Mer­cury returns to the watery depths of Scor­pio, and your final step, (for now) of this Air-Water-Air-Water dance is at hand. Three times Mer­cury has moved from an Air sign to Water, then ret­ro­grad­ed back into Air and then for­ward again into Water. In February/March, in May/June and here in September/November, you have had a Trip­tych of Truth, a gift of grace from your star­ry com­pan­ions wheel­ing above. For this is “the Way”, these spi­ral­ing rib­bons of light and love both inspire and form your inte­gral jour­ney in Spirit.

All these Ener­gy-Forms, of Fire, Earth, Air and Water sweep in, through and around you. But even more than this, their unique Blend­ing-Com­bin­ing-Weav­ing make you into “you”, a com­plete human. You are not one thing or anoth­er; you are a unique instance of Cre­ation. You are a micro­cosm, a won­drous reflec­tion of the Macro­cosm or Cos­mos. You are a “host in minia­ture” of the Heav­en­ly Host, of the entire­ty of Cre­ation which sur­rounds you. And so you are here to know and feel that the won­ders of heav­en which are “out there”, that they also and will ever abide with­in you too…for “I am That, I am”…Yes, yes you are.

Now and until Novem­ber 27, your mind is lens­ing through the desires, pas­sions and fears that are faced in the realm that is Scor­pio. You wish to bridge the seem­ing divide between your­self and your beloved. You need to pierce beyond the shad­ows that fall between I and Thou, and forge that pre­cious bond of Union that actu­al­ly releas­es your Spir­it to soar even high­er. But to do this you must face down the shad­ows of your past rejec­tions and hurts. For if these take hold of your mind and heart, and so sway your inten­tions and actions, then you will act through these shad­owed ener­gy-forms and bring about the very loss­es you are des­per­ate­ly try­ing to avoid.

You need to draw down the High­er side of Scor­pio, to know that you are Spir­it, that you are Love and Loved, and that you have noth­ing to fear. Then you will show your strength which is your Love by act­ing Fearlessly…That by lead­ing with your lov­ing­ness, by your open­ness and vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty which are the signs of your Spir­i­tu­al Strength, that by this you will cre­ate the oppor­tu­ni­ty to heal the breach between you. You will open your mind and your heart and so cre­ate the space where I and Thou can enter in. And you will move into that won­drous expe­ri­ence and mys­tery where you two can become one with one another.

Let Her­mes, the mes­sen­ger of the Gods, take you to the place of your deep­est long­ing now.

It is time to pierce beyond the Loss­es and Shadows,

To move beyond those pains and regrets,

Which held you apart from one another.

It is time to Lead with your Faith,

It is time to Live in your Truth,

It is time, to let go of fear.

It is time,

To Love.

Your Spir­i­tu­al Journey,

Is all about Hold­ing on…

and Let­ting go.

You will vis­it count­less worlds of manifestation,

You will pass through many won­drous hier­ar­chies of form,

You will live many lives mov­ing through each form…

But even so, you will ever and for­ev­er always jour­ney on.

For you seek for the Transcendent,

The promise of Permanence,

You yearn to expe­ri­ence an eter­nal you,

Behind all these con­stant­ly chang­ing worlds, forms and lives.

The Tau­rus Full Moon in this month of Scor­pio is the nec­es­sary com­pli­ment to the Scor­pio Full Moon of six months ago. It was dur­ing that Month of Tau­rus, it was then that you were remind­ed to bow your head and give thanks to the Hier­ar­chy of Love and Wis­dom that lights your path. The great lessons embod­ied in the Life and Teach­ings of the Bud­dha are hon­ored at that time. One of the most impor­tant of these is this: that the nature of you is that you are a host of ener­gies and forms that is con­stant­ly devel­op­ing, chang­ing, grow­ing into some­thing more…and that there is noth­ing “per­ma­nent” in your “human” form.

But it is equal­ly true that one abid­ing con­stant that you will find in your many lives, through­out your many jour­neys, is held for you in what are known as the Peren­ni­al Truths, the Ancient Wis­dom Teach­ings. These gifts of the Spir­it become real for you by and through those who have come this way before, the many com­pas­sion­ate wise ones who will ever show and help you in the next step, who lov­ing offer their help so that you may find “the way”…but you, of course, must walk this sacred path yourself.

Here in the Light of the Tau­rus Moon you are giv­en anoth­er lov­ing gift of Wis­dom. Just as you need to accept the ephemer­al nature of your bod­i­ly lives and forms while mov­ing through the time that is Tau­rus, you equal­ly need some reas­sur­ance as you jour­ney now through the Joys and Pains of Scor­pio. For as you encounter your heart­felt leaps and falls, as you find Union and Sep­a­ra­tion, as you expe­ri­ence Death and Rebirth, that through it all you will find your­self mak­ing your way to the abid­ing lov­ing pres­ence behind it all.

For what you must leave behind is your fear…that you are alone, that you are sep­a­rate, and the pre­sid­ing nature of things is that noth­ing lasts. The Great Illu­sion is this sep­a­ra­tion, and the Abid­ing Truth is that all of this, the entire­ty of Cre­ation is of, by and for the One. All these Worlds, Forms and Lives form the radi­ant robe of Glo­ry of the Divine which is found at the cen­ter of every speck and mote of Cre­ation. All of “this” is The Divine, whose Cen­ter is Every­where and whose Cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere.

At the cen­ter of each and every mote and par­ti­cle of Cre­ation is a spark of this Divine, each like you a Self-Unfold­ing, Self-Becom­ing Pres­ence of Con­scious­ness. That pres­ence, that Aware­ness of Aware­ness, is your con­stant com­pan­ion through all the Worlds, Forms and Lives. And you will come to know this and feel this in many, many ways in your jour­ney. But behind it all, the essence of it tru­ly, is that you are one with the One, and you jour­ney in the embrace of a Pure and Uncon­di­tion­al Love…and you will come to know and live that you are this Love.

You are here to grow…

To move from form to form,

To Be, and Not to be.

To be a One, and to be Many.

To be Love, and be Loved.

As it was invoked six months ago at the Bud­dha Full Moon, it is quite right and fit­ting to bow your head in the light of the Full Moon today and tonight, and be grate­ful. To give thanks to those who have gone ahead, and bow your head and offer up once again the Great Invocation:

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light with­in the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the mas­ters know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Pow­er restore the Plan on Earth.