Blain Bovee - Sabian Symbol Specialist

Gemini 25: A man trimming palms

"A man trimming palms" 25 Gemini

 

This symbol is illuminated 12:21 PM EDT June 14 (4:21 PM GMT, June 14)

 

Theme: Finishing touch

 

Inspiration: Take what is available into your own hands in order to bend and trim your gift to the world as an expression of your own personal mastery.

 

Today: Trimming palms is like putting finishing touches on a victory of sorts.

 

There may be a danger of the victory not being worthy of pride nor boost, therefore attune to the higher road.

 

For the most part, one can flow into new situations with a confident degree of mastery, displaying the ability and agility to adapt to circumstance and materials in order to manifest the best.

 

The day calls for some solitary reflection and quiet inwardness. Here, energies and vision merge for the best outcome. It is important to know that an attitude of ease is required to make it all work.

 

Gemini 24: Children skating on ice

 "Children skating on ice" 24 Gemini

 

This symbol is illuminated 11:14 AM EDT June 13 (3:14 PM GMT, June 13)

 

Theme: Push-off

 

Inspiration: Learning to skate focusses much attention on the moment of stepping onto the ice, and the push-off.

 

Today: Children skating on ice points to stepping onto a new terrain, into a new realm. The challenge is to maintain one's footing in immediate response to a new surface/field of experience.

 

Like children learning to skate, a few falls are to be expected. But then the mantra for success in life is 'fail often'.

 

Skating holds the delightful possibility of gliding at speed, smoothly without apparent effort. The first step on the glassy ice surface may the most important. Also, the new surface calls for immediate adjustments… a kind of in the moment responsiveness… to each and every instance. This adds fun, an element of the unexpected, and far-reaching fields for refining skills and achievement.

 

Watch for intensified focus on personal attention to tasks that may well seem like learning to skate on ice. Focus is everything. Balance between tense and relaxed is crucial. The readiness is all.

 

Gemini 23: Three fledglings in a nest high in a tree

"Three fledglings in a nest" 23 Gemini

 

This symbol is illuminated 10:07 AM EDT June 12 (1:07 PM GMT, June 12)

 

Theme: Pre-flight

 

Inspiration: Celebrate the stage of changing development like a fledgling just about ready to take first flight.

 

Today: Not every fledgling is ready for flight at the same time. One may be more developed than the others. One may be dauntless in character.

 

All know that a vast new world opens with that first flight. And all know that the 'when' is soon. Yet there is a calm detached readiness for the moment to arrive.

 

Picture the flight in your mind… 'flight' may be any new venture or activity. Readiness is to see it, work it through, rehearse the lines, feel yourself catching the wind. 

 

Something is emerging in its own time, however this time you are more aware of the impending swell of significance. Say what needs to be said, but know the real action is yet to come.

 

Gemini 22: A barn dance

"A barn dance" 22 Gemini

 

This symbol is illuminated 9:01 AM EDT June 11 (12:01 PM GMT, June 11)

 

Theme: Change up

 

Inspiration: A barn dance sees a change of partners often.

 

Today: Think of the theme: changing positions.

 

There is the prince and the pauper, slave and the master, gaoler and prisoner, labourer and factory owner, stage player and audience. The idea of changing places is one of walking in another's shoes, inverting your perceptual perspective.

 

The day brings an awareness of what it is like to be in another's position. Use it and brilliant insight can save the day. One can gain considerable self-confidence and the daring to chart unknown territory. This is good news if your sense is that you have it hard just now. 

 

Intensity is a pin prick away. Carry it tensely, like strings strung too taught, choosing in accordance with who you really are is a chance ill attuned. Pluck it softly while seeing other's pain as your own alone, and wondrous change can appear. 

 

Gemini 20: A cafeteria

"A cafeteria" 20 Gemini

 

This symbol is illuminated 6:48 AM EDT June 9 (10:48 AM GMT, June 9)

 

Theme: Social supply

 

Inspiration: Polishing systems of delivery has a two-fold effect: everyone gets a little of something; few get anything of note.

 

Today: The cafeteria is a modern manifestation of food delivery efficiency. It works. Many get to access their choice of sustenance in a well-organized timely fashion.

 

The problem arises through the very delivery system. Food served up coldly. Compare well-serviced fine dining to plastic trays sliding along metal runners from which large pans of re-warmed foods are self-served.

 

The genius of the cafeteria is that it brings many people together into a common humanistic scenario.  

 

Watch for subtle ways of being connected with others socially and culturally. Matters of spirit are in such supply today that groups and gatherings from around the world and beyond may easily and smoothly resonate in harmony.

 

Good day to be keenly aware and appreciative of each bite of food… where it comes from, the hands that grew, cared for and delivered it. 

 

The supply side of spirit is in great abundance; the delivery side depends greatly on individual and collective human care brought to the task.

 

Gemini 19: A large archaic volume

"A large archaic volume" 19 Gemini

 

This symbol is illuminated 5:42 AM EDT June 8 (9:42 AM GMT, June 8)

 

Theme: Old recipe

 

Inspiration: When traveling to a new land, take a family recipe; when returning home, bring a new one… but not something that would upset momma.

 

Today: A large archaic volume speaks to the way every human being carries a vast wealth of knowledge and heritage with them, even unconsciously so.

 

Somehow, those who have gone before have left traces of knowing that emerge when needed for immediate purposes. 

 

The inverse dynamic might point to being trapped in the past, in tradition. For growth and development purposes, from the perspective of being on the path, even a completely new world, dimension or field of experience will be managed with great 'in-the-bones' know-how from the past. 

 

Regarding one's way of relating to the archaic past: neither clinging nor quarrelsome be. Mere recollection of our forefathers brings their collective wisdom silently and swiftly to our core.

 

Gemini 18: Two Chinese men talking Chinese

 "Two Chinese men talking Chinese" 18 Gemini

 

This symbol is illuminated 4:36 AM EDT June 7 (8:36 AM GMT, June 7)

 

Theme: Common language

 

Inspiration: Enthusiasm and a sense of shared corroboration erupts when two people share the same language… the same understanding.

 

Today: Discovering a common interest, a common language, with another can bring a buoyant sense of cheer. Unless one has some place to go.

 

Meet a stranger along the path, one does not linger; meet a familiar, one's steps slow: thus the saying might go. 

 

In terms of growth and development, it is strangeness and discontent that stretch our horizons, not the comfortable agreement of familiarity. 

 

Therefore keep this in mind. When needed, a spark of shared agreement and familiarity can encourage and replenish spirits. But when one has some place to go, why waste time discussing how great the trip is going to be before even taking the first step?

 

Gemini 17: A head of health dissolved into the head of mentality

"A head of health dissolved into the head of mentality" 16 Gemini

 

This symbol is illuminated 3:30 AM EDT June 6 (7:30 AM GMT, June 6)

 

Theme: New mind

 

Inspiration: Shifts in awareness are like key changes within a song… usually experienced as moving from one agreeable place to another extraordinary.

 

Today: Venus crossed the face of the solar life source like an old girl-friend passing the opposite way.

 

Watch for how you relate to something or someone shift today. Think of it as 'once it was this way; now it is different'.

 

Some will experience the shift as raising the vibration to a higher level. Some may experience it as what was once physical is now just a passing idea or memory.

 

Also,  complicated, twisted relationships unravels in a temple of peace. It is as if past presumptions of what relating entailed, what made it meaningful, are sublimated into a dimension of mentality. This is not as boring as it may sound for  higher spiritual communing with higher self grows in this way.

 

Gemini 16: A woman suffragist orating

"A woman suffragist orating" 16 Gemini

 

This symbol is illuminated 2:25 AM EDT June 5 (6:25 AM GMT, June 5)

 

Theme: Being heard

 

Inspiration: The art of effective speaking out is knowing when one will be heard.

 

Today: Most have experienced times when having something important to say lands upon cold reception.

 

Imagine addressing a problem with a bureaucratic administrator, for example. How often do the arbitrary machinations of procedure mute the voice of effective reason or even common sense?

 

Knowing when to strike, when to speak, how to say something of importance in the right way, is everything. 

 

The woman suffragist suggests this for today: remain calm within your fervent belief. The shrill voice of complaint does turn the ear deaf. It is demeanour that holds the space wherein one can be heard. Cool, intrepid, yet with a light touch for serious matters, thus on his day a man will be heard.

 

"The Sabian Symbols in Astrological Analysis: The Original Symbols Fully Revealed", Blain Bovee, Llewellyn, 2004.

 

Gemini 15: Two Dutch children talking

"Two Dutch children talking" 15 Gemini

 

This symbol is illuminated 1:21 AM EDT June 4 (5:21 AM GMT, June 4)

 

Theme: Double entendre

 

Inspiration: Even the simplest conversation operates on two levels at once.

 

Today: Often the Dutch children talking indicates communing with netherworld spirits at the same time as communing with embodied presences.

 

The trick is to be supported, secure and blessed in the range of communication. When insecure, or feeling cursed, anxiety and fear can prevail… but this is never necessary.

 

Imagine stopping to converse with someone on the street. You listen and chat, but part of your mind is elsewhere. it may be in the background or your could still be reviewing the shopping list left at home. But also, you could be aware of a shining light of an other-world sort that, rather than rudely removing attention to the other conversant, brings an extra illuminating dimension to the conversation.

 

Words in this world spoken , reverberate in heaven as well. Speaking well of and with others, excites luminous cheer from beyond.

 

"The Sabian Symbols in Astrological Analysis: The Original Symbols Fully Revealed", Blain Bovee, Llewellyn, 2004.