You appre­ci­ate what is dif­fer­ent or new, yet clas­sic, in some­thing (or some­one). With Venus rul­ing val­ue (and about to leave Capri­corn, see below) and Uranus rul­ing orig­i­nal­i­ty, you want to smell, taste, touch, hear or see some­thing that is out­side of your “nor­mal”. Enjoy a new aspect of an old clas­sic, or appre­ci­ate some­thing new for the clas­sic qual­i­ties it express­es in a new way.

In rela­tion­ships, respect those shared val­ues that have bound you one to anoth­er, and then find and share with each oth­er some new found way of express­ing them. What keeps us togeth­er is what we share; what keeps us inter­est­ed is dis­cov­er­ing some­thing new about one another.

Venus moves into Aquar­ius till March 26. The true basis of love shines through friend­ship now. You are with your beloved because at the end of the day you are also the best of friends.

The free­dom to live out your true self is met in the space of rela­tion­ships that are built on accep­tance, tol­er­ance and the cel­e­bra­tion of indi­vid­ual dif­fer­ences. Be your­self with those who appre­ci­ate you for you. Friend­ship is forever. 

Here we go again… a triple play of Sun, Mer­cury and Plu­to stirs the depths of our imag­i­na­tion while it reminds us that we must be doers as well as dream­ers. And, most impor­tant­ly, we must con­tin­ue to learn how to exer­cise our free will while respect­ing the bound­aries between one another.

Sun Con­junct Mer­cury. The Solar Wind meets Her­mes fleet feet and boy are we think­ing! This is the “supe­ri­or” con­junc­tion of Mer­cury with the Sun. This is real­ly like a “full moon” because Mer­cury is on the far side of the Sun from our per­spec­tive. So, rather than a new begin­ning this align­ment is actu­al­ly a rev­e­la­tion, the cul­mi­na­tion of what was released back on Decem­ber 19th at the infe­ri­or conjunction.

You began with some hint, or idea or inspi­ra­tion back then; now is the time to see what you have brought forth in all its majesty. With the Sun and Mer­cury in Pisces, that puts the Earth (and you) in Vir­go. The rev­e­la­tion is about under­stand­ing how to bal­ance and inte­grate the pow­er of your dreams and imag­i­na­tion (Pisces) with your prac­ti­cal knowl­edge and skills (Vir­go). The mes­sage is that you must always keep togeth­er and bal­ance your pow­er to dream with your pow­er to do. Expect some strong con­ver­sa­tions today between you and anoth­er over an impor­tant dream or vision (Pisces) ver­sus some plan or pro­ce­dure (Vir­go).

Mer­cury in Sex­tile to Plu­to brings a depth to the mind in this triple play. Plu­to pro­vides the pow­er to pierce beyond the usu­al lev­els so as to allow you to per­ceive the under­ly­ing assump­tions of the sit­u­a­tion at hand; you go beyond appar­ent thought forms, peel­ing back the lay­ers of under­ly­ing assump­tions, and so see the issue with greater clar­i­ty. Do not let Plu­to’s “con­trol issues” get in the way. Remem­ber, real com­mu­ni­ca­tion is not a zero-sum game with win­ners and losers; coop­er­a­tion cre­ates insights as we help one anoth­er to remove our “blind spots”.

Sun in Sex­tile to Plu­to com­pletes our triple play. With the self (Sun) guid­ed by Divine Will (Plu­to), you are able to make deep impres­sions on the world and those around you.

At the end of Decem­ber, the Sun/Pluto con­junc­tion brought about an align­ment of the self with the Self. You came to a deep­er under­stand­ing of the nature of your free will. Now you have a con­struc­tive oppor­tu­ni­ty to exer­cise that free will. You can improve your­self and the lives of those around you by main­tain­ing a bal­ance of will between one another.

The les­son, as you express your will, is to main­tain self con­trol and so respect the sacred space that each life exists in. Some­times we give way too eas­i­ly and oth­ers tres­pass upon us; and some­times we for­get to respect the space of oth­ers and so tres­pass on them. Now move into the space of bal­ance between self-asser­tion and selflessness.

 Always remem­ber, the spir­i­tu­al law of your will is: “Let Thy Will Be Done”!

Joy in “self less” self-asser­tion is what will move you for­ward now. When Mars moves through Pisces till April 1, you will not win any points by act­ing in a nar­row or self­ish man­ner. Now is the time for inspired actions; it is the time for dream-action, vision-action, sacred-action.

You are moved to sac­ri­fice for anoth­er because you under­stand the truth that all are part of one great spir­i­tu­al life. The truth of “I am, that I am” is sec­ond­ed by the under­stand­ing that “I and thou are one”.

You began the jour­ney of Mars in the re-affir­ma­tion of your spe­cial place in the song of spir­it. Now, hav­ing come full cir­cle, it is time to reap the har­vest of your spir­i­tu­al jour­ney as you think, feel and act in the greater life of spirit.

The great illu­sion of this world is that every­thing exists in appar­ent sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er. The Great Truth is that all are one in the great life that is Spir­it. You can­not harm anoth­er with­out harm­ing your­self. You can­not lift up anoth­er with­out lift­ing your own spir­it too.

Give of your­self for some­thing greater. You have strug­gled and strived to build your­self up, for what? It was so that you would be strong enough, con­scious enough and car­ing enough so as to sur­ren­der your ego on the altar of service.

Now is the time.…Sacrifice and make your life sacred, and so secure your place among the stars. Shine on!

Her­mes dash­es through the mys­tic realms of Nep­tune’s deep for the next cou­ple of weeks. With Mer­cury mov­ing into Pisces till March 9, you will find that the sub­tle and sen­si­tive side of your mind is awakened.

Pay atten­tion to your intu­ition and remem­ber that spir­i­tu­al mes­sages often come in guis­es that are not at first what they seem, and may often arrive as a whis­per or feel like the touch of a feather.…so pay attention.

Com­pas­sion and sym­pa­thy, under­stand­ing and for­give­ness are the expres­sions that mat­ter now. Open your­self to the wider realms with­in and pay atten­tion to your dreams.

Triple Con­junc­tion of Mer­cury, Mars and Nep­tune!! Now we’re talk­ing… and think­ing… and act­ing on our dreams.

A con­junc­tion, like a New Moon, marks a time of begin­nings. It is a release of a seed of new inspi­ra­tion for the com­ing cycle of the plan­ets which are at the con­junc­tion. But here we have a spe­cial case, a triple play of ener­gies, mes­sages and inspi­ra­tion. So, what are to make of this triple alignment?

Mer­cury and Mars speeds up your mind and ner­vous sys­tem with an infu­sion of ener­gy. You can become so excit­ed that you def­i­nite­ly need to be remind­ed that the most impor­tant part of speak­ing is.… lis­ten­ing. Make sure that your eager­ness does not lead you into “foot in mouth” syn­drome. Be excit­ed, sure. But lose your impa­tience. You are sharp­er, faster and more assertive now. But let the mea­sure of your mes­sage be in its thought­ful­ness not volume.

Mer­cury and Nep­tune com­bine to infuse your mind with a greater lucid­i­ty. You can pierce beyond the here and now so as to see what might be or be pos­si­ble. Lis­ten care­ful­ly for the whis­per­ings of spir­it now. Find a qui­et place for med­i­ta­tion and con­tem­pla­tion. Enjoy the beau­ty around and with­in your­self. Tru­ly expe­ri­ence the one­ness of all life and be pre­pared for the third conjunction…

Mars and Nep­tune con­join to stim­u­late your imag­i­na­tion and capac­i­ty for self-less action. Usu­al­ly the ener­gies of Mars are devot­ed to self-asser­tion, but Nep­tune is about com­pas­sion, empa­thy and sac­ri­fice. So what are you to do? What you must real­ize is that a major rea­son for the devel­op­ment of a strong self is exact­ly in order to cre­ate the capac­i­ty to sac­ri­fice your “self” for some­thing greater than your­self. The align­ment of Mars and Nep­tune inspires you to seek to take strong, inspired and self-less actions. You must con­tin­ue to learn to be self-assertive in non self-cen­tered ways.

Sac­ri­fi­cial action is called for now. But remem­ber, the word sac­ri­fice means “to make sacred”; you give up the less­er in your life for that which is greater. Hon­or your core prin­ci­ples by act­ing in fel­low­ship with those who share them with you. The great­est good comes from the action that is tak­en with­out per­son­al attach­ment to the out­come for one­self. Join your com­pan­ions with whom you share this vision of a bet­ter world. Help one anoth­er to bring your dreams (Nep­tune) to life (Mars). Now is the time: “All for One, and One for All!”