Namaste,

Our adventures in time and space have been amped up, providing us with opportunities to take our stand and give our honesty to every choice we make. Think of it this way, the 'antes just got upped' in the Game of Life. It's time to go all in, just for the fun of it.  Here's the caveat--the rules of the game have changed and the only way to win the game is if everybody wins.

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be more concerned that it may never begin. ~ Grace Hansen

It's helpful to have this awareness at this new moon taking place at 28 Gemini--the second new moon in this sign (the first at the May 20th solar eclipse). Bottom line is that it's time to forget everything we've been taught about the Game of Life. Since the rules have changed, we must dismantle all the old rules and the beliefs, disbeliefs, opinions and biases that we developed in response to the old rules. This is necessary because all our perceptions are filtered through our beliefs and opinions and they'll dismiss information that doesn't fit the filter.  The May 20th new moon occurred at zero degrees of Gemini, the degree of the initiate. We have all been initiated to the new rules of the game and that requires dismantling our mental certainty and learning how to "Gemini". We all have Gemini somewhere in our chart and the house in our birth chart that carries that Gemini energy is the arena of life we are called to express this energy. The key is not to limit our outlook on life to what we believe could happen but to be open to what can happen in our quantum reality (where there is no order of difficulty in miracles). I have experienced a few miracles and I must say, while I had to risk what I thought I knew, it was worth the risk. Miracles do add a lot of exhilaration to the adventure!

Today's new moon took place in the later degrees of Gemini, opposite the Galactic Center, the black hole at the center of our galaxy. This gravitational center around which our sun revolves is a massive black hole  with the density of several million suns. When the cosmic bodies interact with the Galactic Center, our creative power, our spiritual essence, is heightened. Therefore, it's important to create consciously. A new moon positioned at the later degrees of Gemini symbolizes mastery of the sign's Archetype. Gemini is the witness--approaches life with wonder, just the experiencer. A good Gemini strategy is to pretend you just arrived on this planet and then see everything through those brand new eyes. Gemining is about perceiving life through no filter at all, taking it straight on, sober, seeing clearly, no chaser. Gemini urges us to just experience with unbiased openness and curiosity. Gemini's perspective is that the fun of it is the fact that nothing is known and there is so much to experience, so game on! Gemini is the willingness to witness everything and judge nothing. Gemini takes nothing personally and finds everything fascinating. 

We have been learning these skills because our ability to "Gemini" will make a wonderful difference to our experience playing the Game of Life in the coming months. The cosmos have quite a dance in process as they orbit the sun with its wild solar storms raging. The summer solstice is tomorrow, energetically capturing the heightened cosmic dynamics until the Autumn Equinox. Additionally, Mars left the shadow of its retrograde today (where it's been since mid November 2011), so we're all energetically primed to participate in the dance. Mars should have its mojo on and be ready to take its stand. Furthermore, the universe's Great Awakener, Uranus and its Great Transformer, Pluto, have initiated a tango that reaches a crescendo on June 24 and again in September and this is a dance these two transpersonal mavericks will be dancing together through the Spring of 2015. Saturn resumes direct motion on June 25. Venus will begin direct motion again, June 27th, the same day that Mars connects with the Galactic Center. A lot going on and a lot to process, but no worries, that's why you have me to support you in getting your game on!

Are you eager to consciously participate in the dance that the Game of Life really is, in celebration of contrast and diversity and conscious being? YES! That means you've got your Gemini groove on. Here are my recommended strategies for a fun-filled time of it:

•  Understand that the new rules of the game apply to all, even if it doesn't appear so at first. Everyone must win or nobody wins. It's win-win or no-win. The survival of everything else is as equally important as your own survival.  In fact, it's no longer about surviving. It's about thriving.  No person is more important or less important, all are equally important. Thriving for all! Remember, an eye for an eye mentality means all lose the game. Rule number one: we are all in this together and, every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born. ~Deepak Chopra
• Rule number two: nothing is certain. There is no predicting of outcomes. Additionally, the only thing you have control over is the choices you make in response to whatever is before you. Your choices define who you are and how the game will continue to unfold for everybody.  Yes, everybody. You don't have to engage anything that doesn't feel good to you, but you must be in goodwill relationship with all that is, allowing that it is as it is. The fun of the game is that the one person you suspect could help you the least is the one person that holds the key you require to make your next important move.  We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us...how we respond to it and what we can do with it...and that is what really matters in the end. ~ Joseph Fort Newton
• The purpose of the game is to have fun creating a high quality life experience while exploring all that you are and all that comes to your experience. It's absolutely not the serious business that our earlier adventures in time and space have convinced us that it is. It's important to remember that and drop the serious world. Your best strategy is to be in a state of goodwill toward everyone and everything--including yourself. Be your own best friend and befriend all that you experience from the perspective that all that exists, is an expression of One Source. Even that which first strikes you as disgusting, wrong, and even horrific. That stuff all came to be because the only way to know something was to compare it to something unlike itself. Then we discovered a lot we didn't like and we learned to deny their existence. What we resist or deny is given the energy to persist--whether we see it in others or ourselves, it's all the same. So, drop all defenses. Don't take things personally. Just be you and encourage others to express their truth and genuineness in mutual goodwill. It is possible to be uniquely different and still be alright. ~Anne Wilson Schaef
• We are dismantling linear and dualistic and separatist thinking. Quantum physics has demonstrated that we live in a participatory universe, not a cause and effect one. Forgo all judgments about the rightness or wrongness of things and choose the perspective that it just is what it is, so what's the "everybody wins" response here?  Treat others with respect, honoring the inherent dignity of all life. Treat others as you would want to be treated, especially if you were having a really off day. We all do! When others forget the new rules of the game, note it with curiosity while you hold the space of remembering. Where respect and goodwill flows, all grows.  There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~ William Shakespeare
• Be mindful of how you release your negative charge so that it does not reflect back into your reality. Excellent advise from Deepak Chopra. When you get into a tight squeeze and Mars' short-fuse gets lit (and this is inevitable during this transition) immediately close your eyes and breathe. I know, that's the last thing Mars wants to do when its engines have been fired, but do it anyway. Close your eyes and breathe. Inhale deeply and hold the breath while you silently say to yourself, "I AM." Then, slowly exhale that "I AM", steadily releasing the energy first as an "ah ha!" smile and then as a few giggles that ripple out into chuckles that bring an uproar of belly laughs and even a few snorts. Feel that! Your power is fully with you. If it doesn't work on the first try, keep breathing until you do feel it. Then you can be assured that Mars will respond from the totality of your being, which will bring a win-win response, because the totality of your being encompasses the totality of all being. Laughter is always good medicine for breaking up patterns of anxious energy. The breath connects you with the Force and in remembering "I AM" you've called "All That Is" to join you in gleeful celebration of life's beauty and abundance. Really, try this. I guarantee that it will bring the most convincingly "real" experience of the truth of your existence; of all existence.

It's best to not even attempt to wrap your mind around the sensibility of some of the things happening. In fact, you will find that “being out of your mind” is an excellent strategy. Tap into your Gemini toolbox and be the experiencer, be the witness—just observe what is happening without drawing conclusions about it.  Think of it this way: the cosmos are giving their best to bring you the situations and circumstances that bring forth your very best. A good strategy now is to do more than get out of the box, you've got to get rid of the box altogether! (I believe Deepak Chopra coined that phrase too.) The Universe is eager to know exactly where we all stand in relationship to the circumstances of both our personal and collective realities. In order for us to clearly figure that out, we need to be mindful of our re-actions, perceptions and communications and strive to respond from our wholeness--mind, body and emotions as one, in spirit.