Gemini Letter
June 2, 2006
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Dear Friends Around the World:
I am traveling these days, which has turned into an
unscheduled break from writing so very much. I've had Astrology Secrets in slow
mode for a couple of weeks, which will continue this week, but I did want to
check in with the news and weather. Instead of a Q & A, I want to share a
short perspective on where we're at these days, which is actually an
interesting physical thing because the Sun in Gemini has one unique property:
the Earth situated such that we are facing in toward the galactic center, which
is visible at night.
For background, you can look back at editions of Astrology
Secrets Revealed written in December (04 or 05 as you wish) and there will be
coverage of the Galactic Core, as well as something about a related point
called the Great Attractor. Both of these are in Sagittarius, so when the Sun
is in that sign in November and December, see the galactic points in Sagg are
on the other side of the Sun.
The GA and the GC different points, by the way, far apart in
distance to the Sun -- but aligned along the ecliptic, so the Sun in Gemini
makes an opposition to one (the Great Attractor) each year around this time,
and then about 12 days later, around June 17, the Sun makes an opposition to
the other (the Galactic Core).
What is called the "roundel of the seasons" is
really the calendar made into a circle, and on that circle, we are now at the
opposite point in the wheel as we are when approaching Christmas in
Sagittarius. Those are the days approaching the end of the calendar year, as
well as the holiday season, when in the Northern Hemisphere the days are
getting shorter and shorter. Between the dark of the winter sky and the
shortness of the daylight, it seems like it's light just a few hours a day.
This combined with the constant rush to complete business creates a feeling of
accelerated time.
It took a while for me to figure out this sense of
acceleration is probably associated with the Sun's annual approach to the
Galactic Core. This is a miniature of the overall sense that "time is
speeding up" associated with the 2012 effect -- that is, the winter
solstice point edging closer and closer to something called the Road to Xibalba
(dark band or cosmic vulva, in Mayan tradition) that runs across the core of
the galaxy.
Right now we are able to see this, if the skies are clear at
night. The night sky faces right into the core and the dark band, and slowly
the Earth and Sun are aligning exactly. But before that happens, both align
with the Great Attractor, a point that is invisible and far, far outside our
own galaxy. Though it cannot be seen visually, it is the biggest, heaviest and
physically most powerful point known to astronomy. It is drawing a million
galaxies toward it, of which ours is one. So as the Earth and Sun align with
this point over the weekend, we're going to experience a wave of energy, which
may have the feeling of being polarizing -- a typical effect of the Great
Attractor. At the same time, the Sun squares Uranus, adding more than a little
excitement.
Then for the next 12 days, through June 17, the Sun and
Earth align in the zone of space opposite the attractor and the core, with
Pluto involved. Pluto is in Sagittarius just a degree shy of the core. Its
transit across the center of the galaxy begins the Pluto in Sagittarius
endgame. The Pluto in Sag era began in 1995 and at the time, many astrologers
were talking about the rise of fundamentalism, globalism and a variety of other
isms that were basically sure to come with this event.
Just before the alignment moves to the Galactic Core on the
17th, we pass by Pluto, which is just one degree shy of the core these days.
It's not a coincidence that this is so close to the Cancer
solstice (summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere). There is a physical
alignment between the solstices, as well as the Aries Point, the Galactic Core
and -- currently -- Pluto, which is working its way across the core and toward
the first degree of Capricorn, which is square the Aries Point (or first degree
of Aries). In this alignment there is also a massive galaxy in early Libra
called M87.
As this is happening, the lunar nodes align with the first
degrees of Aries and Libra, which is very nearly exact when the Sun enters
Cancer on June 22. This is nearly simultaneous with a Mars-Saturn conjunction
in Leo.
Is anyone else getting that calm before the storm feeling?
Does the world seem a little more sedate than normal?
I'm trying to factor in the part about being in the
But brewing does not mean inevitable. The Galactic Core is a
spiral and time feels like a spiral in its vicinity. The closer we get to the
core, the tighter the spiral becomes. What feels like a possibility today feels
like an inevitability as we approach the core. What we always need to remember
is that, particularly at this point, there are many possibilities, not just
one. We have options; we have choices, which work on the level of our
individual lives and our collective life.
The human family, particularly here in the Western world, is
still learning the meaning of "we." On the most mundane levels,
"we" often seems not to exist. On the subtle levels, many people seem
to have a better idea of common ground and collective reality. Now is a good
time to remember, and to set the highest and most peaceful intentions for the
world.
Catch you next week with some responses to a new crop of
questions.
Yours,
Eric Francis
New
PS, here are the positions of the planets in Gemini at the
moment of this writing:
Chaos, 6 ge 48'
Atlantis, 9 ge 12'
Sun, 10 ge 23'
Hephaistos, 11 ge 32'
Phaethon, 11 ge 33'
Siwa, 14 ge 2' 9"
Memoria, 15 ge 16'
Hekate, 17 ge 34'
Cyllarus, 18 ge 41'
Toro, 19 ge 15'
Sphinx, 21 ge 26'
Amor, 23 ge 30'
Hades, 24 ge 46'
Mercury, 25 ge 24'
Icarus, 25 ge 24'
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