{"id":33122,"date":"2013-10-26T22:23:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T02:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=33122"},"modified":"2025-03-06T07:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:53:12","slug":"releasing-old-programming-during-this-retrograde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/releasing-old-programming-during-this-retrograde\/","title":{"rendered":"Releasing old programming during this retrograde by going on a journey of discovery within my own memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I told Facebook that I love riding around at night under the stars when it&#8217;s quiet. \u00a0A friend commented that he&#8217;s a crazy bike rider and has been hit numerous times. &#8220;Good grief,&#8221; I said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t ride anywhere but around the hood and I get off the road if a car comes.&#8221; That&#8217;s a habit I&#8217;ve had since childhood. If I am walking or bike riding somewhere alone and a car approaches, I get out of the street. \u00a0When I was a kid, my dad would tell me to get out of sight when a car approaches <em>so they don&#8217;t take me<\/em>, to duck behind a tree and stop moving so they don&#8217;t see me. \u00a0When I was 15, the daughter of someone he knew was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barbara_Jane_Mackle\">kidnapped<\/a>\u00a0so I grew up being on alert for it. \u00a0 With that belief system, I attracted my share of stalkers and such. \u00a0When I realized what was happening, I morphed my belief system to cut it out. When I know better, I do better. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of reflecting during this <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=33072\">Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio<\/a>, which takes place in my 7th house of relationship. \u00a0That means all my unresolved relationship issues are laid out before me saying, &#8220;<em>peek at me? visit me? resolve me?<\/em>&#8221; \u00a0Coming out of the Sun square Pluto earlier this month and several squares and oppositions with Uranus, I thought that meant I&#8217;d be arguing with my partner. \u00a0Happily that&#8217;s not the case. He&#8217;s a chill guy, so the astrological &#8220;challenge&#8221; appears instead as me having old emotional issues surface in my mind and me working through them as they come up.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The last partner was fertile ground for the evolution of my consciousness on a lot of\u00a0topics and I&#8217;m eternally grateful. The farther removed from the situation, the clearer the lessons become and I smile as they continue to unfold. \u00a0Our lessons were more astrologically <a href=\"http:\/\/astrology.com.au\/astrology\/12-houses-of-the-zodiac\/sixth-house\">6th house <\/a>(work and service) than the romantic partnering of the <a href=\"http:\/\/astrology.com.au\/astrology\/12-houses-of-the-zodiac\/seventh-house\/house\/seventh\">7th house<\/a>. They were more issues of control, trust and deciphering what is my work to do. With the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=33072\">Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio<\/a>\u00a0Oct. 21 thru Nov. 10,\u00a0my lessons are squarely in my 7th house of partnership. \u00a0That means this is a good time to uncover any past baggage I have in the area of relationship and clear them out. The only problem I&#8217;m finding is it is hard to stay focused on the past long enough to have momentum for insight when my partner keeps me laughing in the now. Also we don&#8217;t yet have any issues between us that trigger anything unresolved for me, so I need to go on a journey of discovery within my own memory.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I know is I don&#8217;t typically relinquish control easily, yet I&#8217;m always ready for the most capable party to take charge. I often see that as me. I believe I look at a situation objectively, decide the best and quickest way to get it done and then get it done. Then I&#8217;m immediately ready to move on to the next project. This can be seen as riding roughshod over the other party, not giving them time to ponder a situation. That has been an issue of mine in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue is that I&#8217;m someone who needs a lot of time to myself. I&#8217;ve been told I&#8217;ve in relationships let my partner feel abandoned.\u00a0Maybe I worked this one out last time, since that isn&#8217;t an issue now.<\/p>\n<p>Phooey, here I am right now I&#8217;m trying to recall what some of my issues are and since I&#8217;m in a happy fun vibe, nothing comes to mind. Maybe that&#8217;s the point, maybe it doesn&#8217;t matter, whether it&#8217;s Mercury retrograde or not, whether I can recall any past problems that might be unresolved. Maybe all that matters is that I&#8217;m happy in the Now. I&#8217;m sure when it&#8217;s time for the others to be recognized and resolved, I&#8217;ll hear from them again.\u00a0I&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/releasing-old-programming-during-this-retrograde\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Releasing old programming during this retrograde by going on a journey of discovery within my own memory&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/releasing-old-programming-during-this-retrograde\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/releasing-old-programming-during-this-retrograde\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/releasing-old-programming-during-this-retrograde\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Releasing%20old%20programming%20during%20this%20retrograde%20by%20going%20on%20a%20journey%20of%20discovery%20within%20my%20own%20memory&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/releasing-old-programming-during-this-retrograde\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told Facebook that I love riding around at night under the stars when it&#8217;s quiet. \u00a0A friend commented that he&#8217;s a crazy bike rider and has been hit numerous times. &#8220;Good grief,&#8221; I said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t ride anywhere but around the hood and I get off the road if a car comes.&#8221; That&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33122"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44947,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122\/revisions\/44947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}