Mercury Moves Into Scorpio: A Peek at the Hidden Depths

Mercury, the quickest planet, is moving into Scorpio today, Saturday, September 27th. Mercury in Scorpio indicates that your mental energies could be directed toward the deeper currents of yourself vis a vis external reality. Your communication as you explore these issues will likely be deep and poignant. Scorpio is all about regeneration and breaking down barriers in order to be in greater intimate connection with others, and with yourself. However, these next few days, after moving to the third degree of Scorpio Mercury will take his standstill, and begin retrograding back toward Libra on October 4th. Mercury will only remain in Scorpio until October 10th.

One way to see this is that, as Mercury plunges into the watery depths of Scorpio for just a little under two weeks, you might be able to get a glimpse of some deeper aspects of your world that were not apparent to you until now. Yet it may not be the time to flesh this out entirely, or go at it with too much of a fine toothed comb; there is just time to take a sneak-peek at the these ideas and also to the next step of your transformation. When Mercury returns in its retrograde motion to Libra, that time could represent an invitation to attend to the places in your life where you have fallen too far out of balance. Surely asking for perfect balance and harmony in this life is a tall order, yet during this time it will likely become quite apparent to you where your attention is most needed, especially if some of the proverbial plates you are constantly spinning begin to fall to the ground and break around you. This upcoming Mercury Retrograde period, lasting for the remainder of October when you take the shadow period into account, makes for a potent time to re-caLibrate and reconsider. As you move ahead with your growth in awareness, and your spiritual evolution, it is often a case of a few steps forward and one or two steps back.