Painting by mk Cooper // @bearded_artist_studio

This week brings a heavy dose of slowness, along with a reality check that we can't always move at the pace we're accustomed to. Or at least, that it's not always helpful to.

Mercury stations retrograde on Monday April 1st at 27*, and will subsequently move backwards thru the entire constellation of Aries over the next 3 weeks. We are collectively hitting the rewind button on our thinking process, returning to the place we began with a (hopefully) curious heart.

With ALL of the other Aries energy already in the mix (Chiron, North Node, Sun and soon to be Moon on the eclipse), it's safe to say Mercury is bringing a real reality check to the ways we've been thinking about our life, the visions or plans that have been emerging - in an efforts to slow us down and reframe HOW we're going about those things. It's likely going to feel a bit frustrating or friction-ey, if we don't give way to the process. Temper urgency with presence + deepening curiosity.

It's not about WHAT you're doing, but HOW you're doing it. Take this time to get curious with your usual thought + movement patterns, as these next few weeks invite us to reframe them. What if we did it a different way? What if we took another path towards the same place, how would it change the outcome? The medicine is to SLOW DOWN. There's nothing to DO right now. Self-observation and repatterning our process is key.

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