The Four Sta­tions of the Car­di­nal Cross.

There you will find a way,

A way through and back to the center,

A way to remem­ber and live with what is sacred.

This is your awakening,

Your fate, as always,

in your hands.

You will Square the Cir­cle and be steadfast.

Being whole and com­plete, behold­en to Spir­it only,

Cen­tered in Truth and Will, by Action and through Love,

You will be a bea­con in the Dark­ness, for

You are here to help one anoth­er find your way…Home.

Today the Sun aligns with Mars, and your Star illu­mi­nates the Fourth and Final Gate of the Grand Car­di­nal Cross. This past week, where the Sun aligned with the four quar­ters of the Cross, has been more or less a wake-up call, a reminder for you about the con­nect­ed­ness of all things, and of your need to pre­pare for the cli­max of this Plan­e­tary Cross Pat­tern which will occur from April 20 to 23.

(Though there will of course be many oth­er stim­u­lat­ing elic­i­ta­tions before and after these exact dates for the Grand Cross too. One is just ahead, when Mer­cury makes this same four-fold pass from April 14 to 16, which will also just hap­pen to coin­cide with a Full Moon Total Eclipse of April 14–15…Oh yes, there is a lot going on “up there”, and you bet­ter believe there will be quite the same down here too).

The Sun is the Avatar and source for you of the Spir­i­tu­al forces that flow from the cen­ter of your galaxy, your Milky Way. But of course what abides at the core of the Sun is also in you. It is also your inner­most, your spark of Divine, there at your cen­ter, and so those self-same spir­i­tu­al forces also arise from with­in you too. For don’t you know, you came from a Star, you are upon a jour­ney through these many Man­sions, through the many Spaces of Space until one fine day, when you have mas­tered your­self, you too will shine ful­ly, freely as a Star too.

Dri­ving the sto­ry of this ever-unfold­ing Cre­ation, from the small­est of infin­i­tes­i­mals on up through to the plan­ets, stars and galax­ies, from the bare­ly sen­tient on up to the con­scious and then self-con­scious life-forms and beyond, from those Inner­most Realms to the Infini­ties beyond your know­ing, behind it all is the one pri­mal drive…Desire.

For at the core of Spir­it is this one imper­a­tive that is yours too, you are here to Grow. You are here to Become, to unfold your Infi­nite Poten­tial, both inward­ly and out­ward­ly, and so unfold your Divine Spir­it into the Infi­nite spaces of Space. There is no “begin­ning”, there is no “end”, there is the ONE and the Many. There is Cre­ation, there is Being and Becom­ing and your Jour­ney in Spir­it that is everlasting.

You and you and you too, and all that is around you, all of this IS because sim­ply and pure­ly Spir­it desired to Be, to grow and become as you do too. Your Avatar of this Pri­mal Force, at least while you sojourn here on Earth, is that burn­ing bright red “Star” glow­ing in the heav­ens of late. It is Mars of course, whose posi­tion just beyond your Earth places him between you and the Infini­ties that lie “out there” in the vast­ness that is a full­ness called Space.

Today the Sun, your Avatar of Self, of all that you can and will become stands oppo­site to your Desire. There is the Sun on one side, and Mars on the oth­er, with you there on Earth between them both. Today you are asked to see step back for a moment and con­sid­er, “Where am I going? Why am I going there? And, and is this the way to get me there?” You need to ask your­self, what is your Desire, what is your Inten­tion, what are you Aim­ing for and How to pro­pose to get there?

To answer any or all of these ques­tions, you must first know this…Where are you com­ing from? What is behind this urge that pro­pels you for­ward, that makes you reach for some­thing more, for some­thing high­er, greater…what is it that makes you Desire to become some­thing more?

The Sun, your High­er Self, has the answer. It is your nature, it is because you are a Spark of the Divine and your Des­tiny is to take part in this nev­er-end­ing sto­ry, this Song of Cre­ation, and you will become so much more than you can even imag­ine. But at moments such as this you are asked to pause, to look back at where you have come from, to con­sid­er how you got this far, to see what you did to ful­fill your desire, and to look out ahead at that far, far hori­zon and remem­ber and under­stand as best as you can at this stage of your unfold­ment, what it is all about.

If you do, if you lis­ten to your heart, if you can catch those whis­pers from your soul, you will also know that it is not about the des­ti­na­tion, it is about the jour­ney. That it mat­ters why you do this, it mat­ters how you get there, for these thoughts, feel­ings and actions will become what you will be. And not mere­ly for you, for every­thing, every mote and speck, every being and plan­et, star and Galaxy…it is all part of the One Life. And what you do with or to the least of these, you do unto yourself…For that is the Law.

The Sun, your High­er Self, illu­mi­nates Mars your Avatar of Desire and Action. Mars shines brighter now than ever, burn­ing now in the Sign of Libra, the Sign of Beau­ty, of Jus­tice of Fair­ness for one and for all. This is your where you come from, this is how you will act in the Now, and this in the end is what you will be and Cre­ate. You and yours are here to strive for Equal­i­ty, to act Just­ly and restore the Beau­ty to your world.

As I wrote in the New Moon for Aries, the mes­sage that the Sun elic­its now from Mars is this:

“From Mars in Libra you are to Act to restore Beau­ty and Justice.”

As the Sun, your star, sets in the west tonight,

Turn and look to the east­ern horizon.

See him ris­ing there, that shin­ing red one.

There is your Heart’s Desire.

He is here for Righteousness,

He is here for Justice,

He is there to show you,

The Way back to Beauty,

Found in how you walk the pathway,

As you jour­ney to the Stars.

Time to leave that Watery Realm of Feeling-Thinking…

Where swirling won­ders swept through your soul,

Stir­ring your Imag­i­na­tion, mod­u­lat­ing your Dreams…

Where worlds with­in worlds came and went,

Reveal­ing to you Mul­ti­plic­i­ties and Mysteries,

Resolv­ing, dis­solv­ing into Infi­nite dimensions,

Your one­ness with­in the One. 

Your Avatar of Mind, who links you from your Inmost Spark of the Divine through all of your vehi­cles or souls, and then out­wards to all of the oth­er count­less life-forms with whom you trav­el, your medi­a­tor of mind-stuff is shift­ing once again.

Mer­cury, known as the Mes­sen­ger of the Gods, weaves togeth­er all these many realms and forms through which you trav­el by the Ener­gy you know as Thought or Con­scious­ness. Mer­cury has been mov­ing back and forth between the last two realms of Air and Water, (between Aquar­ius and Pisces), for about three months now. Con­sid­er­ing that on aver­age he is usu­al­ly in an Ele­ment and Sign for about two to three weeks, you have had quite a long sojourn between these two of late, and you are most cer­tain­ly in need of this change of per­spec­tive and sensibility!

Today Mer­cury moves into the Orig­i­nal Space of your mind…he brings you back once again to where this Jour­ney of Spir­it and the Jour­ney of Mind will always begin, back to the Sign of Aries.

In your own life and in your own chart, your posi­tion of Mer­cury will always pro­vide you with the indi­ca­tions as regards your own men­tal dis­po­si­tion and apti­tude. To do your part and ful­fill your des­tiny, you must under­stand what is the Mind­ful Way you are here to live by, to mas­ter this Song of your own true Life, and play your part in the Mind of the One. 

The move­ment of Mer­cury through the Zodi­ac, in what I call the “Chart of the Now”, does offer you a won­der­ful twelve­fold elic­i­ta­tion of the full­ness of Con­scious­ness and Aware­ness which you will some­day mas­ter. As Mer­cury moves through the twelve signs, you can and should bend your own under­stand­ing to this shift in sen­si­bil­i­ty, and seek as much as you can to learn from and so to view your world through anoth­er facet or lens of illumination.

Aries is the Sign of your Pres­ence, of your Atti­tude and Demeanor, and so it brings to you the Aware­ness of this most crit­i­cal and impor­tant Truth, “First Things First!” For it is how you begin any­thing, how you enter a space or turn a cor­ner, how you start a project or begin a rela­tion­ship, that when­ev­er you release a feel­ing, thought, action or any­thing whatsoever…you changed your world, and you changed your future. For this is the Law: what­ev­er you release from your­self, that is what is com­ing back to you someday.

How you lean into or Ini­ti­ate any­thing what­so­ev­er, that is the most impor­tant thing to be aware of, for it is from this first release of ener­gy, it is from this that all else will fol­low. Mer­cury is now singing to you of this melody in the Song of Spir­it, that “right now” is what mat­ters most, it is tru­ly the one thing that you can and need to con­trol. You need to be Mind­ful of your atti­tude and actions.

Keep your­self atten­tive to what you are doing, always. Remem­ber, that you need to be most atten­tive to your Inten­tion, for it will shape and guide what­ev­er it is that you release. To bring about right results, you must hold your­self with a Focused Inten­tion, and remem­ber to be what are here to learn, Be Mindful.

For it is from Right Think­ing that you are able to pro­ceed into Right Action. And this is most cer­tain­ly a time for that! For though Mer­cury will only be in Aries for a lit­tle more than two weeks, you will do well to bend your own sen­si­bil­i­ty to this first of the Fire Rays.

You need this now so that you will also be pre­pared to stay present and mind­ful as you enter into the great align­ments of this month. For just like the Sun before, Mer­cury too will light up each cor­ner of the Grand Car­di­nal Cross between April 14–16.

It is time to leave those Waters of Remembrance,

and bend your Atten­tion to what is before you now.

A Time of Fire is again at hand…

New Begin­nings, a fresh start.

The only Time that matters,

Your Pres­ence in the Present,

Mind­ful­ly.