It’s anoth­er very busy day “up there” (and down here)… The path to a greater under­stand­ing is offered by the align­ment of the Sun and Mer­cury; the delights of new appre­ci­a­tions come from Venus and Uranus; and a renewed empha­sis about the nature of your respon­si­bil­i­ties is her­ald­ed by Saturn.

Her­mes and Sol meet up again. This is the “Full Moon” or supe­ri­or con­junc­tion of Mer­cury and the Sun. It was back on April 9th, while Mer­cury was mov­ing ret­ro­grade, that they formed what is called their infe­ri­or con­junc­tion (like a “New Moon”) which her­ald­ed a new devel­op­ment in your understanding.

This time Mer­cury is on the far side of the Sun, so the Sun is between Earth and Mer­cury. So what does this mean for you? It means that there is a rev­e­la­tion offered; that prob­lems, issues and dilem­mas that you have been strug­gling to under­stand will now come to a climax…you will have answers, but will you under­stand the mes­sage? Mat­ters are going to come to a cli­max and you will need to show that you are ready, will­ing and able to grow.

With Mer­cury and the Sun in Gem­i­ni, that puts you (and Earth) in Sagit­tar­ius; so the les­son is about your expe­ri­ence of those two signs. Among many things, Gem­i­ni and Sagit­tar­ius rule the process where­by you obtain knowl­edge and infor­ma­tion. One of the prin­ci­ple lessons of their jux­ta­po­si­tion is the con­trast between the two fun­da­men­tal approach­es to your acqui­si­tion of knowl­edge: Deduc­tive ver­sus Induc­tive Reasoning.

With Deduc­tive rea­son­ing, you start with fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ples (assump­tions) and build down to the myr­i­ad exam­ples of those propo­si­tions in the real world. With Induc­tive rea­son­ing, you observe myr­i­ad instances of phe­nom­e­na (data points) and build upward toward a the­o­ry which explains that experience.

With the Sun and Mer­cury in Gem­i­ni the empha­sis is upon the use of your pow­ers of Induc­tion. The revelation/message will be come in the form of some­thing that does not fit; a fact or expe­ri­ence or piece of infor­ma­tion that can­not be explained by what you had hereto­fore assumed.

You need to ques­tion your assump­tions because although they pro­vid­ed a means to view your real­i­ty, they also blind­ed you by lim­it­ing what you would see, (what did and what did not fit with your point of view). It is not that you were “wrong”; you just did not have the nec­es­sary aware­ness. This new “fact” requires that you adjust your point of view.

So pre­pare for a mes­sage that does not “com­pute”, pre­pare to be sur­prised or shocked, and then you must show that you are intel­li­gent by ques­tion­ing your assump­tions. Then you will be able to look beyond your “real­i­ty” to the greater one now revealed to you.

Mean­while, and cer­tain­ly help­ing with the above, Venus is influ­enced by Uranus so as to encour­age you to go beyond your nor­mal, com­fort lev­el of what you like. Today is a day to expand your expe­ri­ence of what life has to offer.

“You nev­er tried to eat raw fish?”…Well today is your day to go beyond the famil­iar into the exot­ic. But it does not have to be rad­i­cal change (which raw fish may be for you), just move towards a greater appre­ci­a­tion of some­thing out of your ordi­nary. Your life (and taste buds) will thank you. Enjoy your friend­ships, espe­cial­ly the ones which take you beyond your “every­day”. You are here to expe­ri­ence more than you can imag­ine, let mag­ic into your life.

Final­ly, as the day ends and you move into Monday…Saturn, the plan­et of real­i­ty, respon­si­bil­i­ty and order turns direct. The focus is upon what works, what is tan­gi­ble and your part in it. Your true nature is spir­it, but you are incar­nate on this Earth, (in the flesh) and so Sat­urn holds domin­ion over you here. The ques­tion is: what does it mean to you to be responsible?

When­ev­er a plan­et changes direc­tion you feel its influ­ence more strong­ly. Take some time now to con­sid­er your respon­si­bil­i­ties. Remem­ber that word real­ly means “your abil­i­ty to respond”. Well, what is it that you are “respond­ing to”?

You are part of a great hier­ar­chy of life-con­scious­ness-spir­it, of beings above and below your­self. You are part of a great spir­i­tu­al host who take respon­si­bil­i­ty for one anoth­er through­out the ages. But in order for you to do your part, your first and most impor­tant respon­si­bil­i­ty will always be to your “self”.

As Sat­urn turns direct you need to take your­self “seri­ous­ly”. You need to make sure that you are tak­ing care of your­self on all lev­els: Are you car­ing for your phys­i­cal, emo­tion­al, men­tal and spir­i­tu­al selves?

But most impor­tant­ly, are you ful­fill­ing your des­tiny? Do you under­stand, acknowl­edge and seek to ful­fill your pur­pose? To do this you must fol­low the path laid out in the Ancient Wisdom:

Know thyself…Become yourself…and so Ful­fill your­self by extend­ing your hand to help those who accom­pa­ny you on this great Jour­ney of Spirit.

Be respon­si­ble by show­ing that you care.