Full Moon, Mercury Retrograde & Meditation
- Gogo uMkhanyakude
- Dec 13, 2016
- 3 min read
Full moons are always wonderful times to reflect, release, and rejoice. This one is especially great for that as it's the last one of 2016!
Reflect on the intentions you set during the New Moon (or the goals you set at the beginning of the month)
Release that which turned out to be unuseful or unnecessary.
Rejoice and give thanks for the healthy relationships in your life that nurture you
The full moon in Gemini is favorable for catching up with loved ones. So Call that person you've been missing and talk. You may feel intensely emotional right now and like something is pushing you. Or you might be having more and more revelations about your life, the people around you and your feelings. Meditate on it and ask the universe to help you let go.
Use tonight (and the rest of the week) to focus on self care and stress relief or get romantic, get physical and let your energy flow. Because we're towards the end of Sagittarius season and going into Capricorn season soon, in the next few weeks you may be feeling more ambitious, adventurous and charismatic or you might be thinking about all the adventures and ambitions you have yet to achieve. Either way it's time to act up and act out more. Put more action and energy into expressing your feelings and ideas. Those with significant mutable sign placements (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces) may feel/need this more than others but here's some guiding questions to meditate with or journal about to process where in your life you need to direct more of your energy:
What are your hidden desires?
What fantasies do you need to fulfill?
How can you turn your ideas into actions?
Mercury went into on Capricorn Dec. 2nd and will continue to transit through this cardinal earth sign until Jan. 4th but Mercury will also be in Retrograde officially on Dec. 19th. While on one hand this means communication can be more reasonable and realistic, on the other hand it means it can also be rigid and pessimistic. So while earlier in Sagittarius season we might have felt more optimistic now we feel more calculating, strategic and task oriented. However, Mercury going into Retrograde will challenge our ability to communicate clearly as we attempt to complete tasks. People get concerned about Mercury Retrogrades because when they occur there's often experiences of conflicts and problems with communication, technology, travels, contracts, etc. So maybe your mail comes late or your computer crashes or your flight is delayed or an email you thought you sent never went through but these are all things that if you keep calm and stay optimistic can be lived through with ease.
If you feel like you need some energetic support with that and you love crystals as much as I do here's some recommendations for which gemstones to wear more now or meditate with:
If you need help with not only aligning your emotions and thoughts but also releasing worry and protecting your intuitive energy then you may find peacock ore to be a helpful stone.
If you need help being more honest and/or trusting aquamarine helps balance the throat chakra which assists us with the energy needed to articulate our truth
If you need help finding the right words to use and feel more calm while speaking blue calcite is an excellent stone. It can also be helpful to anyone who often feels unheard or misunderstood.
Overall, I believe that meditation and mindfulness are always major keys to getting through life's ups and downs. The other thing that always helps me get through a retrograde is he ability to laugh at myself and at Mercury's energy when I realize it's just trying to send me a divine message in an unexpected way.
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