Are you sure you know what you are doing? Real­ly, it’s okay if you are feel­ing a lit­tle lost or con­fused. In fact, that’s the point when Mars is chal­lenged by Neptune…the truth is Nep­tune is always going to “win” this one.

Mars is zip­ping along in Gem­i­ni now, danc­ing through your mind, with a mul­ti­plic­i­ty of ideas, inter­ests and activ­i­ties. Mars in Gem­i­ni avers, “All real­i­ty is Ratio­nal; all actions can be con­ceived, under­stood, and exe­cut­ed by fol­low­ing the logical-reasoning-mind”.

Nep­tune comes along and says, “No, no, no.…you only think you are act­ing with full under­stand­ing, with your labels, and cat­e­gories and con­cepts; but the Uni­verse is big­ger than that!” And…whoosh! You are plunged into the vor­tex, enveloped in clouds of doubt, disbelief…confusion…and your cer­tain­ty goes, bye-bye.

What’s the point? And, more to the point, what do you do now? Remem­ber, you are a spe­cial spark with­in this greater Uni­verse; and, this greater Uni­verse is also with­in you too. It is with­in your nature to be able to understand…Everything (even­tu­al­ly). Your con­fu­sion is just a state or con­di­tion that you must pass through as you unfold your poten­tials, as you “Become the Becoming”.

You unfold your­self through many forms of con­scious­ness; you advance from lev­el to lev­el of under­stand­ing and activ­i­ty. At each step you find mean­ing with­in your world view or per­son­al uni­verse; even though you tru­ly exist in a much more com­plex “Mul­ti­verse”. At each lev­el you oper­ate with some degree of belief (and cer­tain­ty) that this is the way it is.

Then along comes an event, expe­ri­ence or some­thing that does not fit…and you lose your certainty.…you become con­fused. That is exact­ly what is sup­posed to hap­pen. In order to grow, in order to “Become the Becom­ing”, you must lose your cer­tain­ty, move into con­fu­sion so as to ques­tion your assumptions…and then find a way to a new, more com­plete under­stand­ing. Con­fu­sion is not “bad”; it just is a state of being you must go through, (again and again), if you are to con­tin­ue your jour­ney to a high­er consciousness.

Those who claim that they are always “cer­tain” are just not pay­ing atten­tion! They cling to the famil­iar long after it makes no sense. But you who have doubts, who won­der and cast your gaze beyond those self-imposed blind­ers of your present reality…you who are filled with a faith that leads to bet­ter ques­tions and not final answers…well, you are among the awak­ened, those who are more steadi­ly advanc­ing upon the path of becoming.

So, let us give thanks to Nep­tune, your plan­et of dreams, imag­i­na­tion and faith; this Avatar of the Mul­ti­verse is mov­ing you beyond what is…to what will be. You only need to pass through con­fu­sion for a lit­tle while. It is but a small sac­ri­fice to make for the Illu­mi­na­tion that awaits you.

Okay Dreamers.…Dream On!

What’s that? Is that a “bump” in your think­ing now…or, “Uh oh! Is that a wall”? Bet­ter be pre­pared to stop (and piv­ot) because Her­mes just got tripped up by the “old one”. That’s right, your “mind is meet­ing mat­ter” in the form of Sat­urn the teacher, “the ancient of days”, and you bet­ter have your home­work done.

Mer­cury is swim­ming through Can­cer, let­ting thoughts flow, swirl and dance in the waters of feel­ing-thoughts. Being spon­ta­neous just feels so right; and if it feels good, then you will just say it! But Sat­urn would like a word or two with you.

Sat­urn in Libra is remind­ing Mer­cury that some­times spontaneity…hurts. When you just say what­ev­er, unfil­tered, well…although you may feel fine, the par­ty on the oth­er end may not. Saturn/Libra reminds you that you have to con­sid­er the nature of the rela­tion­ship, the feel­ings of the oth­er, before you “share”.

It’s not as if Sat­urn wants you to stop talking…he just wants you to stop and think before you end up sound­ing as if you lack feeling…which, of course is the oppo­site of what you are try­ing to do!

This square of Mer­cury with Sat­urn is call­ing upon you to adjust your need to be true to your feelings/thoughts with your equal need to be con­sid­er­ate of oth­ers. Now, where is the harm in that?

The wheel turns…and the Fourth Door opens. A New Sea­son of Ener­gies, Expe­ri­ences and Con­scious­ness begins. Walk across the thresh­old into the New World…But as you do you will pause, “this is famil­iar, I have felt this way before”. Indeed, for you have “Squared the Cir­cle”, you are com­ing home; you will enter the waters and remember…this is what I have need­ed, “I want to feel, I need to be whole again”.

Wel­come to Can­cer the first of the Water Signs, the sec­ond of the Car­di­nal Signs. In Aries, Spir­it comes into the mate­r­i­al world to be (in Fire), it is the Incar­na­tion. In Tau­rus, Spir­it stretch­es itself into forms of real­i­ty (in Earth), it is the Sub­stan­ti­a­tion. In Gem­i­ni, Spir­it extends itself by con­nec­tiv­i­ty with­in and with­out (in Air), it is the Dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion.

Now is Can­cer’s time, Spir­it moves through the Waters as you feel your way to the roots of your expe­ri­ence in the world, it is the Cen­ter­ing. You can only go so far in extend­ing your­self before you must “bend back”, to relate what you have expe­ri­enced to that which gives it meaning…you must become famil­iar with it. You must secure your­self and your expe­ri­ence to the roots of your being and so deep­en your real­iza­tion that you are “one with­in the One”.

Your first expe­ri­ence of this long­ing is found in the fam­i­ly, in the home. Every soul needs to feel a con­nec­tion to some core expe­ri­ence. For many souls, this feel­ing will be first (and per­haps only) expe­ri­enced in the imme­di­ate fam­i­ly, in the tribe, or local group. But as your spir­it unfolds you will find sim­i­lar and wider expe­ri­ences in the con­nec­tions found in eth­nic­i­ty, in reli­gion, in cul­ture and beliefs.

To belong, to feel a part of some­thing larg­er than one­self is cru­cial to your sta­bil­i­ty. You need to feel anchored, con­nect­ed to some­thing that places your life and expe­ri­ence into a con­text of mean­ing and con­ti­nu­ity. You feel the need for nur­tur­ing (which you will return by nur­tur­ing oth­ers) and you find it in your first cir­cle of care, your Moth­er and Father.

But as you jour­ney you will extend this sense of care and con­nec­tion to and from many forms of life expe­ri­ence. That is because your true home, your true Mother/Father, is the One Spir­it, with­in which you exist as a spark of that Divine. You are a sojourn­er in these worlds, accom­pa­nied by and part of this glo­ri­ous host of shin­ning ones.

You left your home long ago, and many are the steps in your jour­ney, many homes that you will call home, ’till you come togeth­er at the end of the ages with your Mother/Father again.

So, wel­come back to Can­cer, time to feel your way now…Center your­self, nour­ish your­self and oth­ers. Remem­ber how good this feels… to be home, again!

Wheeeeeeeee.…now we are mov­ing! There is no “faster” sign in the Zodi­ac; and with Mars rul­ing motion, you are skip­ping along as you show your agili­ty, your nim­ble quick­ness, and your way with wit. From now till August 3, it is time to stretch those sinews of body and mind a show that you…can.

Mars likes to move, so he is very hap­py to be som­er­sault­ing through the airy spaces of Gem­i­ni. Air is the ele­ment of the mind; you lead now with your head. Think­ing, com­mu­ni­cat­ing, and net­work­ing will all cre­ate new path­ways with­in and with­out; this is a time to cel­e­brate your ini­tia­tive, ener­getic mind.

There is elec­tric­i­ty in the air now, and every­one is dash­ing off in many direc­tions, chas­ing mul­ti­ple pos­si­bil­i­ties. So remem­ber to pause for a breather before skip­ping off on anoth­er adventure.

Gem­i­ni likes a good debate, and cou­pled with Mars things could get over­heat­ed. So, always remem­ber to tem­per your eager voice with con­sid­er­ate hear­ing. It is per­fect­ly fine to be enthu­si­as­tic about what you believe to be true…but you may not have all the facts, espe­cial­ly if you have not made an effort to listen.

Deep, deep div­ing ahead…You bet­ter get ready to go “beyond the beyond” today because when Her­mes meets Hades, well some­thing is going to emerge, a mat­ter is com­ing to the surface…the vol­cano will erupt, and you bet­ter be pre­pared to open your mind.

This is the cli­max of the Mercury/Pluto cycle and it will come to you in a vis­i­ta­tion (or con­fronta­tion) by anoth­er whose point of view, posi­tion or beliefs are not aligned with yours. There is a real dif­fer­ence here; and with Plu­to it could turn ugly as a strug­gle is pressed towards the zero-sum option, win or lose, or more like­ly MAD (Mutu­al­ly Assured Destruc­tion) of right thinking.

This time the issue will be posed as a con­fronta­tion between Cancer/Capricorn: between home vs. career, between secu­ri­ty vs. respon­si­bil­i­ty, between feel­ing vs. duty. The truth to be revealed will be found by inte­grat­ing these expe­ri­ences; val­i­dat­ing both sides since each is essen­tial to the other.

Your chal­lenge, of course, as always, is real­ly not “out there”; it is not with the oth­er but with­in your­self that you must be con­cerned. If some­one, or some­thing has got­ten a hold on you, become a fix­a­tion (or obsession)…well, yes, then there is a prob­lem, and it is only being revealed out­ward­ly by this confrontation.

So do not raise your voice in anger, do not dig your­self a deep­er whole of com­pul­sion, defen­sive­ness or fear. First, out­ward­ly if you can, (or inward­ly), thank your “oppo­nent” for this gift, this oppor­tu­ni­ty which brought the issue to fullness.

Then turn your mind’s eye around, back upon your­self, by using the gift of Plu­to, the pow­er of your will. Let Hades lead you down into the cat­a­combs of your mind, to your assump­tions, your opin­ions, your bias­es and compulsions…let Plu­to strip you down. There, the watch­er wait­ing, your high­er self, will show you that the only way to truth is through humil­i­ty, open­ness and love. The only strug­gle that you have for con­trol is with your low­er self.

Dive deep pil­grim, down into the dark and ancient depths of your inner sanc­tum. There, in the appar­ent dark­ness, there burns the bright­est light, your guid­ing star.…it is the watch­er who is always wait­ing for you.

You will find your answer, and your spir­it will be renewed in the waters of that greater under­stand­ing. You will cross anoth­er thresh­old, as your jour­ney con­tin­ues by your deep­er ded­i­ca­tion to the one injunc­tion, “Know Thyself”! 

All right, ready? Dive, dive, dive!