Integrating Duality Mirrored By Illusions In the Gemini New Moon

The new Moon in Gemini will occur on May 22, 2020 at 2* and 04’ of GEMINI THE TWINS at 1:38PM EDT, this is Enki and Enlil, Remus and Romulus, the twins of so many legends.  Gemini is also ruled by Mercury/Hermes and on May 15th, we celebrate the Feast of Mercuralia which was a Roman celebration that was also known as the ‘Festival of Mercury’.
I want to bring your attention to the numbers.  5/22/2020 2 degrees and 4 minutes.  2 x 5 = 10 and 10+ 10 = 20.  It is the 5th month X’s 22 days (which 2 X 2=4).  Again, we see all the CODING in this NEW MOON.  Gemini as pointed out is the TWINS.  Partnerships no matter which subtitle they fall under have their synchronicities and their oppositions, as well as their combined efforts to push forward and build.  (That is the 4/square) Lincoln’s famous address states: ‘4 score and 7 years ago’.)
Note: 4 score means 4x20, as score means a measurement of 20.
Mercury is the ‘merchant’ in the zodiac
Jesus says: "The Kingdom of the Father is like a man, a merchant, who has a burden and found a pearl. This merchant is a wise man: he sold the bundle and bought the pearl alone. You also seek his treasure which does not perish, which lasts, into which the moth does not enter to consume and the worm does not destroy."
This brings in the energy of the twins.  Double 2’s on the 22nd, piggybacking on all the other ‘coded’ numbers we are experiencing, last month the new moon fell on 4.22, so we have the sequence of 2’s and 4’s…help.  Partnerships, working with each other and of course the 444 is a well-known numerological sign for angels or spiritual help from the Highest Order.
In case you did not already know this, the business number that was ‘randomly’ given to me, has the last three digits: 444.
Two’s NEED EACH OTHER.  4 is also a building number, and it brings in the energy of Cancer/the moon which will bring powerful energies in again.
Brave souls have become frightened children, praying for help and guidance.
Our world as we once perceived it, is no longer the same world in so many ways.
So, we must prepare and give birth to that which has been within us all along, waiting for just this time.  We will create our new timeline, using this powerful transformation and that which we can build upon with the increase of the moon.
This new moon in Gemini, is also tapping into a powerful trine back to the lineup in Capricorn,

Jupiter, Pluto and Saturn, that started this whole SHIFT OF THE AGES and The Evolution of the World Soul, as I predicted back in this blog many times, but here is one from 2013: https://arcoftheancients.blogspot.com/2013/02/pluto-in-capricorn-evolution-of-world.html
We were made for just these times.  We simply must bring the light forward, find our inner light and shine that light upon the world to break through the darkness and confusion.
This is why I love using the ‘Essene’ essential oils so much, and have since the 80’s.  They are liquid light.  They are the captured light of the plants, fruits, trees, roots, etc.  So, they help you, entrain you to the light, your OWN INNER LIGHT.
As stated so exceptionally long ago, in posts trying to prepare us, ‘systemic’ collapse and pandemic were words prognosticating and forewarning this very time frame for all of us.  Though it went against the too often used ‘spiritual bypassing’ language that hijacked so many with false teachings or at best, partial truths.
I must share the truth as given to me.  It is far less popular at times than simply massaging someone’s ego, and not use the corrupted truths, which are used for just that reason, as well as profit, as in ‘false prophet’s’.
The truth for anyone truly seeking awakening, is not always easy or kind.
It does have a course.  It does have purpose.  It is necessary.
You cannot learn how courageous you are, without WALKING THROUGH FEAR until perhaps you FEAR NO MORE.
You cannot forge a strong soul that can handle the TRUE LOVE AND LIGHT OF THE CREATOR, without the PROCESS.  Without all the El-e-ments and alchemic preparation, much like distilling essential oils in a BAIN MARIE. (Reminder that the double-boiler is named after Mary Magdalene, the Patron Saint of Aromatherapy and Alchemy).  Chem, as we have stated in the past, is also Khem:
Khem was the native name for Egypt, it means “black” (darkness) and referred to the fertile, black soil of the Nile valley. Al/El is the God of the Old Testament/from Egypt. This then becomes the basis for the word, Alchemy.  For out of the fertile soil and darkness grows the healthy life, the garden of the soul.
This is what we want to tap into now.
When we translate the word 'symbol' literally, it is 'bringing together' or 'connecting': thus a symbol can connect what lies buried in our unconscious, a power that guides us knowingly or unknowingly and it is just this power that feeds our dreams too.  We want to bridge the visible with the invisible, which is not always easy to translate into words, but symbols can do this, archetypes do this, myths do this, music does this.
The following symbols represent Mary and Jesus (Sacred Marriage of the pairs of opposites)

The picture to the left, was taken from Mary Magdalene Bride in Exile, by Margaret Starbird.
This drawing can also be found in that book:

These images are found all over Europe and the Middle East and have long mythical traditions.
Essentially, the goddess is born out of the waters, (baptism) and of course, when a woman is about to give birth, her water breaks and we say, ‘she is crowing’.
Here is another picture:

The Mixoparthenos (Greek: Μιξοπάρθενος) was a Greek mythological figure, traditionally hailing from the Black Sea region where her image is seen frequent. The name means "half-maiden".

The form of the Mixoparthenos is distinctive - above the waist, a beautiful woman, but covered with scales from waist down, ending in a double snake-tail. Some versions have the Milyxoparthenos ending in a double fish-tail. Herodotus's Histories (4.9.2), Heracles marvels at a Mixoparthenos when he meets one, and mates with her, producing three sons, the youngest of which eventually became the founder of the Scythian nation.
The Starbucks logo depicts a Mixoparthenos, of the double fish-tailed variety.
With you [God] is Sophia [Lady Wisdom], she who knows your works, she who was present when you made the world; she understands what is pleasing in your eyes and what agrees with your commandments. (Wisdom 9:9)
The Hippocampus literally translates to: Sea Horse and this brings us to the Charioteer in the Tarot.  See in the image that he must hold the pairs of opposites, the male/female, yin/yang under control to get to his destination by 'reigning/reining/raining them in'.

This can also connote, the planet Neptune also known as Poseidon, who rules the seas and is credited for the invention or creation of the horse.
Neptune is still in her rulership in PIsces at 20* and is in exact square to both Mercury and Venus at 20* of Gemini during this new moon phase.  She can muddy the waters so to speak, and may create ILLUSIONS that you think you heard, or regarding what you think you love.  Be incredibly careful, as she can box you in, making you think you need to make decisions that you may not need to make.  Be careful of drinking and drugs during this time, information that may come out might not be the truth, best to wait and see.  This can also indicate an increase in overdoses or suicides.
And here we see that Venus and Mercury are conjunct, so Mercury is whispering sweet nothings into Venus’s ear and Venus can pretend she is enamored with him now.
Venus as we know, is also retrograde, making this quite the cauldron.
This does however make for the perfect time to tend to that inner child.  Bring her or him love, forgive yourselves.
While the sun and the moon, are getting together to start this new cycle, Mars is pushing into square at 6* of PIsces too, this can soften the edges, or dredge up the muck you thought was buried long ago, adding to our buried treasures we are finding now.
Saturn went retrograde on May 11th at 1* Aquarius and is still hovering on that degree forming a nice

trine of support to Lady Luna and our solar guide the sun.  This can lend a hand to both buying and selling a home, but she is retrograde and both the sun and moon are moving forward, so this is a short window of time to tap into, or for those home projects to get finished, as well as the opening of restaurants and businesses, but again, this may be elusive and short lived, as Saturn pulls back further and further and that gap widens you may feel like you just walked out onto ‘nothing’ and see the ground was never really there in the first place.  CAUTION.
Jupiter went retrograde on May 14th at 27* Capricorn so there is a wide trine of support and expansion that he is also playing with the Sun and moon.  Again, he is retrograde, and that gap will widen.
Uranus at 8* Taurus is in a sextile to Mars in PIsces, so this puts some erratic support to taking action.
All of this leads to cautionary times, but also a breather that is most welcome.
Mercury does not retrograde until June 18th.  But it may seem as though he is, because so many other planets are retrograde now and especially with Venus and Mars in Gemini now too.
The following table shows Mercury’s motion, not retrograde until June:
Shadow: 06/02/2020 29* Cancer
Retro Grade: 06/18/2020 12:58 AM EDT 14* Cancer
Direct: 07/12/2020 04:26 AM EDT 05*Cancer
Clears Shadow: 07/27/2020 14* Cancer

Janus: According to some, he was the custodian of the universe but, to all Romans, he was the god of the beginnings and the endings, presiding over every entrance and departure, and because every door and passageway looks in two directions, Janus was seen as two-faced or Janus bifrons -- the god who looked both ways. He was the gatekeeper; his symbols were a porter’s staff or virga and a set of keys. To illustrate his importance, his name was even mentioned before Jupiter in prayers. He protected the start of all activities. He inaugurated the seasons. The first day of each month was considered sacred to him but the first month of the year -- January -- which many in the present day consider named in his honor -- was actually named for Juno, queen of the gods. Early Romans coins featured his image, showing him as two-faced, one bearded and one clean-shaven. Later, during the Renaissance, this image of two faces would represent not only the past and future but also wisdom.

VENUS began her 40-day descent from view, she turned retrograde on May 12th at 21* of Gemini, and she does not move direct again until June 25th after she has travelled back to 5* Gemini.  So we see how this magnifies the energy of Mercury/Gemini in our timeframe.
The trajectory of the planet Venus is connected to the myth of Inanna.
As she descends we can also go deeper into our own psyche, into our underworld where Pluto/Hades is the ruler and he can be fearsome as we all know.  We face our deepest, darkest shadows and memory’s from the past, perhaps things we have done that we shackle ourselves to like prisoners, may once again rear their heads and make us feel ‘unworthy’.
But this journey into the darker aspects of our soul, of our being is necessary to integrate the

archetypes and symbols that hold us back, stealing our power.  This is INITIATION.
As we have been stating all along, structures, governments and corporations may fall and new ones rise, also we will see the SHADOWS that they hid too.
All of this can happen, during this PAN demic as the shadows are excavated.
The core of the earth may quake, as our own inner daemons are rattled from the depths of our being.
We are challenged to right our own ship, and find the plum line into the fertile earth within us and in our own roots, back into our lineage and where we come from, what our ancestors went through to bring you to this very moment.
On the world stage, all around us, we see collectively what we have individually created together.  It is up to each of us, to amalgamate and transmute our own darkness, making peace with the heaven’s and hells of our beliefs.
What we have not dealt with, as so much ‘spiritual bypassing’ has falsely taught, is to shove the negative down, to put on a smile and pretend you or I are in a place that has no darkness.  And now that has erupted onto the stage we see all around us.
The ‘negative energy’ story that has been pushed, as if we don’t have any darkness.  God made day and night, so we slip into the darkness and that is when we stop limiting who we are during dreamtime rather than when we are wide awake and project who we wish or think we should be.
This is precisely why I lived in the barn without running water, so many years ago.  To strip it all bare and find out who I was and why, without trying to be someone I thought I should be.
When we are through this period, we will find our deep gifts to give to the world, with less judgment.  Without calling someone the ‘other’.
As we decide whether to wear or not wear a mask.  Let us find our own inner masks and bare the true, unfiltered light.  That light will cast shadows, that is the way light works. Let’s really take our masks off!

Now, back to the astrology.  Mercury Also rules thieves and tricksters.  He is the heyoka in Native American traditions: The heyoka (heyókȟa, also spelled "haokah," "heyokha") is a kind of sacred clown in the culture of the Lakota people of the Great Plains of North America.
He is papa legba in Voodoo and he rules the ‘cross-roads’ that Robert Johnson went down to and according to story, he left the so-so guitar player/singer that he used to be, and after he made his ‘deal’ at the crossroads, became the legendary guitar player/songwriter and singer we all know.
Mercury is commonly identified with the Greek Hermes, the fleet-footed messenger of the gods.
Aventine Hill in Rome was dedicated in 495 BCE. There Mercury was associated with Maia, who became identified as his mother through her association with the Greek Maia, one of the Pleiades, who was the mother of Hermes by Zeus; likewise, because of that Greek connection, Mercury was considered the son of Jupiter. Both Mercury and Maia were honoured in the Mercuralia festival on May 15, the dedication day of Mercury’s temple on the Aventine.
Mercury associated with merchants as stated previously is sometimes represented as holding a purse, symbolic of his business functions. Mercury is often portrayed wearing winged sandals or a winged cap and carrying a caduceus (staff).  Remember Moses carried a staff, and he turned it into a ‘serpent’ (Pluto is the serpent) at Pharaohs’ Court and Pharaoh commanded his own ‘MAGICIANS’ to throw their ‘staff’s’ down and they did, they turned into snakes too, but Moses had the GREATER MAGIC and his snake/staff ate the others.
He is also associated with; Shepherds, Athletes, and Luck.
He is the Patron of: Invention, art, literature, trade, and travel.
Some myths state that he was the father of the half-goat, half-human PAN.
Do you see how closely related Mercury, the messenger god who can travel into the underworld where Pluto lives, especially during this timeframe, really is to Pluto and PAN?
Most scholars think that Hermes’ name derives from the Greek word herma, which means “a heap of

stones” or “cairn.” Cairns were a common sight in the Ancient world, serving as trail- or boundary-markers. (The crossroads) Some say that the first cairn was erected by the gods, when they cast all their stones in favor of Hermes, during his trial for slaying Argus Panoptes.
Hermes was the only Olympian capable of crossing the boundary between the living and the dead and carrying the souls of the dead in Hades. In time, he came to be known as “the conductor” or “the leader of souls.” People also called him “patron of travelers and thieves,” “shepherd of men,” “trickster,” and “Argus-slayer.”
Give birth to all these aspects, integrate your own duality during this new moon in Gemini, ruled by Mercury.
Pluto is forming a tough square to Eris right now.
Eris is now at 24*Ar16'11" as of 22 May 2020
Eris goddess of strife and discord and Pluto hanging out in exact square and retrograde too, can bring untimely events, when we add Uranus to the mix, and definitely can shake up the earth or possibly find us in saber rattling if not flat out war territory.

This can bring some ‘terrible winds’, especially in Gemini which heralds some of the most deadly tornadic activity and on May 5^th, the head and tail of the dragon, Rahu and Ketu, also known as the moons/lunar nodes have moved out of the Capricorn/Cancer axis and entered Gemini/Sagittarius axis.

This will take some of the pressure off the cardinal signs, particularly Capricorn’s and Cancer’s obviously, as they have now been almost stripped clean, like an F5 Tornado went through their lives and psyche’s.
Activating and excavating their deepest selves, or the truth laid bare that remained.  They now have a clearer path, though Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn have not quite finished with them yet either.
So the mutable signs, Gemini, Sagittarius, and Virgo’s and PIsces will now go through their own activations.  This will be doubly powerful with this new moon activation and Venus retrograde in Gemini will really be rehashing old stuff, asking what do you truly love, what words build and which ones turn into SWORDS/WORDS that cut like a knife?  It may not even be possible to stop the bleeding from such poisonous cuts.  They can also cut out the tumor, the festering decay that rots the soul, when one does not take in their deepest darkest selves and love them too, integrating and admitting that darkness, to become the fuel for power, now you have taken the reins of the Charioteer.
Hang on.

We need to keep praying and hopefully, as you light your candles this new moon, see a peaceful timeline and your role in playing that peacemaker, as you make peace with your lost selves, buried far too long and waiting for you to ‘witness’ your own pain.
Get ready, all of this is leading up to the eclipse cycles, starting with the full moon on June 5th, when Lady Luna reaches 15* of Sagittarius and stands across from her paramour, the sun who will be at 15* of Gemini.  Oh the duality of it all.