It
is rather fit­ting and prop­er, that on the day that the fourth Uranus/Pluto
Square is exact, your Avatars of Mind and Self con­join. Mer­cury is halfway
through his Ret­ro­grade and pass­es between you and the Sun now, and it is like a
“New Moon” for your Mind and Thought-Forms, and the answers that you
have been seek­ing may have just been offered up for your consideration.

But you will need to be Hum­ble, you will have to
be Self-Reflec­tive and you will need to be Fear­less if you wish to see beyond this Plane of Real­i­ty which
holds you in its thrall. For though what you per­ceive is “Real” it is
a Maya too, and you will need to look beyond appear­ances to dis­cov­er the
Foun­da­tions of Truth and your Greater Reality.

Be Hum­ble

You are mov­ing through that most pro­found­ly deep and mysterious
Realm of Scor­pio now, and there is so much you will dis­cov­er, and yet there is
much that is, may and must remain hid­den. For behind/beyond what­ev­er lev­el of
per­cep­tion you have come to, there is still much, much fur­ther you will
even­tu­al­ly go…So your first step is to step back and approach this mystery
with Humil­i­ty, to accept and under­stand that
what­ev­er you now under­stand to be the Real is still lim­it­ed. But that is the
way of it, this Path of Awak­en­ing you walk is cir­cuitous and spi­ral­ing, and you
have indeed drawn clos­er to Truth and that is good, but you will be lim­it­ed by
and remain in some form of Maya too.

Be Self-Reflec­tive

You are fired by your pas­sion, to rip away the Veil of Appearances
and so see the greater truth about your Unions. But with Mer­cury retrograde,
your real need and oppor­tu­ni­ty is to re-exam­ine your­self, to ques­tion the
nature of your unions from With­in. So your sec­ond step is to be Self-Reflec­tive,
to turn the Laser-Like Illu­mi­na­tions of Scor­pio back upon your­self. For if you
do you will be able to do what is most nec­es­sary to your self-ful­fill­ment, to
bet­ter know your­self. You will under­stand that in order for you to reach the
Union that you seek, you must know what you have to offer, dis­cern what you
might be will­ing to sac­ri­fice and come to see more tru­ly what you seek from the
oth­er too. The only path is this, the Path of Self-Mas­tery; the only Injunction
you need fol­low, “Know Thyself”.

Be Fear­less

If you tru­ly seek to find the way to the Beloved, if you wish to
have your Faith restored by this Rebirth and Renew­al found in Com­mu­nion, then
there is one final step you will and must encounter, you must Face your Fear,
you must strive to become Fear­less. With Mercury
ret­ro­grade, you will come to see that there is only one true obsta­cle and
chal­lenge in every Les­son of Life, and that upon this cir­cuitous path of
Self-unfold­ment your one true “ene­my” will always be…Fear. Your
Fear is made from your self-cast shad­ows, those echoes of past fail­ures and
loss­es of yes­ter­year that bear down upon your present hopes and dreams. And if
you yield to them, if you give way and let them take hold, then all of what
might have been, this promise of reach­ing beyond your­self and tru­ly becoming
one with anoth­er may be lost again…but this need not be so.

You must choose as to whether you will be bound back by what was
or to believe in what might yet be. You can use the Pow­er of Mer­cury Retrograde
to dis­cern what formed these shad­ows, of how or why the bridge between yourself
and anoth­er was not made or became bro­ken. You can learn from your pain and
choose to har­vest this Spir­i­tu­al Les­son which is a Gift for you, for this is how
you will tru­ly know what to do or not do now. You will take out your
“Sword of Sev­er­ance”, as you har­vest the mean­ings and mes­sages that
you have earned and leave behind the rest, and then you will turn and face your
new day dawn­ing with Faith and Courage and Love.

Yes, Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade is a Bless­ing, and in Scor­pio he offers
you this Promise. He offers the Gift of Insight which enables you to reach across
and become one with the beloved by first bring­ing you clos­er to your own true
Self. 

You
will move with Grace in Humility…

You will
seek your Truth in Self-Reflection…

You
will find your Love by Fear­ing Not.

This is the Sig­na­ture Align­ment for this
decade, which is the sec­ond phase, the Wax­ing Square, of the four-fold
unfold­ment of a Spir­i­tu­al Seed that was released in the 1960’s. I thought it would be help­ful to re-post my orig­i­nal com­ments upon this, and then to add a post­script for today…

Here again is
my more exten­sive analy­sis of this defin­ing fea­ture of our time from my Gen­er­al
Fore­cast for 2012:

Uranus
Square Plu­to (June 24, 2012 & Sep­tem­ber 19, 2012, then May 20, 2013…)

The Cycles
of the Out­er Plan­ets — Gifts of
the Spir­it 

The cycles
of the 3 out­er­most plan­ets, (Uranus, Nep­tune and Plu­to), their move­ment around
the zodi­ac indi­vid­u­al­ly and their inter­sect­ing aspects with one anoth­er, create
fun­da­men­tal and long-wave releas­es of spir­i­tu­al forces, what I like to think of
as trans­for­ma­tion­al Gifts of the
Spir­it that dri­ve and deter­mine per­son­al and social devel­op­ments for us
on Earth.

When we
con­sid­er the cycle of each plan­et through the 12 signs of the zodi­ac we can see
how each plan­et brings to bear its influ­ence through the mean­ing of that sign
for def­i­nite peri­ods. Their cycles are: Uranus approx­i­mate­ly 84 years, or 7
years in a sign; Nep­tune about 164 years, or about 14 years in a sign and Pluto
approx­i­mate­ly 245 years, which because of its high­ly eccen­tric orbit is in a
sign for 12 to 32 years. Their orbits form a ratio from Uranus to Plu­to of
about 1 to 2 to 3.

When we
con­sid­er the rela­tion­ship of these 3 plan­ets to one anoth­er, that is their
inter­sect­ing cycles, we have the fol­low­ing cycles of them mov­ing from one
con­junc­tion to their next con­junc­tion with one anoth­er: Neptune/Pluto about 492
years; Uranus/Neptune about 172 years; and (the one we are cur­rent­ly subject
to) Uranus/Pluto about 110–140 years.

These 3
cycles cre­ate releas­es of dif­fer­ent forms of spir­i­tu­al quick­en­ing for personal
and social devel­op­ments here on Earth. Each has its own char­ac­ter and role to
play and we have been the recip­i­ents of all 3 releas­ing new seeds of
devel­op­ment in the last 100+ years. We expe­ri­enced the longer wave cycle of
Nep­tune con­junct Plu­to in 1891–92; we received the sec­ond lev­el release of
Uranus con­junct Nep­tune in 1993; and we expe­ri­enced the third lev­el of Uranus
con­junct Plu­to in 1965–66.

What we are
expe­ri­enc­ing now is the next step of that Uranus/Pluto seed­ing, the unfoldment
of that ini­tial release of spir­i­tu­al ener­gy that we received in 1965–66 has now
reached the moment where they are at the point of being one quar­ter the way
around their cycle, and we must face choic­es and make decisions.

**As a
point of inter­est we should note that the most sig­nif­i­cant align­ment all three
plan­ets can have with one anoth­er, their triple or Super Con­junc­tion (all 3
being in the same zodi­a­cal space), which should be con­sid­ered as the most
sig­nif­i­cant seed­ing of spir­i­tu­al ener­gies pos­si­ble, last took place about 580
BC. This was of course the peri­od which wit­nessed the spir­i­tu­al teach­ings that
were offered to the world by such great souls as Con­fu­cius, Bud­dha, Lao Tzu,
Zoroast­er, Pythago­ras and many oth­ers whose wis­dom and influ­ence still guides
us today. (If you are curi­ous, the next super con­junc­tion­al release of Spirit
will take place around 3,368).

But let us
turn now to our chal­lenge and our opportunity…

The Roles of Uranus & Pluto

To meet the
chal­lenges and seize the oppor­tu­ni­ties of Uranus square Plu­to we need to
under­stand the spir­i­tu­al nature of what their rela­tion­ship cre­ates generally,
and see what their most recent align­ments might pro­vide as insights into our
present stage in the ever-unfold­ing becom­ing of our spir­i­tu­al poten­tials. We
espe­cial­ly need to under­stand what their last con­junc­tion released, and what we
need to do to face the chal­lenge pre­sent­ed by the square we meet now.

The three
out­er plan­ets should be viewed as the spir­i­tu­al agents of trans­for­ma­tion; they
are emis­saries from the cos­mos that cre­ate the poten­tial for each and every one
of us to move beyond our mere con­di­tioned self, the self defined and delimited
by our Sat­urn­ian mold­ings and struc­tures. They do not “cause” our
devel­op­ment but serve to elic­it, quick­en and sup­port our spir­i­tu­al unfoldment
and evo­lu­tion, which would even­tu­al­ly unfold since all of “That”, our
poten­tial to become, is con­tained with­in our monadic self, but it would develop
at a much slow­er pace. They are tru­ly Gifts
of the Spir­it, lift­ing us up upon that steep­er, truer path of
ful­fill­ment. Uranus is said to rule high­er Mind, Nep­tune to rule high­er Love
and Plu­to to rule high­er Will. Togeth­er they are said to rep­re­sent the 3
aspects of the Divine work­ing in our world; The Mind, The Love and The Will of
the Divine for our Solar System.

This is why
the cycle align­ments of Uranus and Plu­to gov­ern the cre­ative, dynam­ic and
cathar­tic inter­sec­tions of Mind and Will. It is Uranus’ role to be the
instru­ment for the release of new idea forms, (Seed Ideas), that quick­en the
devel­op­ment of thought in our world. At its most basic, yet equal­ly most
pro­found lev­el, the entire­ty of cre­ation can be seen as pure consciousness.
That means that the hier­ar­chies of all forms of exis­tence in this cos­mos, from
the small­est to the great­est, are the count­less instances of the uni­verse coming
to con­scious­ly know itself (“I am THAT, I am!”). But Mind alone is
not all…

It is
Plu­to’s role to be the instru­ment of form­ing the bound­aries in our Space, the
spaces of Space with­in which each Mon­ad unfolds and devel­ops; Plu­to rules the
pow­er of the Will which is the pow­er to shape and re-shape (or trans­form) Space
itself. From the high­est to the low­est, each mon­ad, each spark of the Divine,
unfolds and devel­ops with­in its space with­in Space, yet each mon­ad will always
be fun­da­men­tal­ly part of each and every oth­er mon­ad because they have all come
from and con­tin­ue their exis­tence in and through the One.

The
pro­gres­sive devel­op­ment of each and every mon­ad or spir­it, from the lowest
forms of exis­tence to forms beyond our present capac­i­ty to com­pre­hend, requires
the bend­ing and trans­form­ing of the spaces of Space for each mon­ad to develop
with­in. This devel­op­ment of Space, and of the bound­aries between each and every
mon­ad’s sacred space of self, is gov­erned by the Will.

Plu­to for
us rules this for­ma­tion and trans­for­ma­tion by the will; and in this cycle with
Uranus, Plu­to reveals the trans­for­ma­tion­al pow­er of the release of new ideas
and new forms of think­ing upon exist­ing struc­tures or spaces.

This is
their dynam­ic inter­play: New ideas lead to new spaces and rela­tion­ships for
spir­it to devel­op through; but those bound­ed spaces even­tu­al­ly begin to prove
lim­it­ing to the fur­ther devel­op­ment of spir­it; and so new idea forms are
released to estab­lish new for­ma­tions of space and rela­tion­ships; and so all
mon­ads, includ­ing us, can con­tin­ue their unfold­ment through
Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

So let us
turn to the ques­tion of our time, to see what has been revealed and required by
this cycle in the lat­est series of align­ments of Uranus and Plu­to, and what
might be in store for us in the next sev­er­al years…

The Uranus/Pluto Cycle

To
under­stand what is before us we must remem­ber, remem­ber that we have been
mov­ing through a series of cycles, and turn­ing points with­in cycles, for a very
long time indeed. To tru­ly under­stand where we are now, and what lies ahead, we
do need to con­sid­er what we have emerged from.

The
Uranus/Pluto square that we face is the next step in a series of seed-forms
that was most recent­ly renewed in 1965–66 when Uranus and Plu­to formed their last
con­junc­tion in the sign of Vir­go. Much as in their pre­vi­ous con­junc­tions of
1710 in Leo and 1850–51 in Aries, this encounter of Mind and Will brought about
a trans­for­ma­tion of thought-forms and spa­tial rela­tion­ships or boundaries.
Cer­tain­ly any­one present dur­ing the 1960’s or look­ing back upon that peri­od can
note the extra­or­di­nary degree to which change erupt­ed across the planet.

Uranus
rul­ing Mind (as well as Inde­pen­dence, Free­dom and Inven­tive­ness) when combined
with and cat­alyzed by Plu­to rul­ing Will (as well as Trans­for­ma­tion, Con­trol and
Rebirth) togeth­er quick­ened devel­op­ments in our world in almost every arena.
Tech­no­log­i­cal advances then gave birth to our wired world of today along with
med­ical dis­cov­er­ies that have now pushed us to the edge of the pow­er to create
life itself. Per­son­al, social and glob­al trans­for­ma­tions erupt­ed through­out the
social sphere as waves of social progress were released for Civ­il Rights,
Wom­en’s Rights, the Free Speech & Peace Move­ments and many, many others.

But the combination
of Uranus and Plu­to releas­es ener­gies which form reac­tions that are not
uni­di­rec­tion­al; as much as new Ideas and new Spaces emerge at such a time they
do so with­in, and often in reac­tion to, the exist­ing par­a­digms of thought and
struc­ture. The emer­gent spir­it of “the New” chal­lenges the entrenched
spir­it of “the old ways”, and so a strug­gle is waged in all spheres.
Whether the forces for change bub­ble up from below, or are imposed from above,
equal­ly the push back or resis­tance to change can come from either realm.

As much as
the new ideas cre­ate new spaces and new forms of rela­tion­ships, the old order
will seek to exert its Free­dom (Uranus) and use exist­ing pow­er (Will/Pluto) to
resist and turn back the tides of change. This too is part of the dynamic,
spi­ral evo­lu­tion of Spir­it, part of the “the plan” so to speak, for
as much as there may be tremen­dous gains in doing away with the “old
order”, there is much that would be lost and should be pre­served as well.
And equal­ly, the mere emer­gence of new ways of think­ing does not in fact mean
that it is always “bet­ter”. So, a strug­gle ensues between the forces
of transformation/revolution and the forces for preservation/reaction.

What was
released by the Uranus/Pluto con­junc­tion in the Six­ties con­tin­ued to work
itself through the hier­ar­chies of mate­r­i­al, per­son­al and social orders,
trans­form­ing what was, but with ebbs and flows, progress and regres­sions, until
we approach the next turn­ing in their cycle…

This is
what we have been feel­ing now for the last cou­ple of years, we have been
draw­ing clos­er to the next piv­ot point and we have expe­ri­enced a foreshadowing,
we have felt the head winds blow­ing stronger and stronger as we move to the
next fork in our journey…

Now we are
here and we should meet with great expectan­cy the next phase of this spiritual
drama…We face chal­lenges, choic­es and deci­sions and we can no longer postpone
the inevitable…

For this is
to be the time in which we choose which future we wish to live in.

Uranus in Aries, Plu­to in Capricorn

Uranus in
Aries will square Plu­to in Capri­corn from 2012 till 2015. What was released in
1965–66 as a new dis­pen­sa­tion, a new dynam­ic in the rela­tion­ship of Mind and
Will, between the Indi­vid­ual Spir­it and the Col­lec­tive Order, will now reach a
cross­roads in their dynam­ic dance of Thought and Space.

The last
time Uranus and Plu­to squared one anoth­er was 1932 to 1934. Remark­ably Uranus
was in Aries then too, while Plu­to was in the oppo­site sign to now, in Cancer.
That was indeed a time of great chal­lenge and change, but it was a waning
square of Uranus/Pluto. A wan­ing square is a time for
“decon­struc­tion”; it is a time for a cri­sis of con­scious­ness that
expos­es the ideas that must be chal­lenged, test­ed and tran­scend­ed so that
bet­ter spaces for spir­i­tu­al growth may develop.

This time
we are expe­ri­enc­ing a wax­ing square, so this is a cri­sis of for­ma­tion, a time
to make a choice about what to be cen­tered upon, a time to estab­lish deeper,
truer foun­da­tions… it is a time for action. This turn­ing point will build
upon the themes that were released at the con­junc­tion (dur­ing the Six­ties), but
those themes (and counter-themes) have now reached a crit­i­cal mass. What is put
before us, or bet­ter, what we have put before our­selves is a cross­roads which
demands that we choose one path or anoth­er. We should look upon it as an
oppor­tu­ni­ty for build­ing a New World more than the decon­struc­tion of an Old
World.

To
under­stand the nature of the chal­lenge and choice we must look to the mes­sage bearers
of this turn­ing, to jux­ta­pose Uranus in Aries with Plu­to in Capri­corn. By
exam­in­ing each plan­et’s func­tion as focused through the sign they are in will
guide us to the deep­er mean­ing of this moment.

The Two
Themes: Uranus in Aries & Plu­to in Capricorn 

Uranus in
Aries

Uranus is
squar­ing Plu­to from the sign of Aries, so we must under­stand what the message
of Uranus in Aries means. The gen­er­al theme for Uranus in Aries is that this is
a time for the resur­gence of Indi­vid­u­al­ism, Ide­al­ism and Inven­tions. Uranus
here acts a cat­a­lyst for cre­ativ­i­ty in the sci­ences, arts and social
orga­ni­za­tions. Tru­ly it is a time that we expe­ri­ence the re-emer­gence of new
forms of true Lead­er­ship as this time calls out for trail-blaz­ers in all walks
of life.

Though the
past can­not be a per­fect pre­dic­tor of the future, it still can pro­vide some
out­line as to the effects of this expe­ri­ence. The last two times for Uranus in
Aries were 1843–1851 and 1927–1935. In the 1840’s the US was trans­formed as
indi­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies joined togeth­er in a great pil­grim­age across the
coun­try to the Cal­i­for­nia and Ore­gon ter­ri­to­ries, which was then greatly
stim­u­lat­ed by the gold rush that began in 1848. The coun­try was being bound
togeth­er through the pro­lif­er­a­tion of rail­roads and the inven­tion of the
tele­graph. The feel­ing of a spe­cial pur­pose seized many with the claim of a
“Man­i­fest Destiny”.

In the late
1920’s into the 30’s Uranus in Aries accom­pa­nied the dev­as­ta­tion wrought by the
Great Depres­sion; Uranus helped to bring to a soci­ety and a cul­ture (that
need­ed it) a whole range of inven­tive spirit­ed­ness, which led to rev­o­lu­tions in
tech­nolo­gies, indus­try and in social orga­ni­za­tions and gov­ern­ment. Again, bold
lead­er­ship was need­ed and rose to meet the challenge.

For us now,
we can and should hope that as Uranus moves through Aries from 2010–19 that we
too will wit­ness the present pauci­ty of lead­er­ship giv­ing way to true leaders
who inspire us as our cri­sis unfolds. Cer­tain­ly we have already seen numerous
exam­ples of new forms of leading/organizing emerg­ing in this time. The dramatic
evi­dence of the inter­sec­tion of new forms of con­nect­ing and the desire for
greater indi­vid­ual free­doms have been made man­i­fest around the world, from
across the Mid­dle East, through Europe (includ­ing Rus­sia now), and on to
Amer­i­ca with the Tea Par­ty on one side and Occu­py Wall Street on the oth­er, and
fur­ther on across to the rum­blings now com­ing out of China…all across the
globe there is a quick­en­ing of the Spirit…and much of that we should know is
because Uranus is again in Aries…But of course, there is some­thing more, much
more at work on us and in our world at this time.

Plu­to in
Capricorn

Plu­to is
form­ing its square with Uranus from the sign of Capri­corn, and so just as with
Uranus we must seek to under­stand the expe­ri­ence of what Plu­to in Capricorn
brings. Plu­to rules the Will, the pow­er to shape and re-shape spaces, it rules
the pow­er of con­trol; it brings this influ­ence to bear in Capri­corn by either
serv­ing to main­tain or trans­form the hier­ar­chi­cal worlds of cul­ture, society
and institutions.

It would
seem by look­ing at the his­tor­i­cal record that when­ev­er Plu­to moves through
Capri­corn there is a pro­found trans­for­ma­tion, a death and a rebirth, of the
cul­tur­al, eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal order.

When Plu­to
moves through Capri­corn, which is about every 247 years or so, the institutions
and hier­ar­chies of a his­tor­i­cal peri­od have reached a turn­ing point where their
space and exer­cise of pow­er has start­ed to fall apart, pri­mar­i­ly because new
spaces and new pow­ers are emerg­ing. Often this end of an era and the birth of a
new, this shift of spir­it, forces the old order, in the attempt to preserve
that sys­tem, to go to ever greater extremes in the exer­cise of its power…but
inevitably the emer­gence of these new forms of orga­ni­za­tion and pow­er bring
about its trans­for­ma­tion or demise.

We can
obtain some idea of the his­tor­i­cal pow­er of this pas­sage by look­ing back at the
two most recent times Plu­to was in Capri­corn, 1515–1532 and 1762–1778. In the
ear­ly 1500’s the Euro­pean world was in the throes of one of its most historic
changes in over 1,000 years, the one church, the Catholic Church, which had
been weak­ened by scan­dal inter­nal­ly as much as it was chal­lenged by the newly
avail­able print­ed bible exter­nal­ly, was bro­ken apart by the Ref­or­ma­tion. The
attempt by the Catholic King­doms to main­tain their pow­er led to devastating
wars between them and those who broke away to form Protes­tant realms. The old
order, with its feu­dal sys­tem based on land­ed pow­er and the one Catholic Church
was giv­ing way to the rise of absolute mon­archs accom­pa­nied by a new economic
order empow­er­ing a grow­ing mer­can­tile class.

In the
1700’s colo­nial enter­pris­es of Eng­land in Amer­i­ca, the grow­ing imbalances
between gov­erned and gov­er­nor were becom­ing increas­ing­ly unten­able. New forms
of free asso­ci­a­tions were spread­ing in the New World, seed­ed by new ideas about
the nature of Pow­er (Will) and Space (New Lands) as well as a new, more dynamic
eco­nom­ic way of life. The old order attempt­ed to rein­force its con­trol over the
colonies which led to protests, which led to fur­ther repres­sion, and even
greater protests until a clash between Monar­chy and indi­vid­u­als in free
asso­ci­a­tions led to the estab­lish­ment of a tru­ly new form of gov­ern­ment that
became the mod­el for our cul­tur­al, eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal world… and that
mod­el, that arrange­ment of Pow­er and Space is what is now com­ing to its end…

Three years
ago, in 2008, Plu­to began its next jour­ney through Capri­corn and it will remain
there now till 2024. And just as in the 1500’s and in the 1700’s a world will
pass away and a new one will be born…And even more now, as Uranus and Pluto
line up in a series of squares between 2012 and 2015, this decon­struc­tion of an
old order and the emer­gence of a new will most cer­tain­ly become very, very
real.

The winds
of change are blowing…and we must choose our path…
Remem­ber­ing
that beat­en paths are for beat­en peo­ple…

This is our
time…
And it is
time for bright stars and trail blaz­ers again!

Uranus/Pluto Square 2012–2015

So we find
our­selves at the inter­sec­tion of sev­er­al sig­nif­i­cant streams of Spiritual
forces, influ­ences that will pro­vide the inspi­ra­tion and artic­u­late the
chal­lenges we now encounter. (Though, of course, the form and con­tent of what
we now expe­ri­ence which is seem­ing­ly “pre­sent­ed” to us, the
“facts” of our sit­u­a­tion, is the man­i­fest­ed con­se­quence of the
choic­es we made before, of what we have done and so made by our pre­vi­ous steps
in this jour­ney in Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it). What we have are 3 major
influ­ences that are com­bined and cat­alyzed togeth­er by the sec­ond of the three:
1) Uranus in Aries which we have not expe­ri­enced for 75 years, 2) The
Uranus/Pluto wax­ing square which we have not expe­ri­enced for 135 years and 3)
(the “big one”) Plu­to in Capri­corn which we have not expe­ri­enced for
247 years.

As before
the avatars of Mind (Uranus) and Will (Plu­to), the car­ri­ers of Seed Ideas and
Sacred Space have come to a turn­ing point. As in those pre­vi­ous eras with Pluto
in Capri­corn, we find with­in our­selves and in all sec­tors of our cul­ture and
soci­ety, that there exists an over­whelm­ing sense that the world is not
“right”. In realms both Tem­po­ral and Sec­u­lar, the disconnection
between elites and the gen­er­al pop­u­lace has widened, and that the yawn­ing gulf
between lead­ers and led is grow­ing ever greater. In fact the feel­ing amongst
many is that lead­er­ship, true lead­er­ship has some­how “left the
planet”.

Whether
with­in any one coun­try or around the world, the inces­sant, increasing
expe­ri­ence of dis­ap­point­ment is felt by almost all…that every structure,
insti­tu­tion, stan­dard or val­ue has become com­pro­mised; whether that loss of
cred­i­bil­i­ty or virtue is encoun­tered in Reli­gion, or Edu­ca­tion, or Government,
or in the sim­ple promise of a bet­ter world for one’s chil­dren and their
children…all of it seems with­out hope…and there is a great longing…

And so it
is pre­cise­ly in times such as this, when a great empti­ness and loss of hope
begins to take hold in the world…it is pre­cise­ly at such a time that Spirit
answers…It moves into our emp­ty spaces and trou­bled minds…It lifts up our
hearts and awak­ens the spir­it with­in and reminds us all that we can
change…and then, as if by “mag­ic”, we do change and renew our
world. Spir­it does this pre­cise­ly as we move into and through the crisis
because it is that very cri­sis which cat­alyzes each and every indi­vid­ual to
turn around, to turn and to make the nec­es­sary sac­ri­fices which must be made to
bring about a New World again.

The signs
of the unrav­el­ing of the old are more than self-evident…but so too are the
signs and por­tents of the emerg­ing ways that are lead­ing to the New World. As
indi­vid­u­als and groups of indi­vid­u­als seek to real­ize their dreams with new
inten­tions and means, and seek equal­ly to cope with the fail­ures of the systems
they are cur­rent­ly cir­cum­scribed by, we can dis­cern the out­lines of new Ways of
Think­ing and new Spaces of Being.

And so we
must each ask our­selves, what can I do?

First, in
order to be guid­ed by the high­est influ­ences, in order to fol­low Spir­it and
your heart, do not be deceived or con­fused by the myr­i­ad ways that the old
order dis­tracts and divides. Remem­ber always that the one true source of power
in this Uni­verse is with­in you…and you, and you. It is not “out
there”, it is “in here” and also with­in any­one beside you.

But that is
also and always where the real strug­gle is met. It is not the fault or failing
of a kind of gov­ern­ment or pol­i­tics, it is not the fault of the church or a
faith…Do not let fetishism or the pro­jec­tion upon some­thing or some­one else
con­fuse you as to where “the prob­lem” is…For every­thing in this
world that seems to be fail­ing, every insti­tu­tion, every struc­ture and way of
life…everything is what it is because it is giv­en life by each and every one
of us…We must change and we shall change…and so will our world.

We are at a
turn­ing. Some have called it “The Fourth Turn­ing”. Some have called
it the “End of Times”…but we are at our moment of oppor­tu­ni­ty to
build a New World and offer to those that fol­low us a bet­ter world than we
could have imagined.

This is our
time to choose, to ask of our self, “What is the greater good for
all?”…And then to
sim­ply do that!

This is the
time for Heroes and Heal­ers, Doers and Leaders.

This is Our
Time to Become the Becoming…

And, it is
your time to shine!

And here is what I wrote for the 2013
Gen­er­al Overview:

Uranus and
Plu­to Square, May 20 and Novem­ber 1 

The
fun­da­men­tal trans­for­ma­tion­al influ­ence of this decade con­tin­ues to weave its
way into your life as Uranus in Aries con­tin­ues to form a wax­ing square to
Plu­to in Capri­corn in 2013 (and on into 2014 and 2015). The dates above are
mere­ly when the aspect is exact, but the influ­ence that it bears continues
through­out all the year. Hav­ing already laid out the influ­ence this aspect has
brought into focus in the overview for 2012, I thought it would be best to
describe the mod­u­la­tion of this aspect by a third plan­et this sum­mer and in the
first part of 2014.

Uranus is
in the first Car­di­nal Sign of Aries while Plu­to is in the last Car­di­nal Sign of
Capri­corn. Now the biggest plan­et in the Solar Sys­tem, Jupiter, slips into the
sec­ond Car­di­nal Sign of Can­cer in late June 2013. Dur­ing the month of July,
Jupiter will form up with Uranus and Plu­to cre­at­ing an aspect in August known
as a T‑Square, where­in three plan­ets form up into one oppo­si­tion brack­et­ed by
two squares, one on either side of the oppo­si­tion. In this align­ment, there
will be Uranus square Plu­to, while Jupiter moves in to square Uranus and at the
same time oppose Plu­to. This is a most pow­er­ful, com­pelling and
trans­for­ma­tion­al aspect indeed!

The
prin­ci­ple artic­u­lat­ed by Uranus and Plu­to con­cerns your constantly
self-unfold­ing, self-real­iz­ing efforts to achieve a bal­ance between Free­dom and
Sacred Bound­aries. Uranus declaims the urgent need to lib­er­ate the spir­it into
ever-widen­ing reach­es of self-deter­mi­na­tion, chal­leng­ing the sta­tus quo and
sta­t­ic struc­tures that for­mer­ly ful­filled but now deny indi­vid­u­al­i­ty. Pluto
holds the posi­tion of equal neces­si­ty to use the Will to define and pro­tect the
sacred space you reside with­in, and hope­ful­ly to hon­or those around you too, to
pre­serve the Sacred Spaces of spir­it with­in which all reside, and from and
through which Spir­it seeks the ever-unfold­ing, self-real­iza­tion (free­dom) of
each individuality.

But if
pushed too far, if Uranus gains too much for itself then there is the dan­ger of
unbri­dled free­dom tip­ping into anar­chy where all struc­tures are over­thrown but
may leave no clear path toward true self-restraint, tol­er­ance and love of one
anoth­er. If Plu­to over­whelms, then all will be bound to the great­est Will, and
there will be no space for Free­dom or Sacred­ness what­so­ev­er. So these two Lords
must be bound and bal­anced by one anoth­er, each find­ing their true melody in harmony
with one another…and per­haps, just per­haps, here is where the great Lord
Jupiter may lend a hand…or could tip the bal­ance the oth­er way, it real­ly is
a choice for each and every soul to make.

 
For today, I wish to add this message:

And so, at this the Fourth exact Uranus/Pluto
align­ment out of Sev­en, when you find your­self at this the Mas­ter Piv­ot, this
Inflec­tion Point of Spir­it, (and tru­ly it is, for by Helio­cen­tric reckoning
Uranus and Plu­to form their one and only true Square this month), you need to
res­olute­ly address and answer the ques­tion that frames your time now, and will
always be one of the Great Ques­tions of Life and Spir­it that you are here to
master:

Will you strive to more
con­scious­ly Live in the Light, by harken­ing now to your own Intu­itive Higher
Self, whose Gen­tle and Lov­ing Guid­ance will always be Mir­rored out­ward­ly for
you by those most pre­cious­ly pre­served and pro­tect­ed Ancient Teach­ings that have
been passed down through the Ages, will you do this and there­by align your
Pur­pose and Con­duct so as to abide and remain upon the Noble Path of Spiritual
Truth in Action?

Will you choose now to turn
and pledge to uphold in your own per­son­al life a rev­er­ence for and dedication
to the Ever­last­ing Unfold­ment of Con­scious­ness, by pro­mot­ing and protecting
Free Think­ing (Uranus), while equal­ly Align­ing your Will, a Will that is
cir­cum­scribed and so focused by your High­er Self (so that “Thy Will be
Done”), so that you will pro­tect and pre­serve the Sacred Spaces (Plu­to) of
each and every Par­ti­cle of Creation?

For know this: All of this
Cre­ation is Sacred, from the Infin­i­tes­i­mal to the Infi­nite, all of
Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it abides in this Great Com­mu­ni­ty of beings which is
formed by all of the ones of the ONE…You and they trav­el togeth­er in a Great
Riv­er of Light, spi­ral­ing, unfold­ing and becoming…All of these Points of
Light are the Self-becom­ing Cre­ators who are grow­ing in and through their
Jour­ney Togeth­er through Space, and are actu­al­ly the very Body and Mind, the
Ener­gy-Mat­ter of the One.

You will remem­ber when you
lis­ten to your Heart, and as held in Trust by the Elders and Teach­ers who are
the Keep­ers of the Ancient Wis­dom, that at the cen­ter of every speck and
par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, from the “lowli­est” Life-Atom, to the Gods,
Plan­ets and Stars, for the Divini­ties who pre­side over each Galaxy,
at the core of each of these resides what is with­in you, an ensoul­ing presence
of Con­scious­ness, a Spir­i­tu­al Mon­ad, the Spark of the Divine.

You shall know that Each and
Every part of your world, all of Spir­it and Mat­ter is endowed with some degree
of Aware­ness, and that all are mov­ing for­ward, climb­ing ever high­er, along this
great Hier­ar­chi­cal Rib­bon of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it. That you all are here
togeth­er, all of one Fam­i­ly, and are the co-cre­ators of this won­der that you
have made. For in Truth this Uni­verse is yours, this Cre­ation is the Mind and
Body of the One.

And you will know that
between your own Sacred Space and that of any oth­er Soul before you, that there
exist innu­mer­able Sacred Spaces between you and they. For Space is not empty
but is tru­ly a Plero­ma, filled with Ener­gy-Mat­ter, filled with Mind and Spirit,
and all of this is the Sacred Space of the One. So you must treat all of
Cre­ation as Sacred. You must ask per­mis­sion to enter anoth­er’s space, you must
keep your own space sacred and invi­o­late too…and as you grow you will learn to be a Self-Aware Con­scious Co-Creator,
and you will join with your Com­pan­ions and help to build your Ves­sels of Light, those shin­ing Shared Sacred Spaces
too. 

The ques­tion is, Will you
Stand for Free­dom, Will you Pro­tect and Hon­or one Anoth­er? Will you lis­ten to
the Voice of the Silence that reminds you of your essen­tial one­ness with one
anoth­er? Will you live as you are made to be, that you are of and for one
anoth­er, abid­ing in the Sacred Space of the One Spirit…Will you Live in your
truth which is To Love One Another?

May it be so…

So be it.

Notic­ing a shift in those Neur­al Nets
late­ly? Mis­cues, mis­un­der­stand­ings and mis­takes pil­ing up? Well, then you
should know what this means by now. Yes, there is a change in the Astral
Weath­er and those Mer­cu­r­ial, Mind­ful Ener­gies are shift­ing around, and so you
need to fol­low along with Her­mes who is here to take you on anoth­er three week rendezvous
with your Self-Awareness.

I wrote of this turn­ing in my Gen­er­al
Fore­cast for 2013:

Mer­cury
Ret­ro­grade in Scor­pio (Octo­ber 21 until Novem­ber 10)

The
third and final of the three Mer­cury ret­ro­grades in Water will take you to your
depths to con­sid­er the nature of your unions. Many plans will be put on hold
now, as you should re-con­sid­er what you are gain­ing ver­sus giv­ing up in any
ven­ture. The ques­tion is are you mak­ing the right sacrifice…or are you in
fact the sac­ri­fice itself. 

You
are here to grow, period.

Some­times
you sal­ly forth, stretch­ing, reach­ing fur­ther, climb­ing high­er, seek­ing that
next plane of awak­en­ing-becom­ing-being, that greater realm, a more Supernal
Light. And some­times, some­times you must turn around and go back, to remember,
to review and renew…

And
know this…All of this good, All of this is true.

It
is just that some­times you wish to go for­ward when it is in fact your time to
turn back. But this is The Way, all Life is Cyclic, and you must expe­ri­ence all
of this, the spi­ral­ing down and the soar­ing upwards if you are to become what
you are des­tined to be.

And
so you will need to be atten­tive to that gen­tle breeze that sig­nals a change,
and you will, if you do, hear that lov­ing whis­per that reminds you of the need
for bal­ance. And so you must turn, for you have this oppor­tu­ni­ty to go back
now, you need to go back and make your­self more whole. You will do this by
bring­ing many seem­ing­ly uncon­nect­ed threads of your life together…You
need them, you need what you might have left undone, you need to recall
what was for­got­ten, and you must take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to release what has held
you back.

You
need this pause to review and repair, and from this you will grow and move that
much clos­er to the Greater Understanding…For this is the Way, this is how you
weave your Robe of Glo­ry, this is your Self-Becom­ing as you cre­ate for yourself
a Won­drous Rai­ment of Spir­i­tu­al Light.

Do not be trou­bled by the lit­tle (and yes, the not so little
annoy­ances now), of what you have mis­placed, the things that do not func­tion as
adver­tised, those thoughts mis­heard or misspoken…Yes, do not be trou­bled by
this for you (and every­one else) are a work in progress…And the first lesson
on your path of Self-Becom­ing is to be Hum­ble, to acknowl­edge and accept your
imper­fec­tions, to take care­ful note of them, and then resolve to do that much
better…and you will lift your­self, and your world, a lit­tle higher. 

For the next three weeks, this ret­ro­grade in Scor­pio will
bring you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to bet­ter Under­stand how you in fact become more of
who you are meant to be through Sac­ri­fice and Union. That it is pre­cise­ly by
this Weav­ing Way, through this Dance of Spir­it, it is by this that you are formed and are
trans­formed by your Unions with one another. 

For any true Union is Trans­for­ma­tion­al, in that by combining
with one anoth­er you will expe­ri­ence “Spir­i­tu­al Mag­ic”, where­by one
plus one does not equal mere­ly two, but often­times much, much more…And even
more than this, it is by this join­ing that you may find the poten­tial to
total­ly trans­form the very con­tent or char­ac­ter of what you pro­duce as well. 

Yet, it is also true, that if the wrong com­bi­na­tion is
formed, or for the wrong rea­sons, or upon dis­parate or con­trary val­ues, if this
is so then the out­come can be quite the reverse, and less is obtained than what
was offered up. The Union fails and the indi­vid­u­als or group will suf­fer a
loss, hope will fail and fear will grow. 

The key will be found in this: are the par­ties in question,
whether two com­ing into union or the many, do they have com­pat­i­ble core values
upon which they may form this union, and are they will­ing and able to exercise
the prop­er dis­cern­ment to make the right­ful, sacred sac­ri­fice of ego and not
the false sac­ri­fice of self?

This is what Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade in Scor­pio is for, this is
why you need this. You need to dis­cov­er what is more tru­ly you, and what is less
so. You must learn to hold to that which is true in you, while
you also hon­or the very same in the oth­er too.

And if, by chance you dis­cov­er that you have enough between,

That there is more here that binds than divides,

Then the Sac­ri­fice you each can and must make,

Will bring you clos­er to your own true Selves and to one another
too.

Well then, it will have been worth this pause, this time of turning
back well spent…

To get it right, to be true to one­self and to something
greater too.

For you are here to move past the Illu­sion of Separation,

You are here to Expe­ri­ence this Joy, to become one with One Another,

You are here To Grow.

Once again your Mir­ror of Mem­o­ries has
reached her far­ther sta­tion, plac­ing Earth between her­self and your Star. The
two Lights of your World, the Day­keep­er and Night­watch­er, stand fac­ing one
anoth­er and their oppo­si­tion holds anoth­er mes­sage of Truth to guide your steps…For
they are here for you, as the Giv­er and Reflec­tor of that Spir­i­tu­al Light of Under­stand­ing which will always be, to ever hold you true to your path.

At each New Moon, a renew­al of meaning
is released so that you might be guid­ed in your next steps upon the path, to
weave into your Life this next unfold­ment of your Spir­i­tu­al Becoming…And at
each Full Moon, there stands revealed for you a pro­found yet essen­tial mes­sage and
chal­lenge, of why and how you must live in and by “The Way”, the Gold­en Chord of Spir­i­tu­al Truth, which you find and forge by walk­ing the Inte­gral Path.

For these two seem­ing­ly oppo­site Ways of
Being, these Roy­al Pairs of King and Queen are part of a Greater Whole in which
you abide. So they, and you, can­not be ful­filled with­out this Inte­gral Dance where­by their mean­ings and mes­sages come to be formed and revealed in their var­ied com­bi­na­tions and
inte­gra­tions with one another. 

These Spir­i­tu­al mes­sages are marked out and
mea­sured in these six pair­ings of the twelve-fold Zodi­a­cal Ener­gies, of Aries
and Libra, of Tau­rus and Scor­pio, and so on, and it is these that inform and
guide your pas­sage in this life, and in life after life, as you move from the
dark­ness into the Light.

This Full Moon is even more spe­cial, as it
is also a par­tial Lunar Eclipse which was not­ed in my Gen­er­al Fore­cast for
2013:

Full Moon
Eclipse in Aries (Octo­ber 18) 

The third
Full Moon of 2013 brings a new theme as it moves back­ward into the sign of
Aries. Here is a map of where the eclipse will be vis­i­ble. It will be seen in most of the
North and South Amer­i­ca (though not the entire event), Europe and Africa and
most of Asia.

The Earth is
cast­ing its shad­ow upon the mes­sage of the Aries Full Moon. This Full Moon
would nor­mal­ly offer a coun­ter­point and bal­ance to the cur­rent dom­i­nant theme
of the Sun mov­ing through Libra. But the mes­sage is hid­den by some­thing in your
present cir­cum­stances. You would nor­mal­ly need to re-assert your­self a bit more
to counter the Libra trend, but per­haps those webs of col­lu­sion are mak­ing it
dif­fi­cult to parse the “I from the Thou”…  

The Chal­lenge of Under­stand­ing you face here, is how are you to mutually
bal­ance and rec­on­cile these oppos­ing energies…How do you hold and keep to the
Libra way of the “We”, the Sun’s Song that sings now of your need for
Har­mo­ny and Accom­mo­da­tion in Relationship…How do you do this as you feel this strong pull of the Moon, which is elic­it­ing those mem­o­ries, those pre­cious remem­brances of the Aries way of the “I”? You Feel the Neces­si­ty to remain true to your Unique Essence which you may feel you have sur­ren­dered over­much, and so you lean towards the Aries path of Self-Assertion.

Your Con­scious­ness is forming
through Libra now, but your Feel­ings are call­ing you back towards Aries…and so you will find your­self caught here, between your head and your heart…and you will strug­gle and suf­fer as you seek to find the “right way”, to do right by your Part­ner but also for your­self too.

And this is pre­cise­ly what is asked of you now. To see that both of these are part of the greater expe­ri­ence of your Self-Becom­ing. For your “I” finds Hap­pi­ness in meet­ing with the “Thou”, and that as you gaze into one anoth­er’s eyes you see look­ing back at you a Unique Being, a Spe­cial Pres­ence that is dif­fer­ent yet com­pli­men­ta­ry to your own. 

The Answer is found in this, by hold­ing to your True Self and they to theirs, you can both enter into this Space of Rela­tion­ship with­out los­ing your­selves at all, but rather you will expe­ri­ence the Inte­gral Joy of greater Self-Real­iza­tion and Shar­ing too. That your Indi­vid­ual Selves and your Rela­tion­ship will mutu­al­ly enrich one anoth­er if you will hold to this Mid­dle Way.

Spir­it always offers what is needed, 

A gen­tle reminder, a way through.

That as you come clos­er to one another,

You must be equal­ly true to yourself.

For only in this Inte­gral Way,

Will you be true to one anoth­er too.

There is but one Path, One Way.

You must hold it all Together,

Your Head and Heart,

And Find the Way of Wisdom,

To Find your Way to Truth.