Warn­ing, warning…Part 2 of your real­i­ty test has now arrived…

Are you feel­ing a bit con­fused? Or per­haps you feel as if you are walk­ing (or is it fly­ing, or per­haps swim­ming) through a dream-world? Maybe you just can­not under­stand some­one, or maybe some­one does not seem to under­stand you? Does that sound famil­iar? Well, you should just sur­ren­der to this hum­bling expe­ri­ence and give a big, warm and hearty wel­come to Mer­cury square Neptune!

That’s right, just two days after the Sun had his own hum­bling encounter with Nep­tune, now you need to face the mys­ter­ies of Nep­tune again as she pos­es a chal­lenge to your Mind or Intel­lect more directly.

The encounter with the Sun offered you the opportunity/challenge to see how well or not you per­ceive your very essence or true nature, your “Self”. This encounter with Mer­cury requires you to focus upon, to con­sid­er the very instru­ment of your per­cep­tions, your Intel­li­gence and Reason…To look with renewed won­der upon those very fac­ul­ties that place you in this evolv­ing live-wave, this host of souls that is called “Human”.

Mer­cury in Gem­i­ni is focused upon all those sen­so­ry inputs, all those data points and con­structs, those assump­tions and points of view that make your “real­i­ty” for you…and here comes Nep­tune and “Poof”…it dis­solves before your very (Mind’s) eye. What is REAL, what is not? Well, that is a very good question…and that is pre­cise­ly what Nep­tune is here to teach you…

You know what you know giv­en your point of view; you know what you know because of what you believe, or what you are capa­ble of believ­ing. Now Nep­tune comes along and it shifts, it shim­mers and there is some­thing else, some­thing more, some­thing greater to behold.

But, first you must lose your attrac­tion to, your fas­ci­na­tion with what “IS” for you…you must rely upon and open you High­er fac­ul­ties and see with your “Third Eye”…oh yes it is there, waiting…and Nep­tune will always help you to open it a lit­tle more…

The first step…is to believe…

The sec­ond step…is release your Imagination…

The third step…is be amazed, be amazing!

Now you are get­ting somewhere…

Be the Dreamer…Be the Imagineer!

Faster, faster, faster…your mind, as in fleet-foot­ed Mer­cury-Her­mes, endowed with “winged feet”, comes back to his home sign! Okay, ready, set…GO!

Mer­cury dash­es into his realm and he is mov­ing very, very fast indeed. He will only be here for two weeks! You have no time to waste, and why would you…you need to dive into this enjoy­able romp, to trip through those mag­i­cal, mer­cu­r­ial fields of curios­i­ty, diver­si­ty and wonder.

Your mind is mov­ing through the ethe­re­al realm of Air now, and those neur­al path­ways are surg­ing and singing with the delights of dis­cov­ery, com­par­i­son and mul­ti­fac­eted stim­u­la­tions. You look with renewed delight upon the mar­vels around you, seek­ing to under­stand and share your insights with oth­ers. Enjoy this won­der­ful quick­en­ing of your most human of gifts…

How­ev­er, you need to watch out for the like­li­hood of becom­ing too stim­u­lat­ed or dis­tract­ed by this flow of energy…Always remem­ber, the noble path is to main­tain your bal­ance in all matters…In a peri­od like this, you need to set aside some qui­et time to give your mind (and nerves) some rest too!

Enjoy the next two weeks as you mar­vel at your won­der of wonders…

Cel­e­brate your adapt­abil­i­ty, inge­nu­ity and Intelligence…

For you are Mind on a won­drous journey…

and there is a whole Uni­verse out there wait­ing for You!

Warning…Warning…Reality Test Ahead!

That’s right, when the Sun makes a “hard” aspect to Nep­tune (four times a year) your per­cep­tions are in for a challenge…and that is a good thing!

Why?  Because most of your trou­bles, (and most of the world’s trou­bles), come about through a series of mis­per­cep­tions and mis­un­der­stand­ings, that turns all of those lit­tle mis­steps into huge mishaps.

What can you do? First, you need to have a good sense of humor, and to admit that it all starts with you! You have to look in that prover­bial mir­ror and laugh, laugh at all your mis­per­cep­tions about your­self. Because in each decade of your life, (if not in each year, month or week), you should see your under­stand­ing of your­self (and your world) grow beyond…into some­thing more…and that is good!

How­ev­er, in order to grow…you have to let go…You have to release your­self from your for­mer cer­tain­ties, those “truths” that explained every­thing at a low­er lev­el of per­cep­tion, but which now no longer func­tion or make sense at the high­er one for which you strive. You need to expe­ri­ence dis­il­lu­sion (to lose your illu­sions), to lose faith with your old view, for only then can you receive an Illu­mi­na­tion and so be able to per­ceive the greater real­i­ty you actu­al­ly move in…

This is what is the Sun squar­ing Nep­tune indi­cates and offers to you now. You need to lose your cer­tain­ty (which cre­ates your blind­ers and can lead to prej­u­dice), and seek to main­tain a more open, ques­tion­ing, for­ev­er-seek­ing form of Faith…To have faith with the spir­it with­in you, who is always dri­ving you upwards in a spi­ral of aspi­ra­tion towards that Greater Under­stand­ing of your­self and your world.

Your aware­ness should always be unfold­ing, becom­ing more nuanced and con­di­tion­al. You evolve from being “oh so sure of your­self” and your view of your world, to becom­ing ever more adapt­able and hum­ble as you expand your understanding…

You will con­tin­ue to lift your­self up and up, until you final­ly reach True Wis­dom where­in you real­ize that you can nev­er be sure of ANYTHING…except that you must con­tin­ue to GROW!

You can have faith in your Spir­it, faith in your high­er Self who is always there to guide you…

You can know that there is always more to dis­cov­er, more to understand…

You can be cer­tain that your one true path is to con­tin­ue your nev­er-end­ing journey…

You are Spirit…you must ever “Walk On”!

Today begins a new cycle in the dynam­ic rela­tion­ship between your Low­er mind and your High­er mind (between your low­er and high­er Manas)…between your Rea­son and your Truth.

At least once a year Mer­cury will come over Jupiter and bring about this re-set between your pow­ers of Induc­tion and Deduc­tion, between your Infor­ma­tion and your Understanding.

Mer­cury rules your “Low­er” Mind where­by you con­nect with the world around you, gath­er­ing sen­so­ry inputs or data…You observe, ana­lyze, cat­e­go­rize and use your mar­velous gift of intel­li­gence to cre­ate your expe­ri­ence of the greater real­i­ty around you. How­ev­er, Mer­cury works with­in the con­texts that are set down by your Prin­ci­ples or Truths, by your Jupiter function.

Jupiter rules your “High­er” Mind where­in you cre­ate your World View…Your belief sys­tems of reli­gion, phi­los­o­phy, sci­ence and law pro­vide the frame­work for you to look out upon your world and per­ceive what you can with your Low­er Mind. Jupi­ter­ian Truths cre­ate your point of view, which you then go out to prove or dis­prove with your Mer­cu­r­ial expe­ri­ence of real­i­ty; and your Mer­cu­r­ial inputs feed back upon to prove, refine or dis­prove your Jupiter assump­tions. In effect, your Jupiter Deduc­tions and Mer­cury Induc­tions work togeth­er to con­stant­ly build a flu­id and dynam­ic under­stand­ing of your­self and your world.

Today pro­vides a won­der­ful moment to stand between your Truths and Facts, between your Under­stand­ing and your Rea­son as you move clos­er and clos­er to True Wisdom.

For the trou­ble is, you do not know what you do not under­stand. Your Jupiter prin­ci­ples guide you to see the world a cer­tain way, and this directs your low­er mind to find those inputs that prove you right. Mean­while, your Mer­cury rea­son seeks to find infor­ma­tion that serves to rein­force and build up your Jupiter “truths”. Unless you remain con­stant­ly vig­i­lant, always ques­tion­ing, doubt­ing and test­ing your “Facts” and your “The­o­ries”, you will find your­self falling into error and confusion.

Today pro­vides a spe­cial oppor­tu­ni­ty, a re-set much like a New Moon for your two minds, the High­er and Low­er. You can stand beside them both and see how cer­tain assump­tions of the High­er have pre­dis­posed you to accept or look for cer­tain inputs to con­firm your world-view; you can also see how your gath­er­ing of pure data points have been pre-deter­mined by what you wished to find in order to con­firm what you believe to be true.

Today your High­er Self, through your Bud­dhi or The One True Mind, can help you see into this beau­ti­ful but self-lim­it­ing rela­tion­ship of your Low­er and High­er Minds. You can stand in the cen­tered space of your Lucid mind, more free of your “assump­tions” and “facts”…You can look at your­self and your world anew, like a new­born child, with eyes that are Full of Wonder!

You are Spirit…Mind on a Quest for Greater Understanding.…

You are a Spark of the Divine…your ever unfold­ing, self-becom­ing urge…To Grow!

Today you take a new step clos­er to your Greater Life…

Today you move clos­er to the Light of True Wisdom!

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.