MERCURY RETROGRADE IN LEO MUSINGS

Hi I hope you are hanging in there and staying connected to life. There was a fly in my apartment who was losing its mind, panic-buzzing around for hours without landing. I thought maybe I should swat it, I followed its delirious movements with a heavy book in my hand - yet the more my eyes sought after it, the more I lost the target. With Saturn and Neptune so close together right now, it seems like searching for anything pushes it even further away. I dropped the book, opened my front door and patiently stood in the threshold until the darting black orb made a break for it.  

Wherever you might feel stuck, consider dropping what your holding and let life untangle its own threads of energy...especially if what you are holding is your phone, let it flake off in your hands like a gross piece of pie and allow an inner-reference point to emerge. Mercury retrograde in Leo turns away from external feedback so that it can make decisions from its own center of truth. 

This is a little awkward with Mercury being accountable for Uranus in Gemini, whom is less concerned with defining an accurate center as it is with keeping things interesting. For a Gemini, one marble of truth has ten other truths, and some roll under the couch and remain strategically concealed. Gemini needs to feel like they have options, even if some are vague, impossible or not true. Some call this lying, others call it creative genius - "art is what you can get away with" making the future a Frankentstein of possible timelines (steinlines?) that we get to collectively slab together and try to get away with. Stay flexible, Uranus in Gemini is too much of a trickster for us to know exactly what's going to happen next. Instead, take cues from Mercury in Leo and focus on who you want to be in this moment. What is a functional enough truth to hold center for now? What version of yourself feels honorable to show up as today? Mercury will be retrograde until August 12th......