31/10/2026
The cosmic emergency brake has been pulled. If you have been feeling completely stuck, exhausted, or like you are wading through quicksand lately, you are not imagining it. Six major planets; Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Mercury, Venus, and Chiron are all retrograde right now. The heaviest weight comes from Mercury and Venus; the planet of the mind and the planet of the heart, both retrograde at the same time.
The cosmos is asking us to stop. Completely. To step back from the noise, the pushing, the forcing, and to turn inward. To honour our mind, body and soul before we take another step forward. This retrograde season is the cosmos at a total standstill until mid-November, and we are asked to do the same.
We have uncovered the wounds that hurt our soul; in our relationships, our boundaries, our careers, the places where we gave everything and received nothing in return. We can see through the stories we depended upon to justify the life we built. We see the places that made us feel invisible. The people who drained our energy. The loyalty that was never really loyalty but fear of being alone. We are being shown the truth of what is real instead of what we imagined or how we wanted it to be.
This retrograde season is a spiritual reckoning and awakening. Our body, mind and soul are being recalibrated at the same time, which is why everything feels so heavy, so slow, so emotional. Things are not falling apart. They are on pause while we restructure our life. The logic, the patterns, the beliefs that kept us going and settling for less than we are worth are crumbling. The old stories, pains and timelines are being dismantled so a new beginning can take place that aligns with our soul truth.
We cannot force our way through this heaviness. The universe is asking for complete surrender right now. Every attempt to push forward, to launch, to force a decision will meet resistance because we are not meant to move yet. We are meant to sit in the stillness and let the truth finish rising. We are meant to feel what we have been ignoring and face what we have been avoiding. This is a clearing not just for this year but from past lifetimes so we can end karmic cycles. It must take place. We cannot go forward unless we change something in our careers, our finances, our relationships and the way we define love and money.
You cannot love others more than you love yourself. And that is the deepest truth this retrograde season is here to teach us. This is a soul rest. A soul clearing. A deep recalibration before the expansion. Everything feels suspended because we are being spiritually prepared for a shift our logical mind cannot yet comprehend. Trust the pause. Trust the stillness. Trust that what is falling away was never for you or part of your journey.
This retrograde season is real and cannot be bypassed. But when it lifts, starting November 13th, know that you will move differently. Love differently. Live differently. And you will not be the same. Nothing will be the same again.
Step outside tonight. Breathe. Place your hands over your heart and speak this out loud: I surrender to the stillness. I trust what is being revealed. I honour the pause. The divine is preparing me for what comes next.
Walk with wisdom. Live your soul destiny.
