how to show love to mercury retrograde people: white text on red roses
babies don’t stop being born during Mercury retrograde! that means about three times a year people are being born during Mercury’s underground process. while I’m not here for increasing any hype of frustration (boring!) about retrograde planets, there are distinctions between a planet that’s direct and one that’s not. so how do we honor those living in that distinction?
here are some ways to show love to the Mercury retrograde people in your life:
wait for response. give them more time than you think one should need to process, make up their own mind, and participate. Mercury retrograde operates on the juiciness of retrospection, introspection, and room for readjustments. rushing isn’t cool anymore and never has been for them.
support their backlines, sidelines, and behind the scenes vantage points. not everybody’s brightest contribution comes from being IN the main-streams of communities, projects, work, etc. Mercury retrograde people are so fucking good at absorbing information and circling back later with things everyone else missed.
don’t press them for information, responses, or formulaic forms of engagement. just like transiting Mercury retrograde, loving someone with natal Mercury retrograde is an opportunity to reconfigure our attachments to linearity, manage our expectations of speed, and drop the one-dimensional assumptions.
be willing to feel a little out of their loop sometimes. generosity of time and space allows them to locate themselves and emerge able to inform you. this builds trust. dissonance can happen when they’re expected to proactively assess their every move or operate “ahead of time”.
Mercury retrograde people are skilled at what we’re all invited to practice during these times: reviewing, reflecting, recalibrating, and reorienting. let them be. this may cause more “delays” aka periods of deep integration before forward movement than we’re conditioned to be comfortable with. but are we nonlinear, multidimensional, uncontainable beings or nah?
sending time-warping love to all my fellow babes born during Mercury retrograde! Mercury is currently retrograde in aquarius (January 30-February 20) so send this to your lovers & friends, let them know how to be in new paradigm praxis with you! oxo
to find out if you have Mercury retro in your natal chart look for a little RX symbol next to Mercury on your fave chart generator app/site. you can also book an email reading just to ask me about your Mercury placement and how you can show & receive love there.