The Pow­er of your Presence

Today we begin the Astro­log­i­cal New Year, as we move into the Sign of Aries. At this time every year, and for­ev­er part of your essen­tial nature too, we should cel­e­brate the gift of Aries, the well­spring of all.

For the last 30 days, the veil between your mor­tal being and your spark of the divine gave way, and in your visions, dreams and rec­ol­lec­tions of what you did and what you did not do, as you walked in the sacred realm of the Twelve Holy Ones, in the time and place we call Pisces, you found hope and for­give­ness in spir­i­tu­al renew­al. Pisces brings the gift of clo­sure, as you sift through the har­vest of the past year and under­stand the immutable law that holds every­thing togeth­er in the “Great Work”. That all that was is true and right, as you are the mak­er of you, and “you will always reap what you sow.” In Pisces, you under­stood the unbreak­able bond between the growth of your wis­dom and the deep­en­ing of your humil­i­ty. Sup­port­ed by the grace of for­give­ness, you were hum­bled by the under­stand­ing that your sins of omis­sion and com­mis­sion actu­al­ly form the dia­mond body of your char­ac­ter, and it is this foun­da­tion for your faith that you will help you in all of your tomor­rows. In the Waters of Pisces, you found the way to hold it all, the good and the bad, because of the com­pas­sion and love of the One who loves us all.

Now you enter Aries, the first sign in the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, the Avatar or ves­sel that holds the first foun­da­tion­al truth, root­ed in the essen­tial nature of Spir­it. What is this truth? The essen­tial nature of Spir­it, which forms and forges your quin­tes­sence, is the most pre­cious gift of being a Cre­ator. This is the ever-beat­ing heart of the cos­mos, it is the “light ever­last­ing,” form­ing the pro­pelling agency by which you exist here, now, and for­ev­er. You are a self-unfold­ing, self-becom­ing, self-mak­ing spark of the divine. You are here, “to be and become what you are, the Divine made man­i­fest upon this Earth.”

Of course this is true of every sin­gle par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, for the entire cos­mos is the “One” now made man­i­fest through­out the cos­mos. But for you, hav­ing achieved the bless­ing of self-aware con­scious­ness long, long ago, and by mov­ing through these hier­ar­chies and realms of human­i­ty for count­less ages, your gift of self-cre­ation has become much more sub­stan­tial and con­se­quen­tial, more tru­ly divine than ever before. Now you feel and know the law of Kar­ma, you have aware­ness of the law of cause and effect, of your actions and your reap­ing of the con­se­quences. And day after day, and life after life, you are per­son­al­ly respon­si­ble for you, and for the world you enter, and for the world you have made, and the world you will leave behind.

Now this New Year begins, and the Fire of Aries is upon you. By Aries, you leap forth with the gift of Inspi­ra­tion, with visions and ideas that come upon you, bend­ing your heart and soul to joy­ful exhil­a­ra­tion, so that you may cel­e­brate a brand-new day in the ever-renew­ing joy fill­ing you with light and the pow­er of new beginnings.

In Aries, you rush into action, to be and become what­ev­er you will be. But the first les­son on the path of life is here too. At each por­tal, and in each sign, you are asked a ques­tion, and the one before you, well, it is prob­a­bly the most pro­found of all: “Who are you?”

But to answer this ques­tion, you must under­stand what it means to be human, what is this all for, why are you here?

Quite sim­ply, you are here as a spark of the divine in order to learn to be a bet­ter human. To dis­cov­er through inspi­ra­tion and doubt, by attempts and fail­ures, through suc­cess and defeat, you are here to learn by cause and effect how to be ful­ly human, and how to become a wise being who choos­es to live by Love and who turns away from fear.

And it all begins here, with the very first step, and then your next step. And then the one after that. Life is a jour­ney, with you cease­less­ly mov­ing through what only exists which is the Eter­nal Now, from moment to moment and from one space to anoth­er. Imag­ine Life as mov­ing through a series of doors, leav­ing one space as you enter anoth­er. Here, at this cross­ing point you will encounter the ever­last­ing gift and test that is Aries, which offers you the gift of devel­op­ing your char­ac­ter, of form­ing your bear­ing, build­ing your demeanor, forg­ing your aware­ness of you that you will bring to each pre­cious moment, to each and every oppor­tu­ni­ty so that you live by love.

As you move through these series of doors, you will find that there is always some­one going through just ahead of you. If you are for­tu­nate, that per­son will hold the door open for you, per­haps lend you a help­ing hand. But some­times, the one who is ahead of you is trou­bled, thought­less, or angry, and they do not con­sid­er who is behind them, and they slam the door in your face.

Now you have your moment, your quin­tes­sen­tial test is upon you. What hap­pened just then was that you expe­ri­enced some­thing neg­a­tive, some­thing that you may cer­tain­ly feel you did not deserve nor need at all. But now comes the ques­tion, “What will you do?” What will you do with this energy?

It would be easy, almost effort­less, to take that neg­a­tive ener­gy and pass it on to who­ev­er is fol­low­ing you. Take that bad ener­gy that came at you and just get rid of it. That is easy, but your life will not be easy if you do this. You will not grow and change, and you will not be bet­ter, and you can­not become bet­ter unless you are this change for the better.

Instead, you must stop and real­ize that you have a choice. You are sup­posed to choose here. You will real­ize that the neg­a­tive ener­gy you received is just an acci­dent of fate, per­haps a neg­a­tive emo­tion passed down for many years, and you can be the change, you can be as you are meant to be, a trans­former of ener­gy, turn­ing the neg­a­tive into the pos­i­tive, and you do that by choos­ing to take the path not tak­en as you hold the door open for the one who fol­lows you.

That is it. That is how you change your­self, and it is how you change the world.

You have agency, you can make a choice, and you can be the rea­son that not only for your life but for the lives of so many oth­ers, you can make it be bet­ter. For all you know that neg­a­tive form of ener­gy you trans­mut­ed might have been pass­ing down for thou­sands of years, but it end­ed with you, as you turned the dark­ness into light.

This is the gift of Aries, this is the gift of Pres­ence, of “liv­ing with lov­ing awareness.”

You are here to grow, to be and become, to change your­self and heal your world too.

If we all do this, if we choose to turn the neg­a­tive into the good, to turn dark­ness into light, to turn fear into faith and hate into love, well…

Well, that is the whole point after all.

May you be the Love that was the First Step.

May you be a one like the One.

May you shine like the Sun.

That is the way, the only way.

The Way of Light, and of Truth and of Love.