The Sun has now moved into Gate 20, METAMORPHOSIS, ANTICIPATION, THE NOW, or CHARISMA. In the I-Ching this hexagram is called CONTEMPLATION.

As you can see, there are a lot of keynotes and interpretations of this energy with good reason, it's complicated. This is the energy for having an awareness of THE NOW. It is also the energy for doing the right thing even when everyone else is not. It is about integrity, or not. Gate 20 is the energy for intuitively recognizing the skills of others and having that special ability of bringing the right people together at the right time for the right project. My teacher Karen Curry says it is "intuitive awareness to right action." I like that.

CONTEMPLATION is the physical expression of the Integration Circuit. Which may or may not look like what other people are doing and that's as it should be.

So yeah, there is a lot going on here which makes sense. It is part of the Channel of CHARISMA which is a very busy channel. In the right combination this is part of the archetype of the Manifesting Generator. 

Bob Dylan and Ralph Waldo Emerson both have METAMORPHOSIS defined by the sun at the time of their birth. Can you see how it could be argued that both were able to have an awareness of the beauty in this world as well as the not so beautiful in this world and how each were also compelled to express their innate integrity within their observations? If you have a birthday during this week, odds are this right here is a huge part of your personality.

As for the rest of us, during this transit I invite you to stop and CONTEMPLATE the themes of integrity and being present in THE NOW.

How does integrity play a part in your life? Do you live your life with integrity? Do you have a solid sense of what is right and what is wrong? If not, why not? How can you be more focused on right action? What is right action? If this sensibility comes easy to you, are you acting on this awareness of right action or are you just playing the observer? What can you do now to bring the right people together to act on this sense of integrity? Should you? 

Please also consider whether you focus on THE NOW in your life or are continually wrapped up in the past or the future. So many doctrines encourage us to focus on THE NOW. If all we can concentrate on is the future or the past how can we be present for our loved ones now or even have an awareness of the beauty of the present? Do you live your life in THE NOW? Why not? What can you do to be more present in your life NOW? 

For those of us with this energy defined, If we can just stop and take in the beauty of what is now, maybe just maybe there can be a METAMORPHOSIS into the person of integrity that we are meant to embody in this lifetime.   

Or not.