It’s anoth­er very busy day “up there” (and down here)… The path to a greater under­stand­ing is offered by the align­ment of the Sun and Mer­cury; the delights of new appre­ci­a­tions come from Venus and Uranus; and a renewed empha­sis about the nature of your respon­si­bil­i­ties is her­ald­ed by Saturn.

Her­mes and Sol meet up again. This is the “Full Moon” or supe­ri­or con­junc­tion of Mer­cury and the Sun. It was back on April 9th, while Mer­cury was mov­ing ret­ro­grade, that they formed what is called their infe­ri­or con­junc­tion (like a “New Moon”) which her­ald­ed a new devel­op­ment in your understanding.

This time Mer­cury is on the far side of the Sun, so the Sun is between Earth and Mer­cury. So what does this mean for you? It means that there is a rev­e­la­tion offered; that prob­lems, issues and dilem­mas that you have been strug­gling to under­stand will now come to a climax…you will have answers, but will you under­stand the mes­sage? Mat­ters are going to come to a cli­max and you will need to show that you are ready, will­ing and able to grow.

With Mer­cury and the Sun in Gem­i­ni, that puts you (and Earth) in Sagit­tar­ius; so the les­son is about your expe­ri­ence of those two signs. Among many things, Gem­i­ni and Sagit­tar­ius rule the process where­by you obtain knowl­edge and infor­ma­tion. One of the prin­ci­ple lessons of their jux­ta­po­si­tion is the con­trast between the two fun­da­men­tal approach­es to your acqui­si­tion of knowl­edge: Deduc­tive ver­sus Induc­tive Reasoning.

With Deduc­tive rea­son­ing, you start with fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ples (assump­tions) and build down to the myr­i­ad exam­ples of those propo­si­tions in the real world. With Induc­tive rea­son­ing, you observe myr­i­ad instances of phe­nom­e­na (data points) and build upward toward a the­o­ry which explains that experience.

With the Sun and Mer­cury in Gem­i­ni the empha­sis is upon the use of your pow­ers of Induc­tion. The revelation/message will be come in the form of some­thing that does not fit; a fact or expe­ri­ence or piece of infor­ma­tion that can­not be explained by what you had hereto­fore assumed.

You need to ques­tion your assump­tions because although they pro­vid­ed a means to view your real­i­ty, they also blind­ed you by lim­it­ing what you would see, (what did and what did not fit with your point of view). It is not that you were “wrong”; you just did not have the nec­es­sary aware­ness. This new “fact” requires that you adjust your point of view.

So pre­pare for a mes­sage that does not “com­pute”, pre­pare to be sur­prised or shocked, and then you must show that you are intel­li­gent by ques­tion­ing your assump­tions. Then you will be able to look beyond your “real­i­ty” to the greater one now revealed to you.

Mean­while, and cer­tain­ly help­ing with the above, Venus is influ­enced by Uranus so as to encour­age you to go beyond your nor­mal, com­fort lev­el of what you like. Today is a day to expand your expe­ri­ence of what life has to offer.

“You nev­er tried to eat raw fish?”…Well today is your day to go beyond the famil­iar into the exot­ic. But it does not have to be rad­i­cal change (which raw fish may be for you), just move towards a greater appre­ci­a­tion of some­thing out of your ordi­nary. Your life (and taste buds) will thank you. Enjoy your friend­ships, espe­cial­ly the ones which take you beyond your “every­day”. You are here to expe­ri­ence more than you can imag­ine, let mag­ic into your life.

Final­ly, as the day ends and you move into Monday…Saturn, the plan­et of real­i­ty, respon­si­bil­i­ty and order turns direct. The focus is upon what works, what is tan­gi­ble and your part in it. Your true nature is spir­it, but you are incar­nate on this Earth, (in the flesh) and so Sat­urn holds domin­ion over you here. The ques­tion is: what does it mean to you to be responsible?

When­ev­er a plan­et changes direc­tion you feel its influ­ence more strong­ly. Take some time now to con­sid­er your respon­si­bil­i­ties. Remem­ber that word real­ly means “your abil­i­ty to respond”. Well, what is it that you are “respond­ing to”?

You are part of a great hier­ar­chy of life-con­scious­ness-spir­it, of beings above and below your­self. You are part of a great spir­i­tu­al host who take respon­si­bil­i­ty for one anoth­er through­out the ages. But in order for you to do your part, your first and most impor­tant respon­si­bil­i­ty will always be to your “self”.

As Sat­urn turns direct you need to take your­self “seri­ous­ly”. You need to make sure that you are tak­ing care of your­self on all lev­els: Are you car­ing for your phys­i­cal, emo­tion­al, men­tal and spir­i­tu­al selves?

But most impor­tant­ly, are you ful­fill­ing your des­tiny? Do you under­stand, acknowl­edge and seek to ful­fill your pur­pose? To do this you must fol­low the path laid out in the Ancient Wisdom:

Know thyself…Become yourself…and so Ful­fill your­self by extend­ing your hand to help those who accom­pa­ny you on this great Jour­ney of Spirit.

Be respon­si­ble by show­ing that you care. 

“You can’t always know what you want”…With Nep­tune chal­leng­ing Venus, the ques­tion is how do you know, real­ly know, the val­ue of any­thing (or any­one)? What are the ways you can mea­sure it? Can you be sure that what appears to be the val­ue is accu­rate? More impor­tant­ly, how do you know what is of val­ue to you?

Today you need to be care­ful of promis­es and offers that seem too good to be true…they prob­a­bly are! Remem­ber Nep­tune rules many things, but among them is Illu­sion and Delu­sion. When you want some­thing or some­one to be some­thing for you, and Nep­tune is involved, well you do have the pow­er to make any­thing appear to be “real”, for a while. That is, you can until an unaf­fect­ed per­son in your parade shouts out, “Why, the emper­or has no clothes on at all!” And that won­der­ful fairy sto­ry reveals the key to the mys­tery and an impor­tant lesson.

The trick with Nep­tune is to approach the thing or per­son “like a child”, with no pre­con­cep­tions, no fil­ters, no bias­es. Then, there is a chance, just maybe, that what is tru­ly there will be revealed to you. For that is the oth­er side of Nep­tune. When you work with Nep­tune from a more spir­i­tu­al­ly cen­tered state, Nep­tune is revealed as the pow­er of Illu­mi­na­tion and Insight; it is clair­voy­ance or “clear-see­ing”. But for this pow­er to work your ego-desire has to be put aside; you have to want to see noth­ing at all in order to see what is tru­ly there.

So take up this oppor­tu­ni­ty posed by Nep­tune’s chal­lenge to your expe­ri­ence of val­ue. Let Nep­tune dis­solve away the sur­face appear­ance of val­ue and reveal a deep­er, inner truth about the nature of val­ue in your life. Your jour­ney is both inward and out­ward as you seek to under­stand your pur­pose and cre­ate val­ue in the Universe.

Ulti­mate­ly, the source of your val­ue, and of all val­ues, is to be found in the truth that you and all of cre­ation are sparks of the Divine. Your val­ue is immea­sur­able because it is part of the ever-unfold­ing, nev­er-ceas­ing won­drous dance of Life-Consciousness-Spirit. 

Shine on!

Vari­ety IS the spice of life! From now till July 3^rd, Venus in Gem­i­ni will turn your appre­ci­a­tions and affec­tions towards the delights of dis­cov­ery. You will need to con­trast one thing to anoth­er, the Hot to the Cold, the Bit­ter to the Sweet, the Smooth to the Rough…Extend your sens­es to take it all in, and then some! Let a thou­sand flow­ers bloom and may every one release its own spe­cial scent for you.

Venus rules your val­ues; it indi­cates what you find plea­sur­able, what you want and how you love. The gift of Venus in Gem­i­ni is that you will be inspired to give more thought­ful con­sid­er­a­tion to the val­ues you share with loved ones. This is the time to have that talk about what brings you togeth­er, to exam­ine the val­ues that you share already, the val­ues that cre­ate the space called “we”.

But just as impor­tant, this is a time to extend your selves and dis­cov­er some new delights in your world and between one anoth­er. Won­der, curios­i­ty, play­ful­ness this is the Gem­i­ni world of eter­nal youth…and no mat­ter your age, you are always young at heart!

You are age­less, yet ancient; you are inno­cent, yet wise. You are Spir­it and your only pur­pose is to become.…so be it!

Anoth­er entry from my Overview of 2011 in which I said this:

The cycle of Jupiter and Nep­tune is about 12 to 13 years long. Their last con­junc­tion was dur­ing 2009. With Jupiter pro­vid­ing the prin­ci­ples to guide our rela­tion­ships, the align­ment to Nep­tune in Aquar­ius cre­at­ed a renewed sen­si­bil­i­ty of com­mu­ni­ty and com­pas­sion. It was no acci­dent that the biggest push to uni­ver­sal health care in the US was attempt­ed dur­ing this time.

Now at the wax­ing sex­tile on June 8, 2011 the more prac­ti­cal work­ing out and man­i­fes­ta­tion of this impulse is seen. What were once inti­ma­tions, ideas and pro­pos­als have become real pat­terns of how we now see we must relate to one anoth­er. There is a sense that we have come to under­stand that fol­low­ing the path of truth requires that we must con­duct our affairs with tol­er­ance, com­pas­sion and for­give­ness. This under­stand­ing will be chal­lenged, and we will have to choose which path to fol­low, a year lat­er, in June 2012, when our present beliefs and dreams about our future face a test.

I would add that this benef­ic align­ment of Jupiter (Principles/Truth) with Nep­tune (Imagination/Faith) cre­ates an oppor­tu­ni­ty for you to more clear­ly see the won­drous process where­by your under­stand­ing of Truth unfolds and grows into Wis­dom through your Imag­i­na­tion and Faith.

Your jour­ney to a greater truth is a process known as Rev­e­la­tion, where­in each lev­el of truth is super­seded by a greater lev­el of under­stand­ing. And that lev­el is even­tu­al­ly super­seded by a deep­er, more encom­pass­ing under­stand­ing that fol­lows. Through each stage you must have Faith and use your Imag­i­na­tion to let go of a less­er under­stand­ing and move to greater Truth. This jour­ney, this growth, is the nev­er-end­ing Song of Spirit.

The ear­li­er, less­er stages of Principles/Truth were not wrong; they were mere­ly the lev­el at which your con­scious­ness could com­pre­hend your real­i­ty. But as you grow in spir­i­tu­al matu­ri­ty and respon­si­bil­i­ty you must lift up your spir­i­tu­al aware­ness by dis­solv­ing (Nep­tune) your old belief bound­aries (Jupiter).

This ser­i­al tran­scen­dence of the famil­iar can, at times, pro­duce doubts and fears as you seek to find your way. But today you are at ease and com­fort­ed by Jupiter and Nep­tune in their har­mo­nious align­ment. Today you have proof that you are becom­ing more aware.

Today cel­e­brate your life which is this jour­ney; this delight­ful, nev­er-end­ing dance of Truth and Faith. 

Clear think­ing ahead! If you want to under­stand (and be under­stood), well today is your day! Mer­cury in Gem­i­ni has been dash­ing and dart­ing around and you can use a lit­tle focus and grav­i­tas, which is Sat­urn’s gift to you now.

If you have been strug­gling for an answer because you just could­n’t bring the issue into clear focus, or you seemed to be at a loss for the right words to con­vey your point of view, take this won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty to think nim­bly and deeply.

With Sat­urn shap­ing Mer­cury from the sign of Libra, you will be able to make sig­nif­i­cant progress in a rela­tion­ship issue. That is because the adapt­abil­i­ty of Mer­cury, which in Gem­i­ni encour­ages you to see all sides of any issue, is now stead­ied by Sat­urn­ian com­mit­ment expressed through Libra and so focused upon endur­ing social values.

Right think­ing leads to Right Action. Right Action leads to Right Results. What­so­ev­er you think, you will make it manifest.

Think Well… Act Rightly!