A Call for Under­stand­ing, Tol­er­ance and Peace

There is some­thing hap­pen­ing here; What it is ain’t exact­ly clear…. (“For What It’s Worth” by Buf­fa­lo Springfield)

Today is anoth­er Full Moon, the Full Moon in Tau­rus. Though many will write about how spe­cial this “Super Moon” is, (it is only a few hun­dred kilo­me­ters clos­er than oth­er recent Perigee Full Moons), the impor­tant point or Truth is that each Full Moon brings a Rev­e­la­tion for you. A Full Moon illus­trates the inte­gral rela­tion­ship between 2 of the 12 signs of the Zodi­ac. Dur­ing this time of the year, we will have the Sun in Scor­pio and the Full Moon is in Taurus.

This Full Moon should be viewed and under­stood as the coun­ter­point to the “Bud­dha Full Moon”, when the Sun is in Tau­rus and the Moon in Scor­pio, occur­ring in April or May. That Spring Full Moon in Scor­pio is a reminder that though your spir­i­tu­al jour­ney requires you to move through many Worlds, Forms and Lives, you are not these vehi­cles, and you will have to let each one of them go. You are an Immor­tal work­ing through mor­tal forms and there is noth­ing in this Mate­r­i­al Realm that will last for­ev­er. This les­son of The Bud­dha reminds you about your true nature: You are Spir­it mov­ing through Time and Space, a Spark of the Divine, essen­tial­ly Pure Con­scious­ness evolv­ing into a greater aware­ness by danc­ing through these forms, but you are ulti­mate­ly beyond any one form. The Bud­dha taught that in order to free your­self from suf­fer­ing, you must prac­tice the Art of Non-Attachment.

But here in the Time of Scor­pio, you are remind­ed of the inte­gral and oppo­site Truth by the Full Moon in Tau­rus: That each form of man­i­fes­ta­tion, every speck and mote of cre­ation, all things, all crea­tures great and small, all beings on any world, on up to the plan­ets them­selves, and the stars and galax­ies too, that all of these are the liv­ing body of the ONE. Each and every dew-drop of Cre­ation has val­ue beyond mea­sure, for each is a beau­ti­ful and pre­cious real­iza­tion of Spir­it too. Every form is also “Divine”, every form is valu­able, and each is beau­ti­ful and worth pre­serv­ing for as long as they may last.

Held togeth­er, these two Signs speak to your nev­er-end­ing jour­ney in Con­scious­ness: That you are to hold on and to let go, to pre­serve, pro­tect and endure for as long as you can, and then you are to let go and allow your­self to become some­thing more too. You and all of Cre­ation are like a Riv­er, thrilling and flow­ing through Worlds, Forms and Lives so that in time you will be them All, you will have expe­ri­enced all forms of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it as you draw ever clos­er to being out­ward­ly what you are for­ev­er inward­ly, you are a spark­ing dew­drop of the One Divine Light.

You are here because of Love, the Love of the One. You are made by and all of your forms are because of this Divine Love. Your val­ue, is beyond mea­sure for you are a spark of the Divine…and so is every­thing and every­one else too. Hence the fun­da­men­tal Truth found in all Teachings:

“Do unto oth­ers as you would have them do unto you…for they are you!

And what you do unto the least of these, you do unto me, The One”.

You are here to care for one anoth­er, to help one anoth­er grow…and because you are Spir­it, you will grow, and so you will change and this growth/change will often come because many are suf­fer­ing in the old real­i­ty. But the very changes that are bring­ing about the New World will cause pain and suf­fer­ing too…and you, by your Love for your­self and for one anoth­er equal­ly, you are here to help heal this pain and suf­fer­ing for one anoth­er. You must ful­fill your respon­si­bil­i­ty to be true to your­self, which will equal­ly guide you to be faith­ful to one anoth­er and to all of life too.

Now of course there is change…and then there is CHANGE. You are going through a very chal­leng­ing time now, and it has been fore­seen and expect­ed. For this is not the first time, nor will it be the last. Ages come and ages go, and there are many inter­sect­ing cycles that beat out these rhythms of the Jour­ney of Spir­it and of human lives too. The changes that you and the world are expe­ri­enc­ing now have not been seen or felt since the mid-1700’s, and before that the ear­ly 1500’s. You are wit­ness­ing the End of an Age and the Birth of a New World. In fact, you are here to be that change, but that is hard for many (if not most) to mas­ter, but you must try.

Many things and ways will endure, and many shall pass away. Why is this so? When­ev­er the plan­et Plu­to sweeps through the Sign of Capri­corn, we will expe­ri­ence a cathar­sis in the realm of Capri­corn, the Sign that gov­erns Insti­tu­tions, Tra­di­tions, Respon­si­bil­i­ties, real­ly the entire Hier­ar­chy of Life-Consciousness-Spirit…or more sim­ply put what we know as “Real­i­ty”. Look at what hap­pened before:

500 years ago, it was the end of Feu­dal­ism and the rise of Monar­chies as the Ref­or­ma­tion swept Europe and a new Cul­tur­al-Polit­i­cal-Eco­nom­ic order came into being. 250 years ago, it was the end of Monar­chies and the rise of Democ­ra­cies in the Amer­i­can and French Rev­o­lu­tions, and again a new Cul­tur­al-Polit­i­cal-Eco­nom­ic order came to be. These changes shook their world and our ances­tors. They too lived through a time when the world was “turned upside down”.

Now we are expe­ri­enc­ing this immense shift once again, from 2008 until (at least) 2024, the world we have called our real­i­ty is crum­bling all around us. We are lit­er­al­ly halfway through this process of trans­fig­u­ra­tion, and it is real­ly get­ting seri­ous now. We see our insti­tu­tions frac­tur­ing and fail­ing; we allo­cate the blame for our suf­fer­ings to these fail­ures of “gov­ern­ment”, “edu­ca­tion”, “reli­gion”, all these things that we have made are fail­ing and we just want them to work again. We believe the “fix” is “out there”, that it is some­how exter­nal to us, sep­a­rate and embod­ied in these real­i­ty structures…

But, of course, that is just pro­ject­ing on our part, and it is cer­tain­ly not ful­fill­ing our pur­pose which is to take respon­si­bil­i­ty for our­selves, for all life-forms and habitats…and for our beau­ti­ful home called Earth. No, the change can­not hap­pen “out there”, until it hap­pens “in here”, in each of our hearts and minds. Those “things”, whether gov­ern­ment, edu­ca­tion or reli­gion, they are not things in them­selves, they are made by you and me…they are made of, by and for us. We are the Liv­ing Spir­it that makes things come to life, we make them work (or not work). If we want them to be as they should, or we want them to change as they must, then it will come from “below”, from each one of us remem­ber­ing who and what we are…we made this, and we will re-make this…for we are the prob­lem and the solu­tion too.

The good news…we have done this before, we became the new human of the 1500’s, we became the new human of the 1700’s…and now, now we will rise again to the call of our Divin­i­ty, for we are here because this is our time, we are here to end an age and begin anoth­er. We are like a relay rac­er, pass­ing the baton of spir­it to our descen­dants, who are count­ing on us to return to the one eter­nal “Source of Truth”, to lis­ten to that qui­et­ly firm, calm­ing voice in our hearts which will guide us to Think and Feel and Act with Love. We must turn to one anoth­er first…and Lis­ten, Share and Care for one another…for we are here to Love one anoth­er first, last and always.

Remem­ber who and what you are…Love.

Affirm this in how you care for your­self and for one anoth­er too.

Do not indulge/engage in the cre­ation of more fear, dis­cord or blame, (there is quite enough of that already).

Be an exam­ple of Kind­ness, Con­sid­er­a­tion and Mercy.

Stand up to hate and divi­sion, for “evil” is just the twist­ed fruits of igno­rance and mis­un­der­stand­ing, (for they know not what they do).

Shine the Light of Truth which is the Light of Love when­ev­er and wher­ev­er you can.

Take Respon­si­bil­i­ty and so Ful­fill your Des­tiny, and behold the New World Rising…

Remain Cen­tered, and hold in your Heart the mes­sage of 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.