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Mercury going retrograde…keep breathing

Erika Ginnis

Just a quick note to remind you all that Mercury (planet of communication, technology, travel etc.) is going retrograde within a week. I have seen different times listed, but in Hawaii time zone it goes retrograde on the April 18th and direct on May 12th.

Regardless, we are definitely in the shadow of Mercury right now (oh so very much yes!).  I can feel it myself and I am having conversations with people (friends and clients both) who are already feeling it. This retrograde will be in Taurus the entire time, so there will be a lot of time to revisit ideas of support, security, finances, and also concepts of sensuality (Taurus is a very sensual sign!).

It’s a good idea to triple check forms, be even clearer than normal about communication, and allow more time for travel.

Mercury in retrograde is all about review, revisit, revise, renew, recreate (catching the “re” theme there?). It’s a great time to edit and see things you missed before. Retrograde periods can allow us an opportunity to catch up with ourselves (since going forward at our normal clip is usually not really possible);  to find out what we have missed internally in our mad dash for the finish line (whatever that means for us today). How do we feel? What needs to be heard,  to be said, to be redone?

It can be an exciting time and/or a challenging time, and it effects everyone differently. If you have Mercury retrograde in your own birth chart then it is usually a much easier experience. I look at retrogrades less fatalistically than I used to, and now I look for what I can do rather than what I can’t; this is an excellent time for meditation for example! I also try to be somewhat practical as well, and make sure things are backed up (blog, books, computers, ?) before it goes stationery retrograde.

Chaos can be incredibly creative,  so perhaps embracing the nonlinear experience of a Mercury retrograde, will allow us to visit places that we would have normally missed, and see things of value that were overlooked before.

Join me in remembering through all the changes, to just keep breathing!

Blessings and Aloha ~Erika

4-7-10 poem

Erika Ginnis

4-7-10  ( poem)

What is a circle?

A line drawn in the mind
on the heart
a hope
a prayer
a promise

The shortest distance between two points, could be the circle that joined them

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Still awash in choices

Erika Ginnis

I know that choices are good, and I am glad for them and yet I am finding hours flying by as I pull in the different widgets and bells and whistles to my blog. I am going to just love myself through this process and know that there will be a time in the near future when this set up process is down to a low roar and I perhaps I will post about the things that I am even more interested in, things like Spirit and energy and the information that is showering down onto this lovely planet.

It is absolutely by choice that I started this blog yesterday on the equinox, the first day of the astrological year.

I know that this is all Good, and that setting things up in order to play explore and share, is just another analogy for life.  I wonder how “long” it took me to decide to be in this particular body this time? I have this internal movie playing in this very moment, where I see myself pouring through all those options as I “set-up” this particular life…So did I use a theme for my body I wonder? Or did I build it from scratch from the code up?

Another blessing is that I haven’t put the word out about this to anyone yet,  so I am most likely just writing to myself at this point. In all of this I am finding myself really really happy 🙂 this is SO MUCH FUN.

-Erika