Final­ly! Mars is mov­ing on…

After all, he has been sail­ing through the Sign of Libra now for over 7 months. When you con­sid­er that on aver­age Mars is in a sign for about 40 days or so, being in one sign for 230 days is sig­nif­i­cant. He entered Libra in ear­ly Decem­ber, went ret­ro­grade on March 1^st, then turned direct on May 19^th, and is final­ly exit­ing Libra today.

You might have hoped for, or believed that hav­ing your Avatar of Desire cir­cling and cycling through the sign that rules Rela­tion­ship, Har­mo­ny, Jus­tice and Equal­i­ty, that this would have mod­u­lat­ed, mit­i­gat­ed and healed many rela­tion­ships in the world, (and cer­tain­ly many did ben­e­fit from this Prime Mover pro­vid­ing the req­ui­site surge of Ener­gy-Forms to go beyond fear-formed walls, and so it did help part­ners and/or groups to re-estab­lish or re-assert a greater bal­ance with­in their relationships).

But all of these ener­gies that course through and around you, that come from with­in you as much as they sur­round you, these ener­gies, well they are just energies…They elic­it and stim­u­late whomev­er and what­ev­er they encounter…and what mat­ters, always for you, is the lev­el of aware­ness with which you Cre­ate or Receive or Release these Ener­gy-Forms into your world.

So yes, for more healthy rela­tion­ships and more evolved beings, the effects of Mars in Libra would have proved uplift­ing and heal­ing, as it can and should be. For those less able to respond to the ener­gies in such a man­ner, or if per­haps only one half of the rela­tion­ship could or would, well things cer­tain­ly could have tak­en a more dis­rup­tive course…For Mars is Pas­sion, Mars is Desire…and Desire denied often turns to Hurt…and those hurts often lead to Anger…and that Anger, being a mal-formed Ener­gy-Form, that will lead to self-hurt or Vio­lence towards some other.

But these results, the Good and the Bad, this is not the fault of Mars, for as the Bard wise­ly put it in his play “Julius Cae­sar”, when Cas­sius tell Brutus:

“The fault, dear Bru­tus, is not in our stars,
But in our­selves, that we are underlings.”

The Path you seek to walk is the Path­way of Under­stand­ing, the Noble Mid­dle Way that leads to Wis­dom and Self-Deter­mi­na­tion. The Key is Self-Con­trol, and that no mat­ter what you encounter, what­ev­er man­ner of Ener­gy-Form, whether felic­i­tous or neg­a­tive, it is “on you” what you do with that. You are a Self-Con­scious being and you must choose.

The anal­o­gy that I use to illus­trate this truth in my per­son­al read­ings runs a lit­tle like this:

Life is like going through a series of door­ways, and there is always some­one pass­ing through the door ahead of you, and some­one fol­low­ing along behind. Now, if that per­son going through before you hap­pens to slam that next door in your face…well, you should know that is pre­cise­ly then and there that you face anoth­er seem­ing­ly small but actu­al­ly very pro­found karmic test. You are endowed with self-aware­ness, you have a choice. The ener­gy of that door slam­ming is indeed neg­a­tive, it car­ries a neg­a­tive valence or charge.

But you, you have a choice. If you, as you go through that door, remain less aware or self-con­scious, if you take the “easy path” and do noth­ing to change that ener­gy-expe­ri­ence, and mere­ly let the door slam in the face of the next soul who comes after you…then that ener­gy-form, which may have been passed down for who knows how long will con­tin­ue to be expe­ri­enced as a neg­a­tive force yet again, and per­haps for quite some time, again and again and again. The world will remain the same, or it like you might stum­ble backwards…but.

But, if you instead have the Pres­ence of Mind, if you fol­low the gen­tle whis­pers from your High­er Self, if you engage the self-aware­ness/other-aware­ness that you are here for, then you will choose to hold that door open…and the World will smile. For you took an Ener­gy-Form that had been the bear­er and pain for per­haps count­less years, you stood at the Cross­ing Point between the dark­ness and the Light and you chose to do what is Good, you chose to do what is Right…you Chose Love. And you and your World moved that much clos­er to the Light.

For this is how you and your world are redeemed, healed and brought clos­er to the One. Although great efforts and grand ges­tures will cer­tain­ly play a major role too upon the Path of Love, it is in these pre­cious moments, in the lit­tlest of ges­tures, it is in and by these small kind­ness­es and con­sid­er­a­tions that your Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it will find and forge the Path­way of Light and Love.

You are here to be Trans­form­ers, that in and by your Tri­par­tite Spir­i­tu­al Core, you will by the Sacred Three: Be guid­ed by your High­er Con­scious­ness, act with Uncon­di­tion­al Love and redeem the world through your Cen­tered Will. You are here to turn what is Neg­a­tive into some­thing Pos­i­tive, trans­form what is Hurt­ful into Kind­li­ness, and elim­i­nate Fear by the one True Pow­er that is Love. This is why you are here.

Now Mars moves on, and until mid-Sep­tem­ber he will swim through the Waters of Scorpio…and you and your world will find that the Ener­gy-Forms of your life and the world around you will become even more inten­si­fied, the issues of your life will be more deeply probed, and so your rewards of choos­ing well, well they will be even greater for you and your world too.

But the risks, well they will be greater also. For the prize is great in Scor­pio, but the shad­ow of fear is stronger here too…For now Mars takes you and your Desires into the Heart of the Mys­tery, into that Sacred Space where “the Mag­ic” can hap­pen, where two may become One, and where the illu­sion that is sep­a­ra­tion may be tran­scend­ed. Mars takes you now into that Sacred Realm where your Rebirth is Forged and the proof of your Immor­tal­i­ty will be found.

The Desire of Mars in Scor­pio, is the Desire of Union. It is here that you wish to join with one anoth­er in so many mys­te­ri­ous and won­drous ways, to come clos­er than ever to one anoth­er and expe­ri­ence some greater or less­er mea­sure of Self-Tran­scen­dence. You long to slip beyond the Illu­sion of your Mat­ter-Body, to set aside your earth­ly vehi­cle of Self-Lim­i­ta­tion, and to move into some form of Phys­i­cal-Emo­tion­al-Men­tal-Spir­i­tu­al Space where­in you expe­ri­ence a One­ness with one another.

But, as in every realm you move through there is the Promise and the Hope, and there is Kar­ma too. You are your his­to­ry, and your past actions and their effects will echo down to find you in your present cir­cum­stances. There is good here, there is much good that you have done and lessons you have learned. You have come a long, long way and mas­tered not a few lessons of life.

But, there is less good too, those errors and mis­steps, those fail­ures and defeats, and you must work with it all. For only you can lift these shad­ows you cast upon your­self, only you can choose to work with your High­er Self and build upon your lessons learned and so lift your­self out of the those shad­ows and into the Light.

Your Desire now is for Union; your Fear is the fear of Rejec­tion, your fear is the fear of loss and sep­a­ra­tion. You must be brave, you must become Fear­less, for in truth you have noth­ing to fear. You must do your part, to extend your hand and space to the oth­er and ask them to join you there.

They can either agree, and your heart will leap and the shad­ows will fall. Or, they could say “no”, but then it was not to be, and you must move on and wait for anoth­er time. But, if you let the fear take hold of you, and by so doing it will hold you back from mak­ing the nec­es­sary space of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty to meet one anoth­er in and through, well then what might have been can­not be…and that would be a cru­el and true Tragedy.

You must see that it is your Heart and your Love that make you strong. And that with this strength you will show it now by being what many might con­sid­er to be a sign of weak­ness. You must be vul­ner­a­ble, you need to be open and accept­ing and cre­ate a more lov­ing space to join togeth­er in, and it will be this, it is this that will be a true sign of your Spir­i­tu­al Strength, for it flows from your heart, it is your true self, it is Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

Only in this way will you form and forge your unions.

Only in this way will you set one anoth­er free…

To turn to the Light and to lift those shadows…

Formed by your ancient fears of rejec­tion, loss and death.

Turn instead to one another,

To the light stream­ing out and to one another…

To know Love,

To be Love,

To be One.