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This week, Mercury in the late degrees of Cancer is making several complicated aspects.

Moving issues around communication, mental stability, and smooth flowing commerce center stage.

In Cancer, Mercury is toned by emotionality, bringing the world of feeling into our analytical evaluations.

Neptune in Pisces trine Mercury, tones our communication with a glossy veneer of magic. It is dreamy and Imaginal, often distracting us from the task at hand. It can make pinning down accurate information more challenging, leaving us to evaluate what is in right front of us more subjectively then we usually do. It has that “it’s all relative vibe”.

Mercury opposite Pluto in Capricorn creates an atmosphere of murky depth. All of the sudden the stakes feel more severe, and we can’t necessarily find the bottom or edges of the issue. Under this transit people may experience us as especially intense, as we often “don the hat” of the existential detective, committed to get down to the truth of the matter.

Mercury has also just begun his square to the nodes in Cancer. This will be in effect through to next week. This denotes a time when the Mercurial Realms of life impact our greater karmic/evolutionary journey. So be intentional here.

Mercury conjunct Black Moon Lilith and Square Eris. Both conjunctions and Squares are hard aspects. Black Moon Lilith and Eris are Dark Goddesses, suggesting a meeting with the unconscious realms. With Mercury’s opposition to Pluto, we already feel the pull towards the underworld.

This tells me that we may, at some point, operate from our unconscious, say something that is unsayable, or make a commercial mistake that is undoable, that has evolutionary or karmic repercussions.

Making the intention to stay conscious through this heightened Mercury portal a worthy endeavor. If for some reason, the influence of the stars wins out, use this as practice to love your humanity. We all makes mistakes, or move from the shadows, and say/do things that have consequences from time to time.

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SIRIUS STARGATE

Today the Sun is conjunct the Dog Star of Summer, Sirius.

Sirius was known to the Ancient’s as the “Spiritual” Sun of our Sun.

As Sirius merges with the Sun, her rays filter down to Earth and light up our planetary grid, Shifting the energy percolating through the atmosphere.

Sirius, also called Alpha Canis Majoris or the Dog Star, brightest star in the night sky. It has a radius 1.71 times that of the Sun and a surface temperature of 9,940 kelvins (K), which is more than 4,000 K, higher than that of the Sun. Its distance from the solar system is 8.6 light-years, only twice the distance of the nearest known star system beyond the Sun, the Alpha Centauri. Its name comes from a Greek word meaning “sparkling” or “scorching.”

Egyptians knew the Star as Sothis. Sothis made her helical rise from the “Underworld” just before the annual flooding of the Nile signaling the Egyptian New Year.

Sothis is the Greek name for the Goddess Sopdhet, Our Lady of the New Year. She is also related to the Energy of Isis, and the Great Mother.

What I find especially interesting about this, is the feeling I have internally each year that this period, now, is the slow ramping up of the New Year. And it mirrors the lull many feel in midwinter, just after the traditional New Year begins.

It’s a time when I’m planning and planting seeds for the coming season of production that always feels as though it officially takes off at the Fall Equinox. (Which I believe is the Jewish New Year)

It’s made me wonder if any part of me had previous lifetimes in Egypt. And the memory of such is still embedded in my bones. I know I have in the land of Israel/Palestine.

When Sirius makes her yearly conjunction with the Sun at 14° Cancer, we have the opportunity to merge with Sirius/Sun energy.

She is of “the nature of Jupiter”. Expansive, spiritual, sweeping, exalted, philosophical, abundant, faithful, full of devotion. Sirius gives us honor, and people encoded with Her energy are often revered and renown. They are custodians and guardians of wisdom and care.

There is also thought to be a protective aspect to Sirius. That she helps people get ahead through protecting them from evil.

With Sirius’ relationship to the Great Mother, in the sign of Cancer, it’s a great time to tune into the energetics of the moment. How the atmosphere feels fully pregnant. Love, abundance, desire, satiation, holding, & slowness, all permeate the air.

This energetic, mirrors many aspects of the Static Feminine. The Great Round who holds and Gestates the World. The Womb. Can you feel that? Especially in the Northern Hemisphere.

If possible, in the next few days get outside and soak up some rays. Lay your body on the Earth.

Art Stuart LittleJohn

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