THE WAY

The hard­est and most impor­tant thing to do…is to end some­thing well.

It is often quite easy to make a beginning.

To sal­ly forth on some small (or great) enter­prise or adventure.

And then you fill in the chap­ters of the expe­ri­ence with var­i­ous chal­lenges and lessons, rid­ing the waves of stum­bles and achieve­ments, of set­backs and break­throughs that lead you onwards to your bet­ter days.

But in the end, at the end of each day, each month and every year, it all comes down to this…Did you under­stand? Were you able encom­pass the whole arc of this expe­ri­ence, and fold this pre­cious fruit into the mean­ing­ful pur­pos­es of your life? Did you reap the har­vest of your well-won desserts, or did you become weighed down by bit­ter mem­o­ries and regrets? Will you begin once more at a high­er lev­el of poten­tial­i­ty, or will you have to regroup and start over and try once again?

The Twelve Astro­log­i­cal Signs are the fun­da­men­tal Ener­gy-Forms that Shape and Inform the Uni­verse. This Twelve-Fold Dimen­sion­al-Divi­sion of Spir­it per­me­ates the small­est speck and mote on up to the grand­est and great­est embod­i­ments of Spir­it that you see sweep­ing before you in those Cos­mic Beings you know as Stars and Galaxies.

The essen­tial prin­ci­ple of your Cos­mic Order, found in the Ancient Teach­ings and the Eso­teric heart of all reli­gions, affirms that every sin­gle part of Cre­ation is “Con­scious”. The entire­ty of Cre­ation is com­posed of a vast array of ever more evolved lev­els of con­scious­ness, who in their total­i­ty form the Mind of the Cos­mos, the Mind of the One.

The whole point of your spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing is for you to become ever more Self-Aware and there­by Self-Mas­ter­ful; it is your Des­tiny to be ever more con­scious­ly con­tribut­ing to the Jour­ney of Spir­it. You do this by under­stand­ing and weav­ing togeth­er all Twelve of these Ener­gy-Forms into the unique being you are in this one life, as well as all your many forms and lives you lived and will live too.

Even­tu­al­ly, you will achieve your full­ness as “human”, you will become an “Awak­ened One”, and be no longer (uncon­scious­ly) bound to the Karmic Cycles of Death and Rebirth. You will be “free” to choose, to move on in your own spir­i­tu­al evo­lu­tion beyond the human, or turn and lend a help­ing hand to those who trail behind you.

Yes, even in your moment of lib­er­a­tion, you are giv­en a choice. Even when you are a tru­ly radi­ant being, a “Deva”, an “Angel” or a “Shin­ing One”, even here you can still be “self­ish”. It is here, (more than oth­er time before), that you will reveal your true spir­i­tu­al nature, as you choose between the paths of Sep­a­ra­tion and Dark­ness, or the Path of Love and Light.

This is the heart of the mes­sage of Pisces. That here in the final sign of the Zodi­ac, hav­ing come through each of the pre­vi­ous Eleven Sacred Signs in this year, (and in life after life too), it is here that you will encom­pass your jour­ney, and tru­ly know and under­stand the nature of your Love for your­self and for one anoth­er too. You will under­stand that this love of self and for one anoth­er is the same Love, because true Love is uncon­di­tion­al, insep­a­ra­ble and indivisible.

You have been through every sign when you reach Pisces, and so you have moved into a much greater real­i­ty, filled with true empa­thy and heart-felt com­pas­sion for all of human­i­ty, and tru­ly for all of life. You have come that much clos­er to break­ing the fun­da­men­tal illu­sion of your sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er, the sep­a­ra­tion which brought about your self-cast shad­ows formed by your anx­i­eties, doubts and fears.

In Pisces, you see the full­ness of the arc of your sto­ry. You under­stand that it is through fear that you stum­bled into error and met your “fate” as some­thing that befell you. You learn to accept your part in why this hap­pened. You learn to choose wise­ly; you have faith that you will do bet­ter. But to do this you must for­give your­self, as you must equal­ly for­give one anoth­er too.

Your first step is to know your­self; your first step is found in love. Your first cir­cle of com­pas­sion is from your Self to your­self, for you can­not grow with­out for­give­ness. You turn to your “high­er self”, to that qui­et, steady lov­ing voice of the eter­nal with­in you. You feel the love there that is Uncon­di­tion­al, and you are hum­bled and exalt­ed. Then you turn in for­give­ness and love, help­ing to lift the shad­ow of fear for those with whom you jour­ney, there­by lift­ing your­self and them into a bet­ter world too.

By this turn­ing inwards, to the lamp of love with­in you, you find your Liv­ing Faith in the knowl­edge that it is you who is the mak­er-cre­ator, it is you that made yourself…and this Truth is the source of your boun­ti­ful faith. Your essen­tial nature, that you are a spark of the Divine, endows you with the awe­some pow­er to Cre­ate. That what you dream, will become your thoughts; and, what you think will become who you are.

You under­stand and accept, that you cre­at­ed this “fact” of what you meet in the today. Your “today” was made long, long ago by you, (and many oth­ers). You can­not change the past, and you can­not per­fect­ly know the future…but you can be here in this present moment. By act­ing with Wis­dom and Love here and now you will redeem your past and cre­ate a more per­fect tomorrow.

It is only here in the “Now”, in the ever-renew­ing “Present”, it is here that you will ride the razor’s edge between oppor­tu­ni­ty and dan­ger. Always you will face the great choice: Will you rise up in faith or fall back in fear? If you remain true to the steady, lov­ing spir­it with­in you, you will always find your way to a bet­ter you and a brighter tomorrow.

It is from such Spir­i­tu­al Prax­is, that you become more awak­ened, more ful­ly human. You embody a “Liv­ing Faith” from the spir­it with­in you now joined to the wis­dom that you have earned. You are your great­est cre­ation. You have made you more “you” again and again. Your Divine Spark is the ker­nel of Light that holds your unique­ness, your Quin­tes­sence. You will always find your way upon the Dhar­ma-Kar­ma path by remain­ing true to and by abid­ing in the lov­ing pres­ence of your High­er Self.

You can and will, with oth­er Faith-Filled com­pan­ions, meet what comes upon your path today and build from it your “shin­ing city on a hill”, an ever-expand­ing present of bet­ter tomor­rows. First you must for­give your­self; then you must equal­ly love and for­give them too. Then, togeth­er, you will release your “gifts of the spir­it” to heal one anoth­er and your world.

Pisces is the “end”, it is the har­vest of the fruits of your spir­i­tu­al jour­ney. It is equal­ly the Foun­tain-Source for all your begin­nings. For your path is not a line or an arc. You are part of a vast spi­ral­ing hier­ar­chy of Spir­it that is trav­el­ling through Space-Time, ascend­ing from less­er forms of con­scious­ness to the greater and even greater beyond that.

There is but one injunc­tion for your journey.

Every day…Every month…Every year…

Fol­low the Path of Compassion.

Live a Life of Uncon­di­tion­al Love,

Lis­ten to the Voice of the Silence,

The Wis­dom of your Heart.

Gath­er your har­vest of well-earned rewards,

And, plant your resplen­dent seeds of bet­ter days.

For now, and for­ev­er and ever,

Smile,

Extend your lov­ing hand,

Have Faith,

Love one Another.

And when trou­bled or in doubt, remem­ber 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.