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!

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.