Sun Enters Leo

Today we mark two shifts in the “Hous­es of the Holy Ones”. The Sun leaves Can­cer and enters Leo, and on the same day Venus turns ret­ro­grade in Leo too. The dance of the plan­ets is shift­ing tunes now, and you should pay atten­tion to the oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges that are pre­sent­ed to you by your com­pan­ions in the stars.

Of course, we must take spe­cial care, and we know that this is true even more than it was before, to con­sid­er what we might encounter in the phys­i­cal weath­er we meet with day after day. And that is why we lean upon and rely upon sci­ence, along with our own intu­ition­al nature, to nav­i­gate the dynam­ic dance of the ener­gy forms that form our ever-chang­ing weath­er pat­terns, and cope as well with the larg­er cli­mate changes we are cer­tain­ly expe­ri­enc­ing now.

But there are many dimen­sions in this uni­verse, and many types of ener­gy-forms that form and shape what we expe­ri­ence here on the Earth. For us, the Dance of the Plan­ets forms the great “Sto­ry of Spir­it”, with our Earth trav­el­ling around the Sun, and then in com­bi­na­tion our plan­e­tary com­pan­ions danc­ing with one anoth­er and with us, they form intri­cate pat­terns of mean­ing and inspi­ra­tion that can guide and inspire us as we walk the path of light which forms our spir­i­tu­al awakening.
One of the prin­ci­pal shapers of our awak­en­ing is the year­ly jour­ney of our Earth around the Sun, as it forms not only one of the pri­ma­ry dri­vers of our phys­i­cal forms of weath­er, but equal­ly forms or informs our spir­i­tu­al-psy­cho­log­i­cal jour­ney of humanity’s awakening.

You have spent the last 30 days with your star mov­ing through the space of Can­cer, and the oppor­tu­ni­ty you met in the first of the Water Signs was to find your way to the cen­ter of you, to tru­ly feel the warm embrace and con­nec­tion with what lies at the heart of you, (and as you go deep­er and deep­er, what lies at the heart of one and all). In hav­ing met with your “self that is your cen­ter”, it is in this time of Leo, and cer­tain­ly some­where always in your own chart too, that you know you must be you. In Leo you strive to release your true self, as you stretch your­self upon the stages of the world, to live and embody the life divine, and reveal to one and to all who you are, which is a cre­ator, a leader and lover of life, as you shine like the star that you are.

Yes, it is in Leo that you stretch into the undis­cov­ered nature of who you might be and become, you attempt a new form of expres­sion, an exten­sion of your­self into new spaces, into new roles, new dances of spir­it, new ways of being “you”. And if you can do it, if you reach that high­er mark, then oth­ers see these gifts of the cre­ator in you and they smile, and they laugh, and yes, it is all about this, they love who you are. Because this is the heart of it, this is what is in your soul and out there now for the world to see too, it is the Spark of the Divine, pure uncon­di­tion­al love made man­i­fest by the cre­ator that is you.

For­ev­er some­where in your chart, and espe­cial­ly at this time of the year, you cel­e­brate the spark of the Divine whose cen­ter is “Every­where” and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is “Nowhere”, for you are one of ones of the One, danc­ing these songs of Spir­it in every step that you take through the won­der that is Creation.

And when you are true to your­self, then you shine like the star that you are, radi­ant with the joy and the love that is your spark of the Divine. But just like the stars in the fir­ma­ment above, your light divine will not, does not, and can­not ever shine alone. You feel this in your heart, and you know this in your soul, that you were made for one anoth­er, and you make one anoth­er who and what you are. So that every one of us is who they are because of the love we have for one anoth­er, for the love we share with one anoth­er, and so you can only be you if you live with love for one another.

For this is the heart of the teach­ing, you are made of love, and you are here quite sim­ply to love one anoth­er. It is in your space of Leo, and always at this time of the year, that you see the won­der in all of the cre­ations of Cre­ation. And what is that? It is the One, the Cre­ator, it is the Divine, which is shin­ing in every­thing and every­one, illu­mined by the Love of the One.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings — Mid-Year Review: Plu­to, Nep­tune, and Uranus (June 18, 2023)

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

As we approach the mid­dle of our civ­il cal­en­dar year in July, (but for us who fol­low “the stars” we mark this moment as hav­ing reached only one quar­ter of our Astro­log­i­cal year), I thought it would be help­ful to refresh our under­stand­ing of the var­i­ous plan­e­tary influ­ences and their mes­sages for us this year. As I have not­ed, the orbits of the plan­ets around our star, what I like to call “the dance of the plan­ets”, with their hier­ar­chi­cal and unfold­ing pat­terns, and their inter­sec­tions with one anoth­er, what we Astrologers call “aspects”, pro­vide us with a very rich source for the mean­ings and con­texts of what shapes our lives, and they can shine a light of some greater of less­er illu­mi­na­tion upon the unfold­ment or tim­ing of the sig­nif­i­cant phas­es in our human jour­ney here upon the Earth.

I will always stress that the plan­e­tary place­ments and motions do not “make” any par­tic­u­lar event or cir­cum­stance “hap­pen”. Sim­i­lar align­ments and pat­terns were tak­ing place thou­sands, tens of thou­sands and cer­tain­ly mil­lions of years ago. It is not pos­si­ble for us to under­stand what that might have meant to the var­i­ous life-forms liv­ing on the Earth long, long ago. All we can do is bring to bear our human con­scious­ness, our type of aware­ness and under­stand­ing of our­selves and the worlds around us; and, as we observe this dance of the plan­ets, as we have for many, many thou­sands of years mar­veled at the beau­ty of the stars above, we are able to see if what occurs “above” forms a cor­re­spon­dence with what hap­pens “below”. By this aware­ness of our rela­tion­ship with our fel­low celes­tial com­pan­ions, we may hope­ful­ly gain a greater under­stand­ing and per­haps even some wis­dom that comes from this inspi­ra­tion by these greater beings with whom we trav­el around our star, and to rec­og­nize and find sig­nif­i­cance, mean­ing and guid­ance for our human lives, as we cre­ate our sto­ry and dance with one anoth­er here on Earth.

So, as we have done before, let us begin with the out­er­most and most sig­nif­i­cant influ­encers (and I would argue these influ­encers as being much more impor­tant than those fea­tured on YouTube, Insta­gram or Tik­Tok!), let us con­sid­er these great com­pan­ions in our human jour­ney through the stars, and by that I mean let us review the mes­sages and mean­ings being impart­ed to us by the plan­ets Plu­to, Nep­tune, and Uranus.

Though we can and do look at each of these three as hav­ing their own spe­cif­ic role or place in the hier­ar­chy of Astro­log­i­cal influ­ences, I find it quite impos­si­ble, as you know, I find it impos­si­ble to tru­ly under­stand any one of them with­out also con­sid­er­ing the oth­er two as well. For they form what we might call a “Trip­tych of mean­ing”, as at the deep­est lev­el for me they are the Avatars of the Tri­ad of Spir­it, so that Plu­to, Nep­tune, and Uranus are the Will, Love, and Mind of the One. Their jour­ney through the Signs, and their series of aspects that they form with one anoth­er, cre­ate this most fun­da­men­tal Song of Spir­it for our solar sys­tem, and so equal­ly for us humans here upon the Earth.

Plu­to
For our pur­pos­es today, let us begin with Plu­to and its cycle of mean­ing for us now. Dur­ing 2023 Plu­to is begin­ning to move from Capri­corn into Aquar­ius, herald­ing a new peri­od of Pluto’s influ­ence for our world. Dur­ing Pluto’s time in Capri­corn since 2008 (and that con­tin­ues through parts of this year too), we have wit­nessed the break­ing down of the insti­tu­tion­al order that was found­ed in the lat­ter part of the 1700’s and first half of the 1800’s (that is, when Plu­to moved through Aquar­ius from 1778 to 1798, then Pisces from 1798 to 1853, and then final­ly into Aries from 1823 to 1853).

That means what we are expe­ri­enc­ing from 2023 to 2044, is that it should car­ry or have some of the same mean­ing­ful­ness, hold some of the same mes­sages and offer some of the same oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges as our ances­tors faced from 1778 to 1798, which is when Plu­to then as now focused its alchem­i­cal influ­ence through the lens of the mean­ings held by the Sign of Aquar­ius. What might that be?

The heart of Aquar­ius con­cerns the very nature of our hopes and dreams, which are forged and formed by the quin­tes­sen­tial qual­i­ty of our very nature in being human. That we are made human by the nature, qual­i­ty and type of our fam­i­lies, our fel­low­ships, and our com­mu­ni­ties, by the type of social con­structs we form to meet our needs for our­selves and for one anoth­er, and that we are the very means for our indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive self-ful­fill­ment. What is at the heart of Aquar­ius is the future of who and what we will be, what kind of future are we mak­ing, what will our children’s, children’s lives be like, what kind of world will they have because of what we did and how we did it.

Since 2008, the insti­tu­tion­al struc­tures of the world have been warped and bent by their own inter­nal con­tra­dic­tions as well as by the exter­nal pres­sures brought about through his­tor­i­cal changes. Many insti­tu­tions met this moment and were found to be defi­cient or failed, some were test­ed and held to their intent and pur­pose, but they were changed (and are still chang­ing). But around the world humans have won­dered why, why now does it seem like the world, my world, is “falling apart”?

The answer quite sim­ply put is this, we are expe­ri­enc­ing this because it “is time”, as it also was in the 1700’s and the 1500’s, (and times before and times to come). That is because no struc­ture or sys­tem can remain for all time when the whole pur­pose behind cre­ation, embed­ded in the very nature of Spir­it, that all of life is dri­ven by the fun­da­men­tal imper­a­tive which is “to be and to become”, to move from one form of real­iza­tion and then into another.

The insti­tu­tions forged in the late 1700’s and 1800’s, these forms of meet­ing our needs were made to meet the needs of human­i­ty at that time. But we have changed, our dreams have changed, and the sys­tems we have to meet our needs must change too.

What Plu­to in Aquar­ius will show us is that it is not just the form that was wrong. It was not mere­ly a prob­lem with the sys­tems or struc­tures, because they did in fact “solve” the chal­lenges at their found­ing. But this is also true, those very solu­tions equal­ly cre­at­ed the very prob­lems and crises we now face. The real ques­tion we need to face now is what is the dream of human­i­ty, what will be at the heart of our dream for “a good life”?

What will form those dreams of that future “good life” is most cer­tain­ly being shaped by our new­ly “redis­cov­ered” under­stand­ing that all of life, that all of cre­ation here on Earth is inter­de­pen­dent and pre­cious, that the great­est rich­ness of this plan­et is life itself, and we should be “all for one and one for all”, yes humans, but for all of life as well.

What became the mantra for our so-called mod­ern world was the pur­pose of life was hav­ing “more of more”, lead­ing to end­less con­sump­tion as an eco­nom­ic way of being, and that has led to the wide­spread destruc­tion of the hier­ar­chies of life to meet our wants. This path of wan­ton destruc­tion has final­ly been met with the incon­tro­vert­ible Truth, which is that we can now see that there is a finite nature of what the Earth and all her life forms can sus­tain­ably con­tin­ue to sup­port so that we all may thrive. We need less quan­ti­ties in our life and more mean­ing­ful qual­i­ties of liv­ing with all of life.

Nep­tune
What Plu­to will bring every time to every realm is trans­for­ma­tion, as it holds the dri­ver of Cre­ation which is Alche­my, which we know and expe­ri­ence as the great cycling of Birth-Death-Rebirth. But Nep­tune is also part of the sto­ry, and it has been offer­ing anoth­er song in the cho­rus of spir­it to guide our steps in this time of change too. Since 2011 and con­tin­u­ing until 2026, we have been inspired and con­fused, we have expe­ri­enced illu­mi­na­tions as the veils between worlds thins, and equal­ly found our­selves stum­bling into shad­ows and fears, and all of this has been her­ald­ed by the pas­sage of Nep­tune through the Sign of Pisces. The bound­aries between the realms of Cre­ation, from the dens­est of phys­i­cal planes on up to the most ethe­re­al realms of con­scious­ness and spir­i­tu­al inspi­ra­tions have become more ten­u­ous, and great visions and trou­bling delu­sions have been thrown into our under­stand­ing of our world. We have watched and won­dered as our par­a­digms of belief have been warped and bro­ken, as our bound­aries between truth and fan­ta­sy, between what is fact and fic­tion have dis­solved and we have become unteth­ered from our for­mer cer­tain­ties in faith or sci­ence. We find our­selves in a time in which it seems that any­thing may be true, and yet noth­ing is what it seems. As Yeats famous­ly observed as world events seems to unrav­el and plunge us into ever greater clouds of despair and fears, we humans seem to divide between, “The best lack all con­vic­tion, while the worst / Are full of pas­sion­ate intensity”.

We can look to oth­er times when Nep­tune was in the sign of Pisces to gain some insight as to how we might under­stand the oppor­tu­ni­ties and dan­gers for us now. Two of Nep­tune pre­vi­ous pas­sages might pro­vide us with some insight. The time most like our own was from 1521 to 1535, as it was also a time with Plu­to in Capri­corn. I have described that peri­od as being much like ours, as an end of an age, where the Insti­tu­tion­al order was break­ing down and the Ide­o­log­i­cal realms were dis­solv­ing as well, where both the realms Sec­u­lar and Sec­tar­i­an were com­ing undone, where Civ­il Soci­ety and the Ideas that sup­port­ed it were rent asun­der, so that that the Civ­il and Reli­gious orders clashed over the realms of Church and State, and a strug­gle between col­lec­tive beliefs and indi­vid­ual con­science prevailed.

More recent­ly, Nep­tune was in Pisces from 1848 to 1862, and around the world in Europe and in Asia, and cer­tain­ly here in the USA, the under­stand­ing of what it means to be human, of how we should guide our rela­tion­ships with our fel­low humans, what­ev­er their ori­gins, what­ev­er their beliefs, to see one anoth­er as equal or unequal, led in the USA to the exis­ten­tial strug­gle over slav­ery in the Civ­il War. The clear­ly defined schism between one cul­ture and life­way and anoth­er was brought to a cli­max, and we thought the issue had been met and mas­tered, or at least that is what we told our­selves. Yes, Nep­tune is the Avatar that holds our beliefs, which we share in our sto­ries about one anoth­er. But the sto­ry of our strug­gle for jus­tice, equal­i­ty and equi­ty was not near­ly done, not at all.

In our cur­rent peri­od we have watched as the com­mon­ly held truths of soci­ety have again been erod­ed, ques­tioned and in some cas­es over­whelmed by a cacoph­o­ny of half-truths, con­spir­a­to­r­i­al imag­in­ings and delib­er­ate decep­tions that have spread through­out the minds of so very many by the pro­lif­er­a­tion of data streams with no appar­ent anchor­ing to some cen­tral beliefs root­ed in core val­ues and spir­i­tu­al truths. The very same ideals and half-truths have erupt­ed once more, for we real­ly did not over­come fears, and we find our­selves divid­ed once again.

Uranus
What Plu­to holds is the spir­i­tu­al truth of the unfold­ment of Cre­ation as the Alchem­i­cal Trans­for­ma­tion of Union and Rebirth; what Nep­tune holds is the spir­i­tu­al truth of the Com­mu­ni­ty of belief, of our sto­ry about our­selves and our world, (where we should ulti­mate­ly know that there is but One Spir­it), and we are here for one pur­pose only, which is to “love one anoth­er”. But the third Avatar of the Tri­ad of Spir­it, Uranus, holds for us the equal­ly insis­tent spir­i­tu­al dri­ve which is for Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Free­dom. The way I like to under­stand these three Avatars of Spir­it is that we are all upon the path of awak­en­ing in which we are learn­ing to live with­in our Cen­tered Wills, formed by our Uncon­di­tion­al Love and guid­ed by our ever-Freer Minds.

From 2018 to 2026, Uranus for us now is mov­ing through the Sign of Tau­rus, which we under­stand as the ves­sel of Val­ue, the hold­er of why, what, and how we form our world of val­ues. We can again have some per­spec­tive or under­stand­ing of what our peri­od asks of us by look­ing at the pre­vi­ous times of Uranus in Tau­rus, 1768 to 1775, 1851 to 1859 and 1935 to 1942.

The pas­sage in the 1700’s man­i­fest­ed in a mount­ing clash of ideas over the val­ue of authoritarian/monarchial rule ver­sus the cause of lib­er­ty and self-rep­re­sen­ta­tion lead­ing up to the begin­ning of our Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War in 1775. The peri­od of the 1850’s marked the time of our great strug­gle over the val­ue of our con­cep­tion of whether humans are equal or not, as the slave­hold­ing states strug­gled with the non-slave states as to whether future states would be admit­ted as “slave” or “free”, with that ques­tion being “answered” by our Civ­il War. The mid-1930’s to ear­ly 1940’s saw the strug­gle over whether, after the fail­ure of unregulated/unrestrained cap­i­tal­ism in the Great Depres­sion, how much of a role the gov­ern­ment should play in pro­vid­ing for the com­mon wel­fare, of our com­mon val­ues, as the USA found a mid­dle path between the ide­olo­gies of Fas­cism and Communism.

In the present Uranus pas­sage in Tau­rus, our the strug­gle over val­ues con­tin­ues as we find that the end of the strug­gle between Cap­i­tal­ism and Com­mu­nism, between the East and the West, that the West sup­pos­ed­ly won, has led to a world where the pro­lif­er­a­tion of more wants and the pro­duc­tion of more goods, and more wants and more goods, has led to the world-wide destruc­tion of life-forms and ecosys­tems on the plan­et. We have made a world where the val­ue that has only quan­ti­ty as a qual­i­ty, is destroy­ing all the oth­er val­ues of life on the plan­et and we find a lack of mean­ing­ful­ness in our lives.

Uranus-Nep­tune-Plu­to
So, it would seem that we are from Uranus hav­ing to reassess our val­ues once more, and from Nep­tune to recon­sid­er our rela­tion­ship to our fel­low humans and to all life-forms as being part of the greater com­mu­ni­ty of Spir­it, while Plu­to in com­bi­na­tion with these oth­er two of the Tri­ad of Spir­it will once again bring about a strug­gle over what our Hopes and Dreams will be now for the future world we are cre­at­ing for our descen­dants. Will they hon­or us, or will they not?

Though we may at times feel that these chal­lenges and ques­tions posed to us, the very exis­ten­tial strug­gles we find our­selves trou­bled by are over­whelm­ing and unsolv­able, we must remem­ber that the way the world is today, that is of our own mak­ing. Our ances­tors long ago, and we in this present day, have made and our mak­ing choic­es that have cre­at­ed these chal­lenges, and there­in lies our hope.

We can change; we must be the change.

The future for our­selves and for all life-forms on this plan­et depends upon us.

Let us meet this moment we made with courage, with love and with the faith that comes from under­stand­ing that we have with­in us the means to make a bet­ter world for one and for all.

Today we cel­e­brate one of the “four cor­ners” of the Zodi­ac. In each one of the four sea­sons that mark our jour­ney around the Sun, we seek to find our way through the spir­i­tu­al mean­ings held by the Lords of Light on this path made by Truth and forged by Love. The four car­di­nal signs of Aries and Can­cer, of Libra and Capri­corn hold us togeth­er in these four points of life and light, pos­ing the essen­tial four ques­tions for our jour­ney, which are: Who am I? Who are you? Where did we come from? Where are we going?

In this realm of Can­cer that we cel­e­brate and move into today, (although it is ever-present in our lives, always some­where in our own charts, and in every par­ti­cle of Cre­ation too), the answer to the ques­tion of our ori­gin, of our roots, of our cen­ter and spir­i­tu­al source is lov­ing­ly held for all time. But we must remem­ber this, that all of the signs are ever-present and part of this expe­ri­ence of our roots, and each sign must form an essen­tial part of being whole and cen­tered too.

The Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, what we call the Zodi­ac, is not some col­lec­tion of zones in the heav­ens around our Earth. That just makes no sense at all. The Zodi­ac is one of the essen­tial foun­da­tions for the whole of Cre­ation, form­ing what I like to see as the Design-Body or the mas­ter Aura of Cre­ation, because they hold the Twelve Cre­ative Hier­ar­chies that are found through­out all of the realms and dimen­sions of the Uni­verse. The Zodi­ac is omni-present and com­plete, at the root of cre­ation and form­ing every par­ti­cle, being, star and galaxy.

Every­thing and every­one of us is formed with­in their own Aura or Elec­tro-Mag­net­ic Field, which is then equal­ly aligned and informed by the Aura of the Zodi­ac for the Earth, which is in turn aligned and informed by the Aura for our Solar Sys­tem, and then our Galaxy and so on. What we feel all around us are these wheels revolv­ing with­in wheels, vor­tices of ener­gy-forms danc­ing with­in vor­tices, because Cre­ation is the dance of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness held and guid­ed by the Lords of Light, the Zodi­ac. It is these twelve cre­ative hier­ar­chies of spir­it which pro­vide the vehi­cles for the release of that which is behind the whole of Cre­ation, which is the Will, Love and Mind of the One. And because this is so, no mat­ter where you are, no mat­ter with whom you jour­ney now, you are always home and held in love by the One at the cen­ter of us all.

To expe­ri­ence Can­cer as our source, our ori­gin, our home, we must also real­ize that we have moved into the first of the Water signs, and we must slip beyond our mind into realms that must be felt. We feel these truths in so many ways, these gifts that come from being part of the sto­ry of Cre­ation, which begins and ends with the One. We feel what it means to be held by these ever­last­ing Arche­types and mor­tal beings too, by Moth­er-Father, Grand­moth­er-Grand­fa­ther, by all our liv­ing and lov­ing rela­tions, who hold us and bring us back to our cen­ter, back to our roots, back to our home right here and now, and also to the home we came from yes­ter­day, to our lives long ago, and even to worlds before, and even to the cen­ter of Cre­ation itself. For this is what lies at the cen­ter of us all, the One whose cen­ter is every­where and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere.

In Can­cer we hold our mem­o­ries, our sto­ries of what we were and what we shall some­day become. We start­ed long ago on this jour­ney, singing our songs as sparks of the Divine, striv­ing, search­ing, seek­ing, and lov­ing to become anoth­er star among the count­less stars.

By Can­cer you con­nect to the roots of you and to roots of one and all. You find your­self in your fam­i­ly, in the sto­ries about your ances­tors, as you care for one anoth­er because it is part of who and what we are, what made us and what will make our future too.

We were made from love, and we are here to love and be loved.

Here is the truth held by Can­cer, which is that we are all part of the one fam­i­ly of Spir­it, and that “we are all relat­ed”, and that what holds and guides us from the very begin­ning to the end of days is pure uncon­di­tion­al love.

We are all part of the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, held by the One and to one anoth­er by love.

This is the first truth, this is the root of one and all, that what we are here for is for love.

The Alchemist — by Jean Paul Laurens

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings — Mid-year Review

In my fourth show of 2023, I thought it would be help­ful to look again at the major plan­e­tary influ­ences for 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.

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Please join me on Sun­day June 18^th, 2023 @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

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Mer­cury by Dos­so Dossi

Who am I; What am I… Now, what is this?

It is held as a fun­da­men­tal truth in the Ancient Wis­dom, that the Cre­ative Pow­ers of the Cos­mos are divid­ed into Twelve Realms or Dimen­sions, and this divi­sion is mir­rored or matched by our expe­ri­ence of this by the essen­tial arrange­ment by the Lords of Time and Space held in the Zodi­ac. But we must remem­ber this, there is but the One…who became the Two, who became the Three, and from this came all the hier­ar­chies of Spirit-Life-Consciousness.

We also know from the Ancients, that there is but one “Self”, the One of all the selves, man­i­fest­ing in the Inner­most of the Inmost being of one and all. But we have many egos, and many oth­er spir­it-mat­ter forms or parts that make up the con­sti­tu­tion of the hosts for all monadic life-forms. And because of the many divi­sions into realms and beings of life we can under­stand that though it is true that all came from the One and abide in the One, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal unto the great­est of hosts, we have always ques­tioned and strug­gled as to what is the source of the errors or of con­flicts that we see all around us, or as many have won­dered, if all is of the One Spir­it, what is the “ori­gin of evil”?

The Ancient Wis­dom answers, that this expe­ri­ence of evil is mere­ly the result of the con­flict of wills of all the evolv­ing beings, espe­cial­ly those who have lift­ed them­selves to some lev­el of self-aware­ness and who then oper­ate with more of qual­i­ty of choice or free will; and that we must under­stand that error or evil is the inevitable and nec­es­sary expe­ri­ence of the host of mon­ads who are mov­ing from unself-aware to ful­ly divine con­scious­ness over the course of count­less eons.

In Aries, we expe­ri­ence that we “are”, that we exist. In Tau­rus, we expe­ri­ence that we are some “thing”, that we are in our body (real­ly many mat­ter-forms or bod­ies, from the most ethe­re­al to the dens­est mat­ter). Just as the Uni­verse is formed of Spir­it and Mat­ter, or Spir­it-Mat­ter, so does in the Astro­log­i­cal hier­ar­chy of the Cos­mos we have Aries in a sense hold­ing the first realm of Spir­it and Tau­rus as hold­ing the first realm of Mat­ter. But once again, these two can nev­er be con­sid­ered sep­a­rate or apart while the Cos­mos exists, for every part of Cre­ation is Spir­it-Mat­ter, and then, of course there is so much more than this.

Now we have Gem­i­ni, the third in the first tri­ad of truth, and as much as you are One in Spir­it, and that you are made of many forms or bod­ies too, you are also part of the won­der of Spir­it that we call Mind or Con­scious­ness. Because just as much as every­thing is formed of Spir­it, and every­thing is formed as Mat­ter, so too is the entire­ty of Cre­ation formed as Mind or Con­scious­ness too. Now there are many lev­els and realms of con­scious­ness, from the most sim­ple and unaware of par­ti­cles or ele­men­tals to the most sub­lime and encom­pass­ing beings who form the Divine Hier­ar­chies of Creation.

All mon­ads are on a jour­ney of becom­ing, of unfold­ing and real­iz­ing their unique qual­i­ty of being, that unique self that we know as their Swab­hā­va or Quin­tes­sence. We all came from a Star as a unique spark of the Divine, and through our var­i­ous stages of real­iza­tion or self-devel­op­ment we have moved into ever more encom­pass­ing bod­ies and realms of self-real­iza­tion. But when we moved into this human king­dom, we entered the greater half of our jour­ney from a mere spark of the divine and clos­er to being a con­scious co-cre­ator of Creation.

Long, long ago we were ready to receive what must be quickened/awakened in each mon­ad at the prop­er time. Whether we look to the book shared by many, of Adam and Eve and the “act” that brought about their self-aware­ness, or to the many sto­ries, myths (or truths!), of the great ones who gift­ed to us our self-con­scious­ness, of the myths of Prometheus, of Lucifer, of Quet­zal­coatl, of Loki and what the Ancient Wis­dom tells of the join­ing of the Kumaras with us, in all these sto­ries we find the one sto­ry, which is that we are awake and self-aware because we are part of a much greater sto­ry of Spirit.

Today as we enter Gem­i­ni, and for­ev­er some­where in your chart, we bow down to those who passed the “light of under­stand­ing” to us, as it had been done unto them long ago. Because this is also part of the teach­ing. We are not one and apart, we are made of and by one anoth­er, by those who came before us and by our fel­low humans now. We can­not know with­out one anoth­er, because the very nature of self-con­scious­ness depends upon rela­tion­ships, it forms in our rela­tion­ship with the worlds around us and our rela­tion­ships with our fel­low humans.

The sto­ry of our jour­ney is also the sto­ry of Con­scious­ness. It can only be formed by shar­ing with one anoth­er, by telling one anoth­er our sto­ries, by lis­ten­ing to one anoth­er, by cor­rect­ing our errors of per­cep­tion and com­pre­hen­sion by shar­ing our expe­ri­ences, by free­ing our minds and hearts from the shad­ows and fears that blind us to the truth.

The key to wis­dom and truth starts with this, “Know Thyself”!

But the first step is to know that you will only know your­self when you see the oth­er as your­self. When you look into their eyes with no shad­ow or fear, and what you will see shin­ing there before you, in them and from you, is the Light Divine, the Love that is the One, the One whose cen­ter is every­where and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere.

It is then that you will know because it is true, that all of Cre­ation is shin­ing, that all of Cre­ation is alive and Con­scious, because it is all the One, and we are all here to live as cre­ators of the life Divine.