Feel­ing misunderstood…feeling a bit con­fused? Wel­come to the club! When your Values/Venus becomes tan­gled up in those won­drous webs of Dreams, Imag­i­na­tion and Fan­ta­sy (but also of Delu­sion and Decep­tion), yep we’re talk­ing about that big beau­ti­ful blue orb, Neptune…well, there is no telling one thing from anoth­er because your bear­ings and bound­aries are all askew.

Venus is trip­ping through Gem­i­ni, through the land of dis­cov­ery and diver­si­ty, of com­par­i­son and con­trast, of your intel­lec­t’s thrill that comes from learn­ing more and more about the amaz­ing vari­ety of how you under­stand, cre­ate, share and dif­fer over what matters…your val­ues. You and every­one else have the same basic needs…but you can meet them in delight­ful­ly dif­fer­ent ways, and you can learn from and enjoy one anoth­er’s sensibilities…And this is very good indeed.

How­ev­er, some­times you may fall into error by pre­sum­ing or read­ing too much into the val­ues of anoth­er, pro­ject­ing your own upon them. And they too may make the same mistake…and with­out a com­mon under­stand­ing, a bridge of shared val­ues and sensibilities…well then you can enter into a very con­fus­ing expe­ri­ence that may lead to feel­ings of con­fu­sion or decep­tion that are most like­ly found­ed in self-delu­sion or self-deception.

And, that is cer­tain­ly most like­ly when Venus is Squar­ing Neptune…and that is rein­forced now by the Dimen­sion­al Shift­ing Space…that Nep­tune is shad­ow­ing Venus from her own most mys­ti­cal, mag­i­cal sign of Pisces…

Well, there is one thing that is cer­tain­ly true…things are cer­tain­ly “different”…so you need to stay cen­tered, to pay atten­tion to your core inner voice and val­ues, find what always has been true for you and then seek for that same core in the oth­er who stands before you too. Nep­tune brings to bear your intuition…but you can­not get in the way, it is not what you wish or want it to be…it is what your soul, the gen­tle whis­per­er reminds you as you look at the other.…“You are that!”

At the periph­ery, diver­si­ty and dif­fer­ence can and must have their day.…

But at the core of each and every being is a spark of the one Divine Light, that holds you and every oth­er, all you ones of the One, in a Greater Understanding…

That you are part of the same fam­i­ly and the same Jour­ney, and that This is your Val­ue that will hold you togeth­er in the ever­last­ing embrace of Spir­it, Truth and Love.

The First Under­stand­ing, the only Val­ue that mat­ters, is to Love One Another.

It is fin­ished! (For now) That’s right! Mer­cury has been slow­ing down for the last few days (you could tell, right?)…and then he has been “stand­ing still” for the last day or so (yep, felt that too)…and now? Now Mer­cury has come around and begun to move for­ward again! Yeah!

What­ev­er you had need­ed to review again or you had held back on, should begin to move for­ward now. Plans that you were check­ing and re-check­ing, hopes that were on hold, are now ready to be implemented.

Dreams and visions that were only to be imag­ined while Mer­cury was in reverse can now take flight…Remember though, Mer­cury is still wing­ing his way through Pisces now…so things are not always what they seem, or what was said!

Of course, it will take a few days to get up to speed. How­ev­er, just because Mer­cury is mov­ing for­ward does not mean that it is all clear ahead! There are many fac­tors to account for the bumps and scrapes you get your­self into…but you can cross Mer­cury off the top of that list…for now!

Ready? Okay!

Then get mov­ing with those dreams for now and be ready for April 16 when Mer­cury leaps into Aries once more!

If that old say­ing is true, “That Vari­ety is the spice of Life!” Well then you are in for a very long peri­od of Spici­ness! Venus is danc­ing her way into Gem­i­ni today and she is going to stay for a good long while.

Venus is mov­ing into the Mer­cu­r­ial sign of curiosi­ties, diver­si­ties and dis­trac­tions. Usu­al­ly, Venus skips through a sign in about 3+ weeks…But look out, (uh oh, you know what is com­ing now), Venus is going to slow down and turn ret­ro­grade in May…so she will not exit Gem­i­ni until August 7, Wow! That is a very long time for Venus to be in one sign…you have Four Months of Spicy com­ing your way!

You will receive a host of inter­est­ing insights as Venus in Gem­i­ni aligns with her Star­ry com­pan­ions dur­ing this peri­od. How­ev­er, for now, what you need to know is what will be the over­all impact and influ­ence of Venus in Gemini…

Venus rules your val­ues. She gov­erns your appre­ci­a­tion of beau­ty from the infin­i­tes­i­mal to the cos­mic. With Venus in Gem­i­ni, your taste buds are in for a treat. You are going to take much more delight in exper­i­men­ta­tion, explo­ration and expan­sion of your sen­si­bil­i­ties. The same old thing, the same old way will just not do…you need to diver­si­fy and try new delights as you look at life as if look­ing upon a beau­ti­ful gem, peer­ing through one facet after anoth­er, mar­veling at the won­der of creation…

Venus in Gem­i­ni is mov­ing through an Air sign, so that means your Mind will be inspired by beau­ty in all its forms…you will need to dis­cuss and share, to com­pare and con­trast your val­ues with one another…and this will cre­ate won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ties for greater under­stand­ing. The gen­er­al lev­els of, and appre­ci­a­tion for, intel­lect, intel­li­gence and mean­ing­ful com­mu­ni­ca­tions will grow.

For Gem­i­ni is adapt­able, quite will­ing to take one side of an issue but then, when that gets bor­ing (or you are start­ing to agree) switch sides and be equal­ly at home in point­ing out the wor­thi­ness of the oth­er way (and more often than not, find­ing a third way too!).

That is why this will be such an oppor­tune time for you and yours to come to a bet­ter appre­ci­a­tion of what you val­ue for your­self, what you val­ue in your beloved and what you val­ue that is shared and so holds you to one anoth­er as Love.

Yes, this is going to be a love­ly, long and thor­ough­ly delight­ful romp in that Gem­i­ni Won­der­land that is youth eternal…

Enjoy Venus as she moves you to join her in these supreme delights…these mar­velous diver­si­ties of Cre­ation, through these mag­i­cal joys of your Discoveries…

Yes, give your thanks to this won­drous boun­ty, a gift from the Spir­it, a gift from the One to one and to all!

Do you feel it? Some­thing has been build­ing “out there”…and right now the Sun is caught between “a rock and a hard place”…That is right, you are not mak­ing this stuff up…it is “real­ly real”…What’s it about, what is going on?

Oh, noth­ing “too big”…It is just that Uranus and Plu­to are danc­ing their Mag­is­te­r­i­al Dance and com­ing to the first of their many exact squares for the next few years…that would be Uranus in Aries and Plu­to in Capri­corn. They released a new impulse of their con­tin­u­ing bal­anc­ing act between Freedom/Individuality vs. Control/Boundaries back in the 1960’s (remem­ber what that was like?)…and now, well now we are at the next turn­ing in the unfold­ment of their dynam­ic inter­play and we are all going to have to work to resolve, in our­selves and in our worlds, the bal­ance between Free­dom and Order.

Last week the Sun passed over Uranus and you got a “jolt”! It was a less than gen­tle reminder that you need to be con­stant­ly atten­tive to your won­drous jour­ney. You need to work to release your­self from forms that have become lim­it­ing for you, (forms that are most­ly of your own mak­ing). Why must you do this?…So that your spir­it may con­tin­u­ous­ly unfold your poten­tial towards greater self-realization…You pour your­self into forms that ful­fill you (for a time), but you must also break up and move beyond those forms which have now come to lim­it your fur­ther growth.

And, what about now? Now it is Plu­to’s turn to call the tune for your Solar dance of self-real­iza­tion. Plu­to is about the cre­ation of the Sacred Space of you…and of all the sacred spaces that sur­round you…Pluto, through the agency of the Will forms the Bound­aries of all the spaces that fill Space.

Plu­to is about your Will Pow­er (which is your pow­er to control)…which is meant to be used to direct the self­’s expan­sion of its space of self-real­iza­tion, to cre­ate an ever greater sacred space for the self, while respect­ing the sacred spaces of those around you. When you do not respect the spaces of oth­ers, your tres­pass upon them…and when you do not pro­tect your space from oth­ers, then they will often tres­pass upon you. That is the issue here…it is about Sacred Space and Boundaries.

The issue is about your self-con­trol and self-deter­mi­na­tion which, you have slow­ly come to under­stand, must be lived out ever more con­scious­ly, con­sid­er­ate­ly and in mutu­al respect as you expand your field of self-real­iza­tion. Yes, you must expand and grow, but you must do so in such a man­ner that you grow in coop­er­a­tion with the oth­er will­ing beings who live in their equal­ly sacred spaces around you.

So be mind­ful now…be ever mind­ful of the sacred­ness of your space and so pro­tect your­self from those who seek to press or pull you away from your center…be wary of those who seek to seduce or by force impose them­selves upon you. Your space is sacred…it is your tem­ple, your holy of holies.

Like­wise, even with the best of inten­tions (and those can be very dan­ger­ous indeed), you have no right to force anoth­er to do what they are not ready, will­ing and able to do…you can­not vio­late their space with­out despoil­ing your own…and the law of kar­ma will be very exact­ing in “right­ing that wrong” you have done to another…

Instead use this Will­ful ener­gy by turn­ing it back upon your­self so that you might exer­cise it where it belongs…in mat­ters of self-con­trol and self-improvement.

Seek to bet­ter your­self and become an exam­ple to oth­ers of what it means to live your life with­in your own sacred space as you equal­ly respect, pre­serve and hon­or the sacred spaces that sur­round you!

Well…this has cer­tain­ly been quite a week! It began with the “begin­ning”, the Ver­nal Equinox as the Sun moved into the first sign of Aries on Monday/Tuesday. Then Mer­cury con­joined the Sun on Wednes­day, fol­lowed by the Moon align­ing with the Sun in the first New Moon of the Astro­log­i­cal Year on Thurs­day. Then Fri­day brought Mer­cury back for a reprise vis­it into Pisces…

That is quite enough danc­ing and skip­ping in those Star­ry Spaces for one week!…but the Uni­verse is not fin­ished with you, not quite yet.…

Today is the final push in this very trans­for­ma­tion­al week…and it is a “Big One”. The cos­mos speaks to us in many voic­es, some­times sub­tle, some­times less so…Uranus, well Uranus is not sub­tle! After all, this is the plan­et called “The Awak­en­er”!

The Sun is your pure poten­tial of being, your gate­way to all your pos­si­bil­i­ties. How­ev­er, those pos­si­bil­i­ties are imma­nent but not evi­dent, they are with­out form, with­out sub­stance, not yet “real”…You must become some “thing” in order to be sub­stan­ti­at­ed. Through an embod­i­ment, you become “real”; you have moved from the realm of pure poten­tial to that of self-real­iza­tion. You have ful­filled yourself…after a fashion.

Yet by doing this you have also become lim­it­ed, fixed into that, but only that, thing. By “Falling into Mat­ter”, you some­times lose touch with the source of your pure potential…You can only see the real­i­ty that is sur­round­ing you, your poten­tials like fad­ing echoes, a dis­tant memory…and so you may become trapped in only that which “is”…  

Your real­i­ty is your fulfillment…but your real­i­ty is your lim­i­ta­tion. What are you to do? Spir­it pro­vides an answer, an Avatar who can lead you back to the source, to the eter­nal well­spring of your poten­tials. Uranus, the Awak­en­er comes to you in order to break apart those bonds that have you in their thrall…He shat­ters assump­tions and shines a light into the shad­ows so that you might see truer, freer…He is one of the 3 gifts of the Spir­it that dri­ve your unfold­ment from the less­er to the greater…

Con­stant­ly at work, push­ing the bound­aries, Uranus is ever at work to lib­er­ate the Spir­it-ener­gy that has become fixed into forms that no longer ful­fill that very spir­it. There is no more dra­mat­ic encounter than Uranus with the Sun, for here the Awak­en­er meets with the Self.

The mate­ri­al­ized, sub­stan­ti­at­ed you sees your­self as some­thing, “I am That”…but Uranus reminds you, recon­nects you to the greater truth of your ever-unfold­ing, unlim­it­ed poten­tial so that you under­stand sim­ply “I Am”.

Today you will have an epiphany, an encounter with your truer, deep­er, uncon­di­tioned, freer self at the heart of your being…today you will feel the Spir­it that is you and know that you can and will be for­ev­er becom­ing some­thing more…for that is your destiny.

Uranus, the awak­en­er is here to pro­vide the gold­en bridge to your spir­i­tu­al core where resides the Self, your pure poten­tial wait­ing, who for­ev­er walks lov­ing­ly beside you as you become the becoming…

You will be sur­prised, you may be shocked…but you will be freer…

You will be amazed…simply because you are amazing!