Mercury Conjunct Venus (May 24, 2013)

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2013-May-Sequence

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!

Uranus Square Pluto (May 20, 2013)

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Uranus-Pluto

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:

 Uranus and Plu­to Square, May 20 and Novem­ber 1

The fun­da­men­tal trans­for­ma­tion­al influ­ence of this decade
con­tin­ues to weave its way into your life as Uranus in Aries con­tin­ues to form
a wax­ing square to Plu­to in Capri­corn in 2013 (and on into 2014 and 2015). The
dates above are mere­ly when the aspect is exact, but the influ­ence that it
bears con­tin­ues through­out all the year. Hav­ing already laid out the influence
this aspect has brought into focus in the overview for 2012, I thought it would
be best to describe the mod­u­la­tion of this aspect by a third plan­et this summer
and in the first part of 2014.

Uranus is in the first Car­di­nal Sign of Aries while Plu­to is in
the last Car­di­nal Sign of Capri­corn. Now the biggest plan­et in the Solar
Sys­tem, Jupiter, slips into the sec­ond Car­di­nal Sign of Can­cer in late June
2013. Dur­ing the month of July, Jupiter will form up with Uranus and Pluto
cre­at­ing an aspect in August known as a T‑Square, where­in three plan­ets form up
into one oppo­si­tion brack­et­ed by two squares, one on either side of the
oppo­si­tion. In this align­ment, there will be Uranus square Plu­to, while Jupiter
moves in to square Uranus and at the same time oppose Plu­to. This is a most
pow­er­ful, com­pelling and trans­for­ma­tion­al aspect indeed!

The prin­ci­ple artic­u­lat­ed by Uranus and Plu­to con­cerns your
con­stant­ly self-unfold­ing, self-real­iz­ing efforts to achieve a bal­ance between
Free­dom and Sacred Bound­aries. Uranus declaims the urgent need to lib­er­ate the
spir­it into ever-widen­ing reach­es of self-deter­mi­na­tion, chal­leng­ing the status
quo and sta­t­ic struc­tures that for­mer­ly ful­filled but now deny individuality.
Plu­to holds the posi­tion of equal neces­si­ty to use the Will to define and
pro­tect the sacred space you reside with­in, and hope­ful­ly to hon­or those around
you too, to pre­serve the Sacred Spaces of spir­it with­in which all reside, and
from and through which Spir­it seeks the ever-unfold­ing, self-realization
(free­dom) of each individuality.

But if pushed too far, if Uranus gains too much for itself then
there is the dan­ger of unbri­dled free­dom tip­ping into anar­chy where all
struc­tures are over­thrown but may leave no clear path toward true
self-restraint, tol­er­ance and love of one anoth­er. If Plu­to over­whelms, then
all will be bound to the great­est Will, and there will be no space for Freedom
or Sacred­ness what­so­ev­er. So these two Lords must be bound and bal­anced by one
anoth­er, each find­ing their true melody in har­mo­ny with one another…and
per­haps, just per­haps, here is where the great Lord Jupiter may lend a
hand…or could tip the bal­ance the oth­er way, it real­ly is a choice for each
and every soul to make.

Dur­ing the month of August, stand­ing betwixt the two great
pass­es of Uranus and Plu­to with one anoth­er, Jupiter will throw his weight into
the great deci­sions that face one and all, and you will see how the world and
you will choose to turn towards greater inte­gra­tion or not.

Today I would like to speak to the more
per­son­al side of how this Grand Align­ment may be play­ing out our lives…

For each of us has a part to play in
this great dra­ma unfold­ing with­in and around us…and as I men­tioned above, the
mes­sage and mod­u­la­tion of Jupiter this year can help you find your way.

For as you strug­gle with­in your own
world to bal­ance Uranus and Plu­to, to weave togeth­er your Aspi­ra­tions for
Greater Self-Real­iza­tion and Free­dom (Uranus) while also Cre­at­ing, Preserving
and Hon­or­ing your own and every­one else’s Sacred Space (Plu­to) too, it is
per­haps from Jupiter in Can­cer that you can draw upon and find com­fort in the Age­less Wis­dom to help guide you in your
Under­stand­ing and Actions…

For it is through Jupiter, The Lord of
Truth and Wis­dom, who can show you the way to the Source of the Prin­ci­ples and
Teach­ings which have always and will for­ev­er Inspire, Guide and Keep you upon
the Noble Mid­dle Path. This Wis­dom Teach­ing has been passed down in many forms
through the ages, and it will be ever obtained by those who tru­ly seek to serve,
and as it is found­ed by and upon the Peren­ni­al Foundations
formed from the very Ener­gies and Forms of Cre­ation itself, this Rock of Ages will
always be there to guide you tru­ly in these days when an Age will End and a New
World Rise.

Jupiter is in Can­cer and form­ing an
align­ment to both Uranus and Plu­to, and this Gift of the Spir­it can inform and guide you as to how to
inte­grate these pow­er­ful ener­gies trans­form­ing you and your world at this time. 

To Uranus, who blazes with the Fires of Aries Ide­al­ism, where
Impa­tient Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Unbri­dled Enthu­si­asms can often betray the
inten­tion to do “what is right”, Jupiter offers the Waters of Cancer
which remind you that your Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty is born through and aris­es from the
Foun­da­tions and Roots of your jour­ney which ulti­mate­ly con­nects you to all of
your fel­low humans, and ulti­mate­ly to all forms of Life, and your need to be
True to One­self must nev­er result in the Harm to another…

For “we are all
relat­ed”, we are all ones of the One, and each Indi­vid­u­al’s Unique
con­tri­bu­tion to the Song of Life must be Hon­ored and Free to Be…yet Each must also respect, sup­port and so join in pay­ing Homage and Fideli­ty to one and all…For as you must to thine own self be True, you must equal­ly be True to all your Broth­ers and Sis­ters too.

To Plu­to, who brings and bears the Will
that Forms, Pre­serves and Trans­forms the Sacred Spaces of Spir­it, Plu­to can, when
Unbound­ed in Capri­corn, wield this Pow­er in such a man­ner that what one
intend­ed to Pre­serve is in fact Lost, what was Trans­formed is actually
Destroyed, because your Sacred Spaces become bro­ken by the Will that stands for
Absolute Pow­er alone, where there is either Dom­i­na­tion or Sub­mis­sion and no
Free­dom or Sacred Space remains.

To this Jupiter offers the Heal­ing Grace
from Can­cer, that Plu­to’s Pow­er with­out Bounds, which was formed from and
fueled by Fear, may be washed away by those Lov­ing, Car­ing and Nur­tur­ing Waters
of Jupiter in Can­cer where­in is found the Root of your Being. It is founded
for­ev­er, with­in the heart of each spark of the Divine, in the Love of the One
for all of the ones of the One, and it is in fact this All-Embrac­ing Love which
forms the Divine Sacred Space whose cen­ter is every­where, and whose circumference
is nowhere.

For each Space is Sacred, and to harm anoth­er is to Harm Oneself…For you abide with­in the Greater Space of the One, and what you do the least of these, you do also to the One, to all oth­ers and so to your own self too. 

Yes, Kar­ma is per­fect, what­ev­er you wish to cre­ate you must also Be and you will Become. Help one anoth­er to Grow the Sacred Spaces for each and every, for their Integri­ty is your own too. As always, keep your­self aligned to the Greater…Let Thy Will be Done.

As to all things, all chal­lenges and
hopes, the answer lies with­in you…it is in your Mind that is Free from Fear,
your Heart that is Uncon­di­tion­al in Love and your Will that is Cen­tered and
Bound­ed with­in the Sacred­ness of Space.

It is from these, The Ancient Teach­ings, that
your Hope and Path will be ever found and secured. When­ev­er you are in doubt or trou­bled by fear, remem­ber the Great Invo­ca­tion and repeat:

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light with­in the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the mas­ters know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Pow­er restore the Plan on Earth.

Sun Enters Gemini (May 20, 2013)

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Gemini2
 

The
Great Jour­ney of Spir­it has come around to this most sacred way, this most holy
place…for this is where inno­cence was lost…and your redemp­tion was
born…This is the Por­tal to your Greater Aware­ness…

Every Sign speaks to your Jour­ney of Spir­it, of the
Self-Unfold­ment of your pow­ers and abil­i­ties, as you pass through many
dimen­sions, with many ener­gies and through many forms in this great Spiral
Jour­ney of Light. But some­thing quite remark­able and inte­gral to your journey
back to the stars hap­pened (and hap­pens) here in the mys­tery that is Gemini.
This is the moment, in the past and in those far dis­tant-futures, but always
and for­ev­er in your ever-present Now, this is that moment that is for­ev­er and
ever that you became/become Self-Aware.

Whether in the “myths” of Prometheus, Lucifer, Loki,
Kali, Quet­zal­coatl and count­less and for­got­ten oth­ers, the sto­ry is told as to
how the Non Self-Aware Beings, in our case Humans, receive the gift from those
“whose great hon­or and sac­ri­fice is to do what was also done unto
them”, they descend so as to pass on “The Light”, bestow­ing upon
the still Sleep­ing Ones this Fire or Light of Self-Awareness.

This is “the Fall” from the so-called “Blessed
State” of the Self that is Undif­fer­en­ti­at­ed (the Pure State of “I
Am”), of Being one with the One, who by becom­ing Self-Aware are thereby
cast out of the Gar­den of Eden (of Bliss­ful Igno­rance) and into that Wilderness
of Wan­der­ing through these Worlds of Duality…

By becom­ing a Being awak­ened to “I am That”, now
dis­tinct and feel­ing this won­drous and yet painful sep­a­ra­tion, being aware of
this, they take up the jour­ney of Self-Con­scious Beings who now strive to
Under­stand these Ener­gies and Forms of Real­i­ty in Mat­ter, and so by their
Self-Mak­ing/­Self-Real­iza­tions they Forge their Path­way of Light back to the
One…They return as Prodi­gal Sons and Daugh­ters, bring­ing back to the One
these Gifts of the Expe­ri­ence of Self-Realization…

This is the Por­tal, that leads to the Greater Aware­ness, the path
is through Dual­i­ty, to be caught between Self and Oth­er, Dark­ness and Light,
Being and Non-Being as you, The Pil­grim, seeks ever to under­stand from whence
did I come, for what rea­son am I here…and where and what am I to become?

This
is The Jour­ney…That you left from the One as Un-Self Con­scious Sparks of the
Divine, wing­ing your way through Time and Space, through Dimen­sions, Energies,
Worlds and Forms…

For
count­less eons your jour­ney was expe­ri­enced but remained with­out Self-Knowing,
until this Por­tal and the Gift Bestowed…

For
the rest of your jour­ney you will seek to return..

To find
the way to heal these divi­sions of Self and Other…

From
which so much con­fu­sion, error and pain arise. 

To find
your way beyond the Illu­sion…

Where each and every appear as sep­a­rate from
one another…

Back
to the One, back in the Liv­ing Truth.

That
all are ones of the One…

Whose
Wis­dom, Love and Strength…

Will
Abide For­ev­er and Ever…

With­in you, Between you and Through­out Creation.

For you are the Prodi­gal Pil­grims, the Sons and Daughters…

Find­ing your way Home.

Mercury Square Neptune (May 18, 2013)

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Mercury-and-Neptune4

Feel­ing a bit fuzzy or distracted…Maybe
you mis­re­mem­bered some­thing, or you lost or mis­placed some­thing (or someone!)…Your
mind wan­dered off or you did not pay atten­tion to what was being said, or where
you were going…And so you have inad­ver­tent­ly crossed over into that twilight
realm, of swirling mists, of twin­kling lights and danc­ing shad­ows, and you
real­ize that you are real­ly “not in Kansas anymore”…

Well, that’s just fine because your
Con­scious­ness need­ed this…You always need this real­ly, for it is this kind of
expe­ri­ence that is most nec­es­sary for your Spi­ral Jour­ney of Light, as this is
how you grow into your Greater Awareness…You grow because you encounter this
chal­lenge to your Per­cep­tions, Assump­tions and Cer­tain­ties and begin to realize
that maybe there is more here than you have imagined.

Because when you stum­ble into these
errors or con­fu­sion, you become turned around and about, and you have to lift
your­self up and con­sid­er anoth­er way of per­ceiv­ing, con­ceiv­ing and know­ing you
and your world…Over time you will come to know and accept that your journey
of Con­scious­ness is a cycle of mov­ing cease­less­ly from Cer­tain­ty, to Doubt, to
Confusion…and it is then that you turn with a new-found Openness…and this in turn gives birth to
your New Awareness…But of course, you again become “Cer­tain” about that…until…

It is the Great Lord Nep­tune who is ever
there and will make and remind you of this today. For you will only grow by
let­ting go, and you only let go when the hold­ing on to what is non­sense is
clear­ly the one thing you are cer­tain you can no longer do!

And so Nep­tune, who you might wish to hold
at fault for bring­ing this con­fu­sion into your life, is equal­ly and actu­al­ly the
Avatar who offers you this way through to the Light of a Greater Understanding.
For only when you acknowl­edge that your for­mer under­stand­ing was full of
Illu­sions can you open your Mind (and Heart) to the Clear-See­ing, Compassionate
Light of Illu­mi­na­tion that is the Truth of Neptune.

For it is this which Nep­tune offers you, it is the Foun­tain Source of your Faith and Imag­i­na­tion that springs from what holds
the entire­ty of Cre­ation and you togeth­er as One…the One Abid­ing and Bind­ing Light, the Forces and Forms of the Divine that you call Love.

Do not be trou­bled if you are
confused…

For it is a sign that you are aware and
awakening…

Let­ting go of your shack­les of Cer­tain­ty, you question.

Let your­self move into a Liv­ing Faith
of Open­ness and Love…

Seek­ing and so find­ing a more Expansive,
Inclu­sive and Hum­ble Way.

For this is Wis­dom, this is your path…

This is the Wis­dom of Love.

Mercury Enters Gemini (May 15, 2013)

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Mercury-in-Gemini

Her­mes, the Fleet-Foot­ed mes­sen­ger, who
flies between those Star­ry Realms above and your Earth­ly plane below, returns to
his home sign of Gem­i­ni. Yet he is already begin­ning to slow down as he arcs
his way around the Sun and approach­es the next ret­ro­grade in late June. He is
still mov­ing at his top speed right now, which means he will only be in Gemini
for just over two weeks…So you had bet­ter take advan­tage of all this
delight­ful­ly engag­ing Airy Ener­gy while it lasts! (Take note of this, because Mercury
is going ret­ro­grade at the end of June, and he will swim, back and forth, in and out, through
those Waters of Can­cer for over two months!)

The realm of Air is where Her­mes shines,
for your grow­ing Self-Aware­ness is found­ed upon those Mer­cu­r­ial Pow­ers which
have endowed you with the abil­i­ty to pon­der and ques­tion, to com­pare and
con­trast, to observe and rea­son as you seek to know your world and yourself
through an ever-expand­ing means of Perception-Understanding.

For the next two weeks, you should do
your utmost to let your mind rejoice in its pli­a­bil­i­ty, inge­nu­ity and comically
con­trar­i­an nature. It is most nec­es­sary to your growth that you
question…Everything. Chal­lenge your­self and oth­ers to step out­side their
com­fort zones and look at your assump­tions and self-made “facts”,
which as often as they may pro­vide frame­works will inevitably veil you from a more
com­plete understanding.

These nec­es­sary par­a­digms, like steps upon a spi­ral stair­way, reveal much to
you for a time, but they equal­ly forge and hold you enthralled, cre­at­ing the very shad­ows, those
dif­fer­ences and dilem­mas that you must free your­self from in order to become.
Like a Spi­ral Flame of Light, you rise from lev­el to lev­el, from the ordi­nary to
an ever more inclu­sive and extra­or­di­nary per­spec­tive. You will dis­cov­er as you
let go and grow, that many intractable prob­lems melt away by you shift­ing your
Per­spec­tives-Assump­tions as you appre­hend new approach­es and solutions.

Remem­ber, your Jour­ney of Self-Becoming
is found­ed upon a most Holy Trin­i­ty, the Three Prin­ci­ple Attrib­ut­es of Spirit
that are a Cen­tered Will, Uncon­di­tion­al Love and a Free Mind. The Spir­it within
you, your Spark of the Divine, is the source of your Self-Aware­ness, and it is
ever seek­ing to inspire, guide and help you to real­ize your Des­tiny, which is
to grow through and yet ulti­mate­ly tran­scend your more lim­it­ed under­stand­ing as
you climb the Path of Light and approach the Greater Aware­ness of Cos­mic Consciousness.

Rejoice in Her­mes, who has come to lead
you through the Por­tal to his Realm…

He, who is named, but is not known, by
many names…Trickster, Coy­ote, Fool and Clown.

He shows you the Way to Wis­dom, through
Humil­i­ty and Laughter.

You Dance a Spi­ral Dance of
Consciousness…

Your Jour­ney of Shad­ows lead­ing you into the
Light…

Lift­ing you Home­ward to the Stars.