Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Gem­i­ni, Uranus & Neptune and Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade (May 23, 2021)

In my sixth show of 2021, I would like to pick up on my blog post­ing for the Sign of Gem­i­ni, to con­sid­er the role of Uranus & Nep­tune, and the upcom­ing Mer­cury ret­ro­grade that begins on May 29^th.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this top­ic or some oth­er mat­ter, includ­ing per­son­al ques­tions about your astro­log­i­cal chart. If you do wish to ask a per­son­al ques­tion, please be ready to pro­vide at least your birth date and birth­place, and time of your birth if you have that too.

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Please join me on Sun­day May 23^rd @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

If you miss the show, it will be avail­able as a Pod­cast short­ly after on BlogTalk or my Apple Pod­casts.

Gem­i­ni — by Johfra Bosschart

The Gift of Knowing

In all the great myths, in all the great reli­gions and teach­ings that have been hand­ed down through the ages, there is that sin­gu­lar moment in the sto­ry of human­i­ty when we moved through the por­tal of self-con­scious­ness. Long, long ago, we went from a state of sim­ple con­scious­ness (a rel­a­tive inno­cence) and into the realm of sub­jec­tive-objec­tive con­scious­ness. We became self-aware, con­scious of the essen­tial dual­i­ty of real­i­ty, of this and that. It was the time in our jour­ney at which we tru­ly knew, we became painful­ly aware, that we are in some way sep­a­rate from the Ocean of Spir­i­tu­al Oneness.

We were more and less, sep­a­rat­ed into “The Know­er and the Known”. We moved into a form of being that shapes our jour­ney to this day, as we dwell in this state of self and of oth­er. We became ele­vat­ed by the knowl­edge we could then acquire, and this became the source of our pro­tean pow­er to change our­selves and our world. Yet we also felt the loss, and we con­tin­ue to be brought to sor­row and shame by our still lim­it­ed under­stand­ing about the nature of our­selves and our world.

Whether it is the sto­ry of Prometheus steal­ing the “Fire of the Gods”, or Adam and Eve eat­ing from the Tree of Knowl­edge, it is held by the Ancient Wis­dom that we expe­ri­enced this quick­en­ing which equal­ly formed our abil­i­ty to bet­ter under­stand our­selves and the worlds around us. Yet, in many of these myths our advance into a greater aware­ness is por­trayed as also being a “fall”, of leav­ing a state of inno­cence or at-one-ness with Cre­ation as we moved into the expe­ri­ence of our sep­a­ra­tion from the Greater Real­i­ty of the One.

Accord­ing to the Ancient Wis­dom, the Sto­ry of Spir­it is also the Sto­ry of Con­scious­ness. It is the Mind of the One as “The One”, who to form Cre­ation becomes the many, divid­ing into the count­less sparks of the Divine, the mon­ads of Spir­it which are the root cause or seed behind every mote and speck of Cre­ation. And then, from that begin­ning, all these “lit­tle minds” began their jour­ney of Spir­it, of Con­scious­ness, as they moved up and out­wards into ever more encom­pass­ing expe­ri­ences of the Greater Real­i­ty over the ages and ages of a Cos­mic Age. The Sto­ry of Spir­it is the sto­ry of all these ones who slow­ly lift up them­selves to ever high­er lev­els of con­scious­ness, which is in fact the sto­ry of the Mind of the One.

For us, today, we begin our month­ly jour­ney through the Sign that holds this por­tal to con­scious­ness, the Sign of Gem­i­ni. At this time, and wher­ev­er Gem­i­ni is found in your chart, you are blessed with the “Gift of Know­ing” that is one of the most con­se­quen­tial fac­ul­ties you require as you walk the path of ful­fill­ment as a human. That Apoth­e­o­sis will arrive when you have moved from your more lim­it­ed con­scious­ness into what will be a tru­ly “Encom­pass­ing Con­scious­ness” of your one­ness with “The One” again, and that is known in the Ancient Wis­dom as the state of Cos­mic Con­scious­ness or Nirvana.

While we are human, we are the means to one another’s awak­en­ing. The devel­op­ment of your aware­ness depends upon all those who came before you as your con­scious­ness with­in and the cre­ations around you are the gifts of your ances­tors to you. And you most cer­tain­ly are depen­dent upon those with whom you live in this moment now for what you may achieve in this life too.

Always remem­ber, the great­est illu­sion we must tran­scend is this phys­i­cal expe­ri­ence of being sep­a­rate from one anoth­er, when in truth we are a hier­ar­chi­cal host of ener­gy-forms that inter­sect, blend, and inform, as we share and make this jour­ney with one anoth­er always. In truth, all these bod­ies that con­nect us make us who we are, but most cer­tain­ly our “body of con­scious­ness” is even more formed and elicit­ed, shaped, and sup­port­ed and uplift­ed by all of our many expe­ri­ences with one another.

From the begin­ning of your awak­en­ing, the way to your ful­fill­ment has always been the same. It is the mes­sage of Gem­i­ni, carved upon all the tem­ples of antiquity:

Know Thy­self

But it is equal­ly true that you will only know your­self, you will only be who and what you are, when you see the oth­er as your­self. When you look into the eyes of who­ev­er is before you, when you see shin­ing there the sparkling Spir­it of Know­ing, it is then that you will smile because you know we are the Light which is the Divine, “whose cen­ter is every­where and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere”.

It is then that you will know the truth that is there in you and in all things too.

We are the Divine.

Tran­script of Radio Show: The Demo­c­ra­t­ic Lead­er­ship: Biden, Schumer, Pelosi 

(If you wish to lis­ten to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Pod­casts)

We have exam­ined over the last few shows the impor­tance of the out­er plan­e­tary con­di­tions active in the world gen­er­al­ly and with regards to the US and US his­to­ry. I thought we might want to take this moment to look at these influ­ences in a more indi­vid­ual way today and see how these same plan­ets are influ­enc­ing some of the most sig­nif­i­cant actors upon our his­tor­i­cal stage now in the Unit­ed States.

What is remark­able about our moment in the USA right now is that we find our­selves with the Exec­u­tive and Leg­isla­tive Branch­es being led by three Democ­rats. The last time this was true was in the peri­od from 2009–2011, which was in the first half of Obama’s first term. Astro­log­i­cal­ly, what was true then is also true now, in one respect, in that the Plan­et Jupiter once again is in Aquar­ius (as it is every 12 years or so).

So, I thought it would be inter­est­ing to exam­ine the charts for the three lead­ers of the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment, Chuck Schumer, Nan­cy Pelosi, and Joe Biden. Let us look at each of their charts and see what they bring to this moment as indi­vid­u­als and as a team and look at the plan­e­tary influ­ences they are expe­ri­enc­ing this year. Giv­en the crit­i­cal impor­tance of what is hap­pen­ing gen­er­al­ly in the world with the pas­sage of Plu­to in Capri­corn, and Nep­tune in Pisces, and Uranus in Tau­rus, and espe­cial­ly so for the chart of the USA, we will want to see what these plan­ets indi­cate in each of their charts at this time.

Chuck Schumer
Let us begin with Chuck Schumer who is the Sen­ate Major­i­ty Leader and a key play­er right now because the House will work up Bills, but they have to pass the Sen­ate which is split now 50/50 between Democ­rats and Repub­li­cans, and then be signed or not into law by the Pres­i­dent. So, Chuck Schumer’s role is critical.

Chuck Schumer is born with a chart that has what we call a Splay pat­tern, which means the plan­ets are scat­tered around the wheel and form a high­ly inte­grat­ed pat­tern. I always tell clients who have this pat­tern, that they have a much more unique approach to life, and they can pull togeth­er var­i­ous things that some­times do not seem relat­ed and make sense of it. So, in times which for oth­ers is con­fus­ing, and they do not under­stand what is hap­pen­ing, peo­ple with splay pat­terns see through the con­fu­sion and see the under­ly­ing order of things. And because of this, they can come up with rather unusu­al or sig­nif­i­cant insights and actions or solu­tions because of that ability.

Chuck Schumer is a Sagit­tar­ius with his Sun in the 10^th House and his Moon at the nadir in Tau­rus, and a Ris­ing Sign of Capri­corn, but with his ruler of Sagit­tar­ius of Jupiter Ris­ing in Aquar­ius in his 1^st House. He has a Fire dom­i­nant chart, with that Sagit­tar­i­an ener­gy and oth­er place­ments in his chart that gives him more of a fire ele­ment than any­thing else. That makes them very ide­al­is­tic, but he is also firm because he has many fixed plan­ets in his chart. Yet more than not, he would be an adapt­able per­son because he has more muta­bil­i­ty in his chart or more muta­ble plan­ets in his chart than many oth­er people.

The sig­nif­i­cant tran­sits in his chart right now would be that he has Plu­to, the out­er­most plan­et, is tran­sit­ing his Dharma/Karma line in 2021 and 2022. That will make him feel as if a “date with des­tiny” for him has arrived, it is his time to reap the fruits of his past actions and move clos­er to his life pur­pose. This moment could be that time when Schumer’s per­son­al des­tiny aligns with a great moment in history.

More­over, and per­haps even more sig­nif­i­cant is that Plu­to is com­ing across his Ascen­dant this year, his Ris­ing sign, and next year as well. Plu­to is the plan­et of the Will and Will Pow­er and con­trol, and Schumer will feel the call to more deeply iden­ti­fy him­self with a spir­i­tu­al cause and/or polit­i­cal moment. He will be more uncom­pro­mis­ing and stead­fast as he frees him­self from con­ven­tion­al ideas and actions, and he will find him­self per­son­al­ly trans­formed as that Alchem­i­cal ener­gy of Plu­to trans­forms the crit­i­cal posi­tion that he holds in the world right now.

Mean­while Nep­tune is trin­ing his Mid­heav­en which means that he will see his faith, vision and dream becom­ing more of a real­i­ty now, espe­cial­ly if his pur­pose is formed and guid­ed by the greater com­mon good. This is a time where the ded­i­ca­tion and sac­ri­fice for a cause will lead to very real progress for the larg­er social order that he serves.

And then Uranus, which is the third of the out­er­most plan­ets, is trin­ing his Mars, the plan­et of action and desire, and this will help him to achieve his goals by act­ing in cre­ative and inno­v­a­tive ways to ful­fill his ambi­tions, pro­vid­ed his goal and pur­pose is guid­ed by the inten­tion to help estab­lish greater free­dom and self-ful­fill­ment for oth­ers. Peo­ple will notice that Schumer is not act­ing like his old self and he is like­ly to suc­ceed if he blazes a new path and does things that he would not have tried before. It is if his belief that he could not do some­thing pre­vent­ed him from even try­ing before, but now he is free to pur­sue the path not taken.

Nan­cy Pelosi
Nan­cy Pelosi, the Speak­er of the House, the head of the House in our gov­ern­ment, has a pat­tern that is called Loco­mo­tive which means the plan­ets are spread through 2/3 of the chart and 1/3 remains open and emp­ty. Peo­ple like that have a “loco­mo­tive ener­gy”, pro­pelling them upwards and out­wards as long as they have a vision and dream and a goal that they are reach­ing up to. The lead­ing edge of that pat­tern is often crit­i­cal, and for her it is Mer­cury, the plan­et of the mind and com­mu­ni­ca­tions lead­ing her through life. She is also a Fire dom­i­nant per­son in terms of from make­up, but she has a lot of Earth in her chart. She is an ide­al­ist and prag­ma­tist, with her Sun in the 8^th House in Aries, and Aries being the first sign is a sign for lead­er­ship. And it is inter­est­ing that she is a Fire sign as his Chuck Schumer being a Sagit­tar­ius. Her Moon is at the Nadir for chart also, but it is in the sign of Scor­pio. Chuck’s Moon is in Tau­rus and her Moon is in Scor­pio almost exact­ly oppo­site one anoth­er, and yet Chuck’s Moon in Tau­rus is on or Con­junct Nancy’s Venus and Uranus. So, there are all these link­ages between their charts that would make them be rather good and sen­si­tive and coop­er­a­tive with one anoth­er. They are dif­fer­ent but there is more alike here than not. Nancy’s Ris­ing sign is the sign of Leo, again anoth­er sign of lead­er­ship, and Nep­tune, the plan­et vision and dream and inspi­ra­tion, is her Ris­ing plan­et. She is ide­al­is­tic but she is also very prag­mat­ic and very fixed; she is very pur­pose­ful, very deter­mined and more so than the adapt­able Chuck Schumer I would argue. She is very fixed and pur­pose­ful to the point of being unyield­ing with her fixed plan­ets being dominant.

What are her aspects now? Plu­to is trin­ing her Sun Sign ruler, the plan­et Mars. Pelosi will feel pow­er­ful and pur­pose­ful dur­ing this peri­od. This is a moment for her when what seemed impos­si­ble, Mars is what you are reach­ing for and try­ing to get, will be accom­plished. In fact, I tell peo­ple with Plu­to on their Mars that this is a time when “Mis­sion Impos­si­ble” is cer­tain­ly pos­si­ble, and you are going sur­prise oth­ers and your­self with what you can do. What most peo­ple would have found to be a most chal­leng­ing task right now will seem easy for her. This is one of those spe­cial moments when Pelosi can achieve her life’s ambi­tions, espe­cial­ly with regards to actions and goals ded­i­cat­ed to rebirth, renew­al, and regen­er­a­tion, again all key­words for the plan­et Pluto.

Nep­tune, mean­while, is oppo­site to her Nep­tune in 2021 and 2022, and yes, this is the same aspect that is occur­ring in the chart of the Unit­ed States. For an indi­vid­ual this will hap­pen only in their ear­ly 80s and marks a time of great sig­nif­i­cance for any­one spir­i­tu­al­ly. The ele­va­tion of her con­science and con­scious­ness to an even high­er plane is pos­si­ble, and so she may expe­ri­ence the uni­ty of not just humans for one anoth­er but for all life, and it is deeply felt and that guides her now. For many this moment marks a peri­od of great spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing, of com­pas­sion and of empathy.

Mean­while, Uranus is tran­sit­ing her 10^th House, because she has Tau­rus on her 10^th House, which is the House of one’s life pur­pose and career. For those who have fol­lowed their truth, this can be a time of even greater self-ful­fill­ment, as she more com­plete­ly reveals her unique con­tri­bu­tion to her life’s work. With Uranus rul­ing indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and inno­va­tion, it will be a time for her to reveal her indi­vid­ual spe­cial­ness of vision in the world, a vision that she has steadi­ly worked towards since the year 2000 when Uranus moved into her 7^th House. With Uranus at the top of her chart, this will be a time when Pelosi will reach beyond what appeared to be the lim­its of her efforts up to this point, and by act­ing from a mean­ing­ful and inno­v­a­tive ded­i­ca­tion to the task at hand, she will free her­self and oth­ers from the old world had estab­lished a new one.

Joe Biden
Joe Biden’s pat­tern is also a Loco­mo­tive like Nan­cy, but for him the lead­ing edge is the Moon in Tau­rus. So, both he and Nan­cy are pur­pose­ful and dri­ven, have their eyes on the prize, and as long as they steadi­ly fol­low that prize, they have this ener­gy dri­ving them to get to where they are going. But for Joe, as opposed to Chuck or Nan­cy, he has Water, a lot of Water in his chart, and peo­ple who are “Watery” are sen­si­tives, they are empath­ic and com­pas­sion­ate by nature. His Sun in Scor­pio is in the 12^th House. His moon in Tau­rus is in the 5^th, but it is also the ris­ing body of his chart. Joe has the Moon ris­ing which makes for even greater sen­si­tiv­i­ty, and with Nep­tune at his Mid­heav­en, as the plan­et that is guid­ing him in terms of his path in life. Sen­si­tive and com­pas­sion­ate with that water dom­i­nance, yet with fixed plan­ets being dom­i­nant, it makes him fun­da­men­tal­ly deter­mined and unyield­ing, as is Nan­cy Pelosi.

What are his tran­sits? For Joe, Plu­to right now is oppos­ing the ruler of Biden’s Ascen­dant, which is the plan­et Jupiter, dur­ing 2021. Jupiter rules our truth, and Jupiter rules Sagit­tar­ius his ris­ing sign and so this is a time where Biden’s deter­mi­na­tion and dri­ve to attain suc­cess this year will be unstop­pable, as he seeks to bring togeth­er the truth, or his truth, and real­i­ty, to make what he thinks ought to be the actu­al way things are. As long as he wields the pow­er of his office and posi­tion for the greater good, he will not be stopped at this time. He (we) can­not force our truth upon oth­ers, but it is his duty to ful­fill the hopes and dreams of the major­i­ty of Amer­i­cans he has sworn to serve, and this year he will be unwa­ver­ing in that service.

Mean­while, Nep­tune is trin­ing Biden’s Mer­cury, which is the ruler of his 10^th House of the career. This will be a year when Biden’s com­pas­sion and imag­i­na­tion will guide his thoughts and deeds. For an artist and for him, this would be a moment where his rea­son and his ratio­nal mind will com­bine with his intu­ition­al and com­pas­sion­ate nature to inspire and uplift his audi­ence. His con­nec­tion to oth­ers, his abil­i­ty to empathize and give voice to their hopes and dreams, to reach them and move them will be very con­sid­er­able. Many will expe­ri­ence the truth that he feels what they feel, he speaks to their heart and their hopes, and they will know that he is a leader for them at this time.

Mean­while, Uranus is oppo­site the ruler of Biden’s Sun, the plan­et Mars, because Mars rules Scor­pio. Uranus is the plan­et that elic­its the Indi­vid­u­a­tion Process, and in align­ment with the plan­et of action and desire, means that Biden is going to sur­prise him­self (and oth­ers) with the way in which he acts on the world stage right now. He will feel the need to move or act in a very dif­fer­ent man­ner in order to reach his aims and aspi­ra­tions. He will sur­prise many who thought they knew how he would act as a leader.

Age of Aquarius
I also think, I believe, that giv­en the his­toric moment that we are in as deter­mined by the Great Muta­tion in Aquar­ius of Jupiter and Sat­urn this past Decem­ber, that it is also impor­tant to con­sid­er where this con­junc­tion took place in each of their charts, espe­cial­ly when we remem­ber that the chart of the USA has its ruler, giv­en that the USA’s Sun is in Can­cer, that the Moon in the USA chart is in the sign of Aquar­ius. And even more than this, that the Moon in a nation’s chart rules “the People”.

For Schumer, the Muta­tion was in his First House, where both Sat­urn and Jupiter remain for now. The First House rules are “pres­ence” in this world, and defines the moti­va­tions and inten­tions, and cre­ates the “per­sona” that a per­son will move into the world. The “way” Schumer will lead now will be a renewed one guid­ed by the Aquar­i­an Age.

For Pelosi, the Muta­tion was in her 6^th House, which is the House of “Ser­vice and Order” and would indi­cate a reded­i­ca­tion in her life to the path of ser­vice and work at this time. And, even more deeply com­mit­ted by Aquar­ius, because this is what Aquar­ius rules, to help and heal communities.

For Biden, the Muta­tion was in his 2^nd House, which is the House of “Val­ue and Self-worth”, which has been rein­forced by this Aquar­i­an New Age. He will expe­ri­ence a renewed com­mit­ment to the essen­tial val­ue behind all val­ues, which is at the cen­ter of the val­ue of us all, and which we all know and live by, and that is Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

I think this moment in his­to­ry, with these three lead­ers for us at this time, does indi­cate that a New Age has begun, or a New Age is attempt­ing to begin, by those peo­ple who are called upon to be instru­ments and lead­ers at this time. But, of course, we are all called upon at this time to believe that we can make a “New World” any and every day. There is an old phrase that I love to quote some­times, it is not my phrase, there are no orig­i­nal thoughts down here of course, and that phrase is that “beat­en paths are for beat­en peo­ple”. We are here to be Trail Blaz­ers and find a new and bet­ter way to meet each oth­er, to meet one anoth­er’s needs, to help each oth­er to thrive and be ful­filled, because to the extent that any one of us is lim­it­ed in our self-real­iza­tion, then all of us are dimin­ished. And so, it is incum­bent on all of us to fos­ter those con­di­tions which allow the flow­er­ing of the human poten­tial and our spir­it so that we will meet this moment in the best pos­si­ble man­ner and cre­ate a bet­ter future for those who come after us.

Reminder: You are Invit­ed to The Inner Illu­mi­na­tion Sum­mit — Start­ing Mon­day May 5th to May 16

There are not many oth­er events like this that I know of. I invite you to join me at The Inner Illu­mi­na­tion Sum­mit ~ Sea­son 6 Mas­ter Class to hear my inter­view with col­league and host, Susan Jenk­ins. I high­ly rec­om­mend that you attend this Illu­mi­nat­ing FREE event with a high­ly respect­ed pan­el of spir­i­tu­al guides, heal­ers, teach­ers, lead­ers, and activists. I am very hon­ored to be includ­ed in this event and know that you will find it a reward­ing experience.

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