Gemini New Moon

Friends, Cousins:

I’ve been allowing myself to disengage from the astrology for a while. I knew I had succeeded when I woke up this morning, checked the planetary position table on this page (right side, scroll down) and noticed that the Gemini New Moon had passed a few hours before.

It’s Memorial Day weekend in the United States, and incredibly quiet here in Kingston. I’ve spent most of my day doing as little as possible; all apropos of the New Moon. Since taking my Beltane trip at the beginning of the month I’ve guided my biocomputers to slow down — or they have guided me. By last week, I got some clear instructions to take a pause from writing about astrology; today I can offer you the following update.

Mercury will be retrograde until Saturday, when it will station direct in Taurus. Over the past few days, it backed into a square with the Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune conjunction, where it will remain, pushing a confrontation with that era-defining aspect.

I know I’ve said this a lot of times. Astrological eras work internally and externally, as phases of growth and of events in the world. It’s easier to see them if you research your life and research history and see how the energy patterns run. The current conjunction is unusual, very unusual. Chiron and Neptune run in a cycle that varies based on how close Chiron is to the Sun. Iterations occurred in 1601-02; 1658, 1742-3, 1799, 1879-80, 1945, and 2009-2010.

The energy of Neptune is too ethereal for most people to grasp. It is that distinct ‘higher love’ that you feel but is impossible to demonstrate. It’s the sense that there is an extra dimension to spirituality, usually experienced without words. Not everyone can grasp Neptune, and Chiron is one thing that can assist us. Chiron focuses the often foggy light of Neptune into something practically applied; a direct blessing; the refusal to abide denial. Think of Neptune as the light in a movie projector and Chiron as the lens.

Jupiter adds an additional factor, of energy and rarity. It may have never shown up for Chiron-Neptune in recent centuries; I’ll find out. The effect is to magnify the contact of Chiron and Neptune, and to allocate a portion of the ‘global idea database’ to this purpose. Jupiter translates to accessible wisdom, and a sense of the world being a small place. I know that I am associating Jupiter with small, but on a cosmic scale it is. For us it’s big and the combination of big and small is making the world a local event. In fact it is. The whole world is as local as it gets. Getting to the Moon takes thousands of scientists and engineers. We are here; here is where we are; local on every side of the Earth.

The Internet helps. I can sit here on a sunny afternoon and you can be reading, right now, in the deep of night with the ocean whispering.