Show Notes
Curious about what Mercury Retrograde is really all about? It's so much more than the pop references you always hear like "don't call your ex!" or "of course technology malfunctions..." Is that all true though? Get your notebooks ready for this one... We get into it and so much more in this episode. Tune in to learn: the basics of retrogrades the history and some mythology around Mercury and retrogrades the Mercury-Sun cycle and how it impacts us in our personal natal charts, and as a collective what the archetypes of Mercury & Sun coming together feel like and how we can acknowledge them, and use them to our advantage and so much more!
-- Links from this episode: Leyla Rael & Dane Rudhyar book Astrological Aspectshttps://www.amazon.com/Astrological-Aspects-Process-Oriented-Approach-ebook/dp/B07JMCC29L Jim Sher book Astrology as a Spiritual Pathhttps://www.astrologyasaspiritualpath.com/ OPA The Evolving Astrologer magazine with Mercury RX article (page 94)https://opaastrology.org/magazine/OPA-TEA-2025-March-Equinox.pdf
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