Your Information Processor Turns Around in the Zone of the Unconscious and Says “Wait, We Need to Go Back”

(For astro nerds: Mercury stations retrograde at 22° Pisces until March 20th)

You know that thing where you leave the house, get halfway to where you’re going, and suddenly realize you forgot something important? And you stand there on the sidewalk having a tiny existential crisis about whether to go back or just push through without it? That’s your information processor for the next three weeks. Except the house is your unconscious, the “something important” is approximately seventeen unprocessed emotional downloads from the past six months, and “pushing through” is not an option because Mercury is standing in the middle of your psyche with its arms crossed saying “We’re not going ANYWHERE until you look at this.”

Your mind is being asked to turn inward at the exact moment everything wants to move forward. This isn’t delay. This is depth. Your thoughts are being marinated in the waters of your unconscious so they can come back up carrying truth instead of just information.

Welcome to the first of three water-sign retrogrades this year for your information processor. THREE. All in water. All in the zones that process through FEELING. As if the Field looked at your calendar full of fire and action and said, “Cute plan. But you’re going to FEEL something this year whether you scheduled it or not. I’ve added it to your calendar. It’s non-negotiable. I’ve also declined three of your other meetings on your behalf. You’re welcome.”

Here’s what’s about to happen: You’ll send an email to the wrong person. Not just any wrong person. THE wrong person. The one that turns a simple miscommunication into a four-day emotional excavation project you didn’t budget time for. You’ll be mid-sentence in an important conversation and completely lose the word you need. Not a fancy word. A normal word. A word you’ve used ten thousand times. It’ll be right there, on the tip of your tongue, and then it’ll just... leave. Like it had somewhere else to be. Like your vocabulary got a better offer. You’ll have a dream that makes no sense and then walk directly into its waking-life sequel three days later wearing a facial expression that can only be described as “oh no, not this again.” (Spoiler: The things you’re “forgetting” aren’t random. Your unconscious is editing your communication in real-time, deleting the words that would keep you on the surface, forcing you into the depths whether you meant to go there or not. Mercury retrograde in Pisces is a trickster with a therapy license. She’s not trying to ruin your week. She’s trying to save your year.)

Intuition speaks in the body first and the brain second. Your gut has been sending memos your mind keeps filing under “later.” Your skin has been registering information your thoughts refuse to translate. This retrograde is the universe clearing your inbox whether you like it or not.

For three weeks, your rational mind is being asked to take a seat. Not forever. Just long enough for your inner oracle to have a turn at the microphone. Your analyst has been hogging the stage for years. Decades, probably. It’s done great work. It’s kept you functional. It’s also been filtering out approximately 73% of the information your deeper knowing has been trying to deliver because that information doesn’t fit in spreadsheets and your analyst only trusts spreadsheets.

The analyst is going on a mandatory vacation. The oracle is taking the meeting. The analyst is not happy about this. The analyst has prepared a twelve-slide presentation about why this is inefficient and possibly dangerous. The oracle isn’t even in the room yet. The oracle is currently staring at the ocean, thinking about a dream she had in 2019 that suddenly makes sense, and she’ll be there when she’s there.

Your cells have been having conversations about your future in frequencies your thoughts forgot how to hear. Your blood carries knowing that has never been translated into language. This is the month your mind finally admits it doesn’t have all the answers... and discovers that the body has been holding the ones it needed most.

So yes: emails will be weird. Communication will require more patience than usual. Someone will misunderstand your text in the most creatively wrong way possible. You’ll say “that’s not what I meant” at least seven times. Technology will do that thing where it works perfectly until the exact moment you need it for something important and then develops sudden, mysterious symptoms that no IT person can explain. The universe isn’t punishing you. The universe is just tapping on your shoulder with increasing force going: slow down, slow down, SLOW DOWN, okay fine I’ll take your keys and hide your clarity until you get the message. Go back. Feel what you skipped. Integrate what you rushed past. Let your mind catch up with what your body has known for months.

Forget fixing. Nothing is broken. Your mind is just being softened in water it didn’t know it needed, and the water doesn’t care about your timeline. Your thoughts are being softened. Your certainties are being questioned. Your mental structures are being asked to become porous enough to let something deeper through. Good luck explaining why you need to cancel plans this month.

Actually, here’s your script: “I can’t. Mercury is in retrograde in my zone of the unconscious and I need to stare at a wall and process seventeen months of unexamined feelings or I’ll short-circuit during eclipse season.” If they don’t understand, they’re not your people. If they DO understand, they’re probably also staring at a wall right now. Wave at each other from your respective walls. That’s community.

Your brain is finally being asked to listen to the parts of you that speak in symbol, sensation, and silence. Your nervous system is being given permission to process at the pace of water instead of the pace of wifi. Your blood already knows what you’re trying to figure out. This month, your mind learns to ask it.