Time
to Turn…

This turn­ing was men­tioned in my Gen­er­al
Fore­cast for 2013:

Jupiter Ret­ro­grade (Novem­ber 6–7 until March 6, 2014)

Jupiter,
who ever encour­ages you grow beyond your for­mer frames of ref­er­ence, takes you
on anoth­er inner jour­ney of growth, to explore your beliefs and truths as you
lis­ten for those whis­pers from your high­er self. This time he is in Can­cer, so
you need to reex­am­ine the root beliefs that nur­tured your begin­nings and may
still inform, inspire and guide you now. Pon­der a piece of wis­dom in this very
old say­ing, “That it is a very good for­tune to be born and brought up in a
belief…but it is a ter­ri­ble mis­for­tune to die in that belief.”  

You are here to Grow, but not all of
your growth will or should lead you to some­thing High­er, Larg­er, or Greater in
scope…

In fact, you will find that your most
impor­tant growth will take you Inwards, as you trav­el with­in and experience
those Infi­nite, Inner Worlds and more Sub­tle Dimen­sions that are the source of
all these out­ward forms. Your great­est explo­rations and dis­cov­er­ies will take
place in these realms, that lie beyond and behind this phys­i­cal­ly beau­ti­ful but
often Illu­sion­ary plane of your Earth­ly vehi­cle. For you must remem­ber, and you
should lit­er­al­ly “pinch” your­self and say, “This is not what or
who I am, this is mere­ly the form I must take to be in these worlds of
Matter…” 

When­ev­er a Plan­et turns ret­ro­grade, its
func­tion and pur­pose for you is turned too, turned so as to bring the focus of
its Mean­ings upon your Inner Worlds, to bring more aware­ness to you regard­ing your
Sub­tle Bod­ies and High­er Nature, to bring you back to your Truth in Spirit.

In fact, because of this (or some would
add, because all Plan­ets will make their clos­est approach to Earth when retrograde),
the Pow­er and Strength of a Plan­et’s offer­ings for you are that much greater
when Ret­ro­grade, because it is now focused upon and help­ing to elic­it and bring
forth the very Noume­na of your Being, the Under­ly­ing and Undy­ing Truth of what
you tru­ly are…For you are Spir­it, who at this time hap­pens to be learn­ing and
grow­ing through and upon this mate­r­i­al plane…but you need to remem­ber from
where you came and to where your Jour­ney will take you…you need to live by
and you need to be your Truth. 

So, though many projects, functions
and activ­i­ties of your life over the next four months will con­tin­ue to grow in
and through this Mate­r­i­al Plane, of course they will and must, for you have
giv­en them Ener­gy and Form and they will con­tin­ue upon their own path of Material
Unfoldment…It is you, The Dream­er and Cre­ator, it is you who will need to
turn your inten­tion and atten­tion to con­sid­er more what is behind and within
your­self and your world.

Jupiter is your Avatar of Prin­ci­ples, Truths
and Under­stand­ing and helps to form the Atti­tudes and Inten­tions that direct
you upon your one True Path, which is to grow. This turn­ing is for you, and
being that Jupiter is in Can­cer, you are offered anoth­er oppor­tu­ni­ty to understand
what forms the Foun­tain Source of you in this part of your Jour­ney. What are
the Spir­i­tu­al Foun­da­tions of your life, what Root Prin­ci­ples, Beliefs, Truths
or Reli­gions inform and guide your ways? What do you stand upon, Where do you
come from…and Where are you Going?

Take this time to look with­in, to
con­sid­er what forms your Foun­da­tion in Truth, what holds you to your Intention
to become and grow…

For you are ever Seek­ing, to Find your
Way, to Find your Path…

You will go here and there, ask­ing of
many Seers and Read­ers, Wise Ones and Teach­ers, Guides and Gurus, seek­ing to
know, “What should I Do, Where shall I go?”

When all along, of course, the answer
was there waiting…Within.

The ques­tion you need answered is not
Where are you Going…

The ques­tion is, Do you know from whence
you came?

For Know­ing this, you will smile, and
you will turn…

Point­ing to your Heart, as you look up to the Heav­ens, you will say…

“Here is my home, there
is my Destiny”.

Well…you best take a deep breath and
sit down, get com­fort­able now because this is going to be a rather long journey
for you and Venus. Your Avatar of Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love will nor­mal­ly skip
through a sign in about 3 weeks, but this sojourn in Capri­corn is going to last
over 4 Months!

Of course, there is a very good reason
for this, as Venus will be turn­ing ret­ro­grade just before she makes it to the
next sign of Aquar­ius. Then she will “back up” into the mid­dle of Capricorn,
as she moves from her posi­tion as your Evening Star (Hes­pe­rus) to become the Bringer
of Light as your Morn­ing Star (Lucifer), before she moves for­ward again. She
will final­ly enter Aquar­ius on March 5, 2014, all in all that is a very long
time for Venus to abide in the Realm where Sat­urn rules…

You have had your time in Sagit­tar­ius to
pre­pare for this, to extend your sen­si­bil­i­ties, stretch your under­stand­ing and
enhance your appre­ci­a­tion for art and beau­ty, all so that you might bring new
growth to your life and new depth to your love.

But after every soar­ing moment in those
realms of Fire, the Cir­cle of Life must bring you back and through another
Earthy Realm. For it is not enough to be inspired by visions, to dream great
dreams and pon­der greater truths…You are here on this Plane of Sub­stance to
bring this all into man­i­fes­ta­tion, to take your Val­ues, Beau­ties and Loves, to
bring them into Mat­ter, to make them Tan­gi­ble and Real, to make and leave a
lega­cy of your Love.

Venus in Capri­corn is about your
Respon­si­bil­i­ty to Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love, for you are part of a marvelous
col­umn of Lives that stretch back beyond imag­in­ing, and you and they have fashioned
and formed your selves and your world for a very long while indeed. 

You need to
hon­or what has been passed down to you, for it has stood the tests of time. Know­ing this, your aware­ness will lift and so guide you to this moment with Grat­i­tude and Rev­er­ence, for it is the time, in the here and now, you shall take up your Duty once again and add a lit­tle something
more.

For The Work is far from over, your
Des­tiny too dis­tant to see or under­stand. But you can dis­cern “The Way” in this
moment, of what is asked of you, always…You will extend a help­ing hand below to one
who needs you now, as you reach with your oth­er to clasp the hand which is lovingly
offered to you from just above. For you are here to be Faith­ful to one anoth­er, you are here to be Respon­si­ble for one another…You are here because of Love.

For this Unbro­ken Chain of Cre­ation is
formed and forged by one and all…

You are one anoth­er’s Keep­er, steadfast
and hold­ing True.

You are com­ing out of the Fire-Mists, with Singing and Burn­ing Love,

You are com­ing to this Earthy Realm again,

To Bring Light and Love,

For One and for all.

This sec­ond and final Solar Eclipse for 2013 is rather
spe­cial as I not­ed in my overview for 2013:

Solar Eclipse in Scor­pio (Novem­ber 3)

The
sec­ond of two Solar Eclipses this year, and it is putting on a rather unusual
show…in fact it is for this rea­son named a “Hybrid Eclipse”. What
is that? It is sort of a total and par­tial eclipse com­bined. Here is the
sci­en­tif­ic analy­sis. Here is an
ani­ma­tion of the eclipse mov­ing across the Earth. It will be at least partially
vis­i­ble in east­ern North Amer­i­ca and north­ern South Amer­i­ca, and cross­es over
to west­ern and cen­tral Africa by the end.

The
Eclipse in Scor­pio will more stark­ly reveal an awe­some chal­lenge and
oppor­tu­ni­ty that is to be found in this seed­ing of mean­ing. There is no greater
strug­gle and no high­er reward than what you will find here…But first you must
con­front your great­est fears that now will stand revealed to you. For it is
always in these dark­est hours that you will find your answers…and you will
see that from the shad­ows a pres­ence veiled reveals its won­drous Light. 

Every New Moon is spe­cial for it brings the promise of renewal,
anoth­er gift of Spir­i­tu­al Inspi­ra­tion to help guide you upon your path of Self-Awakening…But
two times per year (usu­al­ly) you will get an even more spe­cial Gift of the
Spir­it when the Sun, Moon and Earth
align per­fect­ly to form a Solar Eclipse. You will wit­ness a play of Light and
Shad­ows that beau­ti­ful­ly Illu­mi­nates how you and these Worlds with whom you
trav­el are spi­ral­ing through these mag­is­te­r­i­al Spaces of Space in a most wondrous
and mag­i­cal Dance of the Planets.

Every year, the New Moon of Scor­pio releas­es a most spe­cial Seed of
Mean­ing, to guide you in a most impor­tant task, which is to become freed from
the shad­ows cast by your low­er bod­ies or vehi­cles, these Illu­sions of
Mat­ter. For you will even­tu­al­ly move beyond these Shad­ows, beyond the cross­ing point
and into the Light, as you Awak­en to the Heart and Truth of the One Real­i­ty, of
the Underlying/Overarching and Infinitesimal/Infinite Real­i­ty in which you
tru­ly abide…Spirit.

You are a Spark of the Divine, you are Spir­it who is now “caught”
in your nec­es­sary, but sep­a­rate from one anoth­er, vehi­cles of matter…and yet
you will hear those intu­itive whis­pers, you will feel the essen­tial nature of
what you tru­ly are, as you con­stant­ly strive in all these worlds and forms
through which you jour­ney, as you cease­less­ly, long­ing­ly and lov­ing­ly seek to
reach across that appar­ent divide and “touch” one anoth­er, to join
with one anoth­er, to become one with one anoth­er again.

So it is at the New Moon in Scor­pio that you are giv­en a renew­al of
this Know­ing, a reminder that the Illu­sion is Sep­a­ra­tion, and the Enduring
Truth is that you are part of one anoth­er, for you are made by and through one
anoth­er. This being so, your guid­ing prin­ci­ple should always be with whomever
is before you now, that as you look into their eyes and see there behind
and beyond the present form, what you lov­ing­ly know and rec­og­nize is there you
are too…for “I am That, I am”.

You will one day achieve this know­ing-lov­ing way of being, but you are
held back for now by the Shad­ows of your Past, you are not what you could be
because of your fears…And here is where the Eclipse in Scor­pio pro­vides an
even more potent gift for you. 

Each New Moon brings a renew­al of Spir­i­tu­al Mean­ing from the Sun passed down to you through the Moon. The Moon is your Medi­a­trix, the Keep­er and Bear­er of your past, and so she
helps to form the forms of your present real­i­ty. The Moon mod­u­lates and
pass­es onto you these Solar Rays so that they may become inte­grat­ed into your
life here on Earth. 

But this also means that mixed into the Gifts from the Sun will be the
Karmic Shad­ows of your past: your doubts, your anx­i­eties and your fears. So the
promised re-birth of the New Moon will be cir­cum­scribed, nec­es­sar­i­ly, by how
far you have come upon the path of Kar­ma. Here is where the Eclipse provides
anoth­er Gift of Spirit. 

Because the Solar Ray is so per­fect­ly aligned with the Moon and then to
Earth, it cre­ates a sharp­er Illu­mi­na­tion and Burn­ing through of those
Self-Cast, Karmic Shad­ows. What might have been missed, or mis­un­der­stood, is
seen in a clear­er light and you are able to step across that Divide, to stand between
the Dark­ness and the Light and expe­ri­ence the greater Truth that is there. 

You can see more clear­ly how some pat­terns you have held to also have their
hold on you, they are very dear and famil­iar for you, yet they will often pro­pel you
into reac­tive-actions that were not self-affirm­ing but tru­ly self-destruc­tive. That is because they were formed in and based upon fear and not love. The Eclipse will
illu­mi­nate these Shad­ows, they will be thrown into stark relief and become
acti­vat­ed. But you will have the new-found where­with­al to see them for what
they are, and you will be giv­en a chance to choose…

You
will face your Fears, which in Scor­pio is the Fear of Rejec­tion, the Fear of
Loss. And you must choose to not reject your­self by act­ing in fear, but instead
by show­ing your Truth in Faith and your Strength in Love.

You have Faith, for you know what and who you are, you know from where
you came and that your des­tiny is to be Fearless.

You have Love, for you know that at the core of you and the one before
you resides the same Spir­i­tu­al Spark, and that as in your Ori­gin you are to live and love as One.

By this Faith and in this Love you will offer to the Beloved a Shared
Sacred Space…

You will take your chance, you will face down you fears…

And so by choos­ing wise­ly, in Faith and Love,

Then maybe, just maybe, they will smile and join you there.

It
is rather fit­ting and prop­er, that on the day that the fourth Uranus/Pluto
Square is exact, your Avatars of Mind and Self con­join. Mer­cury is halfway
through his Ret­ro­grade and pass­es between you and the Sun now, and it is like a
“New Moon” for your Mind and Thought-Forms, and the answers that you
have been seek­ing may have just been offered up for your consideration.

But you will need to be Hum­ble, you will have to
be Self-Reflec­tive and you will need to be Fear­less if you wish to see beyond this Plane of Real­i­ty which
holds you in its thrall. For though what you per­ceive is “Real” it is
a Maya too, and you will need to look beyond appear­ances to dis­cov­er the
Foun­da­tions of Truth and your Greater Reality.

Be Hum­ble

You are mov­ing through that most pro­found­ly deep and mysterious
Realm of Scor­pio now, and there is so much you will dis­cov­er, and yet there is
much that is, may and must remain hid­den. For behind/beyond what­ev­er lev­el of
per­cep­tion you have come to, there is still much, much fur­ther you will
even­tu­al­ly go…So your first step is to step back and approach this mystery
with Humil­i­ty, to accept and under­stand that
what­ev­er you now under­stand to be the Real is still lim­it­ed. But that is the
way of it, this Path of Awak­en­ing you walk is cir­cuitous and spi­ral­ing, and you
have indeed drawn clos­er to Truth and that is good, but you will be lim­it­ed by
and remain in some form of Maya too.

Be Self-Reflec­tive

You are fired by your pas­sion, to rip away the Veil of Appearances
and so see the greater truth about your Unions. But with Mer­cury retrograde,
your real need and oppor­tu­ni­ty is to re-exam­ine your­self, to ques­tion the
nature of your unions from With­in. So your sec­ond step is to be Self-Reflec­tive,
to turn the Laser-Like Illu­mi­na­tions of Scor­pio back upon your­self. For if you
do you will be able to do what is most nec­es­sary to your self-ful­fill­ment, to
bet­ter know your­self. You will under­stand that in order for you to reach the
Union that you seek, you must know what you have to offer, dis­cern what you
might be will­ing to sac­ri­fice and come to see more tru­ly what you seek from the
oth­er too. The only path is this, the Path of Self-Mas­tery; the only Injunction
you need fol­low, “Know Thyself”.

Be Fear­less

If you tru­ly seek to find the way to the Beloved, if you wish to
have your Faith restored by this Rebirth and Renew­al found in Com­mu­nion, then
there is one final step you will and must encounter, you must Face your Fear,
you must strive to become Fear­less. With Mercury
ret­ro­grade, you will come to see that there is only one true obsta­cle and
chal­lenge in every Les­son of Life, and that upon this cir­cuitous path of
Self-unfold­ment your one true “ene­my” will always be…Fear. Your
Fear is made from your self-cast shad­ows, those echoes of past fail­ures and
loss­es of yes­ter­year that bear down upon your present hopes and dreams. And if
you yield to them, if you give way and let them take hold, then all of what
might have been, this promise of reach­ing beyond your­self and tru­ly becoming
one with anoth­er may be lost again…but this need not be so.

You must choose as to whether you will be bound back by what was
or to believe in what might yet be. You can use the Pow­er of Mer­cury Retrograde
to dis­cern what formed these shad­ows, of how or why the bridge between yourself
and anoth­er was not made or became bro­ken. You can learn from your pain and
choose to har­vest this Spir­i­tu­al Les­son which is a Gift for you, for this is how
you will tru­ly know what to do or not do now. You will take out your
“Sword of Sev­er­ance”, as you har­vest the mean­ings and mes­sages that
you have earned and leave behind the rest, and then you will turn and face your
new day dawn­ing with Faith and Courage and Love.

Yes, Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade is a Bless­ing, and in Scor­pio he offers
you this Promise. He offers the Gift of Insight which enables you to reach across
and become one with the beloved by first bring­ing you clos­er to your own true
Self. 

You
will move with Grace in Humility…

You will
seek your Truth in Self-Reflection…

You
will find your Love by Fear­ing Not.