Mercury Retrograde, Scorpio Depths, And The Art Of Letting Go | Energy Update | Magical Michelle Orwick

The sky is loud, but the message is simple: release what’s finished so you can expand without dragging the past behind you. With Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, Venus highlighting relationships and health, and five planets asking for review, we guide you through a month that favors honesty, boundaries, and body-based calm over hustle. We explore how the 11:11 portal intensifies transformation, why master numbers matter for meaning-making, and how Jupiter retrograde and Uranus in Taurus push a practical audit of worth, money, time, and self-respect.

You’ll hear our take on shadow work that actually helps: somatic tools for the vagus nerve, breath and sound practices to move grief and tension, and a simple framework for staying flexible when plans change. We talk about JOMO as medicine, using a clean no to protect energy, and the way gratitude functions as a magnet for what you’re calling in. If overwhelm shows up—even with good news—you’ll learn how to normalize it, ground the body, and keep your words thoughtful while Mercury plays tricks with timing and tech.

We also share community touchpoints for support, including our in-person Soul Circle gatherings in Orlando and a free 11:11 masterclass for timeline jumping and guided meditation. The throughline is clear: completion makes space for becoming. If you’re ready to shed an old identity and meet the version of you who already holds the life you asked for, this conversation offers perspective, practices, and encouragement to move with the current, not against it.

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Soul Circle (in-person)
Available Dates: November 10, 17th; December 8, 15, 22nd
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11-11 Portal Activation (online) Complimentary
https://odysseyinstitute.kartra.com/page/1111PortalActivation

Living Magickally Method (1-on-1 coaching)
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Chapters

• 0:20 Setting The Cosmic Stage
• 1:12 Why This Retrograde Hits Different
• 3:37 Somatic Tools For Big Feelings
• 4:14 Flexibility Over Plans
• 5:10 Five Retrogrades And Shadow Work
• 6:31 Jupiter, Uranus, And Value Review
• 6:42 Turning It Over To Source
• 7:49 Relationships, Health, And Rebirth
• 9:50 Master Numbers And The 11:11 Portal
• 10:31 Soul Circle Returns In Orlando
• 12:14 Why 11:11 Matters To Me
• 13:25 Free 11:11 Timeline Jump Class
• 15:18 Gratitude As A Manifesting Magnet
• 16:18 November Means Boundaries And Rest
• 18:02 Overwhelm, Self Care, And Support
• 19:13 Coaching Invite And Final Reminders

Transcript

Magical Michelle Orwick: 0:20

Hello, I'm Magical Michelle, your host, and this week's Living Magically, I really have a lot to talk about because this week's astrology and energy um packs a punch and sometimes not always the most pleasant. With and I find it really interesting for those of you who follow numerology, on 11.9, we have have the Mercury retrograde starting, and I I'm always interested in numbers, and so I find it very interesting that it starts on the 9th and ends on the 29th. Mercury retrograde always being about three weeks. But why I see this so significant is because this week is the Mercury retrograde for the last time this year, the last time of the year of the snake, the last time of the nine year. So nines are all about completion and finishing and ending and shedding and snakes. Mercury retrograde is also all about that shedding and releasing and letting go. And we're doing it in Scorpio season, and we're having this retrograde in Scorpio at the same time as we have Venus in Scorpio. So I don't know how many people have cried their eyes out this week. I know I have, I know my clients have, I know my friends have. There was a day this week I let out a primal scream. Um, as these energies leave my body, so does the karma, so does the old energy. And we were talking yesterday about resonance and vagus nerve. I was talking with a friend and client about the vagus nerve. It is a great week to reset your vagus nerve by using sound, by using the ah, and breath work. Breath work is an incredible thing to do. Um, qi gong, tai chi, anything that's somatic in healing, yoga. In fact, I was supposed to be at the yoga festival today. Um, I'm even dressed in my free t-shirt, my free hugs t-shirt. And one of the things that happens in Mercury retrograde is you can get all dressed for something and life will have a different direction for you. And because it is Scorpio, my invitation to you is to flow where you're taken, be flexible this month. Plan, especially if you're traveling for Thanksgiving or during this month, plan and then be okay with whatever it is that comes through and comes forward. Um go really be with the flow, really be with um change is working for you instead of against you. You know, when I was also dressed for a Ren fair this weekend and didn't end up there either. Um, but what is meant for you will work. And and this is this is what I'm trying, this is what I'm gonna say now that I've set all of that up this month. The astrology is so potent and so powerful. We have five, five planets in retrograde at the very end of a nine year. And we have the Scorpio season, which is good for shadow work, it's good for looking inward, it's good for karmic release and understanding who you are. That's Joy. She's helping with the camera. Um, hi Joy. And for those of you who are um struggling right now, I promise a light at the end of the tunnel that really is coming. Whatever you're struggling with, turn it over to your higher power, turn it over to source, turn it over to whatever you can you work with, whether that's God, goddess, all that it is, creator. You are a vessel for miracles. And I'm inviting you to rest and renew and restore and recalibrate and review. I am looking at this week as one of the most beautiful opportunities to change for expansion. We have Jupiter, the planet of expansion, going retrograde in Cancer, yet another water sign. Um, and that is happening on the 1111 portal. So we have Uranus last week moved into Taurus for its last turnaround, um which lasts until April. The review on on it on this lasts until April. So this is going to be reviewing how you're valued, reviewing your finances and what you value, how you are valued. So a lot of people might um look at what you're spending on your what you're spending your money on, what you're spending your time on, how you're allowing yourself to be treated, what what relationships you want to be in. And this is also happening with that energy of um Mercury in Scorpio being in retrograde as well. So there's a lot of big energies, big energies right now, and if I had to highlight one area, it would be relationships and health, like things ruled by Venus right now, and things ruled by Scorpio, and Scorpio is is death and rebirth, and literally the nine is death and rebirth. So here we are in a season with the 1111 this week. There's a portal, we're in the portal now of transformation. This is the big shed, this is the ultimate shedding of the energy of the skin, the snake, the old. What are you releasing? What are you accepting so you can move forward with your rebirth? So you can expand. Jupiter retrograde is going to have you review what's holding you back so that you can expand. And I know that all of you have something you want to grow and expand in. That's what this year of the snake has been all about. Letting go. And when you think you've surrendered, surrender some more. When you think you've let go, see what you're still holding on to. When you think you've accepted the things that are are coming up for you right now, show you what you still have not accepted. And and I feel like that's this final review of Uranus and Taurus is asking us to go deep on our value, what we value, who we value, and how we value ourselves and our time. And with this, how are we going to be in that becoming for next year? This is that that 11.9, uh, which is Sunday, is the beginning of this Mercury retrograde, but it ends on 1129. So again, lots of 9 and 11 energy right now. Lots of 1111 portal, and 11 is the master teacher. 1111 is the power of pure transformation through learning your lesson, learning your karma, so that you can use the law of grace to move forward. And so I hope to um spend some time with you this month. I have um we've restarted Soul Circle, which was absolutely beautiful and profound last Monday. Um, so the invitation is if you're available, um Monday the 10th or Monday the 17th, and you live in Orlando, Florida, or the surrounding areas, I would love to have you come and play with us. It's at 7 o'clock at the Urban Oshroom. It's pay what you can. Suggested donation is $20, but anything is is welcome, your smile, or even a free hug. So please come down to the Urban Oshroom for Soul Circle, our new new old in-person offering. Because we did it for years until the pandemic, and we've started up live, and it was a wonderful hit. We'll do oils and and meditation and healing and community work. And I have a special guest coming on the 17th. I'll tell you more about that in a post. But watch if you're looking to come the 17th of November would be a fantastic time for you to come down to your first soul circle. Or if you've been coming in the past and it's time to come down, I I invite you. Um, it's now going to be Monday nights unless it's a holiday week. Um, and we have a lot of those coming up. We we won't be doing um the Monday before or after Thanksgiving or the Monday, um, some of the Mondays around the and around the holidays in December, but three three big days in December and three here in November. And all of that being said, because 1111 is something so profound to me. I don't know if all of you know this, but I am actually a numerology number 11. And 11 repeats over and over and over in my life. In fact, that make a wish on 1111, I remember getting my first digital clock. Yes, I'm old. I'm in my 50s, and I got my first digital clock, and my mother and I sharing wishes at 1111 every time we saw it. And so, in a way, I've been doing 1111 since the uh beginning of digital clocks. In that same form, I feel the energy of transformation. It's a fairy holiday that a lot of people don't even realize. It's a portal day, and it is also, of course, Veterans Day. So thank you to all those who've served our country. Um, but in the meantime, the idea of connecting to our transformation, it's one of the biggest best days to do a timeline jump. I don't know if you've ever done a timeline jump. Um, if you want some help with that, I have a free offering, a masterclass. All you have to do is sign up, put your email in, and we will be going live at 10:30 on Tuesday. And it'll be on Zoom. It'll be free. If you can't be there because you're working or something is conflicting, we will send you out a recording and it'll be a guided meditation. There'll be some teaching and a guided meditation to do some quantum jumping, some timeline leaping, because 11-11 is that day with all those retrogrades, with all this power, with all this Scorpio energy and the and the energy of completion, it's the perfect day, a portal day to um energize and connect to the version of you that already is, that already has, that has claimed its um sovereignty, its power, its wholeness, because thine is the number of whole and complete. You are whole and complete, you are a vessel of receiving. And this is a perfect time to understand and activate the light of giving and receiving, activating your value and your worth, activating your power of your yourself within, and your love and your sovereignty and your expression of joy. And so I would love it if you could be there. And if you can't be there, we'll send you a recording. All you have to do is sign up. Um we've been really clear that this is a week, um, a month of Thanksgiving. And so, yes, we've been trying to do as many of these events um for free or donation just to serve the community and also to be in gratitude. And of course, that is another thing that November brings in is to be in gratitude. And gratitude is one of the keys to manifesting. In form, when you start telling the algorithm thank you for something that maybe you can't see yet, releasing doubt, releasing lack, you are starting to be the vibration that pulls that which you are calling in directly to you. You are the magnet when you're in gratitude. Gratitude is one of my main pillars, my main keys for manifesting. Um, and so we'll talk more about that in the 1111 masterclass. And last but not least, I wanted to just talk about the energy of November. In all of the part where I was talking earlier about your worth and your value, it is okay to say no and to not socialize this month. It is a serious energy of turning inward and reclamation of self. And so, even though it might be something you want to do, I call this joy of missing out, you might need to be managing your time, your energy, yourself. And no is a beautiful word. And so practice your no. And if it's not a hell yes, if it's not a I really want this, or it isn't something that you feel that you're in um good giving and and receiving for, if it's not going to fill your cup, no is a complete sentence, and it's very powerful. So practice your no, practice your rest, practice your discernment, and also be prepared for surprises and to not get upset, because I think there's an e it's easy to get frustrated, it's and and I am not perfect. This is I'm telling myself as much as I'm telling you all of these things, because one of the reasons I know all of this that's going on is because it has been a per a particularly intense month for me already. With I've had a death, um, uh I've been in the emergency room with someone, but I've also got a birth and a marriage, and so but good things can be intense too. So just remember that if good things are coming and you still feel overwhelmed, that's okay. You can feel overwhelmed and have it not be bad. It just means that you need to take really good care of yourself. I was super proud. One of my clients sent me a message and she said, after our session, after our talk, um, it was really a talk, right? And she said, I took a bath today and a shower, and I changed my sheets and I sprayed my stuff all over my sheets, and and I was just really proud that she was basically doing the deepest level of self-care she possibly could. And so this is what I'm talking about, the deepest level of self-care you possibly can. And if shadow work or getting getting to the bottom of of what it is that you've um you've been working on for many years or many months, or even just a day or a week, and you need a little bit of help with that, I have one slot left for the Living Magically coaching program, um, the Living Magically method. So reach out to me if you are like, I think it's time to be ready for this new year, and I need a little bit of help. So, with all of that, I'm gonna sum up five planets in retrograde. Just be careful with how you say things, follow follow the flow instead of being rigid on it has to be this way. Don't be surprised at surprises, but go with them. Remind yourself that everything is working out for you. Remind yourself that self-care is not self-ish, but what you need to be full enough to give other people. No is a full sentence in November and always, but sometimes we have to have the joy of missing out or Jomo to reset and restore and shed what isn't serving you. Let go, and then there will be the energy of expansion. You are whole and you are complete and you are full, and you are love and you are light, and you are a vessel for the indwelling spirit that lights you up inside. So be that, be the indwelling spirit and know that change is inevitable because you cannot be someone you are asking for. If you've asked for all these things, you have to let go of the old identity. And I really do believe that this November and even December is all about the final stages of letting go of the old identity to step fully, fully into this version of you that you are becoming, that you have been working toward. And this is the last stages of that shedding of the year of the snake. With all of that, remember to live magically, to live intentionally, and I love you.