Think-Speak-Act…Quick…Now!

There is no delay, there is no
time to pause and reflect, no time to talk it over (and per­haps to
re-consider)…and there­in lies your error, for this is the problem…this is
your les­son now (and always).

When Mer­cury the Messenger
aligns with Mars the Pas­sion­ate, well let’s just say that your mind or mouth
can get ahead of your bet­ter inten­tions. The excite­ment or urgency (or anger
and frus­tra­tion) will bub­ble forth and over­pow­er your mind and dis­rupt your
com­mu­ni­ca­tions and lead to errors in judg­ment and/or the break­down of social
sen­si­bil­i­ties and graces…

So you need to dou­ble-down on
your cir­cum­spec­tion today…Though you will feel some­what over­whelmed by this
insis­tent and urgent ener­gy, push­ing you to let it out, you must instead
restrain those men­tal enthu­si­asms (as well as bite your lip and hold your
tongue), and turn this ener­gy back in on itself. You can instead use this
won­der­ful infu­sion to con­sid­er the nature of your expe­ri­ence of Thought and
Desire, of how you weave your way in that per­son­al dance of Mind and Action.

For that is what this
align­ment is for, and that is what all of these align­ments can bring to you,
for they are tru­ly the Sym­bol­ic Lessons of Life, sweep­ing across the
heavens…and you must encounter and mas­ter them all as part of your Spiritual
Journey…For this very rea­son, there are no “bad” aspects (or planets),
it is real­ly how you learn about, and come to be a Mas­ter of, the ener­gies that
are tru­ly with­in and sur­round you too. 

The ener­gies
of this par­tic­u­lar aspect, if your under­stand­ing and will are lack­ing, may
induce thought­less think­ing, rushed deci­sions and intem­per­ate speech, and that
is not the “fault” of either Mars or Mer­cury. It is that you have not
yet achieved enough self-mas­tery, so the ener­gies over­whelm your more normal
and accept­able behav­ior. Either you heed­less­ly have less regard and
con­sid­er­a­tion than you would for the oth­er before you, or you expe­ri­ence their
over-whelm­ing ener­gies or demands upon you. 

Rather
than forc­ing your point of view upon the oth­er, rec­og­nize that you must always
approach one anoth­er with humil­i­ty and open­ness, for you “do not know what
you do not know”, and it is quite like­ly that by engag­ing with them in a
more con­sid­er­ate dis­cus­sion you will find your own mind and thoughts achieving
a greater nuance and depth. And, if it is the oth­er who is engaged in a rather
insis­tent and one-sided debate, then let them exhaust them­selves of this energy
before you attempt to bring the mat­ter back to a more rea­son­able lev­el of
mutu­al give and take. 

You
need to always strive to become more aware of these ener­gies that flow from and
around you, to learn more about them and so har­ness them to a more
con­struc­tive, mean­ing­ful and self-affirm­ing expe­ri­ence. As always, the lesson
for you, as for all who seek to become tru­ly Wise, Lov­ing and Free, is to walk
the Noble Mid­dle Path, which can only be found by those who abide in, yet ever
strive for, greater and greater Self-Under­stand­ing and Self-Control.

Con­sid­ered
in this way, the align­ment of Mer­cury and Mars her­alds the begin­ning of your
next cycle of Thought and Action, of your Men­tal Body impart­ing new Meanings
and Mes­sages to be car­ried forth and exe­cut­ed by your Desire Body. And it is
equal­ly a Quick­en­ing for your Mind, as you will receive a new infu­sion of
Enthu­si­asm and Ener­gy by which your Thoughts may be inspired to reach to even greater
heights and depths with­in your soul, as well as spark a new Cycle of out­ward sub­stan­ti­a­tion of your Thought-in-Forms too.

The
Mean­ing and Ener­gies of this meet­ing of your Mind and Desire reside in that
most Val­ued, Sen­su­al and Sub­stan­tial realm of Tau­rus. You are offered by their
join­ing a won­der­ful chance to bring into being what you have imag­ined, wished
and longed for…to move that much clos­er to Cre­at­ing, Pre­serv­ing and Abiding
in a world of Beau­ty, Love and Understanding. 

May you
pause at this time and listen…with your Heart.

May you
begin anew to cre­ate a bet­ter world…by your Love.

And May
you come to abide in a state of Grace and Beauty…with one another.

May it be so.

Mind
informs Matter…Matter binds Mind…Mind evolves Matter…The Spi­ral Dance
repeats!

The cycle of your Mind and Real­i­ty have reached their yearly
reckoning…Six months ago you began a new cycle of bring­ing your thoughts into
what you always hope to be bet­ter forms of Self-Realization…In that realm
known as Man­as, your Spir­it through your Mind ever seeks to move, mold and
re-make the Mate­r­i­al World you call Real­i­ty. From the Ancient Wis­dom comes this
know­ing, that on one lev­el of under­stand­ing the Entire­ty of Cre­ation is just
var­i­ous States of Mind or of Con­scious­ness, that the Uni­verse is in fact the
Mind of the One.

Now you will see what you have wrought, how well and wise a Master
of Mind and Forms you have become…Now you will see your Thoughts in Matter,
see how much you have formed your Mind into Mat­ter, see how Well your Matter
reveals your Mind’s Intent…but also feel how Much your Mind is now Bound by
this Mat­ter you made too.

Much like the gen­er­al Invo­lu­tion of Spir­it into the Material
Worlds and the Evo­lu­tion of Spir­it out of Mat­ter (and so the Lift­ing of Matter
up too), your Mind must also descend into these phys­i­cal realms to realize
itself upon this plane. It does this both to grow for itself as well as to
par­tic­i­pate in the Great Work…For there is but One Life, and all Beings of
the One strive con­tin­u­ous­ly to lift them­selves up, and by so doing lift all other
forces and forms of man­i­fes­ta­tion, on and up to high­er and high­er planes of
self-realization.

You exist in an exquis­ite­ly intri­cate Hier­ar­chy of Forces and
Forms, from the Sub-Atom­ic to Galac­tic, and also and more pro­found­ly both
Inward­ly and Out­ward­ly through count­less Dimen­sions as well, and at the core of
each and every instance of these innu­mer­able Forces and Forms there resides a
Con­scious­ness-Cen­ter that is on its own end­less jour­ney of Self-Unfold­ing, of Self-Becoming…and yet at the same time each such cen­ter resides in the
Greater Con­scious­ness of the One, whose Cen­ter is Every­where and whose
Cir­cum­fer­ence is Nowhere.

In your present Human Form you expe­ri­ence this most clear­ly (yet
also most painful­ly) in your expe­ri­ence of Mind or Thought. For, “as you
Think so shall you Become”…At this stage of your Self-Becom­ing, there is
no more crit­i­cal nor dif­fi­cult “diet” for you to be on than a
“Men­tal Diet”. It is quite sim­ple to apply your­self to eat more or
less, to move more or less…but to con­trol your Mind? To nev­er, ever let your
Mind “wan­der” or be “dis­tract­ed”, or most impor­tant­ly to
nev­er let your­self dwell in “neg­a­tive” thoughts…Now that is Hard!
Very Hard Indeed…But it is most essen­tial and it is “The Work” you
must com­plete in order to “grad­u­ate” from this Earth-Bound Plane.

For most, the only option at this point in your jour­ney is to
strive for bal­ance or neu­tral­i­ty. When­ev­er a dis­turb­ing or neg­a­tive thought or
feel­ing is either direct­ed at you, or aris­es from with­in your­self, you need to
imme­di­ate­ly coun­ter­bal­ance it with a pos­i­tive thought-feel­ing so as to
reestab­lish your path towards the goal of a Free Mind…A mind that is
Obser­vant but not Judg­ing, that is Nim­ble but not Dis­tract­ed, that is
Solic­i­tous yet not Controlling…

For your Goal is to Lift your Mind so that it is Free, to raise your
Mid­dle Self and Low­er Mind and become more like Your High­er Self, To Become the
Watch­er who is Ever-Watch­ing, Ever-Learn­ing, Ever-Aspir­ing to be Freer and so
to fol­low the One True path that leads you equal­ly, for in Truth they are One,
to Wis­dom and Humility.

Today you face your Cre­ation, the thoughts you Held and Wielded
(Mer­cury) went from your­self to inform this Mate­r­i­al Realm, they flowed into
Forms and so made your present Real­i­ty (Saturn)…and you must face this
accounting.

To the extent that you were able to think well and so act freely
and lov­ing­ly, then to that same extent will you find delight and satisfaction
in what you have craft­ed. But to the extent that you were held in thrall by doubts
and fear, then to that same extent will you feel your­self weighed down by these
self-forged chains of your negativity…

But there is always hope, always. For
your High­er Self and many oth­ers watch over, guide and inspire you to try yet
again…to draw that much clos­er to them and your des­tiny, to fol­low the path that they
too fol­lowed and make your way to where you will reside with a Mind that is Free,
a Heart that is Pure and a Will that is Centered…and so you will.

For
your future is ever-unfold­ing by your own hands, heart and mind. 

For
all that is around you, you made this…long, long ago. And it is done and you
must accept what you have wrought so far… 

But
what is to be, what is to come will to a very great extent be formed by How and
What you think of today, and tomor­row and for the next mil­len­nia too…

Think
Well, Act Wisely…

and
always, always

Go with Love.

It has only been 18 days while Mer­cury dashed through the
sign of Aries, and although he is mov­ing into that much more stead­ied, focused
and won­der-filled sen­su­al realm of Tau­rus, he is still pick­ing up speed and
will only be here for 14 days before div­ing into that fris­son of fractal,
dis­tract­ing diver­si­ties found in Gemini…So, you bet­ter take advan­tage of this
respite for your body, mind and spirit…you need and deserve this!

The
pas­sage of Mer­cury in Aries was a bap­tism by Fire, of Ide­alisms and Enthusiasms
that inspired your thoughts and added urgency to your communications…But
because you have yet to mas­ter this much ener­gy as well as you will, the result
is often­times con­ducive to, shall we say, more or less errors of excess and/or
reck­less­ness. Thoughts can fly so fast (and the words and actions that then
fol­low) that you cer­tain­ly could have found your­self wish­ing for some way to
take part or all of it back…

But the Law of the Uni­verse is Fair but Final,
once you Cre­ate some­thing, for good or ill, whether they be thoughts, feelings,
words or works, you own it…and it will come back to you, and you must make
your amends…But this is how you learn, to face and under­stand Cause and
Effect…so that over-time you will acquire the Greater Aware­ness and so become
Self-Masterful.

So, take a deep breath, hold
it, and now release and relax…it is time to put your Mind and Spir­it upon a
more sta­ble and tan­gi­ble foot­ing, it is lit­er­al­ly time to get Earthy…Now you
need to take a more gen­tle, easy-going approach to what you think and how you
con­vey it…For this is Mer­cury in Tau­rus and you need to tamp down those
pas­sion­ate ideals and shin­ing visions…you need to take your mind into a more
real, prac­ti­cal and sus­tain­able space.

Fan­cy slo­gans and fiery speech­es are
all well and good, but now you need to reas­sure, pro­tect and pre­serve what is
valu­able, beau­ti­ful and good…

Now you need to fol­low the Code of the Caretakers,
for one anoth­er and for your world…

You must abide in the Way of We are all
Relat­ed, and be guid­ed by the injunc­tion, “First, do no harm”.

And then affirm and repeat the great invocation…

“Now our Minds are One!”

Okay,
now this one is hard…as it must and should be…

Where­as the Sun/Saturn oppo­si­tion you just expe­ri­enced is about
your Infi­nite Poten­tial becom­ing real­ized into the next Self-Deter­min­ing, (yet
ulti­mate­ly lim­it­ing and so must be tran­scend­ed) Form, this Mars/Saturn
oppo­si­tion is about the Aims and Actions you uti­lize to Guide and Wield your
efforts in order to actu­al­ly bring into being your New Reality.

Why is it hard­er? Because you are liv­ing in this most material
world…and you will con­stant­ly have to over­come resis­tance to make your way.
One source of this dif­fi­cul­ty, the one that is obvi­ous to you, will be from around yourself
cer­tain­ly, in the very nature of the phys­i­cal world and from your social
cir­cum­stances too…Unlike your “oth­er realms”, like those you dwell
in when you let go of your phys­i­cal form, as when you sleep, this realm of
Earth is the hard­est for you to make your “Will Be Done”…But you
are here to learn and so you must if you are to ful­fill your des­tiny of being a
Mas­ter of the Craft, a Dream­ing World-Mak­er Creator.

And so you must learn to adjust your Aims and Actions when you run
into these obsta­cles, delays and rever­sals “out there”. If you cannot
get to “there from here”, you need to do two things: 1) Reconsider
the Goal and see if it is still true and right for you. Per­haps a slight shift
can ease your way and open up new pos­si­bil­i­ties that you would not have
imag­ined with the old inten­tions guid­ing you (and that was per­haps the whole rea­son as to why you were delayed or blocked, the Uni­verse was not in your way, you
were!), or 2) If the goal is true or has been re-set the sec­ond mat­ter to
con­sid­er of course is the “How”. You may need to adjust the way you
are attempt­ing to accom­plish the steps to your goal, for either the world has
changed or most cer­tain­ly you have, and the “old ways” are out of
sync with the ever-unfold­ing New Real­i­ty you are part of now.

But even more tru­ly, deeply and reas­sur­ing­ly (which is surprising
to some), the oth­er “Source” of your delay or imped­i­ment may arise
whol­ly from with­in your­self (even as much as it may seem to come from the world
around you)…You will need to take this delay, resis­tance or block in your
progress “out there” and recon­sid­er your jour­ney from the
Inside…You will need to con­sid­er again who you real­ly are, where you are
com­ing from and so know more tru­ly what and how you need to become That out
There…

More than like­ly the prob­lem that is appear­ing as some external
force of resis­tance is the mir­ror of some form of block­age that has its origin
from with­in your own not yet ful­ly real­ized and inte­grat­ed pow­ers of
Self-Becom­ing. You will need to step back and con­sid­er again the two-fold
nature of your journey…There is your Goal and there is The Way…and you must
come to under­stand that they are Insep­a­ra­ble if you are to be the Self-Becoming
won­der that you are.

So when
you encounter this chal­lenge to your path ahead you must con­sid­er again, who am
I, what am I here for and where am I going (at least in this par­tic­u­lar life,
what is my pur­pose)? With­out a clear vision of this, then of course you will
stum­ble and fall into error “out there”, chas­ing what is not right or
true for you…and so you will come to see that these annoy­ing delays,
obsta­cles and imped­i­ments that seem­ing­ly stop you are there because that
vision, goal or dream you are chas­ing is not for you! The Uni­verse is rather forcefully
yet help­ful­ly say­ing to you, Stop being untrue to yourself!

And
so must it also fol­low as regards your means to this dream or goal. It is not
enough that you suc­ceed and win the prize because there is no Escape from
Divine Law and the Bal­ance Made by the Will of the One and the Many in these
worlds…The Law Of Kar­ma is per­fect, fair and unre­lent­ing. If you employ the
wrong meth­ods and means, if your Actions are not guid­ed and formed by Right
Inten­tion that is aligned and true to your Nature and Pur­pose, you will only
reap a bit­ter reward of “Suc­cess with­out Spirit”…Your prize will be a bright
shin­ing object with noth­ing inside, leav­ing only bit­ter fruits and regrets as
your painful legacy…and so you must begin again…and you will, and you will become.

The
Lord of Forms and Real­i­ty (Sat­urn) now meets your Avatar of Desire and
Aspi­ra­tions (Mars)…

and
there are lessons to be learned again.

That
you have a Greater Des­tiny than you can yet imagine…

But
you can­not BE until you have learned to be the EVER-BECOMING.

And
you can­not be this until you know, tru­ly know…

The
Won­der that you are.

A
child who came from a Star…

Des­tined
to be a Star…

Among
a Glo­ri­ous Com­pa­ny of Stars!

And
the key, The Way?

Is
to make your way through your Heart that is True

and your Mind that is Free…and

To
always and forever…

Let Thy Will be Done!

You
need to pause today, to con­sid­er how far you have come…and how far away still
lies your heart’s desire…

You have reached anoth­er turn­ing in
this year…On one side shines your source of all, the Sun, who is your Avatar
of Pure Being and what in truth rep­re­sents your Infi­nite Poten­tial wait­ing to
Become. Upon the oth­er side stands Sat­urn who is nev­er clos­er than now, your Bound­ed-Band­ed Avatar of
Real­i­ty, who rules your req­ui­site forms of Self-Realization…and your painful
but nec­es­sary Self-Lim­i­ta­tions too.

It is time to bow your head to this
mys­tery, this the chal­lenge of your Self-Becoming…For it is on you and you
alone to learn this if you are to ful­fill your des­tiny. You must accept and
under­stand how and how well you have fold­ed and formed your Infi­nite potential
into these par­tic­u­lar ves­sels of your Reality…You need to cast a glance backwards
today and see from where you came in these past six months, (or per­haps six or
six­ty years…or maybe more).

Look back and consider…Did you
choose well, did you form by and with Love, have you begun to Under­stand? For
when Sat­urn and Sun face one anoth­er, and you stand there in-between you need
know this, that it is a time of reck­on­ing, an account­ing will be made…Yet it
is most impor­tant that you accept and learn from what was well but more from
what was less well done by you…

Enjoy your fruits of Suc­cess, for
every step that you advance on the path will bring you that much clos­er to the
Peace of Mind, Soul and Spir­it that you have always dreamed of…But you must
tru­ly trea­sure these oth­er fruits, these pre­cious seeds that you deem a
Fail­ure. For in your Cen­ter you must remain Free and Present, not bound
by regrets. Instead, you must look beyond mere judg­ments, to see through and
under­stand how it is that you grow…

Though Suc­cess is Sweet, the lessons
of life and your Self-Becom­ing are only learned by and through these other
fruits, those errors and mis­takes you made…Your fail­ures are the true
Foun­tain Source for your even­tu­al Self-Mastery…You can only learn by trial
and error, you forge your Wis­dom by your Heart and through Humil­i­ty, and it is
only this that will lead to your Greater Understanding.

By learn­ing to choose what is
bet­ter, by learn­ing to be bet­ter, you ful­fill your Des­tiny and earn your next
step in your ever-unfold­ing jour­ney of Self-Ful­fill­ment. Your des­tiny is to
unfold that Lumi­nous Spark of the Divine that lies with­in you, and each step in
that unfold­ment requires that you lim­it your­self in order to fulfill
yourself.

It is time to stand at the Cross­ing Point…

Between the Dark­ness and the Light.

It is time to reflect upon your past, it is time to reimag­ine your Future.…

You stand ever in the Eter­nal that is Now…

Mak­ing your Destiny…

Bound­less, Bounded…

For­ev­er Free.