Mercury Direct: A Second Beginning to the New Year

How crazy has this Mercury Retrograde been?! Delayed flights, cancelled flights, lost keys, key mix-ups, computer crashes at the shop/bank/motor registry, computers acting erratic, delayed payments, schedules or other important things having to be delayed, miscommunications and plans going awry. This and more is just the stuff that has been experienced by us, friends, family or people I've talked to, and I know you all have plenty of your own stories to share!

Mercury is slowing down now, preparing to go direct on 25 Jan. It'll take a few days to start chugging along again, picking up steam over the next few weeks until he clears the shadow period on Feb 16. Anything that's been delayed will more easily resume, and the haze can start to lift from whatever has felt unclear.

So February is kind of like a second beginning to the New Year- which it always feels like anyway here in Australia with kids going back to school, the summer holidays coming to an end and regular routines starting back. For those of you in the Northern hemisphere, you too will feel this second beginning thanks to the Mercury effect!

(c) Dana Mrkich 2015

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Shadow and retro time over, into new clarity!

Woohoo Venus is out of shadow, Mercury is direct and I have 5 copies of my friend Jo Kelly's CD Letting Love In to GIVEAWAY for the next 5 people who enrol in my Online Course Let Love In!

All the course info is here: https://danamrkich.leadpages.net/let-love-in/

Listen to a sample of the album's chillout grooves here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jokelly

Coming out of these retrograde/shadow periods is like emerging from a cloud that was making it hard to feel fully 'clear' - or you've been so immersed in getting clear within that you haven't really felt like engaging as you usually would with outer life. That's because those retro times are very much geared toward introspection and review. They are often a time to take stock of where we are at, and look at how we truly feel about our life/work/relationships.

We can be confronted by aspects of our inner workings that are ripe for transformation, and triggered to make changes where changes are due. Yet,even while our foot starts revving the accelerator knowing it's time to get moving in new ways, the retrograde and shadow periods can have us feeling like the handbrake is on, or that the flag guy hasn't yet waved the flag for go time! September was very much like that - a lot was moving and shifting on the inside, but the month was a blur in terms of remembering what we actually did externally?! Anyone else feel like that?

The good thing about planets going direct and coming out of shadow is: handbrake is off, flag is down, lights are green!

All that time re-charging your energy, refreshing your motivation, renewing your clarity, and getting re-inspired is now ready to be put into action!!

If love and relationships are your most desired 'ready for change' life area right now please go to the link at the top of the post and get ready for some serious soul scuba-diving!!

How are you all going? Are you feeling a greater pull to start taking some big new actions? x

(c) Dana Mrkich 2015 

Full Moon (and Age) of Aquarius

Mercury went Direct yesterday, and there's a Full Moon on powerful 0 Degrees Aquarius tonight so there are a lot of decisions being made after previous to-ing and fro-ing, conversations happening after recent halts to communication and clarity emerging out of cloudy confusion. 

The Full Moon is making this particular Mercury direct more emotional than most, so your heart and feelings (or someone else's) will be taking a leading role in your decisions, conversations and clarity. 

This can manifest in several ways: finally listening to your feelings despite rational logic or fear telling you to do otherwise, making a tough choice that may upset others but is necessary for your emotional wellbeing, having closure on some matter that may cause equal amounts of sadness and relief, moving forward with a long delayed goal/dream/intention. 

You may be on the receiving end of someone else's need to be true to themselves, which for you doesn't feel good but if you can see it from their perspective everyone right now is needing to do what they need to do. 

Aquarius at this time, as an era as well as a Full Moon, speaks to us of the importance of being who we really are and doing what we came here to do, even if it makes us stand out as unusual, or is unconventional, untried or untested. When we are committed to really following our authentic heart and soul path, it benefits everyone in the long term (and on a higher level), even though it can be challenging in the short-term (and on the surface). 

How are you all feeling?

(c) Dana Mrkich 2013