The Grand Fire Trine of Uranus, Jupiter and Mars cli­max­es today and com­bines with the Eclipsed Full Moon. All togeth­er, the Moon oppo­site the Sun, com­binined with the three points of the Grand Trine form a most Beau­ti­ful Grand Trine “Kite” pat­tern as you can see in the pic­ture above.

The dance of the plan­ets spi­rals and swirls all around you, always form­ing intri­cate pat­terns of mag­is­te­r­i­al beauty…But some days, like today, their spir­i­tu­al melodies reveal a har­mo­ny of mean­ing that is tru­ly won­der­ful, lov­ing and wise.

I men­tioned this Lunar Eclipse in my 2014 fore­cast, and here is what I wrote then:

Full Total Lunar Eclipse (Octo­ber 8)

The third Eclipse of the year is a Total Lunar Eclipse in Aries. As in all Lunar Eclipses, the Earth­’s shad­ow is pass­ing over the Moon. This means that the mes­sage you need from Aries is hard­er to dis­cern as it is obscured by the Earth­’s shad­ow, and the req­ui­site bal­ance you would receive to the pre­vail­ing Solar Forces in Libra may take more effort to understand.

Here is infor­ma­tion about the Eclipse and where it will be vis­i­ble, which is through­out the Pacif­ic Ocean and the lands that sur­round it.

The Gifts of the Spir­it that are brought to you by the Grand Fire Trine was described in my post­ing of Sep­tem­ber 25, 2014, and you can and should read that here, “Jupiter Trine Uranus”. For today, let’s con­sid­er the mean­ing behind the Eclipse Full Moon, and fold in the inspi­ra­tion that is offered up by Uranus in Aries, Jupiter in Leo and Mars in Sagit­tar­ius too.

Each Full Moon pro­vides a nec­es­sary reflec­tive coun­ter­point to the dom­i­nant theme of the month, which is set by the Sun’s pas­sage through any one sign. With the Sun in Libra, the Solar ener­gies are bend­ing you, they are pulling you towards a greater self-sac­ri­fice so that you will be able to cre­ate, pre­serve and extend your part­ner­ships. But giv­en this, you actu­al­ly will find that you need to be remind­ed, here and now, that you are, by def­i­n­i­tion, one-half of any rela­tion­ship that you are in.

There­fore, for you to cre­ate and pre­serve a tru­ly bal­anced field of social mean­ing­ful­ness, you must seek for ways to pos­i­tive­ly assert your­self. You are and must be the “oth­er” half of the “Scales of Libra” in order for there to be a rela­tion­ship between one and anoth­er. If “every­one” is on the one side over­much, if there is no coun­ter­point of sense and sen­si­bil­i­ty, if the bound­aries between Self and Oth­er are not made well, then you just end up with co-depen­dence and enmeshment.

But today’s Full Moon in Aries is being shad­owed by the Earth, for as the Moon reach­es it fur­thest point beyond the Earth’s orbit, where it should be ful­ly Illu­mined by the Sun, the Earth is posi­tioned between the Sun and Moon so that the Earth’s shad­ow pass­es over the face of the Moon.

The Illu­mi­na­tion or Rev­e­la­tion of the Full Moon is obscured, hid­den and so you must pierce beyond your own self-cast shad­ows (for it is you and your doubts and fears that will pre­vent you from see­ing the Greater Real­i­ty of you and your World). You have to look beyond this dim lit real­i­ty, you need to see the Light that is always there for you, (and real­ly, tru­ly, is with­in you too), but that light is now hid­den by the dark­ness of your present day illusion.

You can only be with one anoth­er when you are true to your­self; You can only be true to your­self by know­ing that you are made by and for anoth­er too. You are you because of one anoth­er, you have shaped and formed one anoth­er, for ages and ages, and the Illu­sion you face is your sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er. Yet, you are indi­vid­ual sparks of the Divine too, and you must relate to one anoth­er in such a man­ner that cel­e­brates and nur­tures your dif­fer­ences from one anoth­er as much as you build your ener­getic-webs of shared expe­ri­ences and sen­si­bil­i­ties too.

The Truth of Libra/Aries is that is that you are you and also a we too…

You must stand in the Middle…

In the light of the beau­ti­ful Full Moon,

Which is equal­ly the Light of your Sun too.

There are no Shadows,

Only degrees of Light and Love,

Danc­ing a Spi­ral Dance.

There is I and Thou,

There is One and Many,

Embraced by Love,

One with the One.

Time to turn around again…

To glance back and reconsider…

Whence, wither…and why.

Here is what I not­ed in my Gen­er­al Fore­cast regard­ing this third and final Mer­cury ret­ro­grade for 2014:

Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade (Octo­ber 4 until Octo­ber 25)

The third and final ret­ro­grade of 2014 is here, and Mer­cury will move from about 2 Scor­pio back to around 17 Libra. Just as in the pre­vi­ous two ret­ro­grades, you are bridg­ing the ele­ments here as you move back out of Water and into an Air Sign. With all three Mer­cury ret­ro­grades hav­ing had this link­age of Water and Air, you have been giv­en an oppor­tu­ni­ty to form a much deep­er appre­ci­a­tion of the inte­gral con­nec­tion between the depth of your Feel­ings and the wis­dom of your Thoughts. As you will often find though with Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, many issues in your present day life may slow down or be put on hold as you go back to fin­ish some mat­ters that you left behind.

Her­mes, the mes­sen­ger of the Gods is pass­ing you by. Oh yes, it seems as if he is going “back­wards” to you…But that is because your point of view is lim­it­ed and cir­cum­scribed by the nature of your expe­ri­ence in this dance of the plan­ets. Plan­ets nev­er go in reverse, of course, but rel­a­tive­ly speak­ing you will come to real­ize more about the nature of truth vs. Truth, and that what appears to be so obvi­ous­ly true, well it is not quite true after all.

In a way, each Mer­cury ret­ro­grade pro­vides anoth­er reminder from the stars, as you strive to become wis­er, that the key to this is Humil­i­ty. Mer­cury reminds you that you must first let go of your pre­sump­tions and pre­con­cep­tions, which by deliv­er­ing to you what you expect also hide from you the Greater Real­i­ty in which you abide. You must be hum­bled by your mis­con­cep­tions, and the errors and mis­takes that they cre­ate, you must “suf­fer” in order to let go of the less­er so that you might rise into the Greater Under­stand­ing. For when you let go of your old, cer­tain per­spec­tives (which are also your blind­ers), you can then open your­self to the uni­verse with the eyes of a child, filled with won­der and new-found delights.

You are seek­ing “the way”, you are always look­ing for answers. The prob­lem is you do not know what you do not know, and you can­not find a bet­ter answer unless you pose a more inclu­sive ques­tion. You have to con­stant­ly ques­tion your assump­tions, and there is no bet­ter time to do this than when Mer­cury takes you back with­in your­self, and this “Men­tal­i­ty of the Moment” turns inward and helps you to con­sid­er the nature of thought itself.

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to re-exam­ine you, to turn your won­der­ful fac­ul­ty of self-con­scious/­self-aware­ness back upon itself, and with the help of your High­er Self, to pierce beyond your own self-cast shadows.

First you must be will­ing to take these oppor­tu­ni­ties, to know that in every sin­gle moment in which you expe­ri­ence an obsta­cle, delay, imped­i­ment and defeat is yet anoth­er chance for you to turn your­self around. Each cri­sis is actu­al­ly anoth­er pre­cious moment in which you can choose to grow, to take anoth­er path, to find a bet­ter way to be. And, if you do this, you will become more aligned with and true to your High­er Self, who is ever faith­ful, stead­fast and by your side. Your High­er Self or Beloved is there always with kind­li­ness and com­pas­sion, whose “soul” pur­pose is to lift you up into this bet­ter way of being…but you have to choose…you must choose to let go of the old ways and grow.

From now until Octo­ber 10^th, Mer­cury will ret­ro­grade in Scor­pio and Her­mes’ lamp of lucid­i­ty will shine upon your most heart-felt of feelings…that you desire to tru­ly cross the divide between I and Thou and expe­ri­ence a deep, deep union with one anoth­er. To do this, with Mercury’s help, you need to shine the lamp of Min­er­va upon your shad­ows, those fears of rejec­tion and loss, and do what­ev­er you can to put them behind you.

If you fail to do this, then these karmic bonds will pre­vent you from being a freer, liv­ing spir­it, where spir­i­tu­al strength is mea­sured in your vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, com­mit­ment and open­ness. For it is these Lov­ing Qual­i­ties which form the absolute require­ment for build­ing a greater union with one another.

Yes, you were hurt, and yes you can (and will) be hurt again, for this is how you learn…But if you hold your­self back and fail to cre­ate the con­di­tions for what your heart desires, well then you have already lost, for you have reject­ed your­self, and anoth­er oppor­tu­ni­ty to grow will be lost. Choose instead to face your fears, choose instead to let them go…and grow.

Then from the 10^th until the 25^th of Octo­ber, while Mer­cury con­tin­ues to ret­ro­grade in Libra, you will be remind­ed of how your aware­ness is formed through the inter­play of one another’s points of views and per­spec­tives. You are not made by you alone, as many, many souls have touched and illu­mi­nat­ed your jour­ney, and helped to form and forge your aware­ness, as you have done like­wise for count­less souls as well.

You are made of one anoth­er, and you need to take this time to remem­ber that you do not, real­ly, know much on your own at all. The very term “Con­scious­ness” means “Know­ing-Togeth­er”, and you should see that your mind and thought-forms are more like a field of ener­gies that sweep through and between you, mak­ing each of you what you are, but that your very con­scious­ness is insep­a­ra­ble from you being made of and by one anoth­er too. Your strength comes from shar­ing, blend­ing and know­ing together.

You need one anoth­er, to bal­ance and coun­ter­point, to medi­ate and mod­u­late your thoughts through one anoth­er. With Mer­cury ret­ro­grade in Libra, you need to refresh your “Mind that is Relat­ed­ness”, to be thank­ful to those who have sup­port­ed your jour­ney on this path to wis­dom, and be grate­ful that they gave you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to help them to see beyond their shad­ows too.

Wel­come this gift of the Spirit…

Mer­cury is ret­ro­grade now, and stronger than ever.

You are here to grow,

You are here to be together.

You are here to learn,

You are here to be better.

Let Her­mes light your way!

Please join me live on Wednes­day Octo­ber 1^st, at 1 pm EDT / 10 am PDT when I speak with Jaden Ster­ling on his pro­gram, the Soul to Prof­it Radio Show. We will talk about Astrol­o­gy and how you can use your chart to both under­stand and ful­fill your true pur­pose. Please be ready by hav­ing your per­son­al birth infor­ma­tion handy: Date, Time and Place of Birth.

You are warm­ly invit­ed to call in and ask ques­tions. If you can­not join us live you can always use the same link below to lis­ten to the show after­wards. Here is the link that will take you to the web­cast show on BlogTalk Radio on Wednes­day Octo­ber 1:

Radio Show

Look­ing for­ward to speak­ing with Jaden and all of you then!

Please join me live on Wednes­day Octo­ber 1^st, at 1 pm EDT / 10 am PDT when I speak with Jaden Ster­ling on his pro­gram, the Soul to Prof­it Radio Show. We will talk about Astrol­o­gy and how you can use your chart to both under­stand and ful­fill your true pur­pose. Please be ready by hav­ing your per­son­al birth infor­ma­tion handy: Date, Time and Place of Birth.

You are warm­ly invit­ed to call in and ask ques­tions. If you can­not join us live you can always use the same link below to lis­ten to the show after­wards. Here is the link that will take you to the web­cast show on BlogTalk Radio on Wednes­day Octo­ber 1:

Radio Show

Look­ing for­ward to speak­ing with Jaden and all you then!

Your Dear­est, your Bright­ly Shin­ing One, is com­ing home once again.

At times you will see her there, in the twi­light gleaming…

She is the First Star of the Night, your Evening Star, set­ting just after the Sun.

At oth­er times, such as now, you will see her in the blush of a New Day…

She is your Morn­ing Star, the Bringer of Light, the Keep­er of your heart.

She is Prometheus, who brings to you the Fire of Love and Understanding,

She is the Her­ald of Spir­it, who wel­comes the Dawn­ing of each New Day.

Whether Set­ting or Ris­ing, Venus is the Avatar of your most Sacred Truth,

That in the end, the mea­sure of any life that was, is or will be is quite simply,

Did you under­stand how it is done, did you live with, for and by Love?

Wel­come Venus now as she returns to her most spe­cial realm. Today Venus comes home to bring you these Gifts of Spir­it, to bright­en and illu­mine your Shared Sacred Spaces where you will find, forge and share your love of one another.

One Half of your Jour­ney of Love is about under­stand­ing that this is your True Nature. That the One True Force that binds togeth­er all of this Cre­ation as One, this same Res­o­nance also holds all that you are as one too…That in the Inner­most of every­thing and so in the inner­most of you there is a Spark of the Divine. Divine Love abides with­in you, and because of this you are and will always be Loved, because in your essence you are this Pure Love.

But the oth­er half of your jour­ney is to expe­ri­ence this same Divin­i­ty, to know this same Super­nal Light of Love “out there”…You are here to know objec­tive­ly what you already sense intu­itive­ly. You are here to leave behind doubt and fear, to move from dark­ness and into the Light. You are here to lift your­self and one anoth­er out of unaware­ness and into the Greater Aware­ness. You will come to expe­ri­ence out­ward­ly through and with one anoth­er the fuller mea­sure of this Divine Love, and you will know that this Love is the essen­tial core of all that sur­rounds you. Most espe­cial­ly, most won­der­ful­ly and per­son­al­ly, you will find this Light and Love forms the essence of what you hold and have for one anoth­er too.

Venus in Libra is about your rela­tion­ship with and to one anoth­er. It is about the “I and Thou”. It is the Dance of Light and Love that takes you into the weav­ing way of Cause and Effect, where you learn to care for anoth­er as you care for your­self, where you expe­ri­ence the Love that you Receive is equal to the love that you Bestow.

Yes, you must first under­stand your truth, you must know and love yourself…for that is your nature and your des­tiny too.

But you long to share this love with your beloved, and to feel their love in turn being offered back to you.

Venus sings to you now…

The Song that is in your Heart,

Is the song that sings in every heart.

You are here to Love, and be loved,

You are here to love one another.

Just love.