Lean into the Retrograde. Twist the signal. Cast in the static.
But what if the witch doesn’t cower from chaos?
We’ve all heard the warnings:
Don’t sign contracts.
Double-check your emails.
Brace for tech glitches and tangled words.
And above all, don’t cast spells in Mercury Retrograde.
What if we choose to slip into the spiraling signal, to conjure within the static, to ride the tail of the Serpent of Unmaking himself and rewrite the rules from inside the glitch?
Because this isn’t just Mercury Retrograde; this is a summoning. A signal jam. A psychic hack.
And witches? We were born to speak in backwards tongues.
Shadow Magic Isn’t Passive
The retrograde shadow isn’t a rest stop. It’s the first echo of a storm, and we get to decide if we’re going to build sandbags… or ride the flood.
Yes, it’s a time when things break.
When the ghosts of old conversations knock on the door.
When truths slip between lines of code, and timelines twist like threads in a loom too ancient to name.
But instead of just “working out our shit”…
What if we used the shadow to cast some?
Apophis: The Serpent of the Void
Apophis is the force that challenges Ra each night.
He is entropy, breakdown, the refusal to comply with order.
But that’s not inherently evil. That’s opportunity.
When the structures that constrain are cracking, make something else.
Let Mercury scramble your enemies’ messages.
Let the misfires and missed calls twist around those who would silence truth.
Turn every garbled signal into a ward.
Let every glitch become a gate.
In the Age of Illusions & “Alternative Facts”
We are living in a world built on constructed realities. Misinformation, gaslighting, deep fakes, the entire media-sphere is a labyrinth spun from half-truths and curated chaos. The public is drowning in a sea of “alternative facts,” where the signal is buried in the static. And guess what? That is exactly the terrain Mercury Retrograde thrives on.
This is our playground.
While the masses scramble to fact-check and re-establish “truth,” witches can speak in the language of distortion and projection. Let the unseen sophistication of illusion become our conduit. Where reality is scrambled, magic can float in and reroute the current.
- Harness the fog: When every feed is saturated in contradiction, layer your own spells in the swirl. Broadcast misdirection to entangle the deceivers’ own webs.
- Mirror their nonsense: In a realm of gaslighting, mirror the confusion back at their feet. Use verbal sigils that thread contradiction into their messaging machine. Let their own lies immobilize them.
- Manifest digital chaos: Amplify their nonsense signals by embedding strong witchcraft into viral content. A meme laced with intent travels faster than logic ever could.
Mercury’s retrograde shadow amplifies distortion and confusion, and in that lies opportunity. The more the world splinters in illusions, the more we can engineer our own fractures in systems of control. It’s not about illuminating truth, but weaponizing uncertainty.
Chaos as Spellcraft
For Inspiration:
- Write a sigil to cause confusion in systems of oppression. Encrypt it in code, scatter it across the web, tuck it into hashtags.
- Mirror curse: take their own words and twist them back. Mercury’s reversal makes this ripe.
- Communication tangle jars: use tangled string, broken circuits, reversed speech to bind the mouths of liars.
- Digital spell bombs: memes, phrases, videos that carry intent. Stealth magick inside the info-stream.
Spell-Weaving Through the Unseen
Try this:
- Gather a handful of printed headlines or social media screenshots of blatant alternative facts.
- Carve a reversed sigil of chaos into an obsidian mirror.
- Arrange your headlines in a spiral around the mirror, face down, source-side hidden.
- Chant:
“Words untrue, fold back on you. Twist the lie into your own. Mirror shards, corruption spawn.” - Breathe into the spiral, visualizing each bit of misinformation fusing into a knot in the mirror’s surface, trapping distorted words within its glass.
- Shatter the mirror safely once the chant ends. Let shards represent their tangled illusions splintered apart.
Retrograde is perfect for nonlinear, multidimensional craft.
Do it backward.
Do it in secret.
Do it through symbols and static.
Why This Works in Retrograde
Mercury Retrograde thrives on breakdowns in communication, lost emails, false signals, and scrambled truths. It is the age of illusion distilled. In this period, your reversal and redirection of falsity is amplified:
- You channel the broken signal, twist it inward.
- You refract lies into disarray, even lies themselves become traps in your mirror.
- You reclaim illusion as sacred material, transforming chaos into a weapon.
The Witch as Disruptor
The witch was never meant to soothe the machine.
We are not here to play nicely with empire.
Mercury Retrograde doesn’t have to be feared.
It can be the time we become the signal jam.
The whisper in the wires.
The ghost in the code.
In this era of disinformation, the witch is no longer simply a truth-seeker. You are the architect of misdirection, the signal jammer. Let Mercury Retrograde heighten the world’s dissonance, and let your chaos be the next wave.
Lean in.
Break patterns.
Reverse spells.
Cast hexes that stutter and loop.
Let Apophis kiss your third eye.
This Mercury Retrograde… don’t just survive.
Hack it.
Curse it.
Dance in it.
And remember:
Chaos is not your enemy.
It is your native tongue.
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