The Test of Responsibility — The Way of Self-Fulfillment

For almost three years, the plan­et of Real­i­ty and Test­ing, the Plan­et Sat­urn, has been sweep­ing through the sign of Sagit­tar­ius, the Sign of Truth. Look­ing at the world today, and con­sid­er­ing what we have come through in the past few years, one could hard­ly find a more fit­ting title for this recent peri­od than it being, on so many lev­els, from the most inti­mate mat­ters of per­son­al and sex­u­al con­sid­er­a­tions, to the most nation­al, polit­i­cal and geo-polit­i­cal realms, this has tru­ly been a time where we have wit­nessed “The Test of Truth”. The very def­i­n­i­tion of what is know­able, what is fact or fic­tion (like in “alter­na­tive facts”), of what is “tru­ly true” has been the under­ly­ing as well as over­ar­ch­ing theme for our time. It cer­tain­ly seems we have all been mov­ing through a time of great lessons, a tru­ly “teach­ing moment”. But now we must take our next step…

Today we turn to the next oppor­tu­ni­ty, chal­lenge and test from Sat­urn, today the lord of Man­i­fes­ta­tion and Real­i­ty moves into his very own sign of Capri­corn. (The most recent times for Sat­urn in Capri­corn have been: 1988–91, 1959–62, 1929–32…most inter­est­ing times indeed).

Sat­urn is the Avatar of your fun­da­men­tal test or great­est chal­lenge. But most won­der­ful­ly, (for this is how you grow), it is by this chal­lenge and your over­com­ing of it that forms the sub­stance of your spir­i­tu­al growth. As much as Sat­urn indi­cates where you may stum­ble and fall (again and again), it is also the lumi­nous bea­con of your truest spir­i­tu­al strength; Sat­urn, the Teacher, is here to bring forth or elic­it your great­est gift of spirit.

For it is by your very stum­bling into error or fail­ures that you learn. You learn, most cer­tain­ly what “not to do”; and by tri­al and error, by wit and will, through love and inspi­ra­tion, you learn to do bet­ter and be bet­ter. Yes, your very fail­ures are the cru­cible to your self-over­com­ing; you lift your­self and one anoth­er up as you bur­nish off the dross of your being to reveal the divine light shin­ing through and through.

We can look at Sat­urn as the teacher or what I would call “The Black­smith”, like in steel-mak­ing, “The Tem­per­er” of your soul, of your Pur­pose and “The Keep­er” of your Path of Self-Fulfillment.

Con­sid­er this: on all the planes of exis­tence, from the Spir­i­tu­al to the Men­tal, from the Emo­tion­al to the Phys­i­cal, the “Laws of Life” oper­ate in much the same fash­ion. And so, with Sat­urn, the teacher, we can see these par­al­lels on each plane as it is on the phys­i­cal: The devel­op­ment of our bones and mus­cles are elicit­ed and stim­u­lat­ed by our exer­tions and phys­i­cal strain­ing, where­in the micro tear­ing of our mus­cles and oth­er fibers leads to their very renewal/rebuilding of our bod­ies into ever stronger forms. We tem­per our bod­ies by push­ing hard­er, we grow by tear­ing down and rebuild­ing. As the adage goes, “you use it or lose it”.

Well, this same prin­ci­ple applies to the oth­er planes upon which you abide. Your emo­tion­al shocks and trau­mas, lead to the devel­op­ment of our greater capac­i­ty to han­dle these chal­lenges in the future. And, most won­der­ful­ly, these very real pains and suf­fer­ings stim­u­late the growth of those spir­i­tu­al feel­ings that make you tru­ly human, your capac­i­ty for com­pas­sion, empa­thy and per­son­al love as well.

The chal­lenges thrown down by Intel­lec­tu­al com­pe­ti­tion, lead to the very devel­op­ment of more com­pre­hen­sive and com­plex con­nec­tions with­in your mind and between one anoth­er. Through men­tal striv­ings and intel­lec­tu­al com­pe­ti­tion, we help one anoth­er to move beyond our more lim­it­ed or nar­row under­stand­ings; we make pos­si­ble for one anoth­er our jour­ney to the Greater Understanding.

And like­wise, the man­i­fold and many-lay­ered spir­i­tu­al chal­lenges you are brought to, the ago­nies and ecstasies of your spir­i­tu­al strug­gles and their even­tu­al over-com­ing, these are the “Spir­i­tu­al Smithies” that devel­op your high­est and finest attrib­ut­es of self-sac­ri­fice and uncon­di­tion­al love for one another.

All of these realms, from the phys­i­cal on up to the Spir­i­tu­al, and all of these tests and result­ing growths, can be seen as whol­ly or in part brought to bear in our lives by the move­ment of Sat­urn, mov­ing from Sign to Sign, and through the hous­es of your astro­log­i­cal chart. Sat­urn is the instru­ment of mak­ing real your poten­tials, of mak­ing man­i­fest your Spir­i­tu­al Destiny.

What is our Teacher ask­ing of us now? 

Where­as a plan­et in a Muta­ble Sign (like Gem­i­ni or Sagit­tar­ius) has much to do with mean­ing or under­stand­ing, the Car­di­nal Signs like Can­cer or here with Sat­urn in Capri­corn, are about Iden­ti­ty and Action. The ques­tion or test of Sat­urn in Capri­corn is the Test of Posi­tion, the Test of Social Respon­si­bil­i­ty. It reveals the worth­while­ness of the Hier­ar­chies of any soci­ety and cul­ture, the via­bil­i­ty and strength of a civilization’s Insti­tu­tions whether they be of the fam­i­ly or com­mu­ni­ty, Civ­il or Cor­po­rate, local or national.

Giv­en that we are also in this greater his­tor­i­cal tran­si­tion, of Pluto’s tran­sit through Capri­corn as well, (from 2008 to 2024, we are try­ing to find our way as the very sub­stance of the world order that came into being in the late 1700’s is being bro­ken down and trans­formed. And, as I have men­tioned in numer­ous shows and blog post­ings, we are here to wit­ness this end of an age and, most cer­tain­ly now, to help one anoth­er birth and become The New Age), it would fol­low that Sat­urn mov­ing into Capri­corn will bring about an inten­si­fi­ca­tion of this challenge.

Sat­urn in Capri­corn her­alds a time of Reck­on­ing: You must be true to your­self and to one anoth­er; you must be your truth and so rebuild your world.

Sat­urn in Capri­corn asks you to do one thing: Be Respon­si­ble. Respon­si­bil­i­ty is found­ed upon one thing, a right align­ment with your true self, with the Light of Love that guides your heart.

If you want to know how you should be, and where you should go, you will learn much by look­ing back at from whence you came. Fol­low­ing that very prin­ci­ple or rea­son, oppo­site Astro­log­i­cal Signs inform one anoth­er. In Can­cer you find your way to meet the needs of one anoth­er in spon­ta­neous car­ing: As a par­ent, you move with­out thought to meet the needs of your child, as a friend you share and shape one another’s dreams, and with your part­ner you find your way to uncon­di­tion­al love for one another.

But Capri­corn calls you to ful­fill the promise of Can­cer, that you take what was spon­ta­neous and pure and fold it into some­thing that will last. You take what was felt as pure and true and embody these ener­gy-forms into last­ing struc­tures of Cus­toms, Tra­di­tions, Laws and Insti­tu­tions. You are called by Sat­urn in Capri­corn to be respon­si­ble to your larg­er social circumstances.

Sat­urn rules Real­i­ty; Sat­urn is also the dark one, reveal­ing your “shad­ows of fear”. The insti­tu­tions of this age are trem­bling, crack­ing and seem­ing­ly fail­ing you…But know this, they were made by our ances­tors and by every one of us. If we wish our vil­lage, town, state and nation to be these larg­er instru­ments of our self-ful­fill­ment, then we must remem­ber what these things are for, to bring them back to their essen­tial spir­i­tu­al foun­da­tions. And then we must be that change with­in our­selves, with­in our own hearts and minds we will make our sal­va­tion, if we are to restore and rebuild our world.

The fault lies not in our things that we have made; and the fault lies not “in our stars”. The fault and solu­tion of our trou­bles lies in our own spir­i­tu­al aware­ness and prac­tice. The solu­tion for our Cri­sis of Civ­i­liza­tion is to be found in each and every human heart; the path of your heal­ing this world must start with our love for one another.

Your first respon­si­bil­i­ty is to your “Self”, to under­stand who and what you are and go out every day and strive to be the very best of that. Then, equal­ly and nat­u­ral­ly, your sec­ond respon­si­bil­i­ty is to care for one anoth­er, to help your part­ner, child, friend and neigh­bor to be the very best that they can be too.

Then you must bring this re-born spir­it into the very fibers of your life, into your most inti­mate rela­tion­ships, and then into your neigh­bor­hoods, your larg­er com­mu­ni­ties and through­out the world.

Sat­urn in Capri­corn reminds you that it is time…

You are here for thing: “To be Fulfilled”.

You can­not do this if we do not do that for one and for all.

Extend a help­ing hand to those who fol­low behind you,

For you have been where they strug­gle now.

And look ahead and feel in your heart for those Great Ones who came this way before,

And know this, they will ever extend their help­ing hand to you too.

The Hier­ar­chy of Light and Love was, is and will for­ev­er thrill through One and for All.

For Spir­it is Life; and Life is Spir­it made real.

Forged from many into One, you will reveal the Light that for­ev­er shines.

Togeth­er, we will walk in brighter days,

Togeth­er, we will be the Dawn­ing Light,

Togeth­er, we will be builders of a brand New Age.

Saturn Enters Capricorn – The Test of Responsibility (December 19, 2017 – December 17, 2020)

The Test of Responsibility, The Gift of Self-Fulfillment

Today’s show will con­sid­er the sig­nif­i­cance of Sat­urn mov­ing from sign to sign, with a par­tic­u­lar focus upon the present shift from Sagit­tar­ius to Capri­corn, which will occur on Decem­ber 19^th, 2017 and con­tin­ue until Decem­ber 17, 2020.

Sat­urn is the Avatar of your fun­da­men­tal test or great­est chal­lenge. But most won­der­ful­ly, (for this is how you grow), it is by this chal­lenge and your over­com­ing of it that forms the sub­stance of your spir­i­tu­al growth. As much as Sat­urn indi­cates where you may stum­ble and fall (again and again), it will become the lumi­nous bea­con of your truest spir­i­tu­al strength; Sat­urn, the Teacher, is here to bring forth or elic­it your great­est gift of spirit.

We will look at Sat­urn in the Twelve Signs of the Zodi­ac, and focus upon this shift from Sagit­tar­ius to Capri­corn. For hav­ing con­sid­ered for over two years the ques­tion, “What is Truth?”, now you need to bring this Truth into your life. It is not enough to know the truth; you are here to become this Truth.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this sub­ject or some oth­er mat­ter, includ­ing per­son­al ques­tions about your astro­log­i­cal chart. If you do wish to ask a per­son­al ques­tion, please be ready to pro­vide at least your birth date and birth place, and time of your birth if you have that too.

If you wish to sug­gest a sub­ject or top­ic for a future show, please email me as I would be hap­py to hear from you.

Please join me on Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 16^th at 2 pm ET as we con­sid­er the influ­ence of Sat­urn in your life.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 16^th @ 2 pm EST:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2017/12/16/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-8-saturn-in-capricorn

The phone num­ber to call if you wish to ask a ques­tion dur­ing the live show is: (516) 531‑9638.

I very much look for­ward to shar­ing time with you on Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 16^th!

Warm regards,

Bill

The Way to Wisdom

Mer­cury turns ret­ro­grade in the sign of Sagit­tar­ius, (@29 degrees, 18 min­utes) on Decem­ber 2–3, and will turn direct in Sagit­tar­ius (@13 degrees) on Decem­ber 22. It is that time once again to turn your mind around, to be more inward­ly atten­tive and pen­sive. Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty to re-con­sid­er your per­cep­tions, assump­tions and thoughts; it is time to clear your mind of clut­ter once again.

As always, since every­one else will be sim­i­lar­ly altered in their bal­ance between out­ward atten­tive­ness and inward con­scious­ness, it will be even more impor­tant to care­ful­ly lis­ten to one anoth­er and to com­mu­ni­cate with them more care­ful­ly. Though mis­com­mu­ni­ca­tions hap­pen every day, Mer­cury ret­ro­grade can often fos­ter a mul­ti­plic­i­ty of mis­un­der­stand­ings. The result can be a series of mis­steps and mis­cues that can turn small errors into big­ger and big­ger mis­takes, and it can lead to great dam­age for your rela­tion­ships. The stress of errors builds with­in you, and between one anoth­er, and you (or they) may find your tol­er­ance and com­po­sure erode as you stum­ble into conflict.

Dur­ing Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, you will cer­tain­ly need to adopt a more for­giv­ing atti­tude for your­self (and for one anoth­er), as these mis­steps mul­ti­ply and frus­tra­tions mount. With Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, it will be even more impor­tant for you to prac­tice self-for­give­ness, and equal­ly extend your for­give­ness towards others.

Remem­ber, all of this is not the “fault” of Mer­cury, it is mere­ly because most of us do not remem­ber, per­ceive or under­stand what is hap­pen­ing; we tend to car­ry on each day as we did the day before, unaware of the changes that are con­stant­ly unfold­ing through the Ener­gy-Forms of Mercury.

Tru­ly, Mer­cury ret­ro­grade should real­ly be under­stood as a pre­cious gift of the spir­it, as it encour­ages you to become ever more self-reflec­tive and self-cor­rec­tive. It is one of the prin­ci­pal means by which you will move towards greater self-mas­tery. You will know this self-mas­tery is real when your growth in Wis­dom is pro­por­tion­al­ly matched by your deep­en­ing sense of Humil­i­ty too. Mer­cury ret­ro­grade brings you an oppor­tu­ni­ty to make improvements/corrections in your con­scious­ness, which is essen­tial to your forg­ing a bet­ter under­stand­ing of your­self and of one another.

The entire ret­ro­grade takes place in the Sign of Sagit­tar­ius, so the focus of your renew­al of aware­ness will most cer­tain­ly be upon the very nature of Truth and Under­stand­ing. You will need to re-con­sid­er the ves­sels of mean­ing that shape your beliefs, that form and inform your “facts”. Whether by Reli­gion or Sci­ence, Faith or Rea­son, the real­i­ty you are attempt­ing to nav­i­gate depends upon your lev­el of spir­i­tu­al con­scious­ness, and then you must align your under­stand­ing with those with whom you journey.

Most mis­un­der­stand­ings arise from an incom­plete foun­da­tion of shared prin­ci­ples, foun­da­tions and essen­tial truths. As a result, the very “facts” that each par­ty may hold can­not be aligned or agreed upon. The ques­tions boil down to what is real­ly “real”.

To help to over­come these mutu­al mis­per­cep­tions, fol­low the lead offered in Sagit­tar­ius and expand your per­cep­tion­al frames of ref­er­ence. Look first and fore­most to the Ancient Wis­dom found at the heart of every Reli­gion; and the Log­ic and Rea­son in the vast trea­sury of Philoso­phies and Sci­ences. Be hum­ble, as you walk upon an ancient road; count­less oth­ers have come this way before you. Many ques­tions have been asked, and answered. So, look to the Wise Ones for inspi­ra­tion, guid­ance and peace of mind.

With these ancient cer­tain­ties pro­vid­ing some com­mon base of con­text, it is best to step back and re-con­sid­er the present source of dis­cord. Try to start from some fun­da­men­tal truth or prin­ci­ple and build upon that. Estab­lish com­mon cen­ters and bound­aries to hold your thoughts in con­cert with one anoth­er. Then see where the mis­un­der­stand­ings arise in the areas of your unshared con­sid­er­a­tions. Bring mat­ters to a fuller illu­mi­na­tion by reduc­ing the fog of false assump­tions or false facts.

You are here to help one anoth­er in so many ways. One way is by shin­ing a light upon one another’s blind-spots, those self-cast shad­ows which often ensnare one or both of you in bub­bles of self-con­firm­ing errors of assump­tions. You are here for one anoth­er, and your aware­ness and wis­dom come pre­cise­ly through your pro­vid­ing a lit­tle more light, by illu­mi­nat­ing what is real­ly “real” for one another.

This is pre­cise­ly how you lift your aware­ness for one anoth­er. Remem­ber, the very word “Con­scious­ness” means “Togeth­er-Know­ing”, and it is only by being a light to one anoth­er that you can lift one anoth­er up to a more inclu­sive under­stand­ing. Only togeth­er can you advance upon the Path of Wis­dom, as you dis­pel the shad­ows and fogs of fear and bring one anoth­er clos­er to the ever­last­ing Light.

Give thanks to Mer­cury, the mes­sen­ger of the gods, who reminds you that your jour­ney requires that you con­stant­ly strive to illu­mi­nate the dark spaces in your own mind, and that you can only do this by help­ing one anoth­er too.

Remem­ber to first ques­tion your­self; then ask ques­tions of one another.

Be what you are, be a light for one another.

Remove the shad­ows of fear, those dim-lit echoes of your past misunderstandings.

Bow to the Wise Ones who came this way before.

Fol­low their exam­ple of Humil­i­ty and Grace.

Be open, be hum­ble and you will per­ceive the Light.

And togeth­er you will move along the Path of Wis­dom and Love.

The Gift of Humility, The Way of Wisdom

You have felt your way for 30 days…

There were no words, no touch­stones or anchors that could bridge your under­stand­ing; there was no ade­quate chal­ice to hold your expe­ri­ence of the “ecsta­sy and agony” that is Scorpio.

Because it is in that realm of Spir­i­tu­al Alche­my, it is there you meet in the unimag­in­able joy of union, and you endure the unbear­able pain of sep­a­ra­tion and loss too…and all your words will fail you.

Yes, there is no way, in that space between worlds, between here and there, between your mor­tal­i­ty and your Immor­tal­i­ty, there is only every­thing and noth­ing all mixed up togeth­er. All you can do is feel, to expe­ri­ence an intu­ition­al know­ing as you draw one step clos­er to the Truth of your radi­ant nature. Scor­pio lit­er­al­ly takes your breath away, as you catch a glimpse of the undy­ing “light that is the uni­verse”. You have felt the Truth, and you are in awe, and you have been shat­tered, and you have been hum­bled too.

It was here that you were made aware of the divine in your­self, and in one anoth­er, and that thrills through as the shim­mer­ing light of every­thing and every­one. It was here that you felt the Truth; that Life-Spir­it is the very essence of you and every world and star and the whole of Cre­ation too.

But now it is time to turn…

You need to find your words, to share what you have learned, to extend your indi­vid­ual expe­ri­ence and fold it into a larg­er con­text of mean­ing­ful­ness. Here in Sagit­tar­ius you reach beyond your­self to become a sto­ry­teller, as all humans have done since the begin­ning of time. Here in the Cir­cle of the Lone­ly Ones, it is here that you share with one anoth­er your sto­ries, so that you can heal and grow into the Greater Understanding.

The Way of Scor­pio yields the stage to the realm that is Sagit­tar­ius, where you will find the Ever-Renew­ing Foun­tain Source of Truth. Here is found the Ancient Wis­dom and those Seers, past and present, who pre­serve the trea­sure of Human expe­ri­ence in Sci­ence, Phi­los­o­phy, Reli­gion, Art and Truth. It is here that you find the path; “The Way” home beck­ons to you once again.

But you must remem­ber this, what they dis­cov­ered and inscribed on papyrus, tablet and tome, all these truths and more are equal­ly found in the stars above, and in your own true heart too. “For as above, so below”, and in the heart of all cre­ation there shines the undy­ing Light of the One. For Spir­it is Life; Life is Spir­it. And so, it is known in all the Peren­ni­al Teach­ings that there is but one Spir­it, and there is but one Life. The Truth is there for all to see; you need only to weave togeth­er your heart and your mind. And you will smile, and your heart will be at peace. As the great Seer William Blake so beau­ti­ful­ly wrote:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heav­en in a Wild Flower

Hold Infin­i­ty in the palm of your hand

And Eter­ni­ty in an hour…

God Appears & God is Light

To those poor Souls who dwell in Night

But does a Human Form Display

To those who Dwell in Realms of day.

                                          “Auguries of Innocence”

Light begets Light, and with­in you resides a greater con­scious­ness, your High­er Self, who con­stant­ly encour­ages you to align what is your upper­most spir­i­tu­al and moral com­pass with what you encounter “out there” in the hier­ar­chies of Spir­it-Mat­ter. But this Intu­itive Wis­dom is mod­u­lat­ed through your inter­me­di­ary bod­ies which have not yet ful­ly awak­ened. And so, you will con­tin­u­al­ly strug­gle until your final awak­en­ing. The fear will fight to hold you, but the Light of Love will lead you onward…

Your Jour­ney is your Awak­en­ing; and you are quite sim­ply here to lift your­self into the Greater Light that is your true nature. You will hold through Faith and you will find by Rea­son, as you weave togeth­er your expe­ri­ences of feel­ing-thought into the “Wis­dom Way”, where every­thing is con­nect­ed, both with­in and with­out. You learn to turn away from sep­a­ra­tion and affirm the insep­a­ra­ble Truth: “That Life is Spir­it, Spir­it is Life”. One shin­ing day you will achieve your apoth­e­o­sis, and you will tru­ly under­stand how Lov­ing and Beau­ti­ful you are, and equal­ly under­stand that this Love and Beau­ty is what sur­rounds you too. Each is part of the oth­er; there is but One Spir­it, and we are the many ones of the One.

To bring you clos­er to this cross­ing point of Light and Love, innu­mer­able encoun­ters just like those you met in Scor­pio, of unions and sep­a­ra­tions, encour­age you to reach beyond your­self, and con­nect with your true nature by com­mu­nion, by com­pan­ion­ship and through love. It is by this that you serve as both mir­ror and light for one anoth­er. You see what holds you as one with one anoth­er, while equal­ly hon­or­ing and cel­e­brat­ing your dif­fer­ences too.

Yes, it was by Scor­pio that you felt the Truth; you sac­ri­ficed the less­er in your­self to join with one anoth­er. You came clos­er to your own true self by reach­ing beyond your­self and expe­ri­enc­ing your shared space of feel­ings for one another.

In Sagit­tar­ius you will under­stand and seek to share this Wis­dom and Love. You have your sto­ry; and they have their sto­ry. Togeth­er, you will share your sto­ries with one anoth­er, and you will refine your less­er truths into a more encom­pass­ing Truth for one anoth­er. You will dip your cup into the Well of Wis­dom, and find peace of mind in the Peren­ni­al Truths. And you will add your spe­cial sto­ries to this Sto­ry of Spir­it too. It has always been so…

You will see that the authen­tic­i­ty of your own true Feel­ing-Know­ing depends upon one anoth­er, as your shar­ing of feel­ings and thoughts removes your pri­or mis­un­der­stand­ings and half-truths. You will equal­ly rely upon the inspi­ra­tion and guid­ance from the Wis­dom of those Ancient Ones, who came this way long before you. For this is a well-worn road of awak­en­ing, and there are many, both past and present, who will help you along the path.

Behind all the noise and con­fu­sion that swirls around you now, beyond all the lies and half-truths…there is Truth.

You Felt it; now you Know it too.

Gath­er togeth­er, give thanks to those who came before you.

They forged the Roy­al Road of Truth.

And give thanks to all who trav­el with you now.

Togeth­er you keep one anoth­er on the path of Light.

Tell your sto­ries, sing your songs.

Laugh; Cry; Laugh.

Dis­pel fear, by kind­ly shar­ing your under­stand­ing with one another.

And above all, remem­ber there is one Truth upon which all oth­ers rest…

Love One Another.

This present dark­ness will fade; your words and deeds will remove it.

Your Light is shin­ing in a greater Wis­dom, which grows in step with your deep­en­ing Humility.

Be not afraid; speak Truth to Power,

Guid­ed by Love.

The Gift of Rebirth, The Way of Union

This is the space you encounter Ulti­mate Truth.

This is when you feel the high­est Joy,

And when you fall into depths of Pain,

This is your time for Love; this is your time for Loss.

This is the Space-Time to face your Shadow…

And, this is your cross­ing point into the Light.

This is the Realm that is Scorpio.

Wher­ev­er Scor­pio is found in your chart, and when­ev­er there are plan­ets mov­ing through this Sign, you will find that it is here that you face the Fun­da­men­tal Chal­lenge of your Journey:

You are an Immor­tal; but you move through mor­tal forms.

Your inner­most is a spark of the Divine; always and for­ev­er your Divin­i­ty is an essen­tial and unique instance of the Indi­vis­i­ble One, and to all less­er forms it is what is sim­ply known as the inef­fa­ble “That”. But to make pos­si­ble your jour­ney through Space-Time, you create/unfold from with­in your­self a hier­ar­chy of “bod­ies” or Ener­gy-Forms that per­mit your exis­tence upon each plane of man­i­fes­ta­tion. From the most numi­nous and tran­scen­dent to the most mate­r­i­al of planes (like here on Earth), all your vehi­cles are the mor­tal bod­ies held as one by your High­er Self.

You are born into a form; you die to that form; but you enter anoth­er. Spir­it is Life; Spir­it-Life is Eter­nal. But the Worlds, Forms and Lives you live are only for a time. You form attach­ments to your form; you form attach­ments to one anoth­er. You find the Joy of being togeth­er; and so, you must expe­ri­ence the pain of sep­a­ra­tion too. This is your jour­ney bound­ed by the inseparable:

Love and Loss; Joy and Pain.

You are on a jour­ney of Self-Becom­ing, of mov­ing from less­er forms to the greater, of mov­ing out so that you may come back again, now know­ing, from mov­ing through all these Worlds, Forms and Lives that you are a spark of the Divine mak­ing your way to become a Ful­ly Con­scious Co-Cre­ator of Creation.

One day, you will break the bonds of fear. You will have an unbreak­able faith because you Know: I am Immor­tal, I am the Light and the dark­ness and fear were just the phan­toms of my past, when I was not the mas­ter of enter­ing and leav­ing these forms…but now I know, now “I am That, I am.”

And so, you will equal­ly face the mys­tery of Union with one anoth­er, final­ly free of the fear of loss too. For count­less Worlds, Forms and Lives, your Joy of Love for one anoth­er was bound up with Pain and Loss, it was (and will be) unbear­able. Yet, there will come a time when you will stand in the Light that will not dimin­ish, and you will know that we are insep­a­ra­ble to one anoth­er, all mixed-up togeth­er, we are made of and by one anoth­er for ever and ever, and we will meet again and again until we break the karmic cycle of uncon­scious birth and re-birth with our awak­en­ing. And we will break the bonds of fear and step into the undy­ing light by our very forg­ing of unions in life after life.

Yes! It is pre­cise­ly in these lov­ing unions that you see the Truth; you under­stand because you have direct knowl­edge of your Immor­tal­i­ty and your insep­a­ra­ble one­ness with one anoth­er. You go out to meet one anoth­er, to live and laugh and love this beau­ty, this beloved who is there before you…and won­der of won­ders, it is by this very going out to them, that by sac­ri­fic­ing the less­er with­in you in order to join with them, (and they like­wise do this to join with you), it is in this Union (and Re-Union again and again), with the oth­er that you come anoth­er step clos­er to your true Self too.

You move out of your­self to cre­ate the Space of We.

You join togeth­er by sur­ren­der­ing the less­er and hon­or­ing the Greater with­in and between you.

And, in the end, you smile and understand.

You have met your own true Self through one another…

You are for one anoth­er the Way and the Light…

You are the Light; We are the Light.

Shine on.