The Hermetic Principle of Vibration and Your Aura – Mercury Retrograde in Aries and Pisces: March 15th to April 7th, 2025
- Aleks
- Mar 13
- 6 min read
Are you ready to begin another cycle of self-mastery in the realm of the mind and communication? Mercury Retrogrades starts the first of three cycles for the year 2025 and this cycle is interesting and exploratory in nature. Much like Venus Retrograde, this cycle of Mercury Retrograde holds blessings in store for us and opens us to powers and understanding beyond current capacity.
I’ve often referred to Mercury Retrograde as a pop quiz, but this time Mercury is treating it as more of an exploratory exercise in the realm of sound and vibration. This period is not about correct or incorrect, rather it is a time to learn through exploratory experience.
So, are you ready to learn about the Hermetic Principle of Vibration and its effects on your life?
Technical Details of Mercury Retrograde in Aries and Pisces:
Timing: March 15th to April 7th, 2025
Signs: Aries (until March 29th) and Pisces (until April 7th)
The Retrograde period begins a day after the Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo and the combination of these energies really begs that we look at the power of receptivity and susceptibility in our lives. Not just your own mind you, but also your capacity to influence the environment externally as well.
As Mercury straddles the extremities of activity in Aries and receptivity in Pisces, it is important for us to examine those same functions within ourselves.
As Mercury is Retrograde in Aries, ask yourself: How do I affect my circumstances and environments? How can I be more effective in this task?
As Mercury is Retrograde in Pisces, ask yourself: How am I affected by my circumstances and environments? Are these positive effects?
Now, before I delve deeper into these concepts, let’s look at the Hermetic Principle of Vibration itself.
The Hermetic Principle of Vibration:
"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates." -The Kybalion
The Principle of Vibration is the third of seven Hermetic Principles. Everything in the universe is moving even if it appears to be at rest. In the realm of the physical, denser forms are considered to be of lower vibration. The higher the vibration, the faster the particles are moving and the more space they have between them. We can see the truth of this in our physical realm. All material exists in one of three states: solid, liquid or gas. Solid material vibrates at the slowest rate of the three states and gas at the fastest rate.
In mental and emotional planes, lower vibrational thoughts and emotions tend to be more base, negative or pessimistic in nature. These can include states that are survival-based, lustful, or apathetic as example. Higher vibrational thoughts and emotional states conversely lead to joy, clarity, intuitiveness, creativity, etc.
As with all the Hermetic Principles, Vibration is a force that not only affects you, but also can be utilized by you to affect things outside yourself. Mercury’s tenancy of Aries during the Retrograde periods reminds us of our power to use vibration. The Kybalion states:
“By a knowledge of the Principle of Vibration, as applied to Mental Phenomena, one may polarize his mind at any degree he wishes, thus gaining a perfect control over his mental states, moods, etc. In the same way he may affect the minds of others, producing the desired mental states in them.”
This not only applies to your ability to affect the thoughts and emotions of others, but also the environment too. Even a quick google search of “raising vibration” will yield articles and videos about the use of sage and crystals and many other metaphysical tools that help shift the vibration of your aura or environment. (Just a note: for raising the vibration of a space, Sacred Geometry is amazing! Click here for a list of teachers.)
I would strongly encourage you to explore the power of sound and your voice at this time to build your relationship with the Principle of Vibration. Whether it is simply being conscious of your vibrational state when you communicate to the use of music and mantras to create higher resonance, Mercury Retrograde in Aries reminds you to lift up your environment and the people in it to match your higher state!
As Mercury is Retrograde in Pisces, we are also reminded that we are affected by the Principle of Vibration. While the Kybalion does not delve into the receptive relationship of Vibration with humans, it is important to consider this relationship.
Lower vibrational states induce illness, disease, and negative states of mind, body and soul. What makes you susceptible to lower vibrations though?
The Aura: Where Susceptibility to Lower Vibrations Starts
From March 29th, Mercury Retrograde steps into the realm of Pisces having us examine our susceptibility to lower vibrations. Sources of lower vibrations can include environments, things we ingest, people, images, news and information,
The Principle of Vibration wants to achieve resonance. The merging or synchronicity of the vibrational state of 2 (or more) different things. Sometimes this can be to your benefit, but most of the time, it’s not. When you start resonating with higher vibrational states, that produces health, joy, positive thinking and many other positive states. Indeed, you want to be receptive to higher vibrational states!
The idea of resonance works against you when you in a higher vibrational state succumb to the lower vibrations of something or someone else. When you’re in a state of peace, clarity or love, do you really want to bend the knee to negativity in any form? Absolutely not!
How many times though has that exact thing happened though? You were in a great state and then you went to work or spoke to someone and suddenly your day isn’t looking so great anymore.
The secret to this lies in the emotional debris that you have anchored within the aura. You might also know them as issues. They take on vibrational forms that get stuck in the aura and when you encounter similar vibrations, those issues act like magnets creating the resonance that you don’t want. You can certainly fight that resonance and make a decision not to succumb, but when those issues are deeply anchored, their magnetic pull is stronger and sometimes those lower vibrations overtake you without realization.
If you notice that you are susceptible to certain environments or people, this retrograde period is a time to discern what you are resonating with and heal so that you hold your higher vibrational states with greater ease. Receiving the Egyptian Aura Healing or a specialized healing called Celestial Code Etheric Reconstruction are great sessions to help address these anchored issues in the aura.
Special Dates to Keep in Mind:
Mercury does make some positive aspects to a couple of planets while he is in Retrograde motion. These aspects (also known as transits) each carry their own magick and reminders.
March 24th – Sun conjunct Mercury in Aries: Confidence carries its own vibration! Play with the vibration of confidence and notice how it changes the direction of conversations in your life. Pay attention to the power your words carry.
March 25th – Mercury in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius: The beauty of this transit is that it can provide a very visible, tangible display of your own magnetic power. If you need to convince anyone of something (essentially, bring them into resonance with you) this is an amazing day to do so. There is much to learn about the magnetic power that you can apply to speech. This is also a great day to work on your ability to gauge the vibrational state of your internal and external worlds!
April 3rd – Mercury conjunct Venus in Pisces: Heal! This is the day to make peace with those issues anchored in the aura and to possibly even detach them from your field! Your receptivity to higher vibrational states is emphasized today, so take the time to heal and clear away any lingering negativity.
April 7th – Mercury in Pisces turns direct and sextile Uranus in Taurus: Compile your experiences with Mercury Retrograde into wisdom. Reflect back on the events and lessons that you have taken with you. Mercury is the planet of the lower mind and Uranus that of the higher mind, their positive connection helps you to ground these lessons of the energetic function of the universe into practical understanding. Re-read the Principle of Vibration from the Kybalion – you’d be surprised at the increased depth of understanding you’ve acquired in 3 weeks time!
Keys to Mercury Retrograde in Aries and Pisces:
In the spiritual world, like attracts like. This resonance functions in one of two directions:
You succumb to the lowest common denominator in your environment.
OR
You raise your environment to match your state.
The Hermetic Principle of Vibration is constantly creating resonance in your life. As Mercury is retrograde in Aries until March 29th, you have the opportunity to work with your own power and relationship to vibration to affect your reality.
For the remainder of Mercury Retrograde in Pisces (until April 7th), you also have the opportunity to heal and fortify yourself against the effect of lower vibrations. Recognizing where and when that happens, who it happens with and healing those points of susceptibility in your aura are all great ways to also make the reality of your life better and more amazing!
As I finish off, I leave you with the final words in the chapter on Vibration from The Kybalion:
As one of the old Hermetic writers has truly said: "He who understands the Principle of Vibration, has grasped the scepter of Power."
Wishing you mastery over your vibrational state!
Aleks
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