Hap­py Astro­log­i­cal New Year!

The Cir­cle of Life begins once more…

You are always sur­round­ed by, yet equal­ly jour­ney through,

The Twelve Man­sions of Life-Consciousness-Spirit,

The Liv­ing Waters of Life known to you as “the Zodiac”.

These Ener­gy-Forms both form and inform you,

As in each World, Body and Life you unfold from with­in yourself

The Divine Spark which is your Foun­tain Source of Light and Truth,

Your pre­cious Spir­i­tu­al Essence…for this is what makes you “you”.

 

In each life you weave togeth­er a unique com­bi­na­tion of these Twelve Rays.

For it is by and through any one life, and then through a series of many, many lives

That you will come to learn and to mas­ter each one of these Spir­i­tu­al Gifts.

It is through these Twelve-Fold infi­nite com­bi­na­tions that you learn to become

The “Self-Mas­ter­ful”, a Freed Mon­ad who is no longer bound by the Laws of Karma.

 

This is your Des­tiny, to be a unique, pre­cious melody in the Song of Spirit.

For you are a one, but you also one of many, many ones,

Who form in their infi­nite total­i­ty, through the many realms, worlds and lives

The resplen­dent Spir­i­tu­al Life, Mind and Love of the One.

 

But, as in all things, there must be a first step.

Here at the first por­tal of Aries, you pass from the mys­tery of Infinity

Into your Dawn of Self-Deter­mi­na­tion, and so into Self-Lim­i­ta­tion too.

For you can be any­thing giv­en time, but in any one time you must be some-thing.

Here, and at all begin­nings, you must take a stand…

 

Now you must answer the most impor­tant and pro­found of questions:

“Who are you?”

This is always the begin­ning, the Invo­lu­tion of Spir­it into Mat­ter is where you start.

Here at this most awe­some por­tal of Poten­tial­i­ty you must pause and consider.

You must approach each and every moment of your life with great care,

For each action sets in motion what is to fol­low, for many years and even lives to come.

And far more than this, how you treat one anoth­er is filled with con­se­quences too,

For you form your­selves through one anoth­er, and

Your lives and Kar­ma are inter­twined and so made of one another.

These actions/reactions will fol­low you for this life, and

On through count­less worlds, forms and lives to come as well.

 

So, pause and con­sid­er care­ful­ly, for the Law is the Law,

And what you sow you shall reap.

You are the dream­er-mak­er-cre­ator; your past is done,

And what will be you can­not know…

The only moment that mat­ters is here,

Here you face the Eter­nal Now.

So, you must lead with your very best,

For your life…and for theirs too.

The whole of Cre­ation hangs in the bal­ance, and it all comes down to this:

You must do your part, lis­ten to your heart.

You will try to do a lit­tle better,

You will rise a lit­tle high­er, because

You are here today, you are here now,

It is your time to be a bet­ter “you”.

 

You must strive to do what is right by you and for others,

To be nei­ther over-whelm­ing, or under-whelming.

To bring to bear in what­ev­er sit­u­a­tion you enter what is need­ed from you.

To offer what­ev­er of you would be most wel­com­ing and welcomed.

You are here to bring light and dis­pel the darkness,

To bring clar­i­ty to con­fu­sion, calm­ness instead of chaos,

To be your­self tru­ly and let oth­ers be them­selves too.

Right Think­ing, Right Bear­ing and so Right Action,

This is you, this is being your Aries Truth.

 

The ques­tion at every step in your jour­ney will always be,

“Who are you?”

And you will find your answer by know­ing this:

From where did you come?

The Divine.

Why you are here?

To Love.

And, by know­ing this,

You will turn to the Light, you will be the Light too.

 

Because you know this is your Destiny,

You are the Self-that-is-Becoming.

You are one of the ones of the One.

Your approach to this life and to one another

Must fol­low from this Feeling-Knowing-Being:

That before you, in every form of life you encounter…

There is the Mys­tery, there is “That”, there is a one, and so,

There am I too.

 

You will lead with Kindness,

You will act with Courage,

You will Love with all your heart.

Because this is who you are.

You are one of the ones of the One.

And you are here to Love.

 

Podcast—2016, Part Three

Sat­urn Nep­tune Cycle in Per­son­al Terms

To con­clude the dis­cus­sion regard­ing the Saturn/Neptune square for now, I wish to con­sid­er the impli­ca­tions of this aspect for indi­vid­u­als, groups and soci­ety in general.

The cycle of Sat­urn and Nep­tune, last­ing about 36 years, con­cerns the involutionary/evolutionary inte­gra­tion of our struc­tures of Real­i­ty (Sat­urn) with one of the three won­drous pow­ers that account for our spir­i­tu­al gift of self-unfold­ment, that par­tic­u­lar expe­ri­ence being the process of Illu­mi­na­tion as we exer­cise our Intu­ition­al nature through our Dreaming/Imagination (Nep­tune).

The Saturn/Neptune cycle com­mences with the release of a new impulse at their con­junc­tion and then unfolds over the next 36 years through phas­es of at times more grace­ful and then more chal­leng­ing artic­u­la­tions of inte­gra­tion (or lack there­of) with one another.

For us, from Novem­ber 2015 into Sep­tem­ber 2016, we are seek­ing to under­stand (again) one of the more chal­leng­ing moments in their cycle. Where­as the Con­junc­tion (0°) and cer­tain­ly the Sex­tile (60°) and Trine (120°) can be expe­ri­enced more ele­gant­ly, the Oppo­si­tion (180°) and the Wax­ing or Wan­ing Square (90°) are often more asso­ci­at­ed with fric­tions, frac­tions and schisms. We are encoun­ter­ing the chal­lenge of the Wan­ing Square this year.

Both the Wax­ing and Wan­ing Squares can be under­stood as times of Cri­sis, where this cycle rela­tion­ship of Dreams and Real­i­ty has arrived at a crit­i­cal moment of deci­sion, and we need, or are forced, to face the dilem­mas inward­ly and out­ward­ly regard­ing what­ev­er we encounter at this turn­ing. Giv­en the choic­es met at the Wan­ing Square, there are real­ly two pos­si­ble outcomes:

1) We can rise to the chal­lenge (through Love), face the sit­u­a­tion open­ly and wise­ly, and so lift our­selves up to a high­er lev­el of func­tion­ing. We can choose to face our­selves and our world and make this present dif­fi­cul­ty into an oppor­tu­ni­ty to grow beyond our for­mer self-lim­i­ta­tions, (those very self-lim­i­ta­tions being what actu­al­ly brought us to this very cri­sis), because we resolve, because we are inspired, to move beyond or through the old dichotomies and assump­tions, and this brings us into a high­er lev­el of under­stand­ing and action….or,

2) We fall back (frozen by fear), and cling to the shells of false-mean­ing (and dis­card the ker­nels of truth). We seek refuge in the rigid­i­ty of com­fort­able cer­tain­ties as we deny the “liv­ing spir­it”. We deny our own true self as we fail to hear the Song of Spir­it which is seek­ing to help us break free, to help us move beyond what have become the dog­mas and phar­i­saical prac­tices that have brought us to our self-doubts and despair.

The par­tic­u­lar ques­tion posed by Sat­urn and Nep­tune for each of us this year can be found by their respec­tive posi­tion in Astro­log­i­cal Signs. Sat­urn is mov­ing through Sagit­tar­ius, while Nep­tune is mov­ing through Pisces. Sat­urn, the Teacher/Tester and hold­er of Real­i­ty and Insti­tu­tions, is bring­ing us to exam­ine our rela­tion­ship to Truth, to the Sci­ences, Phi­los­o­phy and Reli­gion. Where­as Nep­tune, the Uni­ver­sal Sol­vent, Dis­solver of Bound­aries, Agent of Uni­ver­sal Love and Com­pas­sion is in its very own sign, and call­ing us to anchor our­selves in the greater Real­i­ty in which we tru­ly abide. That under­ly­ing or True Real­i­ty is this: That we are all sparks of the Divine, we are all relat­ed to one anoth­er and we all abide in the Love of the One. And, it is this Love of and by the One which holds us all togeth­er for­ev­er and ever. And so, there is but one path for­ward (always), and that is to Love one anoth­er. If what­ev­er we feel, or think or do does not fol­low from this fun­da­men­tal Truth, then it will come to noth­ing in the end.

With Nep­tune being the out­er­most plan­et, and being part of the Spir­i­tu­al Tri­ad of our spir­i­tu­al quick­en­ing, we should look to it as tak­ing the lead in the elic­i­ta­tion that will move us along the path of our spir­i­tu­al evo­lu­tion. It will help us to dis­pel any notions which seek to divide or sep­a­rate us, counter any actions which seek to make some greater and oth­ers less, and instead lead us out from with­in and inspire us to act with even greater com­pas­sion, under­stand­ing and love for one another.

But if any indi­vid­ual or group face this cri­sis and see only dan­ger and betray­al, it is because they hold to a fear-based real­i­ty of what they believe was lost. They fall into the frac­tured mir­rors of mad­ness that are the inverse of the “Wis­dom that is Love”, and into the pain of Nep­tun­ian Delu­sion and Self-Decep­tion. They will make of them­selves mar­tyrs and heroes, as they blame some “oth­er” for what they see as bro­ken promis­es and decep­tion. They become the “enthralled”, dri­ven by their self-cast fears of Sat­urn, and so become deceived into false­hoods of superior/inferior, whether in terms of beliefs, pol­i­tics or per­son­al behav­iors. They will seek to divide, allo­cate blame and act against the greater good, and so ulti­mate­ly bring great pain to them­selves (but also many oth­ers) by this false faith formed from dis­cord and fear.

The one True path remains the same, year after year, and life after life…and it will bring you, if you remain true to who you real­ly are, out of all such dark­ness and fear. The song of spir­i­tu­al self-awak­en­ing is what you must lis­ten for, the kind­li­ness, gen­tle­ness and love is what your soul lives from, by and for. Your high­er-self, your Spark of the Divine, is for­ev­er singing these Psalms of Love.

The qui­et, steady and lov­ing flame of the One will always remind you to resist those inner and out­er voic­es of fear, doubt, hatred and inse­cu­ri­ty. Instead, you will smile as you remem­ber your true nature. You are here to Dream of a Greater Real­i­ty, to Love every oth­er as you love yourself…And so it will come to pass, you will move steadi­ly and sure­ly out of these shad­ows and into the realm of Light.

In the next pod­cast, I will move on to con­sid­er anoth­er wan­ing square that is defin­ing this year for us, the square of Jupiter and Saturn.

Here is Part Three of the 2016 Fore­cast, Sat­urn and Nep­tune Personally

Podcast—2016, Part Two

Sat­urn Nep­tune Cycle

Con­tin­u­ing from Part One, in today’s pod­cast I con­sid­er the con­tri­bu­tion of the Third lev­el in this tri­par­tite Hier­ar­chy of Plan­e­tary forces, the inter­sec­tion of Jupiter’s orbit with the four pre­vi­ous plan­ets of Sat­urn, Uranus, Nep­tune and Plu­to. The influ­ence of Jupiter, the ruler of Truths, Phi­los­o­phy, Sci­ence and Reli­gion is to bestow the var­i­ous mean­ings for our jour­ney from unself-con­scious sparks of the divine to our even­tu­al awak­en­ing as ful­ly con­scious co-cre­ators of Creation.

These four mod­u­la­tions of Jupiter are: Jupiter/Saturn form­ing Truth and Order or how we bring Mean­ing into Man­i­fes­ta­tion. Jupiter/Uranus form­ing Truth and Freer Minds or how we bring Under­stand­ing into our mutu­al Lib­er­a­tion. Jupiter/Neptune form­ing Truth and Uni­ver­sal Love or how we come to under­stand the Truth of our One­ness. And, Jupiter/Pluto form­ing Truth and Will or how we Live in Truth in our Sacred Spaces.

Then I will con­sid­er one of the sig­na­ture align­ments of this year (actu­al­ly from Fall 2015 through Fall 2016), the Saturn/Neptune wan­ing square. Their rela­tion­ship artic­u­lates the ways and means by which we seek to inte­grate our Real­i­ty and our Dreams, of how we see the align­ment or dis­con­nects between our Visions of our life and the Phys­i­cal facts of our expe­ri­ence. Their Syn­od­ic cycle (from Con­junc­tion to Con­junc­tion,  like a New Moon to New Moon), is about 36 years.

The con­junc­tion of Sat­urn with Nep­tune forms the release of a new state­ment or instance of Dreams becom­ing Real­i­ty. This new impulse is then re-exam­ined, choic­es are faced and we are test­ed at the wax­ing square about 9 years lat­er. The ful­fill­ment and/or so-called fail­ure of this effort is then expe­ri­enced at their oppo­si­tion 9 years lat­er (which is like a Full Moon), when Sat­urn is on one side of Earth and Nep­tune upon the oth­er side. The wan­ing square 9 years lat­er, where we are this year, presents anoth­er moment of choice, but this time the devel­op­ment of Dreams becom­ing Real­i­ty (or Real­i­ty deny­ing Dreams), requires a “let­ting go” in order to grow. For at each wan­ing square, of what­ev­er plan­e­tary pair we are con­sid­er­ing, we are chal­lenged to face our assump­tions, thought-forms and ideals that have brought us to this point. We are giv­en an oppor­tu­ni­ty to see what must be tran­scend­ed or released so that we can con­tin­ue to grow on this path of ful­fill­ment, and/or to change direc­tion alto­geth­er to a bet­ter path if what has been so far real­ized is not true to our dreams.

The par­tic­u­lar focus of this Saturn/Neptune square can be ascer­tained by ref­er­enc­ing their Astro­log­i­cal Sign place­ments as they square one anoth­er. Nep­tune is in its own sign of Pisces, (which we last expe­ri­enced from 1848–8162), and is car­ry­ing the mes­sage of our most pre­cious gift of the Imag­i­na­tion and the pow­er of our Dreams as the source of our Real­i­ty-Mak­ing. That the Pow­er of our Faith can be found in our Spir­i­tu­al Nature, that we are in Truth the cre­ators of our reality.

Sat­urn is in Sagit­tar­ius, (the time before this was 1985–1988), and our deter­mi­na­tions of what is real­ly True, of what is cor­rect or right as artic­u­lat­ed by our Sci­ence, Law, Reli­gion and Phi­los­o­phy is being shaped/challenged in this wan­ing square by our under­stand­ing through Nep­tune. Nep­tune is chal­leng­ing Sat­urn­ian rigid­i­ty and dog­ma by this “Liv­ing Spir­it” of Nep­tune in Pisces, and that through this Greater Under­stand­ing we can re-expe­ri­ence that “we are one” in Truth.

We are one in Spir­it, and so in all things we should be guid­ed by the fun­da­men­tal warn­ing that the Great Illu­sion of any age is the error of Sep­a­ra­tion. That if we allow our­selves to be divid­ed from one anoth­er, if we make some of us into some­thing less, then this will lead to the divi­sion by those who wield a posi­tion of the supe­ri­or, who will then bring harm to those they con­sid­er to be less­er. By this we will reap only bit­ter fruits, as we bring about fear, pain and suf­fer­ing through injus­tice… and we will fall from grace, as we fail to ful­fill our human­i­ty and our spir­i­tu­al promise.

But real­ly, tru­ly, we are all one in Spirit…and so the Uni­ver­sal Teach­ings, the Ancient Wis­dom behind all less­er teach­ings shines forth again in the right align­ment of Sagit­tar­ius and Pisces in the Great Law or Truth:

“Do unto oth­ers as you would have them do unto you….for before you is anoth­er who is as you, you are the same, and what you do to the least of any of these you do to the One.”

There is no oth­er way than the One Way, “Love one another”.

Here is Part Two of the 2016 Fore­cast, the Cycle of Sat­urn and Neptune

Podcast—2016 Fore­cast Overview

Part One: The Hier­ar­chy of Plan­e­tary Forces

The fol­low­ing series of pod­casts will exam­ine the major Astro­log­i­cal fac­tors influ­enc­ing our lives and world dur­ing 2016. Today’s pod­cast, Part One, is a brief intro­duc­tion to the Tri-Par­tite Hier­ar­chy of Plan­e­tary forces of the major plan­ets: First­ly, you have Plu­to, Nep­tune and Uranus. Sec­ond­ly, comes these three inter­re­lat­ing with Sat­urn. Third­ly, you have these four inter­re­lat­ing with Jupiter.

The First lev­el in this Hier­ar­chy is formed by Plu­to, Nep­tune and Uranus which togeth­er com­prise the Long-Wave or Sub­stan­tial Spir­i­tu­al Evo­lu­tion­ary forces for our plan­e­tary sys­tem. Each mov­ing through the signs, and form­ing sig­nif­i­cant aspects to one anoth­er cre­ate the rhyth­mic puls­es of Spir­i­tu­al quick­en­ing for our journey.

These Lords of Spir­i­tu­al Evo­lu­tion com­bine to form three Plan­e­tary pairs of mean­ing: Neptune/Pluto form­ing the rela­tion­ship of Uncon­di­tion­al Love ver­sus Sacred Space or Love and Will. Uranus/Neptune form­ing the rela­tion­ship between Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty ver­sus Com­mu­ni­ty or Freer Minds and Uncon­di­tion­al Love. And, Uranus/Pluto form­ing the rela­tion­ship between Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty ver­sus Sacred Space or Freer Minds and Will. These long-range evo­lu­tion­ary cycles range from about 500 to 130 years.

The Sec­ond lev­el in this Hier­ar­chy com­bines these out­er three with the mod­u­la­tions formed by their respec­tive inter­sec­tions with the plan­et Sat­urn. Here you expe­ri­ence the inter­play of the Evo­lu­tion­ary Forces of Uranus, Nep­tune and Plu­to with the Struc­tures or Objec­tive Realms of Sat­urn, which will often unfold seem­ing­ly through “dis­cords” or “clash­es” of the trans­for­ma­tion­al plan­ets with the conserving/crystallizing forces of Sat­urn. These three are: Saturn/Uranus form­ing Order and Free Minds or Tra­di­tion ver­sus Inno­va­tion. Saturn/Neptune form­ing Order and Dreams or Tra­di­tion ver­sus Com­pas­sion. And, Saturn/Pluto form­ing Order and Will or Tra­di­tion ver­sus Sacred Space. These mid-range crys­tal­liz­ing cycles range from about 45 to over 30 years.

The Third lev­el in this Hier­ar­chy com­bines these four with the mod­u­la­tions cre­at­ed by their respec­tive inter­sec­tions with the plan­et Jupiter. Here you expe­ri­ence the inter­play of the Evo­lu­tion­ary and Crys­tal­liz­ing Forces with the Expansionary/Exploring Forces of Jupiter. These four pairs are: Jupiter/Saturn form­ing Truth and Order or Mean­ing and Man­i­fes­ta­tion. Jupiter/Uranus form­ing Truth and Freer Minds or Mean­ing and Lib­er­a­tion. Jupiter/Neptune form­ing Truth and Uni­ver­sal Love or Mean­ing and One­ness. And, Jupiter/Pluto form­ing Truth and Will or Mean­ing and Sacred Space. These short­er wave growth cycles range from 20 to 12 years.

Today’s pod­cast will begin the dis­cus­sion of this tri­par­tite hier­ar­chy, as we begin to try and under­stand these gifts of the spir­it for 2016. The major influ­ences we will look at for this year will be: 1) The wan­ing square of Sat­urn with Nep­tune, 2) the wan­ing square of Jupiter with Sat­urn, and 3) the wan­ing trine of Sat­urn with Uranus. But we will need to look at all these three (and more) with­in the con­text of the greater align­ment that has and still defines our peri­od. This fun­da­men­tal elic­i­ta­tion of Spir­it marks our time as the “end of an age” and the “dawn of a new age”, being her­ald­ed by Uranus in Aries form­ing a wax­ing square to Plu­to in Capricorn.

We have not been wit­ness to changes such as these for over 240 years, not since the 1760’s to the 1770’s, and before that from 1516 to 1532. Much like those indi­vid­u­als, cul­tures and coun­tries in their time, we too now face the awe­some respon­si­bil­i­ty of re-mak­ing our­selves and our pre­cious world for the bet­ter, to love not hate, to unite not divide, and so build bridges of under­stand­ing, com­pas­sion and love for one and all.

Here is Part One of the 2016 Forecast