emotional clarity with objectivity to find resolution, choosing to be diplomatic and neutral to dissolve discord and create harmony.
~ {4} focus on promoting peace rather than trying to improve a situation through conflict, utilizing a strong emotional presence to accept what is.
~ {3} strengthen your inner nature by releasing need in the situation through taking a passive role to balance emotionally, without external influence.
~ {2} sensitively withdrawing from the disagreement in a timely manner so resolution can be found without confrontation through inner harmony.
To deepen your understanding of the energy themes and integrate the above themes further, sit with these brief overviews of the applicable astrology Sabian Symbols simplified to ground your energy and again, follow the flow from one to the next…
Libra 9: three old masters hanging in an art gallery, depicting self-interpretation through experience and mastery is through integration of body, mind and soul.
Libra 8: a blazing fireplace in a deserted home, signifying a welcoming presence that stimulates ideals or passions in others through emotional connection.
Libra 7: a woman feeding chickens and protecting them from the hawks, demonstrating opposing or balancing choices with the knowledge to determine which is appropriate.
Libra 6: the ideals of a man abundantly crystallized, signifying the ability to see and develop potential through resourcefulness.
Libra 5: a man teaching the true inner knowledge, demonstrating the wisdom of listening and the ability of intuition to read between the lines.
Libra 4: a group around a campfire, depicting a consciousness that goes beyond what one individual could achieve.
Libra 3: the dawn of a new day, demonstrating a willingness to experiment and try new.
Libra 2: the light of the sixth race transmuted to the seventh, signifying broad and far reaching vision to bring the highest potential to fulfillment.
Libra 1: a butterfly made perfect by a dart through it, depicting the opportunities in new beginnings while also understanding why things had to end.
Virgo 30: a false call unheard in attention to immediate service, demonstrating a focus to things of higher value.
Virgo 29: a man gaining secret knowledge from a paper he is reading, signifying breaking through conditioning to reveal the truth.
Virgo 28: a bald-headed man, depicting self-mastery that goes beyond appearances.
Virgo 27: grande dames at tea, demonstrating utilizing community resources with wisdom for the higher good.
Virgo 26: a boy with a censer {a vessel that holds incense}, signifying prayer or a similar spiritual practice to find the meaning and inspiration in everyday events.
Virgo 25: a flag at half-mast, depicting respect through putting others first.
Is this Mercury Retrograde significant for you?
Let’s get specific with your energy design/astrology degree to find out:
While all will feel the retrograde to some degree, Mercury’s retrograde is significant for those with these energy gates/lines in their design: all of 18 {.6 -.1}, all of 46 {.6 -.1}, 6.6, 6.5, 6.4, 6.3, and 6.2; 19.2, 19.1, all of 41 {.6 -.1}, all of 60 {.6 -.1}, 61.6, 61.5, and 61.4; 16.4, 16.3, 16.2, 16.1, all of 20 {.6 -.1}, all of 8 {.6 -.1}, and 23.6.
If you’re unfamiliar with the focus of these additional gates, access the following pdf for a general summary: Living with Your Lunar Cycle.
Those who have planets or points in Air {Libra, Aquarius, Gemini} from 1 through 9 degrees and in Earth {Virgo, Capricorn, Taurus} from 24 through 30 degrees will feel Mercury the strongest.
Notice the themes of these planets/points as they will be emphasized for you.
What’s to come with Mars?
Since Mars enters its pre-shadow in preparation of the retrograde on September 9th, here’s a quick look to prepare you…
This is bringing you an opportunity to learn, to see another possibility or potential.
Focused in Gemini, the sign of communication and one that can see both sides of a perspective, brings an interesting twist to your days and desires.
The way the communication unfolds will depend much on your perspective, whether you choose to see both sides or if you tunneled in to one view.
A reminder that Mars retrogrades happen every 2 years so it is possible you will feel the energy more significantly especially if you are an Air sign {Gemini, Libra, Aquarius}.
This is an opportunity to master this energy!
To individualize your experience…
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I am a life coach and business mentor. As a life coach, I support you to reveal conditioned perspectives, illuminated through intuitively guided esoteric knowledge that is channeled to release your individual expression, guiding your gifts to emerge in benefit of the collective and your soul journey...all at your divine pace and timing.
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