Daily Archives: August 14, 2012

Mars Conjunct Saturn (August 15, 2012)

 

Saturn-and-Mars 

Trip­tych Teach­ings — Part Two

Lat­er on Wednes­day, part two of your Trip­tych les­son unfolds…And it is tru­ly a time­ly gift from your plan­e­tary companions!

Mars, rul­ing Desire and Action, takes about two years to com­plete its cir­cuit of the Solar Sys­tem and will come back to Sat­urn, the Ruler of Form and Real­i­ty, in this their Con­junc­tion, which is like a New Moon, in just over two years. Their align­ment her­alds a New Begin­ning in the cycle that gov­erns your efforts to real­ize your desires by form­ing them, pour­ing and shap­ing them into your Real­i­ty Structure.

The typ­i­cal inter­pre­ta­tion of Mars with Sat­urn is full of warn­ings about frus­tra­tion, anger and accidents…really?! This is a pow­er­ful con­junc­tion but the mis­use of their com­bined ener­gies lies not with Mars or Sat­urn, but with a lack of under­stand­ing about the way in which ener­gy and mat­ter com­bine togeth­er to form your universe.

You move out­ward, through and by your desires (Mars), you move out­ward to ful­fill your­self and your dreams. To do so, you act with­in the world of form (Sat­urn), shap­ing it into some sem­blance of what you imag­ined your world should be. You pour your­self into forms and there­by both real­ize but at the same time lim­it your­self into those very forms…you ful­fill your­self, yet it can only last so long. For you are con­tin­u­ous­ly devel­op­ing your­self from with­in out­wards, and the world around you is con­stant­ly chang­ing as well…so the forms you made becomes less and less rel­e­vant as you and every­one else con­tin­ue to grow.

The Con­junc­tion of Mars and Sat­urn her­alds the moment in which you begin a new cycle of Desire and Form, of Action and Accom­plish­ment. You need to release your­self from the no longer ade­quate, those old­er forms of self-real­iza­tion. Mars and Sat­urn join to light the way so that you may move to cre­ate new forms of growth, new forms of self-man­i­fes­ta­tion. Their con­junc­tion forms a bea­con to inspire you to cre­ate a bet­ter real­i­ty for the world you wish to move through.

This process is often hard and not with­out pain. Why? Because you have become attached to the famil­iar, you are habit­u­at­ed to the old forms, to your old ways and means…In order to grow, you must let go…but you often resist and so bring about the very pain and suf­fer­ing that many asso­ciate with this aspect.

This need not be your “fate”…You always have a choice. You can always find a bet­ter way…and you will find that way through under­stand­ing. This path of greater under­stand­ing is shown to you now by the Space where Mars and Sat­urn meet with one another…and that Space is found in the way of Libra.

This year, Mars and Sat­urn align, like one Star, in the sign of Libra. Their mes­sage is sim­ple yet pro­found: Desire and Action (Mars), Form and Real­i­ty (Sat­urn) must be guid­ed, formed and so ful­filled through mutu­al­ly agreed upon prin­ci­ples and val­ues that you share with your fel­low trav­el­ers, your trust­ed com­pan­ions, your com­rades in arms.

The Truth of Mars meet­ing Sat­urn in Libra is that your self-real­iza­tions, the meet­ing of your heart’s desire, can only be met, can only be accom­plished with the coop­er­a­tion and/or par­tic­i­pa­tion with many, many oth­ers. Your self-ful­fill­ment depends upon these oth­ers, as your self-real­iza­tion becomes a means to cre­ate their ful­fill­ment too…For only togeth­er can you make your way back to the source, back to your home in the stars…

You are part of a glo­ri­ous, shin­ing host of spir­it seek­ing to become ever more ful­filled, ever more resplendent…Always and for­ev­er, you unfold your poten­tials for your­self and for one anoth­er too…today you begin anew…again.

There is one more les­son, one more pan­el in these Trip­tych Teach­ings to guide you today, so let’s take a look at what Venus and Uranus offer up to light your way…

Venus Opposite Pluto (August 15, 2012)

Uranus-Pluto-Venus

Trip­tych Teach­ings — Part One

Okay…you had bet­ter take a deep breath…no deep­er! Today and tomor­row, you encounter anoth­er triple align­ment; three inter-linked lessons of life from the cos­mos served up and deliv­ered to you!

First, there is Venus oppo­site Plu­to, then lat­er today Mars con­juncts Sat­urn and final­ly late Wednes­day into Thurs­day Venus squares Uranus…Wow!

When “per­son­al” plan­ets like Venus or Mars make “hard” encoun­ters with out­er plan­ets, there is a pre­sid­ing belief that it just will not go well. But, what you need to know is that these align­ments are just forms of ener­gy that are meet­ing up with one anoth­er, they com­bine and trans­form one another…and that you, being part of this mar­velous cos­mos will be trans­formed too.

For every­thing in the Uni­verse is con­scious, every part of the uni­verse is a con­scious­ness that is unfold­ing and devel­op­ing. That growth, that devel­op­ment takes place as each con­scious­ness unfolds its poten­tial from with­in itself and encoun­ters, com­bines and is trans­formed through the rela­tion­ships it has with oth­er all the oth­er forms of con­scious­ness that trav­el with it. This Jour­ney of Spir­it, seek­ing to know itself, is a won­drous, shin­ing and ever-unfold­ing, ever-evolv­ing host of count­less minds…it is the radi­ant spi­ral of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it with­in the one great mind of Spirit.

The ques­tion real­ly, each and every day, is: Are you ready to unfold and become, to grow? Tru­ly, the ques­tion is: Do you under­stand your jour­ney? For there are no good or bad plan­ets, no good or bad aspects…There is growth (through Faith and Under­stand­ing) and less growth (through Fear and Igno­rance). That’s it!

For as you face it, as you believe it…so shall it be for you. You must choose, (and the great good news is) you can choose the life you wish to cre­ate, the life you wish to live…for you are the dream­er dream­ing Creation.

The first encounter on Wednes­day is pro­found, that is cer­tain­ly true. Venus rules what you hold most dear, your val­ue of you…your love. Plu­to, the Lord of Will and Trans­for­ma­tion, the Cre­ator and Pro­tec­tor of Sacred Space will bring to bear his Will upon Venus today…

For Love depends upon this, it depends upon the Sacred­ness of your Space, the space that you call “you”… To be you, you cre­ate a space that is inte­gral, whole and true. But the truth of it is, (and how else could it be?)…so is every oth­er space, all the spaces of space that sur­round you too…they are all sacred cen­ters, each hav­ing a con­scious­ness cen­ter at its core. Each and every evolv­ing con­scious­ness devel­ops with­in its space formed by Will, pro­tect­ed and made a Holy Con­scious Space, for each con­tains a spark of the Divine and is a sacred, con­scious con­tain­er of Spirit…a con­tain­er of Love.

The Oppo­si­tion of Plu­to to Venus illus­trates this Prin­ci­ple: that one must regard all of space as Sacred. Each cen­ter of con­scious­ness exists in Spa­tial Sacred­ness and each must have some form of Will to cre­ate such space…But, and here it does get chal­leng­ing, each con­scious­ness cen­ter must be care­ful to not mis­use that willpow­er, for to do so would be to tres­pass upon the space of another.

That is often what you encounter when you or anoth­er is less aware of this prin­ci­ple, of this fun­da­men­tal truth. You meet anoth­er who, per­haps for the best of inten­tions, wish­es to change you, make you into some­thing, per­haps to make you “bet­ter”, make you love them or what­ev­er. Like­wise, this is what you may stum­ble into when you try to change anoth­er against their will too…and when they or you do this, you fall into error…you mis­use your willpow­er, you fall…why? You fall because of your Fear.

You fear that if you do not con­trol it or them, you will lose…and by try­ing to con­trol them, by tres­pass­ing upon their sacred space, you do lose…you lose your­self, (only for a time, but you might lose them, that rela­tion­ship, too).

The Venus/Pluto les­son here is the les­son of Bound­aries and Self-Control…the right and prop­er exer­cise of your will fol­lows from the right and prop­er rela­tion­ship you have with your­self. That right rela­tion­ship with your Self is found by you as you secure your uncon­di­tion­al love for your­self, the love which emanates, flows and embraces you and which comes from with­in, from your High­er Self.

Your Love is bestowed by, is the essence of, the Spir­it which is at the core of you…it is You. Hav­ing this true self-love, pos­sess­ing this, you are com­plete in your­self, free yet cir­cum­scribed by the under­stand­ing that each being around is just like you too. You are then free to love anoth­er with­out the false need (from fear) of want­i­ng to con­trol or “own” them…You are Lov­ing, you are Free and you can meet them in a shared sacred space of free­dom too!

But Venus and Plu­to are not the only movers of today…there are two more pan­els, two more dances in your Trip­tych Teach­ings to understand…So, let us see what Mars and Sat­urn have brought your way…