Time to turn around…

To go back and reconnect…

To repair and renew…

To Know and to Feel.

Time to be an Adept…

Of both Water and Air…

It is Time,

To Grow.

Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade (June 7 until July 1)

The sec­ond ret­ro­grade of 2014, this time Mer­cury goes from about 3 Can­cer back to around 24 of Gem­i­ni, and just as in the pre­vi­ous ret­ro­grade you are mov­ing back­wards from the begin­ning of a Water Sign and back into an Air Sign. Again, you are being offered a chance to forge a deep­er con­nec­tion between what you feel and how you think. To more deeply under­stand that your Secu­ri­ty and Cen­ter depend upon a Mind that is curi­ous, adapt­able and ques­tion­ing. As always with Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, many issues in your present day life may slow down or be put on hold as you go back to fin­ish some mat­ters that you left behind.

Your mod­u­la­tor of Spir­it into Mind, the Avatar who serves to adapt the awe­some array of Solar forces of Pure Spir­it into Thought, dear Mer­cury is loop­ing back once more. Three times a year Mer­cury “catch­es up” to Earth, he pass­es us by and so seem­ing­ly moves back­wards for about three weeks each time. When this hap­pens, he retraces for you a por­tion of space. It is a sign and sig­nal, to encour­age one and all to take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to go back and review, renew and restore your Mind, Soul and Spir­it too.

As I not­ed in my Gen­er­al Fore­cast for 2014, all three Mer­cury ret­ro­grades this year have a sim­i­lar qual­i­ty, they all involve Mer­cury mov­ing back­wards out of a Water sign and return­ing to the pre­vi­ous Air sign. This loop­ing between Water and Air can be seen as the core expe­ri­en­tial gift of this series of ret­ro­grades, for it reaf­firms and also strength­ens the inte­gral rela­tion­ship between your Thoughts and your Feel­ings. Mer­cury is here and can now help you to more won­der­ful­ly weave togeth­er the Intel­li­gence that is your Mind with the Love that is your Heart.

Where­as the ret­ro­grade of Feb­ru­ary re-affirmed the rela­tion­ship of Pisces and Aquar­ius, of your Dream­ing and Indi­vid­u­al­iz­ing qual­i­ties of Mind, this ret­ro­grade in June speaks to anoth­er Inte­gral way that your Head and Heart are joined with one another.

For it is from Can­cer that you are brought into that most inti­mate realm of your begin­nings. You have a most essen­tial need to feel your way to the truth of your “birth”, to find your­self and your Secu­ri­ty in your home and fam­i­ly. You need to feel the embrac­ing Spir­it from where you have come, to feel your­self cen­tered upon and in your Roots. Real­ly, you “are your jour­ney”, and you are to find and become more your­self in this affir­ma­tion about your ori­gins, (which will then equal­ly help you to see and so move with more cen­tered­ness towards your des­tiny too).

Whether you iden­ti­fy more with your imme­di­ate bio­log­i­cal fam­i­ly, or with your eth­nic­i­ty and cul­ture, or with your “Fam­i­ly that is Human” (and final­ly beyond this to your Spir­i­tu­al-Fam­i­ly con­nec­tion to all Life-Forms, to the All which is this won­drous “Cre­ation that is Con­scious­ness”), it is in this sign of Can­cer that you re-affirm and recon­nect to the Roots of your Being. It is here that you find your Cen­ter, it is here that you can know and feel your Authen­tic­i­ty of being an essen­tial one, that you are a pre­cious spark of the Divine, a one of the One and the Many.

In this “Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones”, in this Zodi­ac, every sign depends upon every oth­er for its ful­fill­ment. The Twelve are all inter­twined, inter­linked and inte­gral to one anoth­er, for they com­prise every­thing in this Uni­verse, and of course they make up you too. There is a very spe­cial rela­tion­ship for the twelve signs in their order­ing, in how they flow from and fol­low one anoth­er. In Can­cer, the pre­vi­ous Ener­gy-Form of what­ev­er you are con­sid­er­ing and expe­ri­enc­ing has come from Gem­i­ni, and you will find this con­nec­tion is most impor­tant in work­ing with this cycle of Mer­cury retrograde.

Each sign builds upon the sign that came before, and each suc­ceed­ing sign com­ple­ments and bal­ances what was unfold­ed or man­i­fest­ed by and through the pre­vi­ous sign. The return to a pre­vi­ous sign, as in this ret­ro­grade from Can­cer back to Gem­i­ni, re-weaves the ener­gies between the two, and so offers to you an even more inti­mate and inte­gral link­ing too.

In Gem­i­ni, your Mind takes flight and finds great delight in one of its most amaz­ing and dis­tinc­tive gifts, your won­drous abil­i­ty to think about think­ing. To be able to some­what stand out­side of your­self and con­sid­er a ques­tion, a prob­lem or even your­self from more than one point of view or per­spec­tive. This mar­velous abil­i­ty to hold more than one thought or point of view at any one time, gives you the abil­i­ty to ques­tion and won­der, to mar­vel in and dis­play your adept­ness, inge­nu­ity and essen­tial curios­i­ty about “every­thing”, and it is this Gift of Intel­li­gence that is one of the major advances that define what is Spir­it-Mind for those who have crossed the thresh­old and become self-aware.

Yet the insa­tiable curios­i­ty and thirst for diver­sions and diver­si­ty in Gem­i­ni can lead to the prob­lem of dif­fuse­ness and dis­si­pa­tion. But, as always, Spir­it seeks to heal, bal­ance and inte­grate, and so fol­low­ing upon any peri­od of Gem­i­ni you come into the Realm of Can­cer, the sign of Cen­ter­ing and Con­tain­ment. Where­as Gem­i­ni takes you out to the periph­eries of the Uni­verse of Mind-Forms, Can­cer takes you in, back to the Roots of your Exis­tence in Feeling-Forms…Reaching out­wards is coun­ter­bal­anced and com­pli­ment­ed by Mov­ing inwards…As always, the Roy­al or Noble road in this Jour­ney of Spir­it is found on the one true path of Inte­gra­tion and Balance.

Yet if tak­en too far or dwelling too long with­in Can­cer, if you immerse your­self too much in these realms of Pure Feel­ing, you may there­by dis­place and dimin­ish that realm of Pure Thought. You may lose your hard-worn objec­tiv­i­ties and those mul­ti-faceted per­spec­tives which per­mit Crit­i­cal (and self-crit­i­cal) Think­ing. As you move away from Thought­ful­ness you become more vul­ner­a­ble to unrea­son­able emo­tions, and in the end you may become insu­lar or parochial, wrapped in a bub­ble of illu­sion and self-decep­tion too.

But the answer is there, right before you. To swing nei­ther Right nor Left, not Up or Down, but instead to take and always fol­low the Mid­dle Way, the Pas­sage of Peace, the Path of Spir­it and so hold your Head and your Heart as ONE. To be Thinking-Feeling/Feeling-Thinking…Always.

Today, Mer­cury starts your spi­ral dance between Air and Water as he turns ret­ro­grade in the Water sign of Can­cer. By June 17^th, he will re-enter the ele­ment of Air in Gem­i­ni and con­tin­ue to move back­wards until July 1, when he will turn direct. He will then return to the sign of Can­cer once more on July 12–13^th, and final­ly reach the fire sign of Leo on July 31^st.

You need to attune your­self to this weav­ing-way now too. To move from Water to Air, and Air to Water, from Can­cer to Gem­i­ni and back again, for this is what is tru­ly real, this is “The Way”.

All of these ener­gies form the one great force that binds the Uni­verse together,

All are part of the one Great Truth which embraces one and all,

All of these Ener­gy-Forms are dif­fer­ent facets of the One,

All are beau­ti­ful melodies in the Greater Song of Life,

And that Song is One,

That Song is Love.