Epiphany… Elec­tric­i­ty is the air… and in your mind. It is as if some­thing has turned up the “juice” in your ner­vous sys­tem; flash­es of insight, break­throughs and those “ah hah!” moments come upon you so you bet­ter have your notepad (or Ipad) ready to record your brilliance.

The con­junc­tion of Mer­cury and Uranus cre­ates an oppor­tu­ni­ty to think “out­side the box”. Intel­li­gence is typ­i­cal­ly defined as a mea­sure of how much you have mas­tered the accept­ed solu­tion to what­ev­er chal­lenge you face. But that is what I would call “encod­ed intel­li­gence”, also known as “knowl­edge”.

Liv­ing, breath­ing Intel­li­gence involves the capac­i­ty to devel­op under­stand­ings and solu­tions to prob­lems that no longer seem to be resolved by the old way of doing things. Sure, try to apply the old solu­tion, but it does not work. Okay, try again, (maybe you for­got some­thing), but it still does not work.

Now your true Intel­li­gence should kick in, either the world has changed, or you have changed, (or both), and you need to look at the chal­lenge from anoth­er per­spec­tive. You need to go from being on “auto­mat­ic” to being engaged with the world around you; you need to look at the world from the per­spec­tive of “won­der”, “imag­i­na­tion” and “free­dom” again… you need Uranus.

Nor­mal vision, and the per­spec­tive of “encod­ed intel­li­gence”, is like shin­ing a focused beam of light upon an object (prob­lem); you see it bright­ly illu­mi­nat­ed, but you also cre­ate and cast a very deep shad­ow. You don’t know what you do not know (or see). You need to elim­i­nate the shad­ow; you need to see what is hid­den, but how?

By engag­ing Uranus you shift your per­spec­tive. You shine “mind-light” from anoth­er per­spec­tive and begin to reduce the shad­ow; you gain insight that cre­ates the pos­si­bil­i­ty of find­ing a bet­ter solu­tion to your prob­lem that was not even con­ceiv­able from the for­mer point of view. You break out of the accept­ed, nor­mal and knowl­edge-based worldview…you begin to devel­op Wisdom.

Enjoy the won­der… Let the Light of Uranus Shine through your Mind…

Cel­e­brate your Epiphany!

Mer­cury moves into Aries till May 15; that’s a long time to be in a “fast” sign. The rea­son for such a long sojourn is that Mer­cury will turn ret­ro­grade at the end of March and so loop back and forth in Aries.

But what does Mer­cury in Aries mean? Fast thoughts, quick speech.…and as a result mis­takes will mount up unless you main­tain an aware­ness of what is happening. 

Aries brings an ener­gy of enthu­si­asm, dar­ing and Ide­al­ism to your mind now. You are per­sua­sive; you daz­zle your oppo­nents and you are “right” too.

What’s the prob­lem? Well, maybe all of it if you are not care­ful. Don’t let your enthu­si­asm lead you to impa­tience; don’t let your dar­ing lead you to reck­less­ness; and, don’t let your ide­al­ism lead you into egotism.

Let the spir­i­tu­al fire of Aries remind you that the true source of greater aware­ness comes through more mean­ing­ful con­nec­tions, with­in and with­out. Be quick, yet poised. Be dar­ing, and grace­ful. Be ide­al­is­tic, and reasonable. 

As it was in the begin­ning, so it is at the end…You began your jour­ney as a spark of the divine mov­ing out into uncon­scious yet inde­pen­dent exis­tence; you com­plete this cir­cuit of life, end­ing now as a ful­ly con­scious being seek­ing to tran­scend your inde­pen­dent state and so become one with the One. And, in the next turn­ing of the wheel, you will go forth again to seek, learn and under­stand your­self and your world once more, but at a new, high­er lev­el of participation.

Your jour­ney is not a line, nor is it a circle…it is a spi­ral of life-con­scious­ness-spir­it, and you have many turns around the wheel to mas­ter your human form. Each time you begin in Aries you draw from the well of your past (kar­ma) of already devel­oped fac­ul­ties as a base to sup­port you. You then devel­op and add to these gifts dur­ing your jour­ney around the wheel of life till you reach the final moment of Pisces.…before you begin again.

Just as in life after life, we also grow from year to year. Now at the last New Moon of the year you must reap what you have sowed. You must col­lect and har­vest the trea­sure of your expe­ri­ences and dis­till them into the essence that is your spir­i­tu­al under­stand­ing. This is the har­vest of your soul’s jour­ney; it is the gift you pass onto to your­self as you pre­pare to begin the jour­ney again.

So, at this New Moon remem­ber where you have come from, hon­or what you have learned, and now face your future with imag­i­na­tion, faith and joy that is your birthright as one of sparks of the Divine. Shine on!

Your aims and actions are focused, deep and pur­pose­ful. With Mars rul­ing the ener­gies of self-real­iza­tion and Plu­to rul­ing willpow­er, you are firm­ly apply­ing your­self to the task at hand.

You will suc­ceed now because the imag­i­na­tive actions of Mars in Pisces are stead­ied by the struc­tur­al knowl­edge of how to get things done by Plu­to in Capricorn.

Mars in Pisces can some­times take self-sac­ri­fice to an unhealthy place. Plu­to’s influ­ence reminds you that you are respon­si­ble for what you cre­ate; and, that your first respon­si­bil­i­ty as a dream­ing/cre­ative/­self-made spir­it is to be respon­si­ble with and to your “self”.

You appre­ci­ate what is dif­fer­ent or new, yet clas­sic, in some­thing (or some­one). With Venus rul­ing val­ue (and about to leave Capri­corn, see below) and Uranus rul­ing orig­i­nal­i­ty, you want to smell, taste, touch, hear or see some­thing that is out­side of your “nor­mal”. Enjoy a new aspect of an old clas­sic, or appre­ci­ate some­thing new for the clas­sic qual­i­ties it express­es in a new way.

In rela­tion­ships, respect those shared val­ues that have bound you one to anoth­er, and then find and share with each oth­er some new found way of express­ing them. What keeps us togeth­er is what we share; what keeps us inter­est­ed is dis­cov­er­ing some­thing new about one another.

Venus moves into Aquar­ius till March 26. The true basis of love shines through friend­ship now. You are with your beloved because at the end of the day you are also the best of friends.

The free­dom to live out your true self is met in the space of rela­tion­ships that are built on accep­tance, tol­er­ance and the cel­e­bra­tion of indi­vid­ual dif­fer­ences. Be your­self with those who appre­ci­ate you for you. Friend­ship is forever. 

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”!