Let’s
say you’re a weaver. A year and a
half ago, you were commissioned to produce a tapestry, due this week. Your client, whom you’ve been avoiding,
is starting to send you angry messages.
Size-wise, you’re almost finished with the piece, but you have a zillion
colors of thread dangling from your loom and a veritable horde of themes and
patterns, all needing to be tied together in just a couple inches of warp. Meanwhile, you’ve been working on other
commissions and pet projects that are way more interesting to you at this
point.
You
don’t really want to think about this tapestry anymore. However, you could sure use the payment
you’ll receive once it’s complete, & it just doesn’t seem to magically
finish itself while you happily deal with other things. In fact, it’s getting difficult to deal
with those more interesting projects because this nearly-finished tapestry is
constantly rumbling around in the back of your mind, distracting your focus,
your creativity, & ultimately depleting your energy.
Metaphor Breakdown:
What issues have you been
working on & dealing with for the past one & a half years?
What have you been learning
in that time?
Do any of these issues
& lessons echo back to what was happening in your life in 1993-94?
What feels like a loose end
in your life?
How can you either weave it
into completion, or simply cut it out?
Which feels like the truer
response?
That,
my friends, is the experience of the final eclipse in this round of the
Sagittarius/Gemini axis, which occurs as a full
moon & lunar eclipse in Sagittarius on Saturday, May 25th. A
chapter is closing, & you won’t be rereading it for another 19 years. An example of how this played out in my
own life is this: In 1993, I planned to move to the Pacific Northwest. I moved to Olympia in 1994, didn’t care
for it, tried San Francisco out, & then “settled” (a relative term in my
personal history) in Seattle for most of the past 19 years. Well, in two months, I’ll be moving to
Oakland, California, just east of San Francisco. If you’re in the Seattle area, & want to see me for an
in-person astrology consult or Alithesis session, you have until mid or late
July to schedule such an
event. If you’re in the Bay Area,
my practice will be up & running by September. I’ll be available for phone consultations throughout August.
This is also the final eclipse until October, when we’ll open the
chapter of Aries/Libra eclipses that will be in full swing in 2014.
There
are a few other intriguing & Big Events that occur in the 2013 Gemini solar
month, which begins on 5/20 with half of the major celestial bodies in air
signs, & another exact square between Uranus (fresh & rebellious in
Aries) & Pluto (stodgy & grim in Capricorn), & ends with Jupiter at
the tail end of Gemini, ready to dive into sensitive Cancer for a full
year. The rule of thumb for this
month is clean up your mental act before your
emotions take center stage this summer.
Those emotions will be a lot easier to
deal with if you do, & we all like ease, right?
Also, Mercury
& Venus form an exact conjunction at both the beginning & the end of this solar month, bringing
the following questions into the fore:
How do
my own values differ from the various people I’m in relationship with?
How can
I both honor my own values & respect their values? Hint: You’re different rather than “right.”
How can
I gracefully communicate what’s important to me, but also understand &
accept that it might be
different than what’s important to the other person?
What
would happen if I saw things through the other person’s eyes, looking through
the lens of what’s
important to them? How
might that change me, or change what I see as important?
Mercury enters the shadow of his retrograde (6/26 - 7/20) on Monday, June
10th. On the practical level, back
up your computers, set your travel plans, & tune up your vehicles of
transportation. On an emotional
& mental level, take note of what is stirring up for you 6/10 - 6/26
because it’ll be up for review through July. Given the planetary positions, it’s likely that your views
on your relationships, your diet, & how you both give & receive
nurturing will be going through some changes. More on that in my next report. For now, I suggest you be loving to yourself & others,
& remember that we’re all - like it or not - sensitive.
The Pluto/Uranus square
offers longterm growth potential (that’s woo-woo-speak for anything challenging)
on both the collective & individual level. That influence is covered fairly thoroughly in the link
above, but what’s exciting about this exact pass is that it occurs shortly
before Mercury & Venus form a Cardinal T-Square with this ongoing square
configuration. What that means for
us humans is a burst of insight into how this pattern is playing out in our
lives, & a sense of what really matters to us in this situation. It’s likely you’ll find that your
family (loosely defined) mean a lot more to you than you realized. At the very least, they’ll take some
attention away from your personal revolution & metaphorical
mountain-climbing, & in so doing offer some key perspectives on those
processes.
Also, we’re given another sneak peak into the summer’s Grand Water
Trine as Mercury & then Venus step briefly into a sweeping & sloppy
waltz with Neptune about to turn retrograde in Pisces & Saturn about to
turn direct in Scorpio. I know I
said it’s time to take a look at your mind, but it’s also time to take a look at your feelings (eek!) -
What
have you been learning about power since October?
Have you
been working towards mastering your own (rather than others’) transformation?
Who
needs forgiving? You? Your parents? Those you’ve had conflict with? Those you’re closest with?
How
compassionate are you with yourself & others?
Are you
taking proper care of yourself?
Are you
caring enough for those who mean the most to you?
Are you
getting enough care from those you mean the most to? If not, how can you effectively ask for more?
Next
month’s report will cover Mercury’s retrograde in Cancer, Jupiter’s entry into
Cancer, & the summer’s Grand Water Trine & Cardinal T-Square. A final hint for this month is to
review what you’ve been taking leaps of faith on since June 2012. It’s time to wrap that stuff up, &
get ready for the next big leap... or dive...
For
more personalized insight, you may go here to schedule a private astrological consult, or an Alithesis healing session. I’ll be practicing in Seattle until
late July. By September, I’ll be
practicing in Oakland, CA. In August,
I’ll be available for phone consultations only. Until next month’s posting, happy mental flossing, & get
ready to reconnect with your heart.
Thanks for reading,
