Mercury Retrograde's Gift
Your best year ever — if you go back and dot your i's and cross your t's
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Window of Opportunity
As many of you know, this past Q4 2023 has been one of rapid changes for me — and I’m still in the process of metamorphosing into my new reality.
So, now in addition to my creative projects, I am also consulting on special projects for a climate tech company that is on the rise and building out my strategy and brand consulting agency for mission driven creatives and ventures, AiKaDea. On top of which, the pups and I are still sorting out our final leap over to Bozeman, MT.
With that said, as always, it is my mission ensure that my TPA clients receive top notch consultations that hold the space they need as well as the support that optimizes their prosperity. However, there will be a lot less of me to go around which necessarily means closing my books to new clients as of December 31, 2024 until further notice.
If you have been thinking about establishing a client relationship with me, this is the window of opportunity to book a reading
A TEST DRIVE
A 10 minute reading that's a great way to explore if we should work together. Great for a quick look at your chart or an area that might need some attention. Offered on a by donation basis with a suggested minimum of $25.
FOR EXISTING CLIENTS
Let’s get ready for 2024 together! It’s an 8 year — with power, money, and fulfilling your obligations (to yourself) are at the forefront.
THE DISPATCH
MERCURY RETROGRADE’S GIFT
Your best year ever — if you go back and dot your i's and cross your t's
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
—Winston Churchill
Mercury Crossing
As of this writing, Mercury is about to cross backwards from Capricorn into Sagittarius, where it will stay until it stations direct on January 1st or 2nd (depending on where you are).
As usual, my usual volume of messages bemoaning Mercury’s backwards dance naughtiness have been pouring in — with my usual, response of the opportunity is in the cock-up or let Mercury show you where the mistake is before it becomes a disaster.
BUT this is no ordinary Mercury retrograde — look at what you have to re-[insert verb] in the previous sign / house in your chart before you can move forward with what Mercury showed you in the next sign / house. NO. This retrograde coincides with yesterday’s Winter Solstice (now we’re gaining light) as well as Jupiter slowing down to turn direct at the end of the month. <insert choirs of angels singing>
On December 18th, Mercury and Jupiter perfected their backwards trine. As I often say during consult, whenever Mercury and Jupiter make an aspect a window opens between the divine design and the manifest world. For flowing aspects like trines, the energy gives birth to a balanced idea harmoniously — ESPECIALLY in earth signs — which are all about results you can measure with your senses. This aspect functioned like a hand off from guru to student:
Since September 4th, Jupiter has been challenging you to activate your own luck in the areas it showed you potential expansion from its ingress into Taurus on May 16th. In that three and a half month period, the planet of prosperity, faith, and expansion showed you a myriad of ways to increase whatever house Taurus covers in your chart — ultimately, challenging you to walk the walk and live out your guiding principles in your material life. So many ideas, projects, opportunities popping up to turn your garden into a paradise but then the retrograde. Suddenly, it felt like a dry spell hit — new collaborators vanished, projects full of promise faded in the face of the grim realities of adulting, buds about to bloom seemed to into hibernation on the vine. BUT that first part of Jupiter’s direct passage through a sign is always like training — Jupiter showing you the mechanics of generating luck. Jupiter retrograde is when you’re challenged to show you learned the lessons before Jupiter’s final direct passage through the rest of a sign … because that’s when you get the keys to the Bugatti.
Anyhow, back to Mercury … Mercury is the planet that actually makes things happen on planet Earth. Mercury isn’t simply the planet of communication and travel. Mercury translates the divine design into an earthly form — it’s the planet that organizes thoughts, information, networks of people. It rules transactions, connecting one person’s mind with another’s, connecting one’s mind to the external world, pattern discernment, community.
During its forward motion dip into Capricorn, it’s like when an artist gets a glimpse of the engineering needed to translate their vision into an artifact that can interface with an audience. However, something still isn’t resonating with complete clarity in the vision. So, it has to go back to Sagittarius — the sign of visions, visionaries, bold (and impossible seeming) ideas, of the crazy leap of faith — to make sure the vision, the belief structure is sound.
Given that Sag is a sign ruled by Jup, it’s like Jup saying to Merc, “Hey, kid, here’s what you need to suss out back at my house before you can proceed.”
BELIEF SYSTEMS + GOAL SETTING
As many of you know, I have been developing an enthusiastic love / Virgo Venus critical side eye of Michael Hyatt’s book Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals that is the basis of his system for the Full Focus Planner. (Don’t worry. These aren’t affiliate links. I just think give credit where credit is due.) I’m even considering having a workshop that uses part of his system but that is guided by the annual and monthly profections of your chart…anyhow, that’s a major side note.
Anyhow, when setting goals, his system asks you to take an inventory of limiting beliefs that hold you back from the life you know is yours and EXAMINE the evidence around this belief. Is it a truth? Or is it a story you’ve internalized of a version of yourself that no longer corresponds to how and who you understand yourself to be? During this process, you are then challenged to transmute these limiting beliefs into affirmative truths — before you even get to set any goals.
MY PRECIOUS STARGAZERS. This is what this Mercury retrograde period is all about — especially now with Mercury back in the sign of truth and belief.
Through the end of the year, before you even start to consider your goals for next year (which will be your best year ever if you do this), TAKE AN INVENTORY OF YOUR LIMITING BELIEFS.
They might be as harmless seeming as “I’m not very good at math” or “I’m not an expert in handling money” to more abstract ones like “I’m not very creative” or “I’m not lucky”. Since we’re talking about Jup in Taurus, these might have to do with beliefs about your ability to take ideas and translate them into reality or with capitalizing on opportunities or even living a life that reflects your ethical framework.
THEN, UNPACK THEM. What evidence do you have that the belief you’ve written down is true? What evidence proves the contrary? Ask around! Mercury is the planet of community and peers after all. Ask your siblings as well.
If the evidence shows the belief to be false, how do you take that well of evidence and CRAFT AN AFFIRMING TRUTH that translates into not only affirmations that you can repeat to yourself until your Subconscious re-wires itself AND that guide and empower you to set your goals for 2024.
NO RESOLUTIONS
With that said, don’t make resolutions for 2024. Firstly, “resolution” is such a problematic word — in some senses it literally means to solve a problem or reduce something to simpler parts or an intention to “better” yourself.
You are amazing the way you are. You are an expression of divine, infinite creativity. So, how can a limited Consciousness “better” what the Universe has created? That’s a limiting belief right there! You don’t need improvement…and problem solving? Well, if you’re looking for problems to solve, they will find you!
NO.
2024 is about experiencing your power to translate idea into reality. 2024 is about loving who you are becoming as you turn this reality into a playground that resounds with the laughter and joy of you and those who uplift you and you uplift. 2024 is about creating a paradise of now upon a framework of wise freedom.
2024 is you, your goals, and the dance between the two.
BUT FIRST…let Mercury help you go back and make sure you’ve dotted all your I’s and crossed all of the t’s.
THE TAKEAWAY
Make 2024 the year in which you experience the divine power that is continually being offered to you by spending the rest of this year setting yourself free from limiting beliefs. Gather evidence, look at the facts, form new truths. Don’t sink into the karma (aka old programming and patterns) that ties you to the past and outmoded identities — dance on it so you can reach for the stars and be in the now.
Let’s Dance!
Before I launch a whole new offering, it would help to gage interest in a 2024 Goal Planning workshop (which will take place over 4 weekends on a sliding fee basis). I will tally responses by the first week of January and reach out if the offering goes live.