Venus Retrograde in Leo & Mercury Retrograde in Virgo

Sunflower Seeds 🌻

So I have been struggling, my goodness. Feels like my inner world blew tf up. Remember the movie Inside Out!? Well all my little islands and my little people in my head are falling apart. Started with Venus Retrograde in July just after my solar return, mind you that’s always a time for renewal because it’s my personal New Year.

So Venus is going to be retrograde in the sign of Leo from July 22nd 2023 to September 3 2023, and mind you there’s a week to a 2 week shadow period which has the same themes. I’m already a perfectionist when it comes to love especially how I love people, yet you’ll never really find me pushing that onto other people until Venus f*cking Retrograde. My goodness how in the hell did I become this egotistical!? Anyway lots of built up traumas around love have shown up, I have my Venus in Virgo by the way. So I heal in stages and I’m pretty sure you all do too, it’s a thing of healing at the best of the capacity you can with the info you have and the kind of person you currently are. I’ve grown a hell of a lot so Venus Retrograde has brought back all of these traumas to heal at the level and capacity I am at now, this time it’s emotional draining af mainly because it’s a time to remember why you were hurt and give yourself the grace and validation you deserve.

Then Mercury is going to be retrograde in the sign of Virgo from August 23rd through September 15th 2023, same shadow period issues. Now communication, technology, thinking patterns, reasoning and adaptability. In the sign of Virgo it may have been simpler if it was the on planet retrograde currently, however Saturn, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde including Venus. So almost everything is switched up, from the way we think and communicate to the way we see, show and experience love, beauty, values, ambition, productivity, dreams, spirituality, the subconscious and rebirth. Which is probably a good thing putting it all together now because the Southern Hemisphere’s New Year is when Spring begins on the 23rd of September, the reevaluation is needed. I know I need it.

My issue is that the past 2 or 3 weeks I have not felt like myself at all, like in Inside Out where the lands were falling apart and happy memories meshed with sadness. Like in Coco where Coco experienced a whole out of body experience, I don’t feel like I’m here so who’s actually controlling my avatar now. It’s chaos.

I do however think we’ll get through it by opening up our throat chakras and talking about what we’re feeling and experiencing. Journaling daily about our thoughts, our feelings, our days and even our dreams. Spending more time in the sun and nature and moving our bodies. A lot feels stagnant right now, but with the right pace and steps to be able to get through it, I believe by the New Year we’ll be in such amazing spaces that we’d even be shocked this is what was happening.

Sending you love, light, progress and everything in between 💚✨🌻🍃