Your Dri­ves, Your Desires…they are
com­ing into focus…

You have been climb­ing for quite a while
now, up that twist­ing, turn­ing, ever-steep­en­ing path of self-realization…and
now, as you come around the shoul­der of your Spir­it-Mat­ter moun­tain, you can
see it up ahead…your prize is just there, with­in reach.

Your pas­sion­al pur­suits, those ideals
and dreams that inspired you to reach ever high­er have pushed you beyond to
this final hurdle…And now you seek what seems to be the ulti­mate prize for
you, it has tak­en form, it is the sub­stan­tial proof of your worth (in this
moment). 

For some it is suc­cess, and is well
earned. For oth­ers seek­ing by and dri­ven by the out­ward­ly seem­ing, they may
find some pass­ing fame (or infamy). So many strivers, so many souls seek­ing to
lift them­selves up…and some will ever seek to be above all others. 

But all and
every will find that there is a reck­on­ing, all walk upon a wind­ing path formed
upon one fun­da­men­tal truth. Your tri­umph, your self-ful­fill­ment will always rest
upon the mighty efforts of count­less ones who have walked this path before (and
with many who walk with you now)…so first must come Humil­i­ty, Grat­i­tude and Thanks for those
help­ing hearts and hands…

You must take care now, as you reach for
that next some­thing higher…it is with­in your grasp, it is real and tangible
to you now. Remem­ber that you need always stay ground­ed as to how you really
arrived here…That as you reach for the prize with one hand you equal­ly extend
your oth­er (help­ing) hand to those still below, who seek to find and fol­low the
path­way you have walked, the way that so many have come before. 

For your real prize, (found with­in these
out­er forms), is formed and lived as you walk upon this path of hon­or and duty…it
is your true spir­i­tu­al ful­fill­ment. It is that nev­er-end­ing gift made by you
for you…that you are the self-becom­ing, the self-unfold­ing won­der who’s
promise and progress is made by the releas­ing and real­iza­tion of the divine
that lives with­in you.

You have sought for­ev­er, seek­ing all
around and about, but you find that your Goal has always been here, always held
with­in your sacred space, your ever-faith­ful guide, your high­er self, the
beloved.

You have climbed the Moun­tain of
Man­i­fes­ta­tion, seek­ing to become…

You draw close to your moment of
Self-Ful­fill­ing triumph.

Quick, you must drop down, on bended
knee, bow your head…

And with Love and Humility…as you offer
thanks…

You smile and extend your help­ing hand.

Her­mes is hurtling around the Sun and
mak­ing his clos­est approach to Earth on Sat­ur­day when he forms a Conjunction
with the Sun…That is when the Earth, Mer­cury and the Sun will all line up
with one anoth­er. For you right now, he appears to be going back­wards and today
he slips from Sagit­tar­ius into Scor­pio until Decem­ber 10…what does this
mean?

It means you are going to expe­ri­ence a shift
of ener­gies now and re-engage your Feel­ing-Mind again…You are turn­ing from
espous­ing your truths to inquir­ing more about how you know them! Apparently,
the Uni­verse is say­ing, that there is a lit­tle more dig­ging need­ed here to uncover
what is “real­ly real”, a deep­er re-exam­i­na­tion is required before you
can move for­ward with a bit more clar­i­ty and certainty. 

You do not know what
you do not understand…so take your time to feel your way upon this path, for
true under­stand­ing requires more con­sid­er­a­tion for the nuance and sub­tle­ty of
Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Your Head and your Heart need this…they
need to work togeth­er if you are to under­stand your world in all its wondrous
complexity.

It is Time, time to Think and
Feel…Together.

The Eighth New Moon of the Astrological
Year has some­thing spe­cial for you this time. I wrote about this Luna­tion in my
2012 Fore­cast:

Solar Eclipse in Scorpio
(Novem­ber 13)

Right in the mid­dle of Mercury’s
ret­ro­grade we expe­ri­ence the sec­ond New Moon Eclipse of the year. The theme for
the Solar/Lunar eclipses is shift­ing now, away from the realm of thoughts and
ideas (Gemini/Sagittarius) and onto the thorny ques­tions of Value
(Taurus/Scorpio). The release of some new under­stand­ing about the nature of
your unions is being obscured by shad­ows from the past…time to con­front those
fears of rejec­tion and loss and take the high­er path of show­ing your strength
by cre­at­ing a bet­ter space for mutu­al sacrifice.

New Moons always pro­vide a release of
new spir­i­tu­al inspi­ra­tion to help guide you through the lessons and opportunities
of the Astro­log­i­cal Sign that we are all mov­ing through dur­ing that month. Usually
two times a year, and rough­ly six months apart, some­thing spe­cial hap­pens as the
Earth, Moon and Sun line up with one anoth­er in the same plane of
orbital space. The Moon pass­es exact­ly in front of the Sun to bring about a
Solar Eclipse, and a shad­ow falls upon and races across part of the Earth
turn­ing day into night.

This par­tic­u­lar Solar Eclipse is
hap­pen­ing in the South­ern Hemi­sphere, start­ing by North­east­ern Aus­tralia and
speed­ing across the Pacif­ic towards South Amer­i­ca, so most of the world will
not see this event directly…but the mes­sage of the Eclipse brings a nuanced
mean­ing to this New Moon for you no mat­ter where you reside.

Much Kar­ma is held and passed on to you by
your con­stant com­pan­ion, the weaver of those webs of des­tiny, the Moon. The
Eclipse pro­vides a shock of Solar Illu­mi­na­tion to these ele­ments of your past,
and some­thing will be revealed that had been hid­den from you, some block or
fear that stood in the way of your growth will be thrown into stark relief. 

The Sun, the
Solar Ray, as rep­re­sent­ing your High­er Self, the Pure Poten­tial of all that you
can and will be, will burn through to reveal for you a deep­er under­stand­ing of
what always stands athwart your path and must be overcome…like in the tale of the Gor­dian Knot, you must free your­self by under­stand­ing the true nature of the chal­lenge if you are to con­tin­ue your journey
of self-becoming. 

What are these chal­lenges? You know, oh yes
you do…they are the neg­a­tive self-cast shad­ows you have made long ago that
must be van­quished so that you may move more freely, more truly…They are what
you know as your Fears. 

These fail­ures of yes­ter­year, the doubts, anx­i­eties and
bit­ter emo­tions of your might haves but were not, these emo­tion­al com­plex­es must
be faced and released if you are to reach what awaits you beyond the shadows,
what you have always dreamt of and wished for…and at this time, you long for this one true thing, the Union with the Beloved. 

What is this present form of fear then,
what is this shad­ow that looms at this time of year? The fear you face now is
your fear of rejec­tion, the fear of aban­don­ment, the fear of loss…you fear
that you will lose one another…that you will reject one anoth­er out of fear,
that you both will fall again.

The Sun through the Solar Eclipse
illu­mi­nates this fear so that you can see it for what it is…it is the Past. It
comes from a time and place when you attempt­ed but failed, or the oth­er failed
in their effort towards you, so the union that could have been was not. You do
not want to feel that again, the awful echo of that pain caus­es you to do
exact­ly what you should not do…it makes you react and lead with your fear.
You approach this pos­si­ble union now with trep­i­da­tion and fear, you anticipate
los­ing again…and by so doing, by act­ing on the basis of this fear you bring
about the very thing you were try­ing to avoid…of course!

The Sun shows you the way through,
burn­ing through the gloom and shad­ows of your past to illu­mi­nate the one true
path ahead…You must be fear­less, for at your core you must remem­ber, in the
truest part of who you are which the Sun illu­mi­nates, you live in Love and you
live with­out fear, for­ev­er and ever. 

You have noth­ing to lose, and everything
to gain by extend­ing your­self yet again. You need to act from your Love and
take anoth­er chance, make anoth­er brave attempt to cre­ate that req­ui­site sacred
space, that shared space of mutu­al vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty where two may become one. And
then, and then ask the oth­er to join you there…to take this chance with you…And
maybe, just maybe they will also let go of their fear and join you there…

For Love rec­og­nizes Love…Love feels,
ris­es and rejoices…and fear, fear has no hold.

Love is always drawn to that, to itself…to
the Light…

It is with­in you, it is You…lead with
it always.

Lead with Love!

Your Intu­ition­al or Third Eye is turning
out­wards again…it is time to “clear-see” through to the external
expe­ri­ence of your world, to see more tru­ly, to see what is “real­ly real” behind
those swirling veils of Real­i­ty Mat­ter (and that those who tru­ly know of these
mys­ter­ies have called the illu­sion­ary appear­ance of Reality…or just pure­ly and sim­ply — Maya)… 

Since June, your spe­cial sight, your precious
Insight, was turned with­in, to help you bet­ter espy with­in your­self those many
hier­ar­chi­cal forces and forms that you are com­pound­ed by…In many cul­tures, in
many tra­di­tions, the divi­sion of your being is enu­mer­at­ed in var­i­ous ways. Some
mere­ly divide your exis­tence into Spir­it and Mat­ter, or a Body, Soul and
Spir­it. Theos­o­phy enu­mer­ates your nature into a 1) Phys­i­cal Form or Body, an 2) Etheric
Body, an 3) Astral or Emo­tion­al Body, a 4) low­er Men­tal Body, a 5) higher
Men­tal Body, a 6) Spir­it Body and a 7) Divine Seed. There are so many ways to
describe your majesty and mys­tery, and no mat­ter which one or ones you fol­low, each
can help you to find the way to the truth of who you real­ly are. 

For this is
what is of utmost impor­tance, noth­ing is more nec­es­sary than this, for the key
to liv­ing com­plete­ly, to becom­ing ful­ly human, to becom­ing what you are to be…the
key to this is to always fol­low the Mas­ter­ful injunc­tion: “Know
Thyself!”

Even mod­ern phys­i­cal sci­ence recognizes
that you are a “host” of many life-forms, that with­in and upon you
reside many oth­er beings, many of which if you were sud­den­ly deprived of, that
very loss of those “less­er” life-forms would jeop­ar­dize your very
existence. 

You in fact are you own lit­tle cos­mos, and your per­son­al consciousness
and aware­ness in fact stands as the pre­sid­ing God of your lit­tle or per­son­al “Uni­verse
of You”. You are in fact a micro­cosm of the greater worlds around you, what
is called the Macrocosm…The less­er reflects the greater and so by better
know­ing your­self you can ascer­tain more about the truths in the worlds around
you too…That is why it is said: “As Above, So Below”…

But now your atten­tion (and inten­tions) need
to be turned out­ward to that greater mys­tery that sur­rounds you…you need to
turn your Lucid Eye so that you might bet­ter under­stand a lit­tle bit more about
your jour­ney as it unfolds “out there”, out there in the pulsing,
swirling host of inter­sect­ing beings and con­scious­ness­es that is known as
Life-Consciousness-Spirit. 

As you move through all these realms, both
vis­i­ble and invis­i­ble to you, you need help in dis­cern­ing what is more real
from what mere­ly appears real to you. To a great extent, you do this with your
fel­low com­pan­ions. You com­pare expe­ri­ences, chal­lenge one anoth­er’s point of
view, share your insights with one anoth­er, con­stant­ly improv­ing and refining
your under­stand­ing of the greater real­i­ty through which you move, as you help one
anoth­er to cre­ate a shared sense of under­stand­ing about this won­drous Universe.

But you also have an inner guide too,
your own High­er Self stead­fast­ly waits with­in you, and who at times is able to
break through the noise and dis­trac­tions that delight/distract/captivate your
out­ward sens­es, (and so can often deceive you). Your high­er self can come
through to lift you up to moments of epiphany where the dual­i­ties and divisions
or ordi­nary rea­son­ing dis­solves before the com­pas­sion­ate under­stand­ing of your
High­er Spirit.

How can you access this spe­cial sense,
where can you hear your inner voice? All you need do is make yourself
avail­able, to be open, to take your fil­ters and blind­ers off and ask for help.
For some your puz­zle or dilem­ma may be solved while sit­ting in your meditation,
for oth­ers it may drift in while you are tak­ing your dai­ly run. For many if not
most the sim­plest way is to con­sid­er the mat­ter care­ful­ly before retir­ing for
the night and calm­ly ask for help and guid­ance, and it will come…help will
always come.

Turn your radi­ant lamp­light, turn your
intu­ition out­ward now…

Dis­pel the shad­ows, those lurk­ers of
Fear and Ignorance.

For too long they have held you in their
thrall…Awaken!

You are a bright shin­ing Being, a
Divin­i­ty return­ing to the Light.

See your­self in the atom, and in one
anoth­er too.

Then turn your gaze upwards to see…shining oh so bright­ly there…

Your Des­tiny, your Future in the Com­pa­ny of the Stars.

Today is about Beau­ty and Truth…

Today is a day for Love and Faith.

Today is your day for Happiness…Today your
day of Joy!

When the plan­et of Beau­ty and Love (Venus)
makes a trine to the plan­et of Truth and Faith (Jupiter)…well let us just say it is a
very good day indeed! Many will call this a “lucky day” and they
should for it cer­tain­ly can feel like that as things seem to be going rather well…

But what you real­ly need to understand
is that today is a day that the Uni­verse will return to you, “mea­sure for
mea­sure”, what you have giv­en to one anoth­er. For in each and every day, you
move through your world by cre­at­ing those thoughts, feel­ings and actions that
form the sub­stance of your life…But these very “chil­dren of your life”
then cir­cu­late out into the world and affect many, many oth­ers both near and
far.

Even­tu­al­ly those cre­ations, your
chil­dren of mind, heart and will, they will come bend­ing back and return to you
their cre­ator, as they must. This is the fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ple that governs
this Uni­verse, and it is this truth which is so won­der­ful­ly brought home to you
today.

You reap what you sow…The Law of Karma
is the Law of the Uni­verse and it is your unfail­ing promise that Jus­tice will
pre­vail and Truth will win the Day…eventually.

For it takes time, time for each soul to
under­stand and appre­ci­ate this law, because often­times the effects of Karma
play out over the course of a life­time, or many lives. You cer­tain­ly have seen
your fair share of “instant kar­ma”, like when you get angry with
your­self or some­one else and then sud­den­ly break some­thing or injure yourself. 

But most of the cre­ations that stream forth from you will cir­cu­late around and
inter­sect and inter­act with many oth­ers, so it may take years or life­times for
the ener­gies to return to you…but they will…And so you must ever strive to
cre­ate the good.

Today you are blessed by those pos­i­tive efforts
(or good chil­dren) you sent on their way…your kind thoughts, your loving
feel­ings and gen­tle acts will come stream­ing back to you and you will feel
blessed…as you should. 

But you should also know that you made
this hap­pen, and you need to keep it on mak­ing it hap­pen by liv­ing a
con­scious­ly spir­i­tu­al life of kind­li­ness and love for one another. 

Today you cel­e­brate Love and Beauty…

Today you live with­in the splen­dor of
Truth and Faith.

Today you reap what you have sowed…

May your har­vest be joy­ful, your
bless­ings bountiful…

And may you receive, cre­ate and share
the Joy that you are becoming.

For the Love you have is always equal to
the Love that you make.

For­ev­er and ever, you are the
self-becom­ing wonder.

In Beau­ty and Truth, with Love and Faith…

You are the past, you are the present and…

You are the promise of what will be!