Now comes a pause in your Plan­e­tary Dance, a time-out for this Tri­an­gu­lar Trio, (which will pick­up and con­clude on Wednes­day). While you wait for this final act, there is anoth­er who steps up to claim your cen­ter stage…And Won­der of Won­ders, it is Venus who has quite a show prepared…and she aims to daz­zle and amaze!

It is love­ly Venus now, who will take her turn, to go trip­ping “back­wards” for a while. Yes, you have reached that spe­cial time once more when Venus piv­ots and turns her­self around…She only does this every 20 months or so, and she will go back­wards now until June 27…She does this for you, to bring to you this pre­cious gift, this won­der­ful opportunity…

You will find an eas­ing now, a clear­er way to under­stand, to see what is in your heart…It is your time, to take some time…To look back over this path of val­ues that you laid, that made and marked your way. It is your time to assess what is wor­thy, both with­in and what sur­rounds you…It is your time to clar­i­fy, to know your own self worth, so you might find that bet­ter way, to live with love on Earth.

But this time, this time it will be Different…It is a rather spe­cial arc that Venus traces, this loop­ing dance between Earth and Sun, this time love­ly Venus will put on quite a show! At the mid­point of her jour­ney, on June 5–6 when Venus Con­juncts the Sun, it will be like a Solar Eclipse, and the world will watch with you, the won­drous beau­ty of her vision…the tran­sit of Venus pass­ing across the face of the Sun!

You had bet­ter pay atten­tion because the next one of these will not hap­pen until 2117! That is right…it is a rare event for Venus, Earth and Sun to form a line in the same plane, as Venus takes her ret­ro­grade trip and moves between the Earth and Sun…You do not want to miss this…

For many in the Unit­ed States only part of the tran­sit will be vis­i­ble, (only Alas­ka and Hawaii get the whole show) but many orga­ni­za­tions and indi­vid­u­als will be in place to cap­ture and share this beau­ti­ful plan­e­tary pageant. Here is a link to see where and when the tran­sit will be vis­i­ble: Venus Tran­sit

And here is an ani­ma­tion of what it will look like: Ani­ma­tion of Venus

But you may won­der, what of Venus and her message…what do you do when Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love “go backwards”?

Much like Mer­cury, and he does this three times a year, this move­ment of Venus takes place because she is pass­ing by Earth like a rac­er on the “inside track”. She makes her clos­est approach to Earth as she swings across the Sun!

Far from “weak­en­ing” or debil­i­tat­ed, Venus ret­ro­grade is Venus in Focus! There is no bet­ter time, no bet­ter oppor­tu­ni­ty for you to under­stand what it is exact­ly, this thing you call your “worth”.

This is your per­fect oppor­tu­ni­ty, this time a gift for you to ask, “What is it that you pos­sess, what do you hold that is dear?” For every­thing comes down to this, your rela­tion­ship to your­self and to one anoth­er, to all things and all beings…it all comes down to what you find of val­ue in yourself!

And you may know or will remem­ber, that it changes as you grow. Because you are the ever-unfolding…you becom­ing more, cre­at­ing more, being more than what you were before.

That through your growth you do reveal more of what you hold so dear.

For you are Spir­it resplen­dent, Light mov­ing from form to form…

You are The One in Love, in motion…

You are The Love becom­ing, unbound!

The Grand Trine of Mer­cury, Mars and Pluto

Your Plan­e­tary Dance Continues…As Mer­cury turns away from Mars, whose gift to you was that calmer, clear­er sense of Mind…He turns and looks to dis­tant spaces, beyond these sun­lit realms. There Mer­cury meets the One who stands, who draws the sacred cir­cle lines…Now it is Plu­to’s turn, Lord of Bound­aries, who comes to dance this dance with Mer­cury, to ele­vate your mind.

This Spi­ral­ing, Whirling Trip­tych of Earth glides from “first to sec­ond position”…Today, Mer­cury in Tau­rus meets with Plu­to in Capri­corn and your thoughts are div­ing deep­er, beyond what seems to be…to what is tru­ly true.

Mars in Vir­go brought a spe­cial spark of refine­ment, a dis­cern­ing heal­ing gift to calm your trou­bled mind…Pluto in Capri­corn now offers a stronger push, your mind enhanced to reveal some Greater truth within.

Your mind is often pulled from point to point, find­ing fan­cies and fas­ci­na­tions that spin you ’round and round. So much expect­ed, so lit­tle to show. Today, with Plu­to’s added mea­sure, you will find your focus bound…you can probe your deep for greater trea­sures, for truths you had not found.

Today, the prob­lem that would not sur­ren­der, the rid­dle too complex…they fall today, bow down today, before your pierc­ing, lucid wit. Secrets are bared for you to see, but dis­cre­tion you need apply, for many things remain for you to know and hold inside.

Today with Mer­cury and Plu­to, you are the Mind­ful Mind…

You pierce through those mir­rored illusions…dispel shad­ows from your path…

Today you are the Watch­er watching…

Your Truth revealed at last.

The Grand Trine of Mer­cury, Mars and Pluto

Beautiful…Magical…Wondrous…

Today and for the next sev­er­al days, the plan­ets will dance for you…

Three plan­ets will glide through their mag­is­te­r­i­al waltz, they will sweep and bow…weaving in and out…These Celes­tial Regents of Life will move into their grand rendezvous…They will align and form a pow­er­ful Trip­tych of Meaning…and it is all for you.

Three plan­ets will form into posi­tion, equal­ly spaced along the Cir­cle of Life, mov­ing with grace through three…Together they will cre­ate this per­fect Tri­ad of Ener­gies, form­ing for you a glo­ri­ous Grand Trine in Earth.

They will each have their time, each have their day…Today, it is Mer­cury aligned with Mars…then tomor­row, Mer­cury turns and forms his trine with Pluto…Finally, on Wednes­day, it will be Mars who will trine Plu­to. Three times three, they will sing and dance for you in their cos­mic wheel­ing wonder…and togeth­er they will stand by and deliv­er their mes­sages and ener­gies for you.

Today Mer­cury feels the quick­en­ing pres­ence of Mars…today your Mind leaps in response to your heart’s Desire! Mer­cury is mov­ing through Tau­rus, being stead­ied and pur­pose­ful, slow­er to decide and resis­tant to change, your mind finds its focus as it dwells upon ques­tions of val­ue and beauty.

Mars in Vir­go brings a dis­cern­ing touch, a crit­i­cal appre­ci­a­tion for the fin­er mat­ters in these cal­cu­la­tions and val­u­a­tions. The ener­gies of Mars elic­it a stronger deter­mi­na­tion in your mind to move out from mere appre­ci­a­tion into the fields of action…it is not enough to con­sid­er what is beau­ti­ful, you must make right what is wrong, heal what is hurt and bring rea­son, order and the way of beau­ty to the world around you.

The com­bi­na­tion of Mer­cury and Mars brings Mind and Action together…You dance in the realm known as Praxis…where your Ideas become real and formed…

Your Actions guid­ed through your Greater Understanding…

You, the Cre­ator, the mak­er of worlds…as you thought or imag­ined it would be…

Mind in Motion, danc­ing the dance of Creation.

You are the Self-Unfolding…you are the Self-Becoming…

You become by releas­ing from with­in your pure potential…and by doing so you dis­cov­er, reveal and make man­i­fest your true nature…

This is your purpose…this your ever-unfold­ing path…with one goal…To Grow.

Today begins your next Year­ly Cycle of Growth as Jupiter aligns with the Sun.

The Sun rules your “Self”, it is the seed of you from which will spring count­less won­ders. Jupiter rules your Truth, it deter­mines the way in which you relate to your world, shap­ing and guid­ing you on your path­way of Understanding.

Once every year the Sun will form a con­junc­tion with Jupiter…and each year this cycle will advance by one Zodi­a­cal Sign, mov­ing for­ward through this won­drous Cir­cle of Life. Today the Sun and Jupiter align in Tau­rus and the mes­sage they offer speaks to one of the core prin­ci­ples of your essen­tial nature, of what you have that forms your essen­tial val­ue, your most pre­cious possession.

The mys­tery behind your bound­less poten­tial is that you are, at the very core of you, a spark of the Divine…And this Mon­ad, this Lumi­nous Being, your High­er Self, is for­ev­er and always part of the Divin­i­ty that encom­pass­es this Uni­verse, the Sub­stance-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it that is the ulti­mate Real­i­ty of this Cosmos.

Your val­ue is beyond mea­sure because you are an essen­tial part of the Cosmos…and because of this rela­tion­ship, you will con­tin­u­ous­ly grow, ever increas­ing, ever unfold­ing as you become more aware of the true nature of who you are and your kin­ship with all that sur­rounds you.

In order to know where you are going (or even why you should go there) you must under­stand Who You Are!…In order to know where you should go, you need to know where you are com­ing from!

Today reminds you that your most impor­tant jour­ney is your inner jour­ney; your most impor­tant rela­tion­ship, your rela­tion­ship with your Self! The align­ment of the Sun with Jupiter offers you a moment to pause, reflect upon and accept the year that is passing…

You need this moment, to cast a glance back­wards, to see how and in what man­ner you became some­thing more, to har­vest the mean­ing of it all and use this as your seed-form to begin this New Year of Growth.

Then turn your head around and look out to the far horizons…take your Har­vest of Under­stand­ing and relate to what is around you with your new­found Greater Awareness.

Look out upon all those tomor­rows wait­ing for you…

As you become an ever more con­scious, co-cre­ator of this Cosmos…

Look out upon this, your Creation…

And smile.

Anoth­er read­er asked this ques­tion in response to my ear­li­er answer about Mayan prophecies:

Dear Bill, does that mean the Mayas were wrong?

Dear Marie, I mere­ly answered the ques­tion about what some indi­vid­u­als claim to be a mes­sage or pre­dic­tion that is sup­pos­ed­ly derived from Mayan teach­ings. I can­not com­ment on what the Mayans meant or believed, (that is for the Maya!) Either the cur­rent advo­cates of this claim have mis­in­ter­pret­ed those mes­sages, or they have will­ful­ly cho­sen to inter­pret some mes­sage in such a way as to raise again the specter of dis­as­ters and/or rap­tures which humans seen to be drawn to time and again.

Through­out this jour­ney of Spir­it, (and for us present­ly in our human unfold­ment), the con­sis­tent mes­sage found in all times and cul­tures, (what is found as a core prin­ci­ple with­in the Ancient Teach­ings), is one sim­ple truth. The devel­op­ment of Spir­it pro­ceeds from with­in outwards…

We are tasked by our nature to unfold from with­in the Divine Light which suf­fus­es all of Cre­ation. The attempt to find some exter­nal device, mech­a­nism or event (some Deus ex machi­na) to explain away or solve our prob­lems or dilem­mas is under­stand­able but not helpful.

We, along with many oth­er con­scious life forms, are the creators…and we are slow­ly becom­ing more ful­ly con­scious of this awe­some respon­si­bil­i­ty, this supreme gift of the Spir­it. There is no sim­ple solution…Each and every one of us must do the work…We must lift our­selves up through devel­op­ing a Greater Aware­ness as we equal­ly seek to extend our Greater Com­pas­sion to oth­ers as well.

All the Teach­ings, all The Mas­ters have come with the same message…

And every gen­er­a­tion needs to hear those teach­ings again and again…

But slow­ly and steadi­ly, we are get­ting it!