Episode 145: Mercury Retrograde in Aquarius + Capricorn: Rethinking Social Impact

by Leslie Tagorda | Jan 12, 2022

Mercury Rx in Aquarius and Capricorn, our first of the year, asks you to take your big vision of the future and ground it in strategic action. Yes, this sounds big, yet it starts with redefining your vision and sharing that vision of the future to call in your soul-aligned communities. And then, to ground it, re-strategizing the one thing you can do to BE the change you want to see in the world through your Work. It doesn’t have to be hard if you choose to work with the energy of this first Mercury Retrograde cycle to slow down, rethink, and reorganize your efforts with ease, flow and a dose of intuitive strategy.

In this episode

What is Mercury Retrograde
Why it’s important
How to best use MRx in your Work
Mercury Retrograde in Aquarius – Capricorn: Creating Social Impact
Mercury Retrograde Schedule
Questions from The Savvy Luminary Facebook Group

Mercury Rx in Aquarius 10°18’ – Capricorn 24°22’

January 14, 2022 3:41 am PT / 6:41am ET / 11:41am GMT / 9:41 PM AET – Feb 3, 2022 8:13pm PT / 11:13pm ET / +1 4:13am GMT / +1 2:13pm AET

Rethinking social impact

As Mercury stops on this one point of Aquarius 10°, be ready for all kinds of tech glitches, especially as both Mercury and Aquarius have to do with high tech.

Remember, you do not need to fear this cycle if you learn to work with the energy of resetting, redoing, rethinking, and reorganizing.

This is the Mercury Rx cycle where you get to rethink what kind of innovations you need in your Work to be able to focus on your expertise. You are seeing how your Work is making a difference in your World, and how your Work can further reverberate in harmony in your larger communities. You’ll reconsider how your past innovations have now created silver linings of opportunities.

Look at the area of your chart between Aquarius 10° – Capricorn 24°, as this is the area of your chart that will be highlighted three times. If you have planets or angles in this area of your chart, they will want to chime in on this retrograde cycle.

If you have big Saturn energy (Aquarius or Capricorn Sun, Moon or Rising or Saturn on your angles), you will see how you need to focus in your efforts to maximize your impact.

Mercury Retrograde Sschedule

12/29/21 Enters shadow zone – Capricorn 24°
Notice what is breaking down that requires thinking for social impact.
1/14/22 Station retrograde – Aquarius 10°
Rethink the change you want your Work to have on the collective.
1/23/22 Midpoint combust – Aquarius 3°
What new understanding do you have about being a Changemaker?
2/3/22 Station direct – Capricorn 24°
Crystalize your impactful vision of the future and the steps your Work will take.
2/24/22 Leaves shadow zone – Aquarius 10°
Fully embrace your desired role in being a Changemaker to take action on your new plan.

Customize Your Mercury Retrograde

Discover your house activation
Look at the area of your chart between Aquarius 10° – Capricorn 24°, as this is the area of your chart that will be highlighted three times. If you have planets or angles in this area of your chart, they will want to chime in on this retrograde cycle.
Discover big Saturn and Uranus energy
If you have big Saturn and Uranus energy (Aquarius or Capricorn Sun, Moon or Rising or Saturn or Uranus on your angles), you will see how you need to focus in your efforts to maximize your impact.
Discover Planets in Fixed Signs
Find natal planets in fixed signs (Aquarius, Taurus, Scorpio, Leo between Aquarius 0°-10°. Fixed planets will add creative tensions to your rethinking. Their energy will want a voice in what matters
Discover Planets in Cardinal Signs
Find any Cardinal energies (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) at 24° – 29°. These planets and angles will add creative tension that wants resolution in your rethinking.
Discover Planets in Air Signs
Find natal planets that are in Air signs (Aquarius, Gemini, Libra, between 0°-10°.) Air planets will add support to your rethinking. Their energy will work in flow with your reorganizing.
Discover Planets in Earth Signs
Find natal planets that are in Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn, between 0°-10°.) Earth planets will add support to your rethinking. Their energy will work in flow with your reorganizing.

Mercury Retrograde House Activations

Mercury Rx in Aquarius/Capricorn invites you to create

Your foundational step to Be the change you want to see in the World through your Work’s

✨ 1H (Maybe Aquarius Rising): Rethink your role as a changemaking leader and how you share that power with others⁠
✨ 2H (Maybe Capricorn Rising): Reevaluate your social values, how they add value to your business, how you share that value with others⁠
✨ 3H (Maybe Sagittarius Rising): Refine and communicate your radical equitable message to promote your business as an agent of change⁠
✨ 4H (Maybe Scorpio Rising): Recreate your safe communities of diverse beings to create innovative inclusion in your business⁠
✨ 5H (Maybe Libra Rising): Reignite future-forward creative enterprises and causes that set your business and brand apart⁠
✨ 6H (Maybe Virgo Rising): Reorganize your innovative ideas of service through your business as being part of a greater whole⁠
✨ 7H (Maybe Leo Rising): Rethink your collaborative partnerships in your business with other changemakers bringing in the future over a shared cause⁠
✨ 8H (Maybe Cancer Rising): Reflect on healing the past as a necessary part of healing the future in and through your business⁠
✨ 9H (Maybe Gemini Rising): Reimagine sharing your innovative vision of the future as a contribution to the wider world⁠
✨ 10H (Maybe Taurus Rising): Recommit to delivering your breakthrough innovation as a platform to creating equitable success⁠
✨ 11H (Maybe Aries Rising): Reactivate your greater social networks of changemakers through humanitarian values and activism⁠
✨ 12H (Maybe Pisces Rising): Reveal what innovative reformations are needed to restore truth in and through your business⁠

* The house(s) that contains the Aquarius 10° back to Capricorn 24° is where you are meant to rethink the social impact you have through your Work