Mercury Stations Direct & the Darjeeling Express Restaurant
As Neptune finds its bearings, from 14 years in the dreamy sign of Pisces to the new sign of fiery Aries, Mercury retrograde still submerged in Pisces (27 degrees) stations direct on Monday, April 7. Mercury will remain in its retrograde shadow ‘til April 26. We therefore move very slowly forward ‘til that time.
Simultaneously, Venus is also retrograde in Pisces around the same time and degrees as Mercury. Venus retrograde will station direct on April 12, during the Aries Spring Festival (full moon), just as Passover begins and the day before Palm Sunday. We see three festivals appearing in the same days – Jewish (Passover), Palm Sunday (Christian), and astrological/esoteric (Venus stations direct). When the different stages of humanity’s development (religions, beliefs, etc.) converge, it is the signal that the new Aquarian religion is forming and creating a foundation that is inclusive of and yet also beyond humanity’s previous stages of reality.
Let’s look at the week ahead under the sign of Aries:
Wednesday, April 2, is Gemini moon. We seek to chat, to convene, to meet, to communicate with one another. Dialogue is most important. When that is limited or obstructed a deep depression can fall upon one another. Gemini says to each of us “make contact, then love is released.” Gemini receives Ray 2 of Love, Wisdom from a star in the Big Dipper.
Thursday is under Gemini, too, until later in the afternoon, when the moon enters Cancer and all of a sudden, we are hungry. We have Cancer moon Saturday and Sunday, too. There is a restaurant in London called the “Darjeeling Express.” (see Netflix’s Chef’s Table) (darjeeling-express.com/aboutus)
Its chef (Asma Khan) began her restaurant after her mother, knowing her daughter was hungry (metaphor for connection/friendship) taught her the family’s recipes. (Note: Darjeeling Express is Cancer Sun, June 27, 2017).
Friday, April 4, is unexpected with sudden revelations and disciplines with both a Mars Uranus followed by a Mars/Saturn transit.
Saturday, we continue to seek nourishment. Sunday is joyful with Leo moon and Sun/Jupiter. Our talents come forth.
Tuesday, we contemplate our values, resources, finances and what and whom we love – Venus sextiles Uranus. And then things change! Note: a deep study of Neptune, as it entered Aries, is on my website – Sunday, March 30 for those interested in Neptune’s history, Hollywood and entrance into Aries.
ARIES: It’s best to be careful being out and about. You’re experiencing the energies of Neptune’s Pisces, which is a bit dreamy and at times confused, especially when in the midst of crowds for any length of time. It’s best to be reflective, solitary, and with only a few people who understand (astrology) and support your many endeavors. Dreams and visions are important now. What are your visions for the future and how/where do you hope to see yourself in the coming year(s)?
TAURUS: Each day you enter a dream state, a place where your creativity emerges, and you fashion a world of beauty, love, and truth – a future world also of safety and survival. You attempt to share this with others but often they can become impatient. You stand solitary in your knowledge knowing it’s your responsibility to bring forth the resources needed to create the new Aquarian world. Everyone around you has their own gift to bring forth. Recognize them and then yours expand. The most important person in the world now is the teacher.
GEMINI: Questions to ponder and answer. Where are you (physically, emotionally and mentally) and what are you doing each day and who do you relate to? Where is your group of like-minded people? What are you reading, what are your plans, what is your timing, what are you hoping for and what do you need? Can you follow and answer these questions? Your answers are like a preliminary résumé to join a spiritual community. All answers are correct. We’d just like to get to know you more. What meadows are you in these days? What flowers are blooming?
CANCER: Are you considering a journey somewhere? It’s good to plan on vising lands and seas, cultures and people unknown to you. They will change your thinking, and perceptions of the world and of your own life. What feelings are you experiencing? It seems essential that plans are made for the future and that your home be ordered and organized. Even if little gets accomplished, do one organizing task each day. A boat (for you or a child) is a good idea to invest in. We are all in the new Noah’s Ark, the ship from Pisces to Aquarius.
LEO: A sense of reorientation is being felt. Something’s hidden behind seeming multiple veils, creating a state of transformation in your life. Is there a sense of fear about the world crisis? Is there a fear about others relating to you? Are tears flowing from your eyes, are there water leaks in the home or car? Observe and check all things mechanical and liquid. People, places and things are calling to you. Your responses will change your life forever. Enter the deeper mysteries. The door has opened to a new level of creativity within relationships.
VIRGO: Neptune in Aries – your expanding intuition is about daily life, about ways to serve the self and others, about small animals, plantlings, gardens. You are Demeter, coming to life again. And so, signs in opposition, like Virgo and Pisces, create an interplay of dark and light, up and down, here and there, until the two, frightened and mistrustful of each other, finally make peace, integrate and synthesize. With so many planets still in Pisces and Mars in Cancer (waters of life) a purification is occurring. Virgo is the sign of serving as Pisces is the sign of saving. You are both now.
LIBRA: You may feel exhausted and in need of rest when confronted with your usual work schedule. And then you may feel a wounding difficult to express. There’s a purpose to that wounding, providing you with the ability to have compassion, to forgive which brings a healing to self and others. However, you must come to a state (like a burning ground) of courage where you can clearly articulate your wound without blaming others. Wounds become life tools. They balance us. They love you. What is your intuition telling you about daily life and habits?
SCORPIO: Creativity is a north star for you at this time. It’s call to you is a call for a new life. Should you surrender completely to your creativity, you will be rewarded with an expansion of gifts you didn’t know existed. Creativity for you works under the inspiration of aspiration and vision, which then expresses the beauty which all forms veil. This last statement is most important to understand. This unfolding revelation of beauty underlies your life-purpose, which motivates all life events and forms. Do you understand this? Artistic expression, in multiple forms, is your future.
SAGITTARIUS: Know that your well-being is intact no matter how you live, where your home is, how you feel or sense things to be. No matter what you think your domestic situation is, there are realistic new resources and avenues seeking you so you can rest easy and not enter into states of unease, unreality or feelings of lack. Nothing needs doing. You are supported by all the energies in the world. Turn to others and also offer them this support. Your supply is limitless. A family and generational healing will be taking place.
CAPRICORN: You may be called to express yourself in ways that could shift, confuse, change and upend people’s belief systems. Know the Ray 4 reality we live within – a new harmony emerging from chaos and conflict. Always express new ideas with compassion, clarity, sensitivity and kindness. When speaking with others create a line of light from heart to heart, mind to mind, Soul to Soul (5-pointed star above our heads). Then the Soul assumes direction. The Neptune in Aries brings an intuitional level to all that you say and do.
AQUARIUS: You’ve returned to a place where you again ask the questions, “Why am I here, what is here that supports me and where do I go from here?” Your value system is also changing. At times you wonder if there are enough resources to support your visions. You dream of home, family, art, community. Do only what you love. Simultaneously, serve others, supporting their well-being, security, and self-esteem. All that is given is returned one-hundred-fold. Bless all those in your life and all resources offered. And be interested in other people’s values.
PISCES: A new sense of identity will begin to dawn on your awareness. It will be necessary to enter deeper into observing your inner self. Neptune in Aries takes your dreams and puts them out in the open for all to see, hear, consider and respond to. For the next fourteen years! A profound change will come over your life, refining it, and thus allowing for great accomplishments to occur. They may seem like miracles, but they are not. They are your visions coming into manifestation. Stand within a new level of faith. And call forth the devas to build that community.
Risa – writer, editor, educator, teacher, psychological-spiritual counselor, mentor, astrologer & esotericist. Founder & Director of The Esoteric & Astrological Studies & Research Institute/College, a contemporary Wisdom School (center for spiritual discourse & study) for the Ageless Wisdom teachings. Foundations of the Teachings are the study & application of exoteric & esoteric Astrology, the Seven Rays, Theosophy, Esotericism, all religions, art, science & Raja Yoga meditation. risagoodwill@gmail.com nightlightnews.org/ Astrological, esoteric, day-to-day news, art, literature, psychology, the cosmos, consciousness, philosophy, history, religion, economics, geography & cultural journalism.
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