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by Terry Lamb

As May opens, we find ourselves in a lull between energetic patterns. The big new beginnings are behind us, our intentions for those cycles encoded in their design. It feels fresh, even exciting to be headed forward again after months of tying up loose ends. Sure, there’s more to complete, because this Mercury cycle is more about healing and completing than it is our new beginnings, so we have to be content to lag behind in some area.

The four new momentous beginnings of this spring (March 28 (2), April 6 and April 17) gave way to the dissolving influence of the Lunar Eclipse on April 25, setting us adrift on the seas of our co-created fortunes to see where we land. At that time, we began a new voyage through liminal space, with Saturn as our primary guide. It’s time to observe our actions and experiences since early last October: have we been doing enough to reach our goals? Where are we going? Do we still want to go in the same direction?

In May, we experience a second Eclipse on May 9 (a Solar) and an unusual third eclipse (another Lunar) on May 24. This gives us a good, long opportunity to shift the energies in our favor through subtle inner changes, whether it is by removing old thoughts and patterns that keep us stuck or by visualizing what we want to create.

Eclipses disperse old forms and drive the energies inward, to well up periodically as a stream of related experiences and events. Accordingly, don’t expect the customary, straightforward internalized quietude of the New Moon, nor the “now you see it” Full Moon manifestations. On a Solar Eclipse, energies that have been stored for a long time are released as seemingly random events that create an instantaneous realignment. On the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, the culmination is deeper, more nuanced, and carries hidden treasure that we must mine to gain its true value. Some of the effects will take one, three, six and 18 months (or more) to fully flourish.

We can make best use of this energy and time by accepting the voyage. We can let ourselves go adrift now, without worrying about feeling the familiar structures around us. This frees us to make imperceptible changes that will smooth the way into the big transformations we want, a waterslide of events to the cool pool at our destination. Not everything will dissolve; use the structures in your life that are not touched by the eclipse energies to maintain a sense of the familiar as you facilitate this subtle but substantial shift.

We will find our new moorings in as little as three days after each eclipse, or we can choose to extend our voyage through the entire eclipse season (April 23 – May 24), continuing our process of reshaping the inner expanse, for it is here that new landscapes form around the stories we tell ourselves.

In the midst of this process, the third of seven squares occurs between Uranus and Pluto on May 20. This is a clash of the titans, as these most explosive of planets represent forces of transformation in life and society. Their interaction is a timer for forces of social revolution and challenge humanity’s ability to respond to the need for change.

They require of us a bolder approach in order to face down the extraordinary challenges we face as parts of our social structure go through a gradual meltdown. When one (or more) of the waves reaches us, we are finding that the rules have changed. If we discover that the rules have been changed in ways that don’t support us, we may have to recreate our own rules and structures to respond to the dilemma, and therein lies the need for creative self-development. This take us through fear and numbness into expansion and joy. We end up feeling alive in ways that weren’t possible before we began to look beneath the surface of our conditioning.

Although Uranus and Pluto are the mouthpieces of this need for change, the transformative urge comes from a much deeper level—that of the new 26,000-year Great Year we are entering, the length of one Earth wobble on its axis. It’s time to route out corrupted and distorted seed thoughts that were planted 26,000 years ago—the ones that resulted in models of dominance and submission, inequality of the sexes, separation of spirit and matter, etc. We have lots of work to do to uproot these deeply entrenched patterns, and Uranus and Pluto are helping us with the heavy lifting.

So, we are finding strength we never knew we had because it wasn’t being tested. We have no choice but to stand up to what shows up. “The obstacle is the path.” (Zen proverb) Our new strength comes from doing away with the obstacles. Our new freedom is a freedom from attachment that relieves us of the pressure to be something we are not. In this way, the Uranus-Pluto square is a blessed event.

At this third meeting, Uranus for a second time goes beyond Pluto, so our experience of their energies is reversed (even though nearly simultaneous). It changes the dynamic in subtle ways, but what we will experience in May is a sense that something is coming to a culmination that we won’t really get to until the fast-moving planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars) enter Cancer. The first of these is Mercury, on May 31.

Jupiter is nearing the end of its yearly cycle. It has spent the past year (starting June 11, 2012) in Gemini, augmenting our relationship dance. This is where Venus made its momentous transit of the Sun last June 5 (also at the time of a Lunar Eclipse for added oomph), and Jupiter has touched and retouched the degrees where Venus did its shadow work last year. Whatever process we started last June will not be complete until the next Venus cycle starts on January 11 2014, but Jupiter has been our guide in releasing most of our illusions. Now in the second half of Venus’s 19-month cycle (since March 28), we can get beyond the necessary detour of karma-clearing and healing we’ve been on and launch into developing what we really want.

May is a month of transition, with our subtle inner workings manifesting in visible change for some. If our changes are more gradual or yet to be seen, it’s just not time for them to appear. Keep working through.

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