Johfra-Boss­chart — Cancer

The Cen­ter that is Everywhere

Today we reach one of the “Four Turn­ings” of the Zodi­a­cal year. And the ques­tion we face in the Sign of Can­cer is quite sim­ply this, “Where do we come from”?

Our sto­ry is part of the Life of the One, the Sto­ry of Cre­ation, which is the sto­ry of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness. Guid­ing this unfold­ing Sto­ry of the One is the Zodi­ac, which is real­ly the fun­da­men­tal Field of Ener­gy-Forms that form the Design Body of the Uni­verse. This Field of Ener­gy-Forms cre­ates what we under­stand as the sub­tle body for all beings in the uni­verse, whether they be an Atom, Mol­e­cule, Organ­ism, Plan­et, Star, Galaxy and ulti­mate­ly, of course, the One. The Zodi­ac is the Noume­na behind all the Phe­nom­e­na of Cre­ation, as it is the Field of Mean­ings behind all man­i­fes­ta­tions in this Uni­verse, and we can under­stand it as being like what is known in sci­ence as an elec­tro-mag­net­ic field of ener­gy-forms. Seen this way, what we actu­al­ly expe­ri­ence in our phys­i­cal forms is like a Holo­gram, where inter­sect­ing ener­gy-forms are aligned and formed into pat­terns of mean­ing that cre­ate the Mat­ter-Forms that we per­ceive as sub­stan­tial and real.

What this means is that con­trary to our minds being fix­at­ed upon the phys­i­cal realm, the Zodi­ac is not some­thing “out there” in some part of out­er space, as some have placed it in a band of con­stel­la­tions, that have been arranged or fash­ioned into a kind of wheel in our local area of the galaxy. Rather, the Zodi­ac is behind each and every par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, form­ing each Spark of the Divine by these 12 Vibra­tional Ener­gy-Forms into a unique instance of Spirt-Mat­ter, but which is equal­ly indi­vis­i­ble and part of the one Ener­gy-Form of the One. In a very real way, the Zodi­ac forms the “Mas­ter Aura” of the Uni­verse, as it informs, shapes, and guides the devel­op­ment of each realm of being from a sin­gle grain of sand on up to the stars.

There is a very real hier­ar­chy in Cre­ation, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal of par­ti­cles on up through the plan­ets, stars, and galax­ies. For us humans here on Earth, we are each held in our own Auric Field of the Zodi­ac, which is in turn aligned to the Greater Aura of our Earth, which in turn is aligned with Zodi­a­cal Auric Field of our Solar Sys­tem, and then to the Zodi­a­cal Field of our Galaxy. Each of these “zodi­acs” is part of the One, and all are aligned to and cor­re­spond with one anoth­er. The order­ing of the Uni­verse is part of the One, that One “whose Cen­ter is Every­where, and whose Cir­cum­fer­ence is Nowhere”, and we are all ones of the One.

What this means for today is that rather than say­ing that the Sun moves into Can­cer today, what we should real­ly under­stand is that the Ener­gy-Form we call Can­cer is being activated/actualized by the Sun at this time of the year. All who are born at this time of the year will have the Can­cer Ener­gy-Form as their Root Nature, form­ing their essen­tial nature and pur­pose. Yet equal­ly, we should all under­stand, that some­where in our own charts, that some­where in our own con­sti­tu­tion, these mean­ings, sto­ries, and feel­ings of Can­cer are part of what makes us a whole per­son too.

So, what we wish to know is this, what is the essen­tial nature that we know as Can­cer? The answer is Can­cer is the ener­gy-form in which we call upon our feel­ings to help us make our way to the cen­ter of our­selves and our world. And equal­ly, that it forms the source or root of our nature by which we move out with our feel­ings to care for one anoth­er too. All water signs deal with this realm of con­nect­ed­ness, with our feel­ings, with the love that is our cen­ter, which is tru­ly the Love of the One.

In Can­cer we go inwards to the root of this Love, to expe­ri­ence the care and love of fam­i­ly, to have a sense of where we come from, and what formed us and holds us with a sense of belong­ing to those who came before. And it is from this cen­ter that is Love by which we reach out with our car­ing for one anoth­er too. In Scor­pio, we reach out­wards to one anoth­er, to form our Com­bi­na­tions and Unions with one anoth­er, so that we might dance and cre­ate in the alchem­i­cal spaces of birth, death, and rebirth. And in Pisces we reach out to the beyond, to what is yet to be, to the realms of our high­er Spir­it, to our Liv­ing Faith, to our Dreams and Imag­i­na­tion, and by this spir­i­tu­al chord of feel­ing we find our peace in the eter­nal con­nec­tion with the inef­fa­ble and unknow­able that is part of us and behind the whole of Cre­ation too.

By Can­cer, we feel and find our way to our cen­ter, that very same ener­gy-form “Whose Cen­ter is Every­where, and whose Cir­cum­fer­ence is Nowhere”. In Can­cer we under­stand that we came from the One, and that the spark of the Divine is our true self, which is Divine Love.

We are here because of love, and we are here to love one another.

Where do we come from?

From love.

Tran­script of Radio Show: Where are we now – Plu­to, Nep­tune & Uranus? (6/12/2022)

(If you wish to lis­ten to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Pod­casts)

In just over one week, on June 21^st, we will find our­selves at one of the four great Turn­ings of the Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar, the Sol­stice of Can­cer. Which makes this is a good time to pause and recon­sid­er what are the major Astro­log­i­cal themes and mes­sages that are being impart­ed to us by our plan­e­tary com­pan­ions dur­ing this year.

As I will often remind my clients and write about in my blog as well as here on the radio show, I believe we should under­stand the posi­tions of the plan­ets in the Zodi­ac, and their align­ments with one anoth­er as they orbit around the Sun, as form­ing a dynam­ic spir­i­tu­al sys­tem of illu­mi­na­tions, mean­ings and inspi­ra­tions which can help us to bet­ter under­stand our­selves and our jour­ney here on Earth.

The mes­sages and mean­ings of a par­tic­u­lar align­ment of one plan­et to anoth­er, or indeed of them all, is formed by our under­stand­ing of the spir­i­tu­al qual­i­ties that are held in each sign of the zodi­ac, com­bined with the qual­i­ties of being that are held by each plan­et. How­ev­er, what this can­not deter­mine nor indi­cate is the actu­al cir­cum­stances of the phe­nom­e­na in ques­tion. The Zodi­ac and the plan­ets do not form the actu­al con­tent of any expe­ri­ence or event in ques­tion on any lev­el of man­i­fes­ta­tion, whether we look at the atom­ic or chem­i­cal micro­cosms in their spi­rals and vor­tices of com­bi­na­tions, or at the more com­plex organ­ic king­doms, and indeed all the way up to the human king­dom and beyond. Each realm of being, each realm of life, cre­ates and forms its own mate­ri­als of man­i­fes­ta­tion, their own realities.

It is in this unfold­ment of Spir­it, in its mul­ti­ple dimen­sions and realms of becom­ing, it is here we find the great pageantry of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, and that for every­thing and every­one we can note the birth or begin­ning of a man­i­fes­ta­tion, then fol­low the “Arc of Becom­ing” in that Ener­gy-Form, and even­tu­al­ly we will come to, in this realm of phys­i­cal being, the end of that form which many may mis­un­der­stand as Death. Because this is Truth, the entire Uni­verse is alive and con­scious and cease­less­ly becomes the body of the One by means of these dances of Spir­it through Space-Time, the whirling dancers of Light who weave the sto­ries of Birth-Life-Death and Re-Birth.

So, what we can obtain through Astrol­o­gy is a deep­er under­stand­ing as to the nature of what was born (by exam­in­ing the natal chart of that Life-Form or Enti­ty), and then equal­ly under­stand the Arc of its Exis­tence as formed by the cycles of the plan­ets between them­selves and by the align­ments they make to the chart of that being.

For our pur­pos­es as humans, as we seek to under­stand our human cre­ation, our “self-made selves”, and our expe­ri­ences in the world, that is to say the world we live and walk through each and every day, all the events and process­es of our human lives, the dis­parate range of oppor­tu­ni­ties and dan­gers that we face, the joy or the suf­fer­ing we encounter, all of this is our very own human real­i­ty and cre­ation. We are respon­si­ble for this, as it is we who have made our world. Yes indeed, the very great part our real­i­ty has been made by us, passed down to us our ances­tors, as it is we in turn who our forg­ing our present-day real­i­ty on Earth, and at the same time cre­at­ing the con­di­tions for those who will fol­low us. As Shake­speare so clear­ly put it in his play “Julius Cae­sar”, when Cas­sius says to Brutus,

“The fault, dear Bru­tus, is not in our stars / But in our­selves, that we are underlings.”

The whole pur­pose behind Cre­ation, the essen­tial nature of Spir­it, is to be and become, to move from non-being into being­ness by unfold­ing and extend­ing from the spir­i­tu­al hier­ar­chies into the hier­ar­chies of real­i­ties or of man­i­fes­ta­tions of which we humans are one part. We are here for one thing, to learn to be bet­ter humans, to become bet­ter cre­ators and to take respon­si­bil­i­ty for what was passed down to us, and even more care­ful­ly with what we will bequeath to our descen­dants. So let us turn to our review of the major cur­rent influ­ences as revealed to us by our com­pan­ions in the heavens.

I want to stress as I have many times before, that if we look to one planet’s posi­tion, or to one plan­et align­ing with a plan­et in a par­tic­u­lar chart, we will fail to under­stand the full mean­ing and mea­sure of what has hap­pened or will hap­pen. Though Astrologer’s will focus upon one fac­tor or anoth­er as they deter­mine the nature of an enti­ty, or to deter­mine what that enti­ty is expe­ri­enc­ing, the only way to tru­ly under­stand is to try to hold all these indi­ca­tions and influ­ences as being what they are, part of a larg­er and inte­gral whole. Nev­er­the­less, we will begin as we have done many times before, by con­sid­er­ing the mean­ings and mes­sages of the three out­er­most plan­ets, Plu­to, Nep­tune, and Uranus.

Plu­to
Since 2008 and run­ning until 2024, Plu­to has been mak­ing its once in every 245 years pas­sage through the sign of Capri­corn. As I have not­ed before, when Plu­to (which is the plan­et that rules the process­es of birth-death-rebirth), pass­es through the sign that rules the forms of Real­i­ty and Insti­tu­tion­al order, Capri­corn, that these peri­ods have been char­ac­ter­ized by the end­ing of a par­tic­u­lar Socio-Polit­i­cal sys­tem and the rise of a new order in his­to­ry. Whether we look to the pre­vi­ous pas­sages of 1762 to 1778, (which was the end­ing lead­ing to the begin­ning and the birth of our present order), or to 1516 to 1532 or even to 1269 to 1287, each of these times her­ald­ed the “end of an age” and the seed­ing or begin­ning of a new one.

What hap­pens dur­ing such a peri­od is brought about because the solu­tions that were formed and made into a new Socio-Polit­i­cal order, restruc­tur­ings which were need­ed to resolve the prob­lems that the pre­vi­ous age had cre­at­ed, these solu­tions and restruc­tur­ings for that pre­vi­ous cri­sis bring about their very own prob­lems over time. This is because the nature of the solu­tions of the pre­vi­ous order’s cri­sis cre­ates over the next 250 years their own series or sets of prob­lems, and the now exist­ing order can­not resolve the inher­ent con­tra­dic­tions it now faces. The break­down of the old order­ing of insti­tu­tions ulti­mate­ly cre­ates a cathar­sis of trans­for­ma­tion, of death and rebirth, lead­ing to actions and reac­tions that will even­tu­al­ly coa­lesce into the seed­ing of a new order in the next pas­sage of Plu­to, and that is when Plu­to moves through the sign of Aquar­ius. The last peri­ods for Plu­to in Aquar­ius were from 1778 to 1798 and 1532 to 1553. Though we are going through the end­ing of an Age, and it is hard as we have seen, giv­en the his­to­ry of what hap­pened in those pre­vi­ous times with Plu­to in Aquar­ius, we must under­stand there will be much work to do to bring about our new Order from 2024 onwards.

Plu­to is the ves­sel of the Will, of Pow­er of Con­trol, and as it goes through Capri­corn, we have seen the last gasps of the old orders of pow­er and the begin­nings of a new under­stand­ing about Will and Pow­er rise and emerge from this deconstruction.

But as I not­ed before, with­out con­sid­er­ing the next out­er plan­et, we will miss a big part of what is hap­pen­ing dur­ing each pas­sage of Plu­to in Capricorn.

Nep­tune
In a pre­vi­ous show I not­ed the inte­gral rela­tion­ship of the pas­sages of Nep­tune dur­ing the peri­od when Plu­to was in Capri­corn. Because of the nature of their orbital time peri­ods, it turns out that while Plu­to is in Capri­corn, Nep­tune will be in either Pisces or Vir­go for much of that time. I find this cor­re­spon­dence to be extreme­ly inter­est­ing and help­ful in under­stand­ing the dif­fer­ences we can see between one peri­od of Plu­to in Capri­corn and the next.

Where­as Plu­to holds as the Avatar of the Will and Pow­er, Nep­tune holds as the Avatar of Belief and Faith. The influ­ence of Nep­tune mov­ing through the Signs can be seen as the sto­ry of the unfold­ment for shifts in Con­scious­ness, because Nep­tune holds the Dreams and Illu­mi­na­tions, which may soar to the great­est heights of Uncon­di­tion­al Love and yet at oth­er times devolve into Illu­sions, as to how Real­i­ty is con­ceived, expe­ri­enced, and lived.

In our peri­od of Plu­to in Capri­corn from 2008 to 2024, Nep­tune has been in Pisces from 2011 and remains there until 2026. Where­as in the pre­vi­ous peri­od of 1762 to 1778 it was in Vir­go, and then in Pluto’s Capri­corn pas­sage from 1516 to 1532 it was in Pisces like in our peri­od. That indi­cates to me that our time of 2008 to 2024 is much more like the 1500’s than the 1700’s; our time is more Pis­cean in nature while the 1700’s was more Vir­goan. What might that mean?

For me, the peri­ods with Nep­tune in Vir­go would be more about order and struc­ture, more prac­ti­cal and crit­i­cal with regards to the shifts of faith that were occur­ring in the 1700’s. Where­as in the 1500’s as now with Nep­tune in Pisces, I would see that as the most like­ly to pro­duce the widest swings in mat­ters of belief and faith, of dreams and fears. That is because when Nep­tune is in Pisces the bound­aries between the var­i­ous realms of life and mean­ing are more pro­tean and per­me­able. Cer­tain­ly, in Europe in the 1500’s, the split of the Catholic church into numer­ous protes­tant faiths, along with the rise of a new polit­i­cal econ­o­my, was accom­pa­nied by extreme expres­sions of fer­vent devo­tion, and tremen­dous divi­sions between peo­ples and faiths as to what con­sti­tut­ed truth and what was real.

That strug­gle over the “phe­nom­e­nal archi­tec­ture” of the world, where there is a very real strug­gle over the very nature of good and evil, of what is right and wrong, between the light and the dark­ness, well that seems to be pre­vail­ing again in our time. Where­as the cri­sis in the 1700’s pre­sent­ed itself as a strug­gle about the polit­i­cal order, of the strug­gle between an order based on the Hier­ar­chy of King and Sub­jects ver­sus the Right to Self-Deter­mi­na­tion, in our time as in the 1500’s, it seems that the divi­sions between indi­vid­u­als and groups has a more extreme qual­i­ty, in that it is char­ac­ter­ized by a fun­da­men­tal split as to the nature of real­i­ty itself. There are so many com­pet­ing sto­ries of what is true, ver­sus half-truths ver­sus what is seri­ous­ly delu­sion­al that we can­not even agree to lis­ten to one anoth­er, and we cer­tain­ly do not under­stand one another.

The struc­ture of Will and Pow­er in any con­struct, is made mean­ing­ful, believ­able, and true by the Faith and Dreams of that time. For the Plu­ton­ian Will to work, it must be guid­ed, shaped, and yet equal­ly restrained by the Nep­tun­ian mes­sage of the Divine, which is ulti­mate­ly expe­ri­enced as Uncon­di­tion­al Love. When this bal­ance breaks down, as we see all around us now, we find a world where Insti­tu­tions fail to ful­fill their mis­sion, and the peo­ple see the promise of a bet­ter world for­sak­en, and we equal­ly see the author­i­ties charged with the respon­si­bil­i­ties to address the needs of the times, fail­ing to do enough of what is right for the com­mon good, or abus­ing their pow­er for self­ish ends. Hope is lost in the fog and con­fu­sion of a world that no longer makes sense or works. As William But­ler Yeats famous­ly wrote in his poem “The Sec­ond Coming”:

“Things fall apart; the cen­ter can­not hold…The best lack all con­vic­tion, while the worst 
Are full of pas­sion­ate intensity.”

We will see what the next pas­sage of Nep­tune will bring, when it makes the shift from Pisces into Aries in 2026. Just as Plu­to in Aquar­ius indi­cates the great work of build­ing a new order will have begun, that re-birth of Plu­to will be guid­ed and inspired (as it was in the 1500’s) by Neptune’s move­ment through Aries.

Uranus
To com­plete the overview for our present time, we need to bring in the third Avatar of the tri­ad of Spir­it, Uranus. It is the pur­pose of Uranus to hold the Inno­v­a­tive, Cre­ative and Mind­ful nature of Spir­it. As much as Nep­tune rules and holds the ques­tions of Faith, Uranus brings in the coun­ter­point of Rea­son and Crit­i­cal think­ing. Togeth­er they hold the Ener­gy-Forms of the Rea­son­ing Mind and the Intu­ition­al Spir­it. They can also be seen as the hold­ers of the inte­gral rela­tion­ship between Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty (Uranus) and Com­mu­nal­i­ty (Nep­tune). Both these qual­i­ties are nec­es­sary, but they vary in their inten­si­ty and inte­gra­tion, some­times in bal­ance with one anoth­er and some­times one pre­vail­ing as more dom­i­nant in dif­fer­ent soci­eties and times.

As we have not­ed often, Uranus’ posi­tion dur­ing this peri­od seems sig­nif­i­cant too, as it is mov­ing through the Sign of Tau­rus from 2018 to 2026. Tau­rus is the ves­sel of Val­ue, and from it we even­tu­al­ly come to under­stand that what stands behind all mea­sures and man­i­fes­ta­tions of val­ue is the one ever­last­ing Val­ue, Divine Uncon­di­tion­al Love; that every­thing and every being is a spark of the Divine, and all are pre­cious in the Love that is the One.

What this means as Uranus moves through Tau­rus is that our under­stand­ing and expe­ri­ence of val­ue is being “shook up” by Uranus, which is also known as the ruler of shocks, sur­pris­es, and earth­quakes. Uranus shakes us and breaks us from our attach­ments to less­er under­stand­ings (in this case with regards to the ques­tion of our val­ues and hier­ar­chy of val­ue), not to harm and dis­turb us but to wake us up, to make us open our eyes with won­der again. Uranus is the lib­er­a­tor, and it helps us to be free from self-made fil­ters that lim­it our under­stand­ing; it brings the gift of an open mind so that we might see once again, “with the eyes of a child”.

I have also not­ed that Uranus holds a spe­cial rela­tion­ship of cor­re­spon­dence with Nep­tune (that is like the har­mon­ics of Nep­tune with Plu­to), in that one orbit of Nep­tune equals two of Uranus. Uranus is in Tau­rus every 84 years or so, and the last times were, 1935 to 1942, 1851 to 1859 and 1768 to 1775. In world his­to­ry, and cer­tain­ly for Amer­i­can his­to­ry, those years stand out as moments when earth­quakes shook the world of ideas for the con­cepts of val­ue. For our peri­od, the peri­od most like our own is 1851 to 1859, which were the lead up to our Civ­il War, and that is the last time that Nep­tune was in Pisces while Uranus was in Tau­rus, just like now. Once again, we have the alter­na­tion of Nep­tune being in Pisces or Vir­go, while Uranus moves through Tau­rus. Once again, we are at a time that bears a strik­ing resem­blance to anoth­er time in his­to­ry, and much the same themes as to how we val­ue one anoth­er are before us once again.

In our present time we are once again faced with the Plu­ton­ian realm of Will and Pow­er break­ing down insti­tu­tion­al­ly, so that the hier­ar­chy of order and respon­si­bil­i­ty fails, and indi­vid­u­als and groups assume their own author­i­ty to chal­lenge the exist­ing order, to wield their uncen­tered and so unspir­i­tu­al pow­er, lay­ing claim to rights that are not root­ed in truth, as for exam­ple seen in the sedi­tious mob shout­ing as they stormed the Capi­tol on Jan­u­ary 6^th say­ing, “this is our house”.

We find that the Nep­tun­ian Realm of Faith and Belief, no longer held togeth­er by a func­tion­ing hier­ar­chy of insti­tu­tion­al struc­tures, devolv­ing into each per­son and group assum­ing their right to be the deter­min­er of what is true or false, and so our com­mon under­stand­ing is bro­ken, and half-truths root­ed in fear fuel an atmos­phere filled with sus­pi­cions, mis­trust, and isolation.

Final­ly, the gift of Uranus, of hav­ing the capac­i­ty to think “out­side the ordi­nary”, to be a con­trar­i­an, devolves into unmoored asser­tions of fic­tions as fact, as a ver­i­ta­ble tsuna­mi of lies swamps the realm of mind, so that the act of being con­trary is not to help free one another’s minds but is used as a bat­ter­ing ram to sow con­fu­sion and doubt where noth­ing is true, and so every­thing become impossible.

Giv­en where we are, what are we do? I do have hope, as I do know that humans have faced the dark­est of hours and still found their way back into the light. Why? Because the Light nev­er left, nor will it ever go out. The Light of the One it is at the heart of each and every one of us. We only need to remem­ber, who and what we are, and then act by and through that under­stand­ing. In all that we do, we must remain cen­tered and pur­pose­ful with the wis­dom that begins with this, that the Uni­verse is formed by Love and is made of Truth.

When we do stand fast and aligned with our spir­it, we know that there is truth, and it is love. We know that there is hope because we have faith. We know that our faith is not root­ed in a teach­ing or a book, but it is instead a liv­ing faith found­ed upon the spark of the Divine shin­ing in every one of us. When we lis­ten to that qui­et, gen­tle voice remind­ing us of who we are, then we will know what to do and how to do it.

We are on the path of Light; and that Light is Love.

In my fifth show of 2022, I thought it would be help­ful to take a look at the Astro­log­i­cal con­di­tions that are most rel­e­vant for under­stand­ing what is unfold­ing in 2022. Since we are days away from the Can­cer Sol­stice, it is a good time to review the major themes of this year.

If you wish to sug­gest a sub­ject or top­ic for a future show, please email me as I would be hap­py to hear from you. My email is: billattride@gmail.com.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sun­day June 12^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2022/06/12/astrological-musings-where-are-we-now

The phone num­ber to call if you wish to ask a ques­tion dur­ing the live show is: (516) 531‑9638.

Please join me on Sun­day June 12^th @ 2 pm EDT as Savewe look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

If you miss the show, it will be avail­able as a Pod­cast short­ly after on BlogTalk or my Apple Pod­casts.

The Light of Consciousness

The sto­ry of Cre­ation is the sto­ry of the jour­ney of Spir­it through all the many realms of this Uni­verse. From the One, came the many; the count­less many ones who went out on a seem­ing­ly nev­er-end­ing jour­ney of becom­ing. These Mon­ads of Spir­its, these Sparks of the Divine, are found at the heart of every par­ti­cle, being or Ener­gy-Form of the Uni­verse. Tru­ly we need to move away from our dual­is­tic notions of Ener­gy and Form, of Spir­it and Mat­ter, and under­stand that real­ly there is just the One. That Mat­ter is just the dens­est form of Spir­it, as Spir­it is the most ethe­re­al form of Matter.

These sparks of the Divine form the build­ing blocks of Cre­ation, rang­ing from what we know as the sub-atom­ic world of pro­tons, elec­trons, and neu­trons, and on up to the plan­ets, stars, and galax­ies and what­ev­er lies beyond; and that all these amaz­ing man­i­fes­ta­tions of Spir­it-Mat­ter are the body, heart, and mind of the One. We should also under­stand that all these Ener­gy-Forms are just var­ied man­i­fes­ta­tions of Spir­it, and that the whole of Cre­ation is filled with the Light of Con­scious­ness and Uncon­di­tion­al Love of the One. The One is Cre­ation; Cre­ation is the One.

And this is the point of this spe­cial moment in our Zodi­a­cal Year, for today we move from the realm of Tau­rus into the Light that is Gem­i­ni. Because anoth­er way of under­stand­ing Cre­ation is that on one lev­el or con­sid­er­a­tion, the whole of Cre­ation is Con­scious; Cre­ation is the Mind of the One made man­i­fest. Every part of Cre­ation is on some lev­el a form of mind, a form of con­scious­ness, so that the entire­ty of Cre­ation is also the Mind of the One. The Whole Uni­verse is essen­tial­ly the Con­scious­ness of the One; and we should under­stand that the entire hier­ar­chy of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness is exact­ly this, the inter­re­lat­ed and inter­de­pen­dent fields of fields of Ener­gy-Forms that are the Life-Love-Mind of the One.

Why is this impor­tant for Gem­i­ni? Because held with­in the sto­ry of Gem­i­ni we find the ever-renew­ing gift that holds the por­tal to our greater under­stand­ing. Yes, the whole of Cre­ation is formed by many forms of mind in a con­stant jour­ney of self-becom­ing. But there is a point in the pere­gri­na­tions of spir­it through the Uni­verse, in which each class of mon­ads arrives at this spe­cial moment in their jour­ney, when they become not mere­ly aware, but self-aware. That is what we cel­e­brate in Gem­i­ni, the gift of our self-aware consciousness.

Long, long ago, when our inner mon­ad of the Divine Spir­it was ready for this great “quick­en­ing”, for the release of our greater poten­tial, it was then that the torch of Self-Aware­ness was passed to us by those who had walked this path long ago. It was their duty and hon­or to share with us this gift, just as it had been shared with them ages ago. For this is part of the teach­ing too, that all the ones of the One care for one anoth­er, and that all of us become who and what we are to be through our rela­tion­ships and love for one another.

That is why we have these sto­ries that have been passed down to us from our ances­tors, that tell us about this gift of aware­ness. They are the tales held in the myths of Prometheus, of Lucifer, of Quet­zal­coatl, of Loki and the great sto­ry of the Kumaras. Until that moment in our jour­ney, we were aware but some­what asleep as well, and it was at this most con­se­quen­tial gift that we were pulled into “the aware­ness of our aware­ness”, we became self-aware, and this was both joy­ful and very painful too.

Why? Because now we were seem­ing­ly sep­a­rat­ed from the One, and we “fell” into divi­sion as we rose in this new under­stand­ing, and this is part of our sto­ry too. We left behind our inno­cence as we were gift­ed this greater respon­si­bil­i­ty for our fur­ther devel­op­ment. This was when we began to walk the path of being in that great com­pa­ny of awak­en­ing, to be and become self-aware cre­ators in Creation.

With this gift of self-aware­ness, with the dawn­ing of objec­tive con­scious­ness, the next step in our jour­ney was tak­en, as we became aware through the twin pil­lars of Gem­i­ni of the way of the Uni­verse, of the dual­i­ties of cre­ation, of Spir­it and Mat­ter, of Sub­ject and Object, of “this and that”, which began most sim­ply for us in the expe­ri­ence of “I am that, and I am not that”. And it was this, this unceas­ing, inces­sant need to expe­ri­ence Cre­ation in all its com­plex­i­ties, diver­si­ties, cor­re­spon­dences, and con­nec­tions that stirred our glo­ri­ous and self-lumi­nous seed to sprout, because now we had to know, we had to under­stand “how all of this, how all of that”, is.

What we cel­e­brate in Gem­i­ni now, and at this time of year and some­where in your chart this is always true, you should give thanks for this nec­tar of the gods which we know as the Light of Intel­li­gence. But we should always remem­ber that like all spir­i­tu­al gifts, this gift must be under­stood as being found­ed upon and then made real by our love for one anoth­er, just as this gift was giv­en to us by love. Our obser­va­tions and cog­i­ta­tions, our analy­ses, and our deter­mi­na­tions, can­not move us to a deep­er under­stand­ing with­out being teth­ered and shaped, ground­ed and sup­port­ed by our shar­ing and com­par­ing with one anoth­er. For after all, what we real­ly are as humans is this, we are Storytellers.

The sto­ry of our Intel­li­gence, like the sto­ry of our Con­scious­ness, is just that, a sto­ry. If we wish to not fall into error, if we wish to walk the path of the One, then we must keep shar­ing with one anoth­er, we must lis­ten to one anoth­er, we must keep shar­ing our sto­ries with one anoth­er, and by this car­ing and com­pas­sion and shar­ing, we will be able to help one anoth­er to refine our under­stand­ing of our­selves and our world.

For it is most cer­tain­ly true that you will only know your­self, and you will only under­stand your world, when you see the oth­er as your­self. When you look into the eyes of whomev­er is before you, and when you see shin­ing there that sparkling Spir­it of Know­ing, it is then that you will smile and laugh and love with one anoth­er because you know we are the Light which is the Divine, “whose cen­ter is every­where and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere”.

Tau­rus, Johfra Bosschart

What are you?

Today we begin the sec­ond month in the Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar, and some­where in your chart, and for every­one at this time of year, we all need to lis­ten to the spir­i­tu­al mes­sages for us in this sacred space known as Taurus.

For the past 30 days you have been guid­ed and inspired by the Gift that is Aries, the abil­i­ty to find and forge your true pres­ence as you walk through the “eter­nal now”. As I will often say to my clients when­ev­er their pro­gressed Moon is mov­ing through Aries, (or when­ev­er a plan­et is mov­ing through their chart’s first house), the uni­verse is ask­ing you the first ques­tion of life, “Who are you”?

That is a very pro­found ques­tion indeed, of course. But Tau­rus brings you to per­haps an even deep­er and more chal­leng­ing ques­tion; life will ask you now not “who” are you, but “what are you”? Think about that ques­tion, of all the many cat­e­gories of being, the great range of attrib­ut­es, strengths, pow­ers and so very much more that go into the mak­ing of the “what” of you. Real­ly that is it, “What is that what?”; and that is the ques­tion you need to be ask­ing your­self in Taurus.

And, if you con­sid­er this ques­tion, for even a very short time, you will real­ize how very deep and pro­found it is. Exact­ly what is “the What” of being human? For you are not “a thing”, no not at all. You, and this is true of every mote and par­ti­cle of Cre­ation too, you are a field of Ener­gy-Forms or bod­ies, formed by a hier­ar­chy of these mag­nif­i­cent man­i­fes­ta­tions of Spirit-Matter.

You are a sparkling dew­drop of the divine who emerged from the One. In each life, “from the cen­ter that is every­where and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere”, from the heart of you which is a Mon­ad of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, you bring forth from your­self, in com­bi­na­tion with the sur­round­ing fields of Ener­gy-Forms, the nec­es­sary vehi­cles of being that are required for each dimen­sion of life that is Creation.

You descend or emanate from your Mon­ad or Spir­it Body Field which is the high­est part of you, into the next realm of your Men­tal-Intu­itive ener­gy-form or body, then from that descends a low­er Men­tal form, and then from this an Emo­tion­al body, and then a Vital body, and final­ly, to what you mis­tak­en­ly take to be your “true self”, you assume a Phys­i­cal body, the dens­est Field of Ener­gy-Forms that you require for life here on Earth.

And you need to know this, that each of these bod­ies are formed by par­ti­cles and forms from which they are made too. You are not an indi­vid­ual being what­so­ev­er, you are a host of hosts, a ver­i­ta­ble con­stel­la­tion or field of fields of ener­gy-forms, so that in fact you are very own lit­tle uni­verse of Spirit-Life-Consciousness.

Yes, it is in Tau­rus that you move from sub­jec­tiv­i­ty to objec­tiv­i­ty, you go from “I am” to “I am that”. You become you by these forms of being as you expe­ri­ence life as a rain­bow of sen­sa­tions, as you dis­cov­er your strengths, as you acquire your abil­i­ties, and by mov­ing into this earthy realm you forge the qual­i­ties of you as human. In Tau­rus, you expe­ri­ence the joy and won­der of being alive, of see­ing the beau­ty of the world, of liv­ing in a realm of shapes and col­ors, and sounds, and scents, and so many won­der­ful sen­sa­tions that are the heart of and forge the love of being part of LIFE, of which you are a most spe­cial part too.

But the ques­tion remains, what is “that what” of you, or bet­ter, what is the val­ue that is you? From your youth to old age, the val­ues that make you, the qual­i­ties of your being, will wax and wane, as the phys­i­cal strengths of your youth give way to the gifts of wis­dom and judge­ment of lat­er years. There are days when it all seems so per­fect, to be fol­lowed by days when you do not feel so very valu­able at all. Amidst all these ups and downs, of a life of joys and of sor­rows, what is behind the val­ue of you any­way? After all the many ways of val­ue, what is the foun­tain-source of val­ue of you?

As it was in the begin­ning, so shall it be in the end. You are a price­less jew­el of spir­it, a spark of the Divine. There is no way to mea­sure what is the what of you, for tru­ly it is the one Ener­gy-Form behind the entire­ty of Cre­ation; you are through and through made of Divine Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

But so is all of this, all of life, all of cre­ation is here because of Love. All of Cre­ation is pre­cious, all of it is here to be loved too.

You are here because of love, and you are here quite sim­ply to be that Love for one anoth­er and for this beau­ti­ful Earth and for the Stars above you too.

Remem­ber what you are,

Love one another.