The USA

In the pre­vi­ous three essays, I have exam­ined the recent past, present and near future of Uni­ver­sal Astro­log­i­cal con­di­tions, (what are termed “tran­sits to tran­sits”), that form the over­all Ener­gy-Forms pre­vail­ing dur­ing any par­tic­u­lar peri­od of time. In this essay, I will pro­vide some analy­sis of the more impor­tant tran­sits and sig­nif­i­cant fea­tures of the Charts of the USA. In the fol­low­ing essay I will exam­ine the chart and tran­sits for Don­ald Trump.

The repeat­ed align­ments of a par­tic­u­lar plan­et to a fea­ture in any chart will always exhib­it a spe­cif­ic qual­i­ty. But the exact nature of the expe­ri­ence will change depend­ing upon what oth­er astro­log­i­cal aspects are in effect for that chart, com­bined with the influ­ences formed by the gen­er­al astro­log­i­cal con­di­tions that are also in effect.

The most impor­tant tran­sit in the chart of the USA for 2016 was the Square of Uranus to the USA Mer­cury. The cir­cuit of Uranus around the zodi­ac takes approx­i­mate­ly 84 years, so that Uranus will form a “hard” aspect to Mer­cury in any chart every 21 years or so. More­over, the inter­pre­ta­tion of these effects will vary with the exact type of con­tact (Con­junc­tion, Wax­ing Square, Oppo­si­tion or Wan­ing Square).

The cur­rent cycle of Uranus to the USA Mer­cury began with the con­junc­tion of 1954–55, lead­ing to the wax­ing square of 1973–74, arriv­ing at the oppo­si­tion of 1994, and final­ly to the wan­ing square of 2016–17. Every time this con­tact occurs, the thought-forms and the forms of com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the USA are shook up and trans­formed. But in terms of the same moment in this cycle, (the wan­ing square), the last occur­rences were in 1933–34 and 1849–50.

The pre­vi­ous sim­i­lar tran­sit of 1933–34 accom­pa­nied the many trans­for­ma­tion­al efforts and reac­tionary push­backs to FDR’s “New Deal”, with many gov­ern­men­tal pro­grams invented/instituted to deal with the cri­sis of the Great Depres­sion accom­pa­nied by stri­dent oppo­si­tion from those opposed to gov­ern­ment expansion.

The 1849–50 tran­sit, saw the tumul­tuous strug­gle to “solve” the prob­lem of slav­ery with the “Com­pro­mise of 1850”, regard­ing the admis­sion of the ter­ri­to­ries secured in the Mex­i­can War as to whether they would be a free or slave state. Part of this com­pro­mise also wit­nessed the enact­ment of the “Fugi­tive Slave Law” requir­ing free states to return escaped slaves, and the Supreme Court made slav­ery a pro­tect­ed insti­tu­tion. This “com­pro­mise” only served to delay the inevitable show­down between two incom­pat­i­ble and dis­parate ways of life, between a soci­ety found­ed upon free­dom for all or bondage for many.

Real­ly, in both cas­es, the thought-forms of the time were put to the test with regards as to whether the peo­ple of the USA accept, under­stand and share with one anoth­er enough com­mon­ly held beliefs, which are the spir­i­tu­al-intel­lec­tu­al-emo­tion­al bonds to hold them to one anoth­er in mutu­al under­stand­ing. Each peri­od brought into sharp relief, the dif­fer­ences between groups and regions of the coun­try. Old forms of think­ing were chal­lenged by new ones, and attempts to return to the “old ways” ver­sus leap­ing into new ones caused fric­tions and frac­tures in the society.

Uranus is known as the “Awak­en­er”, whose thun­der­bolts of “new ways of think­ing and of new ideas”, serve to shake you and your world. Mer­cury rules the Mind and com­mu­ni­ca­tions gen­er­al­ly, and so their com­bi­na­tion is very apro­pos. In a mun­dane chart (like a cor­po­ra­tion or in this case a nation), the natal plan­ets will denote spe­cif­ic qual­i­ties of that enti­ty. Mer­cury rules the Thought-Forms of the peo­ple in gen­er­al, the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Trans­porta­tions of a coun­try, the Lit­er­ary world and the Intel­li­gentsia, the Press, Edu­ca­tors and Edu­ca­tion­al Institutions.

Mer­cury indi­cates for a nation, the over­all capac­i­ty to form a con­sen­sus for under­stand­ing Real­i­ty, the means for acquir­ing infor­ma­tion, and the abil­i­ty to dis­cern fact from fiction.

Cer­tain­ly, the US expe­ri­ence of 2016 is one that shook up the ordi­nary in what we “heard, thought and shared” with one anoth­er. The nor­mal bound­aries of speech, the agree­ments of com­mon­ly shared assump­tions and truths, the con­sid­er­a­tions of social dis­course that depend upon our tol­er­ance for one anoth­er ground­ed in mutu­al respect, these “norms” were bro­ken down or even shattered.

Lit­er­al­ly, the ner­vous sys­tem of many, and the men­tal­i­ty of the times, was rocked back and forth lead­ing to a grow­ing con­di­tion of spir­i­tu­al dis-ease, with men­tal, emo­tion­al and phys­i­cal exhaus­tion becom­ing the norm and bane for many.

In the chart of the USA, the most impor­tant aspect of Mer­cury is the oppo­si­tion to the plan­et Plu­to, the ruler of Will-Pow­er. The com­bi­na­tion of Mer­cury with Plu­to cre­ates a “men­tal­i­ty” with great pow­ers of obser­va­tion and con­cen­tra­tion, unique­ly endowed with a capac­i­ty for research, with the abil­i­ty to delve into greater depths of under­stand­ing and equal­ly extend the range of comprehension. 

But equal­ly, when mis­ap­plied, as is often the case with an oppo­si­tion, this com­bi­na­tion of the Will and Mind can lead to obses­sion­al think­ing, a will-full­ness and deter­mi­na­tion that can lead to the attempt to bend oth­ers to a cer­tain belief or thought. When Might makes Right, then rea­son, con­sid­er­a­tion, under­stand­ing and our tol­er­ance for one anoth­er will fail.

Our democ­ra­cy depends upon the free exchange of ideas, where there is a mutu­al respect and tol­er­ance for one anoth­er to under­pin and pre­serve our free exchange of thoughts, so that our ideas may com­pete with one anoth­er, and from this we may find the best and bright­est ideas to bring about the most benef­i­cent effects for one and all. It is this very cru­cible of forg­ing bet­ter under­stand­ing with and between one anoth­er that will face an even greater chal­lenge in 2017.

For as much as 2016 was char­ac­ter­ized by the surg­ing dis­qui­et and dis­rup­tion in thought-forms for the USA with Uranus over Mer­cury, it was already eliciting/activating the plan­et in oppo­si­tion to Mer­cury, Plu­to. In 2017 Uranus, will be exact­ly squar­ing Plu­to (while still influ­enc­ing Mer­cury). Uranus is the Avatar of Free­dom and Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, and Plu­to is the Avatar of Will and of Pow­er. Much as the world in gen­er­al has been under­go­ing the strug­gle of Uranus Squar­ing Plu­to for sev­er­al years now, it will now take cen­ter stage in our very own nation­al chart in 2017.

There has been much dis­cus­sion of late, and obser­va­tions here and around the world, of the rise (and seem­ing) appeal of Author­i­tar­i­an­ism. Cer­tain­ly, the con­tin­u­ing align­ments of Uranus and Plu­to, (much as their sim­i­lar square her­ald­ed in the 1930’s, and many observers have not­ed how our time mir­rors that one), and the unease and uncer­tain­ties brought about the “end of an age” with Plu­to swing­ing through Capri­corn, have led some to seek a sim­pler answer to their trou­bles, they look for their sal­va­tion in a “strong” leader.

But through­out his­to­ry, and as our founders who wrote the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence and our Con­sti­tu­tion knew all too well, (hav­ing them­selves thrown off a monar­chi­cal or absolute despo­tism), the end result of invest­ing one or a few with too much pow­er is Tyranny.

That is pre­cise­ly why our sys­tem is built and based upon a series of “checks and bal­ances”, so that pow­er is dis­trib­uted and not con­cen­trat­ed. The heart and cor­ner­stone of our self-gov­ern­ment is the prin­ci­ple of “Free Speech”. It is no acci­dent that this sacred prin­ci­ple is enshrined in the 1^st Amendment:

“Con­gress shall make no law respect­ing an estab­lish­ment of reli­gion, or pro­hibit­ing the free exer­cise there­of; or abridg­ing the free­dom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the peo­ple peace­ably to assem­ble, and to peti­tion the Gov­ern­ment for a redress of grievances.”

Uranus squar­ing Plu­to is the inte­gral strug­gle to bal­ance Free­dom and Will. It is a reminder to you that the true and Spir­i­tu­al use of your Will is so that you can become Self-Mas­ter­ful, and that you are here to learn to Respect one anoth­er and to exer­cise Self-Con­trol. It is a Spir­i­tu­al crime to abuse this pow­er, and the use of the Will to dom­i­nate or sub­ju­gate oth­ers is known as (Spir­i­tu­al) Tres­pass­ing. (Again, it is no acci­dent that it is one of the “Ten Commandments”).

There will be times, such as what you now encounter, where some will attempt to force their Ideas upon you, to “box” you in, to dimin­ish and dam­age the sacred Hier­ar­chy of Respon­si­bil­i­ty and attempt to divide you from one anoth­er. But as much as Plu­to and the Will may be used ille­git­i­mate­ly as the pow­er to bring unjust force upon anoth­er, know that it is equal­ly your Pow­er to Resist this too.

Do not let your­self be “boxed in” or divid­ed from one anoth­er. Do not accept the efforts by some to fos­ter a “False Real­i­ty”, as they seek to weak­en oth­er sources of Rea­son and Author­i­ty, and by so doing seek to break down the com­mon bonds which hold us to one anoth­er in Faith and Love.

Author­i­tar­i­ans seek to hold all pow­er, which depends upon their efforts to divide you from your lov­ing Spir­i­tu­al nature. They will attempt to cre­ate a “sim­ple real­i­ty” of “Us and Them”, of “Light and Dark”. They will whis­per (and shout) that only they have the answer…but your high­er self will remind you, that these are the shad­ow-forms of dam­aged minds and spir­its, these are the lies of lost and bro­ken souls.

Remem­ber who you are, and why you are here: Always main­tain the integri­ty of your own space of spir­it, which can only be achieved when you equal­ly respect, pre­serve and defend the sacred space of one and all.

Keep your mind Strong, yet equal­ly Sup­ple and Nuanced, by hold­ing to the high­est prin­ci­ples of Spir­it, the fore­most being this:

“You are all relat­ed, and what you do to the least of these you do to the One”.

Above all, do not be divid­ed from one another.

Remem­ber who you are, you are seek­ers and sto­ry­tellers, and from shar­ing your thoughts and wis­dom with one anoth­er you will pre­vail. Tell your sto­ries to one anoth­er, so that you may Strength­en your com­mon bonds and understanding.

By this you will pre­serve, pro­tect and defend your­self, your world and one another.

All this you will do if you hold in your heart the Pri­ma­ry Spir­i­tu­al Triad:

May you Speak with Wisdom…

May you Live by Love…

May you Be all for one, and one for All.

Next, Don­ald Trump

Whence – Where – Whither

Part 3 – Whither

Hav­ing con­sid­ered where we have come from, and where we are now, it remains for us to attempt to be “seers”, to lift our hearts and minds to con­sid­er the dawn­ing of our tomorrows.

As I have men­tioned in many inter­views and post­ings, the changes you and your world are wit­ness­ing only come upon us every 250 years or so. This end of an age is also the birth of a New World…and it is this tran­si­tion, this pre­car­i­ous-pre­cious moment is your Respon­si­bil­i­ty. That you are here now is no acci­dent, what­ev­er you may think your life is for…this, this is your True Purpose:

You are here to wise­ly pass on the best of what was, and to lov­ing­ly pro­tect and nur­ture the birth of this New Earth. You are here for those who come after, your chil­dren, and your children’s children.

As you attempt to see around the next cor­ner of time, what might you find wait­ing for you on your path of Des­tiny in the years to come?

Plu­to:
We will be under the influ­ence of Plu­to in Capri­corn until 2024. The cathar­sis-meta­mor­pho­sis it has brought into the Hier­ar­chies of Real­i­ty is hard­ly com­plete, in fact we are only half-way through this cycle of re-birth. The tests of Will and Pow­er in the hier­ar­chi­cal struc­tures of your world will con­tin­ue to rever­ber­ate through all realms, per­son­al, social, eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal. When it moves into Aquar­ius, you will more clear­ly begin to see your hard-won conservation/preservation/renewal efforts reveal the New World that is dawning.

Nep­tune:
Like­wise the mys­te­ri­ous, mag­i­cal and Illu­mi­na­tive pas­sage of Nep­tune will con­tin­ue until 2026. The bound­aries between cor­po­re­al and incor­po­re­al realms will con­tin­ue to become ever more porous. True Spir­i­tu­al inti­ma­tions will be counter-point­ed with the Illu­sion­ary, (the con­fus­ing and dis­si­pat­ing forms of the low­er astral planes), and it will take great wis­dom to dis­cern from what realm your inspi­ra­tions or night­mares come. 

Do not “force” spir­i­tu­al intu­ition or per­cep­tions, let them grow nat­u­ral­ly, so that you may find your “clear-see­ing” through a bal­anced accord and inte­gra­tion with your spir­i­tu­al matu­ri­ty and wis­dom. Inspi­ra­tion and Cre­ativ­i­ty in the Arts will soar, and the whis­pers of new tomor­rows will exert ever stronger pulls on both dream­ers and fear-mon­gers alike. Stand in your truth, hew to the Ancient Wis­dom and find your Faith in the renew­al of your pow­er as a Creator.

Uranus:
2017 will be the last full year for Uranus in Aries. Dur­ing 2018 it will begin to enter Tau­rus, only to retreat into Aries in Novem­ber 2018, and return to Tau­rus for 7 years in March 2019. Uranus, the Awak­en­er, will turn his atten­tion from the realm of Ide­al­is­tic Pas­sions and Dri­ves (Aries), to the realm of Val­ues and Sub­stance. The shock and awe of the “New Thought-Forms” from 2010–2018 will give way to the neces­si­ty of Inno­v­a­tive Appli­ca­tions. The ques­tion will be: which of these new ways of think­ing will work in fact?

Equal­ly, the Hier­ar­chy of Val­ue, of what is desired or more trea­sured in our soci­ety will go through great change. Some val­ues that were the most prized of trea­sures will fade away, (for exam­ple: coal, oil), and a range of val­ues will be chal­lenged and reassessed. There will be a resur­gence and renew­al of spir­i­tu­al val­ues, which will lead to the heal­ing of the mate­r­i­al imbal­ances and dev­as­ta­tions that imper­il life on our Earth.

Sat­urn:
At the very end of 2017, Sat­urn will move from Sagit­tar­ius into Capri­corn. What­ev­er Sign Sat­urn is mov­ing through, that is the “space” where you and your world will have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to grow and learn. By con­fronting error and choos­ing to do bet­ter, through your hard-won efforts at self-improve­ment, this will be exact­ly the place where you will reveal your tru­ly spir­i­tu­al nature. You need to always remem­ber, that you are here for one thing, you are here quite sim­ply to grow.

Since 2015 your spir­i­tu­al tests and oppor­tu­ni­ties for growth were focused in the sign of Sagit­tar­ius, your tests have been “Tests of Truth”. When Sat­urn enters Capri­corn, (its “own” sign) in Decem­ber 2017, your tests will move from the realm of Ideals, Prin­ci­ples and Laws to the realm of Sub­stan­ti­a­tion. Your test will be to align your Ideals and your Reality.

While Sat­urn is in Capri­corn, you will face your chal­lenges in the realm of Respon­si­bil­i­ties, Duties and how well you under­stand your own true Pur­pose. The spir­i­tu­al ques­tions will not be about “Suc­cess” or “Pow­er”, the fun­da­men­tal ques­tion will be how do you under­stand what it means to be tru­ly Ful­filled? Capri­corn is about your Des­tiny, and the answer is found in your Ori­gin. Do you know and remem­ber what you tru­ly are? Do you under­stand that you are part of an Inte­gral Hier­ar­chy of Spir­it, and that all of Life is Sacred? You are here to Ful­fill your Respon­si­bil­i­ties, to your­self, to your fam­i­ly, to your community…to Life itself.

Jupiter:
From Sep­tem­ber 2016 until Octo­ber 2017, Jupiter will be mov­ing through Libra. Then from Octo­ber 2017 until Novem­ber 2018, Jupiter will be in Scor­pio. As I not­ed in Part 2 of this three-part series, the dom­i­nant role of Jupiter in 2017 will be expe­ri­enced in the inter­play between it and the plan­ets Uranus and Plu­to. The strug­gle to bal­ance Freedom/Individuality (Uranus) and Power/Authority (Plu­to) will be informed by Jupiter’s pas­sage through Libra, which is mod­u­lat­ing the Uranus/Pluto square with the Prin­ci­ples embod­ied in Right Rela­tion­ships. The key is to relate to your­self and to one anoth­er with­in a Dynam­ic Equi­lib­ri­um, where an Inte­gral bal­ance of Self-Sac­ri­fice and Self-Real­iza­tion will fos­ter and pre­serve right relationships.

In Decem­ber 2017 and through­out most of 2018, Jupiter in Scor­pio will move into a Beau­ti­ful­ly Har­mo­nious rela­tion­ship with the plan­et Nep­tune in Pisces. The Wis­dom and Guid­ance of Jupiter in Scor­pio is focused upon the process­es and chal­lenges you encounter in forg­ing, main­tain­ing and dis­solv­ing the Unions of your life. The prin­ci­pal chal­lenge you face in this sphere con­cerns the neces­si­ty of Sacrifice.

Through­out your jour­ney, whether join­ing with one oth­er in an inti­mate rela­tion­ship, or join­ing with many in a joint ven­ture, you will be required to give up something(s) to be or work with them. The prob­lem is that you may sur­ren­der some­thing of you that makes you “you”, (this is known as a “false-sac­ri­fice”), and if you do so your attempt to forge or main­tain a union ends up being harm­ful to your­self (and often to oth­ers), and the union will and must inevitably fail.

The Intu­itive Inspi­ra­tions of Nep­tune this year will pro­vide a deep­er under­stand­ing of the nature of the Union you are in or are try­ing to form. Your clear­er-see­ing (clair­voy­ance) will per­mit you to more adept­ly per­ceive what is and what is not nego­tiable with­in you, and it will shine a greater light of under­stand­ing upon the other(s) as to whether there is enough com­mon val­ue to hold you to one anoth­er in a union in the first place.

More gen­er­al­ly, the Trine of Jupiter and Nep­tune will fos­ter larg­er ranges of Spir­i­tu­al expe­ri­ences, and there will be a greater need for and more mov­ing expe­ri­ences of Lov­ing Com­pas­sion and Empa­thy. There will be a sig­nif­i­cant ele­va­tion in and appre­ci­a­tion for Cre­ativ­i­ty and the Arts. Both the Spir­i­tu­al and Artis­tic realms in your world will ful­fill their High­est func­tions, to bring ever greater mean­ing and benef­ic influ­ences into your life and World.

Next, The Chart of the USA and Don­ald Trump

The Way of Understanding

The Way of Wis­dom, Humil­i­ty and Love

The Wheel of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it turns once more.

Time to move out of the Waters of the Deep,

The Space of Union that is Scorpio.

Time to draw back your bow of Inten­tion, and take aim by the Clar­i­ty of Fire,

To look for Truth in the Wis­dom Ways of Sagittarius.

You have felt the joy of Union; and you have felt the agony of Sep­a­ra­tion too.

It is time to step back, to widen your per­spec­tive and points of view…

It is time to drink from that Ancient Well of Wis­dom, and add your pre­cious drops too.

Now you wish for one thing only, now you yearn to “under­stand”. You need the essence, the elixir of mean­ing from those heart­felt “meet­ings and part­ings”. You smiled in the joys of find­ing com­mon pur­pose, of shar­ing your life or your work with one anoth­er, and becom­ing even more who you are through join­ing with one another.

Or, you expe­ri­enced the awful pain of being bro­ken apart as you found your com­mon grounds were not so com­mon after all. What defined you and they now made clear, at least for now, that you were too dif­fer­ent from one anoth­er; your paths may have crossed, only to sep­a­rate once again.

What did you learn about your­self (and of them)? What are you sup­posed to make from those awe­some heights of ecsta­sy and these painful depths of despair…exactly where do you go from here?

You need to har­vest the mean­ing from these expe­ri­ences, so you can under­stand the Quin­tes­sence of Truth behind them. You aspire to see how these glean­ings of mean­ing may pro­vide some insight about your­self and your des­tiny, and like­wise offer a Prov­i­den­tial point­ing to the greater des­tiny of “I and Thou” and your larg­er world too. Whether you came togeth­er as one; or fell apart into sep­a­ra­tions (for a time), you need this now. You must under­stand what this means, the how’s and why’s of what hap­pened in that mys­te­ri­ous and Alchem­i­cal space of union.

Know this, it was exact­ly in this fric­tion­al cru­cible of val­ue and mean­ing, of Unions made and Unions lost, it is exact­ly through this that you will dis­cern what is you and what is less you. This is “the way”, you find your­self in and through one anoth­er. That by going out to meet, under­stand and join with them you also dis­cov­ered “you”, that this is the way you come that much clos­er to your own true self too.

But now there is this urgent need to under­stand what hap­pened, to extend your­self into a more encom­pass­ing frame­work of mean­ing. You wish to know how to be your­self, and for them to be them­selves too, and so remain true to the path of light and love. Because you do need one anoth­er, we all need one anoth­er to become who we are meant to be. This is the Spir­i­tu­al Dance of Life, the One and the many, and out of the many we return to the One.

So, you look for answers, you seek in the Halls of Wis­dom and you look with­in your own mind­ful heart too. You look to the gifts of your Ances­tors, from the Teach­ers, Sages and Seers who came this way before. They too strug­gled to under­stand, and their gifts remain a Light in the Dark­ness, and will help you to dis­pel the shad­ows of Igno­rance and Evil in the world. By Phi­los­o­phy, Reli­gion, Sci­ence and Art, their Rea­son­ing and Faith are the hard-won Quin­tes­sence of their spir­i­tu­al strug­gles for the Greater Aware­ness, and their Lives, Love and Rea­son the most pre­cious gift offered for one and all.

Yet the path­ways of Truth are equal­ly found with­in, because the same spir­i­tu­al light behind all that is “out there”, is equal­ly what makes you, you. Your own Wis­dom Well, your High­er Self, will gen­tly whis­per inte­gral affir­ma­tions, align­ing what you inward­ly intu­it with what you out­ward­ly know by expe­ri­ence, and so you take anoth­er step on the path of Truth too. You will offer your­self and your dew­drops of under­stand­ing, adding your expe­ri­ences to the Well of Wis­dom shared by one and all.

But because you are unique, each of you will come to the Greater Aware­ness upon dif­fer­ent paths, so that even in your seek­ing for truth and under­stand­ing, you will come togeth­er but also at times pull apart over what is “the truth”. But through Rea­son and by Love, by com­bin­ing and refin­ing, through inner Inspi­ra­tions and out­ward con­fir­ma­tions, you will come to know the most impor­tant Truth behind all the less­er truths you hold, that before me is anoth­er, just like me, and my only way for­ward is to love them as I love myself.

You start­ed as One, one with one anoth­er, and you will through all your indi­vid­u­a­tions, dif­fer­en­ti­a­tions and res­onations as a unique spark of the Divine, you will end as many but One again. In your jour­neys through Worlds, Forms and Lives you are will always be a spe­cial spark of the divine, and you will bring forth your indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and dif­fer­ences that make you dis­tinct. But this will also bring about your sep­a­ra­tions from one anoth­er too, at least for a time. But for­ev­er and always you must remem­ber the fun­da­men­tal Truth, that you are made by and for one anoth­er. You must strive to hold togeth­er “I and Thou”, to both hon­or the indi­vid­u­al­i­ty in one anoth­er yet ten­der­ly dis­cov­er, nur­ture and abide in the Greater Aware­ness and Real­i­ty which is your Love for one another.

Your Jour­ney is the sto­ry of Con­scious­ness, of the self that is the Self-Becoming.

As you draw ever clos­er to Wis­dom you will find that you will also become more hum­ble too. For this is truth, the more you under­stand, tru­ly under­stand, the more encom­pass­ing, nuanced and lov­ing your truths will become. Your Wis­dom will grow as your Humil­i­ty grows too. There is an inte­gral align­ment between your Mind and Heart, and in this Jour­ney of Self-Becom­ing, no mat­ter how high or far you have come, you must ever “Walk On” to greater Wis­dom, as you equal­ly deep­en your affec­tions for one another.

You shall be inspired by the great ones lov­ing­ly show you “the way”. They did not come to tell you what you do, for you must walk your own path towards Under­stand­ing. But by their exam­ple, they showed you who you real­ly are. By their Illu­mi­na­tion held in the Greater Aware­ness, and by their lives filled with Grace and Humil­i­ty, you see true Wis­dom and feel what is hold­ing togeth­er one and all, Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

Where is the answer, where is the Pearl of Great Price?

It is there in your heart, and found in all hearts too…

There you will find Peace in the Gift of Wisdom.

There you will find Grace in a Life of Humility.

There you will tru­ly Live with Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

You and your world sweep into the “Third Space” of the Super­nal Riv­er of Life, that band of Spir­i­tu­al Ener­gy called The Zodi­ac, mys­ti­cal­ly known as the Cir­cle of the “Liv­ing Ones”, which encom­pass­es your jour­ney around your star.

Each one of these twelve spaces holds a spe­cial mean­ing for you, each holds a truth of the Life Divine. In your annu­al cir­cuit you have come now to this Third moment of the First Quar­ter. Here in this first Trip­tych of Truth, here in the first of Four Turn­ings, you have before you the rev­e­la­tion of your core of con­scious­ness held in these pri­mal three:

Aries res­onates with the first breath, of Pure Aware­ness, “I am”…

Tau­rus res­onates with the sec­ond breath, of Pure Being, “I am that”…

Gem­i­ni res­onates with the third breath, of Self-Aware­ness, “I am that, I am.”

Your jour­ney in this life, and in life after life, is the saga of Spir­it becom­ing. It is a won­drous­ly pro­found jour­ney that start­ed for you eons and eons ago. It is the sto­ry of the unfold­ment of your Spark of the Divine which abides in your core. This is your Dia­mond Body of Infi­nite Love, your Ker­nel of Spir­it, and it is this Life-Atom which holds your Aware­ness-Pres­ence through count­less worlds, forms and through all your many, many lives.

Your jour­ney of spir­it began with you as an non self-aware, unself-con­scious yet pre­cious Spark of Spir­it embark­ing upon a series of embod­i­ments. Each of your sub­stan­ti­a­tions brought you to ever increas­ing­ly more com­plex forms of embod­i­ment, and each life elicit­ed from you a greater range of Aware­ness, and so each was anoth­er pre­cious step along the path of your Awak­en­ing too.

For many, many ages your jour­ney pro­ceed­ed through these increas­ing­ly refined lev­els of con­scious­ness, yet they always remained out­side of that most spe­cial qual­i­ty that you now take for granted…and it is this essen­tial qual­i­ty that sets you and all the beings who are ranged above you, (for you are part of a vast Hier­ar­chy of Light and Spir­it rang­ing from the bare­ly con­scious to the Super or Cos­mic Con­scious), as being quite apart from all that have as yet to reach this “Cross­ing point of the Light”, who have yet to meet this most awe­some moment in Con­scious­ness that you met ages and ages ago.

It is in this moment of awak­en­ing, this pass­ing of the Por­tal of Self-Aware­ness, that is cel­e­brat­ed by what is held in Gem­i­ni. For it is here that some­thing quite extra­or­di­nary hap­pened in your sojourn through this realm known as Human, (and of course this Spir­i­tu­al Quick­en­ing con­tin­ues to hap­pen through­out all times and realms). This is the moment that is held in awe and with great rev­er­ence by all Mas­ters, Sages and Seers, for this is the crit­i­cal turn­ing point in the evo­lu­tion of the all the sparks of the Divine, and it also most tru­ly and lov­ing­ly con­firms the Nature of Spir­it and the Love of the One for one and all.

This moment res­onates with that fun­da­men­tal Truth of this Uni­verse, that real­ly there is One Life and One Spir­it, and it exem­pli­fies and hon­ors the Truth that all are part of a great Riv­er of Life and Con­scious­ness, and that each and every Con­scious-Cen­ter is Inte­gral to one anoth­er, each is con­nect­ed to and part of one anoth­er, and that each and every being is here to love one anoth­er, to help one anoth­er, and join with one anoth­er as we all con­tin­ue upon this same jour­ney in, by, through and even­tu­al­ly return with all these expe­ri­ences as our gifts that we offer up to the One.

Many myths and tales are told of this spe­cial moment. They are there if you know where and what to look for, for they are found in the sto­ries of Prometheus, Lucifer, Loki and Quet­zal­coatl and many, many oth­ers. It is most revered and lov­ing­ly told in the Orig­i­nal or Ancient Teach­ings in the sto­ry of the Kumaras, beings of a much more advanced state than we, who came at the appoint­ed time, when the Human­i­ty of that peri­od was ready for the next step for­ward in Con­scious­ness. It was their Des­tiny to impart to us the Light of Under­stand­ing, for as it had been done for them in anoth­er Cycle of Spir­it, they too now came to pass on this gift to us.

For it was then that the Light of Self-Con­scious­ness was impart­ed to us who were with­out self-aware­ness, we were the “mind­less ones” at that time, lack­ing in Self-Aware­ness. They passed on this Torch of Under­stand­ing, and our Inno­cence was lost, our time in “Eden” was at an end…

But this was the next nec­es­sary step that you had to take in your jour­ney, because now the pace of reach­ing the “promised land” increased, as it became pos­si­ble for you now to become Self-Con­scious­ly Self-Made and tru­ly respon­si­ble for lift­ing your­self towards your Divine Destiny.

You pass the Por­tal that is Gem­i­ni, where inno­cence was sur­ren­dered as your Spir­i­tu­al Flame was quick­ened. You enter the realm of the Promise-Keep­ers, of those who Know, who hold back the Dark­ness by their ded­i­ca­tion to Become and Pre­serve the Light.

You are the Awak­en­ing Ones…

Mov­ing into the Light.

You are Singing the Songs of Spirit…

The Truth shin­ing in your Heart.

You are mov­ing towards your Destiny,

By, with and through the Love of the One.

You are here to lead with Light,

You are here to lead with Beauty,

You are here to lead by Love.

Venus, your bright burn­ing “Star of the Morn­ing”, is ris­ing from the waters of Pisces to begin a new cycle of danc­ing through the stars. It is a new day and a New Year for the Avatar of your Val­ue. This is your dawn­ing day, this is your shin­ing star…this is the sea­son to “spring ahead” with your Heart.

Though your own natal posi­tion of Venus will guide your authen­tic aes­thet­ic and social sen­si­bil­i­ties, as Venus moves through the 12 signs of the Zodi­ac it is most essen­tial and impor­tant for you to appre­ci­ate and look through each and all of these inte­gral lens­es of love too. Though your own Venus might be in Vir­go or Aquar­ius, you have some­where with­in you each of the Signs, and they will each show you anoth­er facet of val­ue, beau­ty and love…and of you.

For you are here to grow, and you need to under­stand and encom­pass these var­ied forms of Beau­ty and Love that you will learn and mas­ter as you move ever clos­er to a life sub­lime. Venus is your Light Bear­er, and she brings you this gift, she shows you how to approach your expe­ri­ence of Beau­ty and Love in every sea­son of your life.

Venus was mov­ing through Pisces for the past few weeks, and your heart was drawn that much clos­er to a high­er expres­sion of com­pas­sion and sac­ri­fice. As always, though stim­u­lat­ed by the shift­ing ener­gies that swirl around and through you, it was and will always be your high­er self who led you onwards, and it was this greater self who inspired you to dis­solve the bound­aries between I and Thou. You slipped beyond your mor­tal heart, and expe­ri­enced a love that was more trans-per­son­al. You found, even if only for a heav­en­ly moment, that you could abide in the Truth that every­thing and every­one is part of the Divine, and so feel and know that all are relat­ed to one anoth­er, all are one in the Love of the One.

But each realm and sea­son of life must yield to the next, each melody of Beau­ty and Love must be sung for the Song of Spir­it to be com­plete, and so it is time to find your Melody of the Eter­nal Flame, it is time to Sing of Love renewed.

For Venus in Aries is a return to Source, to the essen­tial expe­ri­ence of who you are. Before you can tru­ly enjoy any­thing of beau­ty, before you can be loved by anoth­er or love any­one as they should be loved, you must first have this inte­gral expe­ri­ence and so under­stand the true nature of your­self. You must draw ever clos­er to the truth that Beau­ty and Love are for­ev­er the core that makes you who you are.

In your heart of hearts is the Foun­tain Source of Spir­it, and this is your Beloved. Abid­ing there is the Divin­i­ty that uncon­di­tion­al­ly Loves you, that holds you and all of Cre­ation by this force that thrills through­out the entire Cos­mos. That as much as you are loved uncon­di­tion­al­ly, so you should know that you are here to go forth and be your­self pure­ly and lov­ing­ly. That by expe­ri­enc­ing this pure love of your­self, you will open the door­way to the true enjoy­ment of the beau­ty of the world and of your love for one another.

Venus in Aries brings you back to what comes first, to this first Les­son of Love. Your Val­ue, your Beau­ty and your Love are beyond mea­sure for they orig­i­nate in the Spark of the Divine with­in you, and you will unfold from with­in your­self this Song of Cre­ation for­ev­er and ever.

Venus in Aries is about your Love of you which is the reflect­ed won­der of the Love of the One for all. You are loved, you are spe­cial and your pres­ence and pur­pose will be revealed by your Atti­tude and Inten­tion, that being made by Love, you are here to be Lov­ing and to Act by Love.

You are here to shine a Light…

You are Divine.

You are Beautiful.

And, you are here to lead with Love.