The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in
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Trilogy, who is one of America's great astrologers. She is also a lifestyle
coach, helping people understand what they need to know about themselves through the stars,
and that's really kind of what she's I find her fascinating, frankly,
and because Mercury has gone into retrograde, I decided it would make good sense
of Actually, Jay said, yep, let's have Maria on to talk about
retrograde from now until New Year's Day. So for those who are not familiar,
they hear us talking about this Maria from time to time, and you
and I certainly talk about it, and it becomes part of what you talk
about in general with your clients. What is it, Well, Mercury is
the planet that defines the way we think, and that means our cognitive mind
process, and that means how do we come to decisions about things? Do
we get excited? Are we more practical? So it depends on the sign
of course that mercury's in to determine what kind of energy we will, right,
so mercury then if it's in there now, this is Sagittarius, which
is a fire sign. How would a fire sign in mercury redrogray be different
than let's say, a water sign. Well, first of all, mercury
has moved from the sign of Sagittarius to the sign of Capricorn woes. And
I thought that that didn't happen till December twenty first. No, that happened
this morning, really, so mercury went retrograde early this morning. The twenty
first is the winter solstice, but that's not the beginning. I thought they
changed. Hold on a second, because I don't want to have people confused,
including me. I thought, for the most part, the changes went
in terms of signs around the twenty twenty first twenty second of each month.
So you would normally, yes, yes, the sun does that. The
sun moves from one sign to another on the twenty first, twenty second of
each month, and you are right, yes, it does do that.
Where mercury goes retrograde at a different it has a different time period that it
does that, and it does it like four times a year. So right
now we're at the last mercury retrograde of the year, and in the sign
of Capricorn, it is not going to be as frazzled. We are not
going to be as frazzled or have to be as concerned about that experience as
we would be, you know when it's in others. So why would that
be? What is there different? Why is there a difference for mercury sort
of to put in another way, is in a fire sign versus a water
sign in this case, because a Capricorn is not an air sign, isn't
it good? No, Capricorn is an earth sign earth sign. So when
we think about elements quickly, we have air, fire, earth, and
water. That when mercury goes retrograde in each one of those elements, it
is a different kind of experience. So if it's in a fire sign,
we are going to be all fired up, right and we're just going to
warn a zoom ahead. If it's in an air sign, we're going to
do the same thing, going to do it mentally, you know, it
is a dynamic of watching the elemental energies. When we talk about mercury,
retrograde. So in Capricorn Earth sign grounded practical responsible with mercury retrograde and that
sign it is going to give us an opportunity to stop for a moment before
we make any kind of important decision. It isn't like we're going to make
it and then have to go back and say, oh my god, you
know I want a head too quickly. So what is what is it going
to do. It's going to help us to say, okay, well I'm
going to wait a minute. I'm not going to rush around here. And
it's going to ground us and slow us down. And it is going to
be a different experience because we are in a state right now. I mean,
this is the holiday we're going to be. We want to hurry up.
We want to get those gifts rapped, we want to get that shopping
down, we want to get where we have to go. We're going to
be together with family. What's going on that you know from the thirteenth of
December to January first, that's one of the most significant rush times of the
year. Well, we're not going to be that rushed. We are going
to stop. We're going to do it more. Is this advice as to
what people should do or is this just practical? This is how it's going
to impact because a lot of times when mercury goes retrograde in general, it
causes havoc or that's what the conventional wisdom is. Drama galore, communication challenges
and technology problems and travel issues and all of that stuff, relationship issues,
that kind of So I was part of the retrograde usually you're right, except
now in Capricorn, it is going to give us an opportunity just naturally to
not do the rushing, to think ahead, to do things in a way
that it's going to be more practical and logical. So it will be really
probably of all the retrogrades of the year, this is going to be one
that I'm not going to say we're going to totally enjoy. We are,
though, going to find a way to manage it much better than the others.
All Right, So we don't usually welcome it, but it sounds to
me like you're saying it is a welcoming opportunity at least this time, and
you take them one day at a time. So let's talk about what I
alluded to a few minutes ago. We're going into winter officially next week.
And what happens. People say, it's the shortest day of the year,
the shortest daylight and then things, you know, get longer at a minute
or two a day, and it seems like in a few weeks we are
enjoying a lot more lightness. So is that is does the winter solstice bring
us more light? The Winter Solstice is sort of a time of the year
where Indigenous people and sort of I always say, back of the day people
celebrated the idea that now the world is beginning to light not light up totally
again, but now this is it. The twenty first of December is when
it is the shortest day, and yet we start to see we're celebrating not
only celebrating the light idea of new like coming in, we're celebrating the end
of the year. So I always recommend to people to take a little time
to look at what did you do in twenty twenty three? You know,
excuse me, what were your challenges? What did you accomplish? You know,
what do you want to move forward with? So it's a time to
honor, honor yourself, honor your loved ones, gather together. And it's
interesting that it happens right around when we do celebrate the different holidays, so
it really is a time to plan, to plan the year ahead. You
know, we rushed through so much of our lives that I think if we
would just take the time to celebrate who we are, celebrate each other,
to just say I did this, you know, I celebrated my life,
I honored other people, and now this is who I want to be,
what I want to accomplish in twenty twenty four. So it's a beautiful experience
if we just take the time necessary to do that and time. It's yeah,
it's taking time and thinking, well, just plain thinking. A lot
of people, as you said, they move and they don't think much about
whatever it is that they're doing. All right. To connect with Maria at
Trilogy, go to SMB works at earthlink dot net or her other web connection
Maria Francesca Trilogy t R I L I E g I dot com. Maria,
Merry Christmas, thank you for being here, Yes me, Holidays.
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