Mercury Retrograde in Aries 2024

It’s the first Mercury Retrograde of the Astrological New Year 2024-2025. From April 1-22, Mercury will be Retrograde in Mars ruled Aries and complicating the preferred nature of this season as a result. Although Mercury will be traversing backwards for much of this month, it offers us an opportunity to rediscover new self interests that can find us inspired, focused and excited about the future.

So first, let’s talk about when all this started. Mercurys shadow period officially began on March 18,2024. Mercury stationed at a very important degree 15°, the Cancer degree, while being nestled in the sign of Aries. This created some new awareness about where comfort and accountability meet, indignation and impulsivity. Patience is the centerpiece of this Mercury Retrograde and the first person to extend it to should be yourself. I’m feeling irritability is going to be very high from most people in general. Due to defense being the first mode of confrontation for most, people will be frogging and thus, sudden incidents are sure to occur at the expense of one or many. Time to decide, if you’re being a fussy baby because something is blocking your way (likely your past) or if it’s because you’d rather avoid the part you play in your own suffering. What if I told you, it wasn’t complicated you’re just being avoidant because you’re scared? No room for that this Aries Season. The entirety of Aries Season is ripe with the baleful rays of Eclipses. It’s time to transform, to step out of the dark and into the light and see yourself, REALLY see yourself for who you are and what you’re working with. Contrary to usual form of Aries, this season is perfect for reconnecting with people who may be able to help bring clarity and decisiveness to ideas that you have about new projects and plans.

The official date of Mercury Retrograde begins on April 1,2024. The retrograde begins at 27° of Aries, the Gemini degree. Talk about reformation of ideas! This is a wonderful time for exploring things from the past that maybe started as merely a seed once upon a time that can be re-examined and even redone due to the new details you’ve come to learn about yourself or an idea you’ve had. Give yourself some space to investigate. One thing about this Aries energy is it likes to be alone and because everyone is just feeling a little more testy than usual, being alone may be one of the best ways to ensure less conflict with other people that we can’t control doesn’t get out of hand. People are going to be argumentative and incident prone during this retrograde because it feels right to be speedy right now. Please use caution especially with your body. Aries is a very physical sign so it’s easy to overexert yourself at the gym, with stimulants like coffee, or becoming reactive if you find yourself frustrated. Be a boss, it’s Aries season after all, the war general does not react, he responds. Make sure that you are responding instead of acting an ego, and finding yourself in positions you’d rather not be in due to your impetus drive to achieve.

Mercury retrograde all the way back to where it was on March 18, which will no doubt, have us revisit some old energy from the month of March. This can be really nice because despite mercury, slowing down near the end of March, all planets were still very much direct like they were in February. This denotes that there was still a lot of positive forward moving potential. Now that you’ve learned what you’ve learned about yourself and your approach you’re being called to integrate this new knowledge and these new details into better processes as it relates to showing up as you are best self in every aspect of your life. The final day of this Retrograde is April 22 but, we’ll still have a couple of weeks for its haze to be removed from our plans. Fine tune for just a while longer and see what happens.

This Mercury Retrograde is for rediscovering our inner desires to be our most authentic selves. The more you’re willing to go back just a little, the sooner you’ll be able to realize how ahead you are. There are also valuable gems you may have put down a while ago because it wasn’t time that couldn’t be more presently available to your here and now. Be open to yourself enough to trust that idea you had long ago was waiting for this moment to help you embark on a new adventure. Check out what you may be rediscovering about yourself below and sound off in the comments. Happy New Remixes!

Aries: Sense of Self

Taurus: Your Past

Gemini: Your Goals

Cancer: Your Career

Leo: Your Expansion

Virgo: Your Resources

Libra: Your Relationships

Scorpio: Your Habits

Sagittarius: Your Passions

Capricorn: Your Inner Life

Aquarius: Your Curiosity

Pisces: Your Self Worth