Mer­cury returns to the watery depths of Scor­pio, and your final step, (for now) of this Air-Water-Air-Water dance is at hand. Three times Mer­cury has moved from an Air sign to Water, then ret­ro­grad­ed back into Air and then for­ward again into Water. In February/March, in May/June and here in September/November, you have had a Trip­tych of Truth, a gift of grace from your star­ry com­pan­ions wheel­ing above. For this is “the Way”, these spi­ral­ing rib­bons of light and love both inspire and form your inte­gral jour­ney in Spirit.

All these Ener­gy-Forms, of Fire, Earth, Air and Water sweep in, through and around you. But even more than this, their unique Blend­ing-Com­bin­ing-Weav­ing make you into “you”, a com­plete human. You are not one thing or anoth­er; you are a unique instance of Cre­ation. You are a micro­cosm, a won­drous reflec­tion of the Macro­cosm or Cos­mos. You are a “host in minia­ture” of the Heav­en­ly Host, of the entire­ty of Cre­ation which sur­rounds you. And so you are here to know and feel that the won­ders of heav­en which are “out there”, that they also and will ever abide with­in you too…for “I am That, I am”…Yes, yes you are.

Now and until Novem­ber 27, your mind is lens­ing through the desires, pas­sions and fears that are faced in the realm that is Scor­pio. You wish to bridge the seem­ing divide between your­self and your beloved. You need to pierce beyond the shad­ows that fall between I and Thou, and forge that pre­cious bond of Union that actu­al­ly releas­es your Spir­it to soar even high­er. But to do this you must face down the shad­ows of your past rejec­tions and hurts. For if these take hold of your mind and heart, and so sway your inten­tions and actions, then you will act through these shad­owed ener­gy-forms and bring about the very loss­es you are des­per­ate­ly try­ing to avoid.

You need to draw down the High­er side of Scor­pio, to know that you are Spir­it, that you are Love and Loved, and that you have noth­ing to fear. Then you will show your strength which is your Love by act­ing Fearlessly…That by lead­ing with your lov­ing­ness, by your open­ness and vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty which are the signs of your Spir­i­tu­al Strength, that by this you will cre­ate the oppor­tu­ni­ty to heal the breach between you. You will open your mind and your heart and so cre­ate the space where I and Thou can enter in. And you will move into that won­drous expe­ri­ence and mys­tery where you two can become one with one another.

Let Her­mes, the mes­sen­ger of the Gods, take you to the place of your deep­est long­ing now.

It is time to pierce beyond the Loss­es and Shadows,

To move beyond those pains and regrets,

Which held you apart from one another.

It is time to Lead with your Faith,

It is time to Live in your Truth,

It is time, to let go of fear.

It is time,

To Love.

Your Spir­i­tu­al Journey,

Is all about Hold­ing on…

and Let­ting go.

You will vis­it count­less worlds of manifestation,

You will pass through many won­drous hier­ar­chies of form,

You will live many lives mov­ing through each form…

But even so, you will ever and for­ev­er always jour­ney on.

For you seek for the Transcendent,

The promise of Permanence,

You yearn to expe­ri­ence an eter­nal you,

Behind all these con­stant­ly chang­ing worlds, forms and lives.

The Tau­rus Full Moon in this month of Scor­pio is the nec­es­sary com­pli­ment to the Scor­pio Full Moon of six months ago. It was dur­ing that Month of Tau­rus, it was then that you were remind­ed to bow your head and give thanks to the Hier­ar­chy of Love and Wis­dom that lights your path. The great lessons embod­ied in the Life and Teach­ings of the Bud­dha are hon­ored at that time. One of the most impor­tant of these is this: that the nature of you is that you are a host of ener­gies and forms that is con­stant­ly devel­op­ing, chang­ing, grow­ing into some­thing more…and that there is noth­ing “per­ma­nent” in your “human” form.

But it is equal­ly true that one abid­ing con­stant that you will find in your many lives, through­out your many jour­neys, is held for you in what are known as the Peren­ni­al Truths, the Ancient Wis­dom Teach­ings. These gifts of the Spir­it become real for you by and through those who have come this way before, the many com­pas­sion­ate wise ones who will ever show and help you in the next step, who lov­ing offer their help so that you may find “the way”…but you, of course, must walk this sacred path yourself.

Here in the Light of the Tau­rus Moon you are giv­en anoth­er lov­ing gift of Wis­dom. Just as you need to accept the ephemer­al nature of your bod­i­ly lives and forms while mov­ing through the time that is Tau­rus, you equal­ly need some reas­sur­ance as you jour­ney now through the Joys and Pains of Scor­pio. For as you encounter your heart­felt leaps and falls, as you find Union and Sep­a­ra­tion, as you expe­ri­ence Death and Rebirth, that through it all you will find your­self mak­ing your way to the abid­ing lov­ing pres­ence behind it all.

For what you must leave behind is your fear…that you are alone, that you are sep­a­rate, and the pre­sid­ing nature of things is that noth­ing lasts. The Great Illu­sion is this sep­a­ra­tion, and the Abid­ing Truth is that all of this, the entire­ty of Cre­ation is of, by and for the One. All these Worlds, Forms and Lives form the radi­ant robe of Glo­ry of the Divine which is found at the cen­ter of every speck and mote of Cre­ation. All of “this” is The Divine, whose Cen­ter is Every­where and whose Cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere.

At the cen­ter of each and every mote and par­ti­cle of Cre­ation is a spark of this Divine, each like you a Self-Unfold­ing, Self-Becom­ing Pres­ence of Con­scious­ness. That pres­ence, that Aware­ness of Aware­ness, is your con­stant com­pan­ion through all the Worlds, Forms and Lives. And you will come to know this and feel this in many, many ways in your jour­ney. But behind it all, the essence of it tru­ly, is that you are one with the One, and you jour­ney in the embrace of a Pure and Uncon­di­tion­al Love…and you will come to know and live that you are this Love.

You are here to grow…

To move from form to form,

To Be, and Not to be.

To be a One, and to be Many.

To be Love, and be Loved.

As it was invoked six months ago at the Bud­dha Full Moon, it is quite right and fit­ting to bow your head in the light of the Full Moon today and tonight, and be grate­ful. To give thanks to those who have gone ahead, and bow your head and offer up once again 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.

Your Keep­er of those “realms beyond”,

Infini­ties stretch­ing beyond your blue orbed sphere.

Mars, your Avatar of Desire and Action,

Cir­cles round from Aspi­ra­tion to Manifestation.

Leav­ing the Realm of Fire,

He enters your Space of Destiny,

A most Sub­stan­tial and Earthy Realm.

 

It is not enough for you to dream and imagine,

You are here on Earth to become,

To be the Dream­er-Mak­er, the Self-Made-Manifest.

So you must climb a cir­cuitous stony path,

Forg­ing a Dia­mond Body of Karma-Dharma,

To be revealed in your Self-Illu­mined Spirit-Matter.

 

Mars enters Capri­corn today,

Your Spir­i­tu­al War­rior calls to you.

His Song of Self-Asser­tion/­Self-Actu­al­iza­tion has shifted,

And you must lift your gaze from the path.

You must look ahead, for you can see it now,

Your Ful­fill­ment, your Ori­gin and Destiny,

More Hum­bled and filled with Gratitude,

You can under­stand your Pur­pose and Prize.

 

Your heart­felt endeav­ors have made more of you,

And remade your world and your com­pan­ions too, and

There is some­thing more than was before.

And you have earned some well-earned praise,

For shoul­der­ing those Joys and Burdens,

That forms your path here upon the Earth.

 

But you must know, that your jour­ney is far from done,

Your Self-Mas­ter-Craft­ing, The Great Work continues,

Stretch­ing far beyond this hum­ble Plateau you stand upon today.

This Moun­tain of Mak­ing, your Crown­ing Achievement,

Is part of a greater under­tak­ing you share,

With hosts upon hosts of fel­low Light-Weavers,

Seek­ing as you the Greater Life, the Greater Understanding,

As all stretch upwards, all bend­ing back towards the Light Divine.

 

The Mes­sage of Mars in Capri­corn is about Respon­si­bil­i­ty in Action.

For your Self-Becom­ing/­Self-Mak­ing is not your own or of you at all.

You stand upon a path blazed by innu­mer­able souls who came this way,

Long, long ago.

Their Light and Love help you upon the path today,

And it is your Duty and Respon­si­bil­i­ty to like­wise turn to those who fol­low you.

To extend your­self, to bend your actions, feel­ings, thoughts and will to help­ing those,

Who look up to you now as you once did too,

So that you are reach­ing for­wards and back­wards, helped and helping,

Much as those who came before you, still on this path too,

Will lift you high­er and high­er each and every day.

 

For the Cos­mos is a Spir­i­tu­al Hier­ar­chy of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

You are but one Spark along a Nev­er-End­ing Lumi­nous Chain.

You are only what you are because of one another.

You are here to help one another…

You are here to be for one another…

You are here quite sim­ply to Love.

The tri­als and tribu­la­tions of Mer­cury ret­ro­grade are end­ing today. Oh yes, it seems as if it caus­es noth­ing but trou­ble, that when Her­mes retraces his steps, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Tech­nol­o­gy, Relationships…All Life seems to get turned upside down/inside out. But real­ly, this is not the case at all!

Yes, it appears that this is so, but appear­ances are deceiv­ing. Mer­cury is not “caus­ing” these things. Remem­ber, you are the “Actor” down here, and these ener­gies that are mov­ing through and around you, are not there to frus­trate or harm you. You just need to under­stand and work with them.

For the past three weeks every­one was, whether they real­ized it or not, every­one was more Introspective/Contemplative. So out­ward activ­i­ties and com­mu­ni­ca­tions were more chal­leng­ing. Either through a fail­ure to approach the mat­ter atten­tive­ly, or to receive the mes­sage or action atten­tive­ly. From either one side or both, errors would enter in.

But this was from a fail­ure to appre­ci­ate this shift in the Song of Spir­it that flows through and around you.

What Mer­cury ret­ro­grade offers you is a gift…But life does go on.

So you just have to learn to be even more…

Hum­ble, Thought­ful and Attentive.

When­ev­er these Winds of the Spir­it swirl…Listen for these shifts in the Song of Spir­it, so that you may align your­self with the Greater Self, with­in which you tru­ly abide.

I wrote of this turn­ing in my Gen­er­al Fore­cast for 2014:

Mer­cury Direct (Octo­ber 25 until Feb­ru­ary 6, 2015)

Mer­cury goes direct until Feb­ru­ary of 2015. You have com­plet­ed three rounds of Water/Air ret­ro­grades of Mer­cury. This three-fold dance that showed you the link­age between your Feel­ings and Thoughts ends with this reminder that for you to expe­ri­ence the pas­sion of a more per­fect Union depends upon your Con­scious­ness being guid­ed by true Jus­tice and shared Prin­ci­ples, that you must ever be guid­ed by tol­er­ance and under­stand­ing for one another.

Time to turn again…

To con­sid­er more what is “out there”,

To show how more adept you have become, as

You move with a new-found Grace,

Into that Space between I and Thou.

Your Inner wan­der­ings, first by Water and now by Air,

Reveal­ing more tru­ly your rela­tion­ship to yourself,

Were to review/revise your assump­tions and patterns,

Which you forge as your “half” of any rela­tion­ship you are in.

But now you must take this Gift of Contemplation,

Hermes’s Pen­sive Pause,

You must turn with Mer­cury now and build a bet­ter bridge of Understanding,

Between your­self and one another.

The Vita Con­tem­pla­tive must give way to this “Time of Praxis”,

For you are here to build with one anoth­er a far more Intel­li­gent Social Space.

That only in your Mutu­al under­stand­ing and sup­port for one another,

Only in this do you ful­fill your true heart’s desire,

To Love and be Loved.

To know that you can­not see, you can­not know,

With­out the Light of Under­stand­ing that you shine,

For one another.

The Light of Understanding,

That is formed and framed,

By Love.

The Time of Scor­pio is at hand…

You stand before the Eighth Portal.

You have come togeth­er, hold­ing hands,

But now you face the ulti­mate Illu­sion and Promise.

You face the divide that lies between “I and thou”,

That you are sep­a­rate from one another.

You will have your Sal­va­tion by your Faith,

Which is found­ed upon the Greater Understanding,

That you and I are “One”,

For­ev­er.

You are an immor­tal, abid­ing for a time in this won­drous mor­tal frame.

There is no form which will last, for every “thing” must pass away.

You have no eter­nal phys­i­cal body or even name of you,

For you are Spir­it, and at the core of you burns a Spir­i­tu­al Spark of the Divine.

Your one Imper­a­tive, your truest call­ing, is to grow, to learn…and so become.

You must move in, and through and then beyond any one form.

For each of these embod­i­ments is both a fulfillment,

and your prison too.

Beside you, with­in you, a Lumi­nous Pres­ence in your journeys,

Inspir­ing, Guid­ing and Lov­ing the whole stream­ing Lives of these forms of you,

There abides Pure Love, there is your Beloved, who is your sil­ver chord to the One,

The One from which all came, and to which all will one day return.

Your High­er Self moves with you through all these Worlds and Lives,

Yet ever-lift­ing and draw­ing you clos­er to an even greater you,

Beyond any life or world, you ascend to ever more sub­tle forms of Self-Realization.

You must be born into form, and you also must release, again and again.

You cel­e­brate this life, but quake at the por­tal of the next, which you call death.

You want to live for­ev­er, yet your Immor­tal­i­ty was already a given.

You will come to real­ize the Truth,

That you live only in “the Eter­nal Now”,

That you were, are and will always be in motion,

Through Worlds, and Forms and Lives.

There is no ces­sa­tion, no still­ness that abides.

You have names for your pas­sages, from mys­tery to mystery,

What you mar­vel and fear, these Births and Deaths, they are mere doorways,

For you are Spir­it, and your path leads ever onward.

You are nev­er alone, and your Lives and Loves are always with you…

They are you.

You have formed one anoth­er and your Paths are spun and twinned together.

You are a host of energies/experiences, of count­less lives then and now.

From a Star you went forth, with a whole hosts of Lights,

You all went forth togeth­er to become this Uni­verse of I and Thou.

From this lit­tle Cos­mos of your Cre­ation, yes you, and you and you,

All of you will become Stars your­self someday.

For that is your Destiny.

From One into many lives, from a Star to being a host of many Stars and then beyond,

You are here to rise above the great Illu­sion that is Separation,

You are here to cross the divide between “I and Thou”,

You will come to see and know,

That you Live in the Light of the One.

That you are embraced in the love for one another,

The won­drous reflec­tion of the Love of the One.

You, you are a pre­cious spark of Light Divine,

And you are here to Grow into a Sun.

This is the month of Scor­pio, and these Truths about and lessons in your Mor­tal­i­ty and Immor­tal­i­ty are the core of this sign’s Song of Spir­it. With­in each and every one of you, some essen­tial part of you is Scor­pio, some­where this Song sings of your Truth. Of your long­ing to be part of some­thing greater, to belong with and be for one anoth­er, to join in Unions of Self-Tran­scen­dence and break your Fear of Rejec­tion, the Fear of Loss, the Fear of Death.

Make no mis­take, this is a big day for you and for Scor­pio too…

Today the Sun Enters Scor­pio, and there is a New Moon in Scor­pio, and that New Moon is a Solar Eclipse, and Venus Enters Scor­pio too! It would be awful­ly hard to miss the mes­sage of the stars with so much being offered to you now.

When­ev­er a Sign begins with a New Moon, there is a rein­forc­ing empha­sis of its mes­sage, it is even more sacred and spe­cial. The next few Sign tran­si­tions will be like this, the Sun chang­ing Signs along with a New Moon, and this series of New Moons will lead to a very spe­cial New Moon at end of this year, at the begin­ning of a new sea­son in Capri­corn. That align­ment will indeed be accom­pa­nied by sacred cer­e­monies and ini­ti­a­tions for those who are ready.

You will feel this tran­si­tion today, from Air to Water, from Thought to Feel­ing. The three Water Signs are about “Con­nec­tiv­i­ty”: In Can­cer you re-affirm and re-con­nect to the roots of you, to your Fam­i­ly and Home, to your Cul­tur­al and Spir­i­tu­al Foun­da­tions, and from this Cen­ter­ing upon your Ori­gins you can feel that you “Belong” to this flow of Being that is Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it. In the last Water Sign of Pisces, you open your­self to the bound­less­ness of Spir­it and Cre­ation, feel­ing-know­ing your­self to be an essen­tial part of the Greater Life of Spir­it. You Find Joy and Peace in Know­ing that you are tru­ly one with the One, and your Faith becomes your Truth, your Des­tiny ful­filled as an Illu­mined co-cre­ator of this Creation.

And so here, in Scor­pio, you feel that most pre­cious, per­son­al con­nec­tion, that I and you have joined togeth­er, fac­ing one anoth­er, let­ting go of our fears, so that as we release our­selves from the less­er we are able to build upon the greater Val­ues and Love that we share. We turn towards one anoth­er and join in sacred unions of self-tran­scen­dence which become the very instru­ment of our self-ful­fill­ment by and through our uncon­di­tion­al love for one another.

I wrote about this par­tic­u­lar New Moon Eclipse in my Gen­er­al Forecast:

Solar Par­tial Eclipse (Octo­ber 23)

The final Eclipse of the year is a Par­tial Solar Eclipse at 0 degrees of Scor­pio. Here is infor­ma­tion about the Eclipse and where it will be vis­i­ble, which begins off of Kam­chat­ka, Rus­sia and races over to Cana­da and most of the Unit­ed States.

On this first day of Scor­pio, when you again take up a most awe­some task (that you will encounter again and again in your jour­ney upon this Earth), you face the Spir­i­tu­al Neces­si­ty of over­com­ing the Illu­sion that is your expe­ri­ence of Sep­a­ra­tion. Today you now meet this moment with the added empha­sis and pow­er brought by the eclipse. A deep­er seed­ing of mean­ing will be offered to those who have the courage to look beyond appear­ances and seek for the under­ly­ing truth.

Every New Moon is spe­cial, and each Solar Eclipse forges an even greater offer­ing of guid­ance and inspi­ra­tion for that expe­ri­ence of that Sign. But even more is offered to you today. For with the Sun enter­ing Scor­pio and also align­ing with an eclipse of the Moon, Venus also par­takes in this “Triple Con­junc­tion of Truth”.

As you make your attempts to bet­ter join with one anoth­er, to lay aside fear and show your strength by your will­ing­ness to offer one anoth­er a space to share togeth­er, as you reveal your char­ac­ter and spir­i­tu­al grace by replac­ing your cau­tion, self-doubt and fear of rejec­tion with your open­ness and vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, Venus here too will come to lend you a hand.

For the entrance of Venus, your Avatar of Love, into Scor­pio reminds you that you have noth­ing to fear but fear. That you are here to Love your­self, and you are here to love one anoth­er as your­self too…for how could you not. For who stands before you is some­one who long ago, and today and in many lives to come will be one of the ones who made and will make you who you are. You are already made of one anoth­er, you are all mixed up togeth­er, for ages and ages, and the Illu­sion that you must wash away is the sep­a­ra­tion that seems to be between you.

You are found­ed in Love…

You have forged one anoth­er by your many Lives of Lov­ing one anoth­er too…

You will become what you will by being Co-Cre­ators of this Creation…

Your Cre­ation, which is held togeth­er by the Light that is Spirit,

And you will Know and Feel this Light as Love.