09/15/2026
There are times when someone else’s emotions, fears, perceptions, or even the story they are telling themselves can begin to pull us away from what we already know to be true.
Mercury in Libra is asking us to consider another person’s perspective. This energies highest alignment creates healthy communication, fairness, compromise, and the ability to truly listen. But there is a shadow side to this energy too. We can become so focused on understanding where someone else is coming from that we slowly move away from our own center. We start questioning what we saw, what we felt, what we know, and sometimes even our own common sense.
At the same time, Saturn and Neptune are retrograde in Aries, bringing the focus back to the self. Aries asks, Who am I in this? What do I know to be true? What belongs to me, and what belongs to someone else? Neptune can blur those lines, while Saturn tests whether our boundaries and sense of self are strong enough to hold.
There is a difference between understanding someone else’s reality and stepping into it. We can have compassion for someone’s emotions without making them our emotions. We can understand their fears without allowing those fears to become our truth. We can listen to their story without abandoning our own knowing. We can shift and grow and not fall back into the old story.
Sometimes staying grounded is as simple as returning to your common sense and asking yourself, “Before I was pulled into the emotion of this, what did I already know?”
