Right Thinking—Right Action

One more time, for the fourth time in 2016, and this could not be more “time­ly”!

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is always a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty to turn your mind back upon itself, to make some pre­cious time for self-reflec­tion. It is a time to bend your mind inwards so that you may con­tem­plate and self-cor­rect. It is a gift and not an annoy­ance at all, for it is offered to you in order that you may con­tin­ue your jour­ney of self-becom­ing, of rais­ing your con­scious­ness as you learn to exer­cise ever greater Mindfulness.

The sign of Mercury’s ret­ro­grade indi­cates in what mat­ter and to what objec­tive you should direct your Inner Sight now. For this cir­cuitous round of ret­ro­grade, Mer­cury will be mov­ing through the sign of Capricorn.

The prin­ci­pal mes­sage of Capri­corn can be best summed up by one word, Respon­si­bil­i­ty. The ques­tion that you must ask your­self as Mer­cury takes you inward is exact­ly this, “Have you been respon­si­ble in your gath­er­ing of infor­ma­tion; Have you been dili­gent in your exam­i­na­tion of the var­i­ous facts, view­points, teach­ings and truths by which you have formed your view of your world?” And most impor­tant­ly, “Have you been respon­si­ble in your shar­ing of these facts, opin­ions, view­points with the world around you as well”?

You jour­ney through an inte­gral Spir­i­tu­al Hier­ar­chy of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it, with innu­mer­able fel­low humans clus­tered around, above and below your­self. But this Rib­bon of Light and Love extends far below you to less evolved life-forms yearn­ing to become “human”, and equal­ly far above you too, into the realms of the Deva’s or “shin­ing ones” to whom you look for guid­ance and inspi­ra­tion. And this Hier­ar­chy con­tin­ues fur­ther onwards with­out end, to the plan­ets, stars and galaxies…and much more.

Your jour­ney of self-becom­ing is aid­ed by those who extend their love and con­sid­er­a­tion to you from above, while you give and receive com­fort with those who abide on your own human plane of con­scious­ness. And so then equal­ly guid­ed by your true nature, that you are a pre­cious spark of the One Divine, fol­low­ing your heart and High­er Self, you will also reach below your­self to extend your love and help to the innu­mer­able life-forms below who look up to you with wonder.

This Spir­i­tu­al Hier­ar­chy of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it is the Body and Life of the One, and because of this, the whole of Cre­ation is bound to one anoth­er by the Love of the One for one and all. It is this that forms the true source of your expe­ri­ence and expres­sion of Respon­si­bil­i­ty. You are here because you were and will always be Loved. And you are here to be Lov­ing too. You are cared for and have been guid­ed to become who you are…And you in turn will care for many, many oth­ers for all your lives that were and are yet to be, for this is your nature, this is the Heart of all the teach­ings, “You are here to love one anoth­er as you love yourself”.

The word Respon­si­bil­i­ty lit­er­al­ly means “your abil­i­ty to respond”. But “what” is it that you are here to respond to you might ask. Most fun­da­men­tal­ly, you are here to be Respon­si­ble to this Hier­ar­chy of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it, and that means espe­cial­ly on your own plane of learn­ing and lov­ing, you are here to take care of and be con­sid­er­ate towards your fel­low human beings. With regards to Mer­cury, with regards to your thought-forms and com­mu­ni­ca­tions, you must take respon­si­bil­i­ty for what you do in this most pow­er­ful realm of Consciousness.

All in this Cre­ation are sub­ject to what is known as The Law of Kar­ma, of “cause and effect”. It is in fact how the Uni­verse (or the One) brings about or fos­ters Respon­si­bil­i­ty! Quite sim­ply this law of the uni­verse means that what you do, in any form, will return to you its author or cre­ator. The actions you take with regards to any oth­er will come back to you. If you harm them, you will even­tu­al­ly suf­fer in turn. And, this is equal­ly true for the thoughts that you think, and most espe­cial­ly for the words and images that you “share”.

The sym­bol of Mer­cury, the Caduceus, was adopt­ed by the med­ical pro­fes­sion as its sign or sym­bol. Like­wise, in this realm of thought, it would be a great bless­ing if one and all fol­lowed the truth embod­ied in the Hip­po­crat­ic Oath of med­i­cine with regards to thoughts and com­mu­ni­ca­tions, the Heart and Soul of this teach­ing is this: “First, do no harm!”

With regards to the recep­tion and adop­tion of infor­ma­tion, data or “facts” for your­self, you must take the time to under­stand the source or prove­nance of this infor­ma­tion. If you fill your mind with too many dis­so­nant, con­flict-filled or neg­a­tive thoughts, you will turn away from the path of Light. Your mind will become cloudy and con­fused, your thoughts shad­owed and self-destruc­tive, and you will lose your­self in a web of dark­ness and fear.

Like­wise, and even more impor­tant­ly, you must con­sid­er care­ful­ly the thought-forms you share, whether in speech, or writ­ings or post­ings, or what­ev­er forms of com­mu­ni­ca­tion in which you par­take. If you spread mis­be­got­ten ideas, if you share half-truths or false­hoods, you con­tribute to the loss of clar­i­ty and trust upon which your life and the lives of oth­ers depend. You are by act­ing in this man­ner being very, very irre­spon­si­ble. If you do not con­tribute to the Light of Love and Rea­son, you will bring about deep­er shad­ows; if you spread false­hood and fos­ter hatreds, you turn away from your own true self, you turn away from love, and you do harm to your­self and to many oth­ers as well.

For it is from the fos­ter­ing and spread­ing of Lies that wrong actions fol­low, and so great harm will come to one and all by the will­ful and delib­er­ate actions of some, as well as by the unknow­ing or uncon­scious spread of these fears and dark­ness by the many who did not under­stand what they did.

But igno­rance of the Law of Kar­ma is no excuse, nor will Jus­tice be denied. You will reap what you sow, so choose wise­ly. If you do not know, real­ly know, if some­thing is “true” or fac­tu­al, then do not pass it on, ever!

A cacoph­o­ny of false­hoods is over­whelm­ing rea­son and love in the world now. Choose to be a cham­pi­on of Light and Love. Do not har­bor or hold onto neg­a­tive thoughts or half-truths. Do not share what is harm­ful or false, do not be used by the dark and destruc­tive forces that are tear­ing your world apart.

Let Mer­cury take you on an inner jour­ney of Mindfulness.

Choose to take respon­si­bil­i­ty for what you know and understand.

Let this turn­ing of Mer­cury cleanse your mind of false­hoods and fears.

Help one anoth­er by illu­mi­nat­ing the shad­ows that cloud one another’s minds.

Think clear­ly by fol­low­ing the Wis­dom Ways that have stood the tests of time,

Cen­tered by the qui­et con­fir­ma­tions of your own High­er Self’s lov­ing affirmations.

Look to the Foun­tain-Source of Truth found in the Ancient Teachings,

The Ancient Wis­dom found­ed upon the Wis­dom of Love.

This same Love is this Lumi­nous Hier­ar­chy of Life,

Built and formed by Love, Trust and Sharing.

Choose to stand in the Light, and

Be a light for one another.

Choose Rea­son over Fear; Choose Love over Hatred.

Live in Light,

Live by Love.