Her­mes “the fleet-foot­ed” is tripped up by his coun­ter­part Jove; the “low­er” mind of Mer­cury needs to be teth­ered, turned and ground­ed by the “high­er” mind of Jupiter. Inspired by the ide­al­ism of Leo, you must bring your vision into the world by sub­stan­tial acts of mean­ing, beau­ty and car­ing as guid­ed by Taurus. 

Mer­cury has just entered Leo; your mind is infused with ide­al­is­tic fer­vor and the joys of lead­er­ship, cre­ativ­i­ty, and love. Jupiter in Tau­rus comes along as a “tem­per­ing” agent that bends Mer­cury’s zest onto more prac­ti­cal path­ways. Dra­mat­ic strut­ting about, declaim­ing on this or that prin­ci­ple may cap­ture their atten­tion, but your pur­pose will not make it if there is no shar­ing of sub­stance behind it.

Raise your col­or­ful ban­ner; but you must lead through prac­ti­cal demon­stra­tions that build self-con­fi­dence in oth­ers. Daz­zle with your orig­i­nal­i­ty; but cre­ate so as to inspire the gift of imag­i­na­tion for all. Sing your joy­ful heart-songs; but you must live by love in pur­pose­ful acts of kindness

Lead, cre­ate and love…truthfully, reflec­tive­ly and soul­ful­ly, for you walk the path­way of self-unfold­ment with many oth­ers who need you as much as you need them.

Venus the plan­et of love & beau­ty slips into the source-waters of life, Venus has come home. Venus moves into Can­cer for over 3 weeks and your appre­ci­a­tion and need for secu­ri­ty, nur­tur­ing and fam­i­ly is deeply felt. You are drawn to those val­ues in and around you that res­onate in your soul; the echo of fond mem­o­ries, feel­ings and car­ing is what attracts you now.

Venus rules val­ue, it is what you wish to attract, touch and be part of; your out­er real­i­ty needs to match your inner famil­iar, your core, your heart of hearts. Your world becomes infused, breathes and sighs, with rec­ol­lec­tions, remem­brances and long­ings of yes­ter­year. These heart­felt stir­rings are there for you now; yet these soul­ful songs of what was shape your heart’s intent for what is and what is to be.

Past is Pro­logue, you are the becom­ing, as you move with the care you have felt to the care you must bestow. Venus in Can­cer sings the Truth that to be cared for, you must care; to be nur­tured, you must be nur­tur­ing, and to be cen­tered, you must share your space with another.

As Venus slips into Can­cer she encoun­ters Nep­tune who abides now at the thresh­old of Pisces. Cre­ativ­i­ty and Love will soar to new­found heights today. Enjoy good­ness and beau­ty around and with­in you; cel­e­brate the love that is the foun­tain-source of your universe.

Venus the beau­ti­ful opens her heart to the dream songs of Nep­tune; you feel inspired as the mus­es sing to your soul their celes­tial melodies of cre­ation. Venus the lov­ing opens her heart to the self-less source-love of Nep­tune; you are embraced by the truth that you are loved, as is all of cre­ation, because we abide in the One shin­ing Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it as it becomes the becoming.

Join­ing the dance, you wel­come Mer­cury and Uranus lat­er today as they bestow their bless­ings of men­tal bril­liance, lucid­i­ty and insight. The solu­tion to the puz­zle, the dilem­ma that you could not fathom…well today you will have the insight to tran­scend the ordinary!

Mer­cury sail­ing through Leo is quick­ened by the mag­i­cal pow­ers of Uranus, the awak­en­er. Mer­cury is very good at observ­ing, cat­e­go­riz­ing and build­ing your knowl­edge of the world. But you need to “think out­side the box” if you are to find the path­way that leads to a greater under­stand­ing. Today is such a day.

Uranus in Aries opens your mind to spir­i­tu­al intu­itions; he brings you the joy of epiphany as you pass through appear­ances and so approach the thresh­old of truth. Your assump­tions, con­cepts and facts were nec­es­sary to bring you to knowl­edge, but you must go beyond the ordi­nary to reach the shores of under­stand­ing. Let Uranus guide you now to the shin­ing halls of the illu­mined mind.

Last­ly, let us give thanks…and a very Hap­py Birth­day to America!

It was just three months ago that you faced the Sun oppos­ing Sat­urn; that was a moment of rev­e­la­tion. It was a poignant les­son about the unfold­ing rela­tion­ship between your Pure Poten­tial­i­ty (Sun) and your present man­i­fes­ta­tion (a lim­it­ed expres­sion of that poten­tial) also known as Real­i­ty (Sat­urn).

Now you come to a turn­ing point, the square; the road forks…and you must choose a fork! You need to cleave to some­thing, and some­thing must be let go. Since this is the “wan­ing square”, the choice is more about your beliefs, ideas and atti­tudes than about a “thing”.

The Sun in Can­cer is fol­low­ing the path of feel­ing and secu­ri­ty which emerges from fam­i­ly expe­ri­ence; to be nur­tured or nur­tur­ing is all that mat­ters. Sat­urn in Libra is assert­ing the prin­ci­ple of rela­tion­ships based upon choice and free will; it is forc­ing the Sun to shape those more per­son­al or insu­lar needs and fam­i­ly rela­tion­ships with ref­er­ence to jus­tice, equal­i­ty and mutu­al understanding.

What do you do? Which is more impor­tant? How do you choose? Which is it: Fam­i­ly or Friend­ship, Secu­ri­ty or Shar­ing? Well, of course, each is true. What real­ly is being asked of you now is to more con­scious­ly live these two “truth-ways” as they must be…together.

You need your roots from which to pro­ceed; you need to feel secure in order to reach out.  But you need those wider rela­tion­ships to explore your world and your­self, to extend your­self and so find your­self in another…And you then take those expe­ri­ences of social exten­sion back to your “roots”, and so deep­en, refresh and renew your sense of self.

As always it is all about the bal­ance, the great dance of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it, which you must hon­or, cel­e­brate and fol­low on your jour­ney of becom­ing the Becoming.…

Dance the dance…

Mer­cury moves on into Leo; it’s time to stretch your­self, to think and com­mu­ni­cate with that spe­cial qual­i­ty that sets you apart. Her­mes strut­ting through Leo is that time of the year to take risks as a leader, as a cre­ator and as a lover.

You want respect, appre­ci­a­tion, love? You’ll have to earn it by demon­strat­ing that you have that sparkle. Orig­i­nal­i­ty earns you the applause. But if you real­ly want to impress them…turn this around and remem­ber that every­one else needs to be appre­ci­at­ed too.

Now is the time, to take the time, to show respect to oth­ers, to praise others…and to love them with all your heart.

Anoth­er event cov­ered in my overview for 2011, this is what I wrote then:

Back to back Solar Eclipses adds an urgent tone to the mes­sages from the stars. This time the New Moon is in Can­cer, and the new begin­nings for how we can secure our lives requires we more deeply under­stand where secu­ri­ty real­ly comes from first.

In addi­tion I would add the following:

As I not­ed for the New Moon of June 1, dur­ing an “Eclipse New Moon a shad­ow (the past) falls upon you”. That means you have to remove, or move past, that blind spot and uncov­er what is hid­den in order to tru­ly under­stand the mes­sage released by this New Moon.

The Can­cer part of your jour­ney takes you with­in, down to the roots of your being; you reach and secure your center…you fol­low your feel­ings. The Can­cer New Moon binds you back to the famil­iar, to the fam­i­ly, and all those expe­ri­ences which affirm your sense of being whole in your­self, yet part of a greater whole­ness too: fam­i­ly, vil­lage, community…The New Moon in Can­cer cre­ates an oppor­tu­ni­ty to refresh your­self at this well­spring of your exis­tence; and at the truest cen­ter point you feel and affirm the Great Truth, you are one with the One.

But the eclipse puts a shad­ow across the path; there is some­thing that is hid­ing the mes­sage, some­thing you must under­stand about your past before you can refresh your­self at the foun­tain-source of your being. The shad­ow that falls across you now (as always) is…fear. Fear is what comes between you and your becom­ing, between you and your destiny. 

The shad­ow that falls, the fear for Can­cer, is that you do not belong, that you are not embraced…that you have been aban­doned. This is the dark­ness that you must con­front now before you can refresh your soul in the waters of feeling.

This fear comes from the past, from a time and a real expe­ri­ence when you felt uncar­ed for, unconnected…alone. It is not of this time, but is car­ried by the Moon to the present to remind you what this feels like. Why? …So that you may remem­ber and so know what you must do.

You must turn to anoth­er now, anoth­er who feels alone or aban­doned here today, you must hold them, embrace them and demon­strate the truth that they, you, we are nev­er alone.…not ever.

You con­front this echo of false­hood with the light of your life now; your liv­ing pres­ence of shared feel­ings, under­stand­ing and love stands as a tes­ta­ment. The com­pas­sion you feel now breaks up the shad­ows of your past and the pain of the one before you today.

The shad­ow, the past, has no hold over you, a shin­ing one who lives in the Truth that you are nev­er alone; you are always con­nect­ed and will always be cared for because you stand in the light…you are the Light.

Shine on!