What IS the relationship of mind to matter?

I am thinking about this as we have a solar eclipse New Moon in Gemini, the sign of our mind, this Wednesday June 1st at 5:03 PM EDT.  Eclipses bring into alignment the Sun, Moon and Earth; New Moons begin new monthly cycles. The eclipse is stronger however and signifies that this new beginning will not just begin and end in a month but will extend over years.  So what are we looking for to begin here and how can we make the connection between what we think about and what happens in the outside world?

Enlightenment thought gave us Descartes and "I think therefore I am" and Kant who gave us the mind as separate from outer reality;  that we cannot effect the outside world but only impressions of it through our senses.  We have been conditioned to think in dualistic terms, this or that, mind/matter, body/mind, cause/effect, inner/outer.   Modern physics however has been opening our minds to view reality more wholistically.  (Rather more like the way Marcus Aurelius thought about it in the 1st Century quote above).

Keiron Le Grice, in his book, "The Archetypal Cosmos" writes about Heisenberg and his uncertainity principal, that the observer is not separate from the observed;  and physicist John Wheeler who felt that the independent observer be replaced by a "participator", that we humans are responsible for shaping reality. These two and many more physicists, cosmologists, evolutionary system theorists, ecologists, transpersonal psychologists (according to Le Grice) all share a common vision that of incorporating a more expanded view of the nature of mind and reality. Fritjof Capra in The Web of Life, writes that "the organizing activity of all living systems, at all levels of life, is mental activity." That is how important what we think about is. 

So during this week as we wind down from "the beginning of summer" weekend, we get to pay attention to what we are thinking about and what we are sharing with others.  Mercury is the planet that rules Gemini. He was a trickster-he stole his brother's sheep when he was an infant.  He could travel between Olympus in the heavens and Hades below the earth (the only god that could).  Mercury signifies our minds-it can play tricks on us, it can go into the heights and down to the depths and take our outer reality with it. 

Gemini is the sign of the twins-lower mind and higher mind.  When we are in our lower mind we are scared, restless, worried, depressed and anxious. Our  higher mind brings us to truth , beauty, equanimity and insight.  However and whenever we are in our truth and speak it, we are in our higher mind. Gemini is compelled to communicate. If what we think and communicate creates reality, then at this solar eclipse New Moon we have a golden opportunity to reset our thinking patterns.  We are that responsible for the world we create around us.  It comes from what we focus on and what we think about.