Episode 256: Navigating the Final Mercury Retrograde of 2025

Hey, Amy Robeson here. Thank you for joining me on this podcast where we talk about spirituality, the awakening process, mental health, and so much more. Join me weekly to get your weekly dose of spirituality and medicine. I look forward to seeing you on the inside. Don’t be afraid to look at your shadows. Reflect. Mercury retrograde is going to cause utter chaos in your life. Let’s get rid of that thought. It’s an invitation to have more discernment, to be mindful of your words, to have an alternative perspective. Work on the shadow aspects of your being. Heal patterns, release patterns. Give yourself permission to look at them with great curiosity and love, and lovingly let those aspects of yourself die. When you are participating in Mercury Retrograde, it allows you to communicate in a better way. There’s nothing wrong with an invitation to slow down, to be an observer, and to align. Hello, and welcome to today’s episode. I’m so excited you are here. Let’s talk about the elephant in the room that most people don’t want to talk about because it often gets a bad wrap, and that is Mercury retrograde. We are about to have our last Mercury retrograde of the year, and sometimes the last one is the biggest doosy of them all for some people.

I am not a person that usually is affected by Mercury retrograde, but I know a lot of people are. I have even friends that will not do a launch, will not sign a contract will not do anything during Mercury retrograde because they just have a bad time when it is in effect. So let’s talk about the misconceptions first. The misconception is Mercury retrograde is going to cause utter chaos in your life. Let’s get rid of that thought. Mercury retrograde is about an invitation to slow down. It often appears as if it’s moving in reverse when it’s in retrograde in the sky. And so there is this invitation to slow down reflects and also to be an observer before taking action. It does not mean don’t sign contract. It means to observe, to look at, to take caution. You can definitely sign contracts, but this is a time where miscommunication often happens is during Mercury retrograde, because Mercury is the planet of communication, travel, and technology. So what happens, and this is why Mercury gets a bad rep. So what happens during Mercury retrograde is technology starts to go a little haywire. Communication is often misunderstood.

Travel can be a little chaotic for some people. And so when it comes to Mercury retrograde, it’s important to understand that it’s not trying to bring chaos into your life. It’s an invitation to have more discernment. It’s an invitation to be mindful of your words. It’s an invitation to have an alternative perspective in communication, in the experience of who you are communicating with. It is not trying to cause communication errors. It is an invitation to slow down, pause, realign, use discernment. So how can you better communicate when you’re in a Mercury retrograde? One is ask yourself if you’re in your feelings. Because feelings and facts are two totally different things. Stick to the facts. Look at the facts. The facts don’t lie. Feelings are different. The way you feel does It doesn’t matter. But sometimes your feelings will cloud your judgment on what actually happened and vice versa with the other person. And so facts versus feelings will assist you one, in communicating better. And two, give yourself permission to be a better communicator during this time. Give yourself permission to ask yourself, what am I actually trying to communicate? What is this person trying to communicate?

Because when you actually stop and pause and look at the big picture, it will allow you to have multiple perspectives in the situation versus having tunnel vision in the situation. There are more than one perspective. There is more than only your perspective. There are many perspectives in any given situation. So give yourself permission to allow yourself to see those. The other thing is there’s going to be things that come up during Mercury retrograde, like contracts. And it’s not about not signing a contract. It’s about reading the contract. It’s about looking at the contract thoroughly. It’s about understanding the contract. When there’s a contract, read it. Read it out loud. Have someone else read it. Contracts are just a part of the human experience. I don’t know about you, but I like contracts. Contracts allow things to be etched in a way that creates an agreement that both parties are mutually understanding. That’s what the contract is for. It’s for protection for both parties involved. And you’re agreeing upon something. So if there’s something you’re not agreeing upon, ask for it to be changed. Can it be changed? Maybe, maybe not. And I’ll give an example.

I’ll hire someone, and let’s say in that contract, I’m doing a podcast interview, the languaging says that they have every right to all my likeness. I don’t agree to that because that is a broad statement. Statement that they can use anything about me, especially with AI, in whatever it is that they choose to do outside the project. And so I don’t agree to that. So what do I communicate? I communicate why I don’t want that in the contract, what I would like instead, and I’m nice about it, too. Now, there are things that we can’t change. For example, I used to work in the car business. I was a finance manager. There are specific forms and specific contracts for when you buy a car based on the state and what is legal and what the bank is allowed to take if you’re doing a loan. And so that contract cannot be changed. If you don’t like it, then you can’t buy the car because there’s legal terms that everybody agreed to on a state level and what’s in that contract. And so there are things you can negotiate, things you can’t, but understand what you’re signing and why you are signing it.

Now, let’s talk about the chaos of technology. When it comes to Mercury retrograde, give yourself a buffer with technology. Some people, technology is not going to bother them. There’s going to be no hiccups. And then some people do have a lot of technology errors when it comes to Mercury being in retrograde. So any time I’m starting to notice I’m having technology errors, one, I clear any assumption I have that this is a part of my reality. So I’m clearing, knowing or unknowingly, that I’m participating in technology chaos. I clear that from my energy field. If you would like, we have a free YouTube Mercury Retrograde Clearing that you can listen to. I’ll link it in the show notes and in the show description that you can listen to at any time or any Mercury retrograde so that you can play with Mercury retrograde versus feeling like it’s attacking you or causing utter chaos in your life. But I like to clear it, and I like to create this beautiful relationship with Mercury retrograde so that I have a good experience with it, because there’s nothing wrong with an invitation to slow down, to be an observer, and to align, and to have discernment.

I think oftentimes There’s a lot of people that don’t have discernment. There’s a lot of people that don’t pay attention to what they’re signing or what they’re agreeing to or even understand what they’re agreeing to. So slow down. This is the universe’s way of building in slow down methods for you because sometimes you don’t slow down. And this is an invitation that just naturally happens for the collective as well. And to what degree it impacts you is completely unique to you, to your chart, to your experience as well. From a spiritual perspective, Mercury retrograde is an invitation, a portal to work on the shadow aspects of yourself. We are both light and dark. Shadows are birthed out of necessity. And when there’s this slow down, there are going to be the gremlin that come out of your closet. I call those the shadows. And And the shadow aspects of your being want to fight a particular way, want to communicate a particular way, want to behave a particular way. And so there’s patterns ingrained into your psyche, into these aspects, into your drivers. And you can change these aspects of yourself. This is a great time to work on the shadow aspects of your being.

Heal patterns, release patterns so that you can grow beyond your expectations so that you can embrace the light and release the dark that no longer serves you. And let me really emphasize this. You did nothing wrong in terms of how these shadows were birthed. And I want to say that slightly different. No one, no one is a perfect angel. We are all light and dark, Yin and Yang. And when we do our shadow work, what ends up happening is we invite ourselves to a new level of understanding. We’re inviting ourselves into a new level of frequency, which allows us to upgrade. There’s also an invitation to have a death, because all throughout life, you are going to have many, many deaths. And these are identities that you hold, patterns that you hold, and we have to lovingly let them die. And so what parts of you are fighting? What parts of you are creating the reality that you truly don’t want? Just because they got you to this point doesn’t mean they’re going to get you to where you’re going. And there is a death that has to happen in order for you to grow to the next level.

Don’t be afraid to look at your shadows. Give yourself permission to look at them with great curiosity and love and lovingly let those aspects of yourself die. The other thing about Mercury retrograde that I think is really interesting is you have the opportunity to learn better communication skills. We all have patterns on the way that we communicate, the way that we don’t communicate, our default modes. And so when you have the opportunity to really take a fine-tooth comb and look at how you’re communicating, how you’re not communicating, you can become a better communicator. The way we communicate dictates our success, our relationships, our ability to navigate this world through the lens of love. And for For me, I know that I have habits and patterns in my communication that I have worked really hard on that allows me to be a better person. But there are also habits and patterns that are trying to get my attention, that I am blind to, that my subconscious is operating from. And when it comes to Mercury retrograde, and I’m being very mindful in the way that I’m communicating, it’s creating new habits because Mercury retrograde is a pocket of time that affects us.

And when you are participating in Mercury retrograde, it allows you to communicate in a better way. And you’ll want to look at it from this perspective. There’s the pre-shadow of Mercury retrograde. So that’s two weeks before Mercury retrograde goes into effect. So you’ll start feeling the effects of Mercury retrograde before it goes into retrograde. And then you have three-week window where it’s in retrograde, and then you have another two-week window post-retrograde that the effects are still at play, not as strong, but there’s still that residue. And so you have seven weeks, seven weeks that you have the opportunity to really cultivate new habits around communication, around observations, around discernment, which is really, really, really neat. So give yourself permission to break old communication habits. Give yourself permission to be a better communicator as well. So the lax Mercury retrograde of the year is happening November ninth. You have all the tools now to prepare your sofa Mercury retrograde and take advantage of listening to our Mercury retrograde clearing. Please share this with a friend and also comment below, what are you going to do to prepare your sofa Mercury retrograde? Are you going to slow down? Are you going to give yourself permission to be a better communicator?

What is it that you’re going to do? I’d love to hear from you. Please make sure you like and subscribe and share this with a friend. Take care. Bye.