Mercury entered the sign of Virgo at 4:41p PDT on Tuesday, 25th July 2017, beginning a period of remarkably detailed communications intended to restore health, wellness, and functionality to ourselves and the everyday matters in our lives. These restorative communications and details are likely to happen very rapidly, and are likely to bring a good deal of practical logic to the day-to-day elements of our lives. This practical logic will prove helpful to those of us ready to move beyond our everyday challenges, yet it may prove confrontational for those of us who like to complain or play victim to the circumstances of our lives.

Virgo is the practical servant of the Zodiac. This is the work we do every day to make sure our daily lives function. Virgo applies the resources, information, and insights it has obtained/earned in order to heal and improve our lives by making our everyday work and service more efficient and effective. The challenge for Virgo is to make sure that its acts of work and service benefit itself as well as others. It can’t just be about finding solutions for and/or healing others. It must first and foremost work for and heal you so you’re in a position to seek solutions and provide healing for others.

Mercury is the messenger planet, and its delivery of message is swift. It wastes no time in making sure you know and understand what is being communicated to you. Its sole purpose in the sign of Virgo is that you get the message(s), whatever it or they may be, which will assist you in restoring healthy function to your inner self, your physical body, and your daily life.

This energy of this 2017 Mercury in Virgo may prove difficult for some to handle, especially for those who have grown accustomed to playing victim in their lives. This is because Virgo Mercury will present solutions to their problems, and it will be up to the people who feel victimized to make an effort to implement the presented solutions, or to admit they don’t want their problems to be solved or victim status to be cleared. If fact, you may hear those who are resisting the solutions presented say things like “it’s more complicated than that” or “it’s not that simple”, those statements are likely their way of saying that they can’t believe that solving their problems could be as simple as shifting the focus of their work, and they don’t really want to shift their focus and experience the peace of a problem solved.

Under the 2017 Leo Sun, this is likely to be especially true for those who overwork or overextend themselves in order to make things work well for everyone else whether or not things are working for them as well… because most of them aren’t overworking to genuinely serve – they’re overworking to draw attention to themselves so they can receive acknowledgment for their efforts. If their excessive efforts don’t bear fruit, they may choose to continue playing victim or their victim tendencies may amplify.

However, for those who are eager and determined to overcome their challenges and victimizations, this 2017 Mercury in Virgo will provide wonderful opportunities to employ possible solutions to pragmatic challenges which are surfacing now in order to be solved or healed and moved on from. The key here is that efforts which might normally be applied to serving or pleasing others may now need to partially (or fully) be applied to oneself. Self-healing and self-restoration are being called for now, and it could be very challenging mindset shift for those who are used to putting others before themselves in their lives… but if they do embrace this new way of thinking and speaking, they may find themselves experiencing a positive and productive revival of their energies in ways they may never have imagined.

The 2017 Mercury in Virgo will have a retrograde period – our second of three for 2017 – beginning on on 12th August, re-entering the sign of Leo on 31st August before completing retrograde motion on 5th September, then re-entering Virgo on 9th September for its complete run through the sign. During this 2017 Virgo Mercury retrograde, we will be receiving feedback about which practices and processes are truly working for us and which ones aren’t. We’ll also receive second chances to choose different courses of practical action for ourselves and our lives, or we may change how we go about serving others on an everyday basis realizing how important it is to make sure we attend to our own health and well-being. There will be clear and swift messages coming to us about what is working and what isn’t working in and for our lives, individually and collectively.

If we listen to and heed the messages being delivered, we will find this 2017 Mercury Retrograde in Virgo period to be very cathartic. There is great potential for many of us to bring confidence-building closure to long-held upsets as we finally realize the specific ways in which we’ve had the power to change our conditions all along. This will especially be the case when Mercury re-enters Leo, giving us second chances to think and speak boldly and authentically about ourselves through new awareness and understanding of the roles we play for others through our unique individual self-expressions… but only IF we’ve allowed ourselves to admit to and own up to what is coming to light about ourselves. Yet if we resist the messages we are being given during the retrograde, some of us may find ourselves in an increasing struggle to sustain incomplete or inauthentic self-expressions, and therefore, struggling to heal the function of our lives once Mercury moves back into Virgo.

Here are the two transits the 2017 Mercury in Virgo will encounter during the 2017 Leo Sun period:

• Virgo Mercury trine Capricorn Juno Rx, most exact on 30th July – Detailed communications empower and encourage follow-through on professional and/or public commitments, for better or worse.
• Virgo Mercury sextile Cancer Venus, most exact on 10th August – Emotional support and encouragement may help facilitate the expression of feelings which need to be communicated in order to heal and restore function and well-being to matters–at –hand.
• (There are no transits with Mercury Retrograde until after the Leo Sun period completes.)

These two 2017 Mercury in Virgo periods will reveal one prominent truth: the solutions are available to those who seek them and apply them.

In order to be healed, you have to want and allow the healing to occur. It’s simple practical logic.

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~ Light, Love, and Blessings,

Grace