By Len Wallick
…the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-Mark Twain
Two planets and the Moon are about to begin a performance long anticipated. It’s time to find your seat. The lights go up shortly after 4:00 pm EDT today when Mercury leaves Taurus behind and takes the stage in Gemini. It won’t take long for the audience to realize that this is where the fleet one belongs. As if finally given a chance to improvise, the trickster will be hot from the first note. Don’t be surprised if your sinuses suddenly clear.
Resplendent in the Sun’s illuminating chords, Mercury will open with a solo, making it look easy. The effortless riffs are enough so that many will not notice the trickster is sharing the Gemini platform. The Moon actually started the concert. It began playing while the lights were down, casting a shadow and setting a mood. That seems like yesterday.
Now Luna will gracefully yield and play from the wings unseen but deeply felt. In aspect to a score of minor planets and major points, it will lay down a bass line that builds and releases tension over and over. Soaring upon those rapid lunar rhythms, the trickster will have our fully conscious attention.
The Moon will not be the only source of tension. When the stars come out, a guest performer will join the Gemini power trio of Mercury, Luna and Sol. Out on a runway, sheathed in its trademark fog, Neptune has been waiting for its cue.
As far as your ephemeris can tell, Neptune appears to be standing still right now in the first degree of Pisces. As with so many other objects that have changed signs for the past two months, the first aspect Mercury makes after entering Gemini is to Neptune. With both the fishes and the twins signifying the same tonal (mutable) quality, that angular relationship will be a square. The suspense you feel will not last long before a resolving turnaround changes everything.