This
is part 2 of your “Pas de Trois” of Mer­cury, Venus and Jupiter, and
so hope­ful­ly your beau­ti­ful sun­set has turned into twi­light and you are able to
see these “two as one”(though of course they will still appear as
sep­a­rate points of light for you). You can click on the image above to see this
Dance unfold, but if you can go out­side and see it, well that is how it should
be. And this par­tic­u­lar align­ment is quite spe­cial, for it con­cerns how you
know what you know…

Mer­cury is the Avatar of your Inquis­i­tive, Induc­tive and
Curios­i­ty-Infused Mind…Whereas Jupiter is the Avatar of your Theorizing,
Deduc­tive and Rea­son­ing-Infused Mind. Both actu­al­ly need and depend upon one
anoth­er, for each informs and sup­ports the oth­er. Today they come togeth­er, to
begin again their year­ly jour­ney, where­in they will bob and weave and influence
one anoth­er and you…Each has and must make its right­ful con­tri­bu­tion to your
jour­ney of under­stand­ing, for you must go in and go out, you must dance the
with them, as you Weave your under­stand­ing by means of this Warp and Weft of
your Mind…for it is from both that you form an ever-unfold­ing understanding
of your­self and your world.

How­ev­er, because of Cul­tur­al and Dis­po­si­tion­al Pref­er­ences, the
Unfold­ment of var­i­ous Spir­i­tu­al or Philo­soph­i­cal Under­stand­ings led to one or
the oth­er approach as being more esteemed or dis­missed for a time, and each
side claimed the supe­ri­or­i­ty or cor­rect­ness of “their way of
knowing”…But what is tru­ly true, is that one with­out the oth­er is really
not possible…Yes, as in most dual­i­ties, the truth lies in the mys­tery of
their Union.

Each gave rise to two approach­es to your Knowing…Idealism versus
Objec­tivism, or of Spir­it ver­sus Mat­ter. Tak­en to it most extreme expression,
the Absolute Ide­al­ists would claim that all of this Phys­i­cal World is a Maya,
an Illu­sion and that only Ener­gy, Thought or Mind is Real. The Absolute
Mate­ri­al­ists would hold that every­thing is found­ed upon and aris­es from Matter,
that your Thoughts or Ideas are mere­ly chem­i­cal-elec­tro inter­ac­tions, that
noth­ing is real if it is not also ulti­mate­ly seen as hav­ing tangible
prop­er­ties, per­haps by being found­ed upon some absolute par­ti­cle of creation
(which they keep search­ing for), prob­ing ever deep­er into the cos­mos of the
sub-atom­ic world.

But just as today you see these two plan­ets join­ing together
“as one”, the Ancient Teach­ings have always rest­ed upon the Noble
Mid­dle Way, the inte­gral approach that might be best termed an Objective
Ide­al­ism. Spir­it and Mat­ter are mere­ly mir­rors to one anoth­er of the whole that
is Cre­ation, Mat­ter is Spir­it Mate­ri­al­ized as Spir­it is Mat­ter Etherealized…For
Tru­ly, the Uni­verse you exist in, all its won­drous and var­ied forms and
man­i­fes­ta­tions, it is Real for you as you per­ceive it…it is Real and yet it
is also a Maya or Illu­sion­ary too…

Now Maya has come to mean for many that this exter­nal world is not
real, that is all an Illu­sion. But this is not what Maya meant or means…Maya
comes from the San­skrit “ma”, which means to mea­sure, to form into
some­thing lim­it­ed. Maya means that you try to mea­sure and under­stand your
world, using your Induc­tive and Deduc­tive Pow­ers, but being imper­fect you form
in your thoughts a fic­tion, a fab­ri­ca­tion or illu­sion that is of your making
and that you hold onto this for the world that IS…But Cre­ation, The Divine is
not this, it is only this for you at this time…

But the Out­er Real­i­ty does in fact Exist (just as it exists within
you and through­out count­less Dimen­sions with­in and without)…The Divine IS,
but it will always be much more than you can per­ceive or deduce, of
course…But as you strive, as you grow into your Humil­i­ty and Wis­dom by
form­ing a deep­er con­nec­tion with Divine that is with­in your­self (which is the
very rea­son as to why you can come to know this Uni­verse, because you are of
this Divin­i­ty too), you can lift some more of this Veil and approach that much
clos­er to what is THAT, the Greater Real­i­ty, you can approach and bow your head
to the All-Encom­pass­ing and Compassionate…

And yet even still you will be, for­ev­er and ever you will be in a
Maya, for all in this Cre­ation are in the Mahamaya or the Greater Maya…which
is…

What is beyond this Cre­ation is the Divine which is not Manifested.
All that is, is in this Cre­ation, and it came from and is an Ema­na­tion of THAT
which is beyond, and that is Tru­ly Unknow­able and Unspeakable…Nameless. This
Cre­ation you are in is Real for you who are of it, but it is a Maya when
com­pared with the Un-Name­able, the Inef­fa­ble and Unlim­it­ed Non-Being from which
this very Cre­ation sprang…and to which it and you will one day return…

Your Jour­ney of Know­ing and Being stretch­es back and forward
through such an Immense and Immea­sur­able Arc of Time and Space, and yet you
have with­in your­self this Divine Imma­nent Gift of Mind to Per­ceive, Conceive
and Com­pre­hend your Jour­ney and Des­tiny, and this is tru­ly a won­der in itself!

But at each stage of your jour­ney, in each step you make up that
Lad­der of Light which is your Under­stand­ing, you must for­ev­er know that you are
still and will always be as a child, filled with Won­der, Sensing-Feeling
some­thing that is Greater, and then when you final­ly reach even to this next Greater
Realm, you will find yet again that there is still some­thing beyond…and so
you must walk on…

This is the Jour­ney that you are on, that the more you understand,
the more Wise and so Hum­ble you will become, because you real­ize how much
fur­ther there is yet before you…You may look to the Great Ones for
Inspi­ra­tion, for they have walked the path that is ahead of you, and you will
believe and hope that they have reached that All-encom­pass­ing, Complete
Under­stand­ing of the Mystery…and they will smile and turn their heads and bow
to THAT, for it is The Mys­tery that is before them too…The Jour­ney of
Spir­it is and will ever be, for them as for you…

So, Today is for begin­ning again.…

To Com­mence the next cycle in your Jour­ney of Understanding…

Of Deduc­tion and Induc­tion, Of Spir­it and Matter…

Of draw­ing Down and Look­ing Up to the Won­ders that Sur­round you…

To see that The Mys­tery is All Around you, but inside of you Too!

And that is why…

The Key to your Journey…

Is to Know Yourself…

And
so your Uni­verse Too!

And you will accept, and you will draw closer…

To
the Greater Understanding…

To
Wis­dom, To Love…To the Divine.

Look­ing with­in, Reaching
up…

To
the Light.

Walk on.

First
it was Venus (May 13), then it was Mer­cury (May 18) and now it is the Sun’s
turn to be “Glam­oured” by the Lord of Dreams and Visions…Neptune is
shift­ing the focus to your Self…

Where­as
Nep­tune Elic­its a Greater Love from Venus, who is the Avatar of your Val­ue of
Your­self, Your Love…and Nep­tune Bestows a Wider Under­stand­ing upon Mercury,
who is the Avatar of your Mind, Your Consciousness…Now Nep­tune will bring to
bear these Won­drous Pow­ers of Illu­mi­na­tion to your Sun, the Avatar of Your
Self, Your Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty or Spark of the Divine.

But
just as with your Love and your Mind, this process is often not what it
seems…For how could it be oth­er­wise? To Unfold and Become requires the
let­ting go and tran­scend­ing of what was Nor­mal and Expectable…To move to the
next Lev­el requires some­thing Extra-Ordi­nary, and you must Under­stand, Accept
and let go of this World of Shad­ows if you are to move clos­er to the Light…As
Always, you must let go of the Less­er if you wish to Rise into the Greater…which
is in fact your Destiny…

But
more often than not you are com­fort­able and attached to your less­er Experience/Expression
of Ener­gies and Forms…You think you know what and who you are…and you will
not find so appeal­ing this “gift” of a promise of some­thing Greater,
because it requires that you move into the Unknown, into that which disturbs
and threat­ens your com­forts and complacency…Growth is Chal­leng­ing, but it is, after all and ulti­mate­ly, Inevitable…

The
Only ques­tion is: Are you Ready to take up the Bur­dens and Joys of a quicker
Ascent now…Or do you wish to remain in the Shad­ows of Delu­sion and Fantasy
longer than “Necessary”…Do you wish to pull the cov­ers over
your­self, to remain in your world of Pre­tens­es and Pre­sump­tions, to remain in
a Con­scious­ness that has revealed itself to be Illusionary? 

For this is Why
Nep­tune is here, The Lord Nep­tune wields this Awe­some Pow­er of
Illumination/Illusion, and you will find your­self encoun­ter­ing your supposedly
True, Stead­fast and Endur­ing “Real­i­ty” as full of errors…and you
will be caught by a less than wel­come sur­prise, for Low and Behold, your Reality
is not what you had known or assumed it to be.

You will and must pass through this expe­ri­ence, Again and Again in
your Spi­ral Jour­ney of Light…You must Walk the Way of the Seek­er, who is the
Self-Becoming…You must walk down and through, again and again, that most
nec­es­sary Pas­sage­way of Humil­i­ty, which is the only Way to Wisdom…For this is
how you Progress and Become, and it is this which will lead you to Your Greater
Understanding…and it this Gift from Nep­tune, to take you through that
Mys­ti­cal Pas­sage­way, which will Free you from Illu­sion, and that Way is known
to you as Confusion!

Whether from with­in your­self as you feel a grow­ing sense that
things are not quite what they seemed…or out­ward­ly, as you encounter an
expe­ri­ence that appears out of focus and unfa­mil­iar, you find that your world
of mean­ing and order, those famil­iar Ener­gies and Forms no longer align, that
things are out of phase or place…and you real­ize that what was expectable has
become most cer­tain­ly Not! 

Your
Cer­tain­ty is Bro­ken as you Enter this Sacred Space of Doubt and Confusion…and
this is your Sal­va­tion. For when your Faith made you Cer­tain, it was then that
you did not See or Understand…

But now with your New-Found Eyes of Won­der and
Ques­tion­ing, you can move into that Liv­ing Faith of Seeking…of Greater
Inclu­sive­ness, of Deep­er Humility…towards the Ever-Unfold­ing, Ever-Upreaching
Consciousness…

For
That is who You Tru­ly Are!

You are the Self-Becom­ing, now Freer Spir­it who is reach­ing and
draw­ing clos­er to the Greater Understanding…

And so you smile, and you accept…and walk on…

Ever on, draw­ing closer…

Reach­ing
High­er, towards the Light…

The
Path, clear­er to you now…

Humil­i­ty, Accep­tance…Under­stand­ing…

It is The Way…

It is You.

This is anoth­er of the eclipses that I
wrote of in my Gen­er­al 2013 Fore­cast:

 Full
Moon Eclipse in Sagit­tar­ius (May 24–25)

The
sec­ond of three Lunar Eclipses moves the top­ic from Taurus/Scorpio to
Gemini/Sagittarius. Here is a map of where the Eclipse will be vis­i­ble. It
will be seen in North and South Amer­i­ca and South­west Europe and Western
Africa.

This
Lunar Eclipse con­cerns the rela­tion­ship between your low­er mind and your higher
mind, between your induc­tive and deduc­tive ways of com­pre­hend­ing your world.
The Sun in Gem­i­ni has been extolling the virtues of your Induc­tive Mind, and
the Full Moon would nor­mal­ly be able to offer a bal­anc­ing point of view of
Deduc­tive Reasoning. 

But the Earth­’s shad­ow is get­ting in the way, so something
in your present assump­tions, some­thing in regards to your Truths, Beliefs or
Prin­ci­ples is obscur­ing the mes­sage. It is time to chal­lenge your­self and
ques­tion your assump­tions so that you might become less blind­ed by your
self-cast shadows.

You
may look, but you will not notice any­thing dif­fer­ent about this Full Moon that
is Eclipsed today…and that is because the Moon will bare­ly enter the Penumbra
of the Earth­’s shad­ow, and to the unaid­ed eye there will be no discernible
shad­ow­ing what­so­ev­er. The Veil is there, but you can­not see it, and so the
mes­sage of the Full Moon will appear to be clear and true, but things are not
what they seem, (of course, they sel­dom are). More­over the Moon is very close
to you now, at what is called its “Perigee” or clos­est point to
Earth, so her influ­ence upon var­i­ous mat­ters, (phys­i­cal, emo­tion­al and
intu­itive) are that much stronger.

Nor­mal­ly,
the Sagit­tar­i­an Full Moon would pro­vide a wel­come and nec­es­sary coun­ter­point to
the Sun’s pas­sage through Gem­i­ni. Every sign needs and ben­e­fits from the
Illu­mi­na­tion pro­vid­ed by con­tem­plat­ing and inte­grat­ing the sensibilities,
sen­si­tiv­i­ties and strengths of its oppo­site sign. So much so that if you really
wish to ful­fill your Aries Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty for exam­ple, you must under­stand and
accept the Truth of Libra too…Or for the Capri­corns, you can only find your
way to the Moun­tain­top if you equal­ly under­stand and secure your Life in those
Foun­da­tion­al Waters that Can­cer pro­vides. Each sign needs this bal­anc­ing and
inte­gra­tion, and at each Full Moon we should see and cel­e­brate this wonderful
inter­play of Spir­i­tu­al Ener­gies and Forms…

But
here at the Eclipse of the Sagit­tar­i­an Moon the Earth­’s shad­ow is somewhat
obscur­ing this mes­sage of the inte­gral rela­tion­ship of Gem­i­ni with Sagittarius.
For it is from Sagit­tar­ius that Gem­i­ni obtains the very Frame­work of
Under­stand­ing that per­mits the per­cep­tion, gath­er­ing, col­lat­ing, categorizing
and relat­ing of the data points and “facts” of the world you walk
through. Gem­i­ni seeks to gath­er and assim­i­late expe­ri­ence, but to do so requires
some frame­work of under­stand­ing, some form of align­ing the var­i­ous sens­es to
bring in these inputs, to find the order and mean­ing veiled in the Chaos.

So it is from these Prin­ci­ples, Assump­tions and Points
of View of Sagit­tar­ius that you cre­ate the win­dow on the world for your Gemini
Inquis­i­tive­ness and Curios­i­ty to play in…And if you alter this Par­a­digm, if you
Change your Point of View, then these very “Facts” will change for
you too!

But
here the hope for Illu­mi­na­tion of your Assump­tions, and the under­stand­ing that
it could pro­vide regard­ing the Rel­a­tiv­i­ty of your Facts, this Rev­e­la­tion may be
hid­den from you by this Shad­ow­ing of the Moon. What can you do? Well, as
always, remem­ber the Ancient Teach­ings and for­ev­er seek to stay upon the Middle
Path, the Noble Way of being nei­ther whol­ly Induc­tive or Deduc­tive in your
Under­stand­ing of your Reality.

The Way to Wis­dom is also the Way of Humility
which requires that you dance between Induc­tion and Deduc­tion, refin­ing and
adjust­ing your assump­tions and data points, and then adjusting
again…Constantly…For what is True and Real at a par­tic­u­lar Lev­el of
Con­scious­ness or Under­stand­ing will become super­seded and revealed as being
incom­plete at your next Greater Understanding…

The
only Path is the Way of Humil­i­ty and Open­ness, of Know­ing that the more you Know
the more you real­ize how lit­tle you tru­ly Under­stand, as ever Wider and Deeper
Vis­tas are opened before you at each stage of this, your Jour­ney of Rev­e­la­tion Unbounded…

The
only Truth for you the Pil­grim of Light, Love and Will is to fol­low the Great
Injunction…

At
each Plateau of Perception…

As you pause at this new High­er Plane of Understanding…

You
need do but one thing…

Remem­ber that you are here to grow…

And so you must…

Walk
on!

Bal­let
of the Stars — “Pas de Trois” of Mer­cury, Venus and Jupiter

Well,
this should be some show! If you are for­tu­nate, you should be able to look to
the west at sun­set over the next few days and expe­ri­ence a Triple Treat! From
where the Sun has just set you should look up from the hori­zon and you will see
lined up three “Stars”, which are in fact the Plan­ets Mer­cury and
Venus close togeth­er and then slight­ly above them Jupiter form­ing a Triple
Con­junc­tion! The Sun in New York will set around 8:10 pm EDT and around 7:50 pm
in Los Ange­les, so as twi­light wanes and night begins you should be able to see
these bright­ly shin­ing three..

Just
click on the image above to see a GIF ani­ma­tion of their beau­ti­ful dance with
one another.

Then
over the next week, you can watch their dance unfold every evening as after
Mer­cury aligns with Venus on May 24, then Mer­cury will align with Jupiter on
May 27 and final­ly Venus catch­es up and aligns with Jupiter on May 28, after
which they will begin to slow­ly sep­a­rate from one anoth­er. In fact Jupiter will
slow­ly van­ish from this “Pas de Trois” alto­geth­er as the Sun
“catch­es up” to Jupiter who is then enveloped or “lost” in
the glo­ry of the Sun.

This
first of the three, Mer­cury Con­junct Venus, brings togeth­er the Avatars of your
Mind and your Heart. This is tru­ly a most won­der­ful time to reflect and share
your thoughts with your beloved, to enjoy your most inti­mate appre­ci­a­tions for
life and for one anoth­er. With both Mer­cury and Venus in Gem­i­ni, you will find
your delight in exten­sion and vari­ety, in the many facets and refract­ed, nuanced
plea­sures of Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love. Gem­i­ni being an Airy Sign of the Mind,
mod­u­lates your Love and Pas­sion for Life to flow through your Conversations,
Texts and Mes­sag­ing, weav­ing your way of Love and Beau­ty through your Writ­ings and Word-Plays…

This is when you can see Life and Beau­ty through the
mul­ti­plic­i­ties of your world, cel­e­brat­ing the delight­ful vari­eties of shapes
and col­ors, of scents, sounds and touch…The Ordi­nary or Rou­tine just will not
do…it is in Dis­cov­ery, Chance, Inter­play and the plea­sures found in the Joy
of your Minds reach­ing out to touch the Larg­er World and One Another…

Yes, it is
here with the Sylphs of Air that you can Sing and Dance and cel­e­brate the Beau­ty With­in and Around you too!

Though you will and must ever “Walk in Beauty”…

This is a Day to Sing of Beauty…

This is a Day to Speak in Beauty…

This a Day to tell your Beloved…

You are…Beautiful!

This is the defin­ing aspect for our
time, cer­tain­ly for this decade from rough­ly 2008 until 2015 or so, with
ref­er­ences back to the 1960’s when Uranus and Plu­to began their lat­est New
Cycle with one anoth­er, and point­ing onwards to when they reach their next
cli­max in oppo­si­tion to one anoth­er from 2046–48. I date this present alignment
from 2008, for that is when Plu­to began to move through the Sign of Capricorn,
which his­tor­i­cal­ly has led to Insti­tu­tion­al Crises, sig­nal­ing the end of a
Spir­i­tu­al-Cul­tur­al-Eco­nom­ic-Polit­i­cal Order and the rise of a new one (which is
occur­ring all around us now as if you did not notice, for the Birth of a New
Order always takes place as the Old Order is falling down)…

I wrote an exten­sive arti­cle about this Uranus/Pluto
aspect in my Gen­er­al Fore­cast for 2012 and you can read that here.

I also wrote about how it is manifesting
this year in my Gen­er­al Fore­cast for 2013 and here
is that update: