The jour­ney of Jupiter around your star takes about 12 years, and as a result Jupiter will usu­al­ly move through one sign per year. But like every­thing in this Uni­verse, unique­ness and indi­vid­u­al­i­ty are at the core of each enti­ty, for at the heart of every speck and mote of this Uni­verse there is the Spark of the Divine. So all plan­e­tary orbits are not cir­cles but ellipses, and as the plan­et moves around the Sun it will “speed up” or slow down” depend­ing upon how close or far away it is from the Sun.

Jupiter entered Vir­go on August 11, 2015 and will now move through Libra until Octo­ber 10, 2017. Jupiter is the Avatar of Truth, the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Phi­los­o­phy, Sci­ence and Reli­gion for you. It rules your Under­stand­ing, it is the shaper of your Beliefs and the source of your Motivations.

By look­ing at Jupiter in your own chart, (or that of any­one else), you can dis­cern the prin­ci­ple deter­mi­nants of the Why, How and What it is that you believe, of what dri­ves you to relate to your world through def­i­nite assump­tions of what is “right” and what is “wrong”, of what is the good and what it means to do good.

As Jupiter changes sign year after year, it pro­vides a refine­ment for that year in the con­text of mean­ing­ful­ness for every­one. Though you will prin­ci­pal­ly be shaped by the posi­tion of Jupiter in your own chart, (and by the aspects it has with the oth­er plan­ets in your chart), Jupiter’s Jour­ney is part of your Jour­ney in Spirt, of mov­ing into the Greater Aware­ness, and so you need this expe­ri­ence of the vary­ing sen­si­bil­i­ties offered by Jupiter through each of the Twelve Signs.

For the last year your seek­ing for Truth, Mean­ing and Moti­va­tion was guid­ed by Jupiter in Vir­go. The “Mean­ing of Life” for Vir­go is to cre­ate a life that makes sense, to live in a world of order where­in each part of life is in bal­ance with every oth­er part. The “good life” is a life of Grace and Ease, it is Refined, Ele­gant and Mean­ing­ful in all ways. The moti­va­tion for the Vir­go part of you is to cre­ate a life of dynam­ic har­mo­ny, or as the ancient wis­dom states, the key to being at Peace is quite sim­ply and pro­found­ly “To Live in Beauty”.

Jupiter in Vir­go was an oppor­tu­ni­ty to re-orga­nize your beliefs and life so to cre­ate a bet­ter cor­re­spon­dence between inner mean­ing and out­er order­ing. To have all the facets of your life, pri­vate time/public time, work/play, rest/activity, to have them all be in bal­anced pro­por­tion­al­i­ty to one anoth­er. To live with Grace and Har­mo­ny, to Live in Beau­ty. By find­ing the bet­ter way to believe, you were able to form a bet­ter life out­ward­ly too.

If this pas­sage of Jupiter were to be expe­ri­enced in a more chal­leng­ing or neg­a­tive way, then Jupiter in Vir­go would have led to greater crit­i­cism and fault-find­ing, for one­self and/or direct­ed at oth­ers. The lit­tlest annoy­ances or trou­bles would have blown out of pro­por­tion, and the Vir­go time of heal­ing would have instead fos­tered greater dis­cord, cre­at­ing even less har­mo­ny with­in and around oneself.

Jupiter in Libra will now bring the focus of Mean­ing­ful­ness into the realm of Rela­tion­ships. Jupiter rules your moti­va­tions, and in Libra there is most cer­tain­ly an oppor­tu­ni­ty for an ele­va­tion and expan­sion of your con­duct towards one anoth­er. Fun­da­men­tal­ly, as always, the Truths to guide your way will always come from with­in, from your High­er Self…from your Heart. They are equal­ly to be found in the Ancient Wis­dom, and from this Sacred Source these truths have flowed out and been incor­po­rat­ed into all Reli­gions and Moral Philosophies.

From your heart, and by these teach­ings, you are remind­ed that each one of you is part of the one Great Life of the One. How you con­duct your­self towards any oth­er will be reflected/redirected back upon you with regards to how oth­ers will con­duct them­selves towards you. In essence, the Law of Kar­ma is per­fect and just, and so you are guid­ed by love to fol­low the Gold­en Rule, “Do unto oth­ers as you would have them do unto you”.

This is “the Way”, for you live in a fun­da­men­tal­ly moral uni­verse and there is noth­ing that will escape this per­fect align­ment gov­ern­ing all relationships…so that how you give, and what you give will be returned to you some day.

Jupiter in Libra is a reminder, that you are here to be kind to one anoth­er, to be gen­er­ous to one anoth­er, to be mind­ful of one another…and by these Right Moti­va­tions, Right Thoughts and Right Actions you will even­tu­al­ly find your­self where you have always been des­tined to be. You will make your way Home on the path of Peace; You will live your life in the way of Truth; You will find your­self by the Wis­dom of Love.

You are here to be sur­round­ed by Love…

You are here to be embraced by Love…

You are here to Love and be Loved…

Just Love.

Here is the third of your four Mer­cury Ret­ro­grades this year. Begin­ning at the very end of Vir­go, one of the signs that Mer­cury is said to “rule”, and mov­ing back through about ½ of Vir­go until Sep­tem­ber 21^st-22^nd, Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is always an oppor­tu­ni­ty to pause and recon­sid­er the most impor­tant fac­tor in the qual­i­ty of your life, the health of your mind.

One of the most impor­tant gifts you have secured by mov­ing through the human king­dom is your won­drous fac­ul­ty of a self-reflec­tive con­scious­ness. You have the abil­i­ty to devel­op an ever more objec­tive under­stand­ing of your­self and your thought-forms. It is from this won­drous self-cor­rect­ing con­scious­ness that you can learn the con­se­quen­tial con­nec­tions between how you think, how you act and the result­ing real­i­ty you make for your­self. Over time, you learn to choose bet­ter, to cor­rect mis­un­der­stand­ings, mis­con­cep­tions and devel­op a more inclu­sive and com­pre­hen­sive view of the Greater Real­i­ty in which you reside.

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is mere­ly, but won­der­ful­ly, this fac­ul­ty of self-cor­rec­tion/­self-improve­ment work­ing to a high­er degree. It is your time to be ever more intro­spec­tive and con­tem­pla­tive, to review, revise and make more true your inner world view since your mind is bend­ing back upon itself more read­i­ly now.

But of course this often does bring about dif­fi­cul­ties in the day to day of pay­ing atten­tion to the out­er world, for you are more like­ly to be engaged with­in and not as aware of what may be hap­pen­ing around you. More­over, every­one else is so dis­posed as well. So you may not con­vey your thoughts/intentions to oth­ers as well as you might nor­mal­ly; and they may not be receiv­ing as read­i­ly either. And of course the same applies in reverse.

As a con­se­quence, mis­un­der­stand­ings may mount up in both per­son­al and busi­ness mat­ters. You have to make use of this won­der­ful time, yes. But you need to be as mind­ful of the trou­bles it may bring in its wake and do what you can to min­i­mize these.

First­ly, most­ly, have a sense of humor, for your own dis­tract­ed­ness and mis­per­cep­tions, and be equal­ly for­giv­ing of those around you too. In order lim­it the neg­a­tive side effects, do set aside more time in your day for moments of soli­tude and con­tem­pla­tive spaces in order to make use of ret­ro­grade Mercury’s gifts for you. Encour­age oth­ers by your exam­ple to also see the oppor­tu­ni­ty here to reduce ill-advised thought-forms and help them to engage in more self-crit­i­cal think­ing too.

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade should be a time for the quick­en­ing of one your most astound­ing qual­i­ties: You Know…and You Know that you Know!

Let Her­mes, the “mes­sen­ger of the gods”, take you on an inner jour­ney now.

Shift you focus, chal­lenge and change your assumptions.

See what you were “miss­ing”, always be humble.

Expe­ri­ence the won­der of the “Ah-Ha” moment,

And Smile!

The Path­way of Perfection

You are the Self-that-is Becoming,

A Self-Lumi­nous Spark of the One Divine Flame.

You jour­ney through many Worlds, Forms and Lives,

Lift­ing your­self and all these Ener­gy-Forms ever clos­er to the Fullness

To be found with­in the Greater Awareness.

Your play­ground of Con­scious­ness is turn­ing once more,

The “Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones”, the Zodi­ac, leaves behind

The Fixed Fire that is Leo and brings you

Into the Blessed Realm,

Into the Sacred Space of Wholeness.

Here now is your time of Grace, Beau­ty and Virtue,

On bend­ed knee and with great devotion

May you find Peace in your space of Virgo.

For after each Fire Sign, after every time of Inspi­ra­tion and Ide­al­ism, there must come this time…the time in which you expe­ri­ence what is real­ly real. Now those Ideals and Dreams are put to the test of Mat­ter and Form. Just as after your aware­ness of Pres­ence in the realm of Aries must be fol­lowed by your aware­ness of Val­ue in Tau­rus, so too must your aware­ness of Per­for­mance in the realm of Leo be fol­lowed by your aware­ness of Peace in Virgo.

You have always desired one thing, to be at Peace. There is no high­er realm, no greater val­ue than to be at Peace, both with­in and with­out. It is not found here or there, or any­where what­so­ev­er. It is not a place or even a time, it is beyond these things. To be at Peace is found in a high­er State of Con­scious­ness, where inner and out­er realms align, where you and your world are one…for a time.

For you and your world are here for one thing, you are Spir­it mov­ing through Space-Time, and the one injunc­tion pro­pelling the whole of Cre­ation is Growth. For it is all about the Self-That-Is-Becom­ing, from the One and to all those encom­passed in this great cre­ation formed by all the ones of the One. You and your world are part of a myr­i­ad of Ener­gy-Forms that are con­stant­ly grow­ing, con­stant­ly chang­ing, and so your chal­lenge is clear…How do you find Order and Peace in that?

You find and secure your Peace by align­ing and guid­ing your out­er phys­i­cal world inter­ac­tions to the inti­ma­tions of Wis­dom found in your High­er Self. As your aware­ness and con­duct becomes more attuned to the Greater Aware­ness, you make bet­ter choic­es for your­self and for what you bring to your world in Thoughts, Feel­ings and Deeds. And, if you go against these prompt­ings-know­ings of what is “the good”, you end up in a state of Suffering.

The Aware­ness of Vir­go is sharp and clear, it is refined and dis­cern­ing. This is what you need as you try to sep­a­rate the wheat from the chafe of your life. As the world changes and you do not adjust pro­por­tion­ate­ly, either by over­do­ing or under­per­form­ing, by doing too much or too lit­tle, pain begins to be felt. And if you per­sist, the pain will even­tu­al­ly increase beyond your bear­ing. You may fall ill Spir­i­tu­al­ly, and Men­tal­ly and Emo­tion­al­ly and final­ly suf­fer Phys­i­cal illness.

This is not pun­ish­ment. This is “The Way”, the immutable Law of Cause and Effect, and it is your Sal­va­tion. For by this Law the very nature of this uni­verse is formed to help you find your way back to the Light of Love, Beau­ty and Truth. So the pain and the suf­fer­ing of Vir­go is the way you are encour­aged to move away from the less­er, from the self­ish to the self­less, from the unloved to the uncon­di­tion­al lov­ing and so into your Greater Under­stand­ing. The Way of Vir­go is the Path of Heal­ing. It is the way you will find your way to Peace by liv­ing as you are in your inner­most: Beau­ti­ful and Lov­ing, for always remem­ber this, you are a spark of the Divine, and your lib­er­a­tion is wait­ing on you.

The Way of Vir­go is the Path of Heal­ing. It is the Way of Sacrifice.

For you must give up the less­er, you must sur­ren­der your ego

If you are to rise into your Divinity.

This has always been the way, and it has been shown to you by those who came before.

The Ser­vants of the Light, the Lone­ly Watch­ers of Initiation.

Who Offer Inspi­ra­tion and hope, yet too must wait,

For you must lift your­self up.

You must learn to choose between the less­er and the Greater,

You must become what you are here to be,

A Ful­ly Con­scious Co-Cre­ator of Creation.

Wel­come this return to the time of Virgo.

Always and Forever:

Live in Beauty

Walk in Beauty

Made of and by Beauty

May you find your way

To Truth and Light and Love.

May you be at Peace.

You are special…oh yes, yes you are!

You are a one of kind; a dis­tinct, spe­cial sparkling gem of the cosmos.

And dur­ing this time of Leo, you are remind­ed to bring forth even more authen­ti­cal­ly the Quin­tes­sence that makes you “you”. Wher­ev­er you have Leo in your being, you must dig deep with­in your soul and bring forth and reveal your­self, your self-lumi­nous essence shin­ing through your won­drous ways of lead­er­ship, cre­ativ­i­ty and love.

But in every month there comes a crit­i­cal moment, a rev­e­la­tion and bal­anc­ing of the ener­gies and forms for that time. When the Moon has come to its fur­thest reach­es, beyond this beau­ti­ful blue Earth, it stands oppo­site to the Sun and reveals the coun­ter­point­ed truth held by the oppo­site sign. Today/tonight the Sun now roars with the truth of Leo; the Moon lov­ing­ly offers the Wis­dom that is Aquarius.

The essence that is Leo encour­ages you to seek recog­ni­tion, respect and approval. But in your striv­ing for such out­ward affir­ma­tions, you may often go against your own true self to meet what you believe the one before you (or the many) wants or needs from you. Rather than being authen­tic and ful­fill­ing your true pur­pose, you become enthralled by the need for those approvals that can take you away from your true nature. You look not with­in for the song of truth that is in your heart, and instead become way­laid by the need for out­ward approval and the roar of the crowd.

The Moon in Aquar­ius reminds you that what you are to bring forth from with­in your­self is your own spe­cial expres­sion of what you share with those with whom you jour­ney. The many of which you are a one, whether it be your fam­i­ly, tribe, cul­ture or human­i­ty as a whole, is formed by a palette of pat­tern and mean­ings, of sen­si­bil­i­ties, tastes, inten­tions and truths that you will mix togeth­er into your own unique expres­sion of that whole…Yes, you are a unique one, but you are still one of a kind. You must hold these togeth­er in your own way to ful­fill your­self and be true to one anoth­er too.

Tru­ly, we are all made of one anoth­er. In this life and through count­less lives, we have formed one anoth­er, loved and helped one anoth­er, shared and shaped one anoth­er so that in the end we are all mixed together…I am in you, and you are in me. You trav­el with your com­pan­ions, here and now and in life after life, com­ing in Incar­na­tion Waves to con­tin­ue your jour­ney of form­ing a more per­fect self and a more per­fect union too.

Leo roars that you are here to lead, cre­ate and love; Aquar­ius reminds you that you are made of one anoth­er, that you are here to dream of a bet­ter tomor­row for each oth­er. Because your dreams are made of one anoth­er, your hap­pi­ness and your ful­fill­ment is tru­ly mine, and mine is yours.

Always remem­ber: We are the “ones that are the self-becoming”,

We are all for one, and one for All.

We are sparks of the divine, dream­ing creation’s song.

As it is writ­ten upon the Great Seal of the Unit­ed States:

“E Pluribus Unum”, Out of many One.

Be true to your­self; and be for one anoth­er too.

And all your dreams will come true.

Your time in Can­cer is at an end,

Where you swam in the sacred waters of your origins,

And felt the lumi­nous truth that is shin­ing there, the root of you, there in your heart.

You have touched your truer “self”; and you must heed the inspi­ra­tion that now arises…

Your need is to release this “you”, and shine through ever more dis­tinc­tive acts of self-realization.

Of course, you are tru­ly made by all the Zodi­a­cal Signs; your indi­vid­u­al­i­ty comes from your indi­vid­u­at­ed and so unique­ly artic­u­lat­ed com­bi­na­tion of them all. For The Sacred Twelve are ever present and active in the entire­ty of Cre­ation. These “Liv­ing Ones” are the Ener­gy-Forms behind all the dimen­sions of this uni­verse; they are the “lumi­nous pres­ence” at every lev­el, from the very High­est and rang­ing down into every mon­ad that abides at the core of each spark of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Yet it is also true that the Winds of Spir­it swirl through the sea­son­al vari­a­tions of the Earth’s jour­ney around your Star, so that every month this source of Light and Love illu­mines anoth­er facet of the Twelve-Fold radi­ance by which you make your way out of the dark­ness and into your joy­ful awak­en­ing by self-illumination.

Your jour­ney takes you from your begin­nings as a divine spark, as an un-self-con­scious, self-unfold­ing enti­ty cycling through count­less worlds, forms and lives to arrive at the final ini­ti­a­tion, your Apoth­e­o­sis as a ful­ly awak­ened divin­i­ty. The key to that self-awak­en­ing lies in your mas­tery of the Twelve, and so you must endeav­or, again and again, to bring forth the splen­dor that is your burn­ing, bright artic­u­la­tion of the celes­tial har­mo­ny, the song of spir­it that is “you”.

The Wheel of Life turns, and the Waters of Can­cer yield to the Fire that is Leo. Where­as the Fire of Aries is about learn­ing the les­son of “Pres­ence”, the realm of Leo is about learn­ing the les­son of “Per­for­mance”. The Fire of Leo is the Fire of Cre­ation; it is the release of the ener­gy surg­ing out of the expe­ri­ence in Can­cer, com­ing from the core of you. Leo is about Lead­er­ship, it is about Creativity…and of course, Leo is real­ly all about Love.

The release of your pow­er must be expressed through an ade­quate and mean­ing­ful form. You can find and engage these right vehi­cles of self-real­iza­tion when you have more tru­ly met your “self” at your cen­ter. Then your Cre­ativ­i­ty, and your Lead­er­ship and your Love will be Authen­tic, Respect­ed and Appre­ci­at­ed by your fel­low companions.

As you draw ever clos­er to your truth, to your inner or “high­er self”, you release your Cre­ativ­i­ty in a man­ner in which it reveals not only the dis­tinc­tive unique­ness that is “you”, but it is also expe­ri­enced by your fel­low com­pan­ions to be more mean­ing­ful to them, for you have giv­en sub­stance to what is found at the core of one and all.

When you Lead with right inten­tion, set­ting an exam­ple for oth­ers by your con­duct and bear­ing, you inspire in oth­ers to find that same noble bear­ing too. For we do not need “lead­ers” telling us what to do; we need lead­ers who inspire each and every one of us to believe in our­selves and encour­age us to be that bet­ter per­son too.

And when you have met the Eter­nal Love shin­ing there with­in your­self, then you are able to turn and shine this Love upon the world; you become and express true, self­less love to those before you too. True Love is what it is…Unconditional. By this you open the way for oth­ers to draw clos­er to their true Self, so that they too may feel the uncon­di­tion­al love that has always been there with­in them, and they can respond in kind and return their uncon­di­tion­al love to you. This expe­ri­ence of the fullest mea­sure of Love, this is the heart and soul of Leo.

There is very great divide between a true Cre­ator-Leader-Lover and those who, hav­ing not met their truer nature in their heart, attempt to gain the atten­tion, respect and love of oth­ers. Their cre­ation will seem “off” to them­selves as well as their “audi­ence”, for it does orig­i­nate from their self but from ego; their lead­er­ship more of a “com­mand” or demand of respect, for they lack true self-respect; and their form of love behind it all is twist­ed into nar­cis­sism or neg­a­tive self-love. Instead of being self-illu­mined “stars” they become like “black holes”, draw­ing all ener­gy to them­selves and offer­ing noth­ing in return.

For those who have come that much clos­er to their true self, their “song of spir­it” is a cel­e­bra­tion of the truth that we are here to be dis­tinc­tive. A per­son who moves through expe­ri­ences with dis­tinc­tive respons­es reveals their self and true nature, they are rec­og­niz­ably who and what they are. Tak­ing from the palette of their Soci­ety and Cul­ture, they stretch them­selves into ever more dis­tinct forms of that way of life…They become a one among many ones and inspire one and all.

Where­as, those who have not aligned with their heart split the world into “alike­ness” and “dif­fer­ence”, and unwit­ting­ly fos­ter a world based on sep­a­r­a­tive­ness, a world that is divid­ed into “us” and “them”. They wrap them­selves in their neg­a­tive self-love, and find fault, allo­cate blame and cre­ate scape­goats from those not like them…this is the result of their mas­ter illu­sion, the illu­sion of separation.

To be dis­tinct means to be cen­tered upon Truth, Char­ac­ter and Uncon­di­tion­al Love; to be dif­fer­ent comes from the untruth of sep­a­ra­tion and iso­la­tion, and leads to soli­tude, fear and hate.

Con­sid­er the great exem­plars of human­i­ty, the life sto­ries of all great teach­ers and what they taught, but even more in how they revealed and embod­ied that truth in their con­duct. Whether you look to Con­fu­cius, Bud­dha, Lao Tzu, Pythago­ras, Jesus or many oth­er great souls, and tru­ly to the many more count­less ones whose labors of love remain in the back­ground, all great souls abide with a self-lumi­nous qual­i­ty of being Hum­ble, they are filled with the grace of Humility.

Why is this so? In the encounter with the true nature of one­self, you come to know and so expe­ri­ence that the core of you is of the One, and that this is the true Foun­tain-Source of Uncon­di­tion­al Love. It is the same One who is every­where and fills all the spaces of Space with this Love too. It is this radi­ant real­i­ty of Uncon­di­tion­al Love that fills your own heart with humil­i­ty and your mind with peace. You are one with the One; you are love. You look with­in and real­ize the awe­some nature of the great truth, “I am That, I am”, and equal­ly real­ize that this truth is true for one and all. You bow your head and bend your knee as your soul soars…

So, in this time of Leo…and at all times too…be what you are to be:

Cre­ate, Lead and Love.

But always remem­ber, your ori­gin is your destiny,

You are one of the ones of the One.

Bow your head to the one before you…

And to all of this Cre­ation too…

Live what you know, say what you see…

I am That, I am.

”Namaste”.