1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: Conversations on life, style, beauty, and relationships. It's The Velvet's 2 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:10,319 Speaker 1: Edge Podcast with Kelly Henderson. Marvin Wilkerson is here, our 3 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: master astrologer. We were just saying, everyone's dealing with the 4 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 1: same ship, same ship, different day, different face, whatever it is, 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: We're all going through the same thing. So let's help 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: the people out and kind of talk about what is 7 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: going on right now, because there are a lot of 8 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: transits were about to go into a mercury retrograde, and 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: I messaged you and I was like, how there's so 10 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 1: much going on. I feel the intensity, and I think 11 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: there's a lot of narratives out there that talk about 12 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: mercury retrogrades so negatively that we all kind of panic 13 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: when we see that in the readings, And so I 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: wanted to you to kind of break down the reality 15 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: of what mercury retrograde is. And then also, like you've 16 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: told me a lot of stuff that you know makes 17 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: it not so scary necessarily, it's just kind of a 18 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: part of this whole process for all of us. And 19 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: there's some different perspectives that you have on these retrogrades. 20 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna turn it over to you. Marv 21 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: and you can teach us about mercury. Okay, just don't 22 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: go to sleep. I'll try, I'll interject. I'm sure I'll 23 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: have questions. Well, look, this is the this is the thing, 24 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: this is the problem with UM magazine and newspaper astrology. 25 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: You just look at something and you put out a 26 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: few keywords on UM, maybe some positive but maybe some negative. 27 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: But you what you don't realize is that I just 28 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 1: sent you two pages of what a real astrologer looks 29 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: at processes when they're doing the reading and trying to 30 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: understand the use of energy. UH. Marcury is UM is 31 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: this is how we make connections to things, all things 32 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: aims and so it isn't just how we communicate. It 33 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: isn't just how we think. UM. It goes way deeper. 34 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 1: And you know, so UM, it's good that we try 35 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: to clear up UH an understanding of a retrograde energy anyway. 36 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of times in life where 37 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: we get stuck in acting out in the same way 38 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: or thinking the same way all the time about different things. UM. 39 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: And so a retrograde motion means that the energy UM 40 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: from our perspective is changing of how we see it 41 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: in the sky, so it doesn't really go retrograde. It 42 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: just looks like it's retrograde because when we look up 43 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: at it next to the Sun from our standpoint on 44 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: the Earth, it just looks like it's going backwards. And 45 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: that's what we call a retrograde. And so retrograde actually 46 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: works is what point does it start going backwards? And 47 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 1: then what point does it stop and start going forward? 48 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: And that's pretty dad going important of how the energy 49 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: manifests or how we manifest the energy um that's uh 50 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: coming in all of our psycheties. And so when we're 51 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: looking at a retrograde mercury, mercury goes retrograde three times 52 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: a year. And then most people are going to say, oh, 53 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,839 Speaker 1: in mercury retrograde because it fouls up to the electronics 54 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: and technology and and computers, and you know, there's miscommunication 55 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: and I thought I heard what you said. It wasn't 56 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: at all what you said, you know, So all those 57 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: things come into play with mercury um. But it's sir, 58 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: only it goes into a much deeper process. When you 59 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: think about it, is it's in Libra going retrograde this month, Well, 60 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: it goes retrograde each year in each one of the elements. 61 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: So there's fire, earth, wind, and water, UM. Whend is 62 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: thinking um. And so when we look at libra, Libra 63 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: is about relationships and it's an active sign. So Libra 64 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 1: is just not a placid kind of individual, although there 65 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 1: seems to be a lot of peace at any price. 66 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 1: And they, you know, like the finer things in life 67 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: and so forth, libras of thinkers and they are also leaders. 68 00:04:54,040 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 1: So when you think of um mercury uh in this mine, 69 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 1: you think of how we um, how we come to 70 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: an understanding and agreement with others, how we interact with others, relate, 71 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 1: communicate to others, and so there's going to be a 72 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: lot of relationship issues with this retrograde. So mercury and 73 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: in of itself is um is about looking and evaluating 74 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: things from a different lens. There's a good way to 75 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 1: look at it. UM. So how about Mercury's about as 76 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:51,359 Speaker 1: well as libra. This is about the partnerships, friendships, relationships, intimacies. 77 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 1: All these things come to bear when we're talking about 78 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: communications and UM, the the scale, the blind justice, lib 79 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:09,799 Speaker 1: reused justice, and it's and when you see that sign 80 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 1: symbol of libra, it's the sign of the scales, and 81 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: so it's the and she's got a uh tourniquet over 82 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:26,679 Speaker 1: her eyes because she's not looking at the ego personality 83 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,600 Speaker 1: and just looking at two sides of something. She's looking 84 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: at what's right and wrong. And that's right and wrong 85 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 1: on a human level as whereas the spiritual level. So 86 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 1: there's a man's law, and there's universal law. There's logical 87 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: reasoning thinking, and there's intuitive feeling thinking. And so what 88 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: this is, what a retrograde does, is it shuts down 89 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: and closed and slows down the mind, and it alters 90 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: the way we think and communicate because um, it forces 91 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: us to to think about what we're saying before we 92 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: just blurred out of our mouth. And it forces us 93 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: to look at the feelings um as much as we 94 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: do um our logic and reasoning, analytical mind, look at 95 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: the feelings and the intuition and the instincts. And so 96 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: this is part of what mercury retrograde does is that 97 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: mercury is the well mark. Marcury is the rational mind, 98 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: but it's intimately linked with our sense of spiritual direction. 99 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: So when when you start listening to feelings and intuition, 100 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: for more in from action. Well, then that that that 101 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: type of connection is also mercury and it and it 102 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: serves a purpose you see. You know, one of the 103 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: one of the biggest things that I work with with clients, 104 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: um uh in the therapy is they have to understand 105 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: feelings and how important it is. And we've talked about 106 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: that many many times. Um, because if you just processed 107 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: through your thinking intellectual mind, well then you're missing half 108 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: a life. How do you love intellectually? Doesn't happen? So 109 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: that connection again it marcury rules the nervous system, and 110 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: so the nervous system connects us to all the external life, 111 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 1: doesn't it. So that gives you the idea of how 112 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 1: important that connections and mercury really do rap present Now 113 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: when it goes retrograde, um, this is uh. It forces 114 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: us to feel things because we're not analyzing things normally, 115 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: and um we we. It's a where it gets a 116 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: bad rap is that when you make a decision under 117 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: a retrograde, when you're only thinking and you're not thinking clearly. 118 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: Then when it goes back direct, all of a sudden, 119 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 1: you see it from a whole different perspective. And then 120 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,719 Speaker 1: that causes a different problem. Yeah, when you say we're 121 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: not thinking clearly though, that's because the energy is going 122 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 1: backwards right now. Mm hmmm. And the other thing I 123 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,719 Speaker 1: keep reading about mercury retrograde is like not to be 124 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: scared of what is happening, but like what is coming 125 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:04,719 Speaker 1: to the surface and what because it's something that it's 126 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 1: showing you that's either ready to be resolved or it's 127 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: an issue that maybe you thought you had dealt with. 128 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 1: You know. They talk a lot about like your ex 129 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: is come back during mercury retrograde, or some something from 130 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: your past will resurface. And I just have been reading 131 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,439 Speaker 1: a little bit lately about how that isn't necessarily bad. 132 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: It's just like showing you either where there needs to be, 133 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: you know, some more attention or something, some other release 134 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: of some kind, some other lesson to grow from, etcetera, etcetera. 135 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: Am I getting that right? Well? Yeah? I mean you know, basically, um, 136 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:48,959 Speaker 1: we we all see what we want to see, okay, 137 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 1: and what we want to see is nothing more than 138 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: what we feel keeps us safe, it keeps us happy. 139 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not you don't look out and see 140 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: all the negatives, uh, because your personal conscious won't won't 141 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: let you see it. Uh, it won't enter your mind. 142 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: And so what mercury retrograde is giving you an opportunity 143 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: to take a double tape. You know, last year I 144 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 1: was really thinking about I was all in and buying 145 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: a piece of earth moving equipment, and I really wanted 146 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: to do that. I was researching it and everything, and 147 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 1: then you know, I couldn't find it at the price 148 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: that I wanted. And this is like a dollar purpose. 149 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: And so I saw the retrograde coming. I said, wait, wait, 150 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: wait a minute, let's just hold off on this until 151 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: after this retrograde period. Well after the retrograde period passed, 152 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: and I took another look at this, and I started 153 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: feeling and oh, you're seventy years old. You don't have 154 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: been writing on a piece of equipment upside the hill, 155 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 1: trying to dig ditches and all of that. And so 156 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: I put that aside. I decided not to buy it. 157 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: If you sign a contract with the mercury retrograde, uh, 158 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 1: there is very likely that something's going to show up 159 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: in that contract and you're gonna go, well, I didn't 160 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: see that, And then you have to go back and 161 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:33,839 Speaker 1: you and that starts that whole miscommunication thing. Uh, So 162 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:39,839 Speaker 1: retrograde forces us to slow down and start evaluating our 163 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:46,079 Speaker 1: feelings and emotions around the subject. And um it's sometimes 164 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 1: you know, until we practice using feelings and intuition, well 165 00:12:55,400 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: we don't. We're not intuiting um everything that we could. 166 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: And then when we get a perception about something, it 167 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 1: comes in the form of a picture, and we don't 168 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: really know how to define that picture because the mercury 169 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: retrograde um causes a a difficulty and translating perceptions into words. So, um, 170 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: when you you see everything you say come with a 171 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: vision and you're trying to communicate that to another person, 172 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: and so in the in that exchange, those words may 173 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 1: not be accurately defining that picture the way you're seeing 174 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: it in your mind's eye. And so the retrograde period 175 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: forces us to be a little more um sensitive to 176 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,199 Speaker 1: what we're saying and how we're saying it, and forcing 177 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: us to make sure that when we say bow wow, 178 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: you hear bow wow instead of me out right? Is 179 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: that even more um important during this one because it's 180 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: happening in libra, which I heard you say is a 181 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 1: sign of relationships. Partnerships negotiations with others that were close 182 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: to so I would imagine there's a lot of opportunity 183 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 1: for miscommunications in that capacity. So maybe it's the time 184 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: to put a pause on serious conversations that you may 185 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 1: need to have in order to make sure that you're 186 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: communicating clearly. Well, yes, because you know how many times 187 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: have you said something that was very innocent and somebody 188 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 1: took it the wrong way? Oh, I mean all the time, 189 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: basically every day for me, more every time I do 190 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: this podcast, for sure, we'll see. That's the point. So 191 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: mercury retro grade gives us an opportunity to go back 192 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: and uh say it in a different way. Okay, So 193 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: we would want to do that during the rest are grade. 194 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: Like I was, I think I was under the impression 195 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: that if there was like, okay, I have a certain 196 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: scenario in my life where I want to communicate something 197 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: to someone, But because it was mercury retrograde, I was like, 198 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: maybe I need to just sit on this for a 199 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: little bit and process a little more and get really 200 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 1: clear with myself and how I want to communicate that 201 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: to not lead to another fight. Is that the right 202 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: mentality or should it be something that I'm revisiting, okay, 203 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: and and see that mentality works regardless. Soon See what 204 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: mercury is trying to do is ultimately linked that rational 205 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: mind with that spiritual direction through the through your soul's compass, 206 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: to your soul's voice. And when you have that, you pause, 207 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 1: just what you said, analyze my feelings a little more. 208 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: How do I feel about it now? The good of that, 209 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: um is, no, you're maybe you're not getting communicated. And 210 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: then moving on you have to go back and rethink 211 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: about it and get a get a different sense about it. 212 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:39,359 Speaker 1: And I think that that's that's part of the importance. 213 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: I mean, we've got to realize the mind, uh must 214 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: serve a sense of purpose, and that purpose is to 215 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 1: connect the our ego personalities with our soul selves, our 216 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: spiritual selves. And so the mind can deceive you, um, 217 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: but logic can. In the logic just a alienates us 218 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: from the intuitive divine spark, which is a real form 219 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:14,439 Speaker 1: of connection with the higher self. So this is giving 220 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: you an opportunity now in a physical way. Say, you know, 221 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 1: people talk about well, I don't want to get a 222 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:26,879 Speaker 1: surgery under a retrograde. Well, if it's necessary, maybe you 223 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: do want to get a surgery under retrograde? How many 224 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 1: times do they go in and they start performing a 225 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 1: surgery and find out is a little bit more than 226 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 1: what they anticipated, so they're going to have to set 227 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: another time to go back in. Oh, well, that's a 228 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: positive way to a retrograde work, doesn't it. How about 229 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:55,439 Speaker 1: if you read a contract and you say, here, Kelly, 230 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,439 Speaker 1: would you read this contract and tell me what you 231 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 1: think it says? And then you bring up a different 232 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: perspective a different perception about it, and I go, ah, okay, 233 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: I didn't see that. So it's more of like checking 234 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: it twice like Santa does, making it least second and twice. Okay, 235 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: And so we need we need to because when retrograde 236 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 1: h is more of an absorbing kind of learning. So 237 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: it's learning through absorption. Okay. So you're you're you're connecting 238 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:42,399 Speaker 1: with something in a different way. And so it's uh, 239 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: when we use feelings to connect to things, that gives 240 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: us a whole different valuation, a whole different way to relate. Now, 241 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 1: what's going to come up? Um? See, because you know, 242 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 1: see a lot of times, I mean I can't tell 243 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: you how many clients I've had when they're maybe they're 244 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:12,679 Speaker 1: very intellectual people and they have emotional problems. Well, how 245 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: am I going to help square away an emotional problem 246 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: through the intellect? Can't? Right, So I have to work 247 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:24,400 Speaker 1: on helping them understand what feelings are. I just had 248 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,920 Speaker 1: a president of a major corporation and here he yes, 249 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: today very intellectual, but he's been going through psychologists for 250 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 1: almost all his life. He's said, years old, he doesn't 251 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 1: understand feelings. So he's got emotional troubles of anxiety, thinking 252 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: he's there's something wrong with them. He said, I feel 253 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 1: like I'm at the very bottom of my life. This 254 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 1: is a man that's very successful. And so you've got 255 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:02,439 Speaker 1: to You've got to learn feelings and feelings need to 256 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: dominate more than thinking because basically your mind don't need 257 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: you to think things on its own. This is why 258 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,119 Speaker 1: I've told you so many times that you ought to 259 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: love yourself, because you're getting an opportunity to understand feelings 260 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 1: throughout your lifetime, and that makes you grow in depth, 261 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: makes you grow in passion, love relating to things right. 262 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 1: And so this is what Mercury is always trying to 263 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 1: do with us, is is present us the paradox that 264 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:48,679 Speaker 1: mind must has to go beyond the mind. Because your rational, 265 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 1: logical mind has been conditioned in program by your parents, 266 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: your teachers, your neighborhood kids, your friends, society, and whoever 267 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 1: you hold on a pedestal. Well, that's all language, and 268 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: it's their language, it's not your language. So in other words, 269 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 1: until you individually and you start thinking and feeling something's 270 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: right or wrong. I know, I had another client that day. 271 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:18,920 Speaker 1: He grew up in Mormonism and he realized the part 272 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: he realized in his life that that didn't work for him. 273 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,199 Speaker 1: And he's a very spiritual kind of guy now, and 274 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: so he's working with the dichotomy of balance his parents, 275 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: Mormon life, and his life. That's totally understand that. Yeah, 276 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,719 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm so grateful for this reminder today because 277 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: I think it's really easy. I know, for me at least, 278 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: it's really easy to want to figure things out, you know, 279 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: and that just keeps me really stuck in my brain. 280 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,159 Speaker 1: And I have a lot of information because I'm a 281 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 1: very curious person, and so my mind will tell me 282 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: that I can work through a problem or think my 283 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: way through it, or find the solution, and it's just 284 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter really what I know. I mean, it's 285 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: good that I know the stuff, but ultimately it always 286 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,879 Speaker 1: goes back to like what do I feel in my body? 287 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: Because my body always knows, it knows way more than 288 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: my mind. And and not because of like read a 289 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 1: lot of books truth, yes, what that mind sets can 290 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: it's certainly only about half proofs right, because you're using language. 291 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 1: And it's also very true what you said about it's 292 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: so influenced by all of our programming, even even going 293 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: to therapy. You know, it's like that's a great tool, 294 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: but it does a lot of it sometimes can be 295 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 1: in my mind because it's just like, yeah, it's more 296 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,199 Speaker 1: the talk therapy specifically, but there's a lot of other 297 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: kinds of therapy too. But but but yeah, but I mean, 298 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 1: when you use somatic somatic therapy, what are you doing. 299 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: You're using the body. The body tells you if it's working. 300 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 1: Have you ever taken some vitamins or pills and all 301 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 1: of a sudden the throat closes or gets real tight, 302 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,199 Speaker 1: not specific I have thrown up from too many vitamins. 303 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 1: I don't know about. Oh, thanks for sharing, Kelly. You're welcome. Guys, 304 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 1: it's your little tidbit for the day. Well, it's I 305 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: just bring that up because I just, you know, know 306 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,400 Speaker 1: somebody that they took a medication and the throat closed up, 307 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,159 Speaker 1: and the doctor said, well, stay off of it and 308 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 1: see if it's a sore throat or something, and then 309 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 1: try it again, and if it closes up again, well 310 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,639 Speaker 1: then you can't take it. Yeah, it's an allergy. See 311 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 1: back in the day, I used to take a whole 312 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: bunch of vitamins, and after about a month or so, 313 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: my throat started closing up every time I took all 314 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,400 Speaker 1: my vitamins, and and so it forced me to realize that, 315 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: you know, my body is rejecting this. So, you know, 316 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,479 Speaker 1: so when we're talking about the mind goes beyond the mind, 317 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: this produced is a field of consciousness that where polarity 318 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:29,119 Speaker 1: ceased to exist. Because the mind works with polarities. The 319 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:36,360 Speaker 1: mind is ego driven and his personality driven. So when 320 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: we're talking about a mercury retrograde, we've got to learn 321 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: to unlearn what we've been taught, what we've been conditioned. 322 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: We need to redo, rethink, reevaluate, and that's what you've 323 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 1: got to realize in in mercury retrograde is you're just 324 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: taking another look at whatever is going on in your life. 325 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,160 Speaker 1: If it's a relationship, at this you you're you're you're 326 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: looking at it in a different way, more of a 327 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: feeling body than all in your head. You know, if 328 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 1: you answer if you talk to somebody in there in 329 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,400 Speaker 1: your head, if you talk to them from rational logic 330 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: and they're all coming from feeling, well, then that's a miscommunication. 331 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 1: Par excellent, isn't it. And I'm sure you know something 332 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 1: about that, being such a feeler you are, okay, And 333 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 1: so we got to slow the mind down. We got 334 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: to speak to what's relevant, what what's personally relevant in 335 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: our life, and so we need to have relevant conversations. 336 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: More information is never going to work. You said that earlier. 337 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 1: The more I think about it, I ultimately had to 338 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: go down and just feel it. Well, that's from our corectrograde. 339 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: So that's four seeing us a kind of forcing a 340 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: connection to our feelings and higher self, and that's what's 341 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: really important. So we're learning also the difference between opinion 342 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:19,680 Speaker 1: and truth h right, M. And so when we look 343 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:26,120 Speaker 1: at the what we're doing is we're pausing to get 344 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:32,120 Speaker 1: clarity of feelings. It's forcing us to be patient when 345 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 1: we when we have a computer glitch or something like that. 346 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,120 Speaker 1: You're it's I mean, I I've learned so much from 347 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:46,119 Speaker 1: having to go back and delve back into something, especially writers. 348 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: I want to rewrite my um my ex my um 349 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 1: on my website about what each reading is. I want 350 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: to rewrite it. And here about a month ago, I 351 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: re rewrote it and I let it set for a while, 352 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:09,120 Speaker 1: which is what I do when I write, and then 353 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:14,959 Speaker 1: I lost it. So now with the retrograde coming up, 354 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,679 Speaker 1: I said, oh great, I get a chance to rewrite 355 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 1: from a different perspective. So instead of getting mad and 356 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,919 Speaker 1: angry and upset because I lost what I originally wrote, 357 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 1: I just started talking at the spirit about, you know, 358 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,879 Speaker 1: how I would better be able to present what I 359 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: do for reading and and so on. How long did 360 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: that take you to get to that? Because I feel like, 361 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 1: as a human, our normal reaction is like I spent 362 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 1: all this time working on this and now it just 363 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: it's gone. It's you know, fresh, That would be frustrating. 364 00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:01,959 Speaker 1: The more you work with feelings and intuition, the quicker 365 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: you get over problems. You process them very quickly because 366 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,640 Speaker 1: you're processing truth, You're not processing a bunch of burbage words. 367 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 1: So this is what mercury retrograde means. It means that 368 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 1: we need to take another look at our libra issues, 369 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: our relationships, what we value, what's important to us. And 370 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,400 Speaker 1: so when we look at mercury retrograde, as an astrologer, 371 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: I want to know that point that it went retrograde 372 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 1: because our reality could no longer go beyond that point 373 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 1: where we presently are. So it went retrograde at ten 374 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: to nine degrees of Libra. Well, when we when we 375 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,840 Speaker 1: look at libra, what we're trying to learn to do 376 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: from this retrograde is learned to have a a self 377 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: created public role. Um We're we're going to um hm. 378 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: We want to have moments of spiritual insight and decisions. 379 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: So this whole slowing process forces us to look at 380 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 1: how we follow spirit versus how we just try to 381 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 1: think our way through things. And of course when it's 382 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: in Libra and then relationships, your ideals of love and 383 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: beauty are always going to come into focus and you're 384 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 1: going to want to take action on it because Libra 385 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: is an action oriented side, and so we need to 386 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: get a clear image of our personal and ideal relationship. 387 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 1: And that's what this markret retrograde is going to teach 388 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: us as it backs up. So we're going to start 389 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: discovering things about ourselves. And so when we look at all, right, 390 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: so what are we learning, Well, it's it starts going 391 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: direct at twenty five degrees of virgo, now virgos and 392 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: earth side. This is a very analytical thinking judging sign 393 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 1: critiking sign. So we're all going to have to go 394 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 1: backwards and start being honest with ourselves and others. Where 395 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 1: are we not being truly authentic? Um recognizing some of 396 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: our own shameful secrets we know we're hiding, but we're 397 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: worried about that criticism from coming from others. And so 398 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 1: we've got to come to terms with what we're um, 399 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 1: how we're thinking about ourselves internally externally, the communications with 400 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,360 Speaker 1: others well, learning how to live up to the expectations 401 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 1: of ourselves and that comes through critical analysis, and so 402 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 1: we've got to learn how to value our own judgment 403 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: and commit to our goal. So now you can see 404 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 1: that when it went retrograde, we're trying to create a 405 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: different role. We want to create a different kind of 406 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: connection in our relationship. We want to quit arguing so much, 407 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 1: We want to love more, we want to travel more. 408 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 1: How do we get out of stress as a couple? 409 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 1: How do we you know, how do we come to 410 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: conclusions about things? And that's going to be a virgo 411 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: thing through analysts, through analyzing how have we done it 412 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 1: in the past. So I think that's a uh it's 413 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: a very important part of the retrograde, which you can't 414 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 1: get when you get these magazines and and all that 415 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 1: stuff talking about. But this is how you really an 416 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 1: astrologer that's got some uh, real experience is going to 417 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 1: have to look at it. You have to look at 418 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: it from a gustalt basis. The whole chart has to 419 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 1: be looked at. I can't. You can't just pick apart 420 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: one energy and then demonize it or make it good picture. 421 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 1: I feel like that's a big thing. It just gets 422 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 1: really demonized, and it's like, wait, it's not necessarily bad. 423 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,240 Speaker 1: It actually probably is really good for our own growth 424 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: and um leaning more into our own authenticity. Yes, if 425 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: we don't get scared of it. I get a little 426 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,880 Speaker 1: scared of it, you know, because like sometimes the energy 427 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 1: feels it does feel chaotic and it feels like things 428 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 1: break a lot, or like even in this shadow phase, 429 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 1: I've had a lot of stuff just like it doesn't work. 430 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 1: It's not easy, you know, and so like there's there's 431 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 1: been a lot of frustration, or I've got in a 432 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: car wreck and all the parts are going to take 433 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 1: a really long time to come in, and so at 434 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,280 Speaker 1: first I was like, uh, but there have been the 435 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 1: more I've like let go of it, I'm actually like, okay, wait, 436 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,760 Speaker 1: I'm checking in with my body and I'm like, but 437 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: actually I'm okay, and thank god I was okay in 438 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,200 Speaker 1: the wreck, you know, Like it's kind of twisted the 439 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 1: way that I've had to pause. There's been a lot 440 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 1: of pause needed in my life lately, and so that's 441 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 1: more of how I'm leaning into the retrograde is just 442 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: like okay, I don't know, maybe that's what you were saying. 443 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 1: Like it's just like if you the more you lean 444 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: into the spiritual stud would you say you you're getting 445 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,960 Speaker 1: into all this analytical stuff? And then you said, you know, 446 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,800 Speaker 1: I feel this, I feel yeah, yeah. How many times 447 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 1: do you use feelings to talk to people instead of 448 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,560 Speaker 1: you're thinking if I if you tell me what you think. 449 00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: I tell you what I think, and we've created a polarity. 450 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 1: But if you tell me what you feel, well, I 451 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 1: have to honor that. I have to be supportive of 452 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 1: how you feel. I don't have to fix you. I 453 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:15,359 Speaker 1: don't have to change you. I can just understand you 454 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:21,120 Speaker 1: and accept you. There's no polarity in that. And so 455 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 1: when I looked at the charts, and so see we 456 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:30,560 Speaker 1: can run a chart on each uh energy and planet, 457 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,040 Speaker 1: and then that tells us how the energy is going 458 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,640 Speaker 1: to work. Now, this is actually a pretty good uh 459 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:43,520 Speaker 1: UM mercury retrograde and the fact that it it really 460 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: brings up a lot of positive stuff. I mean the 461 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:53,680 Speaker 1: love and knowledge, fair mindedness sacrifices to maintain peace and harmony. 462 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:58,759 Speaker 1: So it's connected to Venus very strongly. And Venus is 463 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 1: the planet of love, east and harmony. And so our 464 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:09,560 Speaker 1: thinking is going to be much more in alignment with 465 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:15,960 Speaker 1: UM wanting to feel good and happy into things in 466 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:23,480 Speaker 1: our lives. Now, some of the challenges UM that we're 467 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,279 Speaker 1: going to go through is we're going to be obviously 468 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 1: the subconscious mind has all the repressed material of our past. 469 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:37,880 Speaker 1: It's how we just automatically respond, so you get interrect. 470 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,520 Speaker 1: It's gonna take time to get the parts. You automatically 471 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: respond logically, rationally, Oh my god, it will be without 472 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,600 Speaker 1: a car. How do I get someplace? How do I 473 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,600 Speaker 1: get all this done? How can I go to it? 474 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:54,359 Speaker 1: You see, So the mind just rambles on and that 475 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,040 Speaker 1: negative way, and then you've got to come down to 476 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,920 Speaker 1: a feeling and say, oh, hang on a second, God, 477 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,360 Speaker 1: I'm having a sneeze attack over here. Sorry. Yes, continue. 478 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:11,640 Speaker 1: So we're happy to learn how to stop so much 479 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:16,360 Speaker 1: of not take in so much of the mental um, 480 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:21,279 Speaker 1: the mental processing, and start trusting our instincts and intuition, 481 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,840 Speaker 1: which is what neptune is good for because it brings 482 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 1: up ideals and creativity. So, you know, when we're faced 483 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:38,000 Speaker 1: with a uh an issue, we have we have the 484 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 1: free will to do two things, adopt an attitude and 485 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:46,400 Speaker 1: use our creativity to work our ways through it. Yeah, 486 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,960 Speaker 1: and so that's always going to be the answer, isn't it. Yeah. 487 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,279 Speaker 1: I should have being confused, ask you ask yourself, what 488 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,640 Speaker 1: is this trying to show me? That's exactly what I 489 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:00,560 Speaker 1: was gonna say. I said to a friend, I was 490 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,719 Speaker 1: like the thing at the end of the day, is 491 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,920 Speaker 1: that because I've been so sick that this is funny 492 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,560 Speaker 1: as I have a sneezing attack. But I was so sick, remember, 493 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,359 Speaker 1: for like a month, and during that time the thing 494 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,200 Speaker 1: that I really realized the most was if I have 495 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 1: my health, most of the rest of my life is 496 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,960 Speaker 1: figure out herble, Like even the bad stuff. It's like 497 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,759 Speaker 1: at some point, like I can work through most things, 498 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,440 Speaker 1: even if they're painful. Usually they are here to teach 499 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,160 Speaker 1: me something. And um, that was kind of where I 500 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,399 Speaker 1: got with the wreck. Was like I was super frustrated. 501 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,719 Speaker 1: It was, you know, the cops are so overrun here, 502 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,000 Speaker 1: like they couldn't even show up, like I said, there 503 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,000 Speaker 1: for four hours. It was just all this stuff, you know, 504 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,759 Speaker 1: and it's expensive and it's a pain in the ass basically. 505 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,279 Speaker 1: But like I'm okay, and the other people that were 506 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,040 Speaker 1: in the wreck are okay too, and so it's just 507 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,280 Speaker 1: like it is what it is, you know, and I'll 508 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,960 Speaker 1: figure out. I've been fine. I got a rental, like 509 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,319 Speaker 1: there's there's thing was it's just not that big of 510 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,359 Speaker 1: a deal, um ultimately, but it did take me kind 511 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,319 Speaker 1: of backpedaling for a second, and I did have to 512 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,920 Speaker 1: feel the emotions of the frustration, the anger, and then 513 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:12,360 Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I don't want to give my 514 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:16,759 Speaker 1: energy to that anymore because ultimately, like I am okay 515 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:22,640 Speaker 1: and thank god I have that. Well. So, I mean 516 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:28,200 Speaker 1: that's a perfect example of mercury retrograde. I mean, you 517 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:32,680 Speaker 1: know you're having to slow down, rethink and and use 518 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:37,040 Speaker 1: creativity to work your way through it, right, And so 519 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 1: what people are going to be bumping up against, uh 520 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,200 Speaker 1: in this retrograde is a lot of nervous energy, Okay, 521 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:49,720 Speaker 1: And um, it's very important to mean what you say 522 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:54,839 Speaker 1: and say what you mean, um, because this brings up 523 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:58,759 Speaker 1: a lot of it can bring up a lot of 524 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:03,680 Speaker 1: issues in relationship of course. And of course, uh, you know, 525 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:09,640 Speaker 1: you're not building very good trust within yourself when you 526 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,359 Speaker 1: when when you're when you're upset or nervous, I mean 527 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,480 Speaker 1: you're not you can't even get intuition good when you're 528 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,839 Speaker 1: become still emotional. So I was thinking about what how 529 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:26,719 Speaker 1: would people notice this? I would bet you that um, um, 530 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:32,400 Speaker 1: irritable bow is going to double in cases during this 531 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:37,560 Speaker 1: retrograde because he's going into virgo. Virgo is most definitely 532 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:44,719 Speaker 1: about digestion and how people process life. So that's going 533 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:49,800 Speaker 1: to be some of the physical connection, uh, nervous energy. 534 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 1: Another thing is when you find yourself in an uncompromising 535 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,600 Speaker 1: situation with someone, So there could be some difficulties with 536 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:06,320 Speaker 1: a lot of back and forth and arguments, disagreements, um, 537 00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:12,560 Speaker 1: a lot of day dreaming, a lot of idealism, which 538 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,880 Speaker 1: brings in a lot of fantasy. It also it also 539 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:22,480 Speaker 1: could bring in up some self pity and martyrdom. Another 540 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:28,000 Speaker 1: thing is that we need to bridge the gap a 541 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:32,040 Speaker 1: little more than what we've been used to by. That 542 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:36,400 Speaker 1: gap is the ego personality versus the high self. So 543 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:42,160 Speaker 1: it's very interesting in this particular retrograde Mercury is going retrograde, 544 00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:47,440 Speaker 1: which is a logical, rational mind, analytical, critical, judgmental opinion mind. 545 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:52,680 Speaker 1: And Jupiter, which is the higher octave of our mind, 546 00:40:53,440 --> 00:41:00,080 Speaker 1: is also retrograde. So our philosophy is now half and 547 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:05,560 Speaker 1: to be re re readjusted a tune to a higher 548 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:12,279 Speaker 1: way of thinking. And um, we've we're going to start discovering. Uh, 549 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,759 Speaker 1: it's asking us to discover where are we overly optimistic 550 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:21,640 Speaker 1: and where are we pessimistic? And um, it's it's a 551 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,440 Speaker 1: place to where we've got to start rejecting some of 552 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:30,239 Speaker 1: the conditioned and programs in our life that really don't 553 00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:33,680 Speaker 1: work very well, not very pretty when you act like 554 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:43,759 Speaker 1: six and your forty, it's not And so I think 555 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:49,480 Speaker 1: that we have to understand because this is followed by 556 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:54,799 Speaker 1: the full moon, right, talk about intense and then the 557 00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:59,160 Speaker 1: full mood is in Pisces and has got enough tune 558 00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,120 Speaker 1: can jumped the full moon. So now we got this 559 00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:13,080 Speaker 1: double whammy of our unconscious responses two and emotionalisms. Ah, 560 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:18,120 Speaker 1: so we've we started out with our logical rational, logical 561 00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:23,359 Speaker 1: mind and virgo new news, new moon, and now we're 562 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:28,200 Speaker 1: on the opposite of the Pisces full moon, and we're 563 00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:31,680 Speaker 1: having to re evaluate what we're looking at, what we're 564 00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:36,760 Speaker 1: seeing where it's being objectified. So we've got to start 565 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,880 Speaker 1: using others. Is this is this real? Is it imagined? 566 00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:45,080 Speaker 1: Is it an illusion? Is it reality? But we're trying 567 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:49,839 Speaker 1: to escape run from the problem, So there could be 568 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:54,640 Speaker 1: procrastinations over making decisions, which is just only going to 569 00:42:54,719 --> 00:43:00,920 Speaker 1: exacerbate the problem. So you see what we're talking about 570 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:06,760 Speaker 1: mercury retrograde and especially right now, um, we're all going 571 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,239 Speaker 1: through a time and looking at the problems going on 572 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:14,040 Speaker 1: in the world and we're realizing that, you know, there's 573 00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,520 Speaker 1: got to be different responses. We've got to get another 574 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,839 Speaker 1: way of looking at things. And that's what this retrograde 575 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,120 Speaker 1: is going to do, is is forced us to look 576 00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:28,360 Speaker 1: at the relationships of the polarities going on in our life, 577 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:41,360 Speaker 1: all polarities. Twitter is balance, okay, is balance and harmony, 578 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:46,360 Speaker 1: and it brings to us a greater experience of life. 579 00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:50,960 Speaker 1: So it's very important that we get in touch with 580 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:56,799 Speaker 1: our true feelings, are intuitive side, our spiritual side, so 581 00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,440 Speaker 1: that we go through this with a flow. And if 582 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:05,040 Speaker 1: you're always taking responsibility for everything that happens in your life, 583 00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:11,520 Speaker 1: well you adopt an attitude and use creativity. It's like 584 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:17,040 Speaker 1: a speed bump. Okay, it's no big deal, No big deal. 585 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,440 Speaker 1: I like that. See this is why I was like, 586 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,840 Speaker 1: we got to talk about mercury retro grade because according 587 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:27,000 Speaker 1: to Cosmos, Cosmopolitan, it is a huge deal. And this 588 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,560 Speaker 1: is like, this is a really good mentality, I think 589 00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,520 Speaker 1: because they're really it's not like there's nothing we can 590 00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,719 Speaker 1: change or control about it. So it's just like what 591 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:40,080 Speaker 1: is it bringing forth to you? And that is actually 592 00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:42,279 Speaker 1: the place that I find the most piece is when 593 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,760 Speaker 1: I'm just when I stay curious in my own life, 594 00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:49,279 Speaker 1: you know, versus like, uh, this isn't going according to plan, 595 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,879 Speaker 1: and so I'm pissed. And it's like, well, we don't 596 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:53,759 Speaker 1: even know if that's a bad thing, that it's not 597 00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,600 Speaker 1: going according to plan. In most cases, it's probably not. 598 00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,880 Speaker 1: It's just you know anyway. You know, it's like my 599 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:04,000 Speaker 1: teacher told me one time when I was looking at 600 00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,600 Speaker 1: the yearly forecast and I said, oh my god, buzz, 601 00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,200 Speaker 1: we got this energy coming and this energy and this 602 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,920 Speaker 1: energy and this energy, and it's going to cause this. 603 00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,160 Speaker 1: It's going to work with this, he said. You know, 604 00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,600 Speaker 1: as fologers always look at something in a forecast and 605 00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,839 Speaker 1: it always comes out negative twice as bad as what 606 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,799 Speaker 1: it really is. And I've watched that over the years now, 607 00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:29,480 Speaker 1: so I've I'm very cautious about predicting a lot of 608 00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:33,399 Speaker 1: negative stuff. I think that's good and that you don't 609 00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:43,239 Speaker 1: need any more negativity, none of that going around right now. Well, 610 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:48,000 Speaker 1: thank you, Marvis was very insightful. Um, tell the people 611 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:49,400 Speaker 1: where they can find you if they want to do 612 00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:53,719 Speaker 1: a reading themselves of their chart or even just a 613 00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:58,920 Speaker 1: life coaching session about all these different energies happening. Well, 614 00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:03,440 Speaker 1: they can get me at astro marvs dot com. Okay, 615 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:09,000 Speaker 1: they go to my website. Um, everything's on there, and 616 00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:13,560 Speaker 1: they can email me Marvin at Astro Marv or just 617 00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:18,200 Speaker 1: send me an email right from the website. Okay, and 618 00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,359 Speaker 1: I'll be glad to set up a time with them 619 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:24,880 Speaker 1: to do a zoom or in person. Whichever zoom or 620 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:26,799 Speaker 1: in person. So no matter where you are, you guys 621 00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:28,719 Speaker 1: can do a reading with Mark. And so I hope 622 00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:32,399 Speaker 1: I've piqued your curity curiosity because we haven't had time 623 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:36,280 Speaker 1: yet to tell you where marcurity retrogrades happening in your life, 624 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,920 Speaker 1: and I think that you probably ought to know. You 625 00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:44,960 Speaker 1: do great, Okay, Well we'll leave this one for you 626 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,960 Speaker 1: and me to talk about. Okay, if people don't need 627 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:53,399 Speaker 1: to listen to my life falling apart or anything, Oh, 628 00:46:53,680 --> 00:47:00,640 Speaker 1: Kelly kidding, guys, it's great, It's all good. Okay. Well, 629 00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,399 Speaker 1: I'll put all the details to where you can find 630 00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,560 Speaker 1: Mark in the description of this podcast. And as always, Marv, 631 00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,520 Speaker 1: thank you for joining us, and we'll be back next 632 00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:13,359 Speaker 1: month with more astrology ratings. You're here, you're here, Thanks 633 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,120 Speaker 1: for listening to the Velvet's Edge podcast with Kelly Henderson, 634 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,799 Speaker 1: where we believe everyone has a little velvet and a 635 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:23,000 Speaker 1: little edge. Subscribe for more conversations on life, style, beauty 636 00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:26,759 Speaker 1: and relationships. Search Velvet's Edge wherever you get your podcasts.