At the Crossroads

The planets in motion are merely setting the atmospheric conditions. How the tensions and harmonies play out is up to us. Eric Francis of Planetwaves writes about this week's square of Mercury to the triple conjunction in Aquarius as an invitation to create our own reality. But, he writes, "If this is true, it’s going to be more meaningful and more noticeable to those who are actively involved in such a process, rather (for example) than cruising along or struggling to maintain some version of the status quo."

I'm definitely sensing the crossroads tensions of this mega square to Mercury in Taurus. It's the planet that mediates experience, and experiments with thoughts as the seeds for reality. This tension in fixed signs can challenge us to see where we're willfully dug into a mental groove. Francis points out that the vast majority are inflexibly wed to their own way of thinking, and literally the method (Mercury) of the mind. "That method," he writes, 'involves deliberate use of ignorance; and on a strange attachment to not changing."

His insights remind me of the vision of Christine Page, author of 2012 and the Galactic Center. It's that when everything dissolves (as we're seeing now), most will seek some kind of continuity, by re-creating the old story. Some will sleep walk through it, others will be frustrated and confused. And a few will see it as a chance to experiment with the "create your own reality" thing. Page's guide told her, "5 percent will understand, recognizing the opportunity to be vanguards and light bearers of a new creative cycle."

I see myself at the crossroads, with the feel of having one foot in the old way, and one in the new. Some days I'm lazy and fall into familiar grooves that I know are stale and whiney. Other days, I see the stunning potential of a life that requires me to believe that I can "create my own reality." It's tempting to grasp at the familiar, but what happens if we open to "not knowing." In that suspended moment, not unlike the New Moon time, everything is rearranged. It opens the door to quantum leaps toward a different kind of future.