Retrograde Mercury In The Natal Chart

Mercury rules over your ability to process your spiritual experience and the presence of physical reality and matter. Mercury indicates how you experience life and process it via your understanding of your thoughts, feelings, and your experience of the physical reality around you. Your actions are directly related to how you perceive things; Mercury rules over this perception. When Mercury is retrograde in the birth chart, you find yourself in a conflict between wanting to experience life through the soul, the spirit, or the physical plane. Your thoughts can be obsessive, where your thoughts are repeated countless times in your head, imagining scenarios and ideas that are best left alone. Even though your thought processes are vivid, it can be highly challenging to put into words the thoughts and ideas that you do have.  

An Uncomprehensible Mind 

You have a unique way of viewing the world that is unique to you, and it is nearly impossible to find another person who sees things and thinks the same way as you do. As a result, you can often feel alienated from society, as if you do not belong with the rest of the world. This is because you tend to create your own reality, and what is truly happening is not obvious to you. 

Misunderstood 

You will spend much of your life trying to get others to understand you. You will put alot of time and energy into trying to explain yourself to others so that others can understand you and where you are coming from, but it is a bottomless pit. No one you get in touch with will understand you, no matter how hard you try. Trying hard to gain this “understanding” from others can be highly draining.  

 Your strength lies in realizing that you do not need to see things the same way as others, and your unique perception brings a fresh breath into everything you involve yourself with. As a result, you can also be highly creative and live the typical “misunderstood artist” archetype.  

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Socially Awkward 

Being around others takes work for you. Therefore, all your conscious thought goes toward getting others to like you, whereas you should rather train your mastermind to be creative and productive. 

Retrograde Mercury individuals are much more detached than those with a direct Mercury, and they are not entirely present. Others can perceive you as cold and aloof, but this is because you are overly stuck in your mind’s thinking processes and struggle to live in the here and now and within the physical reality. On the other hand, you can be highly sensitive, but it will likely appear that you are not.  

Find Your Passion 

You need to find a way of living that aligns with what will truly make you happy. When you live your lives for others, you are always unhappy and displeased, as you have to create a reality for yourself that is in alignment with what others what. When you create a reality that aligns with what you want, you are on your path to true happiness.  

Learning and retaining information can be highly challenging. Still, you can genuinely become highly intelligent when you allow yourself to overcome mental and emotional obstacles that people with a direct Mercury would never have dealt with. The additional challenges that retrograde Mercury poses build a stronger character over time than if Mercury was direct.  

Learn a different way 

Learning can be challenging, and you have to apply additional effort, which results in mastering a topic or subject more than a person with a direct Mercury.  

You are displeased with the usual way of doing things and can be disruptive to others as you attempt to shake up the status quo and change how things are done. Often you become frustrated when others do not see your vision, and you need to remember that your idea is unique and others will rarely see eye to eye with you.  

You can think of things others do not, and you can offer valuable insights. The problem is that you are too scared of how others will perceive you, so you rarely provide the insight you can give.  

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Mental Frustration 

You are often agitated with others for no reason, but the actual reason is that these people trigger unconscious memories that relate to your past life. Therefore, you do not see others objectively but subjectively add memories and experiences from your past life onto others, causing relationships to be very tricky as you are making up thoughts, memories, and experiences with others based on your past life experiences.