Mer­cury has just entered those lumi­nes­cent path­ways of Pisces and who is there to embrace him but the very ruler of Pisces, the lord of Dreams and Imag­i­na­tion her­self, Nep­tune. Your Mind meets the Mag­i­cal as you move beyond appear­ances into the Mystery…and there are won­ders upon won­ders to behold.

Today is a day for inspi­ra­tion; it is a day for Art, for Beau­ty and for all that inspires the good­ness of this won­drous Cre­ation that sur­rounds you. Whether you take a walk in a for­est and con­nect to the life of spir­it in those mag­ni­fi­cient cathe­drals of nature, or stroll through a muse­um and behold the won­ders of your fel­low trav­el­er’s imag­i­na­tion, or you look into your lover’s eyes and see the uni­verse in that smile, you will do so with a new-found joy for the Song of Cre­ation that sur­rounds and sup­ports you.

Your mind is open and so is your heart…today is quite sim­ply a beau­ti­ful day.

Cel­e­brate the Beau­ty of your world…

Behold the won­der of Creation…

For your Mind and Heart are one…and this, this is Love.

Even though the cal­en­dar says this is the “Moon’s” day (Mon­day), it sure seems like Mer­cury is call­ing the tune! Her­mes gets a part­ing mes­sage from Sat­urn before leav­ing the airy realms of Aquar­ius, div­ing down into the watery depths of Pisces.

Mer­cury is blessed by a beau­ti­ful trine from Sat­urn in Libra; your thoughts are clear, cen­tered and focused…on rela­tion­ships! Mer­cury’s trip through Aquar­ius has lift­ed your mind to con­sid­er the impor­tance of your larg­er world of your group asso­ci­a­tions based upon social ideals and dreams; you have come togeth­er and re-affirmed the hopes and dreams you share with your friends and com­pan­ions. Polit­i­cal, Social and Spir­i­tu­al caus­es have forged deep­er ties between you and your com­pa­tri­ots; you dream and act togeth­er so as to pre­serve or bring about the world you wish to live in.

But Sat­urn’s caress of Mer­cury reminds you that in your life it all comes down to this, that all these larg­er asso­ci­a­tions, your col­leagues, your com­pan­ions and your friends…that all these are first and fore­most formed by you “one by one”, because you must first relate to each oth­er “one on one”. Sat­urn shines a light upon this inti­mate truth that your larg­er social life is formed by essen­tial val­ues embod­ied and expressed in each and every per­son­al rela­tion­ship of your life. Today you will have a greater clar­i­ty about, a more nuanced under­stand­ing of the nature of rela­tion­ship in your life.

Sat­urn gen­tly reminds you that the mea­sure of your social aware­ness or con­scious­ness is most clear­ly expressed in your con­sid­er­ate con­duct with each and every sin­gle per­son you encounter in your dai­ly life. Every rela­tion­ship is an oppor­tu­ni­ty for you to become more aware and balanced…You see your­self through the oth­er and more tru­ly under­stand that “I am that”.

Then Mer­cury takes a leap and dives into the waters of Pisces…Mercury slips beyond “rea­son” and “log­ic” into the swirling mists of your Intu­ition­al Mind…Bright lights and sharp lines give way to shad­ings and nuances. Things…are not what they seem!

The sub­tleties of your aware­ness are called for now; sen­si­tiv­i­ty to the less appar­ent yet greater real­i­ty around and with­in you form the well-spring for your visions and dreams. There are won­ders to behold but you must not look direct­ly upon them; it is the side­ways glance, the periph­er­al view that car­ries the mes­sage now…for you are at the cross­ing point between the dark­ness and the light.

You must wait and you must be still.…and you will only hear if you lis­ten for the silence that is the full­ness; you will hear it now, the song of cre­ation with your intu­ition­al ear. When least expect­ed, and often unap­pre­ci­at­ed, your inner voice will offer a way. Do not dis­miss this gift, this won­der­ful touch from your high­er self who is always there beside you, but so much clos­er now.

The mes­sen­gers will come, but not with bright lights or sounds…they come in sparkles and laugh­ter, with glances and whis­pers for those who have eyes to see or ears to hear.

Open your mind and your heart, the uni­verse is singing to you now the Song of Cre­ation, your song, which is your jour­ney in Life-Conscious-Spirit…

It is time to behold the Wonder…

It is time to Dream…

It is time to Create.

Venus leaves behind those dreamy seas of Pisces; she splash­es ashore and dances into the bright­ly lit realms of Aries. Self­less­ness and sac­ri­fice have had their day but they must defer now to your need to find, acknowl­edge and reaf­firm the love of one’s self again.

You need always be car­ing, to show com­pas­sion and empa­thy; but they must give way for a time, these too must yield and sur­ren­der. Now you need to come back to your begin­ning, to your first melody and love…back to your own sweet song. For with­out this self-acknowl­edge­ment, with­out this first love of self, there can be no oth­er love in your life…

Then spring­ing from this reaf­fir­ma­tion, from this return to source at the cen­ter, you turn towards those you love and take your delights in new dis­cov­er­ies, sen­si­bil­i­ties and enjoy­ments with one another.

Aries is about begin­nings, those resur­gent and eager ener­gies you asso­ciate with spring. Your heart quick­ens now with new-found appreciation…colors look brighter, sounds ring out clearer…it is the dawn­ing of a new aes­thet­ic day in the beau­ty that is with­in and around you.

Aries love is not patient, nor is it found wait­ing; but that means you need to take a deep breath and enjoy your enthu­si­asms but avoid the reck­less impa­tient ways that can lead to bit­ter-sweet fruits. Be not so full of haste that you miss the mark; see the source of love that is ever­last­ing, the love that will not fail…

Always remem­ber that the foun­tain-source of all such feel­ings is found in the heart of each and every spark of the Divine…

That it is the Light Eter­nal which shines back to you in your lover’s eyes.

I briefly men­tioned this in my overview for 2012. Here is what I wrote then:

Sat­urn Ret­ro­grade (Feb­ru­ary 7 till June 25) 

Sat­urn ret­ro­grades every year and pro­vides you with an oppor­tu­ni­ty to re-exam­ine your social roles, hier­ar­chies and respon­si­bil­i­ties. This is its last ret­ro­grade in Libra before mov­ing into Scor­pio in Octo­ber, so this will be your chance to once again look at the nature of your rela­tion­ship agree­ments or con­tracts, whether implied or writ­ten. When Sat­urn moves on into Scor­pio you will want to have made sure that you have done your best to pre­pare for mat­ters to get even more serious.

Sat­urn rules real­i­ty; it is your cur­rent man­i­fes­ta­tion, (and hence also lim­i­ta­tion), of your pure poten­tial (the Sun). Your pure poten­tial is unlim­it­ed and ever-unfold­ing, ever-becom­ing; but in order to unfold and become real it must be con­tin­u­ous­ly embod­ied into a lim­it­ed form, so your unlim­it­ed “non-being” becomes real but lim­it­ed “beingness”…and this process is ruled and formed by Saturn.

While Sat­urn is ret­ro­grade in Libra you have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to go with­in and reex­am­ine and re-work those exist­ing struc­tures of rela­tion­ship-real­i­ty you have poured your­self into. This ret­ro­grade of Sat­urn can help you to de-con­struc­t/re-con­struct the forms of rela­tion­ship you seek ful­fill­ment through.

What this requires from you is a deep reex­am­i­na­tion of your most impor­tant relationship…your rela­tion­ship to your­self. You can and must make clear­er to your­self what val­ues give mean­ing to your life, which actu­al­ly form your life-sub­stance, for only then can you go out and cre­ate mean­ing­ful rela­tion­ships based upon what you dis­cov­er to be your com­mon, shared values.

More­over, by this reex­am­i­na­tion you can more clear­ly define the hier­ar­chy of your own val­ues so that you can make the nec­es­sary accom­mo­da­tions with one anoth­er; you can know which val­ues are sub­ject to adjust­ment and which are non-nego­tiable because they are essen­tial to mak­ing you who you are. 

It is time to turn with­in and build a bet­ter rela­tion­ship with your self…

It is time to pre­pare the way for the next step in your journey.

For just ahead is that deep­er jour­ney of Union itself as Sat­urn moves into Scor­pio in October.

It is time to prepare…and so fol­low the ancient injunc­tion, Know Thyself!

Today Mer­cury makes a supe­ri­or con­junc­tion with the Sun; this is when Mer­cury is on the far side of the Sun from here on Earth so it should be viewed as more like a “Full Moon” aspect. The pre­vi­ous infe­ri­or con­junc­tion, (which is like a “New Moon”), was back on Decem­ber 4. Now in this rev­e­la­to­ry moment you under­stand what was released two months ago. What’s the mes­sage today?

With the Sun and Mer­cury in Aquar­ius, that puts Earth (and you) in Leo so the mes­sage is about achiev­ing the bal­ance in your mind between seek­ing for approval ver­sus stay­ing true to your own beliefs. The Sun and Mer­cury in Aquar­ius favors your eccen­tric, con­trar­i­an side; it’s the way you come up with your orig­i­nal ideas and con­tri­bu­tions. But if you are too “out there” you will not get any­one to lis­ten. (You may be authen­tic but you end up being inef­fec­tu­al). Like­wise, if you too much mod­i­fy your mes­sage to meet what you think oth­ers wish to hear, you become effec­tive­ly untrue to your­self, (and you let every­one down by not con­tribut­ing your unique per­spec­tive). So what do you do?

This align­ment reminds you that it is all about inte­grat­ing your need to hon­or your­self and your audi­ence too. You need to build a bridge of under­stand­ing so that you can turn heads (or raise their eye­brows) but win applause too. You need to project your pre­cious voice of authen­tic­i­ty but do so in a man­ner that is con­struc­tive and contributive.

And this thought­ful mes­sage could not be time­li­er as today is also the Full Moon, with the Sun in Aquar­ius and the Moon blaz­ing bright­ly in Leo. The Full Moon is a time to face the con­trast between two ways of being, two paths of your truth…and it reminds you that you must find a way to work them togeth­er, so you can be whole, com­plete and at peace.

Much as in the Mer­cury “Full Moon”, the Full Moon in Leo illus­trates the chal­lenge of bal­anc­ing your need to express your excep­tion­al nature, (which seeks to go beyond the cares for what the world may think), with your need for con­fir­ma­tion, respect and approval from the world around you.

You may find your­self in an awk­ward place, seem­ing­ly faced with a choice: You can be true to your­self but may give offense, lose a friend or dam­age your relationship…Or, you can bend your char­ac­ter to suit “the sit­u­a­tion”, to gain the approval of oth­ers, but you will lose your respect for your­self. The ten­sion may build so that you take one side or the oth­er to a more extreme point, striv­ing so hard for approval that you betray your prin­ci­ples, or strain­ing so hard to be dif­fer­ent that you lose your own good name…

The answer of course is found in the com­bi­na­tion or bal­ance of the two so that you can be your­self and be appre­ci­at­ed too! How? First, fore­most and always be true to your­self, and then turn ’round and be equal­ly faith­ful to your friends too. You need to hon­or the truth you came to embody…and your friends, your com­pan­ions will hon­or you for this because they share this truth with you. It is through your rela­tion­ship with one anoth­er that you find your­self, both as an indi­vid­ual who is free to be your­self and as a mem­ber of some­thing greater too.

The Full Moon reminds you to always seek to unfold, bring forth and so hon­or your unique self because you will then enjoy the com­pan­ion­ship of those true and last­ing friends and loved ones who respect you for exact­ly that.