You are real­ly show­ing some sparkle today! And so you should. Mars has been trip­ping through Gem­i­ni, encour­ag­ing your inge­nu­ity, intel­li­gence and agili­ty. Now Uranus comes around to add a touch of orig­i­nal­i­ty, inven­tive­ness and creativity.

Mars rules the ways in which you act to ful­fill your­self. You are expe­ri­enc­ing more flex­i­bil­i­ty in Gem­i­ni, com­par­ing, con­trast­ing and try­ing dif­fer­ent approach­es, meth­ods and solu­tions. If one approach does not work, you piv­ot and try anoth­er. Nim­ble (and quick), that’s Gemini.

Uranus now adds a flash of insight (or inspi­ra­tion), that takes your intel­li­gent adapt­abil­i­ty to new heights. Uranus is “the road less tak­en”, the out­sider with the unique view­point; Uranus shifts your focus beyond the bina­ry real­i­ty of either/or.

Uranus with Mars leads you to the “third way”. You are freed from the ordi­nary pat­terns and solu­tions; you move into new and unex­plored path­ways, dis­cov­er­ies and delights. It leads you inward to a deep­er real­iza­tion of your orig­i­nal­i­ty. It leads you out­ward to a greater expe­ri­ence of being a cre­ator. Uranus is the Awak­en­er who leads you to the path­ways of freedom.

Try some­thing new. Cel­e­brate orig­i­nal­i­ty. Dance the dance of the Creator.

It is time to Be Yourself.

It is your Destiny.

Did you feel that? That was some bump (or nudge, or shake…or some­thing). What is that? It almost feels.…well it almost feels shocking.

Oh, that’s just Uranus throw­ing down some jolts to your sense of self. With the Sun mov­ing through Can­cer, you have been very focused upon secu­ri­ty, prac­ti­cal needs, feel­ings and fam­i­ly since June 21.

Uranus in Aries comes along to remind you that, well that’s fine, that’s fine to focus on your roots and secu­ri­ty and all; but what about your Inde­pen­dence, Ide­al­ism and Originality…what about your Free­dom? That’s the song Uranus is singing now and you bet­ter pay attention.

When­ev­er you face a square you often feel as if you are torn between two oppo­site ways of being or act­ing. You feel you must choose; to do one and deny the oth­er. So you must decide between: secu­ri­ty or inde­pen­dence, prac­ti­cal­i­ty or idealism.

But the path of the spir­i­tu­al war­rior is the path of inte­gra­tion. The greater way, the Noble Path, is to see that each of these truths depends upon the oth­er for its own exis­tence. You need your sense of cen­ter from which you pro­ceed out­ward and so extend your orig­i­nal­i­ty into the world. And the growth of that Indi­vid­ual Self is then brought back to your roots, to enrich the core ele­ments that pro­vide you with that very sense of rootedness.

The chal­lenge, real­ly, is not in how to make a choice between one or the oth­er. The chal­lenge is to be more con­scious, to be a liv­ing pres­ence that is attuned to the whole of your spir­i­tu­al unfold­ment. You must hon­or all aspects of your­self and so main­tain a dynam­ic bal­anc­ing of these and oth­er ele­ments in your life

This align­ment, the square of Sun and Uranus, says that right now you will feel that these two sets of truths are out of bal­ance and you need to adjust. Take the mid­dle path, the “Red Road”…Do not over­re­act and cling to secu­ri­ty or assert absolute inde­pen­dence. Lis­ten to your high­er self, your calmer self, the watch­er who is always wait­ing to assist you.

Your watch­er will whis­per: Hon­or your roots for it is that “source song” which car­ries you from begin­ning to end, from life to life. Hon­or your unfold­ing self­hood, your own spe­cial essence, by mod­u­lat­ing, mold­ing and cre­at­ing your own melody with­in the great cho­rus of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Sing on sojourner.…Sing your song.

Today you will find that “luck” is on your side; it is a very good day to make progress with plan­ning and deci­sions that will lead you towards greater self-ful­fill­ment. Back in ear­ly April you start­ed a new cycle of growth; now that growth is sta­bi­liz­ing, solid­i­fy­ing, securing…growth is becom­ing tan­gi­ble now.

The Sun rules your “self”; it is your pure poten­tial seek­ing to real­ize itself in the world. Jupiter rules the ways in which you relate to your world; it is your prin­ci­ples, truths and beliefs. The Sun is your Essence; Jupiter is your Becoming.

You are here to grow, to unfold your poten­tial from your Sun, to real­ize your des­tiny as you “Become the Becom­ing”. To do this you extend your­self, reach out through Jupiter to…to those who jour­ney with you. Your unfold­ment and growth and their unfold­ment and growth hap­pen togeth­er; it hap­pens because, and with, and through one another.

That is why the secret to your growth…what Jupiter is real­ly about.…is Gen­eros­i­ty. The Spir­i­tu­al Law is: “To those who give, more shall be given”…so that they may con­tin­ue to give. This is one of the car­di­nal prin­ci­ples of what you expe­ri­ence as the “Law of Kar­ma”, of cause and effect.

Your growth, your unfold­ment, is found­ed, extend­ed and ful­filled by being on a jour­ney of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it with all the oth­er sparks of the divine who accom­pa­ny you. You can­not and will not be sep­a­rat­ed one from anoth­er for the entire­ty of this jour­ney. You jour­ney togeth­er, grow togeth­er and ful­fill your des­tinies through one another.

What­ev­er you give…is what will come back to you…so be Gen­er­ous to the oth­er, be Gen­er­ous to yourself. 

Ful­fill your destiny…to be a star amongst the Stars…reveal the shin­ing one within. 

Be Gen­er­ous!

So be it.

Are you sure you know what you are doing? Real­ly, it’s okay if you are feel­ing a lit­tle lost or con­fused. In fact, that’s the point when Mars is chal­lenged by Neptune…the truth is Nep­tune is always going to “win” this one.

Mars is zip­ping along in Gem­i­ni now, danc­ing through your mind, with a mul­ti­plic­i­ty of ideas, inter­ests and activ­i­ties. Mars in Gem­i­ni avers, “All real­i­ty is Ratio­nal; all actions can be con­ceived, under­stood, and exe­cut­ed by fol­low­ing the logical-reasoning-mind”.

Nep­tune comes along and says, “No, no, no.…you only think you are act­ing with full under­stand­ing, with your labels, and cat­e­gories and con­cepts; but the Uni­verse is big­ger than that!” And…whoosh! You are plunged into the vor­tex, enveloped in clouds of doubt, disbelief…confusion…and your cer­tain­ty goes, bye-bye.

What’s the point? And, more to the point, what do you do now? Remem­ber, you are a spe­cial spark with­in this greater Uni­verse; and, this greater Uni­verse is also with­in you too. It is with­in your nature to be able to understand…Everything (even­tu­al­ly). Your con­fu­sion is just a state or con­di­tion that you must pass through as you unfold your poten­tials, as you “Become the Becoming”.

You unfold your­self through many forms of con­scious­ness; you advance from lev­el to lev­el of under­stand­ing and activ­i­ty. At each step you find mean­ing with­in your world view or per­son­al uni­verse; even though you tru­ly exist in a much more com­plex “Mul­ti­verse”. At each lev­el you oper­ate with some degree of belief (and cer­tain­ty) that this is the way it is.

Then along comes an event, expe­ri­ence or some­thing that does not fit…and you lose your certainty.…you become con­fused. That is exact­ly what is sup­posed to hap­pen. In order to grow, in order to “Become the Becom­ing”, you must lose your cer­tain­ty, move into con­fu­sion so as to ques­tion your assumptions…and then find a way to a new, more com­plete under­stand­ing. Con­fu­sion is not “bad”; it just is a state of being you must go through, (again and again), if you are to con­tin­ue your jour­ney to a high­er consciousness.

Those who claim that they are always “cer­tain” are just not pay­ing atten­tion! They cling to the famil­iar long after it makes no sense. But you who have doubts, who won­der and cast your gaze beyond those self-imposed blind­ers of your present reality…you who are filled with a faith that leads to bet­ter ques­tions and not final answers…well, you are among the awak­ened, those who are more steadi­ly advanc­ing upon the path of becoming.

So, let us give thanks to Nep­tune, your plan­et of dreams, imag­i­na­tion and faith; this Avatar of the Mul­ti­verse is mov­ing you beyond what is…to what will be. You only need to pass through con­fu­sion for a lit­tle while. It is but a small sac­ri­fice to make for the Illu­mi­na­tion that awaits you.

Okay Dreamers.…Dream On!

What’s that? Is that a “bump” in your think­ing now…or, “Uh oh! Is that a wall”? Bet­ter be pre­pared to stop (and piv­ot) because Her­mes just got tripped up by the “old one”. That’s right, your “mind is meet­ing mat­ter” in the form of Sat­urn the teacher, “the ancient of days”, and you bet­ter have your home­work done.

Mer­cury is swim­ming through Can­cer, let­ting thoughts flow, swirl and dance in the waters of feel­ing-thoughts. Being spon­ta­neous just feels so right; and if it feels good, then you will just say it! But Sat­urn would like a word or two with you.

Sat­urn in Libra is remind­ing Mer­cury that some­times spontaneity…hurts. When you just say what­ev­er, unfil­tered, well…although you may feel fine, the par­ty on the oth­er end may not. Saturn/Libra reminds you that you have to con­sid­er the nature of the rela­tion­ship, the feel­ings of the oth­er, before you “share”.

It’s not as if Sat­urn wants you to stop talking…he just wants you to stop and think before you end up sound­ing as if you lack feeling…which, of course is the oppo­site of what you are try­ing to do!

This square of Mer­cury with Sat­urn is call­ing upon you to adjust your need to be true to your feelings/thoughts with your equal need to be con­sid­er­ate of oth­ers. Now, where is the harm in that?