Slipping Between

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The weekend began with a day of celestial silence followed the next day, Saturday, with our mental skeptic, Mercury in Gemini, square our mental visionary, Uranus in Pisces. Not surprising our mind slipped between states of consciousness; one moment engaged in rational thought the next dissipation our thought soaring up, up and away. For those of us who pride our selves on our erudite thinking we may experience times like these very unsettling and feel that our memory is slipping away. On Friday I read an article talking about the magnetic change of the global brain and how this is contributing to the human ego losing it’s linear patterning resulting in memory lapses and incongruent communication with others. This aptly describes certain experiences I hear from friends and what about the rest of us? I know nothing about the magnetic change of the global brain but losing our linear thinking is exactly what Uranus in Pisces offers us as a process of growing in consciousness.

If we consider the speed at which information is disseminated on our streets and in our homes it isn’t any wonder many of us suffer memory lapse nor that we rely upon a mental filtering system like Mercury in Gemini. When under the influence of Gemini we can harbor a healthy reservoir of skepticism protecting our minds from becoming boundless sponges absorbing every particle of sensory minutia from our environment. The conflict arises, as it did this weekend, when we surrender our innovative visions for the familiarity of our linear logic. When we do, we sacrifice our participation in a larger dimension of ourselves which cannot be explained through the logos of our conscious mind. Is it possible that this is what we experience as memory loss?

On Sunday, Mercury in Gemini moved in harmony with Neptune in Aquarius showing us another view of slipping between two states of consciousness only this time our rational and our innovative consciousness were walking arm in arm; the skeptic in us relaxed and open to the inexplicable. If this shift in our skepticism seems overtly predetermined please consider that our consciousness is changing with each moment lived and that not only are we inventing our reality of the world moment to moment but we are inventing ourselves moment to moment which leads us to invent our reality of the world moment to moment.

Venus in Cancer trine Uranus in Pisces, the sign of exaltation for Venus, further substantiated our willingness on Sunday to value that aspect in our self seeking an expansive life perspective. Venus in Cancer is that aspect in our self valuing emotional connection with others, as well as, valuing our capacity for giving nourishment to ourselves. When this aspect of our self is in harmony with Uranus we are ready to nurture our intuitive understanding that we are part of a greater whole, and reaching beyond self imposed limitations we allow ourselves to connect with something greater than ourselves. Our rational mind expresses itself in fragments and with the help of Uranus, Neptune, and Venus every mental fragment participates in the vitality of the whole which is alive in the totality of its parts.