Mer­cury rounds a cor­ner and crash­es into Uranus. Look out! Uranus will excite your mind, push you beyond the ordi­nary; you might just think, and then shout out…anything! Yes, it will be excep­tion­al. Yes it will shock. But does it lead to growth and understanding?

Mer­cury is sail­ing through Can­cer now; the mind is focused upon secu­ri­ty and sta­bil­i­ty, of find­ing and stay­ing with­in a “com­fort zone”. But Uranus rep­re­sents the “unchart­ed ter­ri­to­ry”, the undis­cov­ered that beck­ons the pio­neer with­in you. It calls to you and rais­es the ban­ner of Free­dom, Inde­pen­dence and Originality.

Mer­cury is call­ing you home­ward; Uranus is urg­ing you to break from “famil­iar”. Okay, so now what do you do? Well, you must see the way through of course. Both are speak­ing truth, of a “way to be”…But the “Way of Becom­ing”, the high­er path, the Truth, requires that you not choose one or the oth­er but find the Way of Inte­gra­tion, of hon­or­ing both of course.

You must come from some­where; you must belong and be part of a greater whole. Fam­i­ly, tribe, neighborhood…your belong­ing pro­vides con­text, binds you back to the roots of your exis­tence. Mer­cury in Can­cer now sings this song of your truth.

You are becom­ing some­thing more, unfold­ing from with­in your­self your “self­ness”, your spe­cial song with­in the great song of Spir­it. To do this you must jour­ney forth and become unique, special…find your own voice. You must become indi­vid­u­at­ed, individualized…yet not “sep­a­rat­ed” from your roots. Uranus in Aries now sings this song of your truth.

The One Truth is that each truth here, Root­ed­ness and Free­dom, can­not be with­out the oth­er. The Truth, your truth, must be the dance of life that cel­e­brates bal­ance in your con­duct in this world.

If you cling to the famil­iar over­much, you will not grow or be pre­pared for the chal­lenges and changes which are part of your jour­ney. If you too adamant­ly rebel against any lim­i­ta­tion, your dis­so­nance will bring only way­ward­ness, alien­ation and loss of meaning.

The chal­lenge for you here is to “not choose”, to nei­ther cling or to break, but to take the high­er path of under­stand­ing. The “mid­dle path”, the “Noble Path” is the path of the spir­i­tu­al war­rior. The bat­tle is always with­in one­self as you seek to over­come the illu­sion of “this or that” and so cre­ate your path to a high­er, more illu­mined lev­el of being.

Sing pil­grim, sing your spe­cial song, that is deeply root­ed, yet beau­ti­ful­ly (because indi­vid­u­al­ly) mod­u­lat­ed, in the great cho­rus that is Spirit.

Sing your song!

Venus aligns with Sat­urn, and like the sto­ry of “Beau­ty and The Beast”, you have come to appre­ci­ate that true love is born in the depths of your soul. Sat­urn reminds you that what draws you to one anoth­er is that you have always been togeth­er; you are part of a great hier­ar­chy of souls on a jour­ney of becom­ing. The great illu­sion of life on this phys­i­cal plane is your appar­ent sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er; the Great Truth of Cre­ation is that all come from and abide in the One Spirit.

Through many ages and many forms you meet up with souls you have met before and you expe­ri­ence…recog­ni­tion. You remem­ber this ener­gy, this feel­ing in your heart; an echo of rec­ol­lec­tion with­in you ris­es up and says “Yes, I have felt this way before”. You look in one anoth­er’s eyes and see past your present forms…you remem­ber…and you smile. That sign, that smile, is your con­scious, out­ward expres­sion of this pre­cious inner assurance…“I am not alone, I have found you, again…I remember”.

You are drawn togeth­er because you were nev­er “apart”. You were only unaware, for a time, of who you were, of where you have come from, and whence you are going. But as you come togeth­er again you are remind­ed by your beloved that though this jour­ney be long, and some­times dif­fi­cult beyond mea­sure, you are Nev­er Alone.

So look beyond appear­ances, beyond the shell that cov­ers the glo­ry with­in; look into the eyes of the one before you…and remember…and smile.

Right on the heels of Mer­cury danc­ing into the sen­si­tive depths of Can­cer, this dou­ble align­ment pro­vides a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty to expe­ri­ence ener­gies which sup­port and sus­tain your sense of being cen­tered, of being you.

Nep­tune graces Her­mes with the sub­tiliz­ing inti­ma­tions of your imag­i­na­tion. Ideas, con­cepts and beliefs that have been hard to under­stand, let alone express, now find path­ways inward and outward.

You under­stand your dream…and oth­ers can share in it too. Your mind is lift­ed up, beyond the bounds of appear­ances, as you sense the pres­ence of a greater real­i­ty. It is time to believe, to have faith…and so you shall.

Jove, the Truth-Bear­er brings gifts for Mer­cury too. Too often your mind moves rest­less­ly from one thing to anoth­er, flit­ting about; your ques­tions remain unan­swered, prob­lems only par­tial­ly solved. But today, Jupiter anchors your fleet-foot­ed friend. The bits and pieces come togeth­er in a grand design. You can envis­age the “Big Pic­ture”, yet appre­ci­ate all the mosa­ic pieces that make it up too.

Ideas, plans and projects that have been under­way (or start now) will be more like­ly to pros­per. If you have been wait­ing for the right time to make a decision.…well now you have it! Your mind is cen­tered; your prin­ci­ples sound.

Today is a day for dream­ing. Today is a day for doing.

Cel­e­brate the gifts of Nep­tune and Jupiter as you become the becoming.…So Be It!

Words may nev­er express what you tru­ly feel…but at the very least you should feel like try­ing now. Till July 2nd, Mer­cury’s dash through Can­cer brings about a deep­er align­ment of your feel­ings and thoughts. It’s time to share with each oth­er your expe­ri­ence of com­mit­ment, nur­tur­ing and love.

Your con­ver­sa­tions and mus­ings will cen­ter upon car­ing and secu­ri­ty. Your mind must be tem­pered by intu­itive sen­si­bil­i­ties. It will not be enough that your thoughts are clear; your inten­tion must feel right too. Nuance, sym­pa­thy and com­pas­sion will be giv­en and received. When ask­ing anoth­er about some­thing, do not say “What do you think about this?” Instead, you should say “How do you feel about this?” You will get a much bet­ter response.

Yes, it is time to laugh, and cry, to sing, and shout…but do it all from your heart, from your soul…It is good to feel whole again!

Thought-Feel­ings turn to the root of things, to your ori­gins. Fam­i­ly, home, tribe and nation…ultimately it all comes togeth­er in the cen­ter of your soul. You feel con­nect­ed, you feel sta­ble, you belong here…

You are home.

A ques­tion was asked about my ear­li­er post­ing: “What is the sig­nif­i­cance of the deep­est total­i­ty of the eclipse and the exact moment of the Full Moon being the same?”

Because we are expe­ri­enc­ing a process, not a moment in time, an eclipse event will last many hours. The moon begins to enter the Penum­bra of the earth­’s shad­ow at around 1:24 pm (all times East­ern Day­light), then into the real shad­ow of the Umbra at 2:22 pm with com­plete cov­er­age being attained at 3:22 pm, that is when the Total Eclipse has begun. The eclipse is at it great­est at around 4:13 pm (yes same time as Full Moon), and total­i­ty “ends” as the Moon begins to move out of the Umbra at 5:02 pm. The Moon pass­es out of the Umbra com­plete­ly by 6:02 leav­ing it with­in the Penum­bra until it pass­es beyond any shad­ow at around 7 pm.

So the Total Eclipse times are: Penum­bral: 5 hours 36 min, Umbral: 3 hours 39 min, and Total Eclipse 1 hour 40 min.

Your ques­tion, “Why does the exact Full Moon and Full Eclipse coin­cide?” (again, the exact moment is only a moment, though per­cep­tu­al­ly to us it lasts much longer. That is the Total Eclipse runs from 3:22 till 5:02, yet it is only “exact” at 4:13).

The rea­son the exact moment of the Full Moon and Eclipse being the same comes from the fact that this Eclipse is tak­ing place almost exact­ly on the South Node of the Moon, (the point at which the Earth­’s orbit of the Sun and the Moon’s orbit of the Earth meet). The node today is at 23 degrees, 26 min­utes of Sagit­tar­ius and the Full Moon is at 24 degrees, 23 min­utes. If the Moon was sev­er­al degrees away from the node, there would still be an eclipse, but the Full Moon and Total Eclipse moments would be far­ther apart.

This is a long eclipse, but not the longest. The Moon is “mov­ing faster” now which is a fac­tor deter­mined by where it is in its cycle from clos­est to far­thest from the Earth. If it was at it apogee, far­thest, then a slow­er Moon would cre­ate the longest eclipse. The Moon was at perigee on June 11, and will be at apogee on June 23. Still it is a longer eclipse than many.

Spir­i­tu­al­ly, I do not think these “exact” tim­ings mat­ter so much. I am much more process ori­en­tat­ed than event driven…I have wit­nessed the ris­ing of an eclipsed Moon with the set­ting of the full Sun…Now that is won­drous to behold. Or a Full Moon ris­ing at the Win­ter Sol­stice. Sig­nif­i­cant cer­e­monies and Sacred Ini­ti­a­tions are held at these very impor­tant align­ments. This par­tic­u­lar eclipse is just such a beau­ti­ful reminder of the larg­er forces at play around and through us that many in our mod­ern world for­get to acknowl­edge, or experience!

For me, I want­ed to point out to my read­ers that this area of space is spe­cial; that is from here that Rays emanate from the Galac­tic Cen­ter, (where­in resides the Logos of our Uni­verse). That is what we are look­ing at tonight, and should pay homage to, when we look upon (or beyond) the Moon tonight. We are look­ing to the Divin­i­ty which ensouls our entire galaxy, the watch­er wait­ing; the head of the Hier­ar­chi­cal Host of “shin­ing ones”.