Mercury Retrograde isn't ruining your life

(But It Might Be Rewiring It)

Thoughts of a Lightworker on Loops, Lessons & Letting Go

I spent time today with a familiar soul — someone I’ve known across lifetimes.

My Reiki Master Teacher.

The one who attuned me a few years ago and stood quietly at the gates of my awakening, holding space as I walked through them.

Like all lightworkers who are truly doing the work, we’ve fallen in and out of alignment over the years. Not from conflict, but from calling. When the universe nudges you to live, gather your lessons, and evolve, you honour that. And then, when the timing’s right, you circle back. You catch up. You laugh at your younger selves. You witness each other — not just in your light, but in your change.

Because we are supposed to change.

That’s the whole point.

We’re not here to stay the same. We’re here to find ourselves again and again, gathering a soul-arsenal of wisdom along the way.

Anyway… we were talking about Mercury Retrograde.

Ah, the infamous spin.

We both remembered the way we used to post about it — the warnings, the cheeky memes, the “hide your exes, here it comes” vibes.

There’d be Facebook Lives. Instagram reels. Gentle cosmic posts reminding people to back up their files, double-check their texts, and beware the lessons they hadn’t quite finished learning.

And honestly, it was well-intentioned.

But looking back… we were projecting.

What we realised (individually, but almost identically) is that even though our warnings came from love — a genuine desire to help people navigate with more grace — there was still fear laced into our words.

Fear, dressed up in celestial satin.

And that’s not what Mercury Retrograde is about. Not really.

🌒 The Inner Rewire

Before the last retrograde, I paused.

Properly paused.

Hermit-mode activated — not quiet on the outside this time, but deeply still on the inside.

I asked myself: why am I always on guard before retrograde?

Why do I brace like something’s about to break?

Maybe it hit harder because Venus was retrograde too — maybe others aswell — but the message was loud: this was no ordinary loop.

This was a cycle closer.

Sixteen years of transformation culminating in a season of review.

And here’s the thing… not one of those years had taken me backwards.

Not one.

The tests cracked me open — yes.

But after time I emerged lighter. Clearer. More me.

So I made a decision.

For the entire duration of Mercury and Venus retrograde, I would walk with moldavite.

I would ask the universe to show me what wasn’t aligned.

Who needed to step back.

What patterns needed to break.

And it did.

It really did.

Things fell away.

People stepped back.

Lessons revisited.

Grief called my name — and I met it with open arms.

Because this time… I was ready.

I had the tools.

I had the trust.

I didn’t resist — I glided.

And on the other side?

Space.

Clarity.

And the manifestations? They started arriving like clockwork.

Still are.

🪞 We’re Not Here to Be Perfect. We’re Here to Be Human.

That was the other thing we'd both realised and fully stepped into during this time.

We’re not here to get it “right.”

We’re not here to live like we’re already spirit. We are spirit — but we’re also incarnated.

And incarnation? That’s messy.

That’s where the gold is.

We’re here to feel.

To mess up.

To fall in love and fall apart.

To cry, laugh, fail, expand.

To have the kind of emotional experiences that don’t exist outside of the Earth plane.

Healing never ends — not because we’re broken, but because we’re alive.

And as long as we’re alive, we’ll be meeting new edges of ourselves.

Over and over again.

🌀 Retrograde as a Return

So, if you’ve been bracing for impact… maybe soften instead.

Maybe Mercury Retrograde isn’t ruining your life.

Maybe it’s realigning it.

Maybe it’s not the storm — but the stillness after.

The part where the truth gets louder and the clutter falls away.

Welcome the retrograde.

Let it show you your next move.

Let it pull you out of the outdated settings you’ve been stuck in.

Let it spiral you — not backwards, but inward.

Because that spiral always brings you home.

And home… is you.