How often do you turn off the television, disconnect from social media, abandon email, leave your phone behind, and give yourself a break from podcasts, books, blogs, newsletters, and other sources of insight and inspiration?
Can you do it for a week? A day? An hour?
Outer Noise vs Inner Noise
When we step away from all the external inputs, we can begin to realize how much noise there is in the outside world.
But that doesn’t necessarily mean that things quiet down.
That’s because most of the noise is internal:
- The voices in your head that aren’t your voice; the echoes of the people who raised you, taught you, influenced you, and conditioned you since your childhood.
- The voices in your head that sound like your voice, but represent your internalization of the voices that influenced you.
- The imaginary conversations you have with other people, perhaps in anticipation of actual conversations or perhaps just to work through issues in your own mind.
- Your self-judgments, doubts, and second-guessing.
- Endless negative thought loops.
- All the analysis, overthinking, decision-making, planning, “figuring things out,” and other mind chatter.
- Physical aches and pains.
You don’t need social media, news, television, or endless Google scrolling to hear noise. There’s already plenty of noise within.
In fact, it’s often our discomfort with the internal noise that leads us to seek the external noise as a form of distraction.
Everything serves a purpose.
Staying busy, chasing information, and putting ourselves in the noise of the outer world helps us avoid the discomfort of the inner noise.
It also blocks us from tapping into our robust creativity, our intuition, and our real voice — the “still, small voice” within that speaks our truth and offers the type of wisdom we cannot find in the noise.
Mercury in Cancer Trine Neptune in Pisces: Attune to Your Intuition
To hear your intuition you have to let go not only of the outer voices but also the inner voices. All the inner dialogue and judgments and the imaginary conversations you have with people
On July 9, Mercury in Cancer forms a trine with Neptune in Pisces (exact at 7:57 pm ET), offering us an opportunity to access our deeper intuition and knowing that is waiting for us beneath the noise.
This transit is ideal for dreaming, creative expression, going beneath the noise to access your true wisdom, and coming up with new creative projects.
Mercury in Cancer
Mercury is the archetype of the communicator and the thinker. It represents our curiosity, our rational mind, and how we relate to others.
Mercury loves data and information and all the things we can do with it: it analyzes, organizes, defines, labels, categorizes, and disseminates it. It is the messenger, the planner, the organizer. It is also the magician the trickster.
In Cancer, the data and information that Mercury loves to play with comes in the form of our emotions and our sensory experience.
Mercury in Cancer is sensitive, an often-loaded word that simply means it is *attuned to the somatic and sensory experience*: the way your stomach contracts or relaxes in response to a situation, environment, or another person; the way your chest contracts when facing a big opportunity; the way your throat closes up when speaking your truth feels scary.
Neptune in Pisces
Neptune is the planet of dreams, faith, spirituality, intuition, escape, illusion, and sometimes delusion. It’s the king of the seas, and at home in Pisces, where distinctions and details dissolve in the great ocean of oneness. Neptune in Pisces is about the big picture. In Pisces, it is empathetic and compassionate, and it helps us access our creative side.
Mercury Trine Neptune
A trine is a supportive aspect in which the planets energies flow together constructively.
Mercury trine Neptune fosters compassion, connection, creativity and creative expression. This is a harmonious transit that be ideal for expressing yourself in poetry, music, or dance, or for bringing harmony to your myriad of ideas.
When Mercury in Cancer forms a trine to Neptune in Pisces, it encourages us to escape into our imagination, delve into our dreams, and tap into our intuition. Especially with these planets in Cancer and Pisces, this trine facilitates greater empathy, compassion, and emotional attunement in conversations, fostering deeper connections.
Access Your Deeper Knowing
This transit invites us to tune out all the noise — external and internal — so we can access the information that lays at the bottom of the ocean, in the dark recesses of our quietest corners.
This is the time for tuning out to tune in: let your mind wander, attune to your body, dive into your dreams, and feel into your deepest knowing.
Listen for the nuggets of ideas that drop in. Notice what inspiration sparks your attention. Treat every sensation as information, but let go of the impulse to analyze it.
As new ideas drop in, lean into the big picture without trying to flesh out the details. This transit isn’t the time for “figuring things out.” Instead, feel into what your body communicates as you sit with the faint watercolor image of what might emerge.
[…] Mercury in Scorpio trine Neptune in Pisces amplifies our capacity to receive messages through our intuition, our bodies, our dreams, and through the sensations that arise when we finally stop trying to figure everything out with our minds. […]