Part two of your triple play unfolds as Her­mes skips into Scorpio…but
this is no ordi­nary trip, (not that any excur­sion through Scor­pio could be ordinary!).
There is quite a lot of loop­ing and swirling ahead…any and all communications
are like­ly to become even more com­pli­cat­ed, as you will see…

Mer­cury is head­ing for anoth­er rever­sal on Novem­ber 6, (the day of the
Elec­tion no less…hmm, that sounds like “trou­ble”), and although
Her­mes will have man­aged to make it into Sagit­tar­ius by Octo­ber 30, he will
ret­ro­grade back into Scor­pio on Novem­ber 14, then turn direct on Novem­ber 26
and return to Sagit­tar­ius on Decem­ber 10…whew!

That is a lot of swirling, div­ing and looping…Mercury will end up being
in Scor­pio for about 50 days, which is rather long. Let us save all those turns
and twists for when they hap­pen and just focus upon this focus on Scorpio…

When Mer­cury dives into the Watery realm of Scor­pio, your mind is no
longer sat­is­fied by the pat answers that come from accept­ing mat­ters as they
appear. You are moved to plunge deep­er, beyond the ordi­nary and delve into
dis­cov­er­ing, (if you can), the noume­na that stand behind, that cre­ate the
shad­owed real­i­ty of, your phenomena…you seek to tru­ly understand…And for
this you must become one with what you seek to know…For you can only transcend
through Union.

That is a tall order because your won­drous instru­ment of understanding,
your mind is most cer­tain­ly circumscribed…by itself! You can attempt to see
things for what they tru­ly are, but wher­ev­er you go, of course…there you are!
Your Prin­ci­ples, The­o­ries and Laws, your Assump­tions (and Prej­u­dices) go ahead
of you and reveal to you what you were expect­ing to find any­way. Or, at most,
your high­er mind may take you some­what out­side of the ordi­nary, to glimpse
some­thing beyond the safe and familiar. 

But do you real­ly under­stand? Are you
real­ly mov­ing towards Wis­dom, or just build­ing more Sand­cas­tles of Knowl­edge? For
each and every age claims that it had found the Truth, only to face an
inrush­ing Tide of Mystery…for Isis must ever be Veiled if you approach her in
the ordi­nary ways…you will not lift her veil, you can­not know her, if you
remain sep­a­rate and apart.

The path to greater under­stand­ing, the path to Wis­dom, depends upon you
devel­op­ing those high­er fac­ul­ties that take you beyond the acqui­si­tion of more
infor­ma­tion, of more knowl­edge. Yes, the acqui­si­tion of knowl­edge, of rigorous
train­ing of your mar­velous mind is essential…it pre­pares you to car­ry out
many func­tions in your world. But Knowl­edge can­not take you across the divide
between your­self, the oth­er and your world…for that you need to devel­op other
pow­ers that are hid­den, sleep­ing and wait for a sign…

To tru­ly learn the lessons of life, to tru­ly know your­self and your
uni­verse there is only one path…Becoming. The only way to expe­ri­ence the
Truth or Real­i­ty of some­thing is to become THAT…And that is why you journey
through all the forms of this mar­velous Cosmos…becoming, growing,
learning…Understanding…This is your beau­ti­ful jour­ney in
Life-Consciousness-Spirit. 

But the remark­able truth is, that hav­ing reached this Human form you are
pre­pared to take a most impor­tant step. You have it with­in you the abil­i­ty to consciously
move into the spaces of oth­ers and see as they see, feel as they feel, know as
they know. 

What…what is this you ask? 

It is true, it is not yet ful­ly formed, it is still devel­op­ing and
unfold­ing with­in you. For many but a dim aware­ness, for some a steady support,
but yes, you have this abil­i­ty that those who have gone ahead of you have
mastered…the Bud­dhas, The Krish­nas, The Christs, all the Mas­ters and Teachers
have shown you the way. They have become who they are through this most wondrous
fac­ul­ty that you exer­cise more or less everyday…

Every­day! What­ev­er do you mean? What is this pow­er, this gift, this
wonder? 

It goes by many names and man­i­fests in ever more exalt­ed degrees. Some
call it Com­pas­sion, many call it Empathy…and for those who have just begun to
tread the path it is known as Sym­pa­thy. But in every instance these Bridges of Understanding
form between your­self and the other…and the veil is lift­ed if but just a
little. 

For you have tak­en a step clos­er to the Truth…You have come clos­er to
the real­iza­tion that the fun­da­men­tal long­ing that your High­er Self has for you
is this: That you come to Con­scious­ly, Empath­i­cal­ly and Lov­ing­ly rec­og­nize the One­ness of the Cre­ation that you and every oth­er spark of the Divine are part of. 

Let Mer­cury in Scor­pio take you into the depths…

Let Her­mes help you to lift the veil that sep­a­rates you from one
another…

It is time to bridge the divide, to dis­pel the illusion…

It is time…

To Be One with One Another.

Wow! This is some week…and what a fin­ish you will have this Friday! 

It is anoth­er Triple Play! First Mer­cury deliv­ers to you one final
mes­sage from Sat­urn in Libra. Then Mer­cury dances into Scor­pio for a rather,
shall we say, com­pli­cat­ed stay. Then Sat­urn tops it all off…the biggest and
best is saved for last as Sat­urn moves into Scor­pio too…Wow Indeed!

When Mer­cury meets Sat­urn, it is time for mean­ing­ful mind­ful­ness! No
wist­ful think­ing here, no illog­i­cal mus­ings or slip­shod deductions…This is
when your rea­son­ing meets with Real­i­ty and you bet­ter get it right!

This is the last align­ment that Mer­cury and Sat­urn will have in Libra for
quite some time, so this is your last chance to con­sid­er the mes­sages they have
offered to you about your expe­ri­ence of rela­tion­ship since July 2010 when
Sat­urn entered Libra. 

The par­tic­u­lar mean­ing of Mer­cury to Sat­urn in Libra con­cerns your
ever-present need to cre­ate, nur­ture and pre­serve your rela­tion­ships through Right
Think­ing. This is one of the fundamental
truths through which this Cos­mos exists, because your whole jour­ney of Spirit
is also a Jour­ney of Con­scious­ness. The Ancient Teach­ings dis­till this
under­stand­ing into a sim­ple yet quite pro­found prin­ci­ple: You are what you
think! 

Just Think about that! You and every­thing in this Uni­verse is quite
sim­ply Thoughts or Mind made Man­i­fest, on what­ev­er plane of being you reside it
is fun­da­men­tal­ly Consciousness…Spirit, as Mind, becomes the energies/substances
of the entire Cosmos!

All of your thoughts, from ages and ages ago, have spun out into the
spaces of Space to make the world as you expe­ri­ence it now. That means you (and
you and you…) hold the pow­er of cre­ation (and what will be cre­at­ed) in the
qual­i­ty of your mind and those thoughts you dwell upon. By chang­ing how and
what you think, you will even­tu­al­ly see this become real­i­ty, (yes, yes it takes
time…but not so much if you under­stand how you can do this by form­ing those
right rela­tion­ships and join your minds together!)…which is exact­ly what Mer­cury and Sat­urn wish to con­vey to you now…

This pow­er of mind, of Right Think­ing is equal­ly true about all of your
rela­tion­ships. Each and every rela­tion­ship you have has been cre­at­ed by you
from the thoughts you hold (and then share with one another)…What you attract
to your­self as your rela­tion­ship expe­ri­ence is up to you! 

It may appear that you or anoth­er has “good” or “bad”
luck in rela­tion­ships. But you, as the Cre­ator, get exact­ly the relationship
you have made for your­self (con­scious­ly, and yes uncon­scious­ly too). If you truly
want to have a bet­ter one, it is not a mat­ter of try­ing to make your partner
change…it is all about you rais­ing your own aware­ness and thoughts to make a
Greater Real­i­ty pos­si­ble for you (and per­haps for them as well).

You will either improve an exist­ing rela­tion­ship by see­ing-through your
mis­un­der­stand­ings, clear­ing and remov­ing them so that you can share in a more
mean­ing­ful experience…or you will bring your­self into a greater space of
under­stand­ing in which to meet a more appro­pri­ate partner.

Mer­cury and Sat­urn offer you this part­ing gift from Libra…

You are what you think…And so too your relationships.

Think good thoughts of yourself…Think kind­ly of one another.

Look, look…you are chang­ing the World!

Where is Truth?

Jupiter stands still…so it is your time to get to the Truth of the Matter!

It is time to turn back, to turn around and walk upon your inner pathway,
the one cer­tain way to what you seek…to come clos­er to your true Self. You
wish to approach the “pearl of great price”, to find the
trea­sure-stores hid­den in your inner realm…because with­in you is the key to
self-knowl­edge, to the under­stand­ing that will lead you clos­er to the Light…to
your path of Wisdom!

Always remem­ber, that when plan­ets are mov­ing ret­ro­grade (back­wards) it
is pure­ly a func­tion of orbital dynam­ics. It is Earth (and you upon it) that is
chang­ing now. You and Earth are catch­ing up to Jupiter, like on the inside track
of a rac­ing cir­cle, pass­ing Jupiter because our orbit is short­er (1 year versus
12 years), and Jupiter will remain ret­ro­grade now till Jan­u­ary 30, 2013. 

What real­ly has changed is your rela­tion­ship to Jupiter. You have this
oppor­tu­ni­ty to work with Jupiter from a dif­fer­ent angle or per­spec­tive now. Your
bet­ter approach to your Prin­ci­ples, Beliefs and Truths is to turn away from the
myr­i­ad dis­trac­tions “out there”…your bet­ter path now is to be
intro­spec­tive and con­tem­pla­tive, to re-con­sid­er how you know and what you
understand.

Jupiter is ret­ro­grad­ing this time in Gem­i­ni, so you have an opportunity
to re-exam­ine the many facets of your most pre­cious gift…your Intel­li­gence. Your
agile, self-reflec­tive and adept mind can shift from one per­spec­tive to
anoth­er, and even enter­tain mul­ti­ple points of view as it com­pares and
con­trasts dif­fer­ing per­spec­tives, as it seeks to build an all-round­ed view of
any sub­ject or mat­ter that you are con­sid­er­ing. This very fac­ul­ty that allows
you to form your mul­ti-faceted approach to the var­i­ous ques­tions in your life
is itself in need of reexamination…it needs to be reviewed, decon­struct­ed and
renewed. 

Per­haps you have become too fixed upon a cer­tain point of view or perspective.
And/or maybe you have low­ered your capac­i­ty to appre­ci­ate the differing
approach that anoth­er soul has tak­en. Now would be a most excel­lent time to
work at dis­play­ing more adept­ness at stretch­ing your mind. You need to try to
encom­pass con­trary points of view, not because how or what you believe is
“wrong”. Instead, your ever-unfold­ing, ever-expand­ing jour­ney of dis­cov­ery requires that you con­tin­u­al­ly seek to extend your pow­ers of perception.

You just do not know what you can­not per­ceive through your
exist­ing mindset…so your point of view needs a refresh­er. It needs to be
re-invig­o­rat­ed by ques­tion­ing the under­ly­ing assump­tions that you hold…because
it is these very facets that you have become attached to, these less than
crys­tal-clear win­dows upon your world, that have cre­at­ed your “facts”
for you…and you most like­ly need to clean your windows!

It is time to ques­tion how you know…

It is time to ques­tion what you know.

It is time to move into a greater understanding…

It is time to show that you are capa­ble of self-correction.

It is time to exer­cise your most pre­cious gift of Intelligence…

So that you might bet­ter under­stand your Self.

It is time to show that you are human…

It is time to ask for guid­ance, to open your mind and your heart…and most of all…

It is time to be Hum­ble as you make your approach…

To the throne of Wisdom.

Today is a day for revelations…today is your day for Truth!

Venus rules your values…it rules your notions of beau­ty and your
under­stand­ing of love…It gov­erns what you wish for your­self and what you want
for one another. 

Venus, hav­ing just entered the realm of Vir­go, is bathing today in the
light of her High­er Companion…It is the Lord of Faith, Imag­i­na­tion and
Illu­mi­na­tion, who is her con­stant guid­ing inspi­ra­tion. Yes, Nep­tune in Pisces shines
a super­nal light upon you today and upon your notions of Self-Worth and Love.

Venus rules what you know as per­son­al love…the love that brings you two
and holds you togeth­er as one…but it is Nep­tune that holds domin­ion over
Love’s high­er expression…the love Divine, the all-encom­pass­ing, compassionate
and bound­less love of the One for the many.

Today in Nep­tune’s light, you find your illu­mi­na­tion. Your per­son­al love is the reflect­ed radi­ance of this greater love of the One for the
count­less sparks of the Divine. The rea­son you find your­self drawn to one
anoth­er, the foun­tain-source of your rela­tion­ship that you can have with any
oth­er being what­so­ev­er, springs from this fun­da­men­tal truth that you see shin­ing back upon you
from the eyes of your beloved. You see that radi­ant source, the Won­drous Eter­nal Light
of Spir­it, you behold the ever­last­ing Love that binds the whole of Creation…

For we are all relat­ed, from the begin­ning of the jour­ney, through all
the worlds and ages, and what binds each and every to one and all is affirmed
again and again by the many emis­saries from the Divine, and so found in all the
Ancient Teach­ings. It is a Spir­i­tu­al Truth that was sim­ply stat­ed by one such
Teacher and Master: 

“You should love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all
your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great com­mand­ment. And
the sec­ond is like unto it. You should love your neigh­bor as yourself.”

In Nep­tune’s Light you see-through it now…

This Maya, this world of shad­ows and light.

You are are at the cross­ing point…between the dark­ness and the Light…

The illu­sion of sep­a­ra­tion, of dif­fer­ences and divides is broken…

All are one…all are Loved…

And you must act accordingly…

So be it.

True Love…is in the details! 

Those lit­tle things, they mat­ter. They add up and show that, even when no
one is watch­ing, when no one is ask­ing for or seek­ing it, that you are showing
your inten­tions… by your atten­tion to the needs of the other. 

Because it is right, because you care…and because the most important
truth each Spir­i­tu­al Teacher has taught is this: You are here to be here for
one another…your high­est duty, your great­est role is quite simply,
beau­ti­ful­ly and lov­ing­ly to be of Ser­vice to one another.

The Leo time for Venus, of grand ges­tures and bold demon­stra­tions, must
yield now to the prac­ti­cal mat­ters that make up your real, dai­ly life with one
anoth­er. Romance is nec­es­sary, yes…but what hap­pens when the spot­light is no
longer on, when the audi­ence drifts away…what hap­pens then? The one or two
hours on stage is the easy part…it is what you do, day after day, hour after
hour that is weighed upon the scales of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Venus in Vir­go brings you to the val­ue of being more per­cep­tive, more
atten­tive and unflinch­ing­ly self-crit­i­cal regard­ing what you hold within
your­self and what you wish for in the world around you. You show your love by
offer­ing advice, by pro­vid­ing prac­ti­cal solu­tions as you form the bridge
between dreams and reality.

By bring­ing the ide­al into the real, by draw­ing down the dream and continuously
mold­ing your life with­in and with­out to these ever-chang­ing worlds you move
through, you can live the life of gra­cious­ness and ease, the life that is
cre­ative and lov­ing, that is liv­able and sustainable…because you are at
peace as you “Walk in Beau­ty” every day. 

Venus slips into Virgo…

You will heal, and you will serve…

You will be there for one another…

As you walk the path of Serenity…

As you cre­ate these Gar­dens of Peace.