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- **Posted:** 2026-03-04T13:57:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Vana Mali | Karmic Alchemist (@pilgrimtoself) — https://gondola.cc/pilgrimtoself

## Caption

Mercury Retrograde is like being handed a piece of fruit. The universe is not going to peel it for you.

When a transit like Mercury Retrograde arrives, many people fall into one of two traps.

Either we eat the entire fruit or we throw it away.

Imagine someone hands you a grapefruit.

You would not bite straight into it with the peel, seeds, and dirt still on it, saying:
“Okay, I guess this is what I am supposed to eat.”

You would wash it.
Peel it.
Separate it.
Remove what is not edible.

Only then do you reach the medicine and nourishment inside.

Astrological transits work the same way.

When the universe places an experience in front of you, it does not mean every piece of it belongs in your system.

The fruit arrives with many layers:

• other people’s projections
• unresolved wounds in the room
• accusations or misunderstandings
• your own inner narratives and fears
• collective noise about what the transit “means”

If we eat the whole fruit, we fall into victimhood.
“I guess this is just my karma.”
“I guess this is who I am.”

That will only give you indigestion.

But if we reject the entire fruit, we also miss the medicine inside it.

The practice is learning to process what arrives.

Wash away what does not belong to you.
Peel off projections.
Remove the seeds of fear.

Then ask yourself:

What is the medicine here?

The universe does not peel our grapes for us.
It hands us the fruit and trusts that we are capable of preparing it.

Wisdom lives in that process.

#MercuryRetrograde #VedicAstrology #ConsciousLiving ✨

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