Your love returns for her annu­al reality
check. And though it often­times hurts, (oh yes it does, for this can be a time
when love may seem want­i­ng), this too is part of your jour­ney as you ques­tion, re-discover,
re-affirm and learn to express your true bound­less, foun­tain-source of value,
that true and eter­nal source of love that is the bright burn­ing core of you.

Actu­al­ly, this real­i­ty check hap­pens four
times per year as Venus and Sat­urn line up in a “chal­leng­ing” aspect
to one another…but this align­ment is the most impor­tant of these four
turn­ings. Why? Because this is the begin­ning of the Venus-Sat­urn cycle, sort of
like a “New Moon” for your Love and Real­i­ty, (and though it is nice
to wish and dream and fan­ta­size about beau­ty and love in your world, when it
comes down to it, here on Earth that it is, you real­ly need it to be Real,
don’t you!).

Venus is the bear­er of the ener­gy that
links each and every part of your cre­ation with every oth­er part. She is the
veil behind which sings the Song of Cre­ation itself, a melody which rang out
from the moment of that first, won­drous breath at the Begin­ning of the One. That
was when this uni­verse went from non-being into this spi­ral jour­ney of Becom­ing and it
is Venus who embod­ies this force which holds togeth­er all the ones who come
from that One…and you know and feel this as Love. This is what lies at the
core of you, this spark of Divine essence, and it is that which keeps you and
con­nects you to all of Cre­ation through all the ages…

Sat­urn is the bear­er of forms, the
real­i­ties you and every­one else make for your self-real­iza­tion, and these are your
expe­ri­ences that you must work in and through to become any­thing on this
phys­i­cal plane of Earth. The most pre­cious part of this real­i­ty-mak­ing you form
for your­self is the vehi­cle or expe­ri­ence of rela­tion­ship with one another,
your shar­ing and car­ing for each other…by your Lov­ing one anoth­er. Saturn
demands that the Dream, the Idea, the Essence of Love become real and
sub­stan­tial as man­i­fest­ed forms of Love of and for one another. 

But, as ever with Sat­urn, the teacher
and tester, there will come the shad­ows too, because the forms you and the
oth­er made were imper­fect, because you are not yet what you will be. The fears
that fall upon you are from your past and your pri­or attempts of love cast a
bro­ken light upon your present dreams for a bet­ter love today. Your fears spill
for­ward into the present and the true, abid­ing and bound­less love you hold
with­in you is unable to escape those shadows…and the love you seek to express
is less than it was to be. 

Sat­urn forces you to re-exam­ine, to look
with­in your shad­owed past, to see what lessons you have learned and mastered,
to see how well you have come to know and love your­self. For it is only by
approach­ing more close­ly the truth that lies at the heart of you, only by
find­ing and feel­ing that source of uncon­di­tion­al love that resides with­in you,
it is only when you can hear that Song of Cre­ation with­in your own heart, only then will you come to find the love you seek “out there”. 

That is why Sat­urn brings this feeling
of loss or the lack of love, of a less­er love or being unloved. Not because it
is true (for you are loved for­ev­er and always), but in order for you to feel
that pain, to come to know that this can­not be true, that it is not
“real”. So you will seek even hard­er, you will go even deep­er to
secure the under­ly­ing, undy­ing real­i­ty of the love that is at the core of you.

Venus meets with Sat­urn tonight, Beauty
and the Beast begin a new jour­ney togeth­er, and it is all about your circuitous
jour­ney to the heart of you, to the source of Light and Love that is within
you, ever and always…The source of Love is with­in you, sur­rounds you and illu­mi­nates all of Cre­ation too!

Clos­er, you draw to that light within…

Those shadows…will fade, fade away.

A bet­ter world awaits your heart…the dawn­ing of brighter days.

As you draw nearer…to your love…

To the first, that sweet­est song of songs… 

Love’s sweet melody…

Your Cre­ation Song!

Mer­cury com­pletes his thrice-yearly,
three week long loop de loop of reflec­tions, intro­spec­tions and mental
self-cor­rec­tions (with the usu­al, those more than dis­tract­ing sideshows of contrarian
caus­es and effects)…You can breathe eas­i­er now as you begin to put into motion
those dis­cov­er­ies, adjust­ments and improve­ments you came up with dur­ing the
past three weeks…

What­ev­er was stuck, what­ev­er was delayed
or mis­placed, (or mis­un­der­stood by you and by oth­ers) will now come back into a
more felic­i­tous align­ment. You can pro­ceed with your usu­al expe­ri­ences of
obser­va­tion, analy­sis and expression…but hope­ful­ly you can take with you a
greater under­stand­ing of your con­stant need, day in and day out, to be more
self-aware, solic­i­tous and circumspect.

For that is what Mer­cury ret­ro­grade reminds
you, that you need to be more aware of your propen­si­ty to assume too much and
to ques­tion too lit­tle about your per­cep­tions and knowl­edge about your­self and
your world. It is far too easy to become com­pla­cent, to assume and seek self-val­i­da­tion and avoid con­trary indications…

You should take some time, per­haps sev­er­al times dur­ing each and
every day, (and not just dur­ing Mer­cury ret­ro­grade), you should take some time
to pause and re-con­sid­er your assump­tions and “facts”. You need to lis­ten more
intent­ly to one anoth­er’s points of view…and then, with that enhanced and
tem­pered aware­ness, plunge back into your spheres of action and activity
with more grace, poise and humil­i­ty. Now would not that be some­thing to see!

So yes, breathe eas­i­er this evening as
Mer­cury turns and your life can move for­ward again with few­er embarrassing
and annoy­ing stumbles…

But you should also take with you this
healthy reminder that you must always be vigilant…you need to main­tain your
self-aware­ness and reflec­tiv­i­ty at all times so as not to fall into error so
easily…

For you are what you thought, you will become
what you think…

Think about that!

You have tak­en the mea­sure of one
anoth­er, you have sought the bal­anced way, mea­sure for mea­sure, as you offered
and received, as you tried to walk the mid­dle path with one anoth­er, the path
of con­scious coun­ter­point­ing, the path of peace…and you did it with grace,
and beau­ty and love…

But the wheels of life are spinning
’round and Venus must take her plunge, she is here to take you deep­er, into the
waters, into the depths of your feel­ings for one anoth­er. There she will help
you to find the “weav­ing way”, of blend­ing and bend­ing, as she weaves
her mag­ic webs of love, bring­ing you much, much clos­er to one another. 

For the next three weeks, Venus will
take you into the mys­ter­ies of Love and Union. She will ask you to exam­ine your
val­ues so that you might under­stand which of them are more true of you, which are the ones what
are tru­ly non-nego­tiable and make you, You! For any­one who wish­es to be with
you, would nev­er ask you to give those up, for if you did, well, then they would not be
able to expe­ri­ence a rela­tion­ship with you…because you would no longer be
there!

And, she will equal­ly help to show you which
val­ues are more periph­er­al to the real you. Those val­ues are not essen­tial or
con­se­quen­tial, and can be sac­ri­ficed and sur­ren­dered to cre­ate or strengthen
your shared space of We with one anoth­er. For you must know, it is part of the
dance of life, you must be will­ing to sac­ri­fice to grow, you must be will­ing to
give if you are to receive the rewards of a greater life.

For that is the mys­tery and beau­ty of
True Union, that is the source of the growth you will expe­ri­ence through a True Rela­tion­ship. What is essen­tial, what it demands and offers, is that you make a deep­er com­mit­ment to what is true for you and you let go of what is not. You give up the less­er val­ues of your life as you
forge a deep­er tie with one another…and mag­i­cal­ly, won­drous­ly, you find that
in mov­ing clos­er to your beloved, in draw­ing close to one anoth­er, you have
actu­al­ly come that much clos­er to your own true self! For the only path you can follow…is Love.

Let Venus take you into the Waters of
Union…

Where you will hold and you must let go.

You will sac­ri­fice and discover…Love.

Co-cre­at­ing, you are the sacred mak­ers of
Union.

You will only find your way to one another…

When you Love and Hon­or your own true
Self! 

Venus, god­dess of Love…

Only love will show you the way.

You are back again, mov­ing into the
world of Ideals, reach­ing for your inspi­ra­tion in the realm of Fire…

After eight signs, hav­ing walked the
cir­cle of life for almost three sea­sons, the wheel of des­tiny comes to this
final turn­ing of the Astro­log­i­cal Year. You are ready for one more push,
through Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Now you begin the Final Four Signs, and as
before, you begin with Fire…Today you cross the thresh­old of Truth, you
release your­self into the world of Sagittarius.

You have emerged from the Waters of
Union, from those mys­ter­ies where­in two moved clos­er to becom­ing one, the
won­drous yet chal­leng­ing trans­for­ma­tions of Scor­pio. What is this urge that is
pulling you, draw­ing you upward and out­ward now? You need to know, you need to
understand…you seek the more inclu­sive per­spec­tive, you wish to gaze upon those
freer, wider vistas…you need to find it…the Greater Understanding. 

You must put these expe­ri­ences you have
Felt into some larg­er per­spec­tive, to see what explains your life now and where
you might be head­ing next…And, and you have dis­cov­ered more about this world
and your­self, you find that you have some­thing to offer now, some­thing to share
with the world as well…

So it is time to dip into the Well of
Wis­dom and explain your greater sto­ry to your­self. You need to step back and
see the big­ger pic­ture, to link your own expe­ri­ence into a larg­er frame­work of
mean­ing, to look again at what guides your steps, to exam­ine what you believe
to be true, whether that be in Philo­soph­i­cal or Reli­gious or Sci­en­tif­ic or even
Meta­phys­i­cal expla­na­tions. You need them more than ever now, because even more will
be asked of you…and you must pre­pare. You enter those hal­lowed halls of the
Greater Under­stand­ing and seek for your most elu­sive trea­sure, to be at Peace,
to have Peace of Mind…

But remem­ber, your own sto­ry, your
expe­ri­ences, are part of this his­to­ry too, and you need to add your understanding
to this greater Well of Wis­dom, for that is how it has always grown…and that
is how you can help one anoth­er now. Par­take of the Well, let it soothe your
soul, and add your full mea­sure too.

This is a time for sto­ry­telling and
sto­ry shar­ing, this is when you need to look back to the Ancient Ways and see
how they speak to your Heart and Soul and Spir­it. You need to come togeth­er and
share your under­stand­ing with one anoth­er, to join in cer­e­monies that re-affirm
the ancient truths, to look at oth­er times, to vis­it oth­er cul­tures to see how
it is so very dif­fer­ent and yet just the same, always the same…

You need to walk among the soar­ing Cathedrals
of for­est, to look upon those far hori­zons of mead­ow and field, for Nature’s
mys­ter­ies hold the key to your own. Then turn and bow your head as you behold
the mighty trea­sures found in ancient scrolls and tes­ti­monies of those who came
before…Yes, many have been this way before, for your past is present and you
will nev­er walk alone. You need tell your new sto­ries and re-tell the old ones
too as you con­nect them all with this great­est sto­ry ever told, this your journey
of Life-Consciousness-Spirit…

Then you will remem­ber, where it all
began…you lift up your head and look to the heav­ens all around, you turn and
look at your won­drous Star burn­ing bright­ly in this quick­en­ing Autum­nal Air. For
know this, though it can­not be seen nor pro­faned by any mor­tal eye, behind your
Lord beam­ing, beyond your Sun there is the great­est won­der for you now. 

Behind
and beyond your Star is the inner­most sanc­tum at this time of year, in clouds
of dark­ness and light, you are pee­ing into the heart, the cen­ter of your Galaxy,
into the mys­ter­ies of your begin­nings, and your des­tiny too. Your Alpha is
there, long, long ago…And your des­tiny, well that is your self-becom­ing wonder,
many lives and greater dis­tances, yes many more yet to be trav­elled, many long
ways to go before you can be behold what is to be…

For now, it is enough, to know that you
are reaching…

You are striv­ing, and search­ing and
seeking…

To Under­stand, to Accept, to
Prepare…for you must…

Move ever clos­er, clos­er to the crossing
point of the Light.

As you fol­low the Ancient Injunction,
always and forever…

“Walk On!”

Your Dri­ves, Your Desires…they are
com­ing into focus…

You have been climb­ing for quite a while
now, up that twist­ing, turn­ing, ever-steep­en­ing path of self-realization…and
now, as you come around the shoul­der of your Spir­it-Mat­ter moun­tain, you can
see it up ahead…your prize is just there, with­in reach.

Your pas­sion­al pur­suits, those ideals
and dreams that inspired you to reach ever high­er have pushed you beyond to
this final hurdle…And now you seek what seems to be the ulti­mate prize for
you, it has tak­en form, it is the sub­stan­tial proof of your worth (in this
moment). 

For some it is suc­cess, and is well
earned. For oth­ers seek­ing by and dri­ven by the out­ward­ly seem­ing, they may
find some pass­ing fame (or infamy). So many strivers, so many souls seek­ing to
lift them­selves up…and some will ever seek to be above all others. 

But all and
every will find that there is a reck­on­ing, all walk upon a wind­ing path formed
upon one fun­da­men­tal truth. Your tri­umph, your self-ful­fill­ment will always rest
upon the mighty efforts of count­less ones who have walked this path before (and
with many who walk with you now)…so first must come Humil­i­ty, Grat­i­tude and Thanks for those
help­ing hearts and hands…

You must take care now, as you reach for
that next some­thing higher…it is with­in your grasp, it is real and tangible
to you now. Remem­ber that you need always stay ground­ed as to how you really
arrived here…That as you reach for the prize with one hand you equal­ly extend
your oth­er (help­ing) hand to those still below, who seek to find and fol­low the
path­way you have walked, the way that so many have come before. 

For your real prize, (found with­in these
out­er forms), is formed and lived as you walk upon this path of hon­or and duty…it
is your true spir­i­tu­al ful­fill­ment. It is that nev­er-end­ing gift made by you
for you…that you are the self-becom­ing, the self-unfold­ing won­der who’s
promise and progress is made by the releas­ing and real­iza­tion of the divine
that lives with­in you.

You have sought for­ev­er, seek­ing all
around and about, but you find that your Goal has always been here, always held
with­in your sacred space, your ever-faith­ful guide, your high­er self, the
beloved.

You have climbed the Moun­tain of
Man­i­fes­ta­tion, seek­ing to become…

You draw close to your moment of
Self-Ful­fill­ing triumph.

Quick, you must drop down, on bended
knee, bow your head…

And with Love and Humility…as you offer
thanks…

You smile and extend your help­ing hand.