To Become a Star

There are Four Cor­ners in your jour­ney round the Sun,
Four sacred turn­ings as Earth rolls and sweeps,
A dance of Light and Shadow
Sea­sons of birth, life, death, and rebirth
Spi­ral­ing year after year upon this liv­ing Earth.

The Sun stands still
and the world holds its breath.
Shad­ows stretch,
the light grows faint,
and we wait for a sign
a whis­per of hope
that life and light will return,
that our path will once again
be bright and beautiful.

Now, at the final turn­ing of the Astro­log­i­cal Year,
We cross from Sagit­tar­ius into Capricorn
It is a time to bow our heads,
to kneel in gratitude
for the Eternal,
to the ever­last­ing light
that shines through every one of us,
and through all the realms of Creation.

Now, at the wheel of life’s great turning,
We meet the Four Ques­tions again,
The com­pass points of every soul:
Who am I?
Who are you?
Where do I come from?
Where am I going?
At this sacred threshold,
Let these ques­tions be lanterns
As you walk your path today.

You stand at a crossroads,
The air thick with possibility:
Which way to go?
What path is right?
What is my destiny?

Capri­corn whispers:
“Do you know your Destiny.”
Those who understand,
hear the wis­dom of the ancients,
and know that “Char­ac­ter sets your fate.”

By word and deed,
you have made yourself.
Day by day, life after life,
you have learned from mistakes
by fail­ing, falling, ris­ing again,
by learn­ing what not to do,
and how to do better,
you have become a bet­ter you.

This is the Law of Karma:
the uni­verse held by cause and effect
and what­ev­er you sow, so shall you reap.

But what does this mean?
Your life is not fated
it is forged by you,
in the cru­cible of how you live.
What is before you today
was set in motion before;
the future you will meet tomorrow
is being made by your con­duct today.

Capricorn’s wis­dom is this:
You are responsible
for what you were
and what you will become.
Not fame, not for­tune, not power
but by remain­ing true to yourself,
hold­ing to the path of Self-Fulfillment.
Your worth is forged
by being a bet­ter you,
day after day.

As you mas­ter yourself,
As you come to know your truest nature,
So too does your life align
With the music of the light sublime.

Self-aware­ness is the gift divine
A flame that shapes character.
No longer tossed by wild passions
Or scat­tered by the world’s distractions,
You become a stead­fast soul,
No longer a pawn of fate,
For­ev­er a one of the One,
Self-lumi­nous seek­er on the Path of Perfection.

And you know this truth:
You have grown in stature
by a deep­en­ing com­pas­sion and caring.
Because you learned from your own struggles,
You tru­ly feel the suf­fer­ing and pain of others,
And your heart will shine ever brighter
With self­less love to help them too.

For you could not, nor could you ever,
Have done this Great Work alone.
You are part of a host of souls
Some here with you today,
Many more stretch­ing backward,
into the mists of long, long ago.
Like a great rib­bon of light,
All the souls who helped make you
Are with you now.
Part of your char­ac­ter, forge of your wisdom,
Bright­ly shin­ing in your com­pas­sion too.

This is why we give thanks
to those who came before,
To those with whom we jour­ney now,
And to those who will con­tin­ue this work
after our time is done.
You are part of this Great River,
a Hier­ar­chy of Life and Love.

As you reach up for help from some­one above,
You extend your hand to those who fol­low behind.
This is the way of Spirit,
This is the Truth of Love.

This is the pledge and pur­pose of Capricorn:
Our path of Fulfillment,
made pos­si­ble by the spark of the Divine within,
And the great work of Cre­ation made by us all, through love.

And that is why today we bow, give thanks as we pray:

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light with­in the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the mas­ters know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Pow­er restore the Plan on Earth.

The Path of Light

From our deep­est expe­ri­ences, we dis­cov­er the true jew­els of life—insights that shape who we are. These truths, once found, become the threads from which we weave the sto­ries of our shared humanity.

Dur­ing the last 30 days of Scor­pio, we searched for truth with­in our­selves. As the Sun moves into Sagit­tar­ius, we are called to share these truths with one anoth­er. It is through sto­ry­telling that we cre­ate mean­ing and pur­pose in our lives, forg­ing a path for­ward, mov­ing togeth­er in light and love.

At this time of year, and for­ev­er part of the unique pat­tern of your own life, you enter the realm of Sagittarius—the sign of seek­ing and shar­ing wis­dom. Since the dawn of self-aware­ness, humans have asked, “Why?” Why is the sky blue? Why do we love and lose? Why are we here at all? This end­less curios­i­ty is at the heart of our jour­ney through the stars.

We need answers because we have felt both the heights of joy and the depths of sor­row. We have wit­nessed the mir­a­cle of birth and faced the mys­tery we call death. We know that we do not know or under­stand, and so we won­der, we search, and we strive to under­stand our­selves, to know where we have come from and where we are going.

Our jour­ney of awak­en­ing has been long. After ages of sim­ple con­scious­ness, the light of self-aware­ness was passed to us by those who came before—the great light-bear­ers of self-aware­ness, who had walked this path long, long ago, and are found in the cre­ation sto­ries from every cul­ture. We remem­ber and we name them to this very day, from Prometheus, Quet­zal­coatl, Adi­ti, Isis, Lucifer and Odin. We hon­or their lega­cy by keep­ing their flame of aware­ness alive, learn­ing from their exam­ple to pass this “light of under­stand­ing” to those who fol­low us too.

We are, at our core, sto­ry­tellers. Through art, music, sci­ence, and con­ver­sa­tion, we share our expe­ri­ences and learn from each oth­er. This is how we grow—by lis­ten­ing, by shar­ing, and by help­ing one anoth­er find greater understanding.

We help one anoth­er to dis­cern the truth from half-truths and false­hoods, the greater real­i­ty from the veils of illu­sion. We live in light when we treat one anoth­er with open­ness and love. Only by lis­ten­ing to one anoth­er can we dis­cern what is truer from the less true, by shar­ing with one anoth­er, by com­par­ing, con­trast­ing, cor­rect­ing, and affirm­ing what is clos­er to the light of the Love Divine, so that we may be a true reflec­tion of the One shin­ing through us all.

The great­est of Truths, the Eter­nals of Light and Mean­ing, have been shared with us by the Sages and Seers whose task it was to pre­serve these “Gifts from the Gods”. They are the wis­est of the Wise Ones, the Teach­ers who we know and hon­or and revere, like Con­fu­cius, Bud­dha, Lao Tzu, Zoroast­er, and Pythago­ras and so many more. These are the known Truthtellers; but many more loved and labored to lift the Torch of Under­stand­ing for us, and we give thanks for their great ser­vice, for those who per­se­vered, pre­served, pro­tect­ed, and served to extend the Light that is Love.

Yes, the great­est truths are time­less, as they form the very fab­ric of the uni­verse and live with­in each of us. This is why you can come to know the truth after all. Whether you look to the heav­ens, or lis­ten to that qui­et, lov­ing voice with­in you, whether you go inwards or out­wards, the light of truth that shines in the stars above is the same light that shines in your own heart too. This is the true mean­ing of “As above, so below”—the undy­ing light of spir­it con­nects us all and to all of Cre­ation too.

Ancient wis­dom teach­es that there is but one spir­it and one life. Truth is present every­where and in every­one. When we open our hearts and minds, we can see and hear this truth in one anoth­er. By hold­ing togeth­er our hearts and minds, we will find our way to ever­last­ing peace.

Let us gath­er togeth­er and tell our sto­ries. Let us look into each other’s eyes and rec­og­nize the blaz­ing truth that is reflect­ed there: “we are here for one another”.

We are here because of love; we are here to be that love.

When we remem­ber this, we remem­ber who we tru­ly are—and our hearts will be at peace.

The Path of Ascension — Combinational Transformation

The Zodi­ac is the Design-Body of Cre­ation, which can be under­stood as a hier­ar­chy of elec­tro-mag­net­ic ener­gy-fields form­ing every mon­ad, atom, being, star and galaxy. All twelve signs are omni-present and ever-active in these hier­ar­chies of Cre­ation and of course in you too.

Today we begin our time in Scor­pio and for­ev­er present in you, and always most deeply felt at this time every year, we need to open our hearts and minds to under­stand this forge of Cre­ation itself, the realm that holds the secret to Spirit-Life-Consciousness.

The three Water signs hold the count­less ways you will feel your con­nec­tions to your world and with one anoth­er, and to equal­ly expe­ri­ence your unbreak­able bond with the entire­ty of Cre­ation itself. These three form the “rivers of life”, the con­nec­tions between I and thou, between you and the worlds around you. These feel­ing-ways guide you inward­ly, upward­ly and out­ward­ly as you come to be what you tru­ly are, a being of light guid­ed and formed to be the love that made you, to love your­self and to love all with whom you jour­ney too.

By Can­cer you move inwards, into your well of remem­brances, rec­ol­lec­tions and mem­o­ries. Here is where you will find where you came from in this life and in all the many lives you have lived before. You come from moth­ers and fathers, from sis­ters and broth­ers, shaped, guid­ed and formed into Peo­ples, Cul­tures and Faiths, and all of these roots of you com­bine into rivers of mean­ing and truth, all spring­ing from the head­wa­ters of Cre­ation itself, from your foun­tain-source of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, that lov­ing­ly anchors you to the very begin­nings of time and to the omnipresent truth for every one of us, that we all are held and cared for by the One in all.

By Pisces you move upwards, reach­ing from the past and from your present as you stretch by your faith to imag­ine and dream of what yet might be, of what you might yet become. For as much as we all feel that we come from some­place, from some­one, we also feel a call­ing, that there is a pur­pose, a des­tiny that awaits each of us, and all of us. As much as we are anchored by our ori­gins, as sparks of the Divine, danc­ing our way through Cre­ation, mov­ing from realm to realm, from form to form, into body after body, we also feel that we are meant for some­thing more, that we have yet to be what we are here to be. From Pisces we draw upon our capac­i­ty to have faith and believe in our gift of imag­i­na­tion and cre­ativ­i­ty, that we will be one fine day, self-mas­ter­ful, co-cre­ators of Cre­ation. We will be like the Devas and Angels who have been where we are now and who can­not make our path for us but hold us in their love and draw us to the greater light and love that is our destiny.

But now, in Scor­pio, we turn out­wards, to make our future by and through one anoth­er. Now we will tran­scend the illu­sion of sep­a­ra­tion that holds us in fear, to reach out to the oth­er, so that we may forge the future through our sacred unions with one anoth­er. This is “the way” of Spir­it, as all of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness is made by this pow­er of Alche­my. Scor­pio is the forge of Cre­ation, of Com­bi­na­tion­al-Trans­for­ma­tion, and it is the way that the entire­ty of Cre­ation has been formed into the mon­ads, atoms, beings, stars and galax­ies that form the One behind it all.

For just as it is true for the small­est mote of Cre­ation, we are made by our com­bi­na­tions. We become what we are by join­ing with one anoth­er, shar­ing with one anoth­er, trans­form­ing one anoth­er so as to be the very means of our self-tran­scen­dence, whether in our fam­i­lies, friend­ships, com­pan­ion­ships and our inti­mate loves. But in all of these we must be pre­pared to sac­ri­fice what we must and to hold onto what is sacred and true.

There is no alche­my with­out change, no com­bi­na­tion with­out sac­ri­fice and trans­for­ma­tion. We know that it is here that the great work of “mag­ic” may hap­pen, that by our join­ing with one anoth­er we must and we will let go of that which is less­er with­in our­selves; we will face down our fears and forge our faith through one anoth­er, and by this dis­cov­er that the greater is with­in us and between us now too.

The expe­ri­ence of sac­ri­fice, of let­ting go of the less­er is how you grow into your greater self. The pain of sac­ri­fice is real, but the joy of rebirth and growth is greater. This is the way of Spir­it, and we will become what we were meant to be through our Unions and Transformations.

You have noth­ing to fear. You are an Immor­tal danc­ing through mor­tal realms. In Scor­pio you live on the Razor’s Edge, between your faith and your fear. It is here that you will face ulti­mate Truth; that all things must pass away, for no form is forever.

But it is equal­ly true that you will feel and know the Eter­nal Truth, that you are part of the One who is Ever­last­ing. It is here in Scor­pio that you expe­ri­ence a know­ing beyond rea­son, a for­ti­tude and strength beyond mea­sure. You will feel the One that is with­in because you equal­ly see that light of Cre­ation shin­ing through your beloved before you too.

Yes, you are an immor­tal who dances through mor­tal realms, and you have noth­ing to fear.

You are made of the Light Divine, and your immor­tal­i­ty is made of love.

The Fields of Creation

Today we have come to one of the four great turn­ings in the Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar, and you can feel the bend­ing of the “light that is life”, as we pass through the Equinox and onto the sec­ond half of the Astro­log­i­cal year.

Four moments frame your jour­ney through the stars, four realms that hold the sources of your expe­ri­ence your­self and of your world. Sim­ply put, your ever-renew­ing under­stand­ing of your­self comes down to these sim­ple but pro­found ques­tions, “who am I, who are you, where did I come from, and where am I going”?

At this time every year, and some­where for­ev­er illu­mi­nat­ing your path­way to per­fec­tion, you walk through the holy space of Libra, as you seek to know your­self, be your­self and ful­fill your­self through all the many rela­tion­ships of your life. Yes, now we must bend our hearts and minds to con­sid­er this sacred expe­ri­ence of “I and thou”.

In truth, you are not a being apart, you are not, nor could you be on your own. You are formed by a ver­i­ta­ble “host of hosts”; you are tru­ly like a con­stel­la­tion, formed by many life-forms or beings. Whether you con­sid­er the minia­ture uni­verse inside of your very own body, or in all of the worlds around you, you are shaped and formed by all your human to human and oth­er life-form relationships.

Yes, it is most cer­tain­ly true that we can only under­stand our­selves and all that is by see­ing that we and every­thing and every­one in Cre­ation are formed or made up of hosts of Ener­gy-Fields, of holo­grams of phys­i­cal, emo­tion­al, men­tal and spir­i­tu­al fields that are inter­act­ing, shap­ing and inform­ing one another.

The ancient wis­dom holds that the Uni­verse is Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, and the One that is Cre­ation becomes man­i­fest by all the count­less hosts of life-forms, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal, which are the mon­ads or sparks of the Divine, on up through all the ener­gy-forms of Cre­ation, in all the atoms, mol­e­cules, beings, plan­ets and stars. All the King­doms of Life are made up of a host of beings who are the One Spir­it, and who are the Life and who alto­geth­er form the Con­scious­ness of Creation.

For me, the whole of Cre­ation can be seen as these “fields with­in fields” of con­scious­ness­es, of hier­ar­chies of hosts, each of them formed from and by their rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er. In essence, rela­tion­ships are life, and with­out these rela­tion­ships there would not be life at all.

For our human King­dom, we most cer­tain­ly can under­stand that our very nature is made by this cru­cible or forge of rela­tion­ship. We “are what we are” because of one anoth­er. We are made in this present life by one anoth­er, just as we were by all the innu­mer­able lives we have lived with one anoth­er before. Since the begin­ning of time, we have been formed and informed by all of our rela­tions, by our mother/father, by brother/sister, by our friends, by our col­leagues, by so-called strangers and of course by our dear­est loved ones too.

Most of what you may think or feel as you, that very “you” was co-cre­at­ed by these many ones with whom you have lived and loved. Yes, it is in this very spe­cial, most sacred space of rela­tion­ship that we make our great­est cre­ation, our true self. Our cre­ation by rela­tion­ship forms the alchem­i­cal space of becom­ing; it is in this forge of human­i­ty that we make one anoth­er. In these “Fields of Cre­ation”, through our sacred spaces, it is here that we make one anoth­er, it is here that we share and shape one anoth­er, and we lift our­selves out of our great­est illu­sion, that we are sep­a­rate and apart from one another.

In every life, whether in the spring­time of our youth, or through the sum­mer of our adult­hood, and into the fall of our lat­er years, we are cre­at­ed and re-cre­at­ed by all of our rela­tion­ships, and most espe­cial­ly by those who care for us and for those for whom we care most deeply.

We are Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, and our pur­pose is sim­ply this, we are here to become a more pre­fect human; we are here to grow, and so we must change. And if that is so, then so must our sacred spaces of rela­tion­ship grow and change too; only if they become bet­ter can we be better.

In all our rela­tion­ships, we have formed pat­terns of action and reac­tion in order to help one anoth­er, to respond to one anoth­er, to meet one another’s needs. It is by giv­ing and receiv­ing, by our shar­ing and cre­at­ing, it is by this that we are able to make pos­si­ble our mutu­al growth and self-real­iza­tion through one anoth­er. We are tru­ly one another’s path to self-fulfillment.

But time and time again, some of our pat­terns may become too fixed and deter­mined, and if we are not atten­tive, we may move away from a spir­i­tu­al­ly true, grow­ing and adapt­able set of respons­es to one anoth­er and devolve into ever more rigid reac­tions to one anoth­er. Rather than act­ing lov­ing­ly and pur­pose­ful­ly, we fall into regrets, recrim­i­na­tions and regressions.

We may and can and should grow togeth­er, but we may also grow apart. We may deep­en our under­stand­ing of one anoth­er or lose our way in a house of mir­rors of misunderstandings.

But here is where the Light of Libra comes in, to show us by a lov­ing rea­son and objec­tiv­i­ty the way for­ward. The first step begins with you, to recon­sid­er “what am I ask­ing of you, and what am I offer­ing to you”. The only way to restore or improve most any rela­tion­ship is to under­stand that you must “be the change” you wish to see, you must return your­self to that place of peace, of under­stand­ing, the space of true love.

This is the gift of true love, which is giv­en with no expec­ta­tion of return. Because love just is. Love is not pos­ses­sive or con­trol­ling or demand­ing, all of which comes from fear.

If all you see is a prob­lem “out there”, you need to ask, “why, why am I expe­ri­enc­ing this chal­lenge with our rela­tion­ship”. By assum­ing a posi­tion of rel­a­tive objec­tiv­i­ty and true love, you will find that in most cas­es, that the res­o­lu­tion requires reset­ting your point of view and atti­tude. You can have a firm hope and belief, that by this move­ment on your part, by your effort to grow, they will respond in kind.

Yes in this time of Libra, and always and for­ev­er part of your nature, you are remind­ed that you are the means to one another’s per­fec­tion. You and your rela­tion­ships are the instru­ments of renew­al and rebirth. The reward is your self-ful­fill­ment, which is true hap­pi­ness, and that this will hap­pen when you stay true to your essen­tial nature, and remem­ber that you are here because of love.

Here at the great turn­ing of the Equinox, as it was in the begin­ning, so shall it be for­ev­er and ever,

Love one another.