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It is only by recycling this material and processing it that we can truly move on.
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Just as Freud theorized that much of our behavior is rooted in unconscious memories from the past, it may be that the Mercury retrogrades in water signs tend to bring up emotional material we have either forgotten or thought we had moved past. Similarly, Freud’s “iceberg model” of consciousness suggested that much more mental activity is going on below the level of consciousness than above it, and this may be particularly true during years of Mercury retrograde in water signs. Sigmund Freud, who popularized the notion of the unconscious, was born in a year where Mercury was moving backward from water to air signs, as it is this year. And this process is going on even when we are unaware of it. Just like fish, which can sense far off vibrations through their lateral lines, water sign people can often sense things in their environment before they can be readily seen and identified. Similarly, water signs tend to be more introverted, subjective, and emotional in their actions and reactions to the world. Water itself also has a tendency to sink and find the lowest place. How does Mercury retrograde behave in water signs?Īs an element, most of the interesting things about water lie under the surface. For 2020, as in 2019, the element of Mercury’s “backward trickster medicine dance” is water-and thus involves the signs Pisces, Cancer, and Scorpio. Mercury’s wanderings trace a triangular pattern in the sky, involving three signs which belong to the same element. These departures from normal are actually quite predictable and indeed display an interesting pattern. As the speediest of the planets, Mercury is the most frequent to wander away from the ecliptic, usually doing so about three times per calendar year. At other times still, they cross from north to south or vice versa. Sometimes these wanderings take them to northern regions, and sometimes to the south. From time to time, they will stop at a waystation and depart the main highway of the ecliptic, which is the central passage through the “circle of animals” we call the zodiac. Much like people, the planets are nomads-constantly wandering about, traveling from one place to the next.