The Por­tal of Gemini

Turn now…and face the Portal…that Sacred Gate­way, which will ever stand as the bea­con that calls to you…a lumi­nous reminder of what was won by the gift of those who have gone ahead, who stepped through…who have unfold­ed what you will become…

To become a Spir­it who is ful­ly Self-Conscious!

They are the Gift, They the Watch­ers who wait…They will Wait and Watch at this The Por­tal of Self-Awareness…For you must do the work of lift­ing your own aware­ness to that next plane, you must become awak­ened to that high­er ground that awaits you.…It can­not be giv­en, but must be earned (as in all things)…

These Enlight­ened Ones stand ever ready, they will abide because they have great com­pas­sion for you, for they Know, they have been where you are…They will pro­vide what­ev­er assis­tance is per­mit­ted with­in the Karmic Law (and the one, true straight path to their help is to make a sin­cere pledge to Serve).

This is the true mean­ing of Gem­i­ni, whose sym­bol is lit­er­al­ly a Por­tal, The Gate­way that all have passed as they move from mere Con­scious­ness to Self-Consciousness…a mighty and awe­some step in the Jour­ney of Spirit!

Aries is the Begin­ning, you move into form again, you have “Presence”…Taurus is the Sec­ond, you take pos­ses­sion of your form, you have “Val­ue”…

Now comes Gem­i­ni, here you expand your aware­ness, (to think about think­ing), here you con­tin­ue the Jour­ney of Spir­it, of Mind which is ever unfolding…For it is now in the Human form that you move from aware­ness into that greater and greater dimen­sion of Self-Consciousness!

This is your path­way, this your unfold­ing aware­ness… you will become a Con­scious Co-Cre­ator of your Uni­verse, to join in the Great Work with the mag­nif­i­cent host of oth­er Self-Aware Beings who trav­el with you.

All the Muta­ble signs are Gate­way Signs, they lead you from one realm of life into another…they are the signs of Tran­si­tion. To move into these adapt­able places, you enter through a por­tal where you must sur­ren­der your less­er being in order to move into your greater Truth. Each tran­si­tion is an “Initiation”…each involves tri­als and tests, chal­lenges and growth!

The Tri­als and Tests of Gem­i­ni con­cern your most pre­cious gift of Intel­li­gence, which must be honed and mas­tered by many, many lessons. Who is your Teacher? Know This…Life is always the Teacher!…Your Kar­ma brings to you the many chal­lenges and prob­lems that you must solve so that you can grow. Your instru­ment of Intel­li­gence is engaged and sharp­ened by this fric­tion­al encounter with “Reality”…You estab­lish your facts, solu­tions and knowl­edge so that you may answer the chal­lenges that you encounter in the world you made.

These Intel­li­gence Tests you bring to your­self through your past actions. Real­ly, you teach your­self, you learn to choose to do what is bet­ter, to do Good, to Cre­ate the Good…You learn to be part of that greater life, to join with that won­drous host of evolv­ing beings who are the Uni­verse made manifest.

But, this is no ordi­nary entrance into Gem­i­ni’s Realm, for today is also the New Moon!

And…There is more! The Sun, Moon and Earth have reached their twice year­ly align­ment as well…Today is also an Annu­lar Solar Eclipse! This is a spe­cial day…

As the Sun moves into Gem­i­ni, the Moon will also move into Gem­i­ni and slide across the face of the Sun com­plete­ly cov­er­ing it, except for a thin ring of the Sun remain­ing vis­i­ble (That is what the term “annu­lar” means, “lit­tle ring”. ..Which in this case you will see as a beau­ti­ful Ring of Fire or Nim­bus around the Sun, the “Glo­ry” of the Sun revealed!) The Eclipse will be vis­i­ble in the West­ern Unit­ed States (those in the Mid-West will see the begin­ning of the eclipse as the Sun sets, and sor­ry East Coast you will not see it).

As always, when a Solar Eclipse occurs, the nor­mal mes­sage of the New Moon car­ries a spe­cial sig­nif­i­cance and mean­ing. The shad­ow that the Moon casts indi­cates that you have to face some form of blind spot…an old point of view needs to be resolved, a karmic les­son must be healed, in order to able to receive the fuller ben­e­fit of the New Moon dispensation.

The Eclipse is like a spe­cial “Intel­li­gence Test”, it reminds you that your dia­mond-like fac­ul­ty of intel­li­gence, with your mul­ti-faceted points of view and per­spec­tives, that your won­drous instru­ment can become stuck or biased. You need to be able to see that you cast your own shad­ows of assump­tions, which will always pre­vent you from see­ing the Greater Reality.

You need to see this Moon Shad­ow as a won­der­ful reminder that you must always chal­lenge your­self, to ques­tion your assump­tions and keep refin­ing your point of view. Shift your focus, shine your mind-light from var­i­ous angles, adopt, even for a moment, points of view that are con­trary to your own, because by doing so you will be able to see your own self-cast shad­ows. Remem­ber always that your intel­li­gence is found­ed upon your adapt­abil­i­ty, flex­i­bil­i­ty and con­stant desire to question…everything!

Enter the realm of Gemini…the por­tal of your Self Awakening!

Give thanks to this Mer­cu­r­ial Moon…which brings a quick­en­ing to your Intelligence!

Dance in the Shad­ow of the Eclipse…as you acknowl­edge the Enlight­ened Ones who watch over you as they guide you to the Light.

The Grand Trine of Mer­cury, Mars and Pluto

Your Triple Trin­ing Dance con­cludes, and what a dance it was!

First, it was the gift of Mer­cury and Mars, who brought that Clear­er Mind…

Sec­ond, came the dance of Mer­cury and Plu­to, bestow­ing Concentration…

Now, it is time to com­plete your dance, to ful­fill this Trip­tych Tale…

Now into “third posi­tion” you wel­come Mars and Plu­to, to com­plete this Cir­cle of Light…with Pluto/Mars may you now receive the Gift of Focused Action!

The Will of Plu­to shapes your Mar­t­ian Dri­ves into a more pur­pose­ful inten­tion. What may have seemed impos­si­ble will now have met its match. You find the strength to go beyond, those lim­its will give way. The high­er rung is not so far, no task too great for you…it is your time to rise above and prove what you can do!

The Dance is done…Your deed accomplished…and all to bring about…To move you to a bet­ter place, to reach a high­er ground. From Right Think­ing to Right Action has always been the way…

That is your Noble Path, what many call The Tao.

The plan­ets have danced their dance for you, to illus­trate these (and many truths). For this is what their dance is always, like some Epic Poem of Truth. They sweep across these star­ry spaces to shine on you below…For as above, it is so below…

That these are truths for­ev­er on…

You should prac­tice day by day.

Their dance of beau­ty, of how to be…

In each and every way.

Now comes a pause in your Plan­e­tary Dance, a time-out for this Tri­an­gu­lar Trio, (which will pick­up and con­clude on Wednes­day). While you wait for this final act, there is anoth­er who steps up to claim your cen­ter stage…And Won­der of Won­ders, it is Venus who has quite a show prepared…and she aims to daz­zle and amaze!

It is love­ly Venus now, who will take her turn, to go trip­ping “back­wards” for a while. Yes, you have reached that spe­cial time once more when Venus piv­ots and turns her­self around…She only does this every 20 months or so, and she will go back­wards now until June 27…She does this for you, to bring to you this pre­cious gift, this won­der­ful opportunity…

You will find an eas­ing now, a clear­er way to under­stand, to see what is in your heart…It is your time, to take some time…To look back over this path of val­ues that you laid, that made and marked your way. It is your time to assess what is wor­thy, both with­in and what sur­rounds you…It is your time to clar­i­fy, to know your own self worth, so you might find that bet­ter way, to live with love on Earth.

But this time, this time it will be Different…It is a rather spe­cial arc that Venus traces, this loop­ing dance between Earth and Sun, this time love­ly Venus will put on quite a show! At the mid­point of her jour­ney, on June 5–6 when Venus Con­juncts the Sun, it will be like a Solar Eclipse, and the world will watch with you, the won­drous beau­ty of her vision…the tran­sit of Venus pass­ing across the face of the Sun!

You had bet­ter pay atten­tion because the next one of these will not hap­pen until 2117! That is right…it is a rare event for Venus, Earth and Sun to form a line in the same plane, as Venus takes her ret­ro­grade trip and moves between the Earth and Sun…You do not want to miss this…

For many in the Unit­ed States only part of the tran­sit will be vis­i­ble, (only Alas­ka and Hawaii get the whole show) but many orga­ni­za­tions and indi­vid­u­als will be in place to cap­ture and share this beau­ti­ful plan­e­tary pageant. Here is a link to see where and when the tran­sit will be vis­i­ble: Venus Tran­sit

And here is an ani­ma­tion of what it will look like: Ani­ma­tion of Venus

But you may won­der, what of Venus and her message…what do you do when Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love “go backwards”?

Much like Mer­cury, and he does this three times a year, this move­ment of Venus takes place because she is pass­ing by Earth like a rac­er on the “inside track”. She makes her clos­est approach to Earth as she swings across the Sun!

Far from “weak­en­ing” or debil­i­tat­ed, Venus ret­ro­grade is Venus in Focus! There is no bet­ter time, no bet­ter oppor­tu­ni­ty for you to under­stand what it is exact­ly, this thing you call your “worth”.

This is your per­fect oppor­tu­ni­ty, this time a gift for you to ask, “What is it that you pos­sess, what do you hold that is dear?” For every­thing comes down to this, your rela­tion­ship to your­self and to one anoth­er, to all things and all beings…it all comes down to what you find of val­ue in yourself!

And you may know or will remem­ber, that it changes as you grow. Because you are the ever-unfolding…you becom­ing more, cre­at­ing more, being more than what you were before.

That through your growth you do reveal more of what you hold so dear.

For you are Spir­it resplen­dent, Light mov­ing from form to form…

You are The One in Love, in motion…

You are The Love becom­ing, unbound!

The Grand Trine of Mer­cury, Mars and Pluto

Your Plan­e­tary Dance Continues…As Mer­cury turns away from Mars, whose gift to you was that calmer, clear­er sense of Mind…He turns and looks to dis­tant spaces, beyond these sun­lit realms. There Mer­cury meets the One who stands, who draws the sacred cir­cle lines…Now it is Plu­to’s turn, Lord of Bound­aries, who comes to dance this dance with Mer­cury, to ele­vate your mind.

This Spi­ral­ing, Whirling Trip­tych of Earth glides from “first to sec­ond position”…Today, Mer­cury in Tau­rus meets with Plu­to in Capri­corn and your thoughts are div­ing deep­er, beyond what seems to be…to what is tru­ly true.

Mars in Vir­go brought a spe­cial spark of refine­ment, a dis­cern­ing heal­ing gift to calm your trou­bled mind…Pluto in Capri­corn now offers a stronger push, your mind enhanced to reveal some Greater truth within.

Your mind is often pulled from point to point, find­ing fan­cies and fas­ci­na­tions that spin you ’round and round. So much expect­ed, so lit­tle to show. Today, with Plu­to’s added mea­sure, you will find your focus bound…you can probe your deep for greater trea­sures, for truths you had not found.

Today, the prob­lem that would not sur­ren­der, the rid­dle too complex…they fall today, bow down today, before your pierc­ing, lucid wit. Secrets are bared for you to see, but dis­cre­tion you need apply, for many things remain for you to know and hold inside.

Today with Mer­cury and Plu­to, you are the Mind­ful Mind…

You pierce through those mir­rored illusions…dispel shad­ows from your path…

Today you are the Watch­er watching…

Your Truth revealed at last.

The Grand Trine of Mer­cury, Mars and Pluto

Beautiful…Magical…Wondrous…

Today and for the next sev­er­al days, the plan­ets will dance for you…

Three plan­ets will glide through their mag­is­te­r­i­al waltz, they will sweep and bow…weaving in and out…These Celes­tial Regents of Life will move into their grand rendezvous…They will align and form a pow­er­ful Trip­tych of Meaning…and it is all for you.

Three plan­ets will form into posi­tion, equal­ly spaced along the Cir­cle of Life, mov­ing with grace through three…Together they will cre­ate this per­fect Tri­ad of Ener­gies, form­ing for you a glo­ri­ous Grand Trine in Earth.

They will each have their time, each have their day…Today, it is Mer­cury aligned with Mars…then tomor­row, Mer­cury turns and forms his trine with Pluto…Finally, on Wednes­day, it will be Mars who will trine Plu­to. Three times three, they will sing and dance for you in their cos­mic wheel­ing wonder…and togeth­er they will stand by and deliv­er their mes­sages and ener­gies for you.

Today Mer­cury feels the quick­en­ing pres­ence of Mars…today your Mind leaps in response to your heart’s Desire! Mer­cury is mov­ing through Tau­rus, being stead­ied and pur­pose­ful, slow­er to decide and resis­tant to change, your mind finds its focus as it dwells upon ques­tions of val­ue and beauty.

Mars in Vir­go brings a dis­cern­ing touch, a crit­i­cal appre­ci­a­tion for the fin­er mat­ters in these cal­cu­la­tions and val­u­a­tions. The ener­gies of Mars elic­it a stronger deter­mi­na­tion in your mind to move out from mere appre­ci­a­tion into the fields of action…it is not enough to con­sid­er what is beau­ti­ful, you must make right what is wrong, heal what is hurt and bring rea­son, order and the way of beau­ty to the world around you.

The com­bi­na­tion of Mer­cury and Mars brings Mind and Action together…You dance in the realm known as Praxis…where your Ideas become real and formed…

Your Actions guid­ed through your Greater Understanding…

You, the Cre­ator, the mak­er of worlds…as you thought or imag­ined it would be…

Mind in Motion, danc­ing the dance of Creation.