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Making Contact Mercury Retrograde in Cancer June 7th to July 1st

Making Contact

Communicative Mercury entered emotional Cancer on May 29 to turn our minds inward. The need to understand ourselves and to transform feelings into thoughts is necessary before we can effectively speak about them with others. This process of reflection and review becomes even more significant as the messenger planet approaches its thrice-annual retrograde period that starts on June 7. This reversal cycle, lasting until July 1, is always about reflection and review, providing three weeks for rethinking critical issues while requiring greater clarity in communication and in managing details.

This particular Mercury retrograde is especially helpful for becoming more aware of how we connect with others because this speedy little planet backs into its airy home sign Gemini on June 17. Revisiting the chattiest part of the zodiac until July 12 offers many opportunities to recognize heretofore unconscious patterns of expression and avoidance that play major roles in personal and professional relationships. Normally, mentally charged Mercury is rooted in words. We share ideas, facts, opinions, speculation, jokes, insults, complaints and appreciation in verbal or written form. Yet with during this reversal period we may become aware that we’re missing something in our messages; that while making contact with our minds we fail to connect with our hearts.

Talking is used to both show and hide who we really are. But simply looking into someone’s eyes is an excellent way to meet on a deeper level. This doesn’t require a lengthy round of staring with your lover but can make magic happen in a matter of seconds. A brief moment of eye contact with a salesperson or a stranger can be enough to change a superficial contact into a meaningful one. There is something both powerful and vulnerable about meeting people in this way. No goal or great effort is required as the point is neither to please or to control anyone. It’s a simple means of connecting, from one person to another. There’s no demand, no expectation, just a simple energetic hookup that reminds us that we are parts of one human family. In doing so we honor the humanity in all of us.

I understand that making eye contact is difficult for some people, as if doing so allows them to be invaded by others. This may come from a fear of being judged or not wanting to impose yourself by entering someone else’s personal space. But guess what, it’s all personal; all of life is experienced personally and even the biggest, baddest boss or bully is vulnerable underneath their aura of authority. Sharing your humanity with a soulful look or a subtly lingering glance helps us to overcome isolation. And, perhaps, it will open new lines of communication that enable us to discover what we cannot find alone. This Mercury retrograde needn’t be known for mistakes and misunderstandings but can be a time when we deepen connections without words to remind us that we are one.

Jeff Jawer

My philosophy for a happy life: Sam Berns at TEDxMidAtlantic 2013

Wednesday January 29th

Wednesday January 29

The Day of Mercury, the Messenger of the Gods, in the World/Week of Earth.
The stones attributed to Mercury are Opals and his metal is of course,
Quicksilver. All the action today is over by 8:47 am, giving us a day
to integrate, reconnoiter, and complete as we end the current lunar cycle
under a void moon. The Sun sextiles Uranus, a step in the closing of the
yearly cycle of quantum change that started last March 28. What progress
have you made since then? At 8:33 pm, the Moon’s entry into Aquarius
activates a flow of New Moon energy. It’s an easy, calm evening as
Moon in Aquarius connects with Mercury, the sole connection of the night.
It’s a great time to talk things out. It’s a dual use apocalypse. It is
granting sight on the one hand and it is creating blindness on the other.
For those being made blind, there is no awareness that this is taking place.
The adjustment of vision immediately transforms into normal, as if it was
always so. So many things are happening on so many levels. From the
cultural, to the financial to the governing bodies, reeking with corruption,
like a burning landfill in a third world country; the remnants of
civilization are picking through the wreckage. Today is a good day to make
our wishes for the new lunar cycle.

Mercury in Capricorn

On Tuesday, December 24 cerebral Mercury entered orderly Capricorn. This began an 18-day period when minds seek structures and patterns in which to anchor our ideas. Organizing the details of our lives is a positive expression of this transit, yet there is also a risk of becoming intellectually rigid and obsessive about putting information, objects and people in the “right” places. The potential of locking into mental immobility plays an even more important role when Mercury joins the Sun in Capricorn on December 28. While there is hope that the creative solar force can spice up thinking with bright ideas, the Sun’s involvement puts will and ego into play, which can amplify the instinct to restrict reality with our minds. The cosmic message is to reform, renovate and make new traditions instead of rigidly holding onto the old ones. Whether we succeed or not will have a lot to do with how we handle Mercury in Capricorn. Rigid thinking can exacerbate the potential explosiveness of December 25 and leave chaos and confusion in its wake. So the irony is that the more tightly we try to control our world the more easily disrupted it becomes. It’s difficult to adapt to the surprises that appear to be in store for us when we’re stuck with an old rulebook that doesn’t leave room for exceptions. Mercury’s conjunction with the Sun on the 28th, therefore, could represent the last stand of old ideas that are not suited for the new world. Happily, there are other ways to use our minds that should prove to be effective under these volatile circumstances. Clear thinking is different than conditioned thinking. It has an inherent objectivity that offers the widest range of perception possible. Cerebral Mercury is naturally objective until it’s colored by rules and dressed in regulations that inhibit original thought. Conditioned thinking is about preservation rather than discovery, which might be useful in a museum but isn’t valuable in a living, breathing, changing reality. Capricorn, in spite of its reputation for authority and control, is a practical, season starting Cardinal sign whose conservatism is meant to nourish growth rather than to stop it. The pragmatic way to go these days is not to retreat from the rising tides of change, but to build a vehicle of clear consciousness that allows us to lead the way. In fact, the primary challenges of these times and through next two years is to become leaders instead of being followers. Resistance to change is futile but energetically engaging in forging ahead with new personal habits and professional aspirations is how we can succeed. Practicing these habits by making small changes in safe areas of life is perfect preparation for taking bigger steps in riskier areas. Whether it’s opening our hearts in spite of fear of intimacy or shifting careers in an uncertain economy, the solutions we seek come from the courage and creativity of our actions rather than the rules imposed by external authorities. Clear thinking frees us to be in the present, which is the best place from which to create the future.

Wednesday December 11

Wednesday December 11


The Day of Mercury in Waterweek. Expansive Sagittarius can be overwhelming to detail-oriented Mercury. Small things are easily blown out of proportion. Facts are out of whack. Tall tales abound. Yet, this is also when the lens of perception is widened and the mind opens. We could charm a snake from a cat’s vagina just by snoring. We could steer a tank with our diction even if you numbed our tongue with a lethartonic unguent. Mercury in Sagittarius can be a time of enthusiastic words, confident messages and creative communication, but big promises may stretch the truth. The trick is to drop your prejudices, but not your reason. In the desire to find one big answer to all of life's questions it is easy to overlook nuance and
appreciate different points of view. Sagittarius looks toward the future, so that perceptive Mercury's presence here
supports visions of tomorrow. The trick is to fill in all the details so that the picture you're selling is the one
that actually develops. The Moon carries on in Aries, completing its activation of the Cardinal Cross with contacts
to Pluto and Jupiter, providing hints into what we will gain through Jupiter’s retrograde and an opportunity to further
our goals.

December 4th: Mercury shoots into Sagittarius

Wednesday December 4

The Day of Mercury in the kabbalistic World of Fire, Atziluth. Visualize your self wearing sneakers with wings as you read this. Mercury's function is to think. To know. To reason. There is no foot race to win here. Language is his playground. The Akasic Library is his home. And oh yes, Hermes is a Love god. He likes the sound of his own voice. Write a poem, a sonnet, or some erotica today and them transmit that information to at least one other person. Cerebral Mercury, the master of data and details, is less concerned with practical matters during its three-week transit in big-thinking Sagittarius. This farsighted point of view is useful for spurring intuition, inspiration and recognizing lofty principles, but can make us less effective at dealing with facts. Aspirations may blossom in this high-minded environment, yet a failure to ground them in reality is a possible risk..The Moon enters Capricorn just before sunrise. Capricorn represents, on the level of the first octave, the period between 7 weeks until 12 weeks after Conception, when the embryo becomes a fetus, and the sex and physical appearance are determined. The body takes form through it's skeletal system. On the level of the fourth octave (see Chapter 9 of the Metaversal Lightcraft Training Manual for more on the Four Octaves), Capricorn represents the integration and structuring of the higher perceptions of the Self in the World on a practical level. On the World scale, Capricorn occupies the period between AD 1750 and AD 1840. This was the time when the ideology of Sagittarius was translated into material form. Humanity evinced a superiority over the forces of nature, and the Industrial revolution began. Romanticism surrounded the likes of
Shelly, Goethe, Byron, and Chopin, reacting to the cold prevailing mechanistic World view. Rudolph Steiner said
that the human being is created, and destined to be, a self-defining creature. Are we slightly higher than monkeys
or slightly lower than angels? Good old fashion hard work yields the answer. Monkeys and Angels are set to grind
corn with the Sun in Capricorn. Tackle those long term projects and remember, the Mountain must be tackled one step
at a time.

Wednesday, November 20

Wednesday November 20

The Day of Mercury in the week of active Air, and the communication planet, now moving forward, reaches the thick of the
planetary degree-cluster for the third of three times (prior hits October 6-8 and November 1) as it links with Uranus,
Pluto, and Chiron today. What more do you know now than at the beginning of October? How have things changed for you?
The Moon goes into instinctual Cancer at 3:23 am, to take us through the gauntlet of Cardinal planets once again, from
an emotional perspective. Thought and heart reach harmony by day’s end. Tear down the pyramids and let whales dine on the
mummies of kings! Let it spur you into action if you are following a plan. Do not expect curb service with the mind that we had previously, because we now Have a Quantum Mind Deluxe . Love is the Law. With the subtlety of a sledgehammer, thought and expression, the depth of imagination, and the ability to think non-verbally inspire you to create beautiful art and music. Cyclonic Banshee Satori is the new mantra we assign to you free of charge. You want one of the round thingies, too? A mandala? All we have left are the ones with Aztec Mermaids in Cowboy Hats Riding Turquoise Emus. Oh, you’ve already got one of those? Well, you’ll have to wait if you want the Hedge-Devas on Bumblebees. The monkeys saw this coming and stayed in the trees, but now they descend to raze our mini-golf shrines and cut loose our pets from their leashes. v

IAO CORE singularity RADIO SATURNSDAY 10-26-13

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