Welcome to the week of the Holiday season beginning as most of us will be celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday this week. I am so grateful that I will be hosting this year and having a full home to embrace and enjoy the commencing of holiday celebrations with! I adore the holiday season and the warmth of a home filled with those I love, the foods I love, the conversations that fill the space and the genuine joy that is embodied with the traditions of gratitude and grace for the life we live. I can’t speak to Thanksgiving and the enjoyment of the tradition that has been created among us without speaking to how truth was hidden from us as history is not accurate in the true story of the pilgrims and Indians. I respect and honor the native traditions much deeper than many and I do offer my grievance and honor for the horrible experiences that lead to the holiday itself. Balance, polarity, truth in the Matrix. I am so aware of the light and dark perspectives in all things these days. If we seek truth, we can find it, and I have gone down too many rabbit holes of historical truths to not speak to it today as I write this. Nonetheless, I will enjoy hosting a celebration of all things good in my life now, as I truly think it’s one of the most important things we can do now to build back some goodness in today’s collective energies. I truly believe one of the best things we can be doing these days is finding simple joys and ways to share hope, gratitude and joy. We are so blessed and I am so grateful. We must find ground to stand on that feels better than the recent energies presenting for so many. Gratiude is always a brick layer.
This year, I will help families in need, as I have most years, and if you’re reading this and you’re able, consider giving to a family you know is in need. It is these small gestures that truly inspire and create community in our worlds. Don’t do it for praise, or social media recognition; do it because you can and it makes you feel good to be of service in the world right now. I truly hope that your week is full of lovely energies that remind you of simpler and happier days.
This moves me to this weeks astrological energy. We enter this Monday with a Mercury retrograde that will last three weeks until it goes direct on December 15th. Its shadow period started earlier in November and wont complete until January 2nd. We often give Mercury Rx a really bad rap, but I have come to know that there are many ways to perceive and harness this energy. The cosmos dance around us and give us the energy we can choose to align with if we so desire. Men that are not using this ancient tool to align with are not wrong, but would truly find a lot more resonance on how and why things may be occurring in their worlds if they chose. I digress. It’s truly wild to be alive in these faster moving times and I welcome the mental slow down that this period will bring. Let’s look a little closer at this transit.
This Mercury Rx is happening in the sign of Sagittarius (Mutable Fire) which holds the energy that represents our beliefs, ideals, truths and philosophical ideas life. We can look at the bigger picture in Sagittarius and see the broader perspective as tis loves the look at higher education, spirituality and the quest for knowledge. It’s a fun and expansive energy and often gives us the energy of the explorer, often focusing on the why’s and how’s of life. This is very polarized as Gemini (Mutable Air) likes the details, it likes to try things out, look at all the options but from a very detailed scope of vision. Gemini loves to gather information and explore it all with curiosity and thrives with variety and then adapts to the best option that it comes upon. Gemini is very changeable, as is Sagittarius so this is a very introspective time to engage in before the new year of 2025 sets in.
I feel that this retrograde season is a time to really look over the past six months or so and course correct before we navigate the highly unstable time that is coming to us in 2025. This is not bad, it’s the signature of 2025’s energy in the way we have major planetary shifts that will change the course of humanity forever. (More later)
Ways that this energy could manifest for us, which please note that this is incredibly different in the way it will show up for us depending on our personal birth charts and the axis it expresses on, will be:
~Reevaluation of our personal beliefs and value systems.
~Miscommunications can occur in regards to all things mental, spiritual and cultural. We will want to express but it may not be the best time as we’re all shifting in new sands.
~We may find ourselves going back to old ways of seeking knowledge, or old ideas about our lives direction and philosophy around our world view. Long term goals vs short term goals. The way we are moving forward. The people were moving forward with. We will likely be looking at gaining a deeper awareness of what motivates us and find new understanding in how we seek those motivations.
~Old people can resurface during this time, as well as old plans being up for debate again. Conversations may reignite passions and encourage us to share more or not!
~We will be exploring deeper truths, reassessing our values and approaching things differently now.
It’s an important time to balance out the internal detailed feelings and subjectives with the broader more expansive expression in the reality around us. We are a micro cosmic dancer on the macro dance floor and how we move through and around this dance floor is our responsibility, no one else’s!
This energy is a big shift. I feel that this retrograde period will change course for many of us, whether it’s on an internal facet or an external expression is dependent on our charts and how this hits our personal world.
Monday, the same day, Mars in Leo is in a lovely flow to the nodes of fate in Libra and Aries this Monday as well. This energy is creating a lovely fire trine in our sky, which is a part of a kite formation as well. For ease of expression, I am focusing on the Trine energy. This energy is fostering feelings of assertive self growth and expansion, enhancing the energy of individuality and the pursuits of goals that will enhance our confidence and motivations. While this energy is lovely, know that with the current energy of Mercury going RX for three weeks, I would suggest you find more of an internal strength and clarity of purpose that you can build on. Relationships can deepen, clarity around our most personal relationships can come in for bad or good, and we may see opportunities presenting that align us with our individual paths. It can add a sense of frustration to the energy as we may want to push forward with something with an active firey Mars energy but the slow down of the cosmos right now would best serve you in relaxing into the internal battles first.
Wednesday we have the Sun in Sagittarius making the same trine and sextile aspects to the nodes of fate too. This is a week that is truly showing us where we need to point our Sagittarius arrow for our future wins and pursuits, however we’re in the mercury retrograde period. The influence is lovely and if we can contain the energy, its best used for internal exploration and conversations of past wrap ups as we are truly, without a doubt, staring a new chapter of our reality.
Thursday is the highlight of the week for me. We take these dynamic energies and we settle in to celebrate a day with family or Friends or self. Anyway I see it its good and it allows us to rest into our joys, simple gratitudes that remind us of our core ground we stand on.
My hope is that wherever you are, whoever you’re with, however you celebrate, that you allow gratitude and abundance thoughts to be the resonance of your day, internally and externally. You see, my friends, happiness is no found, but created by every thought and choice we choose. Serve your life and your well being well.
As we move forward I know we’ll be looking at a time of realigning with our own internal truths and individuality and the ways in which we can cultivate the life we want to reflect the back to us. This world is changing and there is no going back to anything. Anything forward is uncharted and we’re being asked to settle in and get back to our own worlds. The way we serve the collective is not giving our own needs and desires up, to fit in, or to numb our own feelings out for another’s to reign over us. The way to serve is to find your authentic truth and your voice, while holding respect and grace to allow others to be themselves. Compassion can be held in a healthy stable vessel as well as a stressed and anxious energy. I am stoic in many emotional fronts while harnessing the spiritually infused compassion for others suffering. I know that often we can get lost in emotional waters and this is a lovely time to let this fiery energy burn off the excess dampness in our lives.
I’ll be back later this week to talk about the new moon energy coming in on the 30th in Sagittarius!
For now, let yourself surrender to what is happening beneath the surface of our days and get in touch with what you need to revisit, revise, recommit or reconsider the truth or next steps of action to be. 2025 is just around the corner and I look forward to sharing more energies to help us navigate the new terrain. We are the power in our lives aligned with a force of energy unseen, and often unnoticed unless we’ve intentionally cultivated a relationship with it.
Thanks for reading and may the beauty of the simpler energies of tradition flow through you and your home. May the blessings of the season pour on you and yours.
Be so sweet to you ~
Angela
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