Tonight and tomorrow you stand at the center of two revelations.
When your starry companions are aligned so that you on Earth are between them, that alignment is called an Opposition. Each phase or step in these cycles of “Growth through Relationship”, (which is really what your Spiritual journey and Astrology is all about), is important for you to understand and master. But the opposition stands out as that signature step when the meaning and message of that particular relationship will be revealed to you most clearly.
The cycle of any two bodies begins with their conjunction with one another (which is best exemplified in the archetypal example of a New Moon). Then as the two bodies move apart in their cycle of relationship, they form a series of angular separations (which Astrologers call “aspects”) along the arc of their orbital paths, formed along a circle of spatial relationship measured out by 360 degrees. They move apart and then return to start a new cycle, and during their journey form many degrees of separation from one another, yet four principal moments stand out along their path with one another. From O° or the conjunction, they move out to the “First Quarter” or Waxing Square aspect of 90°, then to the “Full Moon” or Opposition of 180°, then to the “Last Quarter” or Waning Square of 270°, and then back to their next Conjunction at 0°.
The Sun, Moon and Planets are Avatars of Wisdom who wheel around and offer their messages to you, and they are there to teach and guide you as they bear witness for you of the fundamental truths you are here to master. Their Dance of Spirit through the heavens illustrate the Lessons of Spiritual Life you are here to understand and learn to live by. They are your stalwart companions, and they are there to show you “The Way”, for you here to learn to live your life aligned with the Spiritual Core that abides within you, as you will equally find and see that same Spirit informing each and every mote and speck of Creation too.
Thrilling through you and every moon, planet and star, is the Fundamental Energy-Substance of this whole Creation which is the One, it is Life-Consciousness-Spirit. All of this Creation is this One Spirit in Evolution, all of these lives and life-forms are Spirit as Becoming, all are embodiments of the Consciousness that is Spirit. Quite simply put, you are here to learn and become a fully conscious co-creator of this Creation, to achieve self-mastery in and through your many lives, as you sojourn here upon this beautiful realm you call your home, your beloved Earth.
Tonight and tomorrow, two revelations are offered to you once again (for these lessons of life require that you meet, solve and integrate them again and again). They can and should be seen as really one message, but let us look at them separately, then see how to hold them as they are in fact, for they form a greater truth when held together as one.
The opposition of Venus and Saturn comes every year, and poses to you what can be at times one of your most painful of moments of realization, yet, as it is in these balance-beaming ways of Truth, this revelation also contains the promise and reminder of your true, abiding source of everlasting joy.
Venus is your Avatar of Value and Worth, which is ultimately to be found and held by the core of you by and in your Fountain-Source of Truth. This Truth is that you are a special, precious Spark of the Divine. In Truth your essence, which is your Value or Worth, and is ultimately known to you as Love is beyond measure. Yet, at any one point in your journey of self-unfoldment/self-becoming, what you have so far realized and made manifest of this abiding truth is often much, much less, and it is this divide which brings about your pain and feelings of loss, for this is how and why you face what is seemingly a lack of love in your life
For though at your core you are filled with a boundless love, your experience or manifestation of your worth and love in this material world is circumscribed by the varied stages of unfoldment of your other “vehicles” or souls. The whole purpose of your self-unfoldment is to raise up your Mental, Emotional and even Physical Bodies or Souls so that they become the adequate containers and expressions of the True Value and Love which you are at your core. But this takes a very long time indeed. Many, many Lives and Worlds must you pass through to master yourself, for you have to learn to choose what is wiser and more loving, and so be guided by your Inner Flame to become outwardly what your higher Self or Beloved is and will always be…and you will then be a Wise, Loving and Free Spark of the Divine.
Saturn is the Avatar of Reality, and for you represents what you have so far realized and embodied of your Higher Essence into those varied vehicles of Self-Determination. You can and will eventually be outwardly what you are inwardly, but until you have finished your human journey you will be limited in your forms of Self-Realization, you will have moments when you doubt your worth, you will at times experience that most painful of Illusions that you are without or lacking in Love.
This Opposition of Venus and Saturn brings to bear this experience of the divide between your Divine Loving nature and your less than perfect embodiment of the inestimable Value and Love that you are. Whether you are experiencing a disappointment in another’s expression of love for you, or they feel that same lack from you, what you both need at a time such as this is to look beyond and behind these Veils of Matter that you attempt to reach one another through. You need to believe in, know of and act with the Love that is at the core of both of you, always. Never more so than when you feel as if the other has let you down, or you have done so by them. You need to reach deeply within to the unconditional love that is your higher self, and then bring as much of that outwards and bestow it upon your lower self, and then equally shine and share it with your beloved who stands before you too.
Whether by a failure of Omission or Commission, whether one or both of you feel that you have been wronged, you need to acknowledge and accept that you are both a “work in progress”, that you both carry doubts, wounds and fears that are the echoes of your past lives as well as of earlier errors made in this present one, and that these dark shadows can thwart your experience of one another today.
Yes, the form of your relationship, the quality of your love for one another is limited in this time and place, for you and they are not yet what you will someday become and be. But the only way you will reach it, sooner than later, is by holding to the eternal truths of your inherent Divinity so that you will stay upon the path of Truth and Love. For what you each have that has drawn you to one another again is of the One. When you look beyond the bodies and appearances of one another, when you see “that presence” looking back at you there in their eyes, you will know and remember and smile. You need to realize it is that, this Divine Love which has and will always bring you back together, again and again, until you “get it right”. That you need to keep to this Path of Love that is the only way home…and to do this you need to Forgive one another and be that Love with all your might.
Love yourself…
Love one another.
For you are Beautiful,
And so is your beloved.
You are Divinities who are Awakening.
You are Love. They are Love.
Love one Another.