Have you ever experienced the sudden feeling of somehow being exactly where you’ve been before, doing exactly what you swear you’ve already done? It could be while rearranging your living room, having a conversation, or simply sitting alone doing nothing. This feeling of familiarity is, of course, known as déjà vu (a French term meaning “already seen”) and it’s reported to occur on an occasional basis in 60 to 80 percent of people. It’s an experience that’s almost always fleeting and it occurs at random. Many researchers propose that the phenomenon is a memory-based experience and assume the memory centers of the brain are responsible for it. https://bit.ly/3TQOSWv
Astrology embodies a system of new categories that are different from the ones to which we are habituated In this system objects and events that at first sight appear to have nothing whatever to do with each other are shown to be intimately connected. Elwell has defined the term multicongruence as the tendency for certain things and conditions to co-occur because they belong together at a higher, unmanifest level. Can it be a coincidence that the news above comes just as Mercury stations to go retrograde.
When Mercury is direct, as it is 80 per cent of the time, the mind operates on a very functional level. There is little time for retrospection, and energy is expended in productive action. Our contemplative side is virtually on hold. This is a natural rhythm. The period of time that Mercury is retrograde gives rise to issues that have lain dormant.
Mercury acts as an agent for recollection - anamnesis - and for the curing of the soul through illumination. His toing and froing from Hades symbolizes Mercury's ability to descend into the unconscious and transfer information or material to the conscious mind for processing in a linear fashion. The most hidden, recessive and suppressed contents of the psyche are thereby brought to light.
In particular, when Mercury is retrograde, then something important is calling for awareness, and that particular ‘something’ will emerge from the unconscious through the agency of Mercury. The lateral shift from the left to the right hemisphere of the brain, resulting in the inspirational instant of knowledge, can be likened to an alchemical transformation. In other words, the preparation for discovery is long and arduous and takes place ‘above ground’, but all the while the ‘underground’ is processing the information in a holistic, non-linear fashion, which is only transferred across the boundary in a time of disengagement from the intellect. [1]
[1] Retrograde Planets: Erin Sullivan
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