As if the Venus Rx wasn’t enough for one month, Mercury goes retrograde on Wednesday just a hair before one in the afternoon (Pacific US time, later pretty much everywhere else). Interestingly, this same day is really well aligned for road-opening, way-finding, map-making, unblocking, and similar enchantments of a Mercurial nature. Which is an interesting juxtaposition, if you think about it.
Retrogrades are time travel. But they’re time travel from the perspective of a particular planet (which is why they cause a certain amount of chaos, because we’re always moving forward through Sun time while other planets are busy pulling us back). The closer we are to the planet, the more it impacts us personally (which is why outer planet retrogrades aren’t as personally impactful).
I actually think that kicking off an appropriately aligned working just BEFORE the Rx starts is potentially really interesting. First, you can get a general road opening in “under the wire” before the Rx (though it might not really take hold until the end of September when Mercury moves across that same piece of Mercury time). Or you can point the road opening backward to help mitigate the effects of Mercury Rx, so the coming weeks of Mercury backward-time will go more smoothly.
Finally, you can do an interesting unblocking trick that takes advantage of the Retrograde. Mercury is pulling backward (while we’re continuing forward). So if you drop a magical energy package for clearing blocks and opening roads just ahead of the retrograde, Mercury will go back across that spot in time, reactivating the magic and pulling it’s effects backwards and then will head forward again through that spot in Mercury time to pull the impact forward again. You’d want to revisit your enchantment on the 29th of September in order to push it forward again (which is the Full moon in Aries plus the Feast of the Archangels).
Since so many of the blocks and obstacles we experience come from our past, this is a really interesting experiment to see if we can unblock ourselves retroactively and also bring those impacts forward in time.
I admit, this is highly experimental. I’m going to be trying it (which will be interesting because I’ll be traveling at the time) and will report back. If you try it, let me know how it goes.
Don’t forget to do retro-sigils! And if there are particular mercurial talents or skills one wants to recover or retrieve, then this is a good time to ask Chthonic Hermes/Hermanubis to help with that! I also like to ask Chthonic Hermes/Hermanubis to carry special messages/offerings to ancestors during the retrograde. Doing divination about the past is also good.
This does look like a very interesting experiment. I think I will give it a try. Any suggestions for form/execution of the 'magical package' to be dropped (detonated? lol) right before the retro period?