By Leo Knighton Tallarico
This week we continue through the lunar cycle that began last week at the Gemini New Moon. So Gemini themes continue to be important: learning, thinking, communicating, delivering and collecting information, socializing.
It is a good time now to take new classes or even just learn new things in any way that happens. Gemini is about sharing information with others, taking information in and delivering information out. There are no judgments in such sharing, no conclusions needed. There is a satisfaction in learning and in gaining new facts
Gemini is not always concerned in how the information is being received and so it can seem insensitive, when in actuality it sees its “job” as merely to objectively state the facts. It can be like a pure journalist, one whose job is to just objectively state what happened, not judge or give opinion. That can seem cold to those who are more feeling oriented.
For instance if one asks a pure Gemini to describe how someone else looks, the fact stating Gemini may say “brown hair, blue eyes, thin legs, big feet and ears, large belly”. It is merely stating the facts. More sensitive people might feel embarrassed to hear someone say they have big feet and ears and a large belly.
So some Gemini’s need to learn to filter their natural way of communicating in order to not hurt people’s feelings. Finding work or activities that appreciate their objective minds and communicating styles would be good for them.
Now sometimes Gemini can get so filled with information and have so many different thoughts or activities to work through that it gets scattered or confused or spacy, not grounded.
But usually it is so bright and aware, curious and questioning, needing more and more puzzles or intellectual challenges.
Speaking of mental workings and communication, the “ruling” planet of Gemini, Mercury, will be going Retrograde again late this coming week.
Next Saturday June 7 at 7:56 AM EDT Mercury will go Retrograde. It will stay that way until July 1 at 8:50 AM EDT.
Mercury is the “ruling” planet of both Gemini and Virgo, and as such can be driven by details, by needs to “figure it out”.
This Mercury will go Retrograde in Cancer, but will actually spend most of its time in Gemini. And the Sun will be in Gemini also during much of the time Mercury will be Retrograde.
So be careful not to get overwhelmed with details, mental anxiety and stress, and obsessive needs to figure everything out. Left brain ways of operating will not be as effective as usual, and events may come into your life that strongly suggest you use other means of effectiveness. If you can meditate more, use your imagination, your intuition and creative thought, then the Retrograde period will be easier. If you can trust your heart more or at least learn to make better relationship between heart and head, then you may be gaining a lot during the Mercury Retrograde period of time.
Mercury Retrograde is not a time to be superstitiously feared or dreaded. It happens 3-4 times a year and is a part of the natural process of planetary movements. It is not meant to bring pain or suffering. Instead it is meant to help readjust our thinking or communication, to shift our perceptions, to give pause to what we have previously decided or to a belief or attitude that no longer serves our soul’s journey, and to trust our hearts and the Universe more.
Sometimes we are so stressed to figure something out so we can fix something that is not working for us in our life, or so we can make a decision that is weighing on us. We want the stress and anxiety to go away, so we want our answers fast.
But Mercury Retrograde often teaches us that issues need to unfold, that time needs to go by, before an answer is revealed. We learn it is not about our mind figuring out an answer, but instead it is about a process that needs to unfold before clarity can be found, before direction can be seen. Our soul knows there is magic in the unknown, and allowing a process to unfold brings us that which cannot always be seen by our logical mind.
If I am given a choice between choosing a job at Wendy’s or one at a local department store, I may go back and forth with the pros and cons of each and end up not knowing which is best. I wrack my brain trying to “figure it out”. I stress and get much anxiety forcing my brain to come to a decision, when in actuality neither one feels right to me.
So I let it go, trusting the answer will come to me at the right time. may even go past the time I was supposed to make the decision.
You know those times when you try so hard to remember someone’s name or where they live or some other detail, and trying so hard with your brain just does not bring an answer. Then you let it go, and half an hour later the name or address just comes into your mind without you trying?
And other times, maybe during Mercury Retrograde, you go back and forth straining your brain trying to choose between that Wendy’s or department store job, and all you do is stress with no answer.
Then you let it go, and reflect and meditate and go into your heart. You allow yourself to wait and trust, to trust your deeper soul, your heart, and the Universe.
A letter comes in the mail a few days later accepting you into a school you had forgotten you had applied to 6 months ago as you had figured you were not accepted.
Your true answer did not reside in the two options you were considering. This is a potential value to Mercury Retrograde. You may find it difficult, but it was meant to help you change your perception, to help you learn to trust your deeper soul and the Universe more.
Now of course every Mercury Retrograde does not always bring such treasures, but it will usually help you to shift your perceptions and perhaps even some rigid paradigm you may be clinging to.
These times now are bringing such rapid shifts of consciousness and change, and it is best to be flexible and open. And most of all it is best to stay awake and aware, present and accounted for. Judgment of your self is not good, but being honest with yourself, holding your self accountable, and wanting to transform the old and toxic patterns is good.
In the greater world important and transformational events will likely begin mid June as Mars reignites the Grand Cross from April, and then events may get even more powerful in late July and August. And then there will be another strong Eclipse Season this autumn 2014.
And keep in mind that on Friday June 13 there is a Full Moon in Sagittarius: Friday the 13th Full Moon. That will be a most auspicious time to honor the Feminine, the mysteries and beauty of the Feminine, the energies bursting at the seams of our collective human consciousness, ready to help our world evolve and heal. More on that next week.
You are moving more and more strongly into your authentic soul self, more and more strongly connected to the Universe and the Age of Aquarius.
Till next week,
Leo
If you have the time please enjoy the youtube video created for Spring Eclipse Season 2014 and the Cardinal Grand Cross.
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There is already a YOUTUBE video autumn 2013 forecast out at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5xnEaj6JRfI
There is an old YOUTUBE video Astrology Forecasthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6fxVYYIoNA&feature=youtu.be for Spring Eclipse Season. Check it out if you feel so moved.
You can get an astrological consultation with me during these changing times to help you on your path and with your life. Please write soulus@aol.com for more info.
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Leo Knighton Tallarico is a full time professional astrologer, spiritual guide, counselor, and writer for over 25 years