Your first three por­tals are:

Aries              Pure Aware­ness — “I am”

Tau­rus           Objec­tive Aware­ness — “I am That”

Gem­i­ni           Aware­ness of Aware­ness — “I am That, I am”

The Zodi­ac is the Twelve-Fold man­i­fes­ta­tion of Spir­it, and is also known in the Ancient Wis­dom as the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones. For these twelve are the fun­da­men­tal artic­u­la­tions of the One Spir­it, which togeth­er form the Warp and Weave of this Universe.

The inter­play of their twelve Songs of Spir­it com­bines inte­gral­ly to form the Song of Life. These songs sweep through num­ber­less realms, through the Orders of Inner and Out­er Planes or Dimen­sions, form­ing a spi­ral­ing rhyth­mic pro­gres­sion of Hier­ar­chies stretch­ing below and above, so that the entire Cos­mos is filled with these Twelve-Fold Ener­gy-Forms, which in their entire­ty are the Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it of the One. All enti­ties, from the small­est atoms on up to the grand­est cos­mic group­ings of Galax­ies, all of these Ener­gy-Forms are the body of the One in motion…all are Divine sparks of Light, of the One, which holds them to one anoth­er and there­by unto itself by the force you know as Love.

Equal­ly, this move­ment of Spirt through Forms and Time is also the sto­ry of, it is the jour­ney and self-real­iza­tion of Con­scious­ness too. From the barest glim­mer of aware­ness to the super­nal realms of beings endowed with Cos­mic Con­scious­ness, all the Light-Forms of this Cos­mos are also slow­ly lift­ing them­selves and one anoth­er up to high­er and more encom­pass­ing realms of Understanding.

Today you move once more into the Realm of Gem­i­ni, today you cross again the Por­tal of Self-Aware­ness. To be aware that you are aware, to know that you are a know­ing crea­ture, to be endowed with this awe­some and yet most hum­bling Light of Self-Reflec­tiv­i­ty, this is the great step that has brought you that much clos­er to your Spir­i­tu­al Des­tiny, for you are here to be a Self-Con­scious Co-Cre­ator of this Creation.

It has been passed down in the teach­ings, that in the Age of Gem­i­ni, eons and ages ago, the Lamp of Under­stand­ing was lit for those humans in for­ma­tion then by their elder broth­ers and sis­ters, by those who are known as the Kumaras, who came to bestow this bless­ing. For this they are also known as the Light-Bear­ers, they are the bright­ly shin­ing ones who walked amongst us…they were the Prometheans, who gave of them­selves so that we might move into the greater Light of Under­stand­ing too.

Now, and for all the times to come, it is on each of us, in each and every life, to be this lamp of light to those with whom we trav­el. The striv­ing for your greater aware­ness and of your fel­low trav­el­ers depends upon this. Each one of us is like a small lamp in the dark­ness, shin­ing a light, your par­tic­u­lar point of view that forms your aware­ness of the Greater Reality…but, of course, it is very lim­it­ed. For as we shine our light upon the mat­ter at hand, we will also, inevitably, cre­ate a shad­ow as well. We see, but through a glass dark­ly and so partially…

It is by com­bin­ing our aware­ness, join­ing our lights togeth­er, by com­par­ing, con­trast­ing and blend­ing that we can trans­form and make more com­plete our under­stand­ing and theirs. Our dif­fer­ing per­spec­tives form dif­fer­ent beams of light that serve to reduce and will some­day remove all these ancient shad­ows from our sight.

This is how we will lift one anoth­er clos­er to the One Light of Truth. It is in the nature of Gem­i­ni to ques­tion, to be con­trary, to look at things this way, and then that way, and then yet anoth­er way…This is the Way, it is part of the Path towards Per­fec­tion, it is the Way of Intelligence.

This Ener­gy-Form of Gem­i­ni is found in all things, and in you. It is not just some day or month…it is always and for­ev­er present.

You are here to grow, to chal­lenge your assump­tions as well as the assump­tions of others.

You are human, and you were awakened…long, long ago.

Walk through the Por­tal of Gem­i­ni, each and every day…

Look with won­der upon your world…

Look to and Love one another…

Question…Everything.

The Way of Truth,

Your Path of Wisdom.

And, there is but one injunction…

In world after world,

Through form after form,

There is only this journey,

And so you must,

“Walk on”.

 

But you will nev­er walk alone,

For you are formed by, move through and

Are in Truth a sparkling dew drop of the One Light.

This Uni­verse is a spi­ral­ing, sparkling Riv­er of Life, and

The whole Cos­mos is com­posed of count­less self-unfold­ing cen­ters of awareness,

Who are the body in Space-Time of the One.

Stars in for­ma­tion, your Dia­mond Bod­ies are inspired, guid­ed and loved by,

Those who came this way before…long, long ago.

For stretch­ing out behind and before, and beyond your knowing,

There is only the One Real­i­ty, there is only Life-Consciousness-Spirit,

Revealed in this Self-lumi­nous Hier­ar­chy of Light and Love.

 

The Watch­ers will wait for you,

For that spe­cial sparkling ray,

The dawn of your understanding.

They will wait patient­ly and faith­ful­ly, for they know,

That you too will one day awaken…

It is your Destiny.

You will Know, and you will Understand…

And just so, like them, you will turn.

You will smile to those who fol­low, and

You will extend a help­ing hand.

 

These are the Keep­ers of the Flame, and

They will ever send their emissaries,

Many you know, most you do not, for they are,

The Teach­ers, the Wise Ones…the helpers,

Who in every world and life,

Lift the Veil and reveal the Won­der of this Cosmos.

They remind you, again and again,

That there is but one Life,

There is but one Spirit,

And all of this, and all of you,

Are here because of Love.

 

In this vast hier­ar­chy of Light and Love,

Among all the count­less beings who have come this way before,

Today we cel­e­brate and hon­or one of our “own”.

For today is the Day of the Bud­dha, the Self-Awak­ened One.

 

Why is the Bud­dha special?

Why?…Because he was the first.

He is the first of our kind to com­plete the task,

He is the Self-Awak­ened, a freed monad…a Jivanmukta.

He is the one who came before.

 

He stands now, at the por­tal of self-transcendence,

And will wait for each of you to make your way.

For this is the Great Sac­ri­fice, this is true love.

He waits for you to be ful­ly human,

He waits for you,

To be the Self-Awak­ened too.

 

Today is the Full Moon in the time of Tau­rus, it is the Full Moon of Scor­pio. All around the world there will be cel­e­bra­tions and cer­e­monies, for this is the fes­ti­val known as Wesak, this is the Full Moon of the Buddha.

The sto­ry we are told is that Sid­dhārtha was born at, achieved enlight­en­ment dur­ing, and final­ly left his mor­tal frame dur­ing such a full moon as tonight’s. Today, Seers, Teach­ers and Stu­dents will bow their heads and give thanks and praise to he who was the first to lift him­self out of spir­i­tu­al bondage, to become Self-Awak­ened, to become the first tru­ly Self-ful­filled human.

The Spir­i­tu­al mean­ing artic­u­lat­ed by any Full Moon con­cerns the inte­gral Truths formed by two Astrol­o­gy Signs, one for the Sun the oth­er for the Moon. No Sign can be tru­ly expe­ri­enced in iso­la­tion from any oth­er, they all form res­o­nances with one anoth­er, cre­at­ing a com­plex web of life and meaning.

We find our­selves now in the time of Tau­rus, and it is the most earthy or mate­ri­al­iz­ing moment in the Zodi­ac, the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones. Though you are an Immor­tal, you will move from World to World, from Form to Form, and in Life after Life through mor­tal frames. As you move into these realms of the mate­r­i­al, you are able to learn and so to mas­ter your­self and your pow­ers of cre­ation. But you may also become too enam­ored of or attached to any one form…

And so you must equal­ly learn that in order for you to “walk on”, you must equal­ly strive to “let go…and grow”. This is a fun­da­men­tal part of the teach­ing that the Bud­dha offers, that there is noth­ing per­ma­nent or “last­ing” in these mate­r­i­al realms, they are all com­pos­ites, held togeth­er ulti­mate­ly by the Intel­li­gence, Love and Will that resides at the heart of every mote and speck of this Uni­verse. It is that Spir­i­tu­al Core or Essence which moves from World to World, through Life after Life. The vehi­cles or bod­ies must be free also to evolve into new forms, just as their Spir­i­tu­al Cen­ters like­wise grow into the greater splendor…So that each, the Spir­i­tu­al Heart and the Mate­r­i­al Body can be re-formed again and again into ever more mean­ing­ful forms of spir­i­tu­al self-realization.

This is what you need to con­sid­er today, that you are an Immor­tal in a Mor­tal frame, and that you are to move through these tem­po­ral realms with ever greater Intel­li­gence, Love and Will. You must hold; and You must let go. You breathe in; You breathe out. You learn to love and cher­ish the forms in which you abide, to love and pro­tect your­selves and your beau­ti­ful world too…but you are here to grow, so you must also release these won­drous forms and move into ever more sub­lime realms, for­ev­er and ever.

Today, tonight you should con­sid­er this Divine jour­ney of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it, and join with many, many souls and recite, as will many fel­low seek­ers and aspi­rants, mas­ters and chelas, what is known as 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.

The first ques­tion in the Book of Life is:

Who are you?

And the sec­ond, per­haps even more mys­te­ri­ous query will ever be:

What are you?

The Zodi­ac, the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, the Ener­gy-Forms that fill the spaces of space, that form (and inform) all of this Cre­ation (for know what your heart tells you is so, the whole Uni­verse is tru­ly “alive”), reveal and bestow the mean­ings, pur­pos­es and des­tinies for every mote and speck in this Cos­mos. For each and every mon­ad or par­ti­cle, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal on up to unimag­in­able infini­ties, whether in min­er­als, plants or ani­mat­ed beings, in flow­ers and bees, in a sin­gle mol­e­cule or in the moun­tains, and moons and stars, and so also in each cell of your body, and most impor­tant­ly, abid­ing for­ev­er at the cen­ter and very high­est part of your being too, all of these ener­gy-forms have as their ensoul­ing core, all have as their most pre­cious heart, a self-lumi­nous spark of Divinity.

You are part of a vast Hier­ar­chy of Spir­it, which is upon a jour­ney of Con­scious­ness, of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it mov­ing from states of aware­ness that begin with just the mer­est sense of being, on upwards to forms of un-self-aware con­scious­ness to ever more evolved and pur­pose­ful states of self-aware con­scious­ness. The entire­ty of Cre­ation is a spi­ral­ing chain of Life-Forms, of Spir­its mov­ing in and out of Mat­ter as each one, and then all togeth­er, jour­ney to ever greater reach­es of Spir­i­tu­al self-fulfillment.

You find your­self now in the Human King­dom, where a great chal­lenge and gift is offered to you. Here as “human” you have what greater beings and less­er can only imagine…you have the gift of choice. It is because you are here to dis­cov­er who and what you are, to under­stand like­wise who and what trav­els with you too, and you can only do this, as you learn by tri­al and error, through reach­ing up and falling down, and reach­ing up again…you learn what is good and what is less good. You are here to learn to lift your­self up, to con­scious­ly choose to con­tin­ue upon the path of Spir­it, to align your­self with your ori­gin and so hon­or the path that forms your destiny…you learn by fol­low­ing this cir­cuitous path of self-unfold­ment, you learn and choose what is good and true.

In Aries, wher­ev­er it is found in your chart, and when­ev­er you are in such a time and place that speaks of this, you are to learn again that in Aries you are here to find your true Self, to acknowl­edge “the pres­ence” with­in, to become aware of the “aware­ness of aware­ness” that watch­es over all that you were, are and are yet to be. It is your know­ing of know­ing, it is the first gate you must pass, the Por­tal of Spir­i­tu­al Pres­ence: “I am”.

Now in this time of Tau­rus, and when­ev­er and wher­ev­er you encounter this Liv­ing One, you are brought before the Sec­ond Por­tal of Spir­it to expe­ri­ence what you know as your man­i­fes­ta­tions, your mate­ri­al­iza­tions, your won­drous forms of embod­i­ment which serve you in what­ev­er world and dimen­sion you find your­self to be mov­ing through.

You are com­posed by a hier­ar­chy of vehi­cles of self-real­iza­tion. Descend­ing from the realm of pure Spir­it, you have a Spir­it Body, a Men­tal Body, an Emo­tion­al Body and then some form of Phys­i­cal Body too. But always, in each of these forms, and at the core of each of the innu­mer­able par­ti­cles mak­ing up these bod­ies, there is the pri­mal ener­gy-form, the essen­tial essence of all these Light-Forms, there abides the One, there you are one with the Divine.

This is the answer to your sec­ond ques­tion, of what are you? You are “THAT”, you are a spark of the Divine. And that as much as is it is with­in you, is you, it sur­rounds you too. You are a pre­cious par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, and as much as your core is a por­tal to the Infi­nite, being of and from the Divine, then too you will know that the entire­ty of Cre­ation is with­in you too! You are a Divin­i­ty mov­ing towards mas­tery, as is the entire­ty of Cre­ation so mov­ing too…The Illu­sion you must over­come is this appear­ance of sep­a­ra­tion, and the Greater Aware­ness to which you strive is to know and to live the Truth that there is but one Spir­it, one Con­scious­ness and one Divine Will.

That is why you are here, to learn, to grow, to under­stand and so to smile…to look with­in your­self and to “bow” to that divin­i­ty that is the core and true essence of you…And that is why you are here to equal­ly turn to your broth­ers and sis­ters, to revere all crea­tures, plants, moun­tains and stars…You are to turn to them all and bow your head in most joy­ful acknowl­edge­ment… and say the Bless­ing of Truth, which express­es this fun­da­men­tal One­ness of Creation:

“Namaste” (“I bow to the Divine with­in you”).

I am that, I am.

Namaste.

Hap­py Astro­log­i­cal New Year!

Your won­drous spi­ral­ing dance

Through the Spaces of space,

Your weav­ing and bobbing,

Swoop­ing and swirling around your Star,

Has brought you full cir­cle once more.

 

Time to pause, to con­sid­er once again,

Where did you come from, why are you here…

And to what End is it real­ly, real­ly after all,

What is this Jour­ney of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it for?

 

You are here, as is all of Creation,

Rang­ing from the small­est Infinitesimal,

To the Hosts of Infini­ties above and beyond,

You and all the Lumi­nous Hosts of Life-Forms,

All move through a series of Dimen­sions, Worlds and Lives,

And it is all for one thing truly,

You are here quite sim­ply to Grow.

 

Each breath that you have,

Each step that you take,

Each life that you live,

Each love that you make,

Is Pre­cious.

For you are the “Self that is Becoming”,

A ris­ing Star in a Uni­verse of Stars.

 

As you dance through these Lives, Worlds and Dimensions,

Every moment is filled with promise,

For you are formed by the Light of the One.

Each turn in your life portentous,

For oth­er lives, even Worlds, hang in the balance.

But no step is per­haps more pre­cious than this one,

The next One,

The Now.

 

Today you step into the New Year,

Today you rise to the Song of Aries.

Your year begins with Fire,

With Ideals, Visions and Dreams.

Your Life and Lives are here today,

In this most won­drous moment,

Here in this most pre­cious Now.

 

For what you must understand,

Is that you are the Dream­ing Maker-Creator.

So that what you face today is quite simply,

What you made before.

But what comes Next,

That is on you,

It Depends upon you, and

You must become Aware.

 

For you can­not change what was,

It is Done.

And you can­not see what lies ahead,

For it is not yet ful­ly Formed.

It is here, and it is only here, where

You can and will be tru­ly Free.

 

So, it is real­ly up to you,

To be what you dream,

To become what you will be,

A radi­ant, Self-Illu­mined Star.

Turn towards this Dawn­ing of Days,

With­in and with­out, face your Cen­tral Star,

Do you know who you will be?

 

Will you greet your day with Kindness?

Will you lend a help­ing hand?

Will you plant your seeds of Healing?

Will you Smile, and Laugh and Love? Ah yes,

Now you Understand.

 

This is where it matters,

Here in the first of many steps.

Your Inten­tions and Motivations,

They will make real your Light-Filled Dreams.

You will take your­self, make yourself,

You will bring this Creation,

Into the Promised Land.

 

And that, that is why you are here…

You are the Alpha,

And you are the Omega.

You were there in the “begin­ning”,

And you will be there at the “end”.

Your Spi­ral Dance of Spir­it came out from No Thing…

From the Un-Man­i­fest, from Non-Being…

From “Noth­ing”, came all this Creation.

Out of the Dark­ness, now there is this Light,

Out of “That”, out of the One,

Came all of you, came all of you ones of the One.

 

All of this Creation,

Is a vast Spi­ral­ing Hier­ar­chy of Consciousness,

The One Light behind it all, you know and feel as Love.

Span­ning inward­ly and outwardly,

Between the Twelve Dimen­sions, and also with­in them too,

By the Dream­ers and the Builders,

From the intri­cate spi­ral­ing dance of the Infinitesimals,

To the Vast Spi­rals of Stars, Galax­ies and hosts of Super-beings,

It is all the same,

It is all the One,

It is all of you.

 

In Time and Space,

In Motion and in Still­ness too,

All of this Man­i­fes­ta­tion, this is the Body of the One.

All form the won­drous Spi­ral Dance of Spirit,

All Sing the Spir­it Songs of Consciousness.

All of this, and all of you,

All of “That” is this Jour­ney of Becoming.

All of this is Creation,

Which is from, comes from, and is made by your Love.

All of this, all of this, becomes as the becom­ing of Spirit

Because of you.

 

Your year begins in Fire,

In the spring­ing forth that is Aries.

Your year now clos­es in Water,

In the draw­ing inward that is Pisces.

 

The whole Arc of this year, and all your many years,

Of what you faced in your self-made fates,

And what you forged anew in reply,

Now you must draw and weave these ener­gy-forms together,

To Form your resplen­dent, shin­ing Robe of Glory.

From all these mem­o­ry-mean­ings are formed and found,

That most pre­cious gem,

That sparkling star, your High­er Consciousness,

And it is tru­ly this, this Story,

This is the Sto­ry and Truth that is you.

 

Here in this sacred space, this is your time,

To remem­ber who and what you were, are, and yet will be.

You are the Dream­er in your Creation,

Walk­ing the sacred Path­ways of the Presence,

For though it seems to be just behind or beyond you,

As you move in these Times and Spaces,

You will abide, as always,

In the only Cre­ative Space of Freedom.

Here in your ever­last­ing Presence,

Here you will find the Way,

Here you will be a Creator

Here in the Eter­nal Now.

 

Each step you take is precious,

Each Sign, each month a les­son for you,

By which you become and so make what you will be.

And there is no end to that, no final step that you may see.

 

Yet wise ones do say, there is some­thing even clos­er to you here,

That here in Pisces the final song and Truth of Spir­it rings out.

Here you walk beside the Ever­last­ing Waters,

Here you behold the Won­ders of your Faith and Dreaming.

For this is the gift of your Ori­gin and Destiny,

That you are a spark of the Divine,

Here is your Foun­tain-Source of Truth.

This forms your most price­less essence,

Your Dia­mond-Body, your Pearl of Great Price,

This very Quin­tes­sence that is you.

 

Yes, you are a Dreaming-Creator,

And, it is time to see the pow­er of your Faith,

And, to under­stand why you still have Fear.

To know that what you shall become,

Is always mea­sured by what you gave,

And so you shall receive, exactly

What you made by you before.

 

To under­stand that what brought you low,

Shall be the very means that will lift you up.

For you can only grow in your stumbling,

To try, and fail and to try again.

And so you learn and choose to do better.

 

And you will only know this in liv­ing by Truth,

You will only under­stand this by liv­ing with Faith,

You will only feel this by liv­ing through Love.

 

You will know and walk this path of the Wise Ones,

To see and live for the dawn­ing of your bet­ter days.

For only you can make that Shin­ing City on the Hill,

You can and will do this someday.

 

So in this time of Pisces,

Remem­ber who you are,

A Dream­er, a Creator,

Who by walk­ing your Path,

In For­give­ness and Humility,

By Kind­ness and Compassion,

You will awak­en to your Truth,

An Immor­tal in this mor­tal Frame.