She slips between…she moves into that shad­owed space…beyond the cross­ing point, between Dark­ness and the Light…she comes back to her beloved, her Bright­ly-Shin­ing One. She returns to renew and begin again, to mark her sacred duty. For she is the weaver who works her ways with­in a shim­mer­ing web, she gath­ers the plan­e­tary ener­gies, she steps them down so that you might feel them too…but most of all, she will ever return to the source of life and love, and so renew her­self as so you do too…

Once again, your dear Luna has come around, between you and the Sun. You look for her, but she is gone…She has come back to her beloved and is lost in that Glo­ry for a time…Yes, it is dark again, there is no light at night, no Moon to reflect upon…So you must have faith, you must be open for a sign. It is your time to pause, it is your time to wait…it is time to give thanks and wel­come your chance for a new beginning.

Today, the Moon meets her com­pan­ion, and in the Sun’s own sign…So, it is the gift of Leo, which is offered up for you at this time. Here in the dark­est hour, when you can­not find your way, the bright­est bea­con will be revealed, and dark­ness will fly away. For Leo asks you noth­ing less than to become who you are meant to be: that you see your­self, that you Love yourself…and so you laugh as you smile…because you see.

You turn around…you look with­in, and find an ember there. It is a spark, the same glo­ri­ous source, from which all of Cre­ation came. It is the Light Divine, pure love of course, that is your one and true, your ever­last­ing source…It lights your Sun, the Stars and Moon and all who accom­pa­ny thee…

The New Moon of Leo calls to you, to remem­ber from whence you came…To remem­ber and rejoice…for you are a child of great descent whose path­way stretch­es ever on. You cycle through count­less forms, through end­less worlds that you have made…For this is your path, your destiny…and you will make your way.

You are a Cre­ator, here to release, reveal and express your Love, to be the Love and to share the Love that you are…for you are That.

Cel­e­brate your source, your heart…your Love.

So be it!

Trip­tych Teach­ings — Part Three

This final act in your spi­ral­ing Trip­tych rounds out the lessons of life on the Ides of August…

In this third gift of grace from your Star­ry Wan­der­ers, you receive a plan­e­tary bless­ing that flows from the align­ment of Venus (Love and Beau­ty) as she dances her way beside Uranus (The Awak­en­er, the Lord of Free­dom and Individuality).

The First Trip­tych les­son, from Venus and Plu­to, affirmed the sacred nature of the space that is You. Your cen­ter is one with, and insep­a­ra­ble from, the count­less sacred cen­ters in all of the spaces of Space. The Bound­less All or One is found with­in and forms the radi­ant source upon which all sacred cen­ters reside…it is the ever­last­ing light at the core of each and every consciousness.

The Sec­ond Trip­tych les­son, from Mars and Sat­urn, affirms the Prin­ci­ple of growth that con­stant­ly dri­ves the unfold­ment of your Real­i­ty-Mak­ing. Your per­son­al self-real­iza­tions are pro­por­tion­al to the self-real­iza­tions of your fel­low trav­el­ers. For each and every one is a co-cre­ator in the jour­ney of Life-Consciousness-Spirit…Truly, it is All for one and One for All!

Now you turn to this your Third Trip­tych, and the les­son is about the inti­mate rela­tion­ship that pre­vails between Love and Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty. Venus rules your val­ues, the why, where and how of you and of the beau­ty in your world. Venus rules the source of all your val­ues, which is the val­ue of you, your Self…That Self is quite sim­ply your spir­i­tu­al source, your Divine essence or core, which you know and feel as Love. Quite sim­ply, you Love your Self because this ker­nel or core of you is pure Spir­it, is pure Love.

The most essen­tial prin­ci­ple of this val­ue of you is that you are Unique, that you are an Indi­vid­ual. You are a unique spark of the Divine…you are one of the ones of the One. Uranus rules this prin­ci­ple, which is called Self­hood (or Swab­hā­va), and it is this defin­ing essence that shapes and defines your unique­ness. It is this unique self­hood that forms the source-ener­gy that dri­ves your ever-unfold­ing journey.

Your Self­hood is the rea­son for your growth from with­in out­wards and forms and pro­pels the sto­ry of your self-real­iza­tion. For you are here to ful­fill your destiny…you become your Self as you unfold your poten­tial and take your place as a one of the count­less voic­es who will each add their own voice to the Song of Creation.

It is through Venus that you con­nect to your beloved by those val­ues that you share…You come togeth­er and form your rela­tion­ship upon a bedrock of val­ues that you find mean­ing­ful, pleas­ing and wish to expe­ri­ence with and through one anoth­er. By this shar­ing and love for one anoth­er, you recon­nect and reaf­firm your source-love which is that eter­nal love of your High­er Self…and which you now see reflect­ed back to you through the eyes of your beloved…for it is there that you expe­ri­ence the very same love that pours forth from the cen­ter of Creation.

What Uranus reminds and reveals to Venus today is that what draws you to one anoth­er yes­ter­day, today and tomor­row, is that very prin­ci­ple at the heart of your val­ue, your unique essence, your Self­hood, your Swab­hā­va. It is that which you see, acknowl­edge and love in one anoth­er, this unique beingness…you remem­ber this feel­ing, you know this energy…and you smile.

For you have met before, and will meet again…and it is how you know, how you tru­ly know that you have found one anoth­er yet again…because there is that something…that essen­tial essence of unique­ness that dis­tin­guish­es and defines who you are and who they are…and you love one anoth­er for exact­ly That!

Uranus reminds Venus that to be Loved you must release your Self, your true ever-unfold­ing essen­tial being, your Radi­ant Ray. And that this will also bring you back, again and again, to your com­pan­ions and com­rades, to your friends and loved ones, and to your beloved…who love you as you love them…because you love one anoth­er for being exact­ly what you are becoming…

You are the becoming…

You are the Radi­ant Splendor…

You are one of the ones of the One.

So be it!

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…

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…

Venus is swim­ming, splash­ing through those car­ing, embrac­ing and nur­tur­ing waters of Cancer…and so you remem­ber, you re-affirm and recon­nect to your source, to your val­ue of you, to your per­son­al mem­o­ries, to what is true for you and your love…

Today Venus receives a lov­ing caress as Nep­tune draws you into her Pis­cean Seas…You pass through the appear­ances of real­i­ty, beyond the veils and into her mys­te­ri­ous, dream­ing ocean­ic depths…where all are met and found as one…

Today Venus, through which you val­ue your­self and love the oth­er, who rules your per­son­al affec­tions, the home of your beat­ing heart of love, today you with Venus go beyond and through, as your soul is drawn up into the Trans-Per­son­al way…because today you are touched by the Lord of Uni­ver­sal Love…

Today, through Nep­tune, you can feel the con­nec­tion between I and Thou as being more than just hap­pen­stance or fortune…you real­ize that it is your des­tiny, your kar­ma that has built this bridge, this sym­pa­thy of under­stand­ing, of soul to soul, of heart to heart…

For the great illu­sion is Separation…

Your Shin­ing Truth, felt so strong today…

Is all are One…as all are Loved as ones of the One…

Each one by love reflects this Great Love…this Uncon­di­tion­al Joy…

That keeps each and every on the path, reach­ing upwards, towards the Light…

So that each will find their own true way…

By love, through love…

The only Way.