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May/June 2011 Astrology Forecast
Moving into the Dreamtime

by Mark Dodich

Are you ready for the world to soften up? In my New Year’s predictions for the coming year (see the January/February issue), I stated that there would be raw, masculine energy combining with a subtle influx of the divine feminine. The world has already experienced the masculine effects through revolutions and earthquakes. This forceful energy came through explosive Uranus and expansive Jupiter moving into impatient Aries. Now it’s time for that softer feminine presence to make herself known.

Compassionate Neptune recently moved into spiritual Pisces to provide early prophetic insights into 2012 and beyond. Between now and early August, you are encouraged to bring forth your softer power. Although the world is accustomed to blowing things up to create change, the initial seeds of a new (ancient?) method for transformation are hinting at a new way.

This softer energy sneaks up on you like an incoming fog bank. It begins like a haze on the horizon, and then wafts around you until you are magically engulfed in a gentle, quiet cloud. The lesson is to surrender your intellectual mind so that you can feel the intangible force that is coming your way.

Neptune is just teasing us now with this intuitive energy, before fully moving into Pisces in February 2012 and lasting through 2025. Make time during the next few months to turn off your brain and dissolve into the creative part of your being.

The reality you currently see is melting like the bending clocks in a Salvador Dali painting. If you hold onto old belief systems surrounding the way you earn your living, participate in relationships, or pretty much anything that television commercials tell you is true, then you are heading for disillusionment. If you want to make your life easier, allow this gentle energy to help you reframe the way you look at yourself and your world.

There is an old Marlo Morgan book (Mutant Message Down Under) about her experiences traveling in the dreamtime with Aboriginal bush people. She talked about how they would decide to change who they were from time to time — the tracker decided to be a musician, or the healer decided to become the storyteller.

Take time this summer to travel through your own dreamtime reality. Make room in your busy life for uncluttered, clear space. This creates an opening to revision your current storyline. Neptune in Pisces brings the dream to you when you open the gateway to unseen possibilities.

To help you go beyond the veils of the tangible world, three eclipses are now building energy to help you adjust your reality. The effects of an eclipse are commonly felt three months before and after they occur. Solar eclipses on June 1 and July 1 help you go to a deeper level of self-understanding in two different ways.

The June 1 solar eclipse is in the mental sign of Gemini. You get to rethink your life to see the intellectual box that has engulfed your world view. If you are willing to loosen up your perceived boundaries, you will remember that you are in an unlimited universe and there are a multitude of possibilities. Gemini has an uncanny way of finding a way through even the most difficult situations, oftentimes combining mental anxiety with humor.

The solar eclipse on July 1 is in the emotional sign of Cancer. It is time to look at your life from a feeling-oriented perspective. Nurture yourself and your loved ones.

Tend to home improvement projects. Create a physical and emotional environment that helps you feel safe and comfortable to carry you through the changes ahead.

Between these two solar eclipses is a lunar eclipse on June 15. Where a solar eclipse urges you to the depths to see where you need to start new projects, a lunar eclipse pulls you apart emotionally. This lunar eclipse is in the signs Sagittarius and Gemini. If you are excessively bogged down in the mundane aspects of your world, this eclipse reminds you that life is an adventure to be lived at the fullest.

Gemini loves to take quick trips and attend short classes. Sagittarius wants to get out into the great outdoors to learn great spiritual truths. Step out of your humdrum routines. A study quoted in a recent Newsweek article stated that changing your routines is the best way to keep your brain active and healthy. Drive a different way to work, attend a group event that is out of your normal path or try out a culturally unique restaurant.

The next several months are preparing you to bring your dreams into reality, even those dreams that are not currently in your conscious awareness. It is important to step out of your comfortable perspective now. Be willing to float in a fantasy world, knowing that some of those dreams may very well come into reality in 2012.

Mark Dodich has been a professional astrologer and intuitive consultant since 1980. His specialties include natal astrology, relocation astrology maps and seven ray spiritual purpose astrology. Receive his free Astromark newsletter and download a free Basic Astrology Primer at www.astromark.us or call 503-252-1558.