The Return to Source

Today we enter the fourth Sign of the Zodi­ac, and we come to the Root Ques­tion of Life, “Where do we come from”.

Of course, you know, and you will say, “I come from my Moth­er and Father, and they came from my grand­moth­ers and grand­fa­thers”, and you repeat. But at some point, you will pause, for you have reached that place where your bio­log­i­cal past becomes more myth and leg­end, of sto­ries passed down but with­out proof or doc­u­men­ta­tion. So, how will you tru­ly know, how do you find the root source of you?

It is in Aries that you meet the begin­nings of life. Aries holds the expe­ri­ence of the re-emer­gence of spir­it into a new sense of being­ness, as you con­sid­er “who am I?”. And in Tau­rus, this begin­ning of being becomes sub­stan­tial, fruit­ful, and you are made aware that you are “some-thing”, as you con­sid­er “what am I?”. Then by Gem­i­ni, you move inward­ly and out­ward­ly, mak­ing, find­ing, and con­nect­ing who and what you are to a range of rela­tion­ships with­in your­self and to the world around you too, as you con­sid­er “how am I?”.

But this exten­sion with­in and with­out must be held togeth­er as one. It is Spir­it that is the One, and that forms and informs the entire­ty of life that is Cre­ation; it is by the One that all beings are “Bent Back” to form a unique whole. It is by this, “that Cen­ter which is Every­where, and whose Cir­cum­fer­ence is Nowhere”, it is by this Cen­ter and Root that each and every being “is what it is” and will always be as a one.

Whether it is an Atom, Mol­e­cule, Cell, Organ, or Organ­ism, or as large a being as a plan­et or Solar Sys­tem or Galaxy, it is as above and so below, there is repli­ca­tion and har­mo­ny from the small­est to the great­est in the Cos­mos. And it is by the One that all are formed into a sin­gu­lar Ener­gy-Form, and this one is held by Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness as a being that is sep­a­rate, unique, and dis­tinct from the sur­round­ing ocean of Ener­gy-Forms. The fer­vent dif­fu­sion by exten­sion into dimen­sions with­in and around that enti­ty must be bent and curved back to form a one by this root­ing, cen­ter­ing, and con­cen­tra­tion. Most won­der­ful­ly and lov­ing­ly, this seem­ing lim­i­ta­tion is tru­ly the very agency that brings about the unique nature of each and every being.

Astro­log­i­cal­ly, it is the Sign of Can­cer that holds the Ener­gy-Form of this fac­ul­ty of spir­i­tu­al con­cen­tra­tion, and it is by this that we humans can bind and hold to our root nature. It is this “Spir­i­tu­al Grav­i­ty” by which we stay true to the path that comes from our source. In Can­cer we move into the Fourth Ele­ment of Water, which is the ele­ment of our Whole­ness and Feelings.

Although we have dis­cov­ered much about our­selves and our world by our Intel­li­gence and Mind, there will always be expe­ri­ences and realms beyond our cur­rent under­stand­ing. We sense them, we feel them, and intu­it things with­in our­selves and the worlds around us, and so we feel by this “whole-mak­ing”, this “know­ing beyond the mind”, that there is more to all of this than what we can dis­cern by our rea­son and thought.

By Can­cer we go into the roots of our being, to find our way to being con­nect­ed to what came before, to what is with­in us but equal­ly sur­rounds us too. By estab­lish­ing a cer­tain nec­es­sary cir­cum­fer­ence to our­selves, we form what we know or feel as our inti­mate, per­son­al sense of self. We feel our being as “I am I, and you are you”.

Then, by going even deep­er, down into our ancient roots, secured and cen­tered on a foun­da­tion of love and remem­brance, we can draw upon the well of mem­o­ries, and those of our ances­tors, to feel an arc of kin­ship to those who are like us, and like cir­cles of radi­at­ing kin­ship, we feel more and more who are also part of our greater fam­i­ly of humankind.

But as we go even deep­er, into our Spir­i­tu­al Roots, behind and beyond all the forms we have been, we feel that we are relat­ed to more than all of human­i­ty. We smile, because we tru­ly embrace the truth that we are part of a fam­i­ly that embraces all the many life­forms on this beau­ti­ful plan­et too. We feel this larg­er fam­i­ly of life and know the truth that is held as a sacred promise we made to one anoth­er long ago, “We are all related”.

When we come to this true root of our nature, we find that the love that is there is for one and for all…Because that very love is of the One and is the All in every one of us.

By Can­cer, in the Light of the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, we come home again to the source of who we are, what we are, and how we know. We come back to the source of all that is, that lov­ing­ly binds one to One, and all to one another.

We are part of one anoth­er, made for one anoth­er, and it is by the One who is the Cen­ter for each and every one of us that we feel the Uncon­di­tion­al Love which is the Source and Root of our true Nature and for all the lives that form this beau­ti­ful Cre­ation too.

Tran­script of Radio Show: Can­cer Sol­stice, The Zodi­ac Explained, Mid-Year Review

(If you wish to lis­ten to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Pod­casts)

The Sol­stice
On Sun­day June 20th, we reach one of the “Four Turn­ings” of the Astro­log­i­cal Year, the Sol­stice mark­ing the entrance of the Sun into the sign of Can­cer. In the Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar year, we have come through the first set of the three Modal­i­ties of Spir­it Forms which are held by the Car­di­nal, Fixed and Muta­ble Signs of Aries, Tau­rus, and Gem­i­ni; and we have also expe­ri­enced three of the four Ele­ments of the Zodi­ac, which are Fire, Earth, and Air.

On June 20th will we enter the sec­ond Car­di­nal Sign and the first Water Sign of Can­cer. The Car­di­nal Signs begin the Four Sea­sons, and they form what I like to call the Four Cor­ners of Cre­ation, the Four Direc­tions of Iden­ti­ty and Ori­en­ta­tion. The four Ques­tions of Iden­ti­ty are “Who am I” in Aries, and “Who are you” in Libra; and “Where do I come from” by Can­cer and “Where am I going” by Capricorn?

The Zodi­ac
In this Sol­stice of Can­cer, we must turn to the ques­tion of our Roots, to where we come from, what anchors us and lov­ing­ly sup­ports our jour­ney in the stars. But to do this we real­ly need to con­sid­er, what are the Signs, what is the Zodiac?

For me, Astrol­o­gy is a vehi­cle of know­ing for address­ing the fun­da­men­tal ques­tions that we all face. It direct­ly con­cerns those three fun­da­men­tal ques­tions of Life:

Where do we come from; why are we here, and where are we going?

Since humans woke up, when we became self-aware, we won­dered and wan­dered seek­ing to know our­selves and our world, and to share what we under­stood. Yes, we made who we are by these sto­ries we shared, we made our­selves into what we are by this steady accu­mu­la­tion of Knowl­edge and Wis­dom. We are all made of and by one anoth­er, and our some­times sim­ple and often­times pro­found sto­ries of knowl­edge and wis­dom have become this peren­ni­al, liv­ing gift to us from our ances­tors and that we share with one anoth­er as we move through the Eter­nal Now.

It seems obvi­ous to me, that ear­ly in our awak­en­ing, as we sought to make sense of our expe­ri­ences of the world around us, we began to per­ceive and hold togeth­er these expe­ri­ences of our jour­ney here and con­nect them with what we wit­nessed tak­ing place in the sweep­ing pageantry in the heav­ens above.

One fun­da­men­tal ques­tion we must under­stand is How or Why does Astrol­o­gy work? What is it that forms the Zodi­ac, how does it func­tion, why does it work?

Source of The Zodiac
Accord­ing to the Ancient Wis­dom, the Zodi­ac is an Elec­tro-Mag­net­ic Field of Ener­gy-Forms, what is known as the “Design Body” or Sub­tle Body for any Organ­ism, whether that be an Atom, Mol­e­cule, Being, Plan­et, Star or Galaxy. We need to free our minds and move away from our fix­a­tion on Mat­ter and Sub­stance and think of the real forms behind the appear­ance of things, the noume­na and not the phe­nom­e­na. The Uni­verse, and every­thing in it, is like a Holo­gram, a series of inter­sect­ing ener­gy-forms, which when aligned and formed into cer­tain pat­terns cre­ate the var­i­ous Real­i­ty-Forms or the Mat­ter-Forms that we perceive.

The Zodi­ac is the Ener­gy-Form, which envelops and per­me­ates any organ­ism from the high­est spir­i­tu­al bod­ies all the way down into the denser mate­r­i­al bod­ies like our human “flesh-bod­ies”. The Zodi­ac holds the Twelve Cre­ative Hier­ar­chies of Spir­it; and the Pow­er or Force behind these Twelve is of or from the One, and that is ulti­mate­ly for me the Uncon­di­tion­al Love and Mind of the One.

For any organ­ism or Whole Being, from atoms and mol­e­cules all the way up the Stars, the Zodi­ac is like the Mas­ter Aura, hold­ing, form­ing and inform­ing the cre­ation, devel­op­ment, and expres­sion of that being. Each one of us is formed with­in our own Auric or Elec­tro-Mag­net­ic Field. But we humans are sub­ject to the Greater Aura of the Zodi­ac around the Earth. Then our Earth in turn is part of the Auras of the oth­er Plan­ets and our Star, which forms our entire Solar System’s Auric Field or Zodi­a­cal Field. Real­ly, there is but One Zodi­ac whose ulti­mate source is the One.

The Zodi­ac is not “out there” in the so-called Fixed Stars, it is the mas­ter tem­plate in all organ­ism or beings. And, most won­der­ful­ly, each indi­vid­ual Zodi­a­cal field aligns with the next high­er order of wholes or organ­isms or beings, and then those with the next as well. Until we find the entire Solar Sys­tem, and then the Milky Way Galaxy is aligned with this same Zodi­a­cal ori­en­ta­tion. Tru­ly the teach­ings hold that the Divine Order of the Cos­mos can be seen as, “Wheels with­in Wheels” and “As above, so below”. The Zodi­ac of our Solar Sys­tem is also the Zodi­ac of our Galaxy and all of Cre­ation, it is the Mas­ter Architect’s Elec­tro-Mag­net­ic Ener­gy-Field of Uncon­di­tion­al Love and Con­scious­ness which forms and guides all the organ­isms from the small­est to the great­est, who are the very Body of the One.

The Zodi­ac for Earth
What this means for us here on Earth, it that our Zodi­a­cal field is aligned so that when we say for exam­ple that the Sun is going through Gem­i­ni or Can­cer, what we real­ly mean is that the Ener­gy-Form of Gem­i­ni is being acti­vat­ed by the Sun at this time. Any enti­ty born at this time will par­take of that Gem­i­ni Ener­gy-Form with regards to its Root Nature and fun­da­men­tal pur­pos­es. Like­wise, when any oth­er plan­et is mov­ing through Gem­i­ni, like Venus, it means that Venus is act­ing through the Ener­gy-Form of Gem­i­ni and being mod­u­lat­ed accordingly.

The plan­ets are not the “caus­es” or mak­ers of what we do down here. I do not hold to the notion that the plan­ets make things “hap­pen”; rather, they reveal the deep inter­con­nect­ed­ness between all life in our Solar Sys­tem, our Fam­i­ly Sys­tem, and they can through and by their pat­terns of rela­tion­ship, by what I like to call “The Dance of the Plan­ets”, help us to under­stand the cycles and mean­ings of our life here on Earth.

For my ses­sions with clients, I see their chart as form­ing the essen­tial nature of the strengths and chal­lenges a soul is to work with in this life. A read­ing is an encounter with one­self, and when find­ing con­fir­ma­tion of what they have known, felt, or intu­it­ed about them­selves, they expe­ri­ence a warm com­fort and deep­er clar­i­ty about their life and pur­pose. They obtain greater self-accep­tance and self-under­stand­ing, and they can more con­scious­ly live their life in align­ment with their entire being or nature. For many this expe­ri­ence will often elic­it a greater clar­i­ty about the mean­ing and pur­pose of their life, and they take up (once again) the chal­lenge to move with more deter­mi­na­tion towards their self-mas­tery and awakening.

So, for now as we or our Star enter Can­cer on June 20th, we come once again to the ques­tion of our ori­gins or roots. We come to our fam­i­ly and her­itage, our cul­ture, and ances­tors. We can all trace our roots back, but only so far before these paths become blurred and our his­to­ry turns into leg­ends and myths. But we also know, or bet­ter, we also feel the con­nec­tions between one anoth­er that tran­scend these more lim­it­ed phys­i­cal sto­ries. We are human, and we all ulti­mate­ly share in the one Root of our human­i­ty, our one Fam­i­ly, the Fam­i­ly of Human.

We have come a long way, but we also know we have a long way to go. And the Wis­dom con­tained in Astrol­o­gy has always helped us to find our way as it can today. Gen­er­al­ly, or col­lec­tive­ly for us all, we look at the Astro­log­i­cal themes that are most sig­nif­i­cant are held by the three out­er­most plan­ets, Uranus, Nep­tune and Plu­to, and their Sign posi­tions and rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er pro­vide the fun­da­men­tal mean­ings and mes­sages for any age. Uranus takes 84 years to orbit the Sun and is mov­ing through Tau­rus from 2018 to 2026; Nep­tune takes 164 years to orbit the Sun and is mov­ing through Pisces from 2011 to 2026; and Plu­to takes 245 years to orbit the Sun and is mov­ing through Capri­corn from 2008 to 2024.

Plan­e­tary Align­ments and Seeding
His­tor­i­cal­ly, the most sig­nif­i­cant align­ment these 3 plan­ets will make is when they form a triple con­junc­tion, which is like a mas­ter spir­i­tu­al moment of seed­ing. The last time this hap­pened was in 577 BC in the Sign of Tau­rus and the world was graced by the pres­ence of Con­fu­cius, Bud­dha, Lao Tzu, Zoroast­er, and Pythago­ras (and many oth­ers). The next such align­ment is not due for over 1300 years in 3,368. But we must remem­ber that in every gen­er­a­tion, Teach­ers will come to remind us of who we are and why we are here. The paths of awak­en­ing are ever before us, and in each and every peri­od many souls will begin or con­tin­ue the steady climb that leads to awak­en­ing and liberation.

Plu­to
For us, the most sig­nif­i­cant ele­ment right now is the pas­sage of Plu­to in Capri­corn, which has always indi­cat­ed the end of an Insti­tu­tion­al Era. We are wit­ness­ing the end of our age from 2008 to 2024 which is not unlike the pre­vi­ous pas­sages of 1516–1532 and 1762–1778. That ear­li­er peri­od in Europe accom­pa­nied the Ref­or­ma­tion and move to a new polit­i­cal-eco­nom­ic-cul­tur­al order (and a new kind of human being), and the lat­ter peri­od being what I call the “End of Monar­chies and rise of Democ­ra­cies”, of which the US and French Repub­lic and oth­ers led the way.

And now we find that our polit­i­cal-eco­nom­ic-cul­tur­al order is com­ing undone. The rea­son is not “because” of Plu­to, but it does pro­vide con­text and mean­ing (along with the oth­er plan­ets). The rea­son is just it is spir­i­tu­al­ly time for this to hap­pen. The very solu­tions to meet our human needs that our ances­tors forged in the 1700’s and 1800’s have become the very instru­ments of form­ing the exis­ten­tial chal­lenges we face today. Whether in how we source our ener­gy, food, cloth­ing, hous­ing, in all so many ways in which we have met our needs, those very means we cre­at­ed and have relied upon our now destroy­ing the beau­ti­ful hier­ar­chy of life on this planet.

This is how it always is, the solu­tions of one era become the very source of the chal­lenge that we must rise above as we move into a new age. While Plu­to remains in Capri­corn, we will con­tin­ue to expe­ri­ence this as more of a time for the break­ing down of old forms in order to pre­pare the way for the new order that will rise from 2024 onwards. With Plu­to as the Avatar of the Will and Instru­ment of Alche­my for our Solar Sys­tem, while it moves through Capri­corn it sig­nals the time that will bring about a Rebirth of Forms for our World.

By work­ing with Plu­to, the plan­et of the Will, we walk the path of the One as we say, “Let Thy Will Be Done”.

Nep­tune
The next major influ­ence of mean­ing is pro­vid­ed by Nep­tune, which is cur­rent­ly mov­ing through its own sign of Pisces from 2011 to 2026. With its role as the dis­solver of bound­aries between ener­gy-fields and forms, this pas­sage of Nep­tune is often accom­pa­nied by the most sub­lime expe­ri­ences of the fun­da­men­tal One­ness of Cre­ation, which is root­ed in the divine light of Uncon­di­tion­al Love that forms and holds all as one in the Cos­mos. Yet this expe­ri­ence of the dis­solv­ing of real­i­ty-forms and the mean­ings behind those forms will equal­ly elic­it some of the most Illu­sion­ary and Delu­sion­al expe­ri­ences for many as well. Both the surge in spir­i­tu­al move­ments and crises of con­flict­ing views of real­i­ty we are expe­ri­enc­ing today can be seen as direct­ly relat­ed to its pre­vi­ous pas­sage in 1848 to 1862. It was then, as now, that our under­stand­ing of how we see and relate to one anoth­er (and to all of life on this plan­et), was revealed as deeply divid­ed; then as now, some humans sep­a­rat­ed them­selves from oth­ers, and believed that oth­er humans were less­er, and even could be deemed to be the “prop­er­ty” of oth­er humans, and that their pos­ses­sions and prop­er­ty rights were above our spir­i­tu­al respon­si­bil­i­ties to one anoth­er and to all life on this planet.

It is Neptune’s role to remind us that we are all made of one anoth­er, that we are all one in a com­mu­ni­ty of fel­low beings we call Human, and that we equal­ly part of the larg­er Com­mu­ni­ty of Life that is our beau­ti­ful Earth. When we turn from the path of Uncon­di­tion­al love for one anoth­er and indeed from all life-forms on this plan­et, that is when we enter into Chaos, Con­fu­sion and Delu­sion. The move­ment of Nep­tune through Pisces sig­nals a time for Illu­mi­na­tion and Awak­en­ing that is always her­ald­ed by the neces­si­ty of con­fu­sion. It is only when we are con­fused that we find we have no choice but to let go of our illu­sions and rise to new lev­el of under­stand­ing by see­ing the truth behind all life-forms here, we are all here because of Uncon­di­tion­al Love, and we are here to steadi­ly move towards liv­ing by this truth as we draw clos­er to being ful­ly awak­ened as Human.

When we hold to the mes­sage of Nep­tune, we fol­low the path of Love and Com­pas­sion and keep to the Mas­ters’ teach­ing that we are here for one thing only, “Love One Another”.

Uranus
Final­ly, we have the last of the out­er plan­ets guid­ing our steps, which is held by the plan­et Uranus. Known as the Awak­en­er, Uranus is mov­ing through the Ener­gy-Form of Tau­rus from 2018 to 2026, and like its pre­vi­ous times there from 1935 to 1942 or from 1851 to 1859 or from 1768 to 1775, it sig­nals a time where old val­ues are shat­tered, and a reimag­i­na­tion and restate­ment of our Hier­ar­chy of Val­ues is at hand.

Cer­tain­ly, I think we can all agree that the expe­ri­ences our world has gone through in just this past year alone, with a world-wide Pan­dem­ic and a resur­gence of Social Jus­tice move­ments, has upend­ed our rela­tion­ships to what is the good, what is valu­able and most cru­cial­ly, how we val­ue one another.

Uranus, as the Avatar of the Mind, is the shaper of our Thought-Real­i­ty-Forms which we can envis­age as Holo­grams. We are each shaped and held by our own Thought-Forms, which in turn are shaped by our Col­lec­tive Holo­grams, which in turn are formed, shaped, and guid­ed by the larg­er Holo­grams of the plan­ets, stars, and galax­ies. Once again, wheels with­in wheels,

Uranus, which holds the ener­gy-form of our High­er Mind, is the Quick­en­ing agent on our path of awak­en­ing. We frame our per­cep­tions and under­stand­ings by means of a hier­ar­chy and range of sup­po­si­tions, data, facts, and truths which form our means to move through our Real­i­ty-Forms with Rea­son. But we must equal­ly and per­sis­tent­ly keep test­ing and ques­tion­ing this body of Knowl­edge and Truth as we find our way to the Roy­al Road known as the Path of Awak­en­ing. To that end, Uranus as the Avatar of our Crit­i­cal, Ques­tion­ing, and Pro­tean abil­i­ty of Intel­li­gence, brings us to steadi­ly and con­stant­ly, yet at times more dra­mat­i­cal­ly, to expe­ri­ences that shat­ter the old ways of per­ceiv­ing and defin­ing what we know as real­i­ty. Uranus is our Avatar of the Freer Mind.

When we hold to the guid­ance of our Freer and High­er Mind, we move to the Peace of Under­stand­ing that is the “Mind of the One”.

It is by Uranus and our High­er Mind that we align our Lives with the Path of the Divine, as by Nep­tune feel our­selves and hold one anoth­er in Uncon­di­tion­al Love, which is held true and steady by Plu­to as our will becomes aligned with the Will of the One.

We are here on Earth to make our way to being a ful­ly real­ized and com­plete human, whose Mind is Free, whose Love is Pure and whose Will is True to the Divine Plan of the One.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Can­cer Sol­stice, The Zodi­ac and a Mid-Year Review (June 13, 2021)

In my sev­enth show of 2021, I would like to take this mid-year moment, the upcom­ing Sol­stice in Can­cer on June 20^th, to con­sid­er how Astrol­o­gy works and review the major themes of 2021 and see where we are right now.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this top­ic or some oth­er mat­ter, includ­ing per­son­al ques­tions about your astro­log­i­cal chart. If you do wish to ask a per­son­al ques­tion, please be ready to pro­vide at least your birth date and birth­place, and time of your birth if you have that too.

If you wish to sug­gest a sub­ject or top­ic for a future show, please email me as I would be hap­py to hear from you. My email is: billattride@gmail.com.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sun­day June 13^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2021/06/13/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-cancer-solstice-the-zodiac-and-review

The phone num­ber to call if you wish to ask a ques­tion dur­ing the live show is: (516) 531‑9638.

Please join me on Sun­day June 13^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

If you miss the show, it will be avail­able as a Pod­cast short­ly after on BlogTalk or my Apple Pod­casts.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Gem­i­ni, Uranus & Neptune and Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade (May 23, 2021)

In my sixth show of 2021, I would like to pick up on my blog post­ing for the Sign of Gem­i­ni, to con­sid­er the role of Uranus & Nep­tune, and the upcom­ing Mer­cury ret­ro­grade that begins on May 29^th.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this top­ic or some oth­er mat­ter, includ­ing per­son­al ques­tions about your astro­log­i­cal chart. If you do wish to ask a per­son­al ques­tion, please be ready to pro­vide at least your birth date and birth­place, and time of your birth if you have that too.

If you wish to sug­gest a sub­ject or top­ic for a future show, please email me as I would be hap­py to hear from you. My email is: billattride@gmail.com.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sun­day May 23^rd @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2021/05/23/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-gemini-neptune-mercury-retrograde

The phone num­ber to call if you wish to ask a ques­tion dur­ing the live show is: (516) 531‑9638.

Please join me on Sun­day May 23^rd @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

If you miss the show, it will be avail­able as a Pod­cast short­ly after on BlogTalk or my Apple Pod­casts.

Gem­i­ni — by Johfra Bosschart

The Gift of Knowing

In all the great myths, in all the great reli­gions and teach­ings that have been hand­ed down through the ages, there is that sin­gu­lar moment in the sto­ry of human­i­ty when we moved through the por­tal of self-con­scious­ness. Long, long ago, we went from a state of sim­ple con­scious­ness (a rel­a­tive inno­cence) and into the realm of sub­jec­tive-objec­tive con­scious­ness. We became self-aware, con­scious of the essen­tial dual­i­ty of real­i­ty, of this and that. It was the time in our jour­ney at which we tru­ly knew, we became painful­ly aware, that we are in some way sep­a­rate from the Ocean of Spir­i­tu­al Oneness.

We were more and less, sep­a­rat­ed into “The Know­er and the Known”. We moved into a form of being that shapes our jour­ney to this day, as we dwell in this state of self and of oth­er. We became ele­vat­ed by the knowl­edge we could then acquire, and this became the source of our pro­tean pow­er to change our­selves and our world. Yet we also felt the loss, and we con­tin­ue to be brought to sor­row and shame by our still lim­it­ed under­stand­ing about the nature of our­selves and our world.

Whether it is the sto­ry of Prometheus steal­ing the “Fire of the Gods”, or Adam and Eve eat­ing from the Tree of Knowl­edge, it is held by the Ancient Wis­dom that we expe­ri­enced this quick­en­ing which equal­ly formed our abil­i­ty to bet­ter under­stand our­selves and the worlds around us. Yet, in many of these myths our advance into a greater aware­ness is por­trayed as also being a “fall”, of leav­ing a state of inno­cence or at-one-ness with Cre­ation as we moved into the expe­ri­ence of our sep­a­ra­tion from the Greater Real­i­ty of the One.

Accord­ing to the Ancient Wis­dom, the Sto­ry of Spir­it is also the Sto­ry of Con­scious­ness. It is the Mind of the One as “The One”, who to form Cre­ation becomes the many, divid­ing into the count­less sparks of the Divine, the mon­ads of Spir­it which are the root cause or seed behind every mote and speck of Cre­ation. And then, from that begin­ning, all these “lit­tle minds” began their jour­ney of Spir­it, of Con­scious­ness, as they moved up and out­wards into ever more encom­pass­ing expe­ri­ences of the Greater Real­i­ty over the ages and ages of a Cos­mic Age. The Sto­ry of Spir­it is the sto­ry of all these ones who slow­ly lift up them­selves to ever high­er lev­els of con­scious­ness, which is in fact the sto­ry of the Mind of the One.

For us, today, we begin our month­ly jour­ney through the Sign that holds this por­tal to con­scious­ness, the Sign of Gem­i­ni. At this time, and wher­ev­er Gem­i­ni is found in your chart, you are blessed with the “Gift of Know­ing” that is one of the most con­se­quen­tial fac­ul­ties you require as you walk the path of ful­fill­ment as a human. That Apoth­e­o­sis will arrive when you have moved from your more lim­it­ed con­scious­ness into what will be a tru­ly “Encom­pass­ing Con­scious­ness” of your one­ness with “The One” again, and that is known in the Ancient Wis­dom as the state of Cos­mic Con­scious­ness or Nirvana.

While we are human, we are the means to one another’s awak­en­ing. The devel­op­ment of your aware­ness depends upon all those who came before you as your con­scious­ness with­in and the cre­ations around you are the gifts of your ances­tors to you. And you most cer­tain­ly are depen­dent upon those with whom you live in this moment now for what you may achieve in this life too.

Always remem­ber, the great­est illu­sion we must tran­scend is this phys­i­cal expe­ri­ence of being sep­a­rate from one anoth­er, when in truth we are a hier­ar­chi­cal host of ener­gy-forms that inter­sect, blend, and inform, as we share and make this jour­ney with one anoth­er always. In truth, all these bod­ies that con­nect us make us who we are, but most cer­tain­ly our “body of con­scious­ness” is even more formed and elicit­ed, shaped, and sup­port­ed and uplift­ed by all of our many expe­ri­ences with one another.

From the begin­ning of your awak­en­ing, the way to your ful­fill­ment has always been the same. It is the mes­sage of Gem­i­ni, carved upon all the tem­ples of antiquity:

Know Thy­self

But it is equal­ly true that you will only know your­self, you will only be who and what you are, when you see the oth­er as your­self. When you look into the eyes of who­ev­er is before you, when you see shin­ing there the sparkling Spir­it of Know­ing, it is then that you will smile because you know we are the Light which is the Divine, “whose cen­ter is every­where and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere”.

It is then that you will know the truth that is there in you and in all things too.

We are the Divine.