Astrologer Bill Attride

Mercury Turns Direct (July 1, 2014)

You have had your three weeks of wondering,

Of questioning, re-examining and self-reflecting.

It was your precious pause, a space-time for inward contemplation and meditation,

For making your way closer, towards Peace of Mind.

Now Mercury’s looping from Water to Air and back continues,

And it is time for you to move forward too,

Guided by your refreshed Thought-Forms, and

Inspired by your renewal of Feeling-Forms.

The Dance of Hermes shifts, and your Avatar of Mind moves forward once again. He calls to you, and you need to bend your attention outwards once again. Here is what I wrote about this shift in my General Forecast for 2014:

Mercury Direct (July 1 until October 4)

It is time to apply those lessons and discoveries about your Feelings/Thoughts that you have made over the past three weeks. Knowing better how they wonderfully influence one another, you can take with you that more nuanced blend of mind/feeling now as you move outwardly to bring this understanding into your conduct and communications.

Mercury’s weaving of your senses and sensibilities creates the thought-formed matrix that integrally links your outer and inner worlds, of what is “out there” with your reflecting mirror of that “in here”. This particular series of Mercury retrogrades, of Water to Air and back to Water, is helping you to better understand the true nature of you and your mind.

For though it is commonly accepted that there is some sort of divide between your “thinking” self and your “feeling” or emotional self, this is really not true in your real nature, in your life and the world around you, for really they and you are all together as one. The Truth is you are a whole, a constellation of Energy-Forms.

All of these so called “parts” of you cannot be separated from one another, nor can they function at all without each of them being as they are and will always be, as being whole and part of one another too. They are the many ones of you their greater One, and as such they are all held together and guided by your Higher Self. That Higher Self is your One, who gathers and holds all of these many parts of you, who lovingly forms your Presence of Oneness as your spark of the Divine.

You Think and you Feel, and much of how and what you know as your Knowledge or Knowing is because you have fused and melded your Rational-Objective Mind with your Intuitive-Feeling Mind. You can only perceive and understand so much with the present-day development of your senses and reasoning powers. But with your Intuitional nature, and guided by your Higher Self in the end, you are able to stretch beyond those limits and reach deeper and higher than reason alone can ever bring you.

Your Mind and your Feelings are not at odds with one another, they are companions in your journey, each necessary and supportive to one another and to you. They are constantly engaged in a beautiful Dance of Meaning whereby you "Reason-Intuit-Reason-Intuit..." in a virtual spiral of meaning, as you constantly expand into an ever more encompassing experience of yourself and your world.

Mercury moves forward…

And so shall you.

You have Clearer Thoughts, Finer Feelings,

The Integral Path your only Way,

To Live in Light and by Love,

To be One.

New Moon in Cancer (June 27, 2014)

Twelve Seeds of Soulfulness,

One sowed at each New Moon.

These are the “Gifts of the Spirit”,

Blessings from the One, to one and to all.

These Seeds become the Twelve Fruitions,

Each a Benefic Illumination,

Shining upon you at the next Full Moon.

Today, dear Luna, your Mediatrix of the awesome Spiritual Forces that emanate from the Sun, comes between you and your Star once again. Twelve times a year, when the Moon conjoins the Sun, a release of spiritual meaning emanates from your Sun who is the Avatar of Pure Spirit in this realm. It appears as if the Sun stands revealed so clearly to you, yet it is actually veiled, (there is much that is concealed behind that Solar Glory), and many mysteries will and must remain beyond you knowing as yet…for you have much to learn before you may see what abides behind and beyond these worlds of matter.

It is Luna’s role to take these Gifts of the Spirit, and to weave her way around you upon the Earth, and by so doing she imparts these Inspirational Intimations which elicit and stimulate your lives and your loves. Then two weeks later, at the Full Moon, the import and purpose of this seeding is made clearer to you. By and through this cyclic dance you understand a little more about your journey to Beauty and Truth, and you see a little more clearly what has been woven into the Warp and Woof of your Souls, which form your Living Robe of life experiences.

This Solar/Lunar dance, this seeding-harvest cycle is the most fundamental rhythm of Spirit. It is the Master Cycle of Spiritual Quickening for you here upon this Earth, and forms what is known by Mystics and Wise Ones as “The Pulse of Life”.

These Twelve Releases and Twelve Harvests mark your yearly journey. Each is important, each necessary and integral to one another for their fullness of meaning and realization. But there is something even more special about this time of year, something more precious to be found in each New Moon you experience in this the time of Cancer.

For Cancer is the Moon’s own sign, and this Seed that is offered here will always bring you back to your source, for it concerns and carries that most sacred kernel of Truth that will ever hold you in a Loving Embrace with your Origin and thereby equally point you towards your greater Destiny too.

For the New Moon of Cancer binds you back to your Fountain-Source of Spirit, back to your Self, which is in that Kernel of Life-Consciousness-Spirit also known as your Divine Spark. You are part of a great journey of life-forms, who all can trace their beginnings back to a “Singularity”. You are all embraced and ensouled by and within this Divine Presence, whose “Center is Everywhere and Circumference Nowhere”.

The Truth is, you are “one of the ones of the One”, and because this Divine Spark is your essence, you and all of this Creation are on a Journey of Becoming, that leads from a beginning as an unself-conscious spark of the Divine to becoming a fully Illumined Divinity. You are upon a journey of Awakening, to know who and what you really are, and the seed that lies within you is the very Force-Substance that propels all of Creation and also drives your self-unfolding, self-propelling journey to Wisdom, Love and eventual Re-Union with the One.

At this New Moon of Cancer, let yourself feel…You. Know that what you feel as the whole of you, which holds all of you as “one and complete as you are”, know that this same feeling is lovingly embracing whomever is before you too.

Every Thing and Every One, all of life and you, are part of a Great Family, and the most important illusion you will transcend is that false sense of being separate, apart and unrelated to one another. You are the Universe, and the Universe is in all of you…You came from a Star, you journey out among the Stars, and you are destined one day to become a star too…

But today, today you need to feel the Truth. 

I am one, we are one…

We are all related…

We are all ones of the One.

We are Family.

The Galactic Center – Looking Homeward (June 24-25, 2014)

HOME 

You cannot “see” this far, not yet…

You cannot truly comprehend what or who is there…

You cannot, but you will someday.

It is hidden, for this impenetrable Darkness occults the brightest of Lights and Splendor.

From this Centre of Spirit, from this Spinning Place of Wonder…

All went forth to become this Galaxy,

To partake in this wondrous spiraling dance of Light and Shadows.

For you and all of Creation are making your Way out and back again,

Your Pirouetting Progress through what you know as Time,

And through all these Sacred Spaces of Space you call Home.

Your Journey is the Story of Spirit Becoming,

Stretching back beyond all knowing,

And reaching forwards as you Return to the One.

But you can sense something, you feel there is more, and so you know in your heart and soul that there is more to you than “this” life on Earth. There is more than your waking and sleeping, more than your labors and your resting, and that there must be more than just being young and growing old too.

You have a feeling, and in those intimations and whispers you will find an assurance, that there is something far beyond this Earthly life. You may and should wonder what is it all for, why and how you and all of this came to be, and to where it is all going…

And as before so you will now “look up”…and you will behold the Glory that is around you, and you will humbly realize that you are part of this wonder too.

Like those who came before you, you will see an Order in these Starry Spaces. That above you is Beauty and Splendor wheeling all around, it is The Cosmos, it is your Universe…and you are part of this Beauty too.

All of this Creation wheel around the One, around this Center that is a Darkness that conceals the Brightest of Lights…And from this all have come and will return someday.

Yesterday, tonight and tomorrow and for the next several days, you should take a moment. Look to the south, around 11 pm or midnight or 1 am. Look up and let yourself be filled by the majesty and the wonder of it all. You will see a river of Light streaming across the Night Sky. Arching from the horizon and up to the left. What you are looking at is what is known as “The Milky Way”.

You are looking towards the center of your galaxy and that Milky Path is created by millions of stars who are there between you and the center of this Galaxy. Then, if you look up, to the right you will see a very bright and unblinking star, which is actually the planet Saturn. Then if you look further to your left you will see a bright reddish star, Antares who is about the 15^th brightest star for you. Then just to the left of Antares, about as far again as Saturn appears from Antares, and directly in front of you, there you will find yourself looking into “The Deep”, into the very heart of your Galaxy.

You are looking to that point in space around which we all revolve, from which we all came forth, and to which we shall all return…You are in the presence of the Mystery, and so you should bow, and hold yourself with reverence and feel the Love that is there for you. For you gaze upon,

The One.

You came from the One, you abide in the One, and to the One you will return.

There you see your Origin, there you see your Destiny,

There you see your Alpha and your Omega,

There it is,

Home.

Sun Enters Cancer – The Summer Solstice (June 21, 2014)

Four Realms to find your way…

There being Four Paths, Four Energies and Four Forms…

That Forge the One True Path.

You are here to live as you are, the One Life,

You are here to find and live all of these ways which form,

The Way.

So far in this Astrological Year, you have come through three of the Sacred Four: You have met your Purposeful Presence in Fire, found your Loving Substance in Earth and shown your Intelligent Adeptness in Air. And so there remains but one realm for you to square the circle and find your wholeness in this first Round of Four.

Now you enter into the first Realm of Feeling, where you are to be made whole within and without in this first of the Three Fours that make up your year of the Twelve Sacred Orders of the Living Ones. For it is these Principalities who form that Luminous Band of Spiritual Causality you know as the Zodiac. There is but One Energy, Spirit, which differentiates into these Four Elements and Three Modalities of Manifestation.

Today you mark the passage of you and your world into the realm known as Cancer, the first of the three Water Signs. Whereas Fire bestowed Inspiration and Vision, and by Earth you Explored Substantial Forms, and by Air you were led and lifted to your Greater Understanding, it is in this realm of Water that you reach the depths of Feeling that lovingly embraces and centers you upon your own true core.

Yet equally, it is this very Self-Centering upon and by the ever-renewing Waters of Life-Spirit that reminds you of and holds you to one another too. For in these feelings of Remembrance, Recollection and Memory, forged and formed by that luminous and long Silver Cord of your many Lives and Loves, of Family and Friends, by finding yourself by and in those roots of what makes you “you”, it is by this that you equally find that you share in this Common Core of Feeling-Truth with one another too.

It is here in Cancer that you rejoice and celebrate the Fountain-Source Truth that all in Creation come from One Root, and that this is the origin of and forms the luminous loving bonds that are your true and abiding connections with one another. In Truth, you in and through all of your many worlds and lives are made up by and through your experiences with every other being, and them with you. Inextricably and wonderfully, you are “All for one and One in the All”.

And when you experience this in your Soul, that is when you will feel those delightful and reassuring shivers and Goosebumps of Truth, for you have come home to this most Sacred space of Awe, Reverence and abiding Love too.

It is here in Cancer that you Feel, “That I am what I am, and I feel this too”.

Celebrate this moment, when your Sun “stands still”,

For you are at a Turning in the seasons of your Life.

This is a time that reminds you of whence you came

Fulfilled by what abides within the core of you.

You are part of long and illustrious Family,

Whose origin stretches back beyond all your reckoning.

From the One came you, you who are the many,

And all of you and all of Life is this Creation,

Moving through Space, Like a River of Light,

All of you together upon a Journey of Self-Becoming,

That leads you outward, beyond the beyond and back again.

Yet, you are also heading Homeward, drawn ever homeward,

Singing your way back with, for and to your Family,

Back to your Source of Light and Love,

Homeward to the One.

Mercury Conjuncts Sun (June 19, 2014)

Hermes skips across the face of your Star…

Yes, it is another “New Moon” for you and your Mind.

It is a time to pause, to be still, to be quiet and listen,

For the Voice of the Silence is speaking to you now.

You have need of this, for quietude and peace of mind.

This is your time of attunement,

To align your source, your Transcendent or Higher Mind,

With the your physical or Earthly Mind.

For your Lower Mind, is your vehicle of perceiving and knowing,

It is the mind you must work through in this realm of matter.

Here on Earth, you grow and learn by and through,

These Practical, Concretized embodiments of Spirit-Thought,

Which form the Energy-Matter you know as your Real World.

Three times a year Mercury will move past you and seemingly go backwards across the face of the Sun. But of course he is just passing you by as he races around the Sun on his inside track…But what matters is your experience, for your Reality, and your perceptions and Self-Realizations, and your Self-Limitations too are here upon this Earth. This is where you must learn, and grow and become fully illumined and so awakened and aligned to the Divine that resides within you.

Since June 7^th, Mercury has been retrograding, first in Cancer and now in Gemini, and today he reaches the “half-way point” of his retrograde cycle as he passes between you and your star. This transit of Mercury over the Sun brings the next Infusion of Solar Force, which is the purest of Spirit-Energy that can be experienced within this plane of Life-Forms. Here you receive a Blessing from the Sun, which coming as Pure Spirit is and must be modulated by and then passed on to you by your Avatar of Mind, dear Mercury, your messenger of the Gods.

This gift that Mercury now offers to you is enshrined within the intelligent adeptness that is Gemini. Your capacity to think dialectically, to compare and contrast positions and points of view, to hold two diametrically opposite positions at the same time so as to examine and understand them, to question and challenge these idea-forms (and yourself) and then question again, this is how you move from those more circumscribed thought-forms to ever more nuanced yet all-encompassing (and compassionate) understandings of your world and of yourself too.

Your ways of Thinking-Being can and will become “out of phase” with both the world around you as well as with your own inwardly unfolding path or journey of Spiritual Self-Becoming. Though your present-day Paradigm and its resulting “Facts” have proven themselves adequate to your previous efforts to understand the path that you walk upon in this world, you will also need to remain vigilant and alert to the necessity that there is but one fundamental truth that will ever propel your journey…you are here to Grow. There is much that you have learned, much that you now know, but really you should understand by now that you have much, much further to go than you have come so far…

In the stillness of this moment…

The Light of a Greater Awareness is offered up to you…

Be Wise, Be Humble

Be Gracious and full of Gratitude.

Question Everything!

Let go of your certainties,

For they will only take you down those “dead ends”…

Have that Living Faith which constantly seeks and questions,

The Living Spirit that Grows and Grows…

And do what you have always done.

For you are a Spirit Awakening and your only choice is,

As it will always be,

To Walk on.

Venus Opposite Saturn (June 12-13, 2014)

Tonight and tomorrow you stand at the center of two revelations.

When your starry companions are aligned so that you on Earth are between them, that alignment is called an Opposition. Each phase or step in these cycles of “Growth through Relationship”, (which is really what your Spiritual journey and Astrology is all about), is important for you to understand and master. But the opposition stands out as that signature step when the meaning and message of that particular relationship will be revealed to you most clearly.

The cycle of any two bodies begins with their conjunction with one another (which is best exemplified in the archetypal example of a New Moon). Then as the two bodies move apart in their cycle of relationship, they form a series of angular separations (which Astrologers call “aspects”) along the arc of their orbital paths, formed along a circle of spatial relationship measured out by 360 degrees. They move apart and then return to start a new cycle, and during their journey form many degrees of separation from one another, yet four principal moments stand out along their path with one another. From O° or the conjunction, they move out to the “First Quarter” or Waxing Square aspect of 90°, then to the “Full Moon” or Opposition of 180°, then to the “Last Quarter” or Waning Square of 270°, and then back to their next Conjunction at 0°.

The Sun, Moon and Planets are Avatars of Wisdom who wheel around and offer their messages to you, and they are there to teach and guide you as they bear witness for you of the fundamental truths you are here to master. Their Dance of Spirit through the heavens illustrate the Lessons of Spiritual Life you are here to understand and learn to live by. They are your stalwart companions, and they are there to show you “The Way”, for you here to learn to live your life aligned with the Spiritual Core that abides within you, as you will equally find and see that same Spirit informing each and every mote and speck of Creation too.

Thrilling through you and every moon, planet and star, is the Fundamental Energy-Substance of this whole Creation which is the One, it is Life-Consciousness-Spirit. All of this Creation is this One Spirit in Evolution, all of these lives and life-forms are Spirit as Becoming, all are embodiments of the Consciousness that is Spirit. Quite simply put, you are here to learn and become a fully conscious co-creator of this Creation, to achieve self-mastery in and through your many lives, as you sojourn here upon this beautiful realm you call your home, your beloved Earth.

Tonight and tomorrow, two revelations are offered to you once again (for these lessons of life require that you meet, solve and integrate them again and again). They can and should be seen as really one message, but let us look at them separately, then see how to hold them as they are in fact, for they form a greater truth when held together as one.

The opposition of Venus and Saturn comes every year, and poses to you what can be at times one of your most painful of moments of realization, yet, as it is in these balance-beaming ways of Truth, this revelation also contains the promise and reminder of your true, abiding source of everlasting joy.

Venus is your Avatar of Value and Worth, which is ultimately to be found and held by the core of you by and in your Fountain-Source of Truth. This Truth is that you are a special, precious Spark of the Divine. In Truth your essence, which is your Value or Worth, and is ultimately known to you as Love is beyond measure. Yet, at any one point in your journey of self-unfoldment/self-becoming, what you have so far realized and made manifest of this abiding truth is often much, much less, and it is this divide which brings about your pain and feelings of loss, for this is how and why you face what is seemingly a lack of love in your life

For though at your core you are filled with a boundless love, your experience or manifestation of your worth and love in this material world is circumscribed by the varied stages of unfoldment of your other “vehicles” or souls. The whole purpose of your self-unfoldment is to raise up your Mental, Emotional and even Physical Bodies or Souls so that they become the adequate containers and expressions of the True Value and Love which you are at your core. But this takes a very long time indeed. Many, many Lives and Worlds must you pass through to master yourself, for you have to learn to choose what is wiser and more loving, and so be guided by your Inner Flame to become outwardly what your higher Self or Beloved is and will always be…and you will then be a Wise, Loving and Free Spark of the Divine.  

Saturn is the Avatar of Reality, and for you represents what you have so far realized and embodied of your Higher Essence into those varied vehicles of Self-Determination. You can and will eventually be outwardly what you are inwardly, but until you have finished your human journey you will be limited in your forms of Self-Realization, you will have moments when you doubt your worth, you will at times experience that most painful of Illusions that you are without or lacking in Love.

This Opposition of Venus and Saturn brings to bear this experience of the divide between your Divine Loving nature and your less than perfect embodiment of the inestimable Value and Love that you are. Whether you are experiencing a disappointment in another’s expression of love for you, or they feel that same lack from you, what you both need at a time such as this is to look beyond and behind these Veils of Matter that you attempt to reach one another through. You need to believe in, know of and act with the Love that is at the core of both of you, always. Never more so than when you feel as if the other has let you down, or you have done so by them. You need to reach deeply within to the unconditional love that is your higher self, and then bring as much of that outwards and bestow it upon your lower self, and then equally shine and share it with your beloved who stands before you too.

Whether by a failure of Omission or Commission, whether one or both of you feel that you have been wronged, you need to acknowledge and accept that you are both a “work in progress”, that you both carry doubts, wounds and fears that are the echoes of your past lives as well as of earlier errors made in this present one, and that these dark shadows can thwart your experience of one another today.

Yes, the form of your relationship, the quality of your love for one another is limited in this time and place, for you and they are not yet what you will someday become and be. But the only way you will reach it, sooner than later, is by holding to the eternal truths of your inherent Divinity so that you will stay upon the path of Truth and Love. For what you each have that has drawn you to one another again is of the One. When you look beyond the bodies and appearances of one another, when you see “that presence” looking back at you there in their eyes, you will know and remember and smile. You need to realize it is that, this Divine Love which has and will always bring you back together, again and again, until you "get it right". That you need to keep to this Path of Love that is the only way home...and to do this you need to Forgive one another and be that Love with all your might.

Love yourself…

Love one another.

For you are Beautiful,

And so is your beloved.

You are Divinities who are Awakening.

You are Love. They are Love.

Love one Another.

Neptune Turns Retrograde (June 9, 2014)

Time to turn your Lamp of Lucidity inwards,

Towards Silence…Contemplation…Meditation.

Time to turn to the mysteries and wonders

Found upon the path of a Trans-Personal Life.

Time to draw closer to your true mission and goal,

The Ego-Transcended, the Self-Fulfilled.

It is Time to Consider and move beyond mere appearances...

Time to push beyond the veils of Self-Delusion and Fear,

Yes, it is time to face the Truth,

It is time to meet your Self.

Neptune Retrograde (June 9 until November 15)

The Avatar of Intuition and Dreams is turning your attention inwards. For the next five months you will do well to listen more carefully to the promptings of your Intuitive Self who whispers to you from and of your Immortality. It is time to dream a little more, to imagine a better you by following the path of Mystery and your Muse. It is most truly a time to look with wonder at the Creation within and around you.

Of course your ordinary, everyday life must and will go on. But it cannot hurt and will certainly help if you remember that you are here for much more than the labors and enjoyments that Earth-Life requires and also rewards you with.

Though you need to be attentive to these Whispers of the Spirit each and every day, when Neptune is retrograde the need and ease of moving inwards is more readily undertaken.

Enjoy your quiet walks in a garden…

Breathe deeply the salty air that comes from the ocean waves…

Look up at the Magisterial Heavens at night and consider…

Infinity Within, Infinity Without.

Be at Peace.

Be at One.

Just Be.

Mercury Turns Retrograde (June 7, 2014)

Time to turn around…

To go back and reconnect…

To repair and renew…

To Know and to Feel.

Time to be an Adept…

Of both Water and Air…

It is Time,

To Grow.

Mercury Retrograde (June 7 until July 1)

The second retrograde of 2014, this time Mercury goes from about 3 Cancer back to around 24 of Gemini, and just as in the previous retrograde you are moving backwards from the beginning of a Water Sign and back into an Air Sign. Again, you are being offered a chance to forge a deeper connection between what you feel and how you think. To more deeply understand that your Security and Center depend upon a Mind that is curious, adaptable and questioning. As always with Mercury retrograde, many issues in your present day life may slow down or be put on hold as you go back to finish some matters that you left behind.

Your modulator of Spirit into Mind, the Avatar who serves to adapt the awesome array of Solar forces of Pure Spirit into Thought, dear Mercury is looping back once more. Three times a year Mercury “catches up” to Earth, he passes us by and so seemingly moves backwards for about three weeks each time. When this happens, he retraces for you a portion of space. It is a sign and signal, to encourage one and all to take this opportunity to go back and review, renew and restore your Mind, Soul and Spirit too.

As I noted in my General Forecast for 2014, all three Mercury retrogrades this year have a similar quality, they all involve Mercury moving backwards out of a Water sign and returning to the previous Air sign. This looping between Water and Air can be seen as the core experiential gift of this series of retrogrades, for it reaffirms and also strengthens the integral relationship between your Thoughts and your Feelings. Mercury is here and can now help you to more wonderfully weave together the Intelligence that is your Mind with the Love that is your Heart.

Whereas the retrograde of February re-affirmed the relationship of Pisces and Aquarius, of your Dreaming and Individualizing qualities of Mind, this retrograde in June speaks to another Integral way that your Head and Heart are joined with one another.

For it is from Cancer that you are brought into that most intimate realm of your beginnings. You have a most essential need to feel your way to the truth of your “birth”, to find yourself and your Security in your home and family. You need to feel the embracing Spirit from where you have come, to feel yourself centered upon and in your Roots. Really, you "are your journey", and you are to find and become more yourself in this affirmation about your origins, (which will then equally help you to see and so move with more centeredness towards your destiny too).

Whether you identify more with your immediate biological family, or with your ethnicity and culture, or with your “Family that is Human” (and finally beyond this to your Spiritual-Family connection to all Life-Forms, to the All which is this wondrous "Creation that is Consciousness"), it is in this sign of Cancer that you re-affirm and reconnect to the Roots of your Being. It is here that you find your Center, it is here that you can know and feel your Authenticity of being an essential one, that you are a precious spark of the Divine, a one of the One and the Many. 

In this “Circle of the Living Ones”, in this Zodiac, every sign depends upon every other for its fulfillment. The Twelve are all intertwined, interlinked and integral to one another, for they comprise everything in this Universe, and of course they make up you too. There is a very special relationship for the twelve signs in their ordering, in how they flow from and follow one another. In Cancer, the previous Energy-Form of whatever you are considering and experiencing has come from Gemini, and you will find this connection is most important in working with this cycle of Mercury retrograde.

Each sign builds upon the sign that came before, and each succeeding sign complements and balances what was unfolded or manifested by and through the previous sign. The return to a previous sign, as in this retrograde from Cancer back to Gemini, re-weaves the energies between the two, and so offers to you an even more intimate and integral linking too.

In Gemini, your Mind takes flight and finds great delight in one of its most amazing and distinctive gifts, your wondrous ability to think about thinking. To be able to somewhat stand outside of yourself and consider a question, a problem or even yourself from more than one point of view or perspective. This marvelous ability to hold more than one thought or point of view at any one time, gives you the ability to question and wonder, to marvel in and display your adeptness, ingenuity and essential curiosity about “everything”, and it is this Gift of Intelligence that is one of the major advances that define what is Spirit-Mind for those who have crossed the threshold and become self-aware.

Yet the insatiable curiosity and thirst for diversions and diversity in Gemini can lead to the problem of diffuseness and dissipation. But, as always, Spirit seeks to heal, balance and integrate, and so following upon any period of Gemini you come into the Realm of Cancer, the sign of Centering and Containment. Whereas Gemini takes you out to the peripheries of the Universe of Mind-Forms, Cancer takes you in, back to the Roots of your Existence in Feeling-Forms…Reaching outwards is counterbalanced and complimented by Moving inwards…As always, the Royal or Noble road in this Journey of Spirit is found on the one true path of Integration and Balance.

Yet if taken too far or dwelling too long within Cancer, if you immerse yourself too much in these realms of Pure Feeling, you may thereby displace and diminish that realm of Pure Thought. You may lose your hard-worn objectivities and those multi-faceted perspectives which permit Critical (and self-critical) Thinking. As you move away from Thoughtfulness you become more vulnerable to unreasonable emotions, and in the end you may become insular or parochial, wrapped in a bubble of illusion and self-deception too.

But the answer is there, right before you. To swing neither Right nor Left, not Up or Down, but instead to take and always follow the Middle Way, the Passage of Peace, the Path of Spirit and so hold your Head and your Heart as ONE. To be Thinking-Feeling/Feeling-Thinking…Always.

Today, Mercury starts your spiral dance between Air and Water as he turns retrograde in the Water sign of Cancer. By June 17^th, he will re-enter the element of Air in Gemini and continue to move backwards until July 1, when he will turn direct. He will then return to the sign of Cancer once more on July 12-13^th, and finally reach the fire sign of Leo on July 31^st.

You need to attune yourself to this weaving-way now too. To move from Water to Air, and Air to Water, from Cancer to Gemini and back again, for this is what is truly real, this is "The Way".

All of these energies form the one great force that binds the Universe together,

All are part of the one Great Truth which embraces one and all,

All of these Energy-Forms are different facets of the One,

All are beautiful melodies in the Greater Song of Life,

And that Song is One,

That Song is Love.