The Path of Love

You are an Immor­tal mov­ing through mor­tal forms…

Through count­less Worlds, Bod­ies and Lives, you are the “Self-That-Is-Becom­ing”.

The Watch­er who is with­in, your High­er and Lumi­nous Self,

Guides you, inspires you and holds you in a love that is Unconditional.

The Twelve Ener­gy-Forms of the Zodiac,

Are the Warp and Weave thrilling through the innu­mer­able Hier­ar­chies of Creation.

Your Spir­i­tu­al Jour­ney is to Under­stand through count­less Lives,

That you are a pre­cious Spark of this Twelve-Fold, yet tru­ly One, Divine Light and Love.

All these Ener­gy-Forms are ever-present, in all aspects of each and every life,

You are not a sin­gle Sign, but a won­drous, Indi­vid­ual-Inte­gral com­bi­na­tion of them All.

Through each Sea­son and Sign you will find Hope and Inspi­ra­tion for your Journey,

As you lift your­self and one anoth­er towards your Great Awakening,

Your Apoth­e­o­sis with the Stars.

The Wheel of Life turns in your spi­ral jour­ney of Self-Mas­tery. Your yearning/striving to be an adept of the Twelve Ener­gy-Forms you know as the Zodi­ac returns to the ele­ment of Water once more. Of all of these Twelve, per­haps none is more awe­some and/or feared than what you now encounter, the Time of Scor­pio. For it is here you face the great para­dox of Spir­it weav­ing through mate­r­i­al worlds: You are an Immor­tal, yet you trav­el through mor­tal worlds, forms and lives. You are for­ev­er; and yet there is No-Thing that will last.

In Libra you move into the space of “We”; you co-cre­ate the space in which you may find your­self by and through one anoth­er. But in Scor­pio you move beyond the “I and Thou” to form the “We”; you join togeth­er in this space of mys­tery and self-tran­scen­dence. It is here in Scor­pio that you will expe­ri­ence the high­est highs, and the low­est lows; here you meet the sweet Joy of Union and the bit­ter Pain that is Separation.

Scor­pio is the realm of Alche­my, where the mag­ic that is com­bi­na­tion elic­its the quick­en­ing of your spir­it. For you are made of one anoth­er, for­ev­er and always. In any one life you are formed by Par­ents, Sib­lings, Friends, Teach­ers, Lovers and your very own Chil­dren too. All these expe­ri­ences you have had with one anoth­er have been formed and fold­ed into you, and you like­wise have been brought into them too.

Each indi­vid­ual has gifts and strengths; but by the mag­ic of com­bi­na­tion, when you join togeth­er in com­mon vision and purpose…well that is how you become more than what you were, that is how your Self-Becom­ing is quick­ened, that is the way you trans­form your selves and your world too.

To join with one or many, you will form and forge your union upon shared or com­mon val­ues. If there is enough to hold you to one anoth­er, you will. But you will be chal­lenged to let go in order to grow, you will need to sac­ri­fice for one anoth­er too. To live togeth­er or to work togeth­er you will have to adjust to one anoth­er as you give and receive in the space of We. If there is enough com­mon ground, what you give up or sur­ren­der may bring hurt, but the reward will be a bet­ter I and Thou.

To Sac­ri­fice means “to make sacred”; you will and must give up the less­er parts of your­self in order to grow into what is the greater with­in and between you. But you also must be care­ful and true to your­self, for if you give up what makes you “you”, if you make false sac­ri­fices, then this union will fail for you and for them too.

When the Illu­sion of Sep­a­ra­tion is shat­tered, when you know and feel the Truth, that I and Thou are one, there is no greater feel­ing than this. This is the Joy of Scorpio…But the Wheel of Life will turn, and whether you just have a won­der­ful after­noon with one anoth­er, of love and shar­ing with a dear friend or your beloved; Or, have many, many years of liv­ing and lov­ing shared with one anoth­er, at some point you will also have to expe­ri­ence the Pain of Loss too.

This is Truth. If you are to feel the Joy of Union, you will have to expe­ri­ence the Agony of Loss…The knowl­edge of Life and Death, of being an Immor­tal in a Mor­tal Frame, this is the Joy and also the Agony that is Scorpio.

But the mys­tery of Scor­pio is also this…That in any attempt to cross the divide that sep­a­rates I from Thou, you must decide what you will sur­ren­der to join togeth­er, and what you will hold with in order to be true to your­self. You dis­cov­er what is more you, and what is less. By this very rev­e­la­tion of what is more tru­ly me and what is less me as I draw that much clos­er to you, I will remark­ably and joy­ful­ly dis­cov­er that I come clos­er to my own true self too.

This is the mys­tery and rebirth offered by Scor­pio, that by reach­ing out and mak­ing a sacred sac­ri­fice to join with one anoth­er, that you actu­al­ly, in fact, end up com­ing that much clos­er to your­self, and the love that binds you to one anoth­er has also helped you to find your way to own true self too.

That true or High­er Self is your Immor­tal Self…and so you will smile, because you will under­stand, that you have noth­ing to fear. Your pain is real but it will pass, or it will come around as you under­stand that it is just the mir­rored reflec­tion of the Love that was there and will always be there for you and for one another.

For it all comes down to this…you are an Immor­tal Spir­it, you are here because of Love; You are here to Love and be Loved. You will feel the Truth, know this Truth, that your whole Jour­ney is sim­ply to be true to one­self and walk the Path of Love.

Yes, we are made of one another…

We are made by one another,

And noth­ing and no one can come between our true nature.

We are the ones of the One…

We are here to be all for One and one for All.

We will give up the lesser,

And hon­or that which is Greater.

We will sac­ri­fice what is less,

To hon­or that which is True.

To Love one another,

As we are loved by the One,

For­ev­er and ever,

Amen.

The Way of We

You are the Self-That-Is-Becoming,
A pre­cious Spark of the One Divine Flame.
Your Jour­ney, your Awakening,
Is formed and forged by those with whom you travel
For as much as you are a very spe­cial “one” indeed,
You are tru­ly formed by all these oth­er spe­cial ones too.

The Hier­ar­chy that is Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it is the same,
From the infin­i­tes­i­mals to the Galac­tic Lords and beyond.
All have been made by one anoth­er; and all are held togeth­er in the One.
From the begin­ning, and as we greet one anoth­er again and again,
Your jour­ney is this sto­ry of the ONE made by the many ones,
Singing their Songs of Togeth­er­ness, mak­ing their way back home.

The Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, what you know as the Signs of the Zodiac,
Holds and forms the Twelve-Fold Arche­typ­al ener­gies play­ing through Creation.
And though every sign and ener­gy-form are for­ev­er-present and active
In you and through­out all of this Cre­ation too,
It is wise to lis­ten to the inti­ma­tions of Spir­it, to lis­ten when the Winds of Spir­it call.
It is Time now to Con­sid­er the Sacred Space I and Thou,
To cross that mys­te­ri­ous Por­tal that is Libra,
To move into that space you cre­ate togeth­er, the Sacred Space of We.

For every speck and mote of this Cre­ation, every being, world and Galac­tic Sys­tem has at its core a spark of the one Divine Flame. And this core of Light and Love anchors the Sacred Space with­in which that being abides. That by this Sacred Cen­ter of Love-Light every Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it finds their own cen­ter and yet equal­ly their essen­tial con­nec­tion to one anoth­er too. For what abides in that cen­ter of one and all is the sil­ver chord of con­nec­tion to the One Divine Light. Tru­ly we are insep­a­ra­ble, because of our ori­gin in the One, and through all our many Lives and Loves we are held togeth­er by the One.

Yet you are “sep­a­rate” too, and you will encounter one anoth­er in your jour­ney, time and time again, you in your space and they in theirs. You must not tres­pass upon them, nor they upon you. But you will find that you must come togeth­er in some way so as to form your expe­ri­ences of one anoth­er, and by this you will shape and form one anoth­er too. This Dance of Spir­it, where you will play and learn, where you will strive to be for you and for them too, where you will grow beyond your­self and become what you are meant to be, this is that sacred space of We, this is the sacred realm of Libra.

It is here in the shared spaces of Libra that you will cre­ate, share, love and grow…together. You will elic­it from one anoth­er a greater under­stand­ing of your­self and of your world as you com­pare, con­trast and com­bine your per­cep­tions and sen­si­bil­i­ties, match and meet your needs through one anoth­er and ful­fill your hopes and dreams of one anoth­er by abid­ing by the sacred prin­ci­ple that gov­erns all rela­tion­ship in this universe.

This is Truth: What­ev­er, whomev­er you encounter in this space of We is anoth­er just like you. In fact, in their heart of hearts they are already of you and you are of them. This law, found­ed by your ori­gin in and of the One, and bound togeth­er by your sacred cen­ter that is a spark of this One, means that before me is anoth­er sparkling dew-drop of the one Divine Light. To bring about or cause harm to this or any oth­er is to irrev­o­ca­bly do equal harm to myself. This is The Law of Kar­ma, what­ev­er you cre­ate, what­ev­er action, feel­ing or thought you make will return to you. Thus fol­lows the injunc­tion of rela­tion­ship found in all the sacred teachings:

Do unto oth­ers as you would have them do unto you.
For you are all relat­ed, and what you do to the least of these,
You do unto me, The One.

Be guid­ed by the Prin­ci­ple of Libra, be guid­ed by the Truth of Love.
For you are of the One, and your Heart is pure Love.
To the one who is before you,
To the One that is always within,
Bow you head, lift your heart
Speak the Truth, Be your Truth,
Namaste.

The pre­vail­ing major aspect of this past year has been this wan­ing square of Sat­urn to Nep­tune. Their first square in this cycle was in Novem­ber 2015, the sec­ond in June of 2016, and the final square will be on Sep­tem­ber 10, 2016.

When we are con­sid­er­ing these out­er plan­et align­ments, one should cer­tain­ly look at the entire peri­od of their exact aspects, as well as some­what before until some while after, as being inclu­sive of their par­tic­u­lar ener­gy-for­m/mes­sage for you. The whole peri­od from September/October 2015 through Octo­ber 2016 can be char­ac­ter­ized by this align­ment of the plan­et of Form/Reality (Sat­urn) and Dream/Illusion (Nep­tune).

More­over, it is equal­ly impor­tant to con­sid­er their entire rela­tion­ship or cycle, typ­i­cal­ly exam­ined from Con­junc­tion to Con­junc­tion, to under­stand the broad­er mes­sage offered through the Four major phas­es of any plan­e­tary pair. For this par­tic­u­lar plan­e­tary rela­tion­ship, that would mean that the mean­ing and mes­sages of this cycle were ini­ti­at­ed in 1989 at the Con­junc­tion; they reached a crit­i­cal turn­ing or piv­ot point at the wax­ing Square in 1998; they arrived at the cli­max of their cycle in the Oppo­si­tion of revelation/confrontation of 2006-07; to final­ly meet in this moment of Crisis/Opportunity of the wan­ing Square in 2015–16. (Sat­urn and Nep­tune will inau­gu­rate a new cycle of rela­tion­ship at their next Con­junc­tion in 2026).

With regards to this par­tic­u­lar cycle (or any cycle for that mat­ter), we can see its influ­ence on the many dimen­sions of our exis­tence, the var­i­ous phys­i­cal, emo­tion­al, men­tal and spir­i­tu­al planes. The cycle of Sat­urn and Nep­tune con­cerns the inte­gral rela­tion­ship between the estab­lish­ment of Real­i­ty and Order (Sat­urn) and its for­ma­tion­al cor­re­spon­dence with Dreams and Imag­i­na­tion (Nep­tune). When fused with right under­stand­ing, it is how we imag­ine a better/greater real­i­ty and then pro­ceed to bring it into actu­al man­i­fes­ta­tion. When either ele­ment is mis­con­strued or approached with anx­i­ety, doubt or fear then we will see the regres­sion of these poten­tials as evi­denced by a cling­ing to old and out­worn forms sup­port­ed by false­ly framed fan­tasies or delu­sions, often result­ing in a divorce of Real­i­ty and Imag­i­na­tion. Rather than a rea­son­able and strong cor­re­spon­dence between Dream­ing and Mak­ing, there occurs a descent into a world of “smoke and mir­rors”, the result often being a dystopi­an world of Delu­sion, Decep­tion and Victimization.

Through­out the series of Saturn/Neptune align­ments, one can dis­cern the rhyth­mic waves of New Dreams becom­ing New Real­i­ties, those Real­i­ties becom­ing ever more Crys­tal­lized, lead­ing to even­tu­al Dis­il­lu­sion­ments with that Real­i­ty, which pro­duces increas­ing degrees of Con­fu­sion and Misunderstanding…and this loss of faith and con­fu­sion actu­al­ly pre­pares the way for the New Illuminations/Dreams that will be even­tu­al­ly be formed into New, and we can hope, bet­ter Realities.

Thus, the road to Illu­mi­na­tion, to the Greater Under­stand­ing and Real­i­ty in which you jour­ney, is paved with this rhyth­mic puls­ing of Dreams to Real­i­ty to Crys­tal­liza­tion to Con­fu­sion (which cre­ates the con­di­tions for let­ting go of that more lim­it­ed Real­i­ty Par­a­digm), lead­ing to Inspi­ra­tions and a New Dream-Real­i­ty brought into being. The jour­ney from unself-con­scious spark of the Divine to ful­ly awak­ened co-Cre­ator of Cre­ation is this spi­ral path of Dream­ing-Real­i­ty that has no “begin­ning” and no “end”.

The Con­junc­tions of the last cen­tu­ry (1917, 1952–53, 1989), cor­re­spond quite remark­ably for instance with the birth of the USSR, the onset of the Cold War, and the dis­so­lu­tion of the USSR, (and of com­mu­nist states of East­ern Europe). More­over, the inter­ven­ing beats of their cycle, wax­ing square-oppo­si­tion-wan­ing square, also can pro­vide insight into the under­ly­ing influ­ences and lessons of these and oth­er his­tor­i­cal developments.

But this is mere­ly one exam­ple, a par­tic­u­lar man­i­fes­ta­tion of this ener­gy-form artic­u­lat­ed with­in the realm of political/social real­i­ties. What is most impor­tant is to under­stand that this cycle is one of the key plan­e­tary pairs help­ing to dri­ve the emer­gence of the Greater Aware­ness and a more ful­fill­ing Real­i­ty for you.

For this par­tic­u­lar cycle and your expe­ri­ence with­in it we should con­sid­er the 1989 Con­junc­tion as the seed­ing of a New Par­a­digm of Dream/Reality for Earth. For any one per­son, this might be the start of a new life or phase of life, and for a com­mu­ni­ty or cul­ture it would more broad­ly define the hope for the future and the begin­nings of the struc­tures to bring that into being. What and how the pre­vi­ous cycle end­ed gives birth to the New, both in terms of Dreams and Hopes, but lim­i­ta­tions and fear as well.

The first or wax­ing Square of 1998–99 would be a cross­roads, a piv­ot point, a choice requir­ing a com­mit­ment to a def­i­nite Dream/Reality struc­ture and the turn­ing away from and let­ting go of any oth­er. Here is where the new Dream/Reality encoun­ters its first “test”. If for an indi­vid­ual or soci­ety there is an align­ment or cor­re­spon­dence of dream to real­i­ty, we would see a re-ded­i­ca­tion of pur­pose and focus to expand that Dream-Real­i­ty. If this turn­ing entailed greater dis­so­nance or dis­ap­point­ment, it would be an oppor­tu­ni­ty to adjust the tra­jec­to­ry and sub­stance of this unfold­ing Dream-Real­i­ty, per­haps choos­ing a dif­fer­ent Dream or for­ma­tion of Reality.

The oppo­si­tion of 2006-07 would be the moment of rev­e­la­tion, where the inher­ent truth or false­hood of this par­tic­u­lar cycle would be encoun­tered. For var­i­ous indi­vid­u­als and groups, it is a moment of tri­umph and fulfillment…the Dream has come True. For oth­ers how­ev­er it could be a shat­ter­ing moment filled with dis­ap­point­ments and defeat. What has been revealed is either the unbridge­able gap between the promis­es and the results, between the Dream and Real­i­ty, and/or the real­iza­tion that the Dream itself was Illu­sion­ary or a False-Hope, that it was found­ed upon Delu­sion, Decep­tion and most cer­tain­ly Self-Deception.

Here is where the Indi­vid­ual and the soci­ety would face their great­est test and oppor­tu­ni­ty. For as much as this Oppo­si­tion is an “End­ing”, it also marks the begin­ning of the sec­ond half of the Cycle, and so a new chance to apply the lessons learned, to adjust the Dream and Real­i­ty, and bring about a redemp­tion in the sec­ond half of the cycle.

The final major turn­ing point of any cycle is the wan­ing Square which can be a moment of even fur­ther growth in under­stand­ing and con­scious­ness, a rec­on­cil­i­a­tion and res­o­lu­tion of the tri­umphs and tragedies of the oppo­si­tion­al phase. Yet it may equal­ly con­tain or be per­vad­ed by a sense of cri­sis and despair as the yawn­ing gap between Dream and Real­i­ty seems unbridge­able, and hopes and dreams are seem­ing­ly beyond reach at this time.

So we find our­selves now at this moment of choice, but you need to under­stand that a Wan­ing Square is not like Wax­ing Square, that the type of choice for 2015–16 is not the same as 1998–9. The Wax­ing Square is much more of out­ward, phys­i­cal choice between forms and paths that you will take as you attempt to ful­fill your Dream-Real­i­ty mak­ing. A Wan­ing Square like 2015–16 is much more of an “inner choice”, it is a piv­ot-point in Con­scious­ness, a chal­lenge to make a bet­ter choice about how you see your­self and your world-view, to com­pare and con­trast the dif­fer­ing assump­tions about the Real­i­ty you are in (and have helped to make). It is more a time of “let­ting go” of the old, out­worn assump­tions that got you to here (Real­i­ty), but can­not get you to there (Your Dream).

You have been offered this peri­od to see which of your Prin­ci­ples, Beliefs and Sci­ences or Truths have (and still do) serve you well in explain­ing your expe­ri­ence and guid­ing your intentions/actions. Equal­ly, this Wan­ing Square calls upon you to see to what extent your Beliefs/Truths cor­re­spond with those with whom you jour­ney. For with­in any group, sub-cul­ture and soci­ety, there will many Truths held in com­mon, but also many that only cor­re­spond to some por­tion of this. To dis­cern Truth from Fic­tion, Illu­mi­na­tion from Illu­sion, well that is what you are here for!

If there is no over-arch­ing agree­ment as to the nature of “Real­i­ty”, if dif­fer­ent groups align with vary­ing inter­pre­ta­tions of what is “Sci­en­tif­ic”, or what is “Truth”, well then they will cer­tain­ly be unable to find a com­mon def­i­n­i­tion of “Real­i­ty”. They will also be unable to agree on what are the “right-actions” to live with­in that Real­i­ty, and cer­tain­ly not agree as to how to move towards a bet­ter or more inclu­sive Reality/Belief paradigm.

This Spi­ral Jour­ney of Under­stand­ing, of weav­ing togeth­er the Greater Real­i­ty around one­self with the mental/spiritual map­ping-mir­ror­ing of one’s own Thought-Forms of Beliefs/Truths, well that is your nev­er-end­ing jour­ney of Con­scious­ness indeed. Slow­ly Humans are mov­ing up and out­wards from unself-con­scious­ness to ful­ly awak­ened con­scious co-cre­ators of this Cre­ation. Time and time again, the Belief/Paradigm of a group, soci­ety and cul­ture, which served to guide and inform their lives for a time, will even­tu­al­ly begin to break­down and ulti­mate­ly fall apart as Real­i­ty changes and/or Thought-forms evolve. Some­times these shifts are grad­ual and even easy; some­times they are not and the break­ing apart and ref­or­ma­tion of the Reality/Belief sys­tem is fraught with con­fu­sion, dis­cord and disillusionment.

Here in 2015–16, as indi­cat­ed by the Saturn/Neptune Square, we are most cer­tain­ly expe­ri­enc­ing a rather strong cri­sis in our Reality/Belief par­a­digm. Per­son­al­ly, social­ly, nation­al­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly this divi­sion between Truth and False­hood, between Dreams and Illu­sions is omnipresent, and it seems that we are unable to find those com­mon threads to bind togeth­er our hearts and minds with one anoth­er. The rad­i­cal frac­tur­ing of both left and right polit­i­cal­ly, the dis­cords between Faith and Rea­son, the inces­sant stream of infor­ma­tion devoid of con­text or ground­ing in com­mon under­stand­ing, has led many indi­vid­u­als and groups to stum­ble into con­fu­sion, dis­il­lu­sion­ment and despair.

Where, where can one look for some cen­ter that can hold us togeth­er in the Greater Truth that we are on this Cir­cuitous Jour­ney of Awak­en­ing togeth­er? How can we under­stand that this expe­ri­ence right now is some­thing we have met and mas­tered time and time again…and so we should have a heart-felt faith that we will find “The Way” once again?

The answer to your prayer for both a bet­ter Under­stand­ing and a Greater Real­i­ty is to remem­ber that we each need to harken to the “still, qui­et, calm­ing” voice of our High­er Self who is always there to remind us of who and what we are, so that we find inspi­ra­tion in our fun­da­men­tal essence, our Lov­ing Nature. That we will under­stand that who­ev­er or whomev­er is before us is anoth­er just like us. We need one anoth­er to help remove our mis­un­der­stand­ings, doubts and fears. We need to lis­ten to one anoth­er, explain to one anoth­er, com­pare and con­trast for one anoth­er and so shine a more inclu­sive light for one another…To be a light for one anoth­er so that we can see what we alone could not see.

Yet equal­ly, to help lift our hearts and minds, we should fol­low the inte­gral path­way of Wis­dom, which blends your inner voice (and the inti­ma­tions of oth­ers), but seeks to align these whis­pers of wis­dom with the great exam­ples and Wis­dom-Teach­ings that have stood the test of time. For what you are faced with has been encoun­tered time and time again. Innu­mer­able souls and cul­tures have faced these tests of Truth/Reality and resolved to lift their Hearts and Minds out of shad­ows and into the Light. There are truths…and then there are Truths. Some idea-forms will hold for a time…and some, well some are Time­less. Seek for Wis­dom with­in and without…and you will know it when they are the same.

Lis­ten to your Heart…

Share with one another…

Hon­or the Wis­dom of those who came this way before…

And you will find “The Way”.

The jour­ney of Jupiter around your star takes about 12 years, and as a result Jupiter will usu­al­ly move through one sign per year. But like every­thing in this Uni­verse, unique­ness and indi­vid­u­al­i­ty are at the core of each enti­ty, for at the heart of every speck and mote of this Uni­verse there is the Spark of the Divine. So all plan­e­tary orbits are not cir­cles but ellipses, and as the plan­et moves around the Sun it will “speed up” or slow down” depend­ing upon how close or far away it is from the Sun.

Jupiter entered Vir­go on August 11, 2015 and will now move through Libra until Octo­ber 10, 2017. Jupiter is the Avatar of Truth, the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Phi­los­o­phy, Sci­ence and Reli­gion for you. It rules your Under­stand­ing, it is the shaper of your Beliefs and the source of your Motivations.

By look­ing at Jupiter in your own chart, (or that of any­one else), you can dis­cern the prin­ci­ple deter­mi­nants of the Why, How and What it is that you believe, of what dri­ves you to relate to your world through def­i­nite assump­tions of what is “right” and what is “wrong”, of what is the good and what it means to do good.

As Jupiter changes sign year after year, it pro­vides a refine­ment for that year in the con­text of mean­ing­ful­ness for every­one. Though you will prin­ci­pal­ly be shaped by the posi­tion of Jupiter in your own chart, (and by the aspects it has with the oth­er plan­ets in your chart), Jupiter’s Jour­ney is part of your Jour­ney in Spirt, of mov­ing into the Greater Aware­ness, and so you need this expe­ri­ence of the vary­ing sen­si­bil­i­ties offered by Jupiter through each of the Twelve Signs.

For the last year your seek­ing for Truth, Mean­ing and Moti­va­tion was guid­ed by Jupiter in Vir­go. The “Mean­ing of Life” for Vir­go is to cre­ate a life that makes sense, to live in a world of order where­in each part of life is in bal­ance with every oth­er part. The “good life” is a life of Grace and Ease, it is Refined, Ele­gant and Mean­ing­ful in all ways. The moti­va­tion for the Vir­go part of you is to cre­ate a life of dynam­ic har­mo­ny, or as the ancient wis­dom states, the key to being at Peace is quite sim­ply and pro­found­ly “To Live in Beauty”.

Jupiter in Vir­go was an oppor­tu­ni­ty to re-orga­nize your beliefs and life so to cre­ate a bet­ter cor­re­spon­dence between inner mean­ing and out­er order­ing. To have all the facets of your life, pri­vate time/public time, work/play, rest/activity, to have them all be in bal­anced pro­por­tion­al­i­ty to one anoth­er. To live with Grace and Har­mo­ny, to Live in Beau­ty. By find­ing the bet­ter way to believe, you were able to form a bet­ter life out­ward­ly too.

If this pas­sage of Jupiter were to be expe­ri­enced in a more chal­leng­ing or neg­a­tive way, then Jupiter in Vir­go would have led to greater crit­i­cism and fault-find­ing, for one­self and/or direct­ed at oth­ers. The lit­tlest annoy­ances or trou­bles would have blown out of pro­por­tion, and the Vir­go time of heal­ing would have instead fos­tered greater dis­cord, cre­at­ing even less har­mo­ny with­in and around oneself.

Jupiter in Libra will now bring the focus of Mean­ing­ful­ness into the realm of Rela­tion­ships. Jupiter rules your moti­va­tions, and in Libra there is most cer­tain­ly an oppor­tu­ni­ty for an ele­va­tion and expan­sion of your con­duct towards one anoth­er. Fun­da­men­tal­ly, as always, the Truths to guide your way will always come from with­in, from your High­er Self…from your Heart. They are equal­ly to be found in the Ancient Wis­dom, and from this Sacred Source these truths have flowed out and been incor­po­rat­ed into all Reli­gions and Moral Philosophies.

From your heart, and by these teach­ings, you are remind­ed that each one of you is part of the one Great Life of the One. How you con­duct your­self towards any oth­er will be reflected/redirected back upon you with regards to how oth­ers will con­duct them­selves towards you. In essence, the Law of Kar­ma is per­fect and just, and so you are guid­ed by love to fol­low the Gold­en Rule, “Do unto oth­ers as you would have them do unto you”.

This is “the Way”, for you live in a fun­da­men­tal­ly moral uni­verse and there is noth­ing that will escape this per­fect align­ment gov­ern­ing all relationships…so that how you give, and what you give will be returned to you some day.

Jupiter in Libra is a reminder, that you are here to be kind to one anoth­er, to be gen­er­ous to one anoth­er, to be mind­ful of one another…and by these Right Moti­va­tions, Right Thoughts and Right Actions you will even­tu­al­ly find your­self where you have always been des­tined to be. You will make your way Home on the path of Peace; You will live your life in the way of Truth; You will find your­self by the Wis­dom of Love.

You are here to be sur­round­ed by Love…

You are here to be embraced by Love…

You are here to Love and be Loved…

Just Love.

Here is the third of your four Mer­cury Ret­ro­grades this year. Begin­ning at the very end of Vir­go, one of the signs that Mer­cury is said to “rule”, and mov­ing back through about ½ of Vir­go until Sep­tem­ber 21^st-22^nd, Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is always an oppor­tu­ni­ty to pause and recon­sid­er the most impor­tant fac­tor in the qual­i­ty of your life, the health of your mind.

One of the most impor­tant gifts you have secured by mov­ing through the human king­dom is your won­drous fac­ul­ty of a self-reflec­tive con­scious­ness. You have the abil­i­ty to devel­op an ever more objec­tive under­stand­ing of your­self and your thought-forms. It is from this won­drous self-cor­rect­ing con­scious­ness that you can learn the con­se­quen­tial con­nec­tions between how you think, how you act and the result­ing real­i­ty you make for your­self. Over time, you learn to choose bet­ter, to cor­rect mis­un­der­stand­ings, mis­con­cep­tions and devel­op a more inclu­sive and com­pre­hen­sive view of the Greater Real­i­ty in which you reside.

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is mere­ly, but won­der­ful­ly, this fac­ul­ty of self-cor­rec­tion/­self-improve­ment work­ing to a high­er degree. It is your time to be ever more intro­spec­tive and con­tem­pla­tive, to review, revise and make more true your inner world view since your mind is bend­ing back upon itself more read­i­ly now.

But of course this often does bring about dif­fi­cul­ties in the day to day of pay­ing atten­tion to the out­er world, for you are more like­ly to be engaged with­in and not as aware of what may be hap­pen­ing around you. More­over, every­one else is so dis­posed as well. So you may not con­vey your thoughts/intentions to oth­ers as well as you might nor­mal­ly; and they may not be receiv­ing as read­i­ly either. And of course the same applies in reverse.

As a con­se­quence, mis­un­der­stand­ings may mount up in both per­son­al and busi­ness mat­ters. You have to make use of this won­der­ful time, yes. But you need to be as mind­ful of the trou­bles it may bring in its wake and do what you can to min­i­mize these.

First­ly, most­ly, have a sense of humor, for your own dis­tract­ed­ness and mis­per­cep­tions, and be equal­ly for­giv­ing of those around you too. In order lim­it the neg­a­tive side effects, do set aside more time in your day for moments of soli­tude and con­tem­pla­tive spaces in order to make use of ret­ro­grade Mercury’s gifts for you. Encour­age oth­ers by your exam­ple to also see the oppor­tu­ni­ty here to reduce ill-advised thought-forms and help them to engage in more self-crit­i­cal think­ing too.

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade should be a time for the quick­en­ing of one your most astound­ing qual­i­ties: You Know…and You Know that you Know!

Let Her­mes, the “mes­sen­ger of the gods”, take you on an inner jour­ney now.

Shift you focus, chal­lenge and change your assumptions.

See what you were “miss­ing”, always be humble.

Expe­ri­ence the won­der of the “Ah-Ha” moment,

And Smile!