QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT:

(Cosmic Update on Mercury Rx follows below)

My new Connecting with Your Ancestors & Ancestral Spirits course will be beginning in early November (which is just right around the corner).  Right now is the time of the year when the Veil is so very thin, and we can easily commune with our spiritual guides & ancestors.  This is why I wanted to teach this course at this time.  Please note that this is the one and only time I intend to teach this entire course live.  For more info, keep reading below, or go to http://www.cynthiakillion.com/courses/ancestors.html.

          Please note that these classes are being conducted by telephone, and recordings of courses will be available to students to listen back to for review. This means that you can join us for these classes from wherever you are, and if you happen to be a parent of small children, you don’t even need to worry about hiring a babysitter to participate.

The class fee is quite reasonable, with a 30 dollar discount for those who enroll by or before October 31st.  (Yes, the early bird gets the worm, smile.)  Even if you aren’t able to afford the fee in order to invest in the official course, you may still be able to join us for the live classes, as there are some scholarships available.  Please see the link above to get more info or to get signed-up. 

 

 

 

YOUR COSMIC UPDATE 

 

Dear Cosmic Psychic Friends, hi there.  I hope you are enjoying this lovely fall-time season.  (And to my friends & readers in the Southern Hemisphere, I hope that you are having a splendid early spring.)  Wherever you are at on our beautiful Mother Earth, another Mercury retrograde is coming down the cosmic pipeline soon.

Right now, we are still just in the PRE-retrograde shadow of Mercury, which means our experience of time & space is already beginning to shift & change, and probably we are ALREADY starting to notice small, subtle changes in how we are coping & dealing with day-to-day realities, as well as changes in dreaming patterns and energy levels.  (At least, some of us will notice this now—others may not notice until later, as we all respond to the energies differently & at different rates, and also we can respond differently to each new energy shift.)

This is a good time for writing down your dreams, increasing your meditation time, and paying very good attention to any warnings or premonitions coming from your intuition or inner psychic. Now is the time to really slow down & commune with your ancestors & guides.

 

 

 

On the other hand, it’s not such a good time for relying only on logic or so-called “facts”.  It’s not that “facts” can’t be relied upon (indeed, often they are the only thing that can be relied upon.)  It’s just that you will need to expend extra energy getting your facts STRAIGHT during Mercury retrograde (AND in the days immediately before it), as things often aren’t the way they seem during this time.  Not to mention, emotions are started to get INTENSIFIED, and there’s nothing like heavy emotional energy to cloud the lens of facts & logic.

So before you go and let yourself get triggered or upset or accuse others of wrong-doing, or before you start to believe your job, relationship, career, life or whatever or “over”, maybe you could step back and take a breath or two, and give yourself some time to RE-ASSESS before jumping to conclusions or taking actions that you can’t take back later.  

For it’s so easy to feel self-righteous and justified when the energies are being activated in this way.  And of course, this applies to people that you are in relationship & dealings with as well—especially for those who usually have a habit of feeling self-righteous or justified (even when their actions aren’t really justified).  Whatever dominant emotional energies you have at this time, these shifts will tend to AMPLIFY and INTENSIFY those energies, pretty much to the point where they can interfere with your logic & reason at times.

 

It is for all these very reasons that Mercury retrograde is one of the BEST times for getting a reading or counseling session, or otherwise seeking an expert opinion, at least, assuming it is a reader, counselor or expert that you KNOW you can count on. The emotions can take on quite a SWIRL during Mercury retrograde, swinging to BOTH sides of the extreme (both unrealistically positive AND unrealistically negative).

 

What you need to do now is invoke the practices & connections in your life that can help you find and stay in the CENTER.

 

 

  

The official retrograde begins on October 31^st (of all days) and continues up until November 20^th.  However, as I mentioned above, we are already in the pre-retrograde shadow of this transit, which is a time when discord and restlessness subtly begin to churn & stir beneath the surface.  Perhaps you’ve noticed an increase in CONFLICT, mis-understandings or dis-agreements lately.  Maybe even you’ve found that you more easily lose your temper or patience with people whom are close to you or those whom you usually get along well with. (Or perhaps THEY seem to be losing their temper with you and speaking more meanly or harshly than usual.)  

There is definitely a SCRATCHY side to Mercury retrograde that isn’t usually talked about….I find that this scratchy side often shows itself as early as the pre-retrograde shadow time, and certainly by the time of pre-retrograde storm (which we are approaching on Friday).   But maybe you’ve been lucky so far (or just stay inside your house like a hermit with no social media) and so you have mostly avoided the scratchy aspect of these energies.

Even so, you might have noticed that there have been some unexpected scheduling issues lately, with plans sometimes having to be canceled or re-arranged for a much later date.  If so, know that there is something larger than just your own energies at work here.  It doesn’t necessarily mean that you won’t get to do that thing that you wanted, but only that it is delayed for now and that you will have to wait a little while longer while until a more ideal time for that experience or event.

 

I view all of these little (and sometimes not so little) frictions and annoyances of the shadow phase as simply hints and tiny tastes of what is yet to come in the weeks ahead—these effects generally tend to intensify as we get closer to the retrograde proper.  (Although occasionally, the worst annoyances happen BEFORE the retrograde starts, and then things mellow out just a little bit during the retrograde proper.)   

Soon we will move from just being in the shadow phase and then we will hit the pre-retrograde “storm” on this Friday, Oct 26^th.  The pre-retrograde storm is the moment when the speed of the orbit of Mercury reaches a significantly slow rate.  This significant-slowing down usually happens about a week before the official beginning of Mercury’s retrograde period, with Mercury’s orbit coming to a near standstill on the day it actually goes retrograde. 

 

Most people (and not just those who are psychically sensitive) begin to notice a shift in the energies and social atmosphere by the time the pre-retrograde storm begins—including all your standard Mercury retrograde associations, such as increased communication problems & break-downs, spike in emotional outbursts & depression, tech and transportation issues, re-scheduling and scheduling issues, and travel delays and problems.  

 

For all practical purposes, the pre-retrograde storm is when the effects of the retrograde begin to hit in a very OBVIOUS way, although things can certainly intensify a bit more when the retrograde proper begins. 

          JUST TO RE-CAP, for you before I sign off, we are currently in the pre-retrograde shadow of Mercury retrograde, which if Mercury retrograde were a band, this would be akin to the band showing up on the scene and beginning to set up.  Then, on this upcoming Friday, October 25^th, we will enter the pre-retrograde storm, when the opening act for the Mercury retrograde performs.  Finally, the Mercury will “officially” station retrograde on Thursday, October 31st (yes, on Halloween) and that is when the retrograde technically begins, and it continues until November 20^th.

 

Thanks for being a reader of this Cosmic Newsletter! Hope you found this edition helpful.  As always, feel free to write me if you have questions about scheduling private readings, or about classes, flower essences or herbal creations.  Until next time, May the blessing of the Ancestors & the helpful spirits be with you, and may you have a magical & enchanting Halloween Season ahead!