What I Learned During Mercury Retrograde (Spoiler: It Was Empowering!)

I hope your last week of Mercury in Retrograde was one full of peace, introspection and growth! I know mine sure was. I was brought face to face with some of my deepest patterns around self-sabotage, how I place value on myself as a person, and how I feel about my physical body. It was an intense week to say the least!!!  

So how did I stay balanced through it all? I channeled some amazing Rhodonite energy to help me release feelings of inadequacy and to realize this is the only body I am going to have for this lifetime. I am not only doing myself (along with my partner, my family and friends, and my community!) a total disservice, But, I am also missing out on fully experiencing and being present in my life. Whoa. This stopped me in my tracks. And, it immediately made me want to take better care of my physical vessel and to lean into loving it and all it is capable of, just the way it is!!  

I also realized I place value on myself based on how busy I am. If I am busy, I must be doing something important and if I am doing something important, then that means I must be important. Right? Um, no. That is SO not how that works!! My personal value does not rest on what I am doing, accomplishing, or completing! So, I realized I needed to make space within myself and within my life to allow rest. To allow creative time. To allow stillness. And, along with that, I have work to do around the beliefs and ideas I have adopted throughout my life that led me to that “Busy” space. I will work more on that in the coming weeks, but for this week, it was enough that the realizations came through!! And to set me up to allow more space for ease, creativity, and stillness, I realized the first step was getting my home, my sanctuary to vibe as I need it to. So I connected with my positive, orderly, and organized Smoky Quartz to help me start some much-needed spring cleaning and energetic clearing!! 

Now, as for the self-sabotage….well, that is a whole blog posts worth of digging in so stay tuned for that!!  What I can tell you is that it has and will continue to require some deep exploring, some powerful clearing and some re-wiring to allow myself the space to expand into all that I am called to do. So excited to dig into this work!! I will be using Rhodonite, Selenite, Smoky Quartz, and Pyrite to help really get the most out of it!

I hope you also leaned on your crystal friends to make the most out of this Mercury Retrograde!! Mercury goes direct on Tuesday, March 10th (just following a March 9th full moon…hello energy influx!) so remember to stay grounded, stay positive, and keep moving forward on your #crystaljourney!

Tons of love and light to you!