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.