Des­tiny

You trav­el on the Path of Self-Becoming,

Pass­ing through the Sacred Four,

The Sea­son­al Turn­ings that mark each year.

By Por­tals of Fire, Water, Air and Earth,

You learn by Tri­al and Error, as you help one another,

To be true to who you are, to remem­ber your Des­tiny as you walk,

The Immor­tal Path­way of Perfection.

Today marks the begin­ning of Capri­corn, the time of the Win­ter Sol­stice. The Sun has been ris­ing lat­er and set­ting ear­li­er, so that now the pre­cious light of life is fee­ble and fleet­ing, and shad­ows are grow­ing ever longer, and your days are short and nights far too long and cold. You gath­er with loved ones for reas­sur­ance, in com­pan­ion­ship and love, light­ing can­dles, build­ing bon­fires, bring­ing green­ery indoors and dec­o­rat­ing your trees of hope.

You draw clos­er togeth­er, to remem­ber and share in the wis­dom ways of old. Always and for­ev­er, the Ancient Ways will bring you through these tri­als of faith. Your Foun­tain-Source of Beliefs, found in your tra­di­tions, songs and sto­ries have stood the tests of time. And you know because you remem­ber, you have Faith and Hope that brighter days are just ahead, because Life and Love will return even stronger, and the shad­ows will flee the lumi­nous glo­ry that is the return­ing of the Light.

You leave the realm of Sagit­tar­ius, bring­ing with you the Wis­dom of the Ages, the sto­ries and teach­ings found in the Philoso­phies, Sci­ences and Reli­gions that pro­vide the mean­ings and guid­ance to your many lives and jour­neys. You have come a lit­tle clos­er, to the Greater Under­stand­ing, to the Truth behind the truths, and can take some com­fort and find accep­tance of the World and your insep­a­ra­ble expe­ri­ences of Love and Pain. You lis­ten in the Silence, for the Lone­ly Ones, the Wise Ones and Wis­dom-Keep­ers who help you hold to the Noble Path of Truth.

But it is not enough to know the Truth, it is not enough to have your Faith, it is not enough to Feel the Love…you must Live the Truth, and you must Act by Faith, and you must Be this Love too. This is the mean­ing of Capri­corn, it is here that you face your Test of Respon­si­bil­i­ty, and it is here you will find your Reward of Ful­fill­ment. In Sagit­tar­i­an Fire, you encounter the Ideals of Spir­it, but it is in Earthy Capri­corn that you bring these mighty Truths into Manifestation.

Capri­corn rules the struc­tures of your world; Capri­corn rules Real­i­ty. From the most inti­mate and cen­tral build­ing block of Fam­i­ly, where you take care to love and nur­ture one anoth­er, to the mid­dle ranges of local com­mu­ni­ties and small enter­pris­es, to the most com­plex struc­tures of Church, Econ­o­my and State, all of this is Capricorn’s realm, this is your World made Manifest.

Your Soci­ety and Cul­ture is the prod­uct of many, many life­times of strug­gles and loves, a gift from your Ances­tors so that you would be able to con­tin­ue this jour­ney of Self-Becom­ing for you and yours. So that you too, by assum­ing this awe­some respon­si­bil­i­ty of pre­serv­ing, pro­tect­ing and improv­ing this Path of Light, that you too would find the Lov­ing Strength to pass this Spi­ral Chord of Light and Love to your children’s, children’s chil­dren, and ful­fill your Des­tiny, Keep­ers of the Flame of the One Divine Light.

But, the shad­ows cross­ing your path seem stronger now, and your world seems to be stag­ger­ing and stum­bling towards some yawn­ing abyss. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last. The Path­way of Per­fec­tion is not a straight line but a cir­cuitous one that ris­es and falls, and only by falling into error and then cor­rect­ing, only in this man­ner do you become wise and find a bet­ter way as you move into a greater light.

Your world has not trem­bled like this for over 240 years, dur­ing the 1700’s (and before that in the 1500’s), as the plan­et Plu­to swept through the sign of Capri­corn to her­ald the end of those ages. The Real­i­ty struc­tures of those times had ful­filled their pur­pose, it was their time to be swept away, and it was equal­ly the ris­ing of a new world from within.

This is what is hap­pen­ing now…Whether in Gov­ern­ment or Reli­gion, in the Econ­o­my or Cul­ture, the world is being turned upside down as the old order gives way to a New Age that is dawn­ing. The good news? You, (and your ances­tors), have been here before, and if you read about what they were expe­ri­enc­ing in their time, they too thought that their world was end­ing, (and they were right), but they lived to see a new world dawn too.

You face an awe­some respon­si­bil­i­ty now, the chal­lenge to pre­serve what we must and to let go of the rest…What are you to do? How will you know what to pre­serve, and what you must sur­ren­der? Where can one find the way through?

As always, the Wis­dom of the Ages, and its reflect­ed Wis­dom in your Heart, will guide you tru­ly in your Thoughts, Feel­ings and Actions. The Laws of Life and Truth, of Spir­i­tu­al Light are the Immor­tal guide­posts which will light your way out of any dark­ness. Look to the inner core, the Eso­teric Heart found in Meta­physics, Phi­los­o­phy and Reli­gion. Fol­low the Ancient Wis­dom, and be guid­ed by your lov­ing heart…and you will find a way.

Remem­ber that the real strug­gle for your world is not hap­pen­ing “out there”, but is in fact hap­pen­ing in each human heart. Each per­son must come to their own change of mind and heart, and remem­ber what is the greater good. Each must find their way and be will­ing to sac­ri­fice for one anoth­er. To remem­ber that there is only one Path: to love, to be com­pas­sion­ate and filled with humil­i­ty and for­give­ness for one anoth­er. Most espe­cial­ly, each must be will­ing to car­ry the weight of respon­si­bil­i­ty, not just for our own lives and time, but for those who will come long after we have departed.

What is your respon­si­bil­i­ty? Look around, and take care in your dai­ly life and imme­di­ate sur­round­ings, be tru­ly human, a self-aware spir­it of con­sid­er­a­tion, con­scious­ness and love. From below and from with­in out­wards your new world will dawn.

The New Age is coming…

It is wait­ing on you…

It is count­ing on you…

It is your Destiny.

When in doubt or when­ev­er in need, hold in your Heart and Mind 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.