The magnificent multidimensional Aquarian mind at work during retrograde! Image: Andrew Ostrovsky
Gerd Meyring says ‘Quantum computers do not process one possible solution after the other, but rather represent all possible solutions at the same time.’
Daniel S. Frank, MD says ‘Once photons are entangled, they become related in a way that defies classical physics.’ Is that any surprise?! That’s just about how an Aquarian’s mind works!
Mercury Retrograde in Aquarius is 2021’s first Mercury Retrograde! Aquarius is the sign of change, and retrograde sure does do that! It will either be insane, or exactly what the Dr ordered, probably a bit of both, LOL! Wearing mismatched socks will be no surprise. They are a delightful indicator things are perfectly on course.
2021 has the Three Standard Mercury Retrogrades in air signs. The last time this happened was 2015.
Air is the element this year! Aquarius, Gemini, then Libra!
- Jan 30 Aquarius can be genius crazy loners more safely by themselves, both for them and for us, LOL! Loners can be rights fighters, meditators, mensches that get the job done. Or, these electric geniuses can partner up with the multitudes, draw magnificent gatherings and change the entire planet beyond belief! Wisdom reigns! What you can’t do alone, you can sure do together – friend to friend, group to group, invention, computers, awakening, worldwide!
- May 29 Gemini spreads the good word! They listen keenly, and because of the volume of data they process, may come to a conclusion that merits our attention. And nothing stops anywhere! They are a living walking processor, no stopping their learning and sharing! They keep a neighborhood watch and offer the news, keep things ticking! Keep it clean ~ avoid gossip, keep judgements out of it. No news revealed before its time, no unkind slander. Gemini can help reveal the flaws in communications. Gemini is how you think, mind to mind, handshake to handshake, neighbors and sibs, local errands.
- Sep 6 Libra tests the balance we keep while riding with the deepest waters of life, often at great risk. In equality they walk beside us, cross the abyss on the tightrope steadying the way. Libra reaches forward to connect with the peoples we meet when we might still be too shy to chat them up ourselves. There is less judgement, kindness shown to all they can. Business makes terrific alliances and good progress is made. Libra is poetic, a deadly chess player, works partner to partner in both business and pleasure, with our peers, social, political and legal.
In context of the greater outer planet events, this Jan/Feb 2021 Mercury Rx is especially important because of the amazing emphasis on Aquarius this year. See the Aquarius 2021 Celestial Highlights! Plus, the only repeated aspect Mercury makes during the cycle is it’s conjunction with Jupiter in AQ!
Here is the event list:
1.11 First Mercury conjunct Jupiter in AQ
1.15 Mercury starts Retrograde cycle
1.17 Jupiter in AQ square the AQ planet Uranus in Taurus
1.28 Full Snow Moon
1.30 Mercury RX at 26 AQ 29
2.09 Saturn in AQ sextile Chiron in Aries
2.11 SIX planet New Moon Aquarian Stellium
2.12 Lunar New Year of the Metal/Gold OX
2.14 Mercury RX conjunct Jupiter in AQ
2.17 Saturn in AQ square AQ planet Uranus in Taurus
2.20 Mercury Direct/forward at 11 AQ 01
3.04 Last Mercury conjunct Jupiter in AQ
3.14 Entire cycle finishes
Mercury rules two signs to this day, Gemini and Virgo, both signs of the mind. Gemini is a communicator data gatherer and Virgo organizes and puts it to use. Mercury in Aquarius is looking for the keys to change, how people can have freedom and difference, yet act in consensus when needed.
The state of the world, our local friends, personal and professional associations will matter. Freedom is at stake. Change is evolution, inevitable. Even what seems bad, stirs the collective, heads are put together, new healing ways found. In moments of genius, profound need, we will find the words to say that people will hear.
Oddly, Aquarius is a ‘fixed’ sign, but a sign of profound sweeping change. It’s spread is from eccentrically stubborn thinking, no thinking at all, to remarkable invention and the exploration of electric enlightenment! And that can vary from topic to topic. Their glitz is unpredictability, can change course in a flash! When dedicated to a greater cause, they gather all the troops and the tsunami of tumblers in the locks are loosed, no going back!
AQ loves change, freedom, scientific exploration – especially electrical or flight related. Computers and networking delight them. Humanitarian causes can be theirraison d’ĂȘtre! Air sports and birds delight them. They make great bankers and bartenders due to their detachment!
At the daily level we question our friendships, the electronics in our lives, how we do or don’t network, whether or how we care about humanity. Importantly is how we fear or embrace change. Do we lose personal control or stay steady while the process is unfolding, asking pertinent questions to facilitate the best results? Are we stubborn about some things, yet readily accept new and different about others? Friendships will be shifted. Alliances will morph, new associates will sparkle, change will be lively. Expect some old friends to reappear, but don’t expect to keep them. Consider what groups you might join, but wait to do it. You will find out more. Keep an open mind that something even better will come along.
Be sure your computer and electronics in your life, in your car, are as up to par as possible well before the RX. During RXs is usually not a time to make purchases. Get the guarantee. Have backup parts and supplies handy to tide you over until after Mercury goes direct Feb 20. Wait four more days for Mercury to leave his station. Do daily backups or have an auto backup system that does that. Copyright your writings, inventions. Hand deliver your important papers. Oh, and don’t ‘hide’ them in a ‘safe place.’ It might be another few retrogrades before you find them again, LOL! In general, Mercury retrogrades are not times to change jobs, start a new job, move, buy new wardrobes or furniture, buy a vehicle, get married. Stall to sign papers – see your astrologer to get your best dates. Of course, life is. You may have to do what you have to do. Just know it won’t come out the way it is originally intended. If you have a job review, schedule another again after Mercury is well forward again if you are not pleased with the results.
Like the Aquarian symbol, double zig zags, lightning bolts, frequently and quickly explore your perimeters while keeping a steady forward course! Others may be excited or be put off center by your variable dizzying pace! Shake ’em loose! Be free! You may lose some in your past as you out distance them. Bullets may be dodged. Intriguing fringe input may enhance your astounding flight!
Retrogrades in the sky are passing periods. Retrogrades in a birth chart are life long, a living entity. As a place that is reprocessed over and over, fantastic skills are developed per planet and sign, along with the other chart factors that may be linked to it. Many top world businesses have many retrogrades in their charts! They have super expertise and it is still growing with the times! Retrogrades keep us mindful and present. In humans about 25% of the population has Mercury Retrograde, and that includes celebrities, LOL! Fun read: 5 Fascinating Facts About Being Born During Mercury Retrograde
Sometimes our lives need retrograde adjusting. We get ahead of ourselves, need to re-regulate the flow, take time to absorb the treasure that is right in front of us. We get a little heady at times, either scattered, or packed too tight, our thoughts blocked.
Take advantage of these retrograde linkages, learn how to make transitions well for optimum results. Not a time to be nervous and hold back. Stay aboard! Like on a ship at sea, get your sea legs! Flex with the flow. It may seem like a mess, but the magic will happen. Guaranteed!
The beauty of retrograde patterns is they are an S shaped, forward, back, forward, but it happens while time moves forward, the other planets have moved. Each direction change is from a new vantage point. Nothing is really ever the same again even though planets cover the same degrees three times! We get three chances! Clever that. Saturated, empowered, we change, gain confidence, get excited to move on!
Mercury Rx with Major Planetary Events!
1.17 Jupiter in AQ square the AQ planet Uranus in Taurus at 6 AQ 43. This aspect occurs at the very beginning of the Mercury Rx Cycle, is 3 days before President Biden’s Inauguration, which will likely be a turbulent time. The energy will carry throughout the Cycle. Some of our actions will be reactive to this period.
2.09 Saturn in AQ sextile Chiron in Aries at 6 AQ 16. Mercury is retrograde now, so new templates will be turned, but no finality will come until sometime after the four days after the direct Station, Feb 24. This is the first of these three sextiles.
2.11 SIX planet New Moon Aquarian Stellium Mercury Rx at 16 AQ 28 is at the center of the Stellium collecting data from all 5 other planets! Heaven!
2.17 Saturn in AQ square AQ planet Uranus in Taurus at 7 AQ 13. First of the three of these squares, and first day of Mercury Direct 8 day Station. Some serious things to consider. Careful with friendships and connections. Could be some dark stormy days around this time.
Pay special attention to Stations! Stations bring special emphasis! That’s when a planet is turning backward or forward from the point of view of Earth. Mercury spends 8 days in each station, four days before and four days after the turning date. Venus is about the same and Mars takes quite longer. The longer the station the more its strength. Stations help us slow down. They are a pause when we are able to be still to receive, focus, take time to think, absorb and anchor important ideas we want to keep. A wise person takes advantage of this opportunity. You can schedule some time by yourself for it each day. Dedicate your walks to it. What is it that has been on your mind? Ask questions wherever you go to whomever you meet, about the subjects on your mind. Then just listen. Try not to interrupt or ‘tell your story,’ hear what they have to say cleanly. You will learn a lot and be blessed for it!
FIVE Fixed Stars and the Galactic Center! The Retrograde Station at 26 AQ 29 same degree squares the Fixed Star Algol at 26 Taurus 10. Algol has a baaaad rep, but is also thought to be a powerful feminine force. Per Astrology King: The Bad? It causes misfortune, violence, decapitation, hanging, electrocution and mob violence, and gives a dogged and violent nature that causes death to the native or others. Good? It gives success to petitions, makes the wearer bold and magnanimous, preserves the body, protects against witchcraft, and turns evil and spells back upon those who work them. Rules diamond. Please see Astrology King for very informative read.
Mercury is noted to be a neutral observer. As he stakes out his stationary position, he takes in Algol for better and worse. Aquarius is not noted for fear, but scientific scrutiny. Perhaps some of Algol’s Behenian power will be used for greater purpose. Taurus has stood for ages, Earth herself, a foundation for Algol’s mischief and might, perhaps be a calming agent.
Anytime Algol is connected, so is the Galactic Center at 27 Sagittarius 09! The 26 AQ 29 Mercury Retrograde Station is SEXTILE the GC! That can amplify perceptions of all matters at stake. Sextiles are aspects of blends and opportunities of compatible elements, in this case air and fire! One spark and the whole thing blows, bigger than ever expected! Sagittarius is Jupiter’s lucky sign and Aquarius is beyond unique, the heavens are alight! Change, we didn’t even know we were waiting for, occurs, perhaps quite suddenly!
Now remember, Algol is still there in the background, concurrent. There will be bad, trouble, along with the good. Don’t let that stop you. The vision, the hope, is still there. Sagittarius and the GC are super PathFinders! We will step across a threshold of some sort. BE there. Also remember Mercury stations are an 8 day affair. Feel it, be it. Give it the time it takes. Expect change after change as the information is downloaded, each day a step further forward. Steady on.
Mercury will trine Capella at 21 Gemini 51, get very close to trining Polaris, the Pole Star/North Star at 28 Gemini 34. He will trine Spica at 23 Libra 50 and Arcturus at 24 Libra 14! That’s a super Grand Trine of all three air signs, Mercury with FOUR Air sign Fixed Stars and Algol! The trines will ease the way, each contributing literally heavenly wisdom. Algol’s aspect at the station is potent and the Galactic Center will add memorable input.
The entire Rx cycle ends Mar 14 in this square with Algol and sextile with the Galactic Center on that day! If you have continuous factors in your chart 21 through 28, you will be activated the entire time as Mercury traverses Aquarius at those degrees, one star after another and the GC! Whatever factors you have, those will be activated a couple days unless you have a factor at that 26th degree. If at that degree, the Station factor kicks in for 8 days. Algol is allowed a 1 -5 degree range per the astrologer and your personal sensitivity! The minimum, however, due to Mercury at station, is EIGHT days, Jan 26 to Feb 2!
Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Aquarius, the aspect that Mercury makes three times, is a success story! Jan 11, retrograde Feb 14 Valentine’s Day and March 4! Though lucky and blessed, many will not choose to marry on Valentine’s Day this year because Mercury rules contracts and retrograde often breaks them! See your astrologer. Mercury is fascinated by the wealth of ideas Jupiter has! Some will happen, others are speculation, hopes, a mix of truth and faith, but they are most assuredly indicators of possibilities! Some mighty tales will be told and top notch fun had! Travel and escape plans will be made! You may decide to go back to school but this time to study about what makes your spirit soar! Wellness is a key topic these days. Mercury mind will make plenty of queries, while Jupiter puts it in perspective, is inspired with purpose and bigger meaning! Jupiter will get plenty of exercise to keep the molecules humming, keep you in super condition with few doubts! We can do this!
Jan 11 is before the Retrograde cycle starts, points the direction. Jupiter is excited to be heard!
Feb 14 we review, toss the salad, see what comes up and keep questing.
March 4, or sometime soon after, see your astrologer for a good date and time, launch that baby! It will be one of the most fun satisfying projects you have worked on in a long time!
Collect, collate, collaborate! This is a big one with wild potential!
Updated 1.21.21
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