Returning, once more, to the Theme of Sovereignty

Yesterday, May 21, 2022, I was having a conversation with an amazing woman, Alice Newton ~ Acupuncturist, who happened to bring up people’s reactions to “Mercury Retrograde.” I took the opportunity to share with her that most people don’t truly understand the significance of the Mercury Retrograde period.

Right in the middle of the approximately three-week period of Mercury’s retrograde phase, the Cosmic Messenger (Mercury) meets up with the Sun. Their meeting in the Sky is known as the “Inferior Conjunction.” The actual Inferior Conjunction is the most alchemical opportunity for transpersonal awakening. The sacred window around the Inferior Conjunction (day before, day of, and day after) is a truly potent and magical time.

It just so happens that yesterday, May 21st, was the SECOND Mercury Inferior Conjunction of 2022!

Unlike the Venus Synodic Cycle and the Mars Synodic Cycle which are aligned with Archetypes of Astrological Signs, the Mercury Synodic Cycle is aligned with the Elements of the Astrological Signs (Water, Air, Earth, Fire). Since February 8, 2021, we are in the Mercury years of the Air Element. As such, all three of last year’s Inferior Conjunctions were in the Air Signs (Aquarius, Gemini, Libra). Likewise, this year’s three Inferior Conjunctions are also in the Air Signs.

Yesterday’s Inferior Conjunction was at 1° Gemini.

What is really amazing about an Inferior Conjunction is that it takes 79 years for Mercury and the Sun to meet up in a specific astrological degree. That means that yesterday’s Inferior Conjunction at 1° GE is a “once in a lifetime” experience for us! Therefore, it is REALLY IMPORTANT to know what is going on in your astrological chart at that specific degree, and I feel it is also important to be aware of the aspects that degree is making in your chart, in order to dive deeply into the transpersonal experience that is being catalyzed within you by your Soul ~ that part of you that is an extension of Source.

To provide you with a deeper insight into the significance of this cosmic experience, I refer to Gary P Caton’s incredible book, Hermtica Triptycha:

… at the inferior conjunction … [Mercury] can be seen to take on a medial role, serving as a bridge between the limited material experience of earth and the enormous unlimited potentials of the sun as a star – the creative engine of the universe.

… We can now bring into harmonious alignment and achieve integration of our “three selves” [ie, “lower” basic self (instinct/soul), “higher” self (intellect/spirit), and every day “talking” self (ego/body)] …

Conjunction is the time when the solar seed of the above, the spiritual will of the inner sovereign … (our higher self), is impressed upon the receptive fertile matter of the below. This is part of the heiros gamos or sacred marriage of opposites: masculine and feminine, yin and yang, spirit and soul. The task for us during the heart of Mercury’s retrograde [Inferior Conjunction] is to become aware, and make conscious, our deepest internal opposite, to unearth the unconscious unlived parts within us which are seeking the light – like a seed germinating in the darkness.

Gary P Caton, Hermetica Triptycha

What is so wonderful about my brief conversation with Alice about Mercury Retrograde is that we were at a horse workshop on the theme of Intuition. (Alice was the co-facilitator.) I was already aware that the scheduling of this workshop during the window of The Gate of Compassion (Heart Chakra) Activation was exceptionally synchronistic. Afterall, our Intuition is just another name for our “Heart Language.” However, in my mind, I had not connected the date of the workshop with the date of the Inferior Conjunction. NOW, it becomes ASTONISHINGLY synchronistic that the two events were on the same day!!! (Cue theme music of The Twilight Zone! LOL)

I am very aware now, from my own experience at Heartland Haven Ranch‘s Intuition Workshop, that I was truly being “worked” by the Inferior Conjunction (Mercury & Sun) yesterday. In fact, when I came home, my mind was in such an altered state that I had to go to sleep. I woke up 3 hours later! So let me share the perfection of the unfolding. First, we were given a sheet of paper that had pictures of all the horses at the ranch on it. We were told to turn the paper upside down. Then, when we were told to turn the paper back over, we had 3 seconds to intuit which horse we would be working with that day. Spoiler alert, only 2 of the 7 of us actually picked the horse we did work with. However, it was truly ALL in divine orchestration.

Since I’ve been doing workshops at Heartland Haven Ranch (October 2021), I have always gotten either Millie or Lincoln. It’s become a bit of a joke with me, actually. Yesterday, because I wanted to work with Squeaks, I overrode my intuition which was letting me know I’d get Lincoln, and I picked Squeaks instead. Sure enough, I didn’t get Squeaks. I got Lincoln! Lincoln and I did great work together, and yet I was feeling unsettled about not getting to work with Squeaks. So, I took a moment to go over to Alice and dive deeper into what was coming up around that for me.

I explained to Alice that when I first met Lincoln, he seemed like a giant to me. I actually remember having to lean my head back to look up at him. And, I will admit here, I did feel fear come up in me around how huge his energy felt when it met mine. However, after nearly 4 months of sponsoring and working with Millie, who shares the same paddock with Lincoln, I have become really comfortable with Lincoln’s energy, and he doesn’t seem that gigantic to me anymore.

Then I told Alice about my first experience with Squeaks. He was very curious and sociable. Friendly, I’d say. One day when Angela (Equus Life Coach and Owner of Heartland Haven Ranch) and I were taking the horses up to their stables for dinner, I just naturally went into Squeaks’ paddock, put his halter on him, and started leading him up to the barn. About half-way there, all of a sudden, Squeak’s energy just overwhelmed me. It felt IMMENSE! I instantly received an image of surfers out in Hawaii surfing those ginormous waves, and I thought, “this must be what that feels like.” I really felt like I was going to be crushed by Squeaks’ energy, and I immediately (in a bit of a panic) passed him off to Angela.

Fast forward to the Intuition workshop, I really wanted to work with Squeaks because I wanted to show myself that I would be okay with his energy. Honestly, it was more like I wanted to feel that my energy could be as expansive as his. I wanted to know that my energy could meet his energy on equal ground.

As I was sharing all of that with Alice, I realized that my energy IS as expansive as Squeaks. Lincoln was showing me that I had allowed myself to show up as BIG as I had felt when I first met him. Yet, being with Lincoln energetically felt like putting on an old worn-in boot, so I had not realized that my energy had expanded to meet his. I realized that Lincoln was also showing me that I didn’t need to work with Squeaks to KNOW that my energy has become that IMMENSE. It was such a HUGE A-ha moment! Such an awe-inspiring paradigm shift!! Both Alice and I laughed and hugged each other, and I cried some happy tears of recognition (truth).

At the end of the workshop, we all gathered in the round pen to share what we had experienced. Reflecting back on what I witnessed from each participant and what I heard them give voice to, I know for sure that we were ALL being worked by the energies of the Inferior Conjunction. The transformation that occurred in each woman was remarkable and unmistakable. So here is one more synchronistic piece to the Intuition workshop and the Inferior Conjunction …

Remember that the Inferior Conjunction occurred at 1° GE. One of the Archetypes of Gemini is the Storyteller. In fact, we just completed the Venus Synodic Cycle in Gemini back in January this year, enabling us to “write a new story.” Well, as Mercury Retrograde in Gemini would have His way, He sent us “messages” (our intuition) about LETTING GO (part of the alchemical transformation) of our stories!

This is how that showed up for me: at the very end, Angela asked us to write with our dominant hand a question to which we wanted an answer. Then, she asked us to switch hands, and allow our non-dominant hand to write the answer.

My question was, “What do I need to be aware of to allow Squeaks to show up as a partner in the round pen?”

And here is the amazing answer, straight from the Heart of the Mercury Retrograde, the Cosmic Messenger …

Let go of the story that he is more powerful than you.

Mercury/Sun/Higher Self of Sofia Mona Lisa

It just doesn’t get any better than that! (Every woman received an answer just as poignant as my own.) Except, that it actually does! The Gemini Inferior Conjunction occurred on top of my Solar North Node in my Solar 8th House. I can not imagine anything more EXQUISITE. My entire Ascension Path (Solar North Node) for this year is focused on letting go of the stories, belief systems, habitual thoughts, etc (Gemini) that are keeping me from stepping fully into my power (8th House)! What a truly Transpersonal Journey that synchronistic event (attending the Intuition Workshop) facilitated for me! I could go much deeper into the Cosmic Dance unfolding within me as a part of the aspects activated by the Inferior Conjunction, however some things are best left as a mystery. Suffice it to say, “My cup runneth over!”

And yet, it doesn’t end there for me. After every horse workshop, horse meditation or day I spend with Millie, I come home and pull a card from my horse wisdom deck by Linda Kohanov:

This is the card that I pulled:

This is what Linda Kohanov says about the horse wisdom of this card:

• Patience and Equanimity
• Poise under Pressure
• “Passive Leadership”

In light and in shadow, the wise gray mare watches over her herd with a calm mind and an open heart.

In horses and humans alike, equanimity is the sign of a mature, well-balanced individual, one who stays centered when others become reactive, who sets reasonable boundaries without ordering everyone else around, whose clarity, composure, and poise are downright contagious.

Linda Kohanov, Way of the Horse

I felt a strong resonance with this message. I know inside of me that my energy has become so expansive that something really good and really immense is getting ready to show up for me, and that I will be able to handle it with poise, whether “under pressure” or as a delightful manifestation. I know I won’t be crushed by whatever it is. I also know that if I get to work with Squeaks next time, it’ll be great, and if I don’t, that will be okay too.

This brings us back around to Sovereignty and is even a bit of foreshadowing for the next Venus Gate Activation ~ The Gate of Personal Power (Solar Plexus Chakra) on Thursday, May 26th. As we reclaim our Sovereignty, we embody more of our Infinite Multidimensional Self within our Sacred Vessel (physical body). We can feel our expansiveness within us become amplified as we walk on the earth with so much more of the Presence of our Divine Self than has ever before been embodied on Gaia. THIS is the energy that Horses are connected with and to which they give us the opportunity to “level up,” as one of our workshop participants so insightfully stated. The more Sovereign we allow ourselves to become, the more powerful we KNOW ourselves to be.

I truly believe there is no one better for supporting us in our expansion than the Goddess Eponina (Ipona):

There is some evidence that Epona could have been linked to the idea of sovereignty … For me personally Epona is the Patroness of all journeys, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. 

Epona ~ The Celtic Goddess of Horses

I have no doubt, that the Goddess Eponina was present with us in the round pen yesterday, guiding each of us through our horse partners on our individual transpersonal journeys. I am delighted to know that She was with us as we underwent the alchemical journey of the Inferior Conjunction on the “stage” of Heartland Haven Ranch.

I bow to you, Angela and Alice. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

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Much love,
Sofia Mona Lisa
Alchemical Creation High Priestess

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