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02/25/2026

Why Crystals for Mercury Retrograde?
Crystals have been used for centuries for their healing properties and ability to influence energy fields. During Mercury Retrograde, specific crystals can help mitigate the disruptive effects and provide support in various areas of life. Here’s why crystals are particularly useful during this astrological phase:

Enhance Clarity: Crystals can help clear mental fog and improve focus, which is often compromised during Mercury Retrograde.
Improve Communication: They foster effective and truthful interactions, reducing the likelihood of misunderstandings.
Grounding and Protection: Crystals can help you stay grounded and shielded from negative energies.
Emotional Balance: They reduce stress and maintain calmness, helping you navigate emotional upheavals.
Understanding Mercury Retrograde Effects
Before diving into the specific crystals, it’s essential to understand the primary areas Mercury Retrograde affects:

Communication: Mercury rules communication, so expect potential misunderstandings, missed messages, and difficulties in expressing thoughts clearly.
Technology: Technical glitches and breakdowns are common during this period. Backup your data and double-check important emails.
Travel: Plan for delays and double-check travel arrangements to avoid unnecessary stress.
Decision-Making: Mercury Retrograde is not ideal for making significant decisions or starting new projects. Instead, focus on reviewing and revisiting existing plans.

02/25/2026

Mercury retrograde has a reputation for creating havoc where everything seems to go wrong with electronics, contracts and communication. You may have been told not to waste your time and drive anything forward because it deliberately stalls progress.
Mercury is much more impactful than just holding off on signing contracts or buying a new piece of technology.

A jammed printer is minuscule in the grand scheme of Mercury’s influence on your potential for self-awareness during its retrograde.

What to do during Mercury Retrograde
Mercury is not the same every time it goes retrograde, even though the common thread is communication, which includes internal and external dialogue.
These retrogrades hold powerful lessons, which are vastly different and are influenced depending on the zodiac sign Mercury is transiting through during the retrograde.

There are very few people who can tell me the zodiac sign that Mercury is in when they are telling me they feel the influence of the retrograde.
Yes, it may always feel like a sluggish, heavy, frustrating time and whether you try to or not, pushing forward doesn’t work during Mercury Retrograde.

Mercury intentionally slows everything down for a reason. To force yourself to witness your thoughts and how you bring them into words and actions. So, that is the best thing to do during this retrograde … allow yourself to slow down and take the time to witness anything related to your communication with yourself and others.
To see how these retrograde will influence you schedule a 1:1 reading with me @ micheleallison.com

02/24/2026

Our behavior is the demonstration of what we believe about ourselves. The source of everything is our state of consciousness, so lift yourself UP, turn ON the self-love, and make a choice today that shows that you love and value yourself: Inspire and empower yourself by making a choice that is fully anchored in self-love, and see how Life supports you in your decision of choosing yourself:

Ask These Questions if You Don’t Know How to Love Yourself

Don’t settle for less than you deserve! In this article I’m sharing something that will help you attract and develop better relationships, create healthy boundaries, and realize your true value and self-worth. When we don’t choose ourselves, we attract people who doesn’t choose us back, but once you start prioritizing yourself, so much will begin to shift. When you work on You and build up your confidence, self-love and you practice radical self-nurturing and put yourself first, that’s when everything changes:

Become Magnetic: Be PROUD and Declare Your Self-Worth Out Loud (to yourself!)

You are meant to defy genre and be your original self. This is how we actually fit into the world, but we grew up learning the opposite. We were taught to people-please, to accommodate, and conform to other people’s expectations of how we should be and behave. In this article, I’m sharing ways to raise your sense of self-value and self-worth that will help you reclaim your true identity and self. Both practical exercises for you, as well as for journaling exercises. They will help you gain deeper insights into yourself and guide you toward a way of being and living that feels more authentic and aligned:

You Have Value and You Are Worthy.

02/23/2026

02/21/2026

As an intuitive healer, I will guide you to live pain-free physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
My desire is to support, encourage and inspire people who feel blocked in any area of their life, to move forward, and create the changes they seek. I integrate all the healing modalities and my intuitive abilities into our sessions.

For more information on how I can guide you, MicheleAllison.com, please see the Private Sessions area. In addition, check out the information in the blog.

02/21/2026

In the oldest tellings, Persephone was gathering flowers when the earth split open.

Hades rose from the chasm in his chariot and carried her into the underworld. The sky did not stop him. The earth did not close. And her mother, Demeter, searched the world in grief.

While Demeter mourned, the land withered. Crops failed. Winter came.

Zeus intervened, and a bargain was struck. Persephone would return to the surface but she had eaten the seeds of a pomegranate in the underworld. Because she tasted its fruit, she was bound to return for part of each year.

That is the myth as it is told.

But here is where the power shifts.

When Persephone descends again, she does not return as a stolen girl. She returns as Queen of the Dead. She sits beside Hades not as captive, but as ruler. In later hymns and rites, it is her name that is feared. It is her judgment that is respected. Even the dead speak carefully of her.

The maiden who once cried in the dark becomes the sovereign of it.

The story does not erase the abduction. It does not soften the violence of the taking. But it does show something else: transformation.

The underworld did not remain a prison. It became a throne.

Each year she rises and the earth blooms. Each year she descends and the world grows cold. The seasons themselves move with her.

So here is the question.

Was Persephone only a victim of the underworld…
or did she become powerful because she learned to rule within it?

Sometimes the place you never chose becomes the place that forges you.

And sometimes the greatest shift in power happens quietly when the girl they took becomes the woman who commands.

Winter becomes Spring

02/21/2026

Join us Friday, March 6, 2026 @ 6:30pm for our Monthly Crystal 101 & Meditation with Michele Allison. You are gifted a crystal each month to enhance your meditation practice and over all well being.

Practicing regular meditation greatly impacts your health…

I’m sure you already know that the health benefits of meditation are endless. But one of the most important scientific benefits is how it releases stress. (This is just icing on the cake to the spiritual benefits we’re receiving!) It will free you up from anxiety, worry + stress.

Who doesn’t want to be more happy, calm, and relaxed? Adding the crystals into this practice totally amplifies this effect, especially if you use crystals more aligned with calming: rose quartz, blue lace agate, lepidolite, etc.

Additionally, crystals make focused meditation easier by giving you a tangible focus object to center you and keep you in-the-moment.

Think of this daily practice as your spiritual nourishment; substances necessary for growth, good health, and evolution.

02/20/2026

Saturn is a planet of leadership, authority, rulers, rulers, laws and the infrastructures of our lives. The very things that we rely on, that support us, and keep us grounded. Saturn in Aries can have something of an authoritarian quality to it. Like a 5-star general, Saturn in Aries takes command and lines up the troops. But when Neptune is involved, as it is this year and through the first few months of 2026, it can undermine, diminish, weaken and mask all these important structures in our lives… and we feel adrift…ungrounded…unsure.

When Saturn the planet of reality is conjunct Neptune the planet of illusion, the truth becomes a lie and the lie becomes the truth. So it is hard to believe what we see, hear or sense. We find it difficult to believe what our own eyes are telling us. Perhaps we ignore what is right there in front of us. But over the next few weeks the obvious will be hard to ignore.

As the people you are accustomed to having there for you, or certain structures begin to crumble, dissolve and fade like so many ashes, it can leave something of a void. And so we attempt to fill in that void with our own dialogues, our trepidation, fear and imaginary outcomes. We simply cannot see where this is all leading, but we’re beginning to get a glimpse. And the uncertainty can feel so uncomfortable. But truly the only way to work through times of uncertainty is to be as present as possible, moving through time and space one day at a time, one step at a time.

This Saturn/Neptune cycle is unusual for a few reasons. For one it is in this very first degree of the zodiac. Combined with all of the other outer planets also changing signs, it could feel like the whole world is shifting on its axis, and bringing us all along for the ride. Another reason this ingress of the Saturn/Neptune cycle is unusual, is that it falls at the exact midpoint of a trine between inventive Uranus and transformational Pluto. This is indicative of an incredibly illuminating and creative period of our lives.

02/19/2026

A Spiritual Bridge Toward Renewal

Pisces season begins today, 19 February — the final sign of the zodiac. Pisces is water, surrender, compassion, and spiritual reflection. It’s the closing chapter before a new astrological year begins at the March equinox.

And across the world right now, many faiths are in seasons of contemplation:
• 🌙 Ramadan — fasting, prayer, discipline, empathy
• ✝️ Lent — repentance, sacrifice, preparation for Easter
• 🕉 Maha Shivaratri — meditation, overcoming darkness
• 🧧 Chinese New Year — renewal, prosperity, ancestral honouring

Though traditions differ, the rhythm is shared:
Pause. Reflect. Cleanse. Reset.

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🌗 The Timeline We’re In

Feb 19 – Pisces Season Begins
Spiritual surrender. Compassion. Letting go.

Late Feb / Early March – Ramadan & Lent Begin
Fasting. Prayer. Inner alignment.

March 20 – Autumn Equinox (Southern Hemisphere)
Equal light and dark. A cosmic balance point. The astrological new year approaches.

Late March / April – Easter
Resurrection. Rebirth. Renewal.

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🐎 Year of the Horse – “Year of the Stallion”

Horse energy symbolises:
• Freedom
• Strength
• Momentum
• Fire and heart

A stallion runs forward — but first gathers power.
That’s where we are now: gathering.

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This isn’t about one faith over another.
It’s about recognising that across cultures, humanity is in a collective contemplative arc — moving from reflection toward renewal.

From water (Pisces)
to balance (Equinox)
to rebirth (Easter).

A spiritual bridge.

Perhaps this is less a time for division — and more a time for unity, humility, and strength of heart.

02/18/2026

Fire Quartz aka Hematoid Quartz contains the transformative and amplifying powers of Quartz but also the grounding, stabilising power of Hematite. With the perfect combination of highly energetic and grounding vibrations it encourages balance of the mind, body and spirit when going through big shifts. It keeps you grounded when your thoughts are scattered or racing, bringing you back to Earth and stabilising your nervous system and easing anxiety.

Fire Quartz encourages clarity and allows you to see things clearly including your emotions, giving you an awareness to your true feelings. With clear vision of yourself and how you feel, it enhances your self esteem and confidence. It has an amplifying power that amplifies energy and intentions thus making it a stone of transformation, bringing change and inspiring you to follow your dreams. It also reignites the fire within your spirit, sparking a new found joy and energy.

Fire Quartz is a good stone to work with when setting your new moon or new year intentions because of its powerful amplifying properties.