Happy Friday! Come tomorrow, Mercury will finally get back into Aquarius, the sign that it turned retrograde in back on January 5. This means that we’ll officially be out of the shadow phase and moving into new territory.

While Mercury was retrograde in Capricorn, we took a tough look at our choices and their manifestations. The highest expression of Mercury in Capricorn is having the maturity and discernment to know right from wrong and make the appropriate choices. But what happens when we choose the wrong thing? Without consciousness? Without maturity?

Mercury in Aquarius, however, is about taking our experiences, thoughts, and ideas, and translating/transmitting them into a collective experience. Aquarius is such a groupthink sign; our ideas are something bigger than ourselves.

On an esoteric level, Mercury in Aquarius makes me think of the akashic records, this dimension of information that is a holographic database of the experiences of every human that has ever lived. If Mercury in Capricorn is the karma of our choices, Mercury in Aquarius is the translation of that experience for either the benefit of spirit or matter — is the return of energies going up or down? Toward consciousness or anti-consciousness?

On a more mundane level, Mercury in Aquarius is intellect. It’s the master of information. It’s visionary ideas and theories. Let’s dream a better future.