Here is the third of your four Mer­cury Ret­ro­grades this year. Begin­ning at the very end of Vir­go, one of the signs that Mer­cury is said to “rule”, and mov­ing back through about ½ of Vir­go until Sep­tem­ber 21^st-22^nd, Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is always an oppor­tu­ni­ty to pause and recon­sid­er the most impor­tant fac­tor in the qual­i­ty of your life, the health of your mind.

One of the most impor­tant gifts you have secured by mov­ing through the human king­dom is your won­drous fac­ul­ty of a self-reflec­tive con­scious­ness. You have the abil­i­ty to devel­op an ever more objec­tive under­stand­ing of your­self and your thought-forms. It is from this won­drous self-cor­rect­ing con­scious­ness that you can learn the con­se­quen­tial con­nec­tions between how you think, how you act and the result­ing real­i­ty you make for your­self. Over time, you learn to choose bet­ter, to cor­rect mis­un­der­stand­ings, mis­con­cep­tions and devel­op a more inclu­sive and com­pre­hen­sive view of the Greater Real­i­ty in which you reside.

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is mere­ly, but won­der­ful­ly, this fac­ul­ty of self-cor­rec­tion/­self-improve­ment work­ing to a high­er degree. It is your time to be ever more intro­spec­tive and con­tem­pla­tive, to review, revise and make more true your inner world view since your mind is bend­ing back upon itself more read­i­ly now.

But of course this often does bring about dif­fi­cul­ties in the day to day of pay­ing atten­tion to the out­er world, for you are more like­ly to be engaged with­in and not as aware of what may be hap­pen­ing around you. More­over, every­one else is so dis­posed as well. So you may not con­vey your thoughts/intentions to oth­ers as well as you might nor­mal­ly; and they may not be receiv­ing as read­i­ly either. And of course the same applies in reverse.

As a con­se­quence, mis­un­der­stand­ings may mount up in both per­son­al and busi­ness mat­ters. You have to make use of this won­der­ful time, yes. But you need to be as mind­ful of the trou­bles it may bring in its wake and do what you can to min­i­mize these.

First­ly, most­ly, have a sense of humor, for your own dis­tract­ed­ness and mis­per­cep­tions, and be equal­ly for­giv­ing of those around you too. In order lim­it the neg­a­tive side effects, do set aside more time in your day for moments of soli­tude and con­tem­pla­tive spaces in order to make use of ret­ro­grade Mercury’s gifts for you. Encour­age oth­ers by your exam­ple to also see the oppor­tu­ni­ty here to reduce ill-advised thought-forms and help them to engage in more self-crit­i­cal think­ing too.

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade should be a time for the quick­en­ing of one your most astound­ing qual­i­ties: You Know…and You Know that you Know!

Let Her­mes, the “mes­sen­ger of the gods”, take you on an inner jour­ney now.

Shift you focus, chal­lenge and change your assumptions.

See what you were “miss­ing”, always be humble.

Expe­ri­ence the won­der of the “Ah-Ha” moment,

And Smile!

The Path­way of Perfection

You are the Self-that-is Becoming,

A Self-Lumi­nous Spark of the One Divine Flame.

You jour­ney through many Worlds, Forms and Lives,

Lift­ing your­self and all these Ener­gy-Forms ever clos­er to the Fullness

To be found with­in the Greater Awareness.

Your play­ground of Con­scious­ness is turn­ing once more,

The “Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones”, the Zodi­ac, leaves behind

The Fixed Fire that is Leo and brings you

Into the Blessed Realm,

Into the Sacred Space of Wholeness.

Here now is your time of Grace, Beau­ty and Virtue,

On bend­ed knee and with great devotion

May you find Peace in your space of Virgo.

For after each Fire Sign, after every time of Inspi­ra­tion and Ide­al­ism, there must come this time…the time in which you expe­ri­ence what is real­ly real. Now those Ideals and Dreams are put to the test of Mat­ter and Form. Just as after your aware­ness of Pres­ence in the realm of Aries must be fol­lowed by your aware­ness of Val­ue in Tau­rus, so too must your aware­ness of Per­for­mance in the realm of Leo be fol­lowed by your aware­ness of Peace in Virgo.

You have always desired one thing, to be at Peace. There is no high­er realm, no greater val­ue than to be at Peace, both with­in and with­out. It is not found here or there, or any­where what­so­ev­er. It is not a place or even a time, it is beyond these things. To be at Peace is found in a high­er State of Con­scious­ness, where inner and out­er realms align, where you and your world are one…for a time.

For you and your world are here for one thing, you are Spir­it mov­ing through Space-Time, and the one injunc­tion pro­pelling the whole of Cre­ation is Growth. For it is all about the Self-That-Is-Becom­ing, from the One and to all those encom­passed in this great cre­ation formed by all the ones of the One. You and your world are part of a myr­i­ad of Ener­gy-Forms that are con­stant­ly grow­ing, con­stant­ly chang­ing, and so your chal­lenge is clear…How do you find Order and Peace in that?

You find and secure your Peace by align­ing and guid­ing your out­er phys­i­cal world inter­ac­tions to the inti­ma­tions of Wis­dom found in your High­er Self. As your aware­ness and con­duct becomes more attuned to the Greater Aware­ness, you make bet­ter choic­es for your­self and for what you bring to your world in Thoughts, Feel­ings and Deeds. And, if you go against these prompt­ings-know­ings of what is “the good”, you end up in a state of Suffering.

The Aware­ness of Vir­go is sharp and clear, it is refined and dis­cern­ing. This is what you need as you try to sep­a­rate the wheat from the chafe of your life. As the world changes and you do not adjust pro­por­tion­ate­ly, either by over­do­ing or under­per­form­ing, by doing too much or too lit­tle, pain begins to be felt. And if you per­sist, the pain will even­tu­al­ly increase beyond your bear­ing. You may fall ill Spir­i­tu­al­ly, and Men­tal­ly and Emo­tion­al­ly and final­ly suf­fer Phys­i­cal illness.

This is not pun­ish­ment. This is “The Way”, the immutable Law of Cause and Effect, and it is your Sal­va­tion. For by this Law the very nature of this uni­verse is formed to help you find your way back to the Light of Love, Beau­ty and Truth. So the pain and the suf­fer­ing of Vir­go is the way you are encour­aged to move away from the less­er, from the self­ish to the self­less, from the unloved to the uncon­di­tion­al lov­ing and so into your Greater Under­stand­ing. The Way of Vir­go is the Path of Heal­ing. It is the way you will find your way to Peace by liv­ing as you are in your inner­most: Beau­ti­ful and Lov­ing, for always remem­ber this, you are a spark of the Divine, and your lib­er­a­tion is wait­ing on you.

The Way of Vir­go is the Path of Heal­ing. It is the Way of Sacrifice.

For you must give up the less­er, you must sur­ren­der your ego

If you are to rise into your Divinity.

This has always been the way, and it has been shown to you by those who came before.

The Ser­vants of the Light, the Lone­ly Watch­ers of Initiation.

Who Offer Inspi­ra­tion and hope, yet too must wait,

For you must lift your­self up.

You must learn to choose between the less­er and the Greater,

You must become what you are here to be,

A Ful­ly Con­scious Co-Cre­ator of Creation.

Wel­come this return to the time of Virgo.

Always and Forever:

Live in Beauty

Walk in Beauty

Made of and by Beauty

May you find your way

To Truth and Light and Love.

May you be at Peace.

You are special…oh yes, yes you are!

You are a one of kind; a dis­tinct, spe­cial sparkling gem of the cosmos.

And dur­ing this time of Leo, you are remind­ed to bring forth even more authen­ti­cal­ly the Quin­tes­sence that makes you “you”. Wher­ev­er you have Leo in your being, you must dig deep with­in your soul and bring forth and reveal your­self, your self-lumi­nous essence shin­ing through your won­drous ways of lead­er­ship, cre­ativ­i­ty and love.

But in every month there comes a crit­i­cal moment, a rev­e­la­tion and bal­anc­ing of the ener­gies and forms for that time. When the Moon has come to its fur­thest reach­es, beyond this beau­ti­ful blue Earth, it stands oppo­site to the Sun and reveals the coun­ter­point­ed truth held by the oppo­site sign. Today/tonight the Sun now roars with the truth of Leo; the Moon lov­ing­ly offers the Wis­dom that is Aquarius.

The essence that is Leo encour­ages you to seek recog­ni­tion, respect and approval. But in your striv­ing for such out­ward affir­ma­tions, you may often go against your own true self to meet what you believe the one before you (or the many) wants or needs from you. Rather than being authen­tic and ful­fill­ing your true pur­pose, you become enthralled by the need for those approvals that can take you away from your true nature. You look not with­in for the song of truth that is in your heart, and instead become way­laid by the need for out­ward approval and the roar of the crowd.

The Moon in Aquar­ius reminds you that what you are to bring forth from with­in your­self is your own spe­cial expres­sion of what you share with those with whom you jour­ney. The many of which you are a one, whether it be your fam­i­ly, tribe, cul­ture or human­i­ty as a whole, is formed by a palette of pat­tern and mean­ings, of sen­si­bil­i­ties, tastes, inten­tions and truths that you will mix togeth­er into your own unique expres­sion of that whole…Yes, you are a unique one, but you are still one of a kind. You must hold these togeth­er in your own way to ful­fill your­self and be true to one anoth­er too.

Tru­ly, we are all made of one anoth­er. In this life and through count­less lives, we have formed one anoth­er, loved and helped one anoth­er, shared and shaped one anoth­er so that in the end we are all mixed together…I am in you, and you are in me. You trav­el with your com­pan­ions, here and now and in life after life, com­ing in Incar­na­tion Waves to con­tin­ue your jour­ney of form­ing a more per­fect self and a more per­fect union too.

Leo roars that you are here to lead, cre­ate and love; Aquar­ius reminds you that you are made of one anoth­er, that you are here to dream of a bet­ter tomor­row for each oth­er. Because your dreams are made of one anoth­er, your hap­pi­ness and your ful­fill­ment is tru­ly mine, and mine is yours.

Always remem­ber: We are the “ones that are the self-becoming”,

We are all for one, and one for All.

We are sparks of the divine, dream­ing creation’s song.

As it is writ­ten upon the Great Seal of the Unit­ed States:

“E Pluribus Unum”, Out of many One.

Be true to your­self; and be for one anoth­er too.

And all your dreams will come true.