Anoth­er tran­si­tion I spoke of in my Overview for 2011. Here is what I said then and some addi­tion­al thoughts:

Jupiter moves into Tau­rus for a year on June 4. With sol­id foun­da­tions and patience there is tan­gi­ble progress now. There is steady growth and phys­i­cal secu­ri­ty will increase for many. With the end of the Jupiter/Saturn oppo­si­tion, com­bined with the trine of Jupiter and Plu­to lat­er, Jupiter in Tau­rus should cre­ate a much more pos­i­tive result for those economies posi­tioned to ben­e­fit. The gen­er­al US eco­nom­ic fore­cast will be revised upward.

Jove moves into the sec­ond sign of the Zodi­ac. Jupiter, the plan­et of prin­ci­ples, is mov­ing from Ide­al­is­tic Aries to Prac­ti­cal Tau­rus until June 2012. It is not enough to declare “this is what I believe, that this is what I will live by”. Now you must make it real, you must bring prin­ci­ples into prax­is; your truth must take form.

Your beliefs and plans must be ground­ed in phys­i­cal real­i­ty now. A beau­ti­ful the­o­ry is fine, but does it WORK? The dri­ving moti­va­tor now is mate­r­i­al well-being. After the rush of new ideas and projects while in Aries, Jupiter’s sojourn in Tau­rus instills a more grad­ual yet steady approach to cre­at­ing your future. Secu­ri­ty trumps excite­ment; you favor sol­id val­ues over bril­liant promis­es. Con­ser­v­a­tive, prac­ti­cal meth­ods will be in favor now.

The ques­tion hov­er­ing over many is will the mate­r­i­al well-being of the world improve now? But the real ques­tion that Jupiter asks of you is what are you doing to pro­mote, pre­serve and pro­tect the beau­ti­ful world you live upon?

Are you feel­ing con­fused?… Well, yes, of course you are! That’s exact­ly what is called for today: Uncer­tain­ty, Doubt, Mys­tery… It is a time to Won­der. Pick­ing up from yes­ter­day’s shifts for Mer­cury and Nep­tune, the theme of “what’s real­i­ty any­way?” con­tin­ues today with the align­ment of Her­mes with Posei­don; of Mind with Intu­ition, of Air with Water.

Her­mes is danc­ing spright­ly through his own sign of Gem­i­ni. The Mind is Supreme! Log­ic Rules, Assign cat­e­gories, Name things. Mer­cury is all about “know­ing things”…that is Her­mes in his shad­ow dance of Air… that’s Mind Pow­er. Her­mes says the Uni­verse can (and should) be viewed as just thought, pure and simple.

Along comes Nep­tune to remind you that “the Mind is the Slay­er of the Real”. The “Lord of Chaos” says you must chal­lenge your mind; you must “slay the slay­er” if you real­ly want to under­stand Reality.

But what does that mean, real­ly? How do you “slay” your mind; and how does the mind slay itself? Well, obvi­ous­ly you are going to need some help…Neptune, what do you offer?

Nep­tune chal­lenges (the square aspect) Mer­cury by “sub­tiliz­ing” the mind with an Intu­itive Infu­sion of light; Nep­tune helps to dis­solve the dual­is­tic mind, of know­er and known, and re-affirm the essen­tial one­ness that is the under­ly­ing, fun­da­men­tal real­i­ty known as Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it. You expe­ri­ence con­fu­sion as an old cer­tain­ty is revealed as not being what it seemed…but that is exact­ly the point. Your cer­tain­ty blind­ed you to a greater real­i­ty, a real­i­ty that you now glimpse through the light of Nep­tune, the ruler of your high­er Intu­itive Mind.

Dual­is­tic thought is not “bad”; it is a nec­es­sary part of the unfold­ment of Spir­it in the jour­ney from non-being to being­ness (and back again). The prob­lem comes from the Dual­is­tic or “Low­er Mind” claim­ing absolute truth or valid­i­ty for its point of view. But the uni­verse has a rem­e­dy, your true nature, which is Spir­it, is to con­tin­u­ous­ly become more than what you have so far imagined.

Today’s Nep­tun­ian chal­lenge should be a wel­come reminder that one of the fun­da­men­tal Truths of the Ancient Teach­ings is that you always grow­ing, always becom­ing. And as you unfold your pow­ers, your con­scious­ness unfolds too, aid­ed by Nep­tune, by dis­solv­ing old bound­aries, old lim­i­ta­tions till you reach…well that is for anoth­er day.

So turn to the mys­tery; do not be afraid. If you are con­fused, know that this is good because you are becom­ing more; you are mov­ing beyond cer­tain­ty into the greater life. You must grow beyond the bounds you placed upon your­self. You are Spir­it and your des­tiny is writ­ten in the Stars.

Now, look up…and Wonder!

Her­mes skips into his own sign of Gem­i­ni. For the next two weeks you will be think­ing and com­mu­ni­cat­ing with greater élan, eager­ness and excitabil­i­ty. Those neu­rons are fir­ing at a fever­ish pace and there is no telling what you might think (or say!). This is the time to cel­e­brate your intel­li­gence; enjoy men­tal chal­lenges, express your curios­i­ty and stretch your awareness.

Of course, every­one else is also men­tal­ly fired up so there is bound to be lots of infor­ma­tion fly­ing around. The Ques­tion is: how do you fil­ter out all the noise? Per­haps Nep­tune can lend a hand by remind­ing you that the high­er, intu­itive mind pro­vides the means to dis­cern the wheat from the chaff.

Nep­tune turns ret­ro­grade today until Novem­ber 9th. Plan­ets chang­ing direc­tion bring their ener­gies into sharp focus. Nep­tune rules your dreams, imag­i­na­tion and faith. Nep­tune is said to rule the pow­er that is called clair­voy­ance or “clear-see­ing”. That is because Nep­tune rules your abil­i­ty to expe­ri­ence the spir­i­tu­al truth that the cos­mos is com­posed of innu­mer­able mul­ti-dimen­sion­al real­i­ties; you real­ly exist in a mul­ti-verse more than a uni­verse. The ret­ro­grade motion directs Nep­tune’s ener­gies more inward; you have the lucid­i­ty to tran­scend your own per­cep­tu­al bias­es and reach deep­er lev­els of awareness.

The insight that Nep­tune pro­vides enables you to pierce through the illu­sion­ary, sur­face appear­ances and dis­cov­er under­ly­ing truths about your­self and your world. By using your imag­i­na­tion you can rise above the “dilem­ma of dichoto­my”, of see­ing things as either one way or anoth­er. Instead, you can begin to devel­op the wis­dom that leads to heal­ing the divi­sions between oppos­ing points of view.

Make today a day for renew­ing your pur­suit of your dreams, for draw­ing upon your cre­ative gift of imag­i­na­tion, and for con­nect­ing with your faith in your abil­i­ty to be the cre­ator of your life. What­ev­er you can imagine.…will even­tu­al­ly become manifest.

Time to dream Imag­i­neers… Cre­ate well!

This is the sec­ond Solar Eclipse of the year. Here is what I wrote about this in my Overview for 2011:

The Solar Eclipse of June 1 her­alds a new series of lessons for us since it occurs in Gem­i­ni. The Lunar nodes are mov­ing from Cancer/Capricorn to Gemini/Sagittarius. Yes, that’s right, these points in space move “back­wards” through the Zodi­ac. They are estab­lished by two inter­sect­ing “spheres” formed from the orbital paths of the Earth around the Sun, and the Moon around the Earth. Where those two orbits inter­sect is the time, every 6 months, where the Sun, Moon and Earth line up with one anoth­er. This is what allows for there to be the phe­nom­e­non of the Moon’s shad­ow pass­ing across the Earth (Solar Eclipse), or the shad­ow of the Earth pass­ing across the Moon (Lunar Eclipse).

The June 1 Gem­i­ni Solar Eclipse is say­ing that in order to use this new release of ener­gy that comes at a New Moon, you will first have to go back and repair, cor­rect or fin­ish some aspect of your think­ing. Gem­i­ni rules intel­li­gence, but true intel­li­gence is found­ed upon crit­i­cal self-aware­ness. Just hav­ing the “right” answer does not make you spir­i­tu­al­ly intel­li­gent; the real issue is are you ask­ing the right question?

At a “nor­mal” New Moon you get a release of new mean­ing, a new dis­pen­sa­tion of ener­gy, to inspire and inform the next step in your con­tin­u­ing unfold­ment of spir­i­tu­al poten­tial. But dur­ing the Eclipse New Moon a shad­ow (the past) falls upon you. There is a need to work out some old karmic les­son before you can move for­ward. The shad­ow rep­re­sents some­thing hid­den; or a blind spot in your aware­ness that obscures the mes­sage of the New Moon.

One of the prin­ci­ple gifts of Gem­i­ni is in the adapt­abil­i­ty of your mind; you pos­sess a unique fac­ul­ty that allows, even encour­ages you to con­sid­er alter­nate points of view or per­spec­tives. But even so you devel­op pat­terns or habits of obser­va­tion, assess­ment and deter­mi­na­tion. You encounter an event, phe­nom­e­na or indi­vid­ual and “clas­si­fy and type” it or them. If this is done too often with­out being sub­ject to self-reex­am­i­na­tion, blind spots will devel­op. You will fail to see what is real­ly before you. You get stuck in your more lim­it­ed or biased point of view and errors will be made…You need a re-boot!

Think of the Eclipse as an oppor­tu­ni­ty to do just that. It is a very visu­al reminder that although you believe that you have per­ceived some­thing “tru­ly”, you have also, inevitably, fall­en into error because your per­cep­tions are limited…you have a “blind spot”.

You need to shift your per­spec­tive, chal­lenge your assump­tions and shine the light of your mind from anoth­er angle. Remem­ber, your point of view is like a very bright light illu­mi­nat­ing the mat­ter before you while also cre­at­ing a very strong shad­ow, (what you do not per­ceive). You need to move your mind/light to anoth­er angle so as to reduce the shadow.

Think of this New Moon as a new begin­ning in your way of observ­ing the world around you. Chal­lenge your­self to look at your life from a dif­fer­ent or alter­nate set of assump­tions. See what you might have been miss­ing; cel­e­brate some new dis­cov­ery or point of aware­ness. Ask a ques­tion; ask again, but from anoth­er point of view. And repeat.

Remem­ber, always approach your world with wonder…question every­thing! You will be amazed; you will be amazing.

Anoth­er of my com­ments for 2011 regard­ing Oba­ma’s Plu­to transit:

Plu­to was a great chal­lenge to Oba­ma in 2010, but what a dif­fer­ence a year makes. For 2011 and much of 2012 he will be under a most favor­able trine of his Plu­to by Plu­to. And this at a time when the USA is under­go­ing the Plu­to oppo­si­tion to Jupiter could pro­vide one of the means by which the US is able to make the most of that opposition.

Plu­to rules the willpow­er, which is the true source of our abil­i­ty to bring about self-change inter­nal­ly, and which also cre­ates our abil­i­ty to help bring about changes exter­nal­ly. While the US grap­ples with Plu­to oppos­ing its Jupiter, Oba­ma will be able to har­ness his own will pow­er, and by exten­sion, the will pow­er of the posi­tion his wields, the Pres­i­den­cy, to help bring about, what could be sig­nif­i­cant trans­for­ma­tions in the socio-eco­nom­ic-polit­i­cal order with­in our nation, and exter­nal­ly with oth­er nations. This is espe­cial­ly indi­cat­ed by the fact that Oba­ma’s Plu­to is in his 7th House of rela­tion­ships, and the tran­sit­ing Plu­to is mov­ing through his 11th House of social ideals.

What this might indi­cate is that Oba­ma’s abil­i­ty to be a re-builder, re-new­er, re-gen­er­a­tor of our forms of rela­tion­ship (Plu­to in the 7th house), will play out and be seen in 11th house mat­ters, which in a mun­dane analy­sis would be the nation’s ideals and dreams about the future as well as the Leg­isla­tive branch of government.

With a “divid­ed” gov­ern­ment, Oba­ma as chief exec­u­tive should be able to help bring about some con­crete actions to address some of the prob­lems the US is faced with now. With his Plu­to in Vir­go, and the tran­sit­ing Plu­to in Capri­corn, we are talk­ing about real, prac­ti­cal work­able solu­tions. Each side will have to sac­ri­fice part of its “agen­da” and dog­ma to get things done. Our con­sti­tu­tion, after all, is so arranged that coop­er­a­tion and mutu­al agree­ment are inte­gral to the polit­i­cal process, per­haps this year we will see it at work.

Pluto/Jupiter for the USA — Pluto/Pluto for Oba­ma
With the USA at the same time expe­ri­enc­ing the Plu­to oppo­si­tion Jupiter, Oba­ma’s tran­sit of Plu­to to Plu­to takes on much greater sig­nif­i­cance. The USA is prob­a­bly fac­ing a great strug­gle over prin­ci­ples this year; the strug­gle is over our prin­ci­ples of rela­tion­ship to one anoth­er inter­nal­ly and to oth­er nations exter­nal­ly; it is those prin­ci­ples that end up being enshrined in our laws and our treaties. Oba­ma’s tran­sit can pro­vide a coun­ter­point to the dichoto­my and strug­gle in the USA chart by the prac­ti­cal and respon­si­ble exer­cise of his lead­er­ship role. He can be a bridge between oppos­ing fac­tions and steer them toward some com­pro­mise over our rules of con­duct with one anoth­er, as he also helps to bring about new poli­cies in our inter­na­tion­al relationships.

Will he be able to keep the oppos­ing sides work­ing towards con­sen­sus and con­crete action? Plu­to would say yes. But to know that ful­ly we must look to the oth­er influ­ences mov­ing through his chart this year to see what else is in play on our stage of history.

Oba­ma’s Transits