Your World is nev­er what it
seems…not ever. You believe you per­ceive real­i­ty as it is, but you live in an
inter-twined, mul­ti-dimen­sion­al whirling space of Spirit/Matter and appearances
are often deceiving…and that is espe­cial­ly true when you are deal­ing with the
mer­ry trick­ster him­self, Mer­cury the mes­sen­ger of the Gods… 

For those who are striv­ing for a
greater aware­ness, who wish to see it Truer, you need to pierce beyond the
envelop­ing veil of appear­ances if you wish to per­ceive things in a more
clear-sight­ed way. You need to keep dig­ging deep­er, chal­leng­ing your
assump­tions and look­ing at the world around you again, and then shift
per­spec­tive and look again in order to move clos­er to what is True. This is
your nev­er-end­ing pur­suit, you mov­ing ever deep­er and high­er, to your goal of Cosmic
Con­scious­ness, where you begin to see it revealed to you, as you draw ever
near­er and it makes you catch your breath…you smile and gaze into the won­der, into the
heart of your real­i­ty, your home and destiny.

Today’s shift of per­spec­tive comes
to you now as Mer­cury turns ret­ro­grade for the next 3 weeks, he turns around
and goes back­wards and all sorts of things will go awry…devices will
break­down, mis­un­der­stand­ings will pro­lif­er­ate, and it all will be blamed on
Mer­cury going retrograde…but what goes on here, does he real­ly go backwards?

Well, of course he does not go
back­wards! It just is how it appears to you here on Earth as Mer­cury pass­es you
by on his “inside track” between you and the Sun…That is why you must
under­stand what he offers you here. You need to see this for what it can and
should be for you, to lis­ten to the stars as they point the way towards
advanc­ing your under­stand­ing and mov­ing you that much clos­er to the truth…for
your sto­ry is there, writ­ten in starlight by Radi­ant Beings of Glory.

Mer­cury is draw­ing clos­er to you
while ret­ro­grade, brush­ing by while turn­ing your aware­ness and atten­tion upon
more intro­spec­tive path­ways, towards self-reflec­tion, intro­spec­tion and
con­tem­pla­tion. You can probe deep­er into your­self so that you may peel away
some of the lay­ers of assump­tions and old data points and con­sid­er Spirit/Matter
with a refreshed view…your focus and atten­tion is turned within…

Of course, that is part of the
prob­lem and source of errors now, because “life” and the real world’s
demands upon you and every­one else have not changed…it would be nice if you
could go on a retreat or vaca­tion and mull things over for 3 weeks…but that
is unlike­ly! Instead, many peo­ple will pro­ceed as if noth­ing has changed and bump
into these “annoy­ances” of Mer­cury ret­ro­grade which will be mostly
self-inflict­ed. That is because by being so turned inward (and not being aware
of that), many of the ordi­nary hints and clues you per­ceive about your world
and dis­cern from oth­ers will be lacking…That is why mis­un­der­stand­ings and
mis­com­mu­ni­ca­tions mul­ti­ply at a time like this…it is as if the whole world is
suf­fer­ing from Atten­tion Deficit Disorder!

So your first step is to look
your­self in the mir­ror and say out loud, “Okay, pay atten­tion!” (Maybe
you should even add a lit­tle slap to your face to star­tle your­self into being
present and atten­tive). You need to com­mu­ni­cate with even greater care, so always
fol­low up with every­one to make sure that he or she: 1) Got the mes­sage, and 2)
Under­stood the mes­sage. Then you, for your own part, need to receive with care,
always re-con­firm­ing with some­one that this is what they meant…Now if you do
this, you should have less trouble…but of course, every­one else around you
will be in this same fix and not hav­ing fun with this at all! Your best policy,
as always, is be patient and show under­stand­ing to those who do not yet
under­stand what is going on…

But you should also take advantage
of what Mer­cury is offer­ing here…This is one of those times when your
mar­velous fac­ul­ty of self-reflec­tion (and your won­drous abil­i­ty for self-cor­rec­tion and improve­ment), can be most
gain­ful­ly engaged. So use these next 3 weeks to repair your per­cep­tions, clean
up your thoughts by ques­tion­ing your assump­tions and con­sid­er how you came by your so-called
“facts”…

The first peri­od of Mercury
ret­ro­grade, until Novem­ber 14, will take place in the sign of Sagit­tar­ius then
for the sec­ond part of the ret­ro­grade Her­mes will take you “back”
through Scor­pio until he turns Direct on Novem­ber 26. He will then move forward
and final­ly get back to re-enter Sagit­tar­ius on Decem­ber 10.

Dur­ing the first phase, while in
Sagit­tar­ius, you have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to look again at your underlying
assump­tions that cre­ate your Par­a­digm, the real­i­ty view for you. You can
ques­tion your Ideals and Prin­ci­ples and Truths, because Mer­cury offers you an
Archimedean point of open-mind­ed­ness that is seem­ing­ly out­side of your­self. You
are bet­ter able to look at your assump­tions with more objec­tiv­i­ty and won­der to
your­self if they do indeed reveal or mask the greater real­i­ty around you. 

To do this you must take the path of
Wis­dom, which requires that you bow your head and admit that no mat­ter how
much you think you under­stand, no mat­ter how far you have walked upon the path
to High­er Under­stand­ing, you have to acknowl­edge that you still do not know
what you do not know. That your most impor­tant approach to this life after life jour­ney should be that of
Accep­tance and Humil­i­ty before the Mys­ter­ies and Unknown (and the Unknowable).…and that you must fol­low the injunc­tion ever offered to those who seek to know,
“Walk On”.

Dur­ing the sec­ond phase, while in
Scor­pio, you are more able to exam­ine your per­cep­tions (and misperceptions)
about the nature of your Unions and Joint Ven­tures, of how you join with one or
with many oth­ers. As you reach across that divide of I and Thou, as you learn
to com­bine with one anoth­er in your shared space of Union, you dis­cov­er more
about who you tru­ly are and become much, much more than you ever thought
possible. 

To make this pos­si­ble, to open
your­self and cre­ate that space of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty requires that you understand
what must be offered up, what you must and should sacrifice…and what you must
hold to in order to be true to your­self too. This is what Mer­cury retrograde
can help you to dis­cern now…he can help you to parse the less­er from the
greater and move you clos­er to your­self as you move clos­er to one anoth­er and
form the more per­fect We.

Yes, cel­e­brate Mercury/Hermes as he
takes you upon his jour­ney of Self-Discovery…

Set aside some pre­cious time for your Introspections
and Contemplations…

Look with­in, look around and then
look to the Heav­en’s above…and you will smile.

Your Answers are to be found there, oh yes they are!

See them there…in the Radi­ance, in the Glo­ry of the Stars!

Today Beau­ty (Venus/Love) meets the
Beast (Pluto/Will) and they have a sto­ry to weave for you…

It is about your Pre­cious Love and your
Sacred Space…

Venus hav­ing just faced her Uran­ian
dilem­ma of find­ing the bal­ance between, and the inte­gra­tion of, your conjoined
needs for Rela­tion­ship and Free­dom now encoun­ters an even big­ger chal­lenge. How
do you move clos­er to one anoth­er, how do you forge deep­er unions where­in you must
give way to one anoth­er, while at the same time main­tain your sep­a­rate self within
the integri­ty of your own sacred space?

You as a self-aware, self-con­scious spark
of the Divine have formed your­self upon your val­ues, which it at the very
cen­ter of you coa­lesce around your Star-like core to estab­lish the Love (Venus)
of you for you. Your per­son­al love of your Self flows from and returns to this
core of you, which is a spark of the Divine essence and is expressed as True or
Uncon­di­tion­al Love (or what many call the Beloved).

Equal­ly, through your Will (Plu­to) you establish
the bound­aries for your own Sacred Space, the space of you. For you, being a
con­scious spark of the Divine, pre­side over your own sacred realm…and yet surrounding
you, through­out all the spaces of space, there exist an infin­i­ty of sacred
spaces too. For the Space that sur­rounds you is filled with won­ders, there is
no empti­ness anywhere…You move with­in your own space but you also move in and
through these spaces of oth­ers too. 

And as you move from form to form, in
age after age, you will encounter many of these oth­er sacred spaces, some less
and some much more famil­iar, and you find that they each radi­ate with their own
spe­cial essence (as do you too)…and some, some of these will have a more special
call­ing for you…

You will feel an irre­sistible pull to be
with one anoth­er, for it streams from the Supreme force that holds the universe
together…and this is Love. For at the core of every­thing and every­one is that
spark of the Divine whose aware­ness you see look­ing back at you in your
beloved’s eyes…no won­der you catch your breath…as you behold a spark of
that radi­ant Splendor…and so you fall deeply, mad­ly in love…

Here­in you meet your joy…and therein
you will meet the dan­ger for you and your beloved too. And at this moment,
when­ev­er there is a Square as here between Venus and Plu­to, there is a tendency
to be pushed into extremes and you stum­ble and fall…you are not yet fully
pre­pared and you fail to fol­low the Spir­i­tu­al way, the mid­dle path of
inte­gra­tion in Love and Will.

As always, the dan­ger aris­es from your
past and the fears it car­ries for­ward to you now…You may fear the oth­er does
not love you enough or in the way you wish to be loved, and so you use your
will to attempt to make them be towards you as you would wish. Or, per­haps it
is you not meet­ing their needs as they would wish, and out of fear they attempt
to use guilt or manip­u­la­tion or threats to bring you back to them. 

The fear of loss of love leads you to
the vio­la­tion of your sacred spaces…you tres­pass upon one anoth­er and even
more deeply dam­age the Love that is there, yes always there, at the core of
each of you. In the shad­ows born of yes­ter­days, in the shad­ow of your fears, you
stum­ble and vio­late one anoth­er’s sacred space by your mis­use of your Will. 

The awe­some pow­er of Plu­to is twist­ed so
that it does not cre­ate a shared sacred space of love, it does serve to
pre­serve and pro­tect your love, but instead it becomes the ser­vant of Fear and
Con­trol, and you harm one anoth­er, again.

You must see this moment as another
chance…to get it right this time. You need turn away from Fear, to turn with
Love and Under­stand­ing, and build a shared sacred space of Love togeth­er if you
can…and if you can­not, then per­haps it is not meant to be this time…because
you can­not force or be forced and call that Love…

You are here to learn to love yourself
and the oth­er too and there is but One Way…Unconditionally…Spiritually…Divinely…for
that is who you are! 

There is no way to make some­one Love you nor can you be
loved with­out cre­at­ing, hon­or­ing and pre­serv­ing each oth­er’s own sacred spaces…Together,
Will­ing­ly you must do this…For this is the way to Love…this is the way to
make your Shared Sacred Space of Love.

This is the Way of Love and Sacred
Space.

This is the Divine in all the Spaces of
Space.

This is the Beloved with­in and before
you too.