Mercury Isn’t Ruining Your Life, Your Wi‑Fi Might Be

Ever felt like the universe hit pause on your plans just as you found your stride? We unpack Mercury retrograde moving from Sagittarius to Scorpio and show how to turn the supposed chaos into hard-won clarity. Instead of blaming the stars for broken emails and mixed messages, we explore what this transit is actually asking for: slower breaths, truer words, and choices that match your values.

We dig into the tension between Sagittarius fire—big ideas, blunt truths, wanderlust—and Scorpio water—shadow work, emotional honesty, deep repair. You’ll get a practical three-part framework to navigate the season: revisit projects and promises you parked, reflect on energy leaks and misplaced yeses, and reassess the boundaries that keep you clear. Along the way, we talk real-life rituals to steady your nervous system: a simple burning practice to release mental clutter, a salt bath to rinse old stories, and a hand-on-heart affirmation to anchor your inner compass.

This conversation also gets personal: healing after surgery, a partner’s first steps toward therapy, a year of health changes, and the courage to ask for help. We talk about how to speak from truth rather than fear, why miscommunication can be a doorway to repair, and how to keep tech and travel tidy while you protect your peace. As Mercury completes its retrograde in Scorpio, we point to the soft rebirth on the other side—fewer masks, clearer boundaries, and a kinder voice within.

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Chapters

• 0:06 Setting The Retrograde Stage
• 0:19 Why Mercury Retrograde Matters
• 2:25 Sagittarius Truth Meets Scorpio Depth
• 4:33 Rituals For Release And Clarity
• 5:02 The Revisit, Reflect, Reassess Framework
• 6:38 Values, Boundaries, And Energy Leaks
• 9:58 Health Journey And Mindset Shifts
• 13:32 Communication, Closure, And Receiving Help
• 15:55 End Of Retrograde: Rebirth And Cleansing
• 17:27 Guided Breath And Affirmations
• 19:08 Closing Blessing And Calls To Connect

Transcript

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Hi Mijita. Welcome back to another episode. I'm your host, Doralicia Praxis, and today we're diving into a season that always has us saying, what the fuck just happened? Mercury retrograde. Between November 9th and 29th, Mercury will be moving backwards. Well, not literally, but you know, energetically, across two powerful signs, Sagittarius and Scorpio. This transit asks us to slow down, reassess, and reconnect. Not just with our thoughts, but with our truth. And you know, Mika, this one's personal, because Sagittarius brings that fiery urge to move forward, to speak your truth, to explore. While Scorpio whispers, no no, go deeper. There's something you've been avoiding. So today we're going to explore what Mercury Retrograde is really trying to teach you, the do's and don'ts during the season, how to spiritually prepare and thrive instead of freak out, and how this energy invites you to reclaim your power through reflection. So take a deep breath. Inhale truth, exhale illusion, and let's journey the dentro pa fuera. Let's start with the basics. Mercury is the planet that rules communication, technology, travel, and thought. It's how we perceive and express our reality. When it goes retrograde, things that normally run smooth, like emails, relationships, plans, they start to get glitchy. But that's not punishment, it's a pause, a cosmic audit. Mercury retrograde is like when Spirit says, Hold up before you keep running, check your direction. It's not about chaos, it's about clarity. So let's reflect. Where have I been rushing instead of listening? What truth am I avoiding? Because it challenges my comfort. Now, because it begins in Sagittarius, the sign of expansion, travel, and big ideas, you might feel the urge to jump into new opportunities, say yes to everything, or overcommit. But as Mercury moves back into Scorpio, the lesson shifts from exploration to excavation. Scorpio says, You can't move forward if you're still carrying emotional baggage. So this retrograde is a bridge between you believe Sagittarius and what you feel but haven't healed, Scorpio. Hi, Sagittarius energy loves the spotlight. It's about truth telling. But when Mercury retrogrades here, words can cut, cut really deep. So before you clap back or send that text, pause. Take a moment, take a deep breath, and just wait a minute. Because what you're really reacting to is an old wound asking your attention. It's like a tantrum, like a little kid, you know, throwing a tantrum on the floor at the grocery store. Or, you know, like just unberrinche, right? Just crying unconsolably. Or the little the little kid inside of us wants to come out. Scorpio then brings the deep healing. It's that shadow energy that says, I dare you to face your truth. And so, of course, this monster sometimes is not as scary as we think. It's in our head. And that's where we use this as an opportunity. So you might find yourself revisiting old relationships, family wounds, contracts or commitments that no longer fit your growth. And this is a time where it wouldn't be surprising, like old relationships such as boyfriends, girlfriends, ex-boyfriends, ex-girlfriends, and stuff like that kind of surface. But take that as an opportunity to see, hey, this is how far I've grown. Like last time Mercury retrograded was back in um like over the summer. And that's where just remember even a year ago how far you've come. And so spiritually, this is a call to cleanse, to purge the mental clutter. So a ritual suggestion I have for you is write down what you've been overthinking. Fold it, burn it with intention. And you can even say, I release confusion, I choose clarity. And so reflect on this. What am I ready to forgive myself or others so I can move forward lighter? During Mercury retrograde, there's a simple mantra. Revisit, reflect, reassess. So number one, the revisit. Revisit the old projects, forgotten dreams, messages left and as read, and just go through like that memory lane and try to figure out what is it that I would do, maybe tweak it a little differently. Maybe something you thought was done just needs a new approach. Maybe that project you kind of left unbanded for a bit, like you come back to it and refresh it a little bit. And so a lot of reads this time around for Mercury Retrograde. Number two, reflect. This is not a time to push through, okay? And I know this well in my healing journey. It's more of it's time to pause and review where you're spending your energy, like you're like a like an audit for your energy, like what is leaky. And I've been talking to several of you recently, and thank you so much for the thoughts and prayers and reaching out, but you're reflecting on what are my priorities, what is what is important to me, right? And this is no joke, a sacred, like a big shake, like a snow globe effect right now for a lot of people around me, because you never know what's gonna happen next, right? We don't know what the future holds, but you do know and realize how do you go about it, how do you approach the situation, how do you handle that stress, the unknown, the curveballs, the life obstacles. And so pausing and reflecting on what do I want to do right now? What causes me joy? And if I'm in a shitty spot, like you know, I do have my moments where I cry unconsolably, and I'm like thinking, especially at the beginning where I found out my cancer diagnosis, it was like, oh my god, what if I die? Like, what is it gonna be of my kids? What is it gonna be of my, you know, my family, my spouse, feel me? Like, yeah, it was a lot to take in. But I know that everything happens with divine timing and for a good purpose. And that's where you can ask yourself, as you're going through the motions, does this still align with my values? Because over time we do change. I change a lot, quite a bit, especially with this situation. And I reflect now more of like I I want to live in that peace and joy and do the things that I like love to do, such as recording this podcast. And it fills me up. It fills me up to hear from people, my community, um, plug in, get get answers to some of my questions, um, research. I do go through my rabbit holes as well. But there are times where it's like, okay, I just want to take a nap, especially now. Um, or I want something to eat. Of course, I'm not gonna eat like and indulge completely, but once in a while it doesn't hurt. And so, what are the things that are important to you right now? And there's one particular situation that I encountered this past week where your energy is being drained might not even be yours. It might be someone else's. And so discerning what is yours and what is not yours. So that leaves us to number three, or leads us into number three of reassess. Sometimes Mercury retrograde reveals what's unsustainable. You'll see where you're you've been overcommitted or where your truth doesn't match your actions. Like before I would say pretty much yes to everything, like because I didn't want to let anybody down, but now it's like a hell no. Like my body even says, mm-mm, we are not going over there. Um, and there is no right or wrong. And that's the difficult part because it's not like math, and I love my accounting job, because everything needs to reconcile eventually, right? Like, I mean, a penny here and there, I mean, not such a big deal. But when it comes to life, there is no reconciliation sometimes. It's like you have to really sit down and analyze what are my thoughts, what are my emotions, what is this triggering, and just go through like that deep hole of figuring out that shadowing side of you. And once you go through those emotions, once you reassess, once you figure out like what is more aligned to you, that's where you're gonna start to cross that bridge and get to the other side. Because the other side is so much brighter, it's so much warmer. Um, it's like warm and fuzzy, I want to say. Uh, but it just provides so much truth, right? And getting that clarity with just sitting down and going through the big pile of dump of emotions and everything and the works, going through it. It's gonna help you a lot. So, my pro tip is to during this time, Mercury retrograde, is to back up your files, double check your travel plans, and don't sign long-term contracts if you can help. But emotionally, this is a beautiful time to reconnect with your inner compass. So, a semantic practice that I like to do is I like I love to place a hand over my chest and say out loud, I trust my inner knowing, even when life feels unclear. And you can breathe into that truth and feel it and embody it into you just with every breath and just go through the motions. I trust my inner knowing even when life feels unclear. I want to share something personal. So every Mercury retrograde, something comes up that forces me to slow down. And by no means is this time around not an exception. Like, right now, as the first day of retrograde kicks in, today is November 9th. I am sitting in my closet recording this podcast. Um my I've had a bilateral massectomy, which is two of my boobies are out. I feel lum from my chest, and I'm just so chill. And pouring in such so much of my heart into everything I love to do. And this is where I moment I realize the moments that it really do matter. That I am rich in friends, family, love, peace, joy, those good emotions. But I also have to face my fat my shadow side of fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of the future, fear of like, is this next step, next surgery tomorrow, is it gonna kick me off my feet? And that's where walking in faith definitely has been testing me and reflecting on that right now. But I feel I I honestly have never felt better in my whole entire life. My husband, there has been strides of changes. Actually, this past week he shared he is gonna seek professional help, which we've been talking about for the past few years, and that for me is great, but I think for him it's even greater because you're opening the door, you're opening the portal to healing yourself. And so the past year, for those of you that don't know, in January, I actually started my weight loss journey and I lost 50 pounds. And with the doctor, I was able to weed out all these different things that were happening with my body. And I did realize, or we realized that I was insulin resistant, and so my body, it's like I have to cope with it, right? I have to love it as it is, learn to love it, and work with it and co-create. Like, what are our next steps? When it comes to food, I've been working with a nutritionist since October of last year, and that taught me how to eat my food. Like I I would not eat anything until 2 p.m. in the afternoon, and that was super bad. I thought I was doing keto before keto even existed because I started doing that ever since I was in college when I went to DePaul. I would buy myself like a bagel or a coffee in the morning, and that thing would last me all day. Like I would be sipping through it. I know it's probably disgusting, but it got me through. It got me through. Um that and I would just put anything that was cheap in my body. There was times where I didn't have enough money, and honestly, I couldn't even afford McDonald's. Like that's how broke I was um going to school. And so now, nowadays, especially a year ago, I started making these decisions. I started meeting with my therapist, and she's been amazing, and helping me navigate and set these like processes in place. And this past week I've actually been really diving into this like open AI, Chat GPT, the works, and how I can delegate some of the things that I do on a daily, which is kind of exciting. But then again, it does cause me a little fear because it's like I have efficiency now, maybe for for certain things, but then there's some things that you can't control, right? Like going through certain emotions, like right now recovering from surgery. But I feel like everything is mindset, everything is in your mind and your attitude going about it. And so when shit hits the fan, like it does sometimes for Mercury retrograde, don't think of it as like, oh my gosh, it's doomsday. It's an opportunity to think of things differently. And so sometimes it's technology failing me, sometimes it's my body whispering, I need to rest, which is the case now. And lately I've been learning that miscommunication isn't just failure, it's an invitation to realign. So I invite you to ask, did I really express my truth? Or did I just react from fear? Right? It's like there's a huge difference. And sit with that, really assess that. So this retrograde might reveal conversations that need closure, apologies that need to be spoken, or truths that need to be owned. Be gentle with yourself. Like I am gentle with myself right now in surgery, recovering. Um, a big thing is I can't lift my arms. And one of my friends told me it's like T-Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex, right? Dinosaur, you can't really move your arms. That's how I feel right now. It's like a big ass head, but I can't really move my arms. So it's kind of funny, but asking for help is a big thing for me too, right now, is receiving the love and support, but also asking, how can I be supported? How can I be helped? So everyone's reflecting right now, including your mom, your partner, your co-workers, to prima, tu comadre, everybody right now is going through it. But stay stick to your lane, stick to what you know, stick to your life, and reflect. What do I need to say or stop saying to honor my peace? Sometimes silence is your boundary, sometimes it's your prayer. And honor all those things that are coming up for you. As Mercury finishes its retrograde in Scorpio around November 29th, you'll notice emotional clarity rising. It's like you've walked through the fire, so Sagittarius, and now you sit in the ashes, Scorpio. Reborn. Scorpio teaches emotional truth, depth, and transformation. So ask yourself, what masks am I ready to remove? What emotional cycles am I done repeating? How can I honor my truth without needing to explain it? So a mini ritual that I'll introduce here is you could take a salt bath with herbs like rosemary or ruda, roux, and andor you could just take a normal shower and imagine the water washing away outdated stories, and they go down the drain when you're going through this ritual. And you can whisper to yourself, I am safe to begin again, and give yourself that permission to step forward with all those things washing away from you and welcoming in the new. a meditation, and I invite you to close your eyes. If you feel safe, of course, get comfy, and place a hand over your heart. Inhale deeply and feel the warmth of Sagittarius, the fire of your truth. And exhale, feel the depth of Scorpio, the healing of your soul. Let's do that two more times. Inhale and exhale. Inhale, and you can hold it up at the top a little longer and exhale and repeat after me. I trust divine timing. I release control. I flow with faith. May this retrograde bring you back to your essence, not through chaos, but through clarity. May your words carry love, may your truth set you free. And remember, retrograde doesn't mean retreat, it means realign. And you can stay as long as you like here, but I'm gonna give you the gracias for tuning in to Amijita today. And if this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who's been feeling the chaos lately. Remind them that it's just a cosmic pause. You can follow me on Instagram at DPraxedis, or you can visit my website at www.dorapraxedis.com. And of course, with much love, until next time, embrace your raises, reclaim your essencia. Los quiero mucho. Besote. Bye.