Monthly Archives: October 2012

Saturn Trine Neptune (October 10, 2012)

Saturn-and-Neptune

Real­i­ty meets Dreaming…and
it is Beautiful!

Okay…this is
anoth­er one of those “big­ger” alignments…Saturn is lin­ing up with
Nep­tune in a won­der­ful trine today and again in June and July of 2013…but what
you need to know is…what does this mean?

The Ruler of the
Formed, Sat­urn, greets and is graced by the Foun­tain-source of all forms, the
Ruler of the Form­less, Neptune…and you are remind­ed once again about this
awe­some pow­er, your pow­er of Dreaming-Making-Reality. 

Sat­urn rules
Real­i­ty, what you and every­one else has so far brought into being on Earth. Saturn’s
draw­ing down into sub­stance is the ful­fill­ment of your dreams, shaped into reality-forms.
Yet these very forms at the same time nec­es­sar­i­ly lim­it your pure poten­tial by
bind­ing it into some def­i­nite (finite) Thing. 

Your Ideas,
Hopes and Dreams on this plane, in order to be real, become formed into Matter
and by doing so they become circumscribed…and there­fore sub­ject to the Laws
of Time and Cycles…for any and every­thing here is a com­pos­ite or compound,
and must even­tu­al­ly pass away. 

The les­son of
this dance of life, of Sat­urn and Nep­tune, is that you must con­tin­u­al­ly Imagine
anew. You must ever Dream, again and again, to keep form­ing and re-form­ing your
world and yourself…This is the sub­stance of your spi­ral jour­ney as
Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it, of you becom­ing you through count­less unfolding
forms of self-realization.

Nep­tune rules
your Dream­ing and Imag­i­na­tion, it is the rep­re­sen­ta­tive for the Spir­i­tu­al source
for this awe­some pow­er, the pow­er to unfold from with­in a new world and a new
you. You encounter the world before you, your present cir­cum­stances. You dare
to dream, you imag­ine and believe that there could be a dif­fer­ent world, a
bet­ter world…and so it begins to take form…And you have been doing
this…you have done this…many, many, many times…

How well you
cre­ate, how much of your dream will be, will depend upon you and those with
whom you dream. But with­in any cycling of Saturn/Neptune there are moments of
greater flow and ease, of when it seems “just right”, and there are
moments that present a greater challenge.

This cur­rent
cycle of Saturn/Neptune began in 1989, and an old world was end­ing and new
world was being imagined…Then in 2006–2007, Sat­urn and Nep­tune were opposite
to one anoth­er and a reck­on­ing was at hand for how well the dream had been
executed…or not…

Today you are
at a dif­fer­ent moment of the cycle, not a begin­ning nor a reckoning…Now you
find your­self at one of those moments where it does seem pos­si­ble to bring
togeth­er the Dream and the Real. You can take the reins of your own life and ride
that slip­stream between Dream­ing and Making…

You are the
Dream­er, Dream­ing Real­i­ty all around you…

You can
Imag­ine a bet­ter world…

And when you share your
dreams with one another…

When you believe in your­self, and sup­port each other…

You will join to
build a New Earth…Together.

Sun Trine Jupiter (October 8–9, 2012)

Sun-and-Jupiter

Tonight, tomorrow…The Uni­verse is offer­ing you a won­der­ful gift of goodness.

But you must always remem­ber: You have made your life…You sow the
seeds…You will reap your harvest…this is The Law of the Universe.

Today you receive your bounty…you shall have encour­age­ment, solace
and sup­port from Jupiter…and it is what you deserve. For those who have been
for­tu­nate, (and you should ever seek to share your good for­tune), more shall be
added to you so that you may share even more.

For those who face tri­als and chal­lenges, per­haps you will find an
eas­ing, lift­ing or release from those trou­bles that have come your way… 

Real­ly, what you should ask your­self is, “What is luck
any­way”? Are some “born lucky” and oth­ers “unlucky”?
It can cer­tain­ly seem so…but as usu­al appear­ances often cov­er the underlying
truth of what is going on.

For the Law is sim­ple and just, “You reap what you sow…Those who appear favored in
the present are receiv­ing the ben­e­fits of the good deeds they have done yesterday
and a thou­sand, thou­sand yes­ter­days ago…And for those to whom trou­bles seem
to be all too famil­iar, they are work­ing off the errors that they set in motion,
whether recent­ly or in a far dis­tant time and place…

Strange to say (for an astrologer), you can­not real­ly know your future
with per­fect cer­tain­ty, of what that tomor­row may bring…There are so many
inter­sect­ing streams of Kar­ma that com­bine to cre­ate the curi­ous mix­ture that
you will face. 

And, tru­ly and most won­der­ful­ly, as you become more aware, as you make bet­ter and more lov­ing choic­es, as you become a freer Spirit…you become less pre­dictable! You cer­tain­ly can­not change the past, what you did or failed to
do, (for that has already been released, record­ed and weighed, and those
effects will be return­ing to you their cre­ator, as a reward or chal­lenge to
you)…

The Only thing that is cer­tain, the only space you are free to choose
is…NOW. For it is by ever seek­ing to live more con­scious­ly in the space of
this pre­cious moment of here and now, where the past and future meet, that you are able
to redeem your past, and equal­ly cre­ate the best pos­si­ble future for what lies
just ahead, as well as for many, many lives to come.

You have this amaz­ing pow­er, and with your Intel­li­gence, Love and Will
you can make a bet­ter world, you can choose to do bet­ter by mak­ing the choice
to share in the Good that comes your way. And as you do this, over time, you
lift up your­self and all with whom you have shared with too.

You are the Cre­ator. You are the Giv­er who will receive your own gifts,
the gifts that you made for yourself…By show­ing kind­ness, con­sid­er­a­tion and
gen­eros­i­ty in this present moment…you cre­ate much Good for oth­ers, yes…But
you have also set in motion ener­gies which will come back to you their author,
soon­er and lat­er, and ben­e­fit you direct­ly too.

But there is more than this, for there exist a mar­velous “force
mul­ti­pli­er” in the good­ness that you have sown. Each act of kind­ness to
anoth­er will result in their kind­ness to oth­ers in turn…and so on and so on. What
that means is that every one of your “con­sid­er­a­tions” reverberates
like a stone thrown into a pond cre­at­ing rip­ples of right con­duct. Your
mul­ti­plied kind­ness­es even­tu­al­ly come back to reward you beyond what you could
have imagined…that is because every­thing and every­one is con­nect­ed by these
ener­gies that they have expe­ri­enced and passed between one another…Your
good­ness has touched and changed the lives of count­less oth­ers, time and time again. 

Yes, today is a Lucky Day…and you should thank the stars above for
the bless­ings that come to fruition now. Yes, and thank all who made it
pos­si­ble for you too, all those you were able to help, and all those that they
helped too, and so on. 

And so you should smile, remem­ber­ing this, and then pass it on
yet again so that this won­drous wave of Lov­ing ener­gy, the Force that binds the
Uni­verse togeth­er, can con­tin­ue to grow and expand, as it will…forever and ever and ever…

For by Giv­ing you shall Receive…and it will be far, far more than your
mea­sure for measure…

Be Thank­ful for the bless­ings of today and every day…share this love, with
love for all.

Give thanks to your com­pan­ions, Lords Jupiter and Sun…

They who are there to light
your Star­ry Way.

The Roy­al Road of For­tune, it is your destiny… 

Formed by your very own hands.

Choose the Path of Light and Love…and,

You will be Lucky every sin­gle day!

Mars Enters Sagittarius (October 6, 2012)

Mars-in-Sagittarius

Your Dri­ve and your Desires, your Aims and Aspi­ra­tions, they are
shifting…

Mov­ing faster now, Mars ris­es from those watery depths of Scor­pio, a not
so unfa­mil­iar realm for him…he ris­es above the Waters, leap­ing into the Fire
Mists of Sagittarius…

You have fol­lowed your heart and felt your way to the inner­most sanctum,
brav­ing all, you sought to obtain Ancient Secrets buried there, the keys to
immor­tal­i­ty and self-transcendence…the mys­tery of life and death…these, and
more than these, drove you deep­er, deep­er into the depths.

Now Mars turns you upon a dif­fer­ent path, he seeks for high­er ground. Your
heart, your soul is reach­ing now, need­ing to make sense, to dis­cern the message
of your intu­itive-self, to har­vest that feel­ing-way with­in your mys­te­ri­ous depths. You wish
to walk the path, beyond shad­ows and fears, to find your way to the path of
Wis­dom, to that roy­al road of Understanding. 

Mars takes you now, beyond your well-mapped thoughts, beyond those familiar
hori­zons. You rise to see a high­er plane, found beyond the duel­ing dichotomies,
beyond the dual­is­tic dra­mas. You need to leave behind the dis­tract­ing noises,
those who declaim in their affect­ed airs of sophis­ti­ca­tion, those squab­bling opiners
who slice and divide with pre­ten­sions and pedantry. 

With Mars in Sagit­tar­ius, you seek for those sim­ple, clear-see­ing and
eter­nal truths found in the world around you, and in the Heav­en’s above…In
their finest form, and from Age to Age passed down, they are known as the Perennial
Teachings…and they offer you Hope, and Light and Love. 

Your Aspi­ra­tions will take flight, like a leap­ing arrow, fly­ing straight
and true. You aim for that burn­ing bright, the Cen­ter Point from which all have
come and ever seek to return. The Secret, the Truth? The self-same is found
with­in you…the Always Calm, ever-watch­ful watcher…your High­er Self is
draw­ing clos­er now, here to guide you home…

You are mov­ing towards the undi­vid­ed mind, bestowed by stand­ing in the Light, which is your High­er Self…

There is no up, there is no down…

There is no left, there is no right.

You stand in awe, an Epiphany of Truth…

There is but one path…follow you Heart…Walk On.

You Live in the Greater Understanding…

Seek and you will Find…

And ever, and always…

Live in Truth, live the Life Divine!

Saturn Enters Scorpio (October 5, 2012)

Saturn-in-Scorpio

Part three of our triple play of the Planets…

Yes, final­ly, it is here…and it comes down to this…a Turning.

It is your time to turn to a new Duty, to a renewed sense of your Responsibility…

It is time, time to take the next step and move into your new space of
Reality-Making.

The Lord of Time and Real­i­ty is mov­ing on, from Air to Water…from
Car­di­nal to Fixed…Now things are going to get even more interesting…and serious!

Sat­urn in your own chart is the indi­ca­tor of your pri­ma­ry test in life.
It is like the Achilles Heel of your Life, where you will stum­ble and fall (yes,
again and again), but over time you will learn by tri­al and error to rise above
your chal­lenge. This is how you have always unfold­ed your poten­tial, you
con­tin­ue to learn more and more about your­self and your world, and as you do,
you learn to choose “The Good”. By mov­ing away from fear and pain,
you turn towards the path that leads to Peace, as you grow into greater and
greater Self-mas­tery and Fulfillment. 

That is why Sat­urn rep­re­sents “The Teacher”, because it is the
instru­ment of your chal­lenge and of your self-real­iza­tion. You can only unfold
your won­drous poten­tials by learn­ing to move beyond the imped­i­ments that have
pre­vent­ed you from being your fuller Self. It is actu­al­ly through these
con­stant chal­lenges that Sat­urn brings into your life, through var­i­ous personal
tests that you must face, it is through this that you become more self-masterful
in the very Les­son of Life indi­cat­ed by Sat­urn’s Sign and House placement.

In a very sim­i­lar fash­ion, Sat­urn mov­ing into a new sign brings to the World
a new field or focus of growth for everyone…it brings you togeth­er to work upon
a Les­son of Life for one and all. 

Since July 2010, Sat­urn has been mov­ing through Libra…and you and
every­one else has had to face the chal­lenge of bring­ing your rela­tion­ship experiences
to a high­er lev­el of self-real­iza­tion. You have learned through Sat­urn that
your pat­terns of rela­tion­ship have been formed, reflect and are therefore
lim­it­ed by the nature of the pri­ma­ry rela­tion­ship of your life…your
rela­tion­ship to your­self. The only way to “find” a good relationship
or improve an exist­ing one is to under­stand that it does not depend at all upon
what hap­pens “out there”, (like in hav­ing some bet­ter luck in finding
the “right per­son” or by look­ing in some new place or what­ev­er). The
only place you need look more deeply and hon­est­ly, the only place you are capable
of tru­ly changing…is You. For what you will always encounter is the
rela­tion­ship that you have made for your­self already. You make your rela­tion­ship real­i­ty bet­ter by
hav­ing a fuller, truer and more lov­ing rela­tion­ship with yourself!

Now Sat­urn moves, and until Decem­ber 2014, (actu­al­ly, because of
ret­ro­grade gyra­tions, Sat­urn will not leave Scor­pio for good until September
2015), you are tak­ing the next step in your Sat­urn­ian Lessons of Life. Whereas
the move through Libra helped to clar­i­fy the out­ward forms and struc­tures of
your rela­tion­ships, it is the pur­pose of Scor­pio to lead you deeper…into the
mys­tery and heart of you with your beloved. Now you must face the Chal­lenge and
Oppor­tu­ni­ty of Union itself…Saturn is here to teach you: How do “I and
Thou” become “We”?

To form this join­ing, to cre­ate that Sacred Space of Union requires great
courage and humil­i­ty. Again as before, Sat­urn will bring tests to you…to help
you move towards this most joy­ous goal. Sat­urn will seem­ing­ly bring these challenges
of Union to you, but you should know by now that you have brought them to
your­self. What you most long for, what your heart aches for, is to be one with
one anoth­er. You seek to tran­scend your sep­a­rate exis­tences and join as One…and it is this
Pas­sion that is at the heart of what dri­ves the great Jour­ney of all the sparks
of the Divine… But, you must face your test now which your very desire has
drawn to you.

For­ev­er and always your Sat­urn real­i­ty-mak­ing casts equal­ly deep shadows,
what always threat­ens your hopes are the shad­ows cast by your fears, the
shad­owed fears from your past, for this is how Sat­urn works. When it comes to the
les­son of Scor­pio, your fear is Sep­a­ra­tion, you fear the loss of the other…you
fear rejection…you fear that the promise of Union will end in being alone.

So, again you must turn and real­ize that the real test is to be found
within…the real test is to not reject your­self, to not pull away from your Heart and Truth and stand by what will hold you to your­self, and what will now
hold you to one anoth­er. The val­ues that make you wor­thy, most impor­tant­ly your
fun­da­men­tal val­ue, your Love for yourself…it is this that you must cleave to…and
it is this love that you must share with anoth­er who also knows this…for only
then can the oth­er val­ues that you hold grow in the Sacred Space of We. 

For in every Union you must choose what to hold to and what to release…because
you will have to sac­ri­fice the less­er things in your life in order to hon­or the
greater. If you are afraid, you might offer too lit­tle, and fail to cre­ate the
vul­ner­a­ble space of shared val­ues with the oth­er. Or, you might out of fear yield too much, sac­ri­fice so much of who you are that you obtain the reward of Union…but you are no longer there.

But if you get it right, if you go with­in and then through the oth­er expe­ri­ence the frictional
refine­ment of dis­cern­ing what is of more val­ue to you and what is less…you
will be amazed by the mys­tery that stands revealed to you now. You dis­cov­er that
in your sac­ri­fice for one anoth­er of the less­er things, that as you come closer
and are bound in Union to one anoth­er, you actu­al­ly have come that much closer
to your own true Self.

As always, the les­son and mes­sage of Sat­urn is to help you understand
that you are upon a jour­ney of self-dis­cov­ery through self-unfold­ment. Now it
is time to move into the great­est challenge…and the great­est reward.

Sat­urn moves…and your real­i­ty will tremble…

Your heart leaps at the promise, to love and be loved…

To be one with one another.

The sac­ri­fice is offered, you give with joy and understanding…

For you have released what is lesser…the shad­ows melt away…

As you come clos­er, so much
closer…to the Light.

Mercury Enters Scorpio (October 5, 2012)

Mercury-in-Scorpio

Part two of your triple play unfolds as Her­mes skips into Scorpio…but
this is no ordi­nary trip, (not that any excur­sion through Scor­pio could be ordinary!).
There is quite a lot of loop­ing and swirling ahead…any and all communications
are like­ly to become even more com­pli­cat­ed, as you will see…

Mer­cury is head­ing for anoth­er rever­sal on Novem­ber 6, (the day of the
Elec­tion no less…hmm, that sounds like “trou­ble”), and although
Her­mes will have man­aged to make it into Sagit­tar­ius by Octo­ber 30, he will
ret­ro­grade back into Scor­pio on Novem­ber 14, then turn direct on Novem­ber 26
and return to Sagit­tar­ius on Decem­ber 10…whew!

That is a lot of swirling, div­ing and looping…Mercury will end up being
in Scor­pio for about 50 days, which is rather long. Let us save all those turns
and twists for when they hap­pen and just focus upon this focus on Scorpio…

When Mer­cury dives into the Watery realm of Scor­pio, your mind is no
longer sat­is­fied by the pat answers that come from accept­ing mat­ters as they
appear. You are moved to plunge deep­er, beyond the ordi­nary and delve into
dis­cov­er­ing, (if you can), the noume­na that stand behind, that cre­ate the
shad­owed real­i­ty of, your phenomena…you seek to tru­ly understand…And for
this you must become one with what you seek to know…For you can only transcend
through Union.

That is a tall order because your won­drous instru­ment of understanding,
your mind is most cer­tain­ly circumscribed…by itself! You can attempt to see
things for what they tru­ly are, but wher­ev­er you go, of course…there you are!
Your Prin­ci­ples, The­o­ries and Laws, your Assump­tions (and Prej­u­dices) go ahead
of you and reveal to you what you were expect­ing to find any­way. Or, at most,
your high­er mind may take you some­what out­side of the ordi­nary, to glimpse
some­thing beyond the safe and familiar. 

But do you real­ly under­stand? Are you
real­ly mov­ing towards Wis­dom, or just build­ing more Sand­cas­tles of Knowl­edge? For
each and every age claims that it had found the Truth, only to face an
inrush­ing Tide of Mystery…for Isis must ever be Veiled if you approach her in
the ordi­nary ways…you will not lift her veil, you can­not know her, if you
remain sep­a­rate and apart.

The path to greater under­stand­ing, the path to Wis­dom, depends upon you
devel­op­ing those high­er fac­ul­ties that take you beyond the acqui­si­tion of more
infor­ma­tion, of more knowl­edge. Yes, the acqui­si­tion of knowl­edge, of rigorous
train­ing of your mar­velous mind is essential…it pre­pares you to car­ry out
many func­tions in your world. But Knowl­edge can­not take you across the divide
between your­self, the oth­er and your world…for that you need to devel­op other
pow­ers that are hid­den, sleep­ing and wait for a sign…

To tru­ly learn the lessons of life, to tru­ly know your­self and your
uni­verse there is only one path…Becoming. The only way to expe­ri­ence the
Truth or Real­i­ty of some­thing is to become THAT…And that is why you journey
through all the forms of this mar­velous Cosmos…becoming, growing,
learning…Understanding…This is your beau­ti­ful jour­ney in
Life-Consciousness-Spirit. 

But the remark­able truth is, that hav­ing reached this Human form you are
pre­pared to take a most impor­tant step. You have it with­in you the abil­i­ty to consciously
move into the spaces of oth­ers and see as they see, feel as they feel, know as
they know. 

What…what is this you ask? 

It is true, it is not yet ful­ly formed, it is still devel­op­ing and
unfold­ing with­in you. For many but a dim aware­ness, for some a steady support,
but yes, you have this abil­i­ty that those who have gone ahead of you have
mastered…the Bud­dhas, The Krish­nas, The Christs, all the Mas­ters and Teachers
have shown you the way. They have become who they are through this most wondrous
fac­ul­ty that you exer­cise more or less everyday…

Every­day! What­ev­er do you mean? What is this pow­er, this gift, this
wonder? 

It goes by many names and man­i­fests in ever more exalt­ed degrees. Some
call it Com­pas­sion, many call it Empathy…and for those who have just begun to
tread the path it is known as Sym­pa­thy. But in every instance these Bridges of Understanding
form between your­self and the other…and the veil is lift­ed if but just a
little. 

For you have tak­en a step clos­er to the Truth…You have come clos­er to
the real­iza­tion that the fun­da­men­tal long­ing that your High­er Self has for you
is this: That you come to Con­scious­ly, Empath­i­cal­ly and Lov­ing­ly rec­og­nize the One­ness of the Cre­ation that you and every oth­er spark of the Divine are part of. 

Let Mer­cury in Scor­pio take you into the depths…

Let Her­mes help you to lift the veil that sep­a­rates you from one
another…

It is time to bridge the divide, to dis­pel the illusion…

It is time…

To Be One with One Another.