Mercury Retrograde, March 22nd 2018 ~ Love or Lust ~ March 21, 2018

By astrologyking

Mercury retrograde 2018 starts on March 22nd at 16° Aries and ends on April 15th at 4° Aries. Mercury retrograde March 2018 increases the potential for communication and technology breakdowns, nervous anxiety, travel delays and lost items. Mercury retrograde 2018 conjunct Venus means more of your thoughts and communications will turn to matters of love and affection. There will be a focus on any communication problems you have with your partner or communication problems may arise if you are dating.

However, this is a good time for making new friends because of more more social interaction in your daily life. Mercury retrograde usually brings you into contact with old friends so Mercury retrograde 2018 conjunct Venus brings the possibility of meeting ex partners. New friends or lovers may trigger feelings of déjà vu because of your past life memories.

Mercury retrograde 2018 carries on a theme of sexual abuse and power imbalances in sexual relationships that began with the January 2018 lunar eclipse. Before more detail on Mercury retrograde March 2018, you will find information about natal Mercury retrograde and Mercury retrograde in transit.

Natal Mercury Retrograde Meaning

Natal Mercury retrograde means there was a problem with how you thought and communicated in an earlier life. Perhaps you gave someone bad advice that had critical repercussions. Perhaps you were prone to making costly mistakes. Maybe you wrote slanderous material about someone in a book or newspaper, or verbally teased and abused people.

Whatever the circumstances of the previous significant incarnation, you come into this life with those bad memories etched in your soul. You probably don’t recognize them as memories but as déjà vu or unexplained guilt. Especially when young, there can be a repeating theme of challenging events related to your past.

The aim of Mercury retrograde in your birth chart is for you to perfect those areas of thought and communication which once let you down. As your communication skills improve with experience, your karmic debt will be repaid and you can get off the roundabout.

Mercury retrograde in your natal chart can show as learning difficulties, especially with reading, writing and comprehension. You could be a shy, quite person whose thoughts have turned in. Hesitant to speak up for yourself, you may miss out on many opportunities in life. This difficulty in expressing yourself can make you feel awkward in company and lead to low self-esteem. You may experience teasing or verbal abuse, be nagged and criticized, or fall victim to slander and lies. Contracts may also cause problems and like so many things, lead to complications further down the track.

Mercury retrograde only last for about three weeks so Mercury is going to turn direct at some stage in your progressed chart (where one day equals one year). After a couple of years you will notice that your communication style improves and you can express yourself more freely. However, the opposite can also occur and someone with Mercury direct in their natal chart may experience progressed Mercury retrograde later in life. I experienced this from age 13 to 37 and it was very profound. I even stopped reading books.

If you have Mercury retrograde in your natal or progressed chart then you can expect to make more rapid progress during transits of Mercury retrograde.

Transiting Mercury Retrograde Meaning

Transiting Mercury retrograde is a regular cycle occurring three or four times a year for about 24 days. While this is more frequent than any other planet, Mercury is still only retrograde 19% of the time. This is far less than Jupiter outwards, but more than Venus and Mars.

The Mercury retrograde phase is just one part of the Mercury retrograde cycle. The whole cycle includes Mercury going direct, retrograde, and direct again over the same degrees, or the retrograde zone. The two direct phases are called the shadow periods. The illustration below shows the apparent retrograde motion of Mercury as seen from Earth.

Mercury Retrograde Motion

Mercury Retrograde Motion

Mercury retrograde brings communication and technology breakdowns, nervous anxiety, travel delays and lost items. There is a feel of a difficult Mercury–Saturn aspect about Mercury retrograde. You can also expect to dwell on things, reminisce about the past, or unexpectedly meet up with people from your past. While the Mercury retrograde period might be good for flicking through old photo albums, it is generally considered more of a nuisance than a benefit.

Mercury retrograde can play havoc with your thoughts, communications, travels and electronics. Take extra care with your words and try not to react too quickly in any arguments or if provoked. Take some time out if you start to feel overwhelmed by the hectic pace. Double-check all of your emails and posts on Facebook before hitting the send button.

Business negotiations will be in a state of flux during Mercury retrograde so avoid signing contracts. Some important details will not yet be available, and other parties won’t be reliable or honest. If going on a road trip then make sure you get your car serviced beforehand. The riskiest times for decision-making, negotiations, communication and transport are the few days either side of the exact retrograde and direct stations. However, care should still be taken during the retrograde period.

Mercury Retrograde 2018

Mercury enters the retrograde zone on March 8, 2018 at 04°46′ Aries. Now until Mercury stationary retrograde is called the first shadow period. During this time you will get an idea of the thinking, communication or transport issues that will arise during the retrograde phase.

Mercury stationary retrograde on March 22, 2018 at 16°54′ Aries. The chart below shows Mercury conjunct Venus which makes love and relationships major themes of Mercury retrograde 2018. It means you will be thinking more about love and companionships and be wanting to talk more about it. It puts you in touch with what you love about a person but Mercury retrograde March 2018 conjunct Venus makes it harder to actually tell that person how you feel.

This is a good time for making new friends because there should be more social interaction in your daily life. Mercury retrograde usually brings you into contact with old friends so Mercury retrograde March 2018 conjunct Venus increases the chance of meeting ex partners. New friends or lovers may trigger feelings of déjà vu because of your past life memories.

Mercury Retrograde March 2018

Mercury Retrograde March 2018

Mercury square Pluto brings deep thinking and intensifies your social interactions. But it also exposes your darkest thoughts and beliefs such as bigotry, nationalism and racism. Avoid extreme ideas and trying to force your opinions on others. There will be more news stories about teasing and bullying at school and on the Internet.

Even if you hold a moderate point of view, there is a risk that you will use extreme or coercive methods to talk someone into something or change their mind. The more extreme your idea, or the more force you use to convince others, the more criticism and conflict you will meet.

Venus square Pluto can have a profound effect on your love life. Love may turn to lust as power and control issues may arise in existing relationships. Simmering tension may come to the surface as some manipulative behavior like jealousy or obsessiveness. At the root of such behaviors would be a deeply buried fear or insecurity about not feeling loved or valued. Of course, it may be you who is subject to such behaviors from a partner.  Threats and ultimatums are possible if either partner feels smothered or controlled.

An unhealthy relationship may breakdown which would be very painful or dramatic. A well based relationship will withstand the intensity of this transit. In this case, there would still be a transformation undertaken within the relationships dynamics.

New love is possible now and it could seem like instant attraction. However, you must also realize that such an infatuation may lead to an abusive or even violent attachment. Old cases of sexual abuse will be exposed and damage the egos and reputations of many men and some women. Mercury retrograde conjunct Venus square Pluto also suggests an increase in the reporting of child sexual abuse especially by school teachers, as well as abusive insestuous relationships.

Mercury Stationary Direct on April 15, 2018 at 04°46′ Aries. The chart below shows only one major Mercury aspect,  Mercury square Saturn. This suggests the intensity of Mercury retrograde March 2018 may leave you in a serious frame of mind. Communicating your plans and ideas will be difficult because of negative thinking and misunderstandings.

Mercury Retrograde March 2018

Mercury Direct April 2018

You may have some unanswered questions or serious decisions to make but seek trusted, professional advice if you are involved in contracts, business or legal matters. Do not rely on the words of others, and be careful with your own. There may be some distance or separation in close relationships. This, together with gloomy thoughts, bad news or loneliness, can have a negative effect on your mental well-being.

Mercury leaves the retrograde zone on May 03, 2018 at 16°54′ Aries.

If Mercury retrograde 2018 affects your decan I will discuss it in your monthly horoscope. For more detail on how Mercury retrograde March 2018 aspects your birth chart, see Mercury Transits.

Mercury Retrograde 2018 Dates

  • December 3 to 22, 2017 – 13° to 29° Sagittarius
  • March 22 to April 15, 2018 – 4° to 16° Aries
  • July 26 to August 18, 2018 – 11° to 23° Leo
  • November 16 to December 6, 2018 – 27° Scorpio to 13° Sagittarius

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Lion’s Gate Energy Ascension Update – Message For Twin Flames ~ Aug. 5, 2016

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Powerful Energy Influxes Trigger Shifts: Awakening Sleeper Twins, “Bending Reality”, Changes Incoming – New Codes Unlocked. Plus, Shared Twin Dreaming, Merging Timelines, Synchronicities, Deja Vu, Signs That You’re On the “Right Path”….

 

“Dear everyone,

Thank you for being here and receiving this message. We have specifically asked to get to communicate this with you today for a reason. There is much being stirred up and changing around you and inside of you in recent times and in the months to come.

It is important for us to give regular updates, as we wish to keep you informed and assure you that things are progressing in a steady and positive direction.

You Are Heard – Releasing Fear of the Future

You are important to us. never feel that your prayers for assistance are going unheard. We hear you. The help will come, please allow yourself to open up to receiving in possibly unexpected ways. Sometimes we need to work in roundabout ways to circumvent any blocks and resistance you may have.

We want you to know that everything is OK. We want you all to know that what is coming is good. Fear of the future is a big theme in the collective energy fields right now. It is being stirred up for a reason.

In these next few years many many people’s lives will be changing – and in releasing the fear of the unknown the fear of the future that has been passed down to you for so many generations, we are helping to free you up to joyously expand and grow and pursue your bliss. Do your best to not “buy into” any fears that come up – resolve and release and clear. Fear is never truthful about you or your situation.

Shifting Life Circumstances

Twin Souls and Lightworkers all over the world are set to be moving homes, changing jobs, shifting their life situations. These are all answers to prayers received. Your souls changing their focus areas, as decided in advance. As is needed for you to pursue your mission, for Twin Souls to come together in the physical.

Much is set to change in the coming years. When things shift and you feel fear coming up, know this: it is a part of making room for what you have asked for. The puzzle pieces shifting and falling into place bit by bit.

We are in important times, friends. We do not desire to put pressure on you, but we know you are already feeling the shifts and changes to the energy fields and your own systems and timelines. We want you to understand why things may be shifting uncomfortably for you in this now moment – things are adjusting and opening up to make room for what you have asked for and what you planned for your journey.

Many of you have in recent years lost jobs, relationships have ended, relocation is on the cards. This is your soul shifting your situation around to open up to what you have asked and prayed for.

Staying Open – Allowing Change To Show Up

What we ask of you is this – stay open. Please do not fix your minds on how or when something will happen, because this puts up boundaries. Again we remind you that “divine timing” means when the energies are a match.

So please stay as open as you can, keep the highest intentions – visualize your end goals of joy and love and harmony. But do not concern yourselves with how exactly you will get to that place to take until each step is revealed.

You will know the “right” steps by the feeling given to you as they show up. They will have the sense of home. Lightness. The sense of what you decided before you came here. The “map” is already in you.

Many of you have been experiencing this, flashes of recognition of a place or a situation – what human beings refer to as “deja vu”. Your inner knowing telling you “this is significant” – check points. More and more of this to come.

Dealing With the Physical Struggles of Ascension

Another issue we would like to share with you again is grounding. You came here to earth to evolve, to Ascend back into your spiritual limitlessness, to relinquish your earthly baggage and identity structures and reawaken into your full being as unlimited souls.

Rising up. This is happening. More and more. The planet is receiving strong influxes of light, increasing this fall and onwards. This is good. Please do not worry. Your systems can handle it.

What we ask of you, to integrate this powerful light in a way that benefits you and earth itself is to ground into the planet often. Every day, see yourselves rooting into the earth, into its core.

This assists you in integrating new light influxes into your body systems so you avoid the pangs of growth, the dizziness, the uncomfortable release of emotions many of you have been experiencing. The physical struggles of Ascension need not be. Learn ways to manage your personal energy and emancipate yourselves, it will serve your journey positively.

The Shower of Light

Many Lightworkers and Twin Flames are unconsciously afraid of grounding – feeling afraid of being on earth, in a human body, feeling lost. We want you to know you are safe. You are supported. Please connect to the core of the planet to receive more support and strength energetically.

Running energy is also very beneficial to flush out stagnant energies. A fast method is to visualize yourself standing in a shower of light and see any negativity flushed down the “drain” into the center of earth to be transmuted.

Walk Ins, Third Wave Twin Souls, Awakening “Sleepers”

Sleeper Twins are awakening rapidly both now and in this coming period. We can call them the “third wave” of beings.

Some are coming in from the higher realms in soul exchanges as what has been referred to on earth as “walk ins”. Again, this is outside of the realm of most human experience – we ask you to be open to all eventualities, in a positive sense. The fabric of your reality is shifting. More room is being made for uplifting coming in.

The “third wave” of Twin Souls (many of whom are already in touch with you but have so far been unaware of their true soul identities – the so-called Unawakened Twins) are set to awaken even more rapidly than you yourselves did.

Developments are increasing on all fronts. Many of these third wavers have been undergoing deep preparations behind the scenes in recent years – they are becoming ready to shed their resistance.

To remember. To come home. Many “new” ones are coming in carrying important new light codes to benefit the rest of the Twin collective.

In the midst of all these events we know you feel it. You sense that change is imminent. You feel it in your bones, in your hearts. All is well. That is our deepest message to you. You were a part of carefully engineering this time’s powerful events before you came here. All is going in the desired direction.

Uncovering The Truth Of Love – Shifting Out of Illusion

Please remember to enjoy your lives. This is an adventure you are now on, and we are so excited for you for these coming years! More and more Twin Souls reuniting in energy – and further into the physical dimension.

We all root for you. Remember in your hearts what you came here for. Love. And the Love is already there. You have shifted so much of the illusion, so many of the human lies that were obstructing and covering up this love.

Nearly there, dear ones. You have come so far. You will soon look back upon this time as an adventure like no other. We are so excited for you.

Moving Into “The Payoff Phase” – Bending Reality

These next few years are moving into the payoff phase. So much has happened to pave the way. Those of you who are already in union as souls are paving the way for the next wave and moving closer in the physical.

Those who are connecting with Twins who are Unawakened to their true selves will begin to experience shifts in their functioning, in their remembering and understanding. Keep interacting with them on the soul planes, as this strengthens the process of remembrance.

Things are now beginning to come into play which will begin to bend your previous perception of reality.

Synchronicity, collective Twin dreaming (where both twins in a pair share the same dream), collective Twin memory, Timelines shifting, coincidences and warping of reality you would not be able to explain with existing human facts.

Bridging The Gap – Unity In Love

You have been doing such wonderful work, dear ones, more and more of you are taking charge of your lives and energy fields and your minds and paving a golden path before you. Know that your work is paying off. We see you filling your energy fields with more and more love, removing the obstacles in your path.

This is what you came here for. To be pioneers of love, to bridge the gap between people – between woman and man, between the higher and lower dimensions, between races, between ages, between countries and beliefs. You are succeeding amazingly.

And for those who feel still stuck or left behind – it is an illusion. Look within and feel your power, shift into the light of all things and know that you are it. You are love. Every day affirm: “I am love. I am always loved. Love is who I am”. This will find you. Aligning with your infinite light self. What you focus on, you get more of.

August Energy Gateways – Powerful Light Influxes

Lastly, we remind you that the particular upcoming energy gateways this month of August are a precursor to the large impact energy influxes of autumn 2016 set to happen. Strong impacts incoming, which may be stirring up old issues for many.

Keep in mind that much of what you may struggle with is body related at this point. The human body is concerned for its survival, and it carries programming that dates back to the stone age and further.

Considering The Human Body – Source of Twin Blocks

So if you are facing difficulty with your Twin Soul, ask “How does this relate to body/survival?” These are the deepest issues you are working with now as we upgrade the physical structures to handle running higher and higher vibratory frequencies.

To take you from the genetic programmed human body to the upgraded new “light body” which is truly more “you” as a soul. Awareness of body and genetics are helpful now. Then use your metaphysical methods and eradicate the fear based energies and patterns.

Help is incoming. You have for a long time been “shut off” from the higher dimensions on earth because of entrenched energies of fear in the collective. The gap is being bridged more and more between you and us. This is opening up now. We will be able to assist you more and more in coming years.

You knew this when you went “under” to live your human experience. All is well dear ones, and we see so much joy in your future. Keep your intentions high, take charge of your experience and your thoughts.

Be mindful of what you read/watch/take in/engage with – and live with as much excitement as you can muster, to attract more and more positivity for your forward path.

We stand with you always on this important journey, and we command you on your efforts!

Yours always,

Archangel Michael and the Archangels of Light