The Sun and the Moon entered Gemini Sunday with fanfare, making an annular eclipse in the first degree of that sign. The eclipse met Neptune, newly arrived in Pisces, at a right angle (called a square), potentially leaving you with the question, “Was it real or was it not?”
You have a month or so to answer that now, as the Sun transits the third sign of the zodiac and the first to display the human form. What are these two kids saying to one another in their secret language? What do they do when they’re left alone? Who do they think everyone else is? That’s your mind, negotiating reality with itself.
Based only on a reading of the ephemeris, this month of Gemini (an airy, mutable sign) is sparkling with unusual developments, culminating with the transit of Venus on June 5. You can think of this as the beacon at the start of the 2012 era, and the one element about our current moment that the ancient Mayans, who adored Venus, would have recognized. To the extent that we put any faith in the ‘Mayan factor’ of 2012, we’re looking right at what that factor might be.
Sunday’s eclipse of the Sun points directly to whatever that is, with the Venus transit coinciding with a Full Moon eclipse (a partial eclipse of the Moon) that takes place two weeks from now, on June 4. There are actually three eclipse-like events clustered within about a day — the lunar eclipse, followed by the transit of Venus, followed by the Moon occulting Pluto. This is a point of demarcation, with a rapid progression of relatively rare events clustered together within a matter of hours.
The theme is change, but what? It’s time to think on a larger scale. One message I picked up from Sunday’s eclipse of the Sun was to pass along the reminder to hang out in collective territory. It’s a different world outside the confines of one’s ego — a lot more makes a lot bigger difference than we ordinarily allow ourselves to think. That includes us.
The often world seems split between abject horror and exquisite beauty. Often it seems possible only to visit the beauty, then slip into a world between the two, where there’s a lot of repetition and decisions don’t count as much as they should. Yet I think we do a lot of stopping down the possibilities, putting filters in front of our perception.
We might think that’s what’s necessary in order to survive, in order to blur and soften the impact of the demonic conduct of some inhabitants of the planet. Just who are they? These people who spray the world with toxins, rig it with nuclear bombs and reactors and start perfectly senseless wars — are they demons, are they aliens or are they humans like us? None of those potentials are particularly appealing. Through dull senses the matter may seem less pressing for a while.
More than that is filtered out, however. Somehow we don’t quite get that our actions mitigate the negative karma. We don’t see that our choices help orient the world on sanity. You could, if you looked at yourself and the world with clear perception, you’d see that your role is not just helpful, it’s essential in this process. The biggest lie is the one that says you don’t make a difference. Believe that and you’re neutralized. Cast it off and you are both liberated and effective.
Without those filters, you would understand that your choice for sanity right now penetrates back into the past, healing the pain of history even as it opens the possibility for a different future from the one toward which we seem headed.
I have a strange feeling this morning, not directly on myself but the world around me. This close Eclipse to the South node my given uplift printing, strange printing as of UFOs unidentified. This evening the South node is framed very tight by the Moon and the Sun, there is as a kind of downtime even if all flutters as it was the place as on a rolling carpet that walking backwards. … There are also Neptune the troublemaker, it’s like to draw on the sand and a coup of sharp hand it clears everything… it remains nothing… it was a mirage…. can return this mirage under the influence of an Eclipse…. Thanks Eric
Regarding The Power of Now; I just read a description of the author’s ideas and I was amazed that my brother had the concept way back in the early to mid 70’s and communicated it to me back then. He called it the “overmnind” which is that dispassionate mind that watches what I am thinking and thinks about what I think about. It is aware of me, my movements and body language in space-time and aware of everyone else’s body language in space time. It sees the patterns between people, thoughts, actions, behaviors (including my own) and social movements and beliefs.
For a good experiment on seeing that overmind, go to a crowded mall sometime and walk opposite everyone else. Notice how often people will be walking toward you and they bump into you because they are so wrapped up in their ego-selves they are unaware of anything or anyone else. Aware people automatically dodge others while walking (and driving; they are good defensive drivers). Some who dodge are semi aware; they are aware of others but do not realize that they are aware so it is a subconscious awareness. That overmind is aware of the big picture as well as the smallest detail. It is the way I have lived ever since my brother made me aware of it.
The lack of overmind is what makes some describe others as sheeple; my brother called unaware people “sheep” and denigrated them. My experience with the unaware ones was that even the least aware person senses things because despite my efforts at blending, they seem to sense that I am different and act accordingly toward me. They may not be conscious of their actions (or the perceptions they have which precipitate them) but they act and I feel the reverberations of their mistrust or confusion.
When I first saw The Matrix, I shook my head because again my brother had talked about that concept years bfore the movie so it was not the shocking revelatin to me that it was to others. My brother was way ahead of his time in thinking but he is gone now. He had no children to pass on his genius but I pass on what he taught me to my kids so via me his amazing intelligence and insight lives on.
Thanks, Cara. That helps.
Carrie,
I read some good stuff last night in The Power of Now that speaks more or less exactly to what your question is addressing. If you need the full quote I’ll try to find it, but if a loose paraphrase will do, it’s basically that your Presence alone, your connectedness to Source is all that is required for change to occur, and that all right action (anything you decide to DO) procedes from their naturally. I’m in the process of learning this and testing in my own life, so cannot speak as one who knows, except as “knowing” in the grok sense…it computes.
Ciao bella! Sus
“She was asked a simple question about how we can make different choices amidst such parental or generational programming, even social programming. The message was also simple but profound. (loose quote) ‘It is up to us to recognize what is not a healthy pattern and to let it go. No one has any power over us or has the ability to make our choices for us if we don’t allow it. We must really want to wake up, to want to be curious about ourselves. And once this process is started and once we feel we are a great portion of this uplifting energy, we can indeed manifest the pure abundance of the universe in our very experience. We can change ourselves, our DNA, to remold ourselves like clay. To trust ourselves. To honour who we are.’
HS, thanks for posting this.
I keep reading about change on PW. I am a person who lives several steps ahead all the time so I am confused. Is that change message for me or have I already changed ahead of the message (as often seems to happen)?
I have been working on trusting the universe and overcoming my fears. I also made the choice years ago not to follow my generation and my society; instead of focusing on materialism I chose to focus on people, love, compassion, and sharing. That choice has not been easy but I remain steadfast within it. So what more change should I be doing?
That’s why the confusion. If there is change for me; what is it supposed to be? I cannot seem to “see” it at all. I do feel like I want to DO something but I cannot figure out what IT is and now that our financial situation is again precarious, I may not have the time to do that something because I will be caught up in working to support my family.
The eclipse happened in the most pleasant weather, cool and breezy. My stomach was tense and upset (partially based on what I had eaten the day before). My whole body was sore from the strenuous activities of the day before. After the eclipse I did some writing but by 10 PM I was exhausted. Dave and I amd some of the kids went into the jacuzzi and the heat relaxed my aches and the water soothes me. Dave and I had some wine, too so that by the time I got out, I was really tired and sleepy and went right to bed afterward. I slept very well but this morning I am still tired though no longer aching or having stomach issues.
It’s been like diving through waves lately and especially yesterday; remembering pain(ful moments) and re-setting my clock, re-calibrating my engine, re-aligning my treads.
I’ve held onto diaries with intent to use them in my art – however, I’m quite sure now that the strongest message I can create with them is to let them go (all the crap) and let it all return to the ethers.
In my ‘encounter’ with neighbor-who-is-bully yesterday (at the telescope, at eclipse viewing) I was surely nose-to-nose with out-of-control-ego. I have yet to be sure if my “technique” of maintaining my decorum is my best approach for working with this energy, but even with Uranus on natal Moon I do not find a different way of approaching these people/demons (than to maintain equilibrium, not be set off course, remember ‘who I am’, not get into the mud with them, not even get onto their playing field.)
I do feel all “icky” today though. I wanted the eclipse to feel all “spiritual”….maybe this “icky” IS all about that…..;)
Can’t wait for June 4th!
xo
Love your photo and caption, Eric. Perfectly said in so many ways!
Thank Eric, I particularly like your closing paragraph. I was listening yesterday to one of Barbara Marciniak’s channeling sessions. She was asked a simple question about how we can make different choices amidst such parental or generational programming, even social programming. The message was also simple but profound. (loose quote) ‘It is up to us to recognize what is not a healthy pattern and to let it go. No one has any power over us or has the ability to make our choices for us if we don’t allow it. We must really want to wake up, to want to be curious about ourselves. And once this process is started and once we feel we are a great portion of this uplifting energy, we can indeed manifest the pure abundance of the universe in our very experience. We can change ourselves, our DNA, to remold ourselves like clay. To trust ourselves. To honour who we are.’
Thank you Eric!
HS
Am I correct in saying that Orcus is hanging out at 2 Virgo?
I was asked to help out in a work matter. I had to speak to a contractor that has continuously failed (lied) to keep their word and meet a crucial deadline. One lie after the next eroded everyones ability to think clearly. A new moon in my 6th, conjunct my nth node in Gem. That was an explosive argument (the guy is an Aries and I’m Scorpio). I am pretty sure, I am not neutralised..
Thank you, Eric, for articulating the way forward out of distraction and helplessness into conscious awareness and personal choices that move the world.
We hear you and stand beside you with our eyes, hearts and minds open and ready to be counted on every moment of this precious opportunity to create a world that works for everyone – past, present and future.
With deepest respect and gratitude,
Linda
this may be a bit off field — is the recent chain of retrogrades related and/or notable?