Mercury Stationary Direct at 22 Leo Affecting September, October, and November 2024 pt. 2 – A Third Look at Our Future and Our Message to Deliver

Mercury goes direct at 2:14 pm PDT on August 28 and will be in its shadow zone through Sept 11/12, after which it enters its next phase of moving through "unknown zones" where the themes of this retrograde will be played out in forward motion. So for the next 2 weeks expect some very productive intersections of past and future, giving us a chance to show how willing we are to update our perceptual files, moving forward with a sense of our new potential given the realizations we’ve arrived at these past few weeks.

Themes related to the span between 22 Leo and 5 Virgo will be prominent until Mercury enters its next shadow zone at 7 Sagittarius on November 7/8. We now have a thorough understanding of the “Scene” of Release on the emotional, social, and spiritual levels, as well as “Characterization” on the actional-material level. We now have the ability to send and receive messages related to the truth and future of the new identity, “new lands we’ve entered,” and new lives we’ve embraced in 2024.

This Mercury direct station falls at 22 Leo. It is said that the third third (decan) of any sign deals with the individual and spiritual levels of life, and as this falls in the third decan of Leo, it has a sub-influence of Aries with an added dose of Mars. Because Mercury is in Leo, it is highly active and ruled by the Sun in Virgo. This gives the current Mercury in Leo experience a Virgo backdrop which will modify when Mercury enters Virgo, its home sign.

The Moon and Sun at this Station

The Moon at the station is a Third Quarter Moon, said to be a future oriented phase of group or institution building. It is powerful, productive, and forward thinking. As the Moon is at 7 Cancer, there is good luck and magic in the air if we learn to cooperate with our “invisible helpers.” The themes of this retrograde will be expanded substantially in the Summer of 2025 when Jupiter transits the Moon of this chart.

At this station, the Sun is at 7 Virgo, close to the Mercury SRX degree, showing those RX themes have been illuminated and powered up. The Solar degree encourages us to make good use of our “down times” over the next few weeks, and with the sextile from the Moon, it should be at least 13 weeks of fairly good sailing for planets we have near 5-9 degrees of the Earth and Water signs.. As Mercury leads the Light, it is the Gateway to Illumination. Again, this is about adventuring into “practical enlightenment” and expressing a message we’ve heard, or will hear.

The Sun is totally unafflicted and in a quintile with Mars and both in biquintile to Pluto, creating a specializing Kite configuration offering gifts and “quintessential” experiences whenever there’s a transit to 5-9 Virgo, 17-21 Scorpio, 29 Capricorn-3 Aquarius, 11-15 Aries, and 23-27 Gemini. Add Venus opposed Neptune trine Uranus, and Saturn quintile Uranus, and we have a highly unique period coming, with personal, social, and spiritual renewals where some will “escape from a narrow destiny.”

Looking Back, Looking Ahead

So from here Mercury moves forward! We can now take what we reviewed, got a new understanding of, or found new information about that helped us remember and/or reevaluate some things and move forward with a larger view and contemplation of what has been and what will be, especially in the houses where we have Gemini and Virgo, since Mercury rules Gemini and Virgo.

As it was retrograde between 22 Leo and 5 Virgo, those house(s) in our charts have been the areas where our review, reflections, returns, reconsiderations, and/or rehearsals have taken place. I gave you some of the possible effects of Mercury in the houses in the article Mercury Retrograde in Virgo and Leo in August 2024 - What It Means For Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.

Since it is now direct, if there have been misunderstandings or delays these past 3 weeks, it's all moving forward from here! We can begin to get a lot more accomplished, after a period of slow downs, turnarounds, review, reflection, reworking, undoing, and re-planning. We’ve been offered a chance to rethink many things, and experienced new ways of seeing how to organize or reorganize something, or make something more efficient. Now we move forward into a new life knowing we’re traversing familiar ground before we leap into the future in mid-September.

So things should start moving forward anew fairly quickly. Right now, it’s a good time to use the different information, views, and approaches we’ve been examining through the retrograde lens these past several weeks to find a new productivity as we express our unique gifts. We now have an alternative take on some things, as well as a more direct way of seeing things. Having taken a slight detour through the past, can move forward into a time of linking up with our Spiritual Brothers and Sisters in a new practical model.

Now that we've done our rehearsals, reviews, revisions, and/or research on those inner and outer experiences showing us the need to simplify and reconsider some of our methods, we can be at ease as we move into a more unique expression. Here we again face the future, knowing a different sense of Being and a new way to dance with Nature.

After the confusion and repeated “turnarounds” of the past 3 weeks, the favorable aspects between Saturn and Uranus, and Mercury with Mars and Jupiter, promise continued productivity and high specialization as we move forward. Much of what this retrograde was really about will be activated by Mars in 2025 and Jupiter in 2026-2027 as they traverse the retrograde span. Just remember that we still have Mutable T-squares coming! As we are Spirits flying freely in the direction we choose, remember the immortal words of George Harrison, “if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”

From Here We Speed Up!

Things related to Mercury will speed up considerably for the next 3 months, so flow with the new YOU you’re experiencing! Meditate on the symbol “A carrier pigeon” since it’s the Sabian symbol I gave you in part 1. That sets the theme for the next 3 months, and helps us into a new heart or creative adventure, a phase of “practical enlightenment,” and feeling the return of something spiritual to our lives which has been “out collecting information” which we now have as a message to deliver to others.

There are tremendous spiritual rewards for accepting new conditions and in being clear about our focus. This station allows us to go forward, resuming many things put on hold during the last Mercury retrograde in April. We now are definitely in a new life, have new access to our creative imagination, and have a message to offer.

A New Look at Mercury Retrograde

In a final plug as Mercury moves forward in its shadow zone, if you want to know more about the qualities of Mercury retrograde in all the signs and houses, please consult your copy of the expanded 2nd edition of A New Look At Mercury Retrograde, available on Amazon. It's a handy reference for everything you could want to know about Mercury retrograde people and Mercury retrograde in the signs and houses. It explores how Mercury retrograde people think and work through things, and why roundabout or delayed interpretations aren’t necessarily a bad thing, whether in kids or adults. Here's the link to where you can order your paperback copy of A New Look at Mercury Retrograde. The ebook is available on Kindle. (Again, just make sure you get the 2016 edition published by the Fifth Ray rather than the 1997 edition originally published by Weiser.)

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