The Cosmic Story: Gemini’s
Mission & the Great American Eclipse
The Sun
blew into
Gemini on May 20th,
dancing with the waning Moon in Pisces. Gemini’s
mission statement is all about dancing with life, going with the
flow, peering under every stone that catches your fancy. Gemini
loves to talk, to
learn, to express its’
ideas and to
sample whatever experiences
come its way. The
Gemini twins are also
into mobility – they like to travel, so make sure you know how to
maneuver through tight spots and dangerous places.
Gemini’s ruling planet is
Mercury, the guide of souls, the con man and thief, the messenger of
the gods. Mercury is the planet of the mind: how we use our brains,
both our
right-brain
imagination and left-brain
rationality. (The
sign and element of your natal Mercury tells you a lot about how you
interpret the world.)
Like
the sign of the mortal
and immortal Gemini
Twins, Mercury
likes to travel back and forth between different states of
awareness—the big immortal spiritual understanding of life and the
more limited, focused, rational
view of life. Don’t
keep Mercury stuck in one realm—he’ll
turn into the con artist on you. Stay flexible in your thinking and
keep learning.
Mercury was retrograde from
April 10-May 3 in Taurus and Aries. A
few days before Mercury turned direct, it aligned with Uranus, the
planet of awakening, freedom and originality. Once
Mercury turned direct, he again caught up with Uranus at the Scorpio
Full Moon, making sure he got the message. Awakened Mind!
Both planets were in Aries, the sign of the Original Mind.
Hopefully, your mind
broke out of its
old boxes; to
think ‘outside-the-box’ and
open up to new ideas, perspectives and insights. If you want a
fresh start, go out
before dawn and look to the East. Mercury,
now a Morning
Star, will
rise very close to the
horizon, just before
the Sun, aiding us to
open our minds to envision
the big Aries dreams that will create our new story.
Mercury
is now back in Taurus, grounding
in the values of his new insights, distinguishing between what is
true and what is irrelevant, planning
on what he wants to build.
He’s finally
moved
past the degree where
he stopped to backtrack, so
perhaps you’ve
noticed that suddenly the pace of
life has
quickened. You’ll
find that your projects will move ahead now.
Even
though Mercury in Taurus is practical and grounded, he is light on
his feet
(Taurus has rhythm and knows how to dance). Find your rhythm and go
with it.
Mercury will enter Gemini on
June 6th,
zipping through his own sign in 2 weeks, bringing a new lightness to
your thoughts and energy – anything is possible. And keeping in
line with his speedy pace, Mercury enters Cancer just after the Sun
on Summer Solstice. Take a breath, you’ll need it! He’s
traveling through Earth,
Air and Water – all in one month. Mercury is taking up
his role as psychopomp, the Guide of Souls, this
June. What do your
body/Earth, mind/Air and feelings/Water
want? Let
Mercury guide
you to your soul’s desire. Write that new story.
Venus is also a Morning Star
(look higher in the sky at dawn) and is approaching her maximum
elevation in the morning sky, and in early June will begin her 5 ½
month journey to meet up with Sun in mid-November. Venus is also
finally past the point of her retrograde station on March 4th
at 14* Aries. She
met up with the Sun to begin a new Venus cycle on March 25th
at 5* Aries
(especially
important for anyone with planets at 5* of Aries, Cancer, Libra and
Capricorn).
Venus is now a Morning Star,
her Aries fire making
her feisty yet
compassionate, remembering
what she learned as she retrograded back into Pisces. This Venus
cycle asks us to be brave and stand up for those spiritual values
that shape
the best of our humanity. Venus
enters her own sign of Taurus on June 6, giving her fire shape,
materializing her vision. Use your senses this month and find your
beauty.
Neptune
Both Jupiter and Neptune
change directions this month. Jupiter, the ruler
of the Sagittarius Full Moon, is a channel for
curiosity, spiritual law, expansion and luck, and
turns direct at 13*13’ Libra, shortly after the Sagittarius/Gemini
Full Moon on June 9th.
This strong Jupiter in
the sign of partnership, justice and aesthetics will help us shed old
limiting beliefs. Neptune,
the planet of spirituality, imagination, delusions and glamour, turns
retrograde on June 16th
at 14*16’ Pisces. (If
you have planets at these signs or in the other cardinal (Jupiter)
and mutable (Neptune) signs at these degrees, watch your dreams
around these dates—they can tell you what you need to see about how
these energies are affecting you.)
Go in and refine your
vision!
Very much like both Gemini and
Mercury, the energies this month are shifting and changing rapidly.
So stay
open to your inner life as you play in the outer world and you’ll
do fine. Remember to
play with
the spiritual imagination (Pisces) to communicate (Gemini) your
values, needs and concerns (Mercury
in Taurus). And
expect something new to
show up in your life this month, something or someone who can help
you on your way.
Gemini New
Moon/ Sagittarius Full Moon:
Telling
Your Story to Change Your Life
Scheherazade and the Sultan
Stories are the way we
communicate with ourselves and with others. They teach us about life
and guide us to new perspectives. My favorite childhood heroine is
Scheherazade, the crafty, beautiful and brave woman who saved her
country and her tormentor by telling stories. Caroline Casey calls
her a ‘trickster-redeemer’; I call her a Bard, a Wisdom
Keeper. You can find her story in the book, 1001
Arabian Nights.
Scheherazade changes her world
through her stories, and like her, we can change our lives when we
really look at the stories we tell ourselves. Are these
stories helpful? Do
they still ring true or do we just get lulled into listening to them
because of habit? If we’re really ready for a new story about our
purpose here on Mother Earth, than we have to look at the old
stories that have
shaped us, take their wisdom to heart, and leave them behind so we
can co-create a new
life for ourselves and for our world. Your
inner Scheherazade is already telling you stories through your dreams
– are any of you listening? If so, you will learn and change.
The Gemini New Moon occurs on
May 25, 2017 at 12:44pm PDT/ 3:44pm EDT/ 7:44pm GMT. The Sabian
symbol for the Sun and Moon at 04*46’ Gemini is: A
revolutionary magazine asking for action.
This is a revolution of the collective mind – shared ideas that
want to take action. We share an emotional connection to each other
and the world, and that connection (knowing we’re all in this
together) will sustain us as we contribute our talents and our energy
to this Revolution.
This New
Moon acts alone – no other planets make aspects to it, so basically
we can do anything we choose with it, as long as it aligns with our
Truth. Mars, the action planet is also in Gemini opposite Saturn
retrograde in Sagittarius – we can either feel stuck or let our
Truth guide our actions. Saturn isn’t such a rigid taskmaster
lately because of his easy connection with Uranus, so
become a disciplined
wildperson
and get your new act together! Also in the background is a spiritual
sword we must retrieve to cut away deception and illusion to see the
truth of our souls, as
well as
the ever continuing T-Square that is rocking our world between Uranus
in Aries opposite Jupiter in Libra, both squaring Pluto in Capricorn.
To
misquote Sting, ‘when the world is spinning down, we’d
best
let our soul be unbound’.
The
Sagittarius/Gemini Full Moon occurs on June 9th
at 6:10am PDT/ 9:10am EDT/ 1:10pm GMT. The Sabian symbol for the
Moon at 18*53’ Sagittarius is: Pelicans
menaced by the behavior and refuse of men seek safer areas for
bringing up their young.
All
birds symbolize spiritual messenger's, and the pelican is the
archetypal Mother, who will pierce her breast to feed her young with
her own blood if necessary. She symbolizes survival and sacrifice.
What do we need to sacrifice to survive the menace of our patriarchal
society of destruction
in the name of consumerism
and greed?
The
Sabian symbol for the Sun at 18*53’ Gemini is: A
large archaic volume reveals a traditional wisdom.
This is the Book of Life, the important knowledge we need to
survive. It’s time to stop spending our minds on trivial
information as we skim the Internet
(the Internet and Twitter are definitely Gemini tools – look at how
our Gemini president uses the quick and surfacey technology). This
Full Moon is about Wisdom, not information.
Sagittarius
wants us to face the truth about ourselves and the world. Aligned
with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, this Full Moon can force us in face
those truths and wake up to our responsibility and destiny. So
once again, keep releasing the old stories of victimization,
self-doubt and stuckness. We’re all coming unstuck! Where do you
want to go? With
Jupiter turning direct an hour after the Full Moon, just tune in to
what your inner guidence is telling you.
August
21st:
The Great American Eclipses
Did you know that America is
hosting a total Solar Eclipse, country-wide, on August 21st,
2017?
The eclipse crosses the Continental US on a diagonal from the Oregon
in the Northwest to
South Carolina in
the Southeast. (See Map below.) Because it crosses the country,
millions people will experience full totality and the rest of the
country will experience it as a partial eclipse.
The 70
mile corridor of totally will offer up a spectacular show – the
day will turn to night, and the stars and planets will shine out for
about 2 ½ minutes. Check
out the map below and if you live within driving distance of
totality, I suggest you go and experience the mystery and magic of a
day turning into night.
The whole Earth gets quiet.
This
Solar Eclipse occurs at 28*53’ Leo and it conjunctions the Royal
Star Regulus,
the Heart of the Lion. So
the first thing we know is that we have to be ‘lion-hearted’.
Then the Sabian symbol for this 29th
degree of Leo is: A
mermaid emerges from the ocean waves ready for rebirth in human form.
While mermaids have a vast mythology, their psychological meaning is
a ‘personification of a stage of awareness still partially
enveloped by the ever-moving and ever-elusive ocean of the collective
Unconscious.’ (Dane Rudhyar: Astrological
Mandala)
Mermaids sing a siren song – they beckon us on with an intuition
of something spectacular, that’s just beyond our reach. Will the
intuition be reabsorbed back into the unconscious or will it emerge
into a concrete form? This
symbol expresses our deepest desire to live spiritually,
consciously
and creatively.
Can
we grow legs?
Constellation of Leo
Regulus 'Heart of the Lion'
What
an invitation to awaken to our creative essence! What a gift from
the cosmos at this most chaotic time.
If
you have any planets at 26*-30* of Leo and Aquarius as well as Taurus
and Scorpio, this eclipse is calling to you.
Eclipses
occur in series that last over 1300 years and that repeat every 18+
years, so we can study some of the results throughout history. Each
eclipse has a meaning we glean from the first eclipse in the series.
The
first eclipse occurred on January 4, 1639 with the Sun and Moon at
13*49’ Capricorn. The Sabian symbol for 14* Capricorn is: An
ancient bas-relief carved in granite remains a witness to a
long-forgotten culture.
It is an eclipse series that demands that we remember what values are
important and let go of the inconsequential things. At this moment
in history, we have to let go of our consumerism and neglect of our
Mother Earth. We have to rise up to defend life!
This
powerful eclipse can bring us
a
new reality
based on the spiritual laws of life.
Bernadette
Brady rocks the astrological eclipse world and she says this is the
meaning of the August 21st
total solar eclipse: the
unexpected fortunate turn of events. Expectations that are
unrealistic but success comes through an older person or those where
you least expect it.
I’ll
have more on this eclipse in my next newsletter. Just so you know,
it is impacting Donald Trump’s chart in a big way. And it probably
is related to what happened with him on May 15 – around the time he
fired Comey and talked with the Russians. We’ll wait and see.
Walk
in beauty,
Cathy
Not
dawdling -- James Broughton
Not dawdling
not doubting
intrepid all the way
walk toward clarity
with sharp eye
With sharpened sword
clearcut the path
to the lucent surprise
of enlightenment
At every crossroad
be prepared to bump into wonder
~ James Broughton ~
(Little Sermons of the Big Joy)
Not dawdling
not doubting
intrepid all the way
walk toward clarity
with sharp eye
With sharpened sword
clearcut the path
to the lucent surprise
of enlightenment
At every crossroad
be prepared to bump into wonder
~ James Broughton ~
(Little Sermons of the Big Joy)
