As my mother used to say: “You don’t have to look very far to find something to cry about.” These days it seems that every day some new outbreak of violence and unthinkable catastrophic events bombard us. And now, more than ever, it is imperative that you find a center of peace and calm inside yourself. You are being asked to be the eye of the hurricane, the holder of the vision you wish to see manifest in the world. Dig out all your spiritual tools and center, center, center.

I find solace, peace, and hope in the recuperative powers of the Earth, in her resilience, in her unrelenting insistence on bringing forth life in all kinds of fabulous and amazing forms. When you focus on the magic and wonder all around you, magic and wonder become your focus and then become your reality. Where you focus your attention is your reality. When you feel overwhelmed with fear, frustration, and horror that is exactly the time to re-focus on peace, calm, and the ineffable force of Life itself – renewing and re-creating itself moment by moment, just as you do in your every thought.

The Sun enters Gemini on May 21, joining Mercury and Venus already making their way through the mutable Air sign with much heightened mental activity and lots and lots to say. Gemini is a versatile, changeable Air sign, active and endlessly desiring to engage, connect, and converse. Good mental exchange can lead to understanding the other as long as you listen more than you talk – always a challenge with the incessantly chatty Gemini. Use your mind well. Focus on what you want and not what has been been. Focus on what brings you JOY, on the outcome you wish to experience, not on the details of what is that you are displeased with, but what will be as directed by the power of your thought and intention. Much is in flux right now and the direction we all turn depends entirely on where you direct your focus of intention. You are a powerful creator-manifestor. Never doubt the power of your thoughts.

Jupiter enters Pisces on May 14 until July 28. A taste of dreams coming true. What are your dreams?

Where are you directing your energies? Where you look is where you head. Just because your present reality might feel limited is no reason to constrict your dreams to what has bee. Jupiter in Pisces says expand into possibility, the possibilities that are born in the unified force of creation. You birth possibilities with each thought, each intention. Take your place as creator of your reality.

For the next 2 weeks we are in the shadow of Mercury retrograde, though in truth it already feels likes Mercury is retrograde and has felt like that for as long as I can remember. Mercury is the ruler of Gemini so when he goes retrograde in his home sign you can pretty much know that things are going to speed up and all kinds of miscommunications and glitches are inevitable. Slow down. Take a breath. Fretting and ripping your hair out is in no way going to change anything, Slow down. Stop. Re-group. Collect yourself. Take another breath and then move forward, eyes and heart open to possibility, to bringing forth your deepest desires.