This is the first Eclipse of the year
and here is what I wrote in my 2013 Gen­er­al Forecast:

Full Moon
Eclipse in Scor­pio (April 25) 

The five
eclipses of the year begin with the Bud­dha Moon! The ancient teach­ings say that
Bud­dha was born on, achieved enlight­en­ment under and left his phys­i­cal body on
the Full Moon in the month of Tau­rus. This Full Moon is about under­stand­ing the
dynam­ic rela­tion­ship you must expe­ri­ence regard­ing the ques­tion of Val­ue. For
in your very being you expe­ri­ence this truth, that you are an immor­tal in a
mor­tal frame. Val­ues are “eter­nal” (or time­less), yet their physical
man­i­fes­ta­tion is only for a time. The key teach­ing of the Bud­dha con­cerned this
way of under­stand­ing the jour­ney you must take as a spark of the Divine…that
you must learn the way, in fact become the way of Non-Attachment. 

Here is a
map of where the Eclipse will be vis­i­ble. It will be passing
over Europe, Africa and Asia mostly.

Held to be
one of the most spe­cial and sacred Full Moons of the year, this Bud­dha Moon,
cel­e­brat­ed in the Wesak Fes­ti­val, is so named because The Ancient Teachings
hold that Sid­dhārtha Gau­ta­ma, who became the Awak­ened or Enlight­ened One, was
born, tran­scend­ed and also left his phys­i­cal form dur­ing the Full Moon in the
time of Tau­rus. I wrote about the Spir­i­tu­al Sig­nif­i­cance of the Bud­dha Full
Moon in my 2012 post­ing which you may read here.

Each Full
Moon sig­ni­fies a rev­e­la­tion for you, for what was released as a seed at the New Moon
has now reached its cul­mi­na­tion or Flow­er­ing at the Full. The essence or
poten­tial con­tained with­in the seed, cre­at­ed when the Sun and Moon formed their
Con­junc­tion, has become ful­ly appar­ent and Man­i­fest­ed in the Fruit or harvest
offered to you as the Sun and Moon reach the cli­max of their cycle every month.

The seed
plant­ed in the Tau­rus New Moon will always seek to remind you of your essential
nature, of your true Val­ue as a Spark of the Divine…that you are Spirit
mov­ing through many worlds, through many forms and activ­i­ties in order to
ful­fill your one true purpose…which is To Grow…to Become a Self-Conscious
Divin­i­ty who Joy­ous­ly dances through the Ener­gies and Forms of Creation.

Yet one of
the great errors you will have to con­front as you move through all your forms
of man­i­fes­ta­tion is Attach­ment to these forms and so the for­get­ting of who and
what you real­ly are…and so instead of Joy, your true nature, you experience
the pain of loss and long­ing, you look back with regrets and ahead with fears…you
end up in a con­di­tion of Suf­fer­ing. You “for­get” that there is only
the Eter­nal Now in which you shall abide for­ev­er and always…

The Mes­sage
of the Scor­pio Full Moon is the core of the Heart Doc­trine as laid forth by the
Buddha…It is that the key to your Self, to the Truth of Who and What you are,
is found and secured by fol­low­ing the Noble Path, the Mid­dle Way, and you can
do this by stay­ing true to that Self who moves through but is not attached to
these forms.

You can do
this by Know­ing Your­self as a Spark of the Mind of the Divine, by Lov­ing Your­self as
a Spark of the Love of the Divine, and by Hold­ing Your­self as a Spark of the Will of
the Divine…That in your True and ever abid­ing “I” which lies at the
core of you, there is that Self which is “Absolute-Existence-Knowledge-Bliss”…and
when you Align your life with this aware­ness you can and will begin to fol­low the one true path of Spir­it, the path of a Free Being, which is the Path of Light
and Love where­in you will abide in a true State of Grace formed by Non-Attachment…A Free Mind, Uncon­di­tion­al Love and a Cen­tered Will.

There is a prayer that is offered up at such moments to cel­e­brate these “Gifts of the Spir­it”, yet is also a most valu­able mes­sage to think upon each and every day…It is called The Great Invocation:

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light within
the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our
minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the
Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our
hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of
God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the masters
know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call
Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light
work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

Let Light
and Love and Pow­er restore the Plan on Earth.

Okay,
I know it hurts…but that is the way of it sometimes…

You are an
Immor­tal in a mor­tal frame, a Spir­it in this very mate­r­i­al world…for you only
can grow in this part of your jour­ney because you took this path, that you made this sac­ri­fice, to “fall” into mat­ter so that you might lift it up, and your­self too…You
will only grow as you stum­ble and “fall”, to make mis­takes and learn, again and again, for this is the Way, this is how you learn to become a ful­ly Con­scious Creator…this is the only
way you can learn to Wise­ly, Lov­ing­ly and Freely align your­self so as to
fol­low the one True Path of Light…

It is in the Hurt, it is from the Pain and through this Pas­sage of Suf­fer­ing that you
learn to turn away from error and mis­un­der­stand­ing, to turn towards what is
bet­ter, truer and everlasting…You find your way to see through this shell you
thought was Real­i­ty, to see beyond these forms and Veils of Mat­ter and to Clear-See
through to Spir­it, back to Your Self, back to The Way that is anchored in
your Heart.

It is never
easy and usu­al­ly painful for most when Venus encoun­ters a “hard”
aspect to Sat­urn. For Venus rules your expe­ri­ence of Val­ue, your appreciation
of Beau­ty, it rules the val­ue of you which springs from your Heart…and this
is in fact both your Source and Sal­va­tion, your Gold­en Thread that
con­nects you to one and all…it is this, your spark of the Divine, your Beloved, which you
know and cel­e­brate as Love.

Sat­urn rules
Real­i­ty, it forms and informs those vehi­cles of self-real­iza­tion that provide
you with your sub­stance of man­i­fes­ta­tion with­in these Worlds of Matter…and yet
it is through these very forms of self-deter­mi­na­tion that you expe­ri­ence the self-deceiv­ing and painful­ly self-cir­cum­scribed lim­its of your Divine Nature…

What on the
one hand forms your self-ful­fill­ment even­tu­al­ly and equal­ly becomes an
unen­durable self-lim­i­ta­tion for you as well…and so, as you con­tin­ue your
spi­ral jour­ney of the Self-Becom­ing, you will have to continuously
break from these chains of mat­ter, much like a snake shed­ding its skin, as you
seek to move into ever more per­fect forms of your Ever-Becom­ing, in this Wondrous
Jour­ney of your Immor­tal Essence danc­ing through these Mor­tal Forms.

When
Venus oppos­es Sat­urn you have reached a moment of con­fronta­tion, between your
Ide­al of Beau­ty and the Real­i­ty of your life, between your Val­ue of yourself
and your out­ward form, between your Love and your fear of being
Unloved. You will either be unkind to your­self, or to anoth­er, because you are hurt, because you have lost the way to your love of you…

And in this hour of tri­al, in this time of Fear, of Judg­ment and
Mis­un­der­stand­ing you must remem­ber what is True and Real, of how this expe­ri­ence of Lack is all part of the Illu­sion that is Matter…that your Mor­tal Frame hides
your Uncon­di­tion­al­ly Lov­ing, Immor­tal Spir­it, as it does for your Beloved who stands before you too. 

You need to look beyond and beneath these Veils of Mat­ter and remem­ber what draws you to one anoth­er, what tru­ly forms your Expe­ri­ence of one another…that you and they are a Spark of the Divine and your true Essence is Love…and
it is this Greater Real­i­ty which will draw you to one anoth­er again and again, it will keep you with one anoth­er always…and all you need do is face your fear with Love, for that Fear can only hold you enthralled and entan­gled in these Veils of Mat­ter if you for­get who and what you are…

For your True Self is eter­nal and these forms of embodiment
are nec­es­sary but will often veil the Beau­ty that you are…but if you Believe, if you have Faith then you will remem­ber and you will see through to what is True…

Look
in your Mag­ic Mir­ror of Love that sees beyond these worlds of form…

Behold
the Lumi­nous Pres­ence who is you, the Love that you are…

Then
turn to your beloved, you will see…

Both of you Veiled, meet­ing in these Worlds of Matter…

All you need, is to Remember…

Who you are, what is behind and lies beyond…

That you
walk togeth­er, mov­ing through these forms and veils…

Lov­ing, Lumi­nous Radi­ant Beings…

Immor­tal Spir­its in Mor­tal Frames…

Mov­ing towards your Greater Destiny.

Your Sen­tinel of Self has reached his
Far-Away…He is your Fear­less Friend and Coura­geous Com­pan­ion, who lifts and
guides you in your out­ward yearn­ings, and through him your aims have been stretched
beyond what came before. Mars, the Avatar of your Aspir­ing Nature, your
Burn­ing-Bright of tomor­rows yet unborn, has forged and formed anew your Dreams
and Desires of what you are yet to be…and as you jour­neyed togeth­er in Aries, your heart leapt as you caught a fleet­ing glance of your greater destiny…

But now, as your Seek­ing Self begins his
Jour­ney of Return, you will feel a mighty shift of Ener­gy and Intent, for Mars with
you is cross­ing into a more Sub­stan­tial Realm. For the past 40 days you have
blazed a trail in the Fires of Aries, (which is in fact Mars own true Home)…But
it is only the first of the Twelve Kingdoms…and though with what you begin is
most Desired and Nec­es­sary to what will even­tu­al­ly Be…It is not enough for
you to only Dream and dwell upon your Desires, not when you walk upon this
Bright Blue Orb…No, it is not near­ly enough if you seek to Become what you
are meant to be…

So it is, in these 40 that fol­low, that
you and your Stal­wart Stew­ard will turn your Visions into Sub­stan­tial steps of your
becoming…Now you must begin to make Real what were wish­es and dreams…Now
you will Walk in this most Earthy of Realms, and you will seek and strive, and you
will grow, and you will learn…For it is in these Gar­dens of Tau­rus that you will
become the Cre­ator who is Cre­at­ing, the Self-Becom­ing Won­der-Mak­er of a Greater Reality.

Now you will bring your Inspirations…

Now you will take your Dreams…

And like the Pot­ter, Painter, Dancer and
Maker…

With For­ti­tude and Purpose…

By Love and through Beauty…

You will sing and you will dance…

In your Greater Reality.

You have tak­en those first steps, into
your Field of Dreams, releas­ing your Spir­it and let­ting it soar into this brand
New Year…Like all begin­nings, you drew upon your faith to fuel your Striving-Seeking,
find­ing your Inspi­ra­tion in visions of a bet­ter world and a bet­ter you. You leapt
into that Vir­gin Field of Space that is your Becom­ing, your one true pur­pose to
know your­self and to make your Pres­ence known…

Tonight, as your bright shin­ing Chariot
of Fire yields to his Lumi­nous Com­pan­ion, as Day gives way to the Mis­tress of Mysteries
and the Night, your next Por­tal will open and you will turn to alto­geth­er new
Oppor­tu­ni­ties and Chal­lenges that lie just beyond, in the next realm of your
self-unfold­ment that lies before you.

The Sea­sons of Spir­it are turn­ing again,
deep­er now and stead­ier than before, res­olute and pur­pose­ful, for now is the
Song that springs from the Earth, it is from the Heart of Cre­ation, from the
Source of All to you.

Twelve Sta­tions make up your year, four Portals
are of your begin­nings, and there are four of end­ings too…and in between
there are these Four who hold their cor­ners true. Tau­rus is the first of these,
who res­olute­ly stands for the Truth of Beau­ty, who abides in the Source of
Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

You are a Cre­ator, a spir­it endowed with
the mea­sure of all measures…for your High­er Self is a Spark of the Divine…it
is Eter­nal, ever-unfold­ing and the source of the Self-Becom­ing Won­der that you
are.

For the next thir­ty days you will sing
your Cre­ation Song, you will draw down Forces from the Realms of Inspiration
and weave them into many Forms upon your Loom of Spir­i­tu­al Gold. You will
make your­self as you make your world, as you slow­ly but sure­ly learn to Cre­ate as you are made, with Beau­ty and Love. 

You reveal to all as unto your­self that Divin­i­ty is the
Foun­tain-Source of you…

You are the Dancer danc­ing, to your Self-Illu­mined and won­drous tune…

From Beau­ty With­in, and Sur­round­ed in Love…

You are the Mak­er of Wonders.

You, the Builder of Worlds.

You are the Cre­ator singing and dancing…

In this your Cre­ation Song.

It
has been over two years, that’s how long your Ver­mil­lion Sen­tinel takes to make
his rounds. Mars blazes The Way, he is your com­pan­ion in arms, faithfully
patrolling this last perime­ter between you and Space, safe­guard­ing the
bor­der­lands of your pre­cious Blue World, the home you call Earth. 

Yes, it was over two years ago that
you began a new cycle of the Self Assert­ing, for that is the last time your
Star and Mars aligned with one anoth­er, to com­mence a new cycle of Self-Realization.
Today they meet again, and the Sun bestows the next nec­es­sary Bless­ing and
Guid­ance for your Jour­ney of Becoming.

For the Sun is your pure potential,
it is your “Future in Wait­ing” that forms and informs all the
real­ties you make for your­self in these worlds. Your one true pur­pose is To Grow, to bring your­self to that next fin­er real­iza­tion in these realms through
which you make man­i­fest your ever-unfold­ing potential.

Mars ever serves the Sun, for he is
the Proud Bear­er of your Inten­tions, Desires and Aspirations…and so he takes
you out­ward into your Self-becom­ing, with Fer­vent Beliefs and Focused Actions.…He
is your Prince of Pur­pose, guid­ed by your Inten­tions and Atti­tudes, as you make
your way into the world.

Today you need pause as the Sun
meets Mars and a New Cycle of Action and Activ­i­ty will begin. You will write a
new chap­ter in your jour­ney of Self-Real­iza­tion and it is in this moment, it is
with­in this most spe­cial Seed­ing Time that holds with­in it the Promise of your
Future, of what will be, of what you will become.

It is nec­es­sary for you to stop, to
be with­out Motion or Direc­tion or Inten­tion today…and in this space of
rev­er­ent Qui­etude, in the emp­ty, still­ness of your sacred space…it is there
that you must wait for your Solar Gift of Plen­i­tude. The Gift of the Sun
will be from where he moves now, from Aries, where­in it is said the Sun is
Exalt­ed, and also where Mars is made to
Rule. 

This
is an aus­pi­cious moment indeed…A New Begin­ning is tru­ly at hand…and the Key
to it all lies with­in you, with your Under­stand­ing and your Atti­tude. For
what­ev­er Inspi­ra­tion you are to receive, it is for you and you alone, and that
is between you and your high­er self. 

But
what you may do with it, what it may or may not become, that is on you. Because
it all depends upon your Con­scious­ness, it rests upon your lev­el of Under­stand­ing. You cre­ate what will be by the way in which you redeem your past
as you imag­ine your future…and you do this well or not by the man­ner in which
you meet this most fleet­ing of moments with Right Inten­tion, Right Atti­tude and
Right Conduct…

Because what will be and what will become is formed by how you
stand in this Sacred Space, in this Ful­crum of Becoming…and this Space of
Free­dom and Redemp­tion is found in that ever-unfold­ing instance of time you
call “The Now”.

So pause at this beginning…

Take a deep breath and consider,

Is my Inten­tion True…

Is my Atti­tude Loving…

Is my Con­duct Honorable?

Then, let it begin, let it become…

Yes, it is here…

Your New Day has dawned.