There is no deny­ing it, this is a very busy
day of Plan­e­tary shift­ing and align­ments. Com­ing right after Venus moves into
Vir­go, the Sun also shifts into that Mid­dle Sign of Sum­mer, Leo…and then
about two hours lat­er you encounter a Full Moon in Aquar­ius too! No won­der your
head and heart are spin­ning! So take a deep breath, hold it and then release,
because what you are feel­ing is, well it is real­ly real…

The Sun arch­es now into his Hall of
Mir­rors, where reflec­tions bounce from one pres­ence to anoth­er, all eyes seeking
that sign of recog­ni­tion, to be beheld by anoth­er as you tru­ly are, that reas­sur­ing sense…“I
Am that, I Am!”

For hav­ing found and felt in the time of
Can­cer, embraced and cen­tered by those root ener­gies which lead back to your
ori­gins, you felt equal­ly drawn towards the promise sub­lime, the
path­way of your Destiny…

And so it is now in Leo that must sally
forth, as you seek to show your­self and the world who and what you tru­ly are…Yes,
you have met a lit­tle more of your­self at your Cen­ter, and you have need to
hold to what you remem­bered, to be how you felt, and become who you will be…In
Leo you must be you, and you must Perform!

You must stretch your­self now, extending
your role and reach upon the stages of life you have prepared…Or per­haps you
are ready, to go beyond what was attempt­ed, to take your­self, to reveal
your­self by and through an entire­ly new role and realm…

You respond to the inspi­ra­tion that
aris­es from with­in you, and by your exam­ple you inspire oth­ers to do likewise,
to reach with­in them­selves and dream and do beyond what they were before, so they
like you may reach a lit­tle high­er too.

For Leo must lead, to be a light and
inspi­ra­tion unto oth­ers, and you must do this for one anoth­er, for each needs
the oth­er to be, to be seen for who you are, to be authen­tic, to have and bestow respect and
honor…for what you are, you are together.

To become and be seen for who you truly
are,

Requires the con­sid­er­a­tion of others…

Who see and encour­age you to be just
that…yourself.

And so you must do the same.

For with­in each and every one of you…

There burns the Eter­nal Flame.

You Bow to one anoth­er, for you

See beyond that mor­tal frame.

You are Stars in the Making…

Your Des­tiny, this Creation…

The play with­in the Play.

You live with­in a Mag­is­te­r­i­al Dance of the
Planets…Their wheels with­in wheels, spi­ral and arc beau­ti­ful­ly, sweep­ing and
weav­ing through Inner and Out­er Spaces, cre­at­ing for you a Liv­ing, Vibrant
pageantry of Ener­gies and Forms, Mean­ing­ful-Motions that tru­ly form the
Liv­ing Pres­ence of Spir­it, of the Now in your life.

In oth­er words, you live in an
ever-unfold­ing Astro­log­i­cal Chart of the Present, and the con­tin­u­ous series of
Plan­e­tary Align­ments and their Pro­ces­sion through the Signs cre­ate a Song of
Spir­i­tu­al Mean­ing and Inspi­ra­tion for one and all…

For you are made of this, and each Sign,
each Song of Spir­it is with­in you as much as it is sur­rounds you too…and your
Hap­pi­ness, Peace and Ful­fill­ment draws ever clos­er as you under­stand You as living
in the Greater Aware­ness of this Presence…That you are one with Spir­it, one with
the One…

Venus, your Avatar of Val­ue and Beauty
calls to you now, for there’s a melod­ic shift in her Song of Love today. For
the past few weeks you have lis­tened and respond­ed to the Leo Side of Val­ue and
Beau­ty, you have pur­sued your Love with your burn­ing bright of Fired-formed
Ide­alisms, ever striv­ing to earn and bestow respect, to lead by exam­ple, to know
and love one­self, to be authen­tic to your true nature…and so to love the
oth­er as one­self, unconditionally…

But often those Spir­i­tu­al Fires can burn
over-bright lead­ing to excess and error, so you have need of ground­ing and
focus…That the promise of Fire will and must be met in the cru­cible of Earth…So
Spir­it answers with a nec­es­sary Gift, a balm of calm­ness and car­ing, of
atten­tive­ness to detail…and you turn now to those small but so meaningful
acts of ser­vice, sac­ri­fice and heal­ing, as you seek to find the Peace that
pass­es all Under­stand­ing, the Peace that lies with­in your heart…and this,
this is the Love that is Virgo.

For it is easy to put on “the
show”, to declaim your Ideals, devo­tion and love…but at the end of the
day it is the “lit­tle things” that mat­ter, it is what is done without
boast­ing or seek­ing recog­ni­tion, because it is right…and rights what is
wrong…Yes, it is in these qui­et, unas­sum­ing ways of kind­ness and con­sid­er­a­tion, it
is in these things that your soul shall be weighed and found to be beautiful…

It is through your prac­tice of the
sub­lime in the most ordi­nary or mun­dane, of your every­day duties, con­sid­er­a­tions and con­cerns that you reveal to one anoth­er the beau­ty of your
soul and bring greater heal­ing to your world…It is these in these
“lit­tle things” that you ful­fill your promise as a Spark of the Divine,
you the self-becom­ing won­der whose pur­pose is to grow and ful­fill the promise
of that Flame which burns within.

Venus returns to the heal­ing gar­dens of
Virgo…

Where Beau­ty is found in delicacy,
refine­ment and grace.

And Love is there as you serve one
another…

As you Walk the Path­way of Forgiveness
and Strength.

You Walk in Beauty…

To Find the Place of Peace…

Togeth­er.

Her­mes turns around, and so must you…

As not­ed in the entry for when Mer­cury
turned ret­ro­grade, the par­tic­u­lar oppor­tu­ni­ty Mer­cury offered to
you for the past three weeks was that:

“…you
are able to step “out­side” of your­self and see how some of these old
and famil­iar pat­terns were devel­oped as respons­es to needs and circumstances
long ago, but now they have become pat­terns of Reac­tion, they only serve to
hold you back in the Now…and so you must take out your “Sword of
Sev­er­ance” and cut these chords of emo­tion­al bondage and so free yourself
to choose new respons­es to your own needs as well as for those for whom you
care…”

Your atten­tive­ness was turned back onto yourself,
and so you were able to regard with greater objec­tiv­i­ty those Feeling-Thought-Forms,
which run like tapes with­in you. Some­thing hap­pens, or does not hap­pen, with
regard to anoth­er, where­in action “A” leads auto­mat­i­cal­ly to reaction
“B”, which inevitably leads to result “C”.

There is very
lit­tle to no input or thought that you bring to these auto­mat­ic reac­tions, once
they start they often impel or com­pel you to be in a state of suspended
aware­ness as you go through the motion-emo­tion­al loop. The ques­tion then becomes, is this good or not for you (and them)?

These pat­terns of semi to unconscious
reac­tions allow you to live much of your life with­out too much think­ing, so
that many of your ordi­nary or dai­ly inter­ac­tions are put on
“auto­mat­ic”, which frees your mind to attend to oth­er mat­ters, and that is good. But these pat­terns also hold you in thrall, and often bind you to what­ev­er stage of
emo­tion­al aware­ness you were in when they were formed. They can take on a life
of their own, indeed becom­ing self-pre­serv­ing, deeply embed­ded ener­gy-forms that
are shaped by those Mem­o­ries-Rec­ol­lec­tions-Remem­brances of your “Life
Famil­iar”, of your home and fam­i­ly, as well as deeply root­ed in your ethnic
or cul­tur­al archetypes.

With Mer­cury ret­ro­grade in Can­cer, you
were able to some­what step out­side of this self-made pat­tern­ing, to watch yourself
and con­sid­er whether a par­tic­u­lar Reac­tion-Pat­tern was a mean­ing­ful response to present cir­cum­stances, the deter­min­ing fac­tor being whether it well met
your needs or that of anoth­er. Cer­tain­ly, many of these pat­terns serve a useful
pur­pose, but many can ben­e­fit from a review and revi­sion, and some, well some
need to be “erased” as they do not serve you well at all.

Hope­ful­ly, you took this oppor­tu­ni­ty to
clar­i­fy, cor­rect and clear your heart and mind as to what you need from the one
before you, and or what you could mean­ing­ful­ly offer to them. Then you could
choose to con­tin­ue with your now bet­ter informed reac­tion-pat­tern, or replace it
with a more evolved response to one another…

Mer­cury is Turning…

Time to turn your primary
atten­tion out­wards again…

To sal­ly forth with your New­found Understanding.

More aware of your Reac­tive, Past
Patterning…

You are able to Choose.

Act­ing now through more Meaningful
Responses,

You the Self-Becom­ing Wonder…

Mov­ing out of Dark­ness and into the
Light.

This is the cli­max of the Grand
Align­ment of Water for 2013, now come into this week of its per­fect­ed fullness.
Here is what I wrote about this in my Gen­er­al Forecast:

…Jupiter
in Can­cer serves to restore and renew your feel­ings of secu­ri­ty that originate
in your most inti­mate and pro­found expe­ri­ence that you are con­nect­ed or part of
some­thing greater than just your­self. As you grow and devel­op, in life after
life, you will find your own true cen­ter by being and belong­ing with one
anoth­er. It will usu­al­ly begin in your affec­tions and bonds expe­ri­enced in your
imme­di­ate fam­i­ly group, and it will slow­ly and increas­ing­ly extend itself in
any life, (and over many life­times, in life after life), into your
ever-unfold­ing expan­sion of con­scious­ness and spir­i­tu­al connectedness.

This
sense of belong­ing, of root­ed­ness and secu­ri­ty, expands from your immediate
fam­i­ly out­ward to your vil­lage, and then per­haps it may move out fur­ther to a
local area of sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties. Then it con­tin­ues to grow out­ward even
fur­ther in your belong­ing to some group­ing per­haps ground­ed in your identity
with an eth­nic group, and then per­haps into some greater group­ing of many
eth­nic­i­ties. Even­tu­al­ly you find an even larg­er sense of iden­ti­ty and meaning
with­in an ever more com­plex cul­ture and soci­ety, until you final­ly experience
your pro­found famil­iar­i­ty with all who jour­ney in the fam­i­ly known as
“human”.

This
fun­da­men­tal spir­i­tu­al truth of con­nect­ed­ness will final­ly blos­som forth, as you
reach the “promised land”, the pro­found spir­i­tu­al epiphany of understanding
that all life is one, all beings are one with one anoth­er, that every­thing in
this cos­mos is a spark of the one Great Spir­it in whom we live and love and
find our true being.

…Yes,
it is from Jupiter’s mean­ings as mod­u­lat­ed by the Sign of Can­cer that you can
find the first of three offer­ings to help you nav­i­gate the year ahead. But
there is much to be hoped for here, because Jupiter is but one part of a gift
of inspi­ra­tion and mean­ing that comes with­in a three-fold bless­ing from your
Star­ry com­pan­ions this year. For what Jupiter is anchor­ing and car­ry­ing forward
to you in August is the mean­ing and mes­sage of the oth­er great align­ment this
year, and which will most thank­ful­ly still be in force dur­ing Jupiter’s August
align­ments with Uranus and Pluto…it is the radi­ant beau­ty of the year, the
Grand Trine in Water of Jupiter, Sat­urn and Neptune.

The Grand Water Trine, Jupiter, Saturn
and Nep­tune July 17–19, 2013

We
can for­get as we go about our busy lives “down here”, we can forget
how mag­i­cal and how full of mean­ing were the pat­terns dis­cerned by our
ances­tors. How they mar­veled at what stood revealed in this great pageantry
that sweeps before us every day and night by our Star­ry com­pa­ny, those constant
com­pan­ions who dance and form beau­ti­ful, intri­cate and mean­ing­ful pat­terns all
around us. Yes, we can miss the signs and por­tents because we do not see them
or even look for them any­more, but they are there…these Guardians of Life
con­tin­ue their won­drous weav­ing, help­ing us to under­stand our great unfolding
jour­ney through the spaces of space, our walk among stars.

Some­times
these plan­e­tary pat­terns are hard­er to dis­cern, and their true sig­nif­i­cance and
mean­ing even more hid­den from you. But this mid-sum­mer align­ment of Jupiter,
Sat­urn and Nep­tune will, even if not seen, be felt by many…it will be
beau­ti­ful to behold and its mes­sage is sweet and deep.

The
aspects between plan­ets, formed by their angu­lar sep­a­ra­tion from one another,
can be under­stood by divid­ing the Cir­cle of Life by a par­tic­u­lar num­ber. The
divi­sion of the Cir­cle, which is 360 degrees in cir­cum­fer­ence, by the num­ber 2
cre­ates the oppo­si­tion of 180 degrees. The divi­sion by the num­ber 4 cre­ates the
square aspect of 90 degrees. And for our pur­pos­es this July, the divi­sion of
the Cir­cle of Life by the num­ber 3 forms the Trine aspect of 120 degrees.

When­ev­er
three plan­ets line up equal­ly spaced from one anoth­er, it is called a Grand
Trine because the pat­tern is formed by divid­ing the cir­cle of space around you
into three equal por­tions, and find­ing that at each divid­ing point there stands
a plan­et equal­ly dis­tant from the oth­er two along the cir­cle. This divi­sion by
three res­onates with a har­mon­ic that rep­re­sents a poised bal­ance of energies
that are being focused through three dis­tinct avatars, in this case by Jupiter
in Can­cer and Sat­urn in Scor­pio and Nep­tune in Pisces. The Grand Trine of July
is all about the Mean­ing and Pow­er of the ele­ment of Water. It is through these
three Avatars in Water that you will receive inspi­ra­tion to help you walk your
path of des­tiny in this time of great and trans­for­ma­tion­al change.

Hav­ing
already observed the con­tri­bu­tion of Jupiter, let us turn our atten­tion to the
oth­er two Lords, and then turn and see how all three avatars will com­bine and
con­tribute to a greater influ­ence too.

The
mes­sage of Sat­urn in Scor­pio res­onates with the strength, pow­er and depth of feeling
that abides in the expe­ri­ence of Union. For as much as Jupiter in Cancer
upholds the truth of find­ing your con­nec­tion to one anoth­er by look­ing to the
past, to what you and all around you have come through and from, Sat­urn in
Scor­pio holds out the neces­si­ty of deal­ing with your ever-resur­gent need, your
yearn­ing neces­si­ty to cross the divide that seem­ing­ly sep­a­rates you from one
anoth­er and so find your greater strength in join­ing togeth­er in your sacred
unions. For when two or more are gath­ered togeth­er, unit­ed in a com­mon purpose
for which each has made a right­ful sac­ri­fice, it is from such acts that the
mag­ic and pow­er of spir­i­tu­al growth is in fact real­ized and released. For it is
not enough to remem­ber and hon­or from where you came, it is equal­ly important
to work togeth­er, to forge deep­er under­stand­ings, to share in the joys and
bur­dens of life and so con­tin­ue to walk this spir­i­tu­al path of your
self-becom­ing, self-unfoldment…together.

The
mes­sage of Nep­tune in Pisces, like bells peal­ing in a dew kissed morning,
thrill with the third and final form of Water-Feel­ing, which is that numinous
force that resides with­in each par­ti­cle of this cre­ation, pro­vid­ing the impetus
that inspir­its the lives of all who jour­ney with­in this cos­mos. The cre­ative force
that is behind all of the phe­nom­e­na in this uni­verse is known by many names.
For many it is called Faith, some would say it is their Dreams or the pow­er of
the Imag­i­na­tion, but none can tru­ly cap­ture the mys­tery behind what flows
through each and every being, that leads them out from with­in, as they unfold
as the sparks of the Divine, these self-becom­ings who ever strive to grow, to
become some­thing more.

For
it is this feel­ing that binds all as one and one to the All, and that leads all
out so as to grow beyond what they have so far cre­at­ed, to walk the path­ways of
light and love out­ward into the spaces of space, out upon their wondrous,
spi­ral­ing jour­ney. It is this Great Jour­ney which will even­tu­al­ly bring them
back to return as some­thing more, hav­ing become so much more than what they
were, when they return home again.

For
as much as Jupiter in Can­cer will pro­vide you with your foun­da­tion of feeling,
and Sat­urn in Scor­pio will teach you about the courage you have with­in you to
reach out and join with one anoth­er, it is Nep­tune in Pisces who com­pletes your
cir­cle of life, Nep­tune brings it all togeth­er by singing to you of your
ever-renascent pow­er, forged in your begin­ning by your nature as a spark of the
Divine and that holds you as one of count­less cre­ators who need but dream of a
bet­ter world…and it will be so.

For
this is how the Uni­verse came to be and con­tin­ues to become, because your
Spir­it is the very essence of it all, the pow­er behind your Imag­i­na­tion, Dreams
and Faith…The Pow­er of your Becom­ing, The Pow­er of your Self.

Togeth­er
these three, Jupiter, Sat­urn and Nep­tune can show you once again that you are
the mak­er, you are the Cre­ator of what you face now. That you can feel more
tru­ly the roots that hold you all togeth­er, that you can feel the greater joy
that comes from join­ing with one anoth­er, and that you can love and cre­ate a
bet­ter world by believ­ing and dream­ing for one another. 

Yes,
this will be a year to remem­ber, and quite a sum­mer indeed. The energies
delin­eat­ed above will be build­ing in towards the end of June, grow­ing through
July and cli­max­ing in August. The con­tin­u­ing chal­lenge laid down to you by
Uranus and Plu­to may be some­what eased by these spir­i­tu­al ema­na­tions that come
from this grand align­ment of Plan­e­tary Lords, and equal­ly and most challenging
acti­vat­ed by the T‑Square formed by Jupiter too.

There
is much to be hoped for here. There is the hope offered in the Grand Trine that
per­haps the things which divide the many from one anoth­er will be sur­passed by
this greater under­stand­ing of our mutu­al need to sac­ri­fice for the greater good
of one another.

Let
us hope, may we dream…and it shall be…

But there is more to today than just
this ful­fill­ment of the Watery Ways you are bound by and to one another…there
is anoth­er song being sung with­in this grand cho­rus of your Star­ry Com­pa­ny now,
and it is, of course, just what is you need so that you may stay more closely
upon the mid­dle path, that noble path of Wis­dom, Love and Purpose…

So please turn to the next entry, “Uranus Turns Ret­ro­grade” and marvel
at the won­der of this Poly­phon­ic Melody, the Song of Spir­it, that is offered to
you by these Uni­ver­sal Ener­gies of which you are made and in which you abide…