Are you feel­ing con­fused?… Well, yes, of course you are! That’s exact­ly what is called for today: Uncer­tain­ty, Doubt, Mys­tery… It is a time to Won­der. Pick­ing up from yes­ter­day’s shifts for Mer­cury and Nep­tune, the theme of “what’s real­i­ty any­way?” con­tin­ues today with the align­ment of Her­mes with Posei­don; of Mind with Intu­ition, of Air with Water.

Her­mes is danc­ing spright­ly through his own sign of Gem­i­ni. The Mind is Supreme! Log­ic Rules, Assign cat­e­gories, Name things. Mer­cury is all about “know­ing things”…that is Her­mes in his shad­ow dance of Air… that’s Mind Pow­er. Her­mes says the Uni­verse can (and should) be viewed as just thought, pure and simple.

Along comes Nep­tune to remind you that “the Mind is the Slay­er of the Real”. The “Lord of Chaos” says you must chal­lenge your mind; you must “slay the slay­er” if you real­ly want to under­stand Reality.

But what does that mean, real­ly? How do you “slay” your mind; and how does the mind slay itself? Well, obvi­ous­ly you are going to need some help…Neptune, what do you offer?

Nep­tune chal­lenges (the square aspect) Mer­cury by “sub­tiliz­ing” the mind with an Intu­itive Infu­sion of light; Nep­tune helps to dis­solve the dual­is­tic mind, of know­er and known, and re-affirm the essen­tial one­ness that is the under­ly­ing, fun­da­men­tal real­i­ty known as Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it. You expe­ri­ence con­fu­sion as an old cer­tain­ty is revealed as not being what it seemed…but that is exact­ly the point. Your cer­tain­ty blind­ed you to a greater real­i­ty, a real­i­ty that you now glimpse through the light of Nep­tune, the ruler of your high­er Intu­itive Mind.

Dual­is­tic thought is not “bad”; it is a nec­es­sary part of the unfold­ment of Spir­it in the jour­ney from non-being to being­ness (and back again). The prob­lem comes from the Dual­is­tic or “Low­er Mind” claim­ing absolute truth or valid­i­ty for its point of view. But the uni­verse has a rem­e­dy, your true nature, which is Spir­it, is to con­tin­u­ous­ly become more than what you have so far imagined.

Today’s Nep­tun­ian chal­lenge should be a wel­come reminder that one of the fun­da­men­tal Truths of the Ancient Teach­ings is that you always grow­ing, always becom­ing. And as you unfold your pow­ers, your con­scious­ness unfolds too, aid­ed by Nep­tune, by dis­solv­ing old bound­aries, old lim­i­ta­tions till you reach…well that is for anoth­er day.

So turn to the mys­tery; do not be afraid. If you are con­fused, know that this is good because you are becom­ing more; you are mov­ing beyond cer­tain­ty into the greater life. You must grow beyond the bounds you placed upon your­self. You are Spir­it and your des­tiny is writ­ten in the Stars.

Now, look up…and Wonder!