Apoth­e­o­sis

The Sacred Path, the Path­way to Perfection…

These are the Four Sacred Directions:

You Rise in the East, as Aries,

You Turn to the South, in Cancer,

You Bow in the West, through Libra…

And so now you will take this Fourth Way,

Look to the North as you enter Capricorn.

The Twelve Signs of the Zodi­ac are the Liv­ing Waters of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.
These Four of the Twelve are the Realms of Aware­ness-Action, they are the Signs of Identity:

Aries is your Self-Aware­ness; Libra your Aware­ness of the Other.
Can­cer is your Sacred Cen­ter; and Capri­corn is your Destiny.

These four cor­ners form the Cross of Pur­pose; this is the Axis that leads to Apoth­e­o­sis. In Aries you are Inspired by the Flame of Spir­it of being a “one”, you are Self-Aware. In Libra you Know by Mind­ful Air, you are for one anoth­er, you are Inter-Depen­dent. In Can­cer you Feel through the Waters of Life, you are cen­tered and anchored by your Source. In Capri­corn you are made Man­i­fest by Earth, you assume your respon­si­bil­i­ties as you seek to ful­fill your Destiny.

These Sacred Four form what is known as the Car­di­nal Cross; held togeth­er they are the whirling wheel that cre­ates the Sacred Path-Way of Prax­is. For this is “the Way”, that by this Inte­gral Path that com­bines Inspi­ra­tion, Thought, Feel­ing made Real, it is by this that your won­drous Jour­ney of the Divine-that-is-the-Self-Becom­ing is made manifest.

For you are an Immor­tal mov­ing through mor­tal realms and forms. You move into Worlds, Bod­ies and Lives, but for­ev­er and ever you will always “walk on” through and beyond any one world, body or life. You are the self-becom­ing more and more of what you will be as you unfold the Spark of the Divine that resides at the Core of you in each and every life.

And in each life you will grow and become what you are meant to be through “Tri­al & Error”. You will suc­ceed at times, and you must and will also stum­ble. For it is by these “fail­ures” and your adjust­ments that you climb the spi­ral path of con­scious redemp­tion. And, it is by this that you will come to under­stand, accept and become more of what you are here to be…a ful­ly con­scious co-cre­ator of this Cosmos.

Yes you are climb­ing, high­er and high­er, and at each turn­ing you face again the ancient ques­tions and fun­da­men­tal truths that were there at the beginning…oh so long ago.

Today, as Win­ter begins, when the shad­ows have stretched to their great­est extent, and the light seems to be fad­ing away, it is now that you and the world will hold your breath…and you will pray. It is time once again, to face the dark­ness and believe, that Light and Truth and Good­ness will not fade away. It is time to remem­ber who you are, where you came from, who is before you, and why you are here…it is time once again to have a liv­ing faith in your destiny.

For though it may seem that your world is falling into shad­ows, that your life and world is in dire peril…you will find a way through. As the famil­iar forms of self-real­iza­tion are crack­ing and crum­bling, whether in the realms of Reli­gion, or Gov­ern­ment, or Edu­ca­tion or the Economy…you will come to know that this is mere­ly the wheel of life turn­ing again, for an old world is pass­ing so that a new and bet­ter one shall rise…as it has done many, many times before.

And this change, this re-birth, does not come from on high, it will not come by Fiat or by the will of the tem­po­ral hold­ers of Pow­er. No, the change in every world, form and life starts in the cen­ter of each and every one of you, from with­in each and every indi­vid­ual heart that hears the “Wind of the Spir­it” and answers to the angels of our bet­ter nature. It is the “Voice of the Silence”, your High­er Self abid­ing in the Intu­itive Know­ing that a bet­ter world is com­ing to be…and that you must be its Creator.

Each year, at this time of Capri­corn, you are asked to exam­ine quite sim­ply this one ques­tion, “What is the Respon­si­ble thing to do, what is my Respon­si­bil­i­ty?” To under­stand this you need but turn that word around. Your respon­si­bil­i­ty is always and for­ev­er about your “abil­i­ty to respond”. To what, you might ask. What or to who are you respond­ing? How can you know? How?

Know Thy­self!

You are a Spark of the Divine, mov­ing now through this King­dom of being Human. It is in this time of your Spir­i­tu­al Edu­ca­tion that you are to learn what is “the good”, for you are endowed with the gift of choice, (and angels and those greater than they envy you this choice). You are giv­en this gift so that you might learn to choose what is good, or bet­ter or lov­ing. So that you can become a con­scious, lov­ing co-cre­ator of creation.

For today, in this time, you are here to respond to the needs of your­self, your fam­i­ly, your friends and to all of those with whom you jour­ney. For you have come far and learned much, and you are only here now because you have tak­en care of one anoth­er, helped one anoth­er, and loved one anoth­er so as to cre­ate and form these liv­ing-lov­ing spaces for one anoth­er that can pre­serve, pro­tect and pro­mote Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it. Remain focused upon this, and you will keep to the path­way of Spirit.

There is much work to do when a world is pass­ing away and anoth­er is com­ing into being. Your respon­si­bil­i­ty is great, but so is your reward. Pre­serve what you can, for many lives and loves fash­ioned this world and much in it is good. Be guid­ed by your heart and know that the changes you must face and make should be guid­ed always by the fun­da­men­tal truth that you are here for one anoth­er, you are made by one anoth­er, and to harm any oth­er inevitably means that you injure your­self equal­ly too.

Today you need remem­ber, that even in the dark­est hour, there remains a Light that will not go out, a Love that will not fail, and a Promise that will be Ful­filled. And this is so because you stand with­in a shin­ing Hier­ar­chy of Light that stretch­es from the Heart of Cre­ation to the fur­thest reach­es of this Cos­mos. Every being with­in this Com­pa­ny of Brave Souls is slow­ly awak­en­ing to the truth, that all are sparks of the Divine, and in the heart of each soul there is found the Align­ment and Attune­ment to one anoth­er. All of Cre­ation is of the One, and every par­ti­cle, life, plan­et, star and galaxy are At-One­ment through and by the Love of the One, and by your love for one anoth­er too.

At each and every turn­ing, you will face your des­tiny. It is right, prop­er and good to align your­self with those like you who seek to bring about a bet­ter tomor­row. As we move from one world into the next, keep in your heart 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.

Pod­cast

Decem­ber 10^th is the sec­ond align­ment of Mars with the defin­ing major aspect of our time, the Uranus-Plu­to Square. Today the Avatar of Action and Desire stands oppo­site to the Avatar of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Free­dom. The ques­tion before you is how do you rec­on­cile your desire for ful­fill­ment through rela­tion­ship (Mars in Libra) with your need to be as free as pos­si­ble (Uranus in Aries)?

It would seem appar­ent to most that you are most “per­fect­ly free” when you are by your­self, alone, behold­en to no oth­er. That any and all rela­tion­ship to anoth­er would require some mea­sure of con­sid­er­a­tion shown, some adjust­ment to and for one anoth­er, entail­ing nec­es­sary sac­ri­fices that would not be need­ed at all if one were to remain apart or alone.

But, as always in the jour­ney to the greater aware­ness, the Ancient Wis­dom held in your heart and soul will release you from your lim­it­ed and cir­cum­scribed cer­tain­ties and keep you on the one true path of Under­stand­ing, Com­pas­sion and Love. You will learn to rise above these dichotomies and real­ize that both ways are true, and both needs can only be met when held and lived together.

Mars-Uranus Com­men­tary

Podcast

On Sun­day Decem­ber 6^th, Mars in Libra will square Plu­to in Capri­corn, and then on Thurs­day Decem­ber 10^th Mars will form an oppo­si­tion with Uranus in Aries. This will elic­it or trig­ger the still ongo­ing major align­ment of Uranus with Plu­to, which has been the sig­na­ture, major and defin­ing astro­log­i­cal aspect from 2008 until now (and into the near future as well). You can search on my blog for the pre­vi­ous post­ings about Uranus and Plu­to if you wish. Today, in this audio/podcast, I focus upon the par­tic­u­lar and per­son­al indi­ca­tions for these linked align­ments with regards to the Mars to Plu­to aspect. In the next pod­cast I will com­ment on the Mars to Uranus side of this pattern.

Mars-Plu­to commentary

Real­i­ty and Dreams, Fear and Faith

Sat­urn meets Nep­tune today, (and again June 17, 2016 and Sep­tem­ber 10, 2016).

I begin today with this new for­mat of audio record­ings. I will con­tin­ue to write for the blog on a month­ly basis, but I want to devote most of my writ­ing time to work­ing on a book.

This meet­ing of Sat­urn and Nep­tune speaks to our expe­ri­ence of Real­i­ty being formed and re-reformed by our won­drous fac­ul­ty of Imag­i­na­tion and Dream­ing. We are always seek­ing to become some­thing more, to advance our­selves and our world so as to ful­fill our dreams of a bet­ter life. But we must equal­ly be aware that this avatar of Dream­ing  in com­bi­na­tion with Sat­urn can also give rise to Illu­sions, Delu­sions and Decep­tions if mis­ap­plied or mis­un­der­stood. As always, the key to work­ing with and with­in this hier­ar­chy of forces is to remain cen­tered and secured by the fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ples found in all spir­i­tu­al, philo­soph­i­cal and sci­en­tif­ic teach­ings (Sat­urn in Sagit­tar­ius), while equal­ly being open in a lov­ing way to the Inspi­ra­tion that leads you to the greater aware­ness and life offered up to you by your High­er Self (Nep­tune in Pisces).

Please select the link below and lis­ten to my brief com­men­tary on this sig­na­ture align­ment for the next nine months.

Sat­urn-Nep­tune commentary

The Path of Wis­dom; The Path of Peace

You are a spark of the Divine,

A pil­grim of spir­it, on a jour­ney of becoming.

Always reach­ing towards the Greater Awareness,

Ever abid­ing in a more Encom­pass­ing Love,

You are the builder of lumi­nous Holy Spaces,

Formed and filled by your mighty Will.

 

You have walked in shad­owed pain-filled places,

Those dim-lit realms of mor­tal loss and grief.

But this is the price you that you will pay,

It is the levy that leav­ens your soul,

As you seek the path of Peace,

As you find the way to Joy,

As you make you way by your Heart,

For you will one day awak­en, and you will realize,

That you abide in an ever­last­ing Love.

 

You have come through many realms,

In Airy spaces of pure rea­son and Knowing,

By Earthy orders of what is Real and True,

Swept by Waters of Feel­ing and Empathy,

You come once more to the Spir­i­tu­al Fires of Sagittarius.

You enter this Realm of Understanding,

As you find your way to Truth.

 

The Path will always seem to be “out there”,

In the Great Halls of Knowl­edge and Wisdom,

In the Philoso­phies, Reli­gions, Sci­ences and Arts,

That were formed, forged and lived by

The Mas­ters, Sages and Seers long, long ago.

For many have walked these paths before you,

And they left behind these ker­nels of understanding,

So that their spir­it lives on for you,

In these Lights of Rea­son, Faith and Love.

 

But you must know and understand,

That these truths are the very warp and weave of your Universe,

From the Cos­mic Spaces stretch­ing to the far­thest Hierarchies,

Down to the Infin­i­tes­i­mals in the Inner­most spaces of Space.

From the Macro­cosm to the Micro­cosm, as above it is so below,

And so also, most tru­ly, form­ing your own very Heart and Soul.

 

The Truth is, the Path to Truth will always be…

Found with­in, (as much as it sur­rounds you too).

The Roy­al Road is in you, and so you will find the way,

By your own Divine Spark, your “dear­ly beloved”, will be your guide,

Offer­ing inspi­ra­tion, leav­en­ing your aware­ness even in the dark­est hour.

Like a touch of a feath­er, or the faintest scent of a flower,

Your pre­cious Voice of the Silence will bring you home.

 

Truth Is.

And no Truth can be imposed by one or by many,

It will not be lived in Force or ful­filled through Fear.

Truth is drawn out from with­in, from your Quin­tes­sence of Spirit,

And each one of you will come to see and live by a Greater Truth giv­en time.

And the Pre­cious Key, the Great­est Truth, that holds and forms all oth­ers is this:

The Love of the One for one and for all.

 

And because of this, because you are all ones of the One,

When­ev­er you tres­pass upon one another,

When­ev­er you force this or that “truth” upon any oth­er, you will “sin”…

And there will be no truth there.

When­ev­er any­one claims that their truth is “Truth”, they shall fall into darkness,

For they have lost the source of Truth which is Love, Com­pas­sion and Empathy.

 

How will you know, how will you dis­cern the less true from the greater?

Your heart of hearts, your kind­li­ness and gentleness,

Your dear­ly Beloved will always help you to let go of the lesser,

And so you will move towards the greater understanding.

You will move clos­er to a Greater Love.

 

And because of this, your growth in Understanding,

Will always be matched by the depths of your Humility.

For those who have walked the path before you have shown this to be the way:

The more you Know, the more you will under­stand and accept one another.

The more you Under­stand, the more Love will inform your Creation.

The more you Love, the clos­er you will come to Peace.

 

For some, Phi­los­o­phy means “the love of Wisdom”,

But for those who tru­ly under­stand, it means “the Wis­dom of Love”.

Truth as Love is made man­i­fest by you as you Love one another.

As you should…For you are one another.

 

The great illu­sion you are here to dis­pel is your sep­a­ra­tion from one another.

And when you do this,

When you love and are loved as you are by the One,

There will be Peace for one and for all.

 

There is no Reli­gion high­er than Truth…

There is no Truth high­er than Love…

Love one another.

Love.