Mercury Retrograde in January 2009

ENJOY the wheel of fortune spinning trying to bring us all more with this Mercury retrograde January 11, 2009 at 8;44am PST Until January 31st 11:21pm PST 3 hours difference for East coast..

Often people get really spooked with Mercury retrograde, it does happen 3 or 4 times Yearly and So I kind of figure, SLOW DOWN, double check and it is a great time to FIX something which I have had problems with.

Example, I went and bough NEW recording equipment and a telephone and the adaptor cords to record clients on the telephone YESERDAY right at the beginning of mercury retrograde. Now, you must understand I HAD all this equipment which was not behaving properly. I re- Installed it this am on the 12th and ALL is working wonderfully.

I would not have undertaken this as a NEW PROJECT during mercury retrograde without expecting lots of snags and having to REDO it. BUT if it was necessary it would NOT have kept me from doing what I need to do. So, figure that this mercury retrograde exists for one thing and ONE THING Only…

TO GET you to change your thought patterns. Mercury retrograded at 7 Degrees of Aquarius RIGHT AT THE EXACT degree we will have a NEW MOON SOLAR ECLIPSE on the 25th So perhaps this one shall be a bit more interesting than normal.

Mercury retrograde, reconnect, reapply, redo, reconfigure, repair, replace, reacess, and all the re’s go wonderfully: NEW stuff maybe not quite so wonderfully but has anything gone the way it was supposed to go this last 90 days?

Seattle Washington was AN ISLAND for a few days with all the passes shut off and the North and south Routes to 1-5 Closed North and South of the city. My thoughts during this time was WE are in training for the mercury retrograde.

Have you put a plan on your calendar this last few months that has not been adjusted, rearranged, and reconfigured? Do you get up in the am and have a PLAN and the plan not go according to the PLAN?

Welcome to the world of Aquarius which is the energy of WE MUST DO THE GOOD OF THE ALL Vs. the good of the one…

Well, normally the ONE (US) is what we are trying to handle, control and make work and how can worrying about EVERYONE else help us? There is a spiritual practice in Hawaii that says…

If I ask for something for me (my guides and angels are obligated to try and help me get it) If I ask for something for you (my guides and angels and your guides kick in) If I ask for something that involves Lots of people (My guides and all their guides work) Do you see where I am going with this?

So, The mission in Seattle Washington and food banks badly need money, food, and much assistance. I can wish for them and for enough to help them and SOME left over for me.. OR I can wish to earn a million dollars or win it or whatever, and then, give the mission something. Which wish do you think will get the most action or assistance?

I am so sorry for those of you who do not like this but we have major planets the next 10 years in Aquarius (the good of the Many outweighs the GOOD of the ONE) Capricorn (achievement for the world) and Pisces (we truly are one).

It is not that we are not in a time of individual attainment since Aquarius loves originality and unique and inventive behaviors and wants us to live our lives that way. We just cannot do it ASLEEP anymore. WAKE up time is here, watch the weather and more and see what is happening on this planet to GET US AWAKE and to help each other.

We become heroes when we have disasters, floods, are snowed in and what not…We cease to just be US and BECOME WE, my suggestion is that we implement this RIGHT NOW and have less of all of the above.

THIS IS THE Major theme of this mercury retrograde. Mercury Moving backwards on the 11th On the 16th making a wonderful aspect to help us connect with harmony and balance. On the 18th Sunday Making a rough aspect in the am trying to wake us up, and then by 11:07am making a wonderful aspect with Jupiter (trying to get us to have faith and trust) that OUR plan is not Anything but OUR plan and that there is a BIGGER PLAN.

On the 19th of January the sun moves into Aquarius FURTHER enhancing all of this. On the 20th the sun (THE LIGHT) touches mercury going backwards, and for some (the lights go on) Then later that day we have some other great Aquarius energy happening … JUST IN TIME for 9;36pm Mercury to backing UP OUT OF AQUARIUS BACK into Capricorn.

Mercury (how we think and talk) in the sign of Aquarius want unique and wild out of the box energy and communications. Mercury now back into Capricorn wants us to dot the I’s and MAKE SURE AND get it all correct. AND this IS a great part of the new world order wanting us to create new laws for humanity….

Meanwhile we are watching through bated breath all that is going NOT the way it was planned. On the 27th WE have the NEW MOON SOLAR eclipse at 7 degrees Of Aquarius (within 10 degrees of Mercury backwards in Capricorn) and This eclipse is designed to show us that WE can leave the past behind.

“the Sabian Symbol is a child being born of an EGG” indicating that there is not genetic history and we are being REBIRTHED if we allow it. But we have to be willing to rebirth.

Those of you making new moon wishes for NOTHING to change and it all to stay the same …Might want to shift those wishes .into “I welcome these changes and know my life will be BETTER, happier, more full of all good things and these changes will bring this not only to me but to millions of others”

On the 26th we have a great aspect with Venus and Mars (love and relationships) IF we are out of the “I AM THE MOST important Mode” and into the WE as not a lessening of the I but an addition to the I as we become WE:

The 29th has some really great rethinking and visioning a better world energy and on the 31st as Mercury goes direct we STILL have Mercury needing to retravel the path it has been over 2 times already. Once as it moved forward, then as it has moved backwards, and now it moves Forward again … thus the 3rd time is the CHARM saying I think.

On February 9th LUNAR Eclipse mercury will still be in Capricorn trying to help us make Those necessary shifts in power and authority but on its way to re enter Aquarius on the 14th of February and be back on HOME plate where it began its retrograde on the 21st.

Reapply yourself to your visions of the future with the rethinking of (how can one country, person, or whatever have it all) while so many have nothing? REACESSMENT for most of us means that we do begin to understand that realigning resources is a big part of the plan.

So …for you personally. Enjoy this mercury rx. Rethink YOUR thoughts about YOU, yourself and those you love. Maybe reconnecting to the power of this will have you recognizing is it ALL ABOUT US. not you or me but US

And when we think this way, how can we hate, or fear, or know anything but what WE NEED to be working on to make this a reality and not just a thought.

HAPPY MERCURY RETROGRADE from your Astrologer who has her SOUTH NODE (past life energy) in Aquarius in her 3rd house of the mind and writing. Others (myself included might say I have LIVED through this in other times) and am here to herald a BETTER day for humanity.

Ready or not. LETS have some fun with this mercury retrograde and come out a Better (US)

AND I just reread this and LOVED THE idea. A BETTER USA…and if you know where 7 degrees of Aquarius to 21 degrees of Capricorn are in your chart. This is the journey Mercury is taking for the next few weeks. AND if you have planets at l ate degree of Capricorn or Early Aquarius you will be tweaked.

AND if you have planets in Cancer and Leo (you are getting an opposition) and if you have planets IN ANYTHING: you are experiencing this in some way.

BE OPEN TO changing your mind and changing your life. IT is going to happen anyway, and personally I like to think (THINK) I have a tiny bit of control, don’t you?

Carol Barbeau
carolastro@carolbarbeau.com
206-542-7641