Here we go again… a triple play of Sun, Mer­cury and Plu­to stirs the depths of our imag­i­na­tion while it reminds us that we must be doers as well as dream­ers. And, most impor­tant­ly, we must con­tin­ue to learn how to exer­cise our free will while respect­ing the bound­aries between one another.

Sun Con­junct Mer­cury. The Solar Wind meets Her­mes fleet feet and boy are we think­ing! This is the “supe­ri­or” con­junc­tion of Mer­cury with the Sun. This is real­ly like a “full moon” because Mer­cury is on the far side of the Sun from our per­spec­tive. So, rather than a new begin­ning this align­ment is actu­al­ly a rev­e­la­tion, the cul­mi­na­tion of what was released back on Decem­ber 19th at the infe­ri­or conjunction.

You began with some hint, or idea or inspi­ra­tion back then; now is the time to see what you have brought forth in all its majesty. With the Sun and Mer­cury in Pisces, that puts the Earth (and you) in Vir­go. The rev­e­la­tion is about under­stand­ing how to bal­ance and inte­grate the pow­er of your dreams and imag­i­na­tion (Pisces) with your prac­ti­cal knowl­edge and skills (Vir­go). The mes­sage is that you must always keep togeth­er and bal­ance your pow­er to dream with your pow­er to do. Expect some strong con­ver­sa­tions today between you and anoth­er over an impor­tant dream or vision (Pisces) ver­sus some plan or pro­ce­dure (Vir­go).

Mer­cury in Sex­tile to Plu­to brings a depth to the mind in this triple play. Plu­to pro­vides the pow­er to pierce beyond the usu­al lev­els so as to allow you to per­ceive the under­ly­ing assump­tions of the sit­u­a­tion at hand; you go beyond appar­ent thought forms, peel­ing back the lay­ers of under­ly­ing assump­tions, and so see the issue with greater clar­i­ty. Do not let Plu­to’s “con­trol issues” get in the way. Remem­ber, real com­mu­ni­ca­tion is not a zero-sum game with win­ners and losers; coop­er­a­tion cre­ates insights as we help one anoth­er to remove our “blind spots”.

Sun in Sex­tile to Plu­to com­pletes our triple play. With the self (Sun) guid­ed by Divine Will (Plu­to), you are able to make deep impres­sions on the world and those around you.

At the end of Decem­ber, the Sun/Pluto con­junc­tion brought about an align­ment of the self with the Self. You came to a deep­er under­stand­ing of the nature of your free will. Now you have a con­struc­tive oppor­tu­ni­ty to exer­cise that free will. You can improve your­self and the lives of those around you by main­tain­ing a bal­ance of will between one another.

The les­son, as you express your will, is to main­tain self con­trol and so respect the sacred space that each life exists in. Some­times we give way too eas­i­ly and oth­ers tres­pass upon us; and some­times we for­get to respect the space of oth­ers and so tres­pass on them. Now move into the space of bal­ance between self-asser­tion and selflessness.

 Always remem­ber, the spir­i­tu­al law of your will is: “Let Thy Will Be Done”!

Joy in “self less” self-asser­tion is what will move you for­ward now. When Mars moves through Pisces till April 1, you will not win any points by act­ing in a nar­row or self­ish man­ner. Now is the time for inspired actions; it is the time for dream-action, vision-action, sacred-action.

You are moved to sac­ri­fice for anoth­er because you under­stand the truth that all are part of one great spir­i­tu­al life. The truth of “I am, that I am” is sec­ond­ed by the under­stand­ing that “I and thou are one”.

You began the jour­ney of Mars in the re-affir­ma­tion of your spe­cial place in the song of spir­it. Now, hav­ing come full cir­cle, it is time to reap the har­vest of your spir­i­tu­al jour­ney as you think, feel and act in the greater life of spirit.

The great illu­sion of this world is that every­thing exists in appar­ent sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er. The Great Truth is that all are one in the great life that is Spir­it. You can­not harm anoth­er with­out harm­ing your­self. You can­not lift up anoth­er with­out lift­ing your own spir­it too.

Give of your­self for some­thing greater. You have strug­gled and strived to build your­self up, for what? It was so that you would be strong enough, con­scious enough and car­ing enough so as to sur­ren­der your ego on the altar of service.

Now is the time.…Sacrifice and make your life sacred, and so secure your place among the stars. Shine on!

Her­mes dash­es through the mys­tic realms of Nep­tune’s deep for the next cou­ple of weeks. With Mer­cury mov­ing into Pisces till March 9, you will find that the sub­tle and sen­si­tive side of your mind is awakened.

Pay atten­tion to your intu­ition and remem­ber that spir­i­tu­al mes­sages often come in guis­es that are not at first what they seem, and may often arrive as a whis­per or feel like the touch of a feather.…so pay attention.

Com­pas­sion and sym­pa­thy, under­stand­ing and for­give­ness are the expres­sions that mat­ter now. Open your­self to the wider realms with­in and pay atten­tion to your dreams.

Triple Con­junc­tion of Mer­cury, Mars and Nep­tune!! Now we’re talk­ing… and think­ing… and act­ing on our dreams.

A con­junc­tion, like a New Moon, marks a time of begin­nings. It is a release of a seed of new inspi­ra­tion for the com­ing cycle of the plan­ets which are at the con­junc­tion. But here we have a spe­cial case, a triple play of ener­gies, mes­sages and inspi­ra­tion. So, what are to make of this triple alignment?

Mer­cury and Mars speeds up your mind and ner­vous sys­tem with an infu­sion of ener­gy. You can become so excit­ed that you def­i­nite­ly need to be remind­ed that the most impor­tant part of speak­ing is.… lis­ten­ing. Make sure that your eager­ness does not lead you into “foot in mouth” syn­drome. Be excit­ed, sure. But lose your impa­tience. You are sharp­er, faster and more assertive now. But let the mea­sure of your mes­sage be in its thought­ful­ness not volume.

Mer­cury and Nep­tune com­bine to infuse your mind with a greater lucid­i­ty. You can pierce beyond the here and now so as to see what might be or be pos­si­ble. Lis­ten care­ful­ly for the whis­per­ings of spir­it now. Find a qui­et place for med­i­ta­tion and con­tem­pla­tion. Enjoy the beau­ty around and with­in your­self. Tru­ly expe­ri­ence the one­ness of all life and be pre­pared for the third conjunction…

Mars and Nep­tune con­join to stim­u­late your imag­i­na­tion and capac­i­ty for self-less action. Usu­al­ly the ener­gies of Mars are devot­ed to self-asser­tion, but Nep­tune is about com­pas­sion, empa­thy and sac­ri­fice. So what are you to do? What you must real­ize is that a major rea­son for the devel­op­ment of a strong self is exact­ly in order to cre­ate the capac­i­ty to sac­ri­fice your “self” for some­thing greater than your­self. The align­ment of Mars and Nep­tune inspires you to seek to take strong, inspired and self-less actions. You must con­tin­ue to learn to be self-assertive in non self-cen­tered ways.

Sac­ri­fi­cial action is called for now. But remem­ber, the word sac­ri­fice means “to make sacred”; you give up the less­er in your life for that which is greater. Hon­or your core prin­ci­ples by act­ing in fel­low­ship with those who share them with you. The great­est good comes from the action that is tak­en with­out per­son­al attach­ment to the out­come for one­self. Join your com­pan­ions with whom you share this vision of a bet­ter world. Help one anoth­er to bring your dreams (Nep­tune) to life (Mars). Now is the time: “All for One, and One for All!”

The Sun enter­ing Pisces begins the month that ends the Astro­log­i­cal year. It is a time of sum­ming up, review and renew­al. The year ends as it began in the realm of the spir­it from which all gifts come. We have come full cir­cle and must pre­pare to begin again. We har­vest the mean­ings of our year just lived and plant them in the soil of the year that is to come. We turn with hope to the future and draw upon our great­est gift, the gift of Pisces, which is the supreme gift of what it means to be human… Imag­i­na­tion.

You meet the world every­day as it is; pre­sent­ed to you as “fact” that you seem­ing­ly must accept. Yet the world you meet every day is the prod­uct of what you and every­one else intu­it­ed, felt and act­ed upon yes­ter­day and a thou­sand yes­ter­days before. The great good news we can take from this is that it is we who made this world, so we can re-make it too.

The spir­i­tu­al source of that abil­i­ty is our supreme gift, the gift of the imag­i­na­tion. We encounter the world today as it is, we dream of a dif­fer­ent world; and by using our imag­i­na­tion, (com­bined with love and will), we bring into being a new world.

But of course, we do this rather imper­fect­ly because we are lim­it­ed. We are lim­it­ed by our lack of under­stand­ing which cre­ates the prin­ci­ple lim­it to our cre­ative pow­er, fear. This is the chal­lenge of Pisces: are you fear­ful or faith­ful? Do you believe that life is more fat­ed and that you just have to accept what comes your way? Or, are you more faith­ful and believe in your pow­er to make a difference?

We can over­come our past and cre­ate a bet­ter future when we con­front our fear by shin­ing the light of under­stand­ing to dis­pel the dark­ness that is fear. We know we can be bet­ter, we know we can grow because it is in our nature to believe. We have faith, imag­i­na­tion and the knowl­edge that it is we who make the world we live in.

We all find our­selves some­where on the con­tin­u­um of life between fatal­ism and free will. The prin­ci­ple deter­mi­na­tion of where you come down between fate and free will is your state of under­stand­ing. The less you know of your­self and the world around you, to that same extent will your life be “fat­ed”. And, the greater your knowl­edge of your­self and the world around you, the greater will be your free will or self-determination.

The entire jour­ney around the zodi­ac depicts (for us) the process of human unfold­ment. We begin at the Alpha moment of Aries, the spring­ing forth with the joy of new begin­nings. We come now to our Omega, the time of Pisces, in which we gath­er in, har­vest the mean­ings and dis­till the essence of our expe­ri­ences so as to cre­ate the seed of the new life we will plant again in Aries.… and so on.

We grow in under­stand­ing, day by day, year to year. But what sus­tains us on our jour­ney is the spir­i­tu­al gift of dream­ing and imag­in­ing a bet­ter world that we know is possible.…and so it is.