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Crossroads and choices — they’re what this week is about. The eclipse season has already set some great changes loose in our hearts and lives. Now, in the relative calm of this week, between the first two eclipses of the summer, we will navigate a sequence of crossroads, eight in all. Each of these crossroads differs from what you might encounter driving down a street in two important details: there are only two ways you can go, and once you choose a way, you can’t go back to the one you initially rejected. Each choice alone may not strike you as significant, but their combined impact is monumental. The directional choices we make at each of these crossroads will affect the position we’re in at each of the next eclipses and when this summer cycle is over.

Approaching the choices consciously and deliberately will lead to one destination; sliding or sleepwalking through the week will get you someplace else. Since some of this process occurs in the subconscious and during dream time (Tuesday and Saturday early mornings in particular), taking the conscious and deliberate route is critical and requires some forethought. By this point in the eclipse cycle you are already aware of the nature of some of the changes, departures and beginnings that are unfolding in your life. Fix your mindset in the direction that you would like to go. At a minimum, contemplate the qualities and energies that you would like to experience, even if you can’t paint a picture in your mind of the shape they might take (or how they might come about). Daily quiet time is an effective tool for this.

Underscoring the importance of mindfulness, the skies send us into this sequence of crossroads with mental clarity, the gift of a Sun/Mercury conjunction late Monday evening EDT. This meeting directly plugs our mental processes into our ego and sense of purpose. It’s easy to both know and express ourselves. If you sit quietly and focus your mind only once this week, do it Monday evening.

Pay attention to whatever rolls around (or, more likely, erupts in) your psyche overnight Tuesday. Shortly after midnight Mars makes the first crossroads aspect, an inconjunct to Pluto. Human will bumps into higher will, and something has to give. An adjustment in thinking or plans (because Mars is in mental Gemini) is likely.

More mental adjustments come on Wednesday when Mercury, the planet of communication, makes an inconjunct to Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron. Messages and thinking could be wacky, foggy, unhinged from concrete reality or absolutely inspired. How you process the information — or how you perceive it — is up to you. Expect to be put to a choice three times over from late afternoon into the evening EDT. Any of these approaches are more likely to orient you toward the destination you ultimately desire: the higher route, the spiritually guided route, the more expansive route, the more healing and transcendent route.

Whatever choices you make, an expanded, liberated perspective is the result. The unshackling occurs before dawn Thursday morning for US readers, when a Mercury/Uranus trine lobs lightning bolts into our dreams. New possibilities, different approaches and radical ways of getting to your destination may fall into your head. Take notes when you awaken. By late afternoon, the insights may not fit comfortably in our existing social and financial arrangements, as Mercury and Venus move into a minor fracas. Then again, we could experience sparking that hints of desire lurking below the surface.

The crossroads return as the weekend begins. The Sun moves into inconjuncts with Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron from Friday afternoon into Saturday. Will our ego choose indulgence or expansion? Escapism or transcendence? Poor-me excuses or empowerment? The perspective choices we made on Wednesday, when Mercury ran this gauntlet, feed into the crossroads we encounter now. Choose expansion, faith and healing, and each fork in the road will lead you closer to heaven on earth. That statement is not pablum, nor is it casually tossed off. We are communing with energies at the highest points our consciousness can reach, and the task is not to float on them, but to pull them down into our earthly existence. Whatever our choices Friday and Saturday, the benefits become clear when the Sun trines Uranus Saturday evening. Each decision we make deposits us into an environment that is freer and more freeing, opening us up to living more true to our selves.

As our ego hits these crossroads, our communication mode shifts. On Friday, Mercury, the cosmic messenger, moves out of emotional-laden Cancer and into showy Leo, where he’ll spend the rest of the month. He takes well to the warmth and flair of Leo, which allows him to be playful, expressive and dramatic. His first cue for this new role comes mid-morning Saturday, when he hits the week’s final crossroads and inconjuncts Pluto. This moment is a bookend to the week’s first inconjunct, which was between
between Mars (in Mercury’s turf of Gemini) and Pluto. It does not have the gentleness or diffused quality of all the crossroads we navigated in between. The definition is stark and stirs forces deep within us. We do not have to succumb to phobic or habitual thinking. Look for the path that breaks off from the old and outmoded, that somehow purifies, streamlines and simplifies, that empowers and emboldens you. A mindset can change forever in this instant, and a change in thinking will transform your life.

The week winds down with friction on Sunday between Mercury and Saturn. The information we’re getting — and the choice we made Saturday — are out of sync with the status quo. No waffling; stick with your newly revised mindset. It will sink in like pylons deep in the earth when the Sun aligns with Mars by declination minutes after midnight EDT. Whether you’re awake or asleep, this meeting brings together your will and your drive. You’ve made your choices. Now you’re raring to go.

Kathy has podcasts, mp3s, a discussion forum and more on the Aquarius/Pisces traveling party and the Saturn/Uranus opposition at her site, FortunaWorks.com. To join her mailing list, send e-mail to kbiehl@fortunaworks.com.