Think-Speak-Act…Quick…Now!

There is no delay, there is no
time to pause and reflect, no time to talk it over (and per­haps to
re-consider)…and there­in lies your error, for this is the problem…this is
your les­son now (and always).

When Mer­cury the Messenger
aligns with Mars the Pas­sion­ate, well let’s just say that your mind or mouth
can get ahead of your bet­ter inten­tions. The excite­ment or urgency (or anger
and frus­tra­tion) will bub­ble forth and over­pow­er your mind and dis­rupt your
com­mu­ni­ca­tions and lead to errors in judg­ment and/or the break­down of social
sen­si­bil­i­ties and graces…

So you need to dou­ble-down on
your cir­cum­spec­tion today…Though you will feel some­what over­whelmed by this
insis­tent and urgent ener­gy, push­ing you to let it out, you must instead
restrain those men­tal enthu­si­asms (as well as bite your lip and hold your
tongue), and turn this ener­gy back in on itself. You can instead use this
won­der­ful infu­sion to con­sid­er the nature of your expe­ri­ence of Thought and
Desire, of how you weave your way in that per­son­al dance of Mind and Action.

For that is what this
align­ment is for, and that is what all of these align­ments can bring to you,
for they are tru­ly the Sym­bol­ic Lessons of Life, sweep­ing across the
heavens…and you must encounter and mas­ter them all as part of your Spiritual
Journey…For this very rea­son, there are no “bad” aspects (or planets),
it is real­ly how you learn about, and come to be a Mas­ter of, the ener­gies that
are tru­ly with­in and sur­round you too. 

The ener­gies
of this par­tic­u­lar aspect, if your under­stand­ing and will are lack­ing, may
induce thought­less think­ing, rushed deci­sions and intem­per­ate speech, and that
is not the “fault” of either Mars or Mer­cury. It is that you have not
yet achieved enough self-mas­tery, so the ener­gies over­whelm your more normal
and accept­able behav­ior. Either you heed­less­ly have less regard and
con­sid­er­a­tion than you would for the oth­er before you, or you expe­ri­ence their
over-whelm­ing ener­gies or demands upon you. 

Rather
than forc­ing your point of view upon the oth­er, rec­og­nize that you must always
approach one anoth­er with humil­i­ty and open­ness, for you “do not know what
you do not know”, and it is quite like­ly that by engag­ing with them in a
more con­sid­er­ate dis­cus­sion you will find your own mind and thoughts achieving
a greater nuance and depth. And, if it is the oth­er who is engaged in a rather
insis­tent and one-sided debate, then let them exhaust them­selves of this energy
before you attempt to bring the mat­ter back to a more rea­son­able lev­el of
mutu­al give and take. 

You
need to always strive to become more aware of these ener­gies that flow from and
around you, to learn more about them and so har­ness them to a more
con­struc­tive, mean­ing­ful and self-affirm­ing expe­ri­ence. As always, the lesson
for you, as for all who seek to become tru­ly Wise, Lov­ing and Free, is to walk
the Noble Mid­dle Path, which can only be found by those who abide in, yet ever
strive for, greater and greater Self-Under­stand­ing and Self-Control.

Con­sid­ered
in this way, the align­ment of Mer­cury and Mars her­alds the begin­ning of your
next cycle of Thought and Action, of your Men­tal Body impart­ing new Meanings
and Mes­sages to be car­ried forth and exe­cut­ed by your Desire Body. And it is
equal­ly a Quick­en­ing for your Mind, as you will receive a new infu­sion of
Enthu­si­asm and Ener­gy by which your Thoughts may be inspired to reach to even greater
heights and depths with­in your soul, as well as spark a new Cycle of out­ward sub­stan­ti­a­tion of your Thought-in-Forms too.

The
Mean­ing and Ener­gies of this meet­ing of your Mind and Desire reside in that
most Val­ued, Sen­su­al and Sub­stan­tial realm of Tau­rus. You are offered by their
join­ing a won­der­ful chance to bring into being what you have imag­ined, wished
and longed for…to move that much clos­er to Cre­at­ing, Pre­serv­ing and Abiding
in a world of Beau­ty, Love and Understanding. 

May you
pause at this time and listen…with your Heart.

May you
begin anew to cre­ate a bet­ter world…by your Love.

And May
you come to abide in a state of Grace and Beauty…with one another.

May it be so.

Mind
informs Matter…Matter binds Mind…Mind evolves Matter…The Spi­ral Dance
repeats!

The cycle of your Mind and Real­i­ty have reached their yearly
reckoning…Six months ago you began a new cycle of bring­ing your thoughts into
what you always hope to be bet­ter forms of Self-Realization…In that realm
known as Man­as, your Spir­it through your Mind ever seeks to move, mold and
re-make the Mate­r­i­al World you call Real­i­ty. From the Ancient Wis­dom comes this
know­ing, that on one lev­el of under­stand­ing the Entire­ty of Cre­ation is just
var­i­ous States of Mind or of Con­scious­ness, that the Uni­verse is in fact the
Mind of the One.

Now you will see what you have wrought, how well and wise a Master
of Mind and Forms you have become…Now you will see your Thoughts in Matter,
see how much you have formed your Mind into Mat­ter, see how Well your Matter
reveals your Mind’s Intent…but also feel how Much your Mind is now Bound by
this Mat­ter you made too.

Much like the gen­er­al Invo­lu­tion of Spir­it into the Material
Worlds and the Evo­lu­tion of Spir­it out of Mat­ter (and so the Lift­ing of Matter
up too), your Mind must also descend into these phys­i­cal realms to realize
itself upon this plane. It does this both to grow for itself as well as to
par­tic­i­pate in the Great Work…For there is but One Life, and all Beings of
the One strive con­tin­u­ous­ly to lift them­selves up, and by so doing lift all other
forces and forms of man­i­fes­ta­tion, on and up to high­er and high­er planes of
self-realization.

You exist in an exquis­ite­ly intri­cate Hier­ar­chy of Forces and
Forms, from the Sub-Atom­ic to Galac­tic, and also and more pro­found­ly both
Inward­ly and Out­ward­ly through count­less Dimen­sions as well, and at the core of
each and every instance of these innu­mer­able Forces and Forms there resides a
Con­scious­ness-Cen­ter that is on its own end­less jour­ney of Self-Unfold­ing, of Self-Becoming…and yet at the same time each such cen­ter resides in the
Greater Con­scious­ness of the One, whose Cen­ter is Every­where and whose
Cir­cum­fer­ence is Nowhere.

In your present Human Form you expe­ri­ence this most clear­ly (yet
also most painful­ly) in your expe­ri­ence of Mind or Thought. For, “as you
Think so shall you Become”…At this stage of your Self-Becom­ing, there is
no more crit­i­cal nor dif­fi­cult “diet” for you to be on than a
“Men­tal Diet”. It is quite sim­ple to apply your­self to eat more or
less, to move more or less…but to con­trol your Mind? To nev­er, ever let your
Mind “wan­der” or be “dis­tract­ed”, or most impor­tant­ly to
nev­er let your­self dwell in “neg­a­tive” thoughts…Now that is Hard!
Very Hard Indeed…But it is most essen­tial and it is “The Work” you
must com­plete in order to “grad­u­ate” from this Earth-Bound Plane.

For most, the only option at this point in your jour­ney is to
strive for bal­ance or neu­tral­i­ty. When­ev­er a dis­turb­ing or neg­a­tive thought or
feel­ing is either direct­ed at you, or aris­es from with­in your­self, you need to
imme­di­ate­ly coun­ter­bal­ance it with a pos­i­tive thought-feel­ing so as to
reestab­lish your path towards the goal of a Free Mind…A mind that is
Obser­vant but not Judg­ing, that is Nim­ble but not Dis­tract­ed, that is
Solic­i­tous yet not Controlling…

For your Goal is to Lift your Mind so that it is Free, to raise your
Mid­dle Self and Low­er Mind and become more like Your High­er Self, To Become the
Watch­er who is Ever-Watch­ing, Ever-Learn­ing, Ever-Aspir­ing to be Freer and so
to fol­low the One True path that leads you equal­ly, for in Truth they are One,
to Wis­dom and Humility.

Today you face your Cre­ation, the thoughts you Held and Wielded
(Mer­cury) went from your­self to inform this Mate­r­i­al Realm, they flowed into
Forms and so made your present Real­i­ty (Saturn)…and you must face this
accounting.

To the extent that you were able to think well and so act freely
and lov­ing­ly, then to that same extent will you find delight and satisfaction
in what you have craft­ed. But to the extent that you were held in thrall by doubts
and fear, then to that same extent will you feel your­self weighed down by these
self-forged chains of your negativity…

But there is always hope, always. For
your High­er Self and many oth­ers watch over, guide and inspire you to try yet
again…to draw that much clos­er to them and your des­tiny, to fol­low the path that they
too fol­lowed and make your way to where you will reside with a Mind that is Free,
a Heart that is Pure and a Will that is Centered…and so you will.

For
your future is ever-unfold­ing by your own hands, heart and mind. 

For
all that is around you, you made this…long, long ago. And it is done and you
must accept what you have wrought so far… 

But
what is to be, what is to come will to a very great extent be formed by How and
What you think of today, and tomor­row and for the next mil­len­nia too…

Think
Well, Act Wisely…

and
always, always

Go with Love.