Her­mes spins around to go back and review his last 3 weeks in Leo. And, of course as is usu­al for him, he will be mov­ing in reverse for the next 3 weeks (so be pre­pared!), at which point he will turn around and con­tin­ue in Leo until the end of August…All in all, that is quite a cir­cling spi­ral dance for your mind, swirling round in those resplen­dent shin­ing rays of Leo.

But, of course, what inquir­ing minds seek to know…what does this mean for you? Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is always an oppor­tu­ni­ty for you to turn your think­ing back upon itself, to engage and devel­op your mar­velous fac­ul­ty of self-reflec­tion and self-correction!

Your men­tal path­ways can become fixed and nar­rowed, part­ly from habit and/or the seem­ing secu­ri­ty of rely­ing upon your assump­tions, and you end up con­scious­ly or uncon­scious­ly not being able to con­sid­er con­trar­i­an points of view or per­spec­tives. As a result and over time, your aware­ness and per­cep­tion of the shifts in the world(s) around you begins to drift fur­ther and fur­ther away from “real­i­ty”. What was your orig­i­nal yet lim­it­ed under­stand­ing becomes ever more dis­con­nect­ed from the unfold­ing pat­terns of your life journey.

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is like a men­tal “re-boot”, a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty to refresh the mind by means of per­cep­tu­al re-set. The next 3 weeks is a gift…and you can move with this ener­getic shift to an Archimedean-like point out­side of your­self. It is this per­cep­tu­al shift that cre­ates a self-reflec­tive space, and from that freer space you can ques­tion your assump­tions and facts. It is from this re-align­ment or re-posi­tion­ing of your own men­tal­i­ty that will elic­it the growth so that you can cor­rect and improve your com­mu­ni­ca­tions with your fel­low companions.

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is a time for men­tal self-cor­rec­tion and this ret­ro­grade loop­ing back is what can help you to first move towards your own greater self-aware­ness. This release into your expand­ed aware­ness will then allow you to devel­op your greater under­stand­ing for the oth­er too.

The first step, espe­cial­ly in Leo, is to acknowl­edge your imper­fec­tions as you let go of your ego-dri­ven pride, which pre­clud­ed your clair­voy­ance (clear-see­ing) and adopt a more accept­ing, lov­ing approach to the thoughts of your beloved. It is pre­cise­ly dur­ing the Mer­cury ret­ro­grade time that you can go back and cor­rect those mis­un­der­stand­ings, doubts and fears that may have come between your­self and another.

This open­ing of your own mind and build­ing of a bet­ter bridge between minds will be most secured through one sim­ple approach that comes from the core of, springs from the very heart of Leo. That heart doc­trine is based upon the fact that all in our uni­verse spring from the One, that in the end we are all ones of this One, and are bound to one anoth­er by and through our Love for one another…For with­out this there would nev­er be, could nev­er be real under­stand­ing whatsoever.

So as Mer­cury turns, you will turn too…

Turn and acknowledge…

You love yourself.

Then, turn and tell your beloved…

You love them too.

Heal your mind…mend our hearts.

For you are all ones of the One…

Who holds one and all in an ever­last­ing Love.

The ruler of your High­er Mind, the Spir­i­tu­al Dri­ver, the Divine Impe­tus to your greater Indi­vid­u­a­tion and Freer Self-Expres­sion, the Lord Uranus turns ret­ro­grade for five months. From now until Decem­ber 13, you should turn with Uranus and move with those Mind-born ener­gies, tak­ing them inward, deep­er so you may root out those lim­its you made for your­self, those self-cast shad­ows which have hereto­fore held you in thrall to your less­er, more doubt­ing and fear­ful self.

Uranus rules your capac­i­ty to move beyond the con­di­tioned self, to reveal the inner glo­ry of your high­er con­scious­ness, car­ried by your high­er self. It is always there, your “Genius” with­in, but your low­er mind’s bound­ed­ness, its pre-occu­pa­tions and prej­u­dices block that inner voice of wis­dom from lift­ing you up into those clear­er path­ways, so that you might walk those ancient aisles in your tem­ple of truth.

Where­as Uranus mov­ing for­ward helps to estab­lish those clear­er path­ways for you and oth­ers to find your self-real­iza­tions with one anoth­er out­ward­ly, by and through your mutu­al growth through one anoth­er as you cre­ate freer spaces for self-realization.…Uranus ret­ro­grade is for you!

Uranus ret­ro­grade is your time to jour­ney with­in, so that you may cre­ate those clear­er path­ways with­in yourself…and espe­cial­ly to estab­lish, strength­en and extend that numi­nous bridge between your freer, High­er Mind and your low­er consciousness.

Uranus, the Awak­en­er is turn­ing for you!

Uranus, the First of the Three Emissaries…Turning now to bring you inward…

Uranus bestows upon you, the won­drous gift, the Quick­en­ing of your Mind…

He shines his super­nal light upon the path­way to your Self…

Now lit by his bril­liant dia­mond rays.…

You move clos­er to the cross­ing point…

Between your dark­ness and the Light…

You move into the Greater Understanding…

To Know Thy­self, to become the Becoming…

You embrace and are always embraced…

You were, are and will always be…

Free!

Your year divides, into four quarters…four cor­ners to square this cir­cle of life. At each cor­ner there stands a sign of begin­ning, for each sea­son a start­ing line. At Spring and Fall you find a bal­ance, you poised upon that equinox­al line…where the bright­ness of day meets the dark­ness of night as equals…

But at Win­ter and Sum­mer you find the extreme, you can­not go any further…and you must turn and move towards the oth­er, for there is no oth­er way…You find your­self at a turn­ing and you must acknowl­edge, the cur­rent has turned, the tide will ebb and you must turn too…

Now at this Can­cer moment, at this Burn­ing Bright, this Sum­mer moment that is root­ed in your devo­tion to the per­son­al, to the home, to the fam­i­ly, it is all for your per­son­al pri­vate life. It is pre­cise­ly now that you must turn and acknowl­edge that you are part of some­thing greater too…that you have a duty and respon­si­bil­i­ty to some­thing beyond yourself…because you are part of some­thing greater than just this that is so very close and dear.

So you watch this ris­ing Moon with won­der, you con­sid­er what lies beyond the near at hand, the com­fort­able and familiar…You feel the pull of that larg­er life, the greater sto­ry yet to be told…You must pre­pare your­self, make secure these foun­da­tions upon which you stand…for you will have need of them upon the path ahead…

The Full Moon of Capri­corn reminds you now…

That you must bow your head and bend your knee,

To pre­pare for what is call­ing you now…

For you have your part in a greater work too…

And Win­ter is coming!

Well, it’s about time, that’s for sure!

Mars has been “stuck” in Vir­go since Novem­ber 2011! That is a very, very long time to be work­ing in that Earthy realm, hon­ing and refin­ing your sense of Order and Wellness…of per­fect­ing your sense of well-being.

All in all, it was a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­sid­er that one true path­way, the one noble road that leads to your greater Peace of Mind!

Now what?

Well after that jour­ney of dis­cov­ery, adjust­ment and prepa­ra­tion, after going with­in and mak­ing your­self ready for what comes next…Now you get to take it “out there” and see what you have been prepar­ing for…

You have made your­self ready, oh yes you have, but for what? Why, for a bet­ter way of relating…Now you make your way out­ward to pre­pare for a bet­ter rela­tion­ship life!

Mars will move through Libra (rela­tion­ship) now until the last week of August. Here you must work with the plan­et that rules self-asser­tion and desire, and bend it through that bal­anced beam of Airy under­stand­ing so that Mars finds his way to con­sid­er the oth­er in order to find yourself. 

Mars in Libra is about the fight for fair­ness, the dri­ve for equal­i­ty and the restora­tion of jus­tice. Mars in Libra fights for Beau­ty and Truth, but nev­er alone…for here the path to self is through the oth­er, with the beloved, strid­ing hand in hand to make a bet­ter world.

Mars in Libra calls upon you now…

To join together…as you were meant to be.…

To make sacred your com­mon cause…in this jour­ney now…

For you cre­ate togeth­er the won­der of wonders…

Yes, you are ready…you are ready for We!