Looking Back in Taurus and Gemini Via Signs and Signals Anticipating 2024.

Mercury is rapidly slowing, preparing to go retrograde soon! Lots of Gemini and Taurus action ahead!

The shadow zone is defined by the span between where a planet goes retrograde, and where it goes direct after the retrograde period. In this case, Mercury goes retrograde at 5 Gemini on May 10. It will retrograde back to 27 Taurus, where it goes stationary direct on June 3.

That puts the shadow zone between 27 Taurus and 5 Gemini, and as of about 10:30 pm PST April 25, Mercury will enter 27 Taurus, the degree where it’ll go SD in early June. I’ll be writing quite a few articles about the coming retrograde which will post as it comes closer.

So we now begin an 8 week run of three passes over the first 5 degrees of Gemini and the last 4 degrees of Taurus. We’ll have returns related to old Taurus and Gemini people and events which impacted our lives in the past. This will be “a look back” at past ideas, people who were like sisters or brothers to us, what once brought us comfort or security, and a new look at our mature wisdom. Mercury retrograde always gives a new take on whatever it’s transiting, and this period is going to reveal much which will be important when Jupiter transits late Taurus and early. And as the Sun, Venus, and Mars all transit this entire span fairly soon, we’ll see a lot of quick action related to whatever is being uncovered or brought to light in late May, late June, and all of August.

During Mercury retrograde, we often see how we dealt with something in the past and come to new insights about how it affected our ways of relating to similar things since then, or we could come to a new way to apply those old insights into life experiences. The sign where Mercury “looks back” opens us to new ways to view those things, giving opportunities to weave, unweave, or re-weave our understanding of how to apply our “second sight” as we are “guided to our Soul.”

Since Mercury last went stationary direct in early February, we’ve been in a period of seeing how we can find “transcendent security” in relatively comfortable circumstances. As that direct station featured a conjunction to Pluto, I’m sure most all of us have been “seeing to the core” of things, uncovering hidden things from the past, seeing the seeds of future power and effectiveness, and “getting things done” wherever we have late Capricorn.

This Mercury retrograde period will definitely bridge the present and future! This begins in a dynamic urge to “reach beyond established forms” and a need to “reform” something, and takes us back through the part of Gemini associated with “actional discovery” and revisit the part of Taurus which confirms something of our individual spirituality.

Time To Adjust to A Different Pace

The Mercurial data you notice over the next 3+ weeks will be clarified after the Sun crosses the Mercury SRX degree around May 25/26 just as Mars enters Aries. So for the rest of April and early May, adapt to the slowing pace of things, get all your papers in order, finish what you can in the next 3 weeks, and prepare to put some things on hold for a little while.

Take a look at what's been set into motion with an eye to building in delays, rehearsals, or more research before things again begin to move forward in early June. The time before Mercury goes retrograde is good for doing what must be done so that other related things can be done later, as well as reconnecting with people and activities from the past that are somehow related to the future.

With Mercury’s retrograde station at 5 Gemini, get ready to go inward and get at some inner material which may have been stuffed down before now. We can find a new way of seeing or expressing ourselves in a social set up, more or less “backing into discoveries” as a prelude to finding new ways of offering our wisdom to our world in enjoyable ways. I’ll give you more about Mercury’s SRX degree in a week or so.

if you want to know more about Mercury retrograde and how it may operate in Taurus and Gemini and how it affects your chart, please consider getting your copy of the 2nd edition of A New Look at Mercury Retrograde where you can find out all you need about this retrograde, as well as past and future retrogrades. Here's the Amazon link to where you can order the paperback 2nd edition of A New Look at Mercury Retrograde, and if you want an Kindle ebook copy you can get it there as well, or if you prefer, go to B&N's site and get their copy in Nook. Just make sure you get the much improved 2nd edition with the award on the cover rather than the earlier one from 1997.

A Look Back At Our “Graduation into a new realm of Being” since March 2020!

In 2020, Mercury went retrograde in February-March which launched a transfiguration phase in all our lives which is still impacting us through 2023! So I figured I’d leave it in so you can take a new look at how we’ve “graduated into a new realm of Being” since March 2020 which was activated by Mars’ transit through the Transfiguration Zone in mid-May 2020.

However we chose to transfigure our lives since then has now expanded into greater truths, opportunities, and adventures due to Jupiter’s three transits of this zone in 2021, blessing and expanding the promise three times: the first time was April 28-May 13, the second time was July 28-August 14 and the third and last passage was between December 18-29. This has now found new expression since Mars again transited the zone in mid-April.

The theme of the “Transfiguration Zone” at the last two degrees of Aquarius is the future of humanity, as it is the entry zone to the coming Age of Aquarius. You ARE a “Being of Light.” WE are “Beings of Light.” We are One Light/Life all together, simultaneously existing in a vast field of Light/Life. And our nature, and the nature of “All-That-Is,” is Love. Unconditional, eternal, dancing waves of Love across dimensions, an infinite perfection of harmony, movement and all enveloping Love. This is the nature of humanity and all of Life. These were the themes cut loose globally between January and May 2020 which will be made manifest in many ways over the next two years as Saturn also moves through the zone.

A look back to look forward at the emergent Age. Originally published on January 30, 2020, for your reconsideration,

The End of Aquarius is the Beginning of the New Age

Mercury is the second inner planet to enter the last two degrees of Aquarius in 2020. This zone is one of transfiguration and entrance into a greater realm of Light/Life, where we can catch glimpses of the Age to come, as well as what’s up for the years between 2050 and 2190.

So at 10 pm PST February 1, 2020, Mercury enters the 29th degree of Aquarius, occupying the last two degrees of Aquarius until 3:37 am PST when it enters Pisces. This year the Sun will be the next to transit this span between 10:55 pm PST February 16 and 8:57 pm February 18 when it too enters Pisces.

Due to our global precession from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius, we leave Pisces at the beginning of the first degree of that sign, and enter the Age of Aquarius via the last degree of that sign. By my calculations, at this point between Ages we are still at the first degree of Pisces and will enter the Age of Aquarius sometime in the third quarter of this century.

Since a Great Age is about 2160 years, mas o menos, it means each degree of a great Age equals about 72 years. Thus the transition between Ages runs around 210-360 years. We’re directly in the heart of that transitional era.

The New Age began to “pre-form” some of its bridging structures when Saturn occupied 29 and 30 Aquarius and 1 Pisces between mid-April and early August 1993 and January 1994. Jupiter expanded our growth in those late Aquarian themes in late January and early February 1998 and again in January 2010. After 2010, Mars activated these “cusp of the Age” themes in late February 2011, late January and early February 2013, January 2015, December 2016, and November 2018. It will activate them again in early May 2020.

After that, these late Aquarian themes will begin to be expressed in new long terms forms which will bridge the current Age and the coming Age when Jupiter again transits the last 2 degrees of Aquarius and first degree of Pisces between late April and mid-August 2021 and late December 2021. Mars will activate those expanded and renewed themes of 29 and 30 Aquarius in April 2022, with Saturn crystallizing the Mars-activated Jupiter pulses when it transits the last 2 degrees of Aquarius in February and March 2023.

Those will be set into motion by subsequent Mars transits, and expanded in newer forms at the next Jupiter transit in 2033. Pluto eventually transits this span of degrees in 2041-2044, which will initiate the seeds of the Age of Aquarius sprouting in widespread forms.

Anyway, on February 1 and 2 Mercury transits the last two degrees of Aquarius, giving us Mercurial signs and signals about the 140+ era to come in the last half of this century and the beginning of the next. The last two degrees of Aquarius are “Butterfly emerging from chrysalis” and “The field of Ardath in bloom.” I’m not going to go extensively into these portentous degrees today, but will note that the former is a degree of transfiguration and “graduation into a new realm of being,” and the latter is one where “everyone may count on the inherent friendliness of the universe” and find the fruits of their more positive labors as "we all shine on, like the Moon and the Stars and the Sun, and we all shine on, on and on and on and on...."

In these degrees we find our ability to emanate our Light through our lives, find “an uncompromising faith in the promise of existence itself and in the wonders of a continuing creation,” as well as “self-illumination through exceptional service to others.” Here we transform the implications of our Light/Life through our new ability to self-transcend, and can experience ourselves as Lights within a greater field of Light, with infinite particles within waves showing the vaster unified field of existence.

Imagine this is the future of humanity. This is the Mercurial signal of this Cosmic Moment in Time.

You can find out more about this larger transitional Era between the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius by revisiting these two recent articles:

Are We In The Age of Pisces Or Have We Begun The Age of Aquarius?

Uranus Awakened the Age of Aquarius, Neptune Dreamed It Into Collective Consciousness, and Pluto Will Sprout It Into Life

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