You have had your three weeks of wondering,

Of ques­tion­ing, re-exam­in­ing and self-reflecting.

It was your pre­cious pause, a space-time for inward con­tem­pla­tion and meditation,

For mak­ing your way clos­er, towards Peace of Mind.

Now Mercury’s loop­ing from Water to Air and back continues,

And it is time for you to move for­ward too,

Guid­ed by your refreshed Thought-Forms, and

Inspired by your renew­al of Feeling-Forms.

The Dance of Her­mes shifts, and your Avatar of Mind moves for­ward once again. He calls to you, and you need to bend your atten­tion out­wards once again. Here is what I wrote about this shift in my Gen­er­al Fore­cast for 2014:

Mer­cury Direct (July 1 until Octo­ber 4)

It is time to apply those lessons and dis­cov­er­ies about your Feelings/Thoughts that you have made over the past three weeks. Know­ing bet­ter how they won­der­ful­ly influ­ence one anoth­er, you can take with you that more nuanced blend of mind/feeling now as you move out­ward­ly to bring this under­stand­ing into your con­duct and communications.

Mercury’s weav­ing of your sens­es and sen­si­bil­i­ties cre­ates the thought-formed matrix that inte­gral­ly links your out­er and inner worlds, of what is “out there” with your reflect­ing mir­ror of that “in here”. This par­tic­u­lar series of Mer­cury ret­ro­grades, of Water to Air and back to Water, is help­ing you to bet­ter under­stand the true nature of you and your mind.

For though it is com­mon­ly accept­ed that there is some sort of divide between your “think­ing” self and your “feel­ing” or emo­tion­al self, this is real­ly not true in your real nature, in your life and the world around you, for real­ly they and you are all togeth­er as one. The Truth is you are a whole, a con­stel­la­tion of Energy-Forms.

All of these so called “parts” of you can­not be sep­a­rat­ed from one anoth­er, nor can they func­tion at all with­out each of them being as they are and will always be, as being whole and part of one anoth­er too. They are the many ones of you their greater One, and as such they are all held togeth­er and guid­ed by your High­er Self. That High­er Self is your One, who gath­ers and holds all of these many parts of you, who lov­ing­ly forms your Pres­ence of One­ness as your spark of the Divine.

You Think and you Feel, and much of how and what you know as your Knowl­edge or Know­ing is because you have fused and meld­ed your Ratio­nal-Objec­tive Mind with your Intu­itive-Feel­ing Mind. You can only per­ceive and under­stand so much with the present-day devel­op­ment of your sens­es and rea­son­ing pow­ers. But with your Intu­ition­al nature, and guid­ed by your High­er Self in the end, you are able to stretch beyond those lim­its and reach deep­er and high­er than rea­son alone can ever bring you.

Your Mind and your Feel­ings are not at odds with one anoth­er, they are com­pan­ions in your jour­ney, each nec­es­sary and sup­port­ive to one anoth­er and to you. They are con­stant­ly engaged in a beau­ti­ful Dance of Mean­ing where­by you “Rea­son-Intu­it-Rea­son-Intu­it…” in a vir­tu­al spi­ral of mean­ing, as you con­stant­ly expand into an ever more encom­pass­ing expe­ri­ence of your­self and your world.

Mer­cury moves forward…

And so shall you.

You have Clear­er Thoughts, Fin­er Feelings,

The Inte­gral Path your only Way,

To Live in Light and by Love,

To be One.

Twelve Seeds of Soulfulness,

One sowed at each New Moon.

These are the “Gifts of the Spirit”,

Bless­ings from the One, to one and to all.

These Seeds become the Twelve Fruitions,

Each a Benef­ic Illumination,

Shin­ing upon you at the next Full Moon.

Today, dear Luna, your Medi­a­trix of the awe­some Spir­i­tu­al Forces that emanate from the Sun, comes between you and your Star once again. Twelve times a year, when the Moon con­joins the Sun, a release of spir­i­tu­al mean­ing emanates from your Sun who is the Avatar of Pure Spir­it in this realm. It appears as if the Sun stands revealed so clear­ly to you, yet it is actu­al­ly veiled, (there is much that is con­cealed behind that Solar Glo­ry), and many mys­ter­ies will and must remain beyond you know­ing as yet…for you have much to learn before you may see what abides behind and beyond these worlds of matter.

It is Luna’s role to take these Gifts of the Spir­it, and to weave her way around you upon the Earth, and by so doing she imparts these Inspi­ra­tional Inti­ma­tions which elic­it and stim­u­late your lives and your loves. Then two weeks lat­er, at the Full Moon, the import and pur­pose of this seed­ing is made clear­er to you. By and through this cyclic dance you under­stand a lit­tle more about your jour­ney to Beau­ty and Truth, and you see a lit­tle more clear­ly what has been woven into the Warp and Woof of your Souls, which form your Liv­ing Robe of life experiences.

This Solar/Lunar dance, this seed­ing-har­vest cycle is the most fun­da­men­tal rhythm of Spir­it. It is the Mas­ter Cycle of Spir­i­tu­al Quick­en­ing for you here upon this Earth, and forms what is known by Mys­tics and Wise Ones as “The Pulse of Life”.

These Twelve Releas­es and Twelve Har­vests mark your year­ly jour­ney. Each is impor­tant, each nec­es­sary and inte­gral to one anoth­er for their full­ness of mean­ing and real­iza­tion. But there is some­thing even more spe­cial about this time of year, some­thing more pre­cious to be found in each New Moon you expe­ri­ence in this the time of Cancer.

For Can­cer is the Moon’s own sign, and this Seed that is offered here will always bring you back to your source, for it con­cerns and car­ries that most sacred ker­nel of Truth that will ever hold you in a Lov­ing Embrace with your Ori­gin and there­by equal­ly point you towards your greater Des­tiny too.

For the New Moon of Can­cer binds you back to your Foun­tain-Source of Spir­it, back to your Self, which is in that Ker­nel of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it also known as your Divine Spark. You are part of a great jour­ney of life-forms, who all can trace their begin­nings back to a “Sin­gu­lar­i­ty”. You are all embraced and ensouled by and with­in this Divine Pres­ence, whose “Cen­ter is Every­where and Cir­cum­fer­ence Nowhere”.

The Truth is, you are “one of the ones of the One”, and because this Divine Spark is your essence, you and all of this Cre­ation are on a Jour­ney of Becom­ing, that leads from a begin­ning as an unself-con­scious spark of the Divine to becom­ing a ful­ly Illu­mined Divin­i­ty. You are upon a jour­ney of Awak­en­ing, to know who and what you real­ly are, and the seed that lies with­in you is the very Force-Sub­stance that pro­pels all of Cre­ation and also dri­ves your self-unfold­ing, self-pro­pelling jour­ney to Wis­dom, Love and even­tu­al Re-Union with the One.

At this New Moon of Can­cer, let your­self feel…You. Know that what you feel as the whole of you, which holds all of you as “one and com­plete as you are”, know that this same feel­ing is lov­ing­ly embrac­ing whomev­er is before you too.

Every Thing and Every One, all of life and you, are part of a Great Fam­i­ly, and the most impor­tant illu­sion you will tran­scend is that false sense of being sep­a­rate, apart and unre­lat­ed to one anoth­er. You are the Uni­verse, and the Uni­verse is in all of you…You came from a Star, you jour­ney out among the Stars, and you are des­tined one day to become a star too…

But today, today you need to feel the Truth.

I am one, we are one…

We are all related…

We are all ones of the One.

We are Family.

HOME

You can­not “see” this far, not yet…

You can­not tru­ly com­pre­hend what or who is there…

You can­not, but you will someday.

It is hid­den, for this impen­e­tra­ble Dark­ness occults the bright­est of Lights and Splendor.

From this Cen­tre of Spir­it, from this Spin­ning Place of Wonder…

All went forth to become this Galaxy,

To par­take in this won­drous spi­ral­ing dance of Light and Shadows.

For you and all of Cre­ation are mak­ing your Way out and back again,

Your Pirou­et­ting Progress through what you know as Time,

And through all these Sacred Spaces of Space you call Home.

Your Jour­ney is the Sto­ry of Spir­it Becoming,

Stretch­ing back beyond all knowing,

And reach­ing for­wards as you Return to the One.

But you can sense some­thing, you feel there is more, and so you know in your heart and soul that there is more to you than “this” life on Earth. There is more than your wak­ing and sleep­ing, more than your labors and your rest­ing, and that there must be more than just being young and grow­ing old too.

You have a feel­ing, and in those inti­ma­tions and whis­pers you will find an assur­ance, that there is some­thing far beyond this Earth­ly life. You may and should won­der what is it all for, why and how you and all of this came to be, and to where it is all going…

And as before so you will now “look up”…and you will behold the Glo­ry that is around you, and you will humbly real­ize that you are part of this won­der too.

Like those who came before you, you will see an Order in these Star­ry Spaces. That above you is Beau­ty and Splen­dor wheel­ing all around, it is The Cos­mos, it is your Universe…and you are part of this Beau­ty too.

All of this Cre­ation wheel around the One, around this Cen­ter that is a Dark­ness that con­ceals the Bright­est of Lights…And from this all have come and will return someday.

Yes­ter­day, tonight and tomor­row and for the next sev­er­al days, you should take a moment. Look to the south, around 11 pm or mid­night or 1 am. Look up and let your­self be filled by the majesty and the won­der of it all. You will see a riv­er of Light stream­ing across the Night Sky. Arch­ing from the hori­zon and up to the left. What you are look­ing at is what is known as “The Milky Way”.

You are look­ing towards the cen­ter of your galaxy and that Milky Path is cre­at­ed by mil­lions of stars who are there between you and the cen­ter of this Galaxy. Then, if you look up, to the right you will see a very bright and unblink­ing star, which is actu­al­ly the plan­et Sat­urn. Then if you look fur­ther to your left you will see a bright red­dish star, Antares who is about the 15^th bright­est star for you. Then just to the left of Antares, about as far again as Sat­urn appears from Antares, and direct­ly in front of you, there you will find your­self look­ing into “The Deep”, into the very heart of your Galaxy.

You are look­ing to that point in space around which we all revolve, from which we all came forth, and to which we shall all return…You are in the pres­ence of the Mys­tery, and so you should bow, and hold your­self with rev­er­ence and feel the Love that is there for you. For you gaze upon,

The One.

You came from the One, you abide in the One, and to the One you will return.

There you see your Ori­gin, there you see your Destiny,

There you see your Alpha and your Omega,

There it is,

Home.

Four Realms to find your way…

There being Four Paths, Four Ener­gies and Four Forms…

That Forge the One True Path.

You are here to live as you are, the One Life,

You are here to find and live all of these ways which form,

The Way.

So far in this Astro­log­i­cal Year, you have come through three of the Sacred Four: You have met your Pur­pose­ful Pres­ence in Fire, found your Lov­ing Sub­stance in Earth and shown your Intel­li­gent Adept­ness in Air. And so there remains but one realm for you to square the cir­cle and find your whole­ness in this first Round of Four.

Now you enter into the first Realm of Feel­ing, where you are to be made whole with­in and with­out in this first of the Three Fours that make up your year of the Twelve Sacred Orders of the Liv­ing Ones. For it is these Prin­ci­pal­i­ties who form that Lumi­nous Band of Spir­i­tu­al Causal­i­ty you know as the Zodi­ac. There is but One Ener­gy, Spir­it, which dif­fer­en­ti­ates into these Four Ele­ments and Three Modal­i­ties of Manifestation.

Today you mark the pas­sage of you and your world into the realm known as Can­cer, the first of the three Water Signs. Where­as Fire bestowed Inspi­ra­tion and Vision, and by Earth you Explored Sub­stan­tial Forms, and by Air you were led and lift­ed to your Greater Under­stand­ing, it is in this realm of Water that you reach the depths of Feel­ing that lov­ing­ly embraces and cen­ters you upon your own true core.

Yet equal­ly, it is this very Self-Cen­ter­ing upon and by the ever-renew­ing Waters of Life-Spir­it that reminds you of and holds you to one anoth­er too. For in these feel­ings of Remem­brance, Rec­ol­lec­tion and Mem­o­ry, forged and formed by that lumi­nous and long Sil­ver Cord of your many Lives and Loves, of Fam­i­ly and Friends, by find­ing your­self by and in those roots of what makes you “you”, it is by this that you equal­ly find that you share in this Com­mon Core of Feel­ing-Truth with one anoth­er too.

It is here in Can­cer that you rejoice and cel­e­brate the Foun­tain-Source Truth that all in Cre­ation come from One Root, and that this is the ori­gin of and forms the lumi­nous lov­ing bonds that are your true and abid­ing con­nec­tions with one anoth­er. In Truth, you in and through all of your many worlds and lives are made up by and through your expe­ri­ences with every oth­er being, and them with you. Inex­tri­ca­bly and won­der­ful­ly, you are “All for one and One in the All”.

And when you expe­ri­ence this in your Soul, that is when you will feel those delight­ful and reas­sur­ing shiv­ers and Goose­bumps of Truth, for you have come home to this most Sacred space of Awe, Rev­er­ence and abid­ing Love too.

It is here in Can­cer that you Feel, “That I am what I am, and I feel this too”.

Cel­e­brate this moment, when your Sun “stands still”,

For you are at a Turn­ing in the sea­sons of your Life.

This is a time that reminds you of whence you came

Ful­filled by what abides with­in the core of you.

You are part of long and illus­tri­ous Family,

Whose ori­gin stretch­es back beyond all your reckoning.

From the One came you, you who are the many,

And all of you and all of Life is this Creation,

Mov­ing through Space, Like a Riv­er of Light,

All of you togeth­er upon a Jour­ney of Self-Becoming,

That leads you out­ward, beyond the beyond and back again.

Yet, you are also head­ing Home­ward, drawn ever homeward,

Singing your way back with, for and to your Family,

Back to your Source of Light and Love,

Home­ward to the One.

 

Her­mes skips across the face of your Star…

Yes, it is anoth­er “New Moon” for you and your Mind.

It is a time to pause, to be still, to be qui­et and listen,

For the Voice of the Silence is speak­ing to you now.

You have need of this, for qui­etude and peace of mind.

This is your time of attunement,

To align your source, your Tran­scen­dent or High­er Mind,

With the your phys­i­cal or Earth­ly Mind.

For your Low­er Mind, is your vehi­cle of per­ceiv­ing and knowing,

It is the mind you must work through in this realm of matter.

Here on Earth, you grow and learn by and through,

These Prac­ti­cal, Con­cretized embod­i­ments of Spirit-Thought,

Which form the Ener­gy-Mat­ter you know as your Real World.

Three times a year Mer­cury will move past you and seem­ing­ly go back­wards across the face of the Sun. But of course he is just pass­ing you by as he races around the Sun on his inside track…But what mat­ters is your expe­ri­ence, for your Real­i­ty, and your per­cep­tions and Self-Real­iza­tions, and your Self-Lim­i­ta­tions too are here upon this Earth. This is where you must learn, and grow and become ful­ly illu­mined and so awak­ened and aligned to the Divine that resides with­in you.

Since June 7^th, Mer­cury has been ret­ro­grad­ing, first in Can­cer and now in Gem­i­ni, and today he reach­es the “half-way point” of his ret­ro­grade cycle as he pass­es between you and your star. This tran­sit of Mer­cury over the Sun brings the next Infu­sion of Solar Force, which is the purest of Spir­it-Ener­gy that can be expe­ri­enced with­in this plane of Life-Forms. Here you receive a Bless­ing from the Sun, which com­ing as Pure Spir­it is and must be mod­u­lat­ed by and then passed on to you by your Avatar of Mind, dear Mer­cury, your mes­sen­ger of the Gods.

This gift that Mer­cury now offers to you is enshrined with­in the intel­li­gent adept­ness that is Gem­i­ni. Your capac­i­ty to think dialec­ti­cal­ly, to com­pare and con­trast posi­tions and points of view, to hold two dia­met­ri­cal­ly oppo­site posi­tions at the same time so as to exam­ine and under­stand them, to ques­tion and chal­lenge these idea-forms (and your­self) and then ques­tion again, this is how you move from those more cir­cum­scribed thought-forms to ever more nuanced yet all-encom­pass­ing (and com­pas­sion­ate) under­stand­ings of your world and of your­self too.

Your ways of Think­ing-Being can and will become “out of phase” with both the world around you as well as with your own inward­ly unfold­ing path or jour­ney of Spir­i­tu­al Self-Becom­ing. Though your present-day Par­a­digm and its result­ing “Facts” have proven them­selves ade­quate to your pre­vi­ous efforts to under­stand the path that you walk upon in this world, you will also need to remain vig­i­lant and alert to the neces­si­ty that there is but one fun­da­men­tal truth that will ever pro­pel your journey…you are here to Grow. There is much that you have learned, much that you now know, but real­ly you should under­stand by now that you have much, much fur­ther to go than you have come so far…

In the still­ness of this moment…

The Light of a Greater Aware­ness is offered up to you…

Be Wise, Be Humble

Be Gra­cious and full of Gratitude.

Ques­tion Everything!

Let go of your certainties,

For they will only take you down those “dead ends”…

Have that Liv­ing Faith which con­stant­ly seeks and questions,

The Liv­ing Spir­it that Grows and Grows…

And do what you have always done.

For you are a Spir­it Awak­en­ing and your only choice is,

As it will always be,

To Walk on.