Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings — A New World 

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As many of you know, I have been speak­ing and writ­ing about, well for many years now, about our spir­i­tu­al jour­ney, and in par­tic­u­lar about the Unit­ed States and World his­to­ry. By exam­in­ing the plan­e­tary cycles that frame our jour­ney and his­to­ry over many, many years and cen­turies, you can see that we and our time in his­to­ry are part of a greater sto­ry of human spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing. Though no one plan­e­tary cycle or series of plan­e­tary align­ments ever repeats, we are able to dis­cern pat­terns, themes and mean­ings that echo down through the ages, and these signs in the heav­ens may help us to under­stand the cir­cum­stances we are encoun­ter­ing now, and that these eter­nal truths may also pro­vide some guid­ance for us as to how to make our way in the world going forward.

Turn­ing Point in History
For many years now, I have been writ­ing and talk­ing, repeat­ing myself over and over again, that we were enter­ing a very crit­i­cal peri­od in his­to­ry. I con­tin­u­al­ly said that we were at the end of age, an age that had begun in the 1700’s, and that the world we knew and the way we under­stood it was going to seem­ing­ly fall apart. And indeed, even before 2008, and accel­er­at­ing ever since, the insti­tu­tions and order of the Unit­ed States, and indeed of the whole world, have been test­ed, and they have cracked, and they are indeed some­what or very bro­ken. I, like so many oth­ers, could not see or pre­dict what exact­ly would hap­pen, all I knew was that it was time for a par­tic­u­lar world order to give way, and that some kind of new order would be com­ing into existence.

But now the ques­tion before us is this, where are we now, right now? Well, I think that most of us would agree that it is not at all clear what is hap­pen­ing, we are faced with so many con­flict­ing and con­trary expe­ri­ences. We can­not see through the fog of bro­ken dreams, half-truths, lies and delu­sion. We do not know what this is, nor what we are mov­ing into, and we need to under­stand what kind of world we can and should be cre­at­ing for one anoth­er now.

2025
It feels as if we find our­selves, espe­cial­ly in 2025, to be in some kind of inter­val, some kind of space, a tran­si­tion between what was and what will be, a tip­ping point where the winds are swirling with no clear way ahead. To bet­ter under­stand the way for­ward, I believe that it is essen­tial to have a review of where we have come from, of how we got here, so as to bet­ter under­stand what we must do to cre­ate the bet­ter future we all want.

Not the Stars but our­selves, this is what makes History
But we must remem­ber a fun­da­men­tal and unwa­ver­ing Truth, that the why and the what that has hap­pened, and what we are fac­ing now, that the con­tent of human his­to­ry gen­er­al­ly, and for the Unit­ed States specif­i­cal­ly, our past and our present, that these real­i­ties were not cre­at­ed or formed by the plan­ets. We need to remem­ber that the plan­ets hold the Ener­gy-Forms that inspire, inform, and guide our jour­ney on Earth, but the actu­al con­tent of what is formed, the choic­es we made and the actions we took, of what hap­pened and will hap­pen, that it is our real­i­ty that we made through the com­plex com­bi­na­tions of ener­gy-forms that we humans forged on Earth, made by the liv­ing spir­it of we humans, by our ances­tors, and today by you and me. The fault lies not in the stars but in one anoth­er for the world we have made, and that gives me hope, because it means we can choose the kind of world we will be mak­ing now.

The Tri­ad of Spir­it: Plu­to, Nep­tune and Uranus
First, I want to remind us of the impor­tance of the three out­er plan­ets as the major inspir­ers and influ­encers in our jour­ney in Spir­it. I call these three, the “Tri­ad of Spir­it”, of Plu­to, Nep­tune and Uranus.  Plu­to is the ves­sel of the Will and shapes and molds every Ener­gy-Form into a def­i­nite or defined Con­tain­er of Spir­it, (whether that be a mon­ad, atom, cell, organ­ism, plan­et, or star). Nep­tune is the ves­sel of the Uni­ver­sal Ener­gy-Form of Uncon­di­tion­al Love, which is the Ener­gy-Sub­stance at the root of all, the One made man­i­fest. This Love of the One is the root source of the Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness for every par­ti­cle of Cre­ation. And Uranus is the ves­sel of the Quin­tes­sence of Spir­it held as Con­scious­ness, because each and every par­ti­cle of Cre­ation is also an Indi­vid­ual mon­ad, a spark of con­scious­ness on a jour­ney of becom­ing ful­ly illu­mined. By this we also know that all of Cre­ation is formed by the innu­mer­able indi­vid­ual sparks of the Divine, every one of which is fol­low­ing their Swab­hā­va, so as to be and become a unique instance or expres­sion of the One Divine Light.

From these three we can forge a liv­ing faith, that we will for­ev­er walk the path of awak­en­ing in order to ful­fill our fun­da­men­tal pur­pose and des­tiny. It is by Uranus and our High­er Mind that we align our Lives with the Path of the Divine, and by Nep­tune that we feel our­selves and hold one anoth­er in Uncon­di­tion­al Love, so that we may remain true and steady, and by Plu­to as our will becomes ever more aligned with the Will of the One.

Giv­en our essen­tial nature, that we are all sparks of the Divine, or as I like to say, “ones of the One”, and giv­en this root essence is true for the entire­ty of Cre­ation, we are here to learn and to be, to be what we are made of, and to sim­ply love one anoth­er. And it equal­ly fol­lows that we must approach every life-form in Cre­ation as spe­cial, pre­cious and deserv­ing of our love and grat­i­tude as well.

Cer­tain­ly, through­out our human jour­ney there have been times when we have drawn clos­er to this foun­da­tion­al truth of love and drift­ed fur­ther away from it too; yes, it has been a long and wind­ing road of love and of loss, a long and chal­leng­ing jour­ney of becom­ing what we all will be, a ful­ly awak­ened, uncon­di­tion­al­ly lov­ing, one of the One.

Spir­i­tu­al Truth – We are all cre­at­ed Equal
This foun­da­tion­al truth of spir­it, that we are all cre­at­ed “equal”, is woven into the many his­to­ries of cul­tures, com­mu­ni­ties, faiths and nations. There have been sub­lime moments in his­to­ry where the liv­ing spir­it among humans has reached a rel­a­tive equal­i­ty and com­mu­nal love for one anoth­er, in a com­mu­ni­ty, in a peo­ple and some­what even in a nation. Then one might well won­der, if that is so, why are we still faced with such dis­or­der, and crime, and vio­lence between indi­vid­u­als, com­mu­ni­ties, and nations today.

The very gifts of the spir­it, of Will and Sacred Space, of Love and Com­pas­sion, of Intel­li­gence and Knowl­edge, can be and have been twist­ed by the ancient curse of divi­sion, and that for­ma­tion of oth­er­ness is root­ed in igno­rance, pain and fear. When­ev­er a human, or a group of humans, looks upon anoth­er as the “oth­er”, and makes them into the ves­sel for the pro­jec­tion of their pain or fear, well that has been the root source of the tragedy and mis­for­tune for much of human his­to­ry too.

Amer­i­can His­to­ry of Equality/Inequality
Turn­ing to our own sto­ry, we find that in Amer­i­can his­to­ry, this expan­sion yet lim­i­ta­tion for the range of how equal and unequal­ly we have treat­ed our fel­low humans has fol­lowed a rather uneven path of exten­sion and con­trac­tion. In 1789, in our orig­i­nal Con­sti­tu­tion, the very def­i­n­i­tion of who was grant­ed the right to cre­ate and estab­lish the laws, and equal­ly what range of per­sons would have the pro­tec­tions of “due process” fell far short of what our orig­i­nal Dec­la­ra­tion had pro­posed, “that all men are cre­at­ed equal”.

But of course, what was held up as the found­ing ide­al of the USA was nev­er made real at that time, or even now as we approach our 250^th Birth­day. From the moment of “first con­tact” by Christo­pher Colum­bus in 1492, to the final mas­sacre of native peo­ple at Wound­ed Knee in 1890, the near extinc­tion of the native peo­ples was the first of the bro­ken promis­es of equal­i­ty and jus­tice for all.

The oth­er orig­i­nal sin for the USA was the enslave­ment of African peo­ple until 1865, and the denial of their full cit­i­zen­ship by one means or anoth­er even down to the present day. The Karmic Ques­tion the USA faces today is quite sim­ply this, “How do we make right over 500 years of Geno­cide; how to we make right over 400 years of Racism?” For we have not made it right, we have not done this sacred work at all.

Here are the sig­nif­i­cant plan­e­tary align­ments of Plu­to, Nep­tune and Uranus in the chart of the USA that framed and shaped the advances and retreats in the march to jus­tice and equal­i­ty to our present moment of destiny.

Fram­ing His­to­ry: Plu­to and Nep­tune align­ments in the USA Chart
1840’s‑1850’s
In the late 1840’s, Plu­to squared Plu­to, and the impo­si­tion of Will by one part of the nation upon the oth­er, was defined by the seizure of Mex­i­can ter­ri­to­ries by war, which her­ald­ed the final push by the slave­hold­ing states to make their vision of a Unit­ed States that would have slav­ery enshrined in every state, north and south, east and west.  Dur­ing this peri­od, the slave­hold­ers in the South attempt­ed by their con­trol of the Pres­i­den­cy, Con­gress and Judi­cia­ry, to bring this hor­ror to its fullest real­iza­tion, which was enshrined in the Dred Scott deci­sion of 1857 by the Supreme court, which declared that a black per­son could not and would nev­er be free in the Unit­ed States.

But by the late 1850’s the oppo­si­tion of Nep­tune to Nep­tune, the plan­et of love and com­pas­sion, framed the surge in the abo­li­tion­ist move­ment lead­ing to the cre­ation of the Repub­li­can par­ty and the elec­tion of Abra­ham Lin­coln, lead­ing to the Civ­il War between the North and the South.

The end of the Civ­il War and South­ern seces­sion was fol­lowed by the attempt at recon­struc­tion in the South and the tem­po­rary exten­sion of self-deter­mi­na­tion to mil­lions of new­ly freed black men. But by 1877, this brief flow­er­ing of the greater promise of Amer­i­ca was bro­ken by a deal between South­ern Democ­rats and Repub­li­cans in the North, with their self-inter­ests focused upon the rise of Indus­tri­al Cap­i­tal­ism in the North, and the promise of free­dom and equal­i­ty was firm­ly bro­ken and not to be met again until the 1960’s.

1890’s
By the 1890’s the con­cen­tra­tion of wealth, the rise of labor unions and the stir­rings of the pro­gres­sive move­ment were her­ald­ed by the next turn­ing in our des­tiny by Nep­tune squar­ing its natal posi­tion, as a series of mea­sures were enact­ed that began to reign in the cor­rup­tion of the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment by wealthy indus­tri­al inter­ests. Equal­ly, this peri­od wit­nessed the exten­sion of the right to self-deter­mi­na­tion of the peo­ple the Unit­ed States cul­mi­nat­ing in 1920 with the right to vote being final­ly grant­ed to women, the great­est advance in democ­ra­cy since the Civ­il War, and then the grant­i­ng of cit­i­zen­ship to Native Amer­i­cans in 1924.

1930’s
But these reforms did not con­tain or con­strain the unreg­u­lat­ed finan­cial mar­kets and by the late 1920’s the Great Depres­sion struck. Once again, the prin­ci­pal influ­encers of our his­to­ry, Nep­tune and Plu­to, had reached crit­i­cal moments in their cycles too, with Plu­to oppos­ing itself, and Nep­tune mak­ing its first return to its natal posi­tion. The reforms of Franklin Delano Roo­sevelt and the New Deal forged a restate­ment and rebirth for the Unit­ed States, and this set in motion one of the most sus­tained peri­ods of gen­er­al growth of eco­nom­ic well-being in the Unit­ed States from the 1940’s into the 1970’s.

But in this same peri­od, the resur­gence of the unmet promise for the free­dom and self-deter­mi­na­tion of black Amer­i­cans gave rise to the Civ­il Rights move­ment, which via Supreme court rul­ings and even­tu­al­ly by laws passed in the US Con­gress, the karmic stain of racial injus­tice began to be cor­rect­ed as Plu­to and Nep­tune made align­ments once again.

1970’s‑1980’s
By the late 1970’s and into the ear­ly 1980’s, the Unit­ed States was at anoth­er major turn­ing point, like the 1850’s or the 1930’s, as Plu­to squared Plu­to and Nep­tune squared Nep­tune, and the Key­ne­sian econ­o­my was bro­ken by the adop­tion of a neo-lib­er­al­ist ide­ol­o­gy and the dereg­u­la­tion of mar­kets. This led to a huge surge in finan­cial wealth and pow­er for the few, and the divide between the wealth­i­est Amer­i­cans, the 1, 2 or 3 % and the rest of the pop­u­la­tion explod­ed. This shift in wealth and pow­er, led to the re-cor­rup­tion of the US gov­ern­ment, much as it had in the late the mid 1800’s and the late 1800’s, with both the Repub­li­can and Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ties becom­ing behold­en to the siren song of monies in order to fund and secure their hold on the seats of pow­er in the House, Sen­ate and Presidency.

Where we are today is at the end result of that entan­gle­ment and cor­rup­tion of the body politic, where pay to play from the local lev­el to the high­est reach­es of gov­ern­ment has pushed many Amer­i­cans, on both the left, mid­dle and the right to lose faith in their gov­ern­ment and its institutions.

Today
Which brings us to our moment in his­to­ry, and once again we find these framers of our jour­ney, Plu­to and Nep­tune, are at major his­toric turn­ing points as well. Plu­to has just made its first ever return to its natal posi­tion, and Nep­tune has just made its sec­ond oppo­si­tion to its natal posi­tion. That means to me that we are in a peri­od more like the 1850’s and 60’s, but real­ly in some ways this is not com­pa­ra­ble to any time, giv­en this is the first return of Plu­to ever.

Echo­ing that ear­li­er time, once again the ques­tion, “who is tru­ly a cit­i­zen of this coun­try” is being raised once again, of who is or is not pro­tect­ed by the laws of the repub­lic is being asked again.  And equal­ly the promise of a gov­ern­ment “for and by the peo­ple” has been ren­dered mean­ing­less when the most basic right of select­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tion is over­whelmed by a cacoph­o­ny of half-truths and lies, fueled by the tidal wave of uncon­test­ed pow­er held by the few with unlim­it­ed funds to shape and sway pri­maries and elec­tions, destroy­ing even the sem­blance of free and fair elections.

Democ­ra­cy Broken
And just like in the 1840’s and 50’s, when the wealthy elite of the south­ern slave­hold­ers, whose “wealth” was held by enslav­ing oth­er humans, and then in the 1880’s and 90’s and real­ly on up to the 1920’s, when the monop­o­lists and financiers bent and twist­ed the for­ma­tion of laws to suit their prof­its and not the peo­ple, we find our­selves once again faced with the chal­lenge of being with­out the means to have a con­se­quen­tial polit­i­cal influ­ence over our des­tiny. Why? Because the divi­sion between the wealthy and the rest of the pop­u­la­tion has cre­at­ed an Amer­i­ca that is divid­ed between those who can shape the pow­er of the gov­ern­ment to serve their ends only, while the vast major­i­ty know that their future is being shaped by the rule of the few over the many. We are not in a democ­ra­cy at this time, we are see­ing what it means to live in an oli­garchy of the wealthy, and which now seems to be devolv­ing into a Klep­toc­ra­cy like Rus­sia or Hungary.

As I have not­ed more than once, from 1980 to 2020 the gross domes­tic prod­uct of the Unit­ed States rose by 80% in those 40 years, it almost dou­bled. But the dis­tri­b­u­tion of that growth was far less equal than our pre­vi­ous peri­od from 1940 to 1980.

In the last 40 years, the bot­tom 20% of the USA pop­u­la­tion gained 20% more wealth; the mid­dle por­tion of about 40% of the pop­u­la­tion gained 50% more wealth; but the top .01% gained 420% more in their wealth. Those top accu­mu­la­tors live in a world that does not even under­stand, or for the most part prob­a­bly care, for the rest of us at all.

Here are two graphs of that redis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth since 1980:

The Wealth of a Nation
As I have said many, many times, the wealth of a nation is in its peo­ple, who are the liv­ing spir­it and the cre­ators of all and every kind of val­ue. There has been no prob­lem for the Unit­ed States in cre­at­ing wealth, which is made by us all, the prob­lem is the unequal and unjust dis­tri­b­u­tion of that wealth made by the people.

In terms of wealth dis­tri­b­u­tion, the Unit­ed States is one of the worst of all the so-called “advanced soci­eties” and this inequal­i­ty is even greater when defined and dis­trib­uted by race and eth­nic­i­ty. This is the prin­ci­pal rea­son why the USA has appalling life expectan­cies and health out­comes com­pared to many of the advanced nations in the world.

So, the ques­tion we face now is how, how do we fix this? How do we reclaim and restore our democ­ra­cy, how do we restore our abil­i­ty to not only live but to make a bet­ter life for one and for all?

Despite what we see and hear about every day, I believe we are at the begin­ning of the rebirth of our coun­try. But it will not come, cer­tain­ly not at first, from one par­ty or anoth­er, because both par­ties have con­tributed to bring­ing us to this moment.

And as we watch the events of each day, we see indi­vid­u­als, and groups of indi­vid­u­als, we see orga­ni­za­tions and insti­tu­tions push­ing back against the myr­i­ad attempts to twist and break the rule of law, to erase the sacred truths that we are made of, the love we are that holds and pro­tects one anoth­er, as those who swore an oath and were entrust­ed to pro­tect and faith­ful­ly exe­cute these laws try to replace them with rule by fiat or command.

We must face the forces of fear and dark­ness with a fierce and lov­ing faith in one anoth­er, to speak, to write, to demon­strate and to orga­nize so that we are the change that we wish to cre­ate in our world.

A New Covenant
What we must do is build a new “way of being”, we must be the cre­ators of a new covenant with Life and Spir­it. Yes, the prob­lem is pover­ty; yes, wealth inequal­i­ty is the prob­lem; and they are both made by one anoth­er, and they are forged and main­tained by a sys­tem that is destroy­ing the diver­si­ty and sus­tain­abil­i­ty of life on this planet.

We must expand our under­stand­ing of the real prob­lem, which is that the very Polit­i­cal-Eco­nom­ic and Social sys­tems that were formed to meet our needs in the 1700’s is killing us. And not only us, because life is leav­ing the plan­et at a rate that is grow­ing expo­nen­tial­ly. Life on Earth is becom­ing less diverse, less vibrant, less beau­ti­ful, less pos­si­ble, and we only need to look in the mir­ror to see the cause.

We must forge our new covenant of spir­it with one anoth­er based upon uni­ver­sal Equal­i­ty and Jus­tice. We must real­lo­cate the wealth that we all pro­duce so that every per­son has what we owe to one anoth­er in our human fam­i­ly: Equal Edu­ca­tion, Equal Health­care, Equal Hous­ing, Equal Oppor­tu­ni­ty, so that every child and adult has an Equal chance to achieve Self-Fulfillment.

This is the begin­ning of the Age of Aquar­ius, and no indi­vid­ual can be tru­ly ful­filled, not a sin­gle one of us can be tru­ly hap­py, if so many of our broth­ers and sis­ters live in fear and poverty.

We must imme­di­ate­ly change the way we pro­duce our Ener­gy, change the ways in which we Source our Food, change the ways we Cre­ate our Shel­ter. We must change our way of liv­ing, which has been formed by “destroy­ing in order to cre­ate” and instead forge a way of liv­ing where we are “Cre­at­ing to Thrive”.

The choice we face is between Love or Fear, between Truth or Lies.

The choice is ours.

Let it be love.

Consciousness

Today we enter the third realm of the Zodi­ac, today we enter the sacred space known as Gem­i­ni. For­ev­er some­where in your chart, and through­out your entire being, and tru­ly ever-present in all the realms and beings of Cre­ation, we hon­or the third prin­ci­ple of Spir­it, the radi­ant Light of Consciousness.

The Sto­ry of Cre­ation is the Jour­ney of the One becom­ing man­i­fest through all the realms and through all of the beings of the Cos­mos. In the cen­ter of each one of the One there is the seed of becom­ing, the mon­ad of the One, the one in all.

All of Cre­ation is Spir­it, and yet all of Cre­ation is formed of Mat­ter too, so that Mat­ter is mere­ly the dens­est form of Spir­it, and Spir­it is the most ethe­re­al form of Mat­ter, and that dur­ing this time of the One made man­i­fest in Cre­ation, all of Cre­ation exists as Spirit-Matter.

But as much as all is Spir­it, and all of Cre­ation is Mat­ter too, we also must under­stand that every par­ti­cle, atom, being, plan­et, star and galaxy, that the all of ones in the entire­ty of Cre­ation are Mind too; all of the Cos­mos is Conscious.

Now, there are many forms and lev­els of con­scious­ness, descend­ing from the super­nal realms of what we would call the first cir­cle of Light and Love, the Lords of Space and Time, down to the Devas or Shin­ing Ones, and con­tin­u­ing down­ward through the king­doms of Cre­ation and into the dens­est yet still con­scious forms of matter.

The Sto­ry of Cre­ation is also this sto­ry of the unfold­ing and expan­sion of con­scious­ness, as fam­i­lies of mon­ads work their way to ever high­er realms of aware­ness. But there is a crit­i­cal moment in the jour­ney of all mon­ads, when the greater light of under­stand­ing is reached, when they move from mere aware­ness into self-awareness.

Our cohort of human mon­ads took that next step in that jour­ney of awak­en­ing, long, long ago. There are many ver­sions of this sto­ry, from par­tak­ing of the fruit of the knowl­edge of good and evil, or of the light-bringers in the sto­ries of Prometheus or Lucifer, or the ancient sto­ry of the beau­ti­ful sac­ri­fice of beings known as the Kumaras, whose karmic debt of their enlight­en­ment in a pre­vi­ous age bestowed upon them the hon­or and duty to pass this light to us long ago.

It is a nec­es­sary but bit­ter­sweet gift, for it forces each of us into the expe­ri­ence of sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er, from oth­er beings and even from the One. But it is the step all must take to become a ful­ly con­scious co-Cre­ator of Cre­ation. Before we were unaware and inno­cent, and we could only be what we instinc­tive­ly sensed or felt. But through this sep­a­ra­tion, “I am that, not this”, we were forced into form­ing con­scious con­nec­tions between one anoth­er and the world. We were giv­en the gift of Choice, and so we had to learn good from bad, to what is bet­ter and what is worse. We fell into error, and time and time again, we cre­at­ed poor­ly and suf­fered from our lack of understanding.

But over count­less lives we acquired knowl­edge, and over many lives we acquired wis­dom and humil­i­ty, and though we seem to rise and again to fall, our jour­ney of awak­en­ing has been mas­tered by some who light the way for the rest of us. We will become ever more con­scious and aware by shar­ing our under­stand­ings and points of view with one anoth­er, learn­ing from one anoth­er, lov­ing one anoth­er, and choos­ing light over dark­ness, love over fear.

Yes, today, as we enter Gem­i­ni, and for­ev­er some­where in your chart, we should give thanks to those ancient ones who passed the “light of under­stand­ing” to us. This is also part of the teach­ing. That we must remem­ber that 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 is formed by our rela­tion­ships with the beings and worlds all around us and most espe­cial­ly in our many rela­tion­ships with our fel­low humans.

The very nature of con­scious­ness is hid­den in that very word. The word “con­scious­ness” means “Con” or “Togeth­er” and “Scious­ness” or “Know­ing.

Con­scious­ness means “know­ing together”.

So, let us give thanks by doing our part.

Let us lis­ten to one another.

Let us share and shape our greater under­stand­ing for one another.

Let us be a light to one anoth­er, so that we might be the truth that dis­solves all mis­un­der­stand­ings and fears.

May the Light of the One be with you and guide you.

As you walk the path of Awak­en­ing and Love.

This will be our sec­ond show in 2025, and I want to help us under­stand where we are at this moment, at this end of and age and the birth of a new world. It is through the Ancient Teach­ings, and the par­tic­u­lar gift of Astrol­o­gy, that we can con­sid­er our present moment with­in the con­text of the larg­er sto­ry of the spir­i­tu­al jour­ney of human­i­ty, and under­stand how we came to this moment, and what we need to do now to meet our moment of des­tiny with the light of understanding.

After my open­ing chat, I will turn on my video and answer your ques­tions in the sec­ond half of our show.

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Please join me on Sun­day May 11 @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for us all.

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Today we enter the sec­ond space in the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, today we move into the realm we know as Tau­rus. But you must always remem­ber that Tau­rus is for­ev­er to be found with­in your own very being, as it is an essen­tial part of every sin­gle mon­ad of Cre­ation, which is why you must under­stand the pro­found spir­i­tu­al truth found in this first Earth sign of the Zodiac.

For the past 30 days your atten­tion has been focused upon the nature and qual­i­ty of your pres­ence, of how you move through the eter­nal now. Because it is in your bear­ing, by your demeanor, char­ac­ter and aware­ness, it is by how you meet each moment with adept­ness and grace that you may redeem your past errors and forge your bet­ter future. By being present and aware, through your inten­tion­al actions, it is by this that you reveal for your­self and to oth­ers “who you are”.

But now you must con­sid­er some­thing prob­a­bly even more pro­found, now you must under­stand what it is that lies behind or sup­ports your pres­ence; now the ques­tion is not “who are you” but “what are you”, what is it that makes you what you are.

This is not a sim­ple ques­tion, (but, I would argue, if we look at the root of one and all it tru­ly is so sim­ple). What is “the What” of being human? Well, just like for the entire­ty of Cre­ation, you are not “a thing”. You are a con­scious, liv­ing being, formed by a field of Ener­gy-Forms or bod­ies of Light. The Uni­verse and you are formed by “fields with­in fields”, cre­at­ed, shaped and real­ized by a host of alchem­i­cal com­bi­na­tions. You and me, and every­thing are a host, a hier­ar­chy of beings, which the Ancient Wis­dom teach­es is the One made man­i­fest as Spirit-Life-Consciousness.

You are at your inner­most, a spark of the Divine, a monadic tri­ad of Spir­i­tu­al Life, that is known as Atman-Bud­dhi-Man­as. From this inner­most and high­est Ener­gy-Form, you by embod­i­ment move into ever more mate­r­i­al realms of Men­tal forms, Emo­tion­al Forms, Vital Forms and final­ly take on a Phys­i­cal form in the body you expe­ri­ence as “the What” of you. And each of these bod­ies and realms are also formed into their own hier­ar­chies from the high­est to low­est, so that you (and the entire­ty of Cre­ation) are formed by a “host of hosts”, as fields of spir­i­tu­al mon­ads with their hier­ar­chies of manifestations.

So, what this means is that the “What” of you, the truth for one and all, is the One or what we feel and know as Divine Uncon­di­tion­al Love. The whole uni­verse is a Cre­ation, made by love and formed by love. You, me, and this Earth, and all the Stars and Galax­ies are made by this sacred source of all val­ues and measures.

Yes, this is the truth at the root of you, which is that you are here because of love, and you are here for one rea­son only, to love one anoth­er. The val­ue of you is tru­ly beyond mea­sure, because you are priceless!

Well, you might won­der, why is it that, more often than not, I feel not so very valu­able, wor­thy or price­less at all?!

Because you and I are not what we will be some day. We are not ful­ly formed or per­fect­ed humans because our vehi­cles of self-real­iza­tion, whether in our phys­i­cal form, or emo­tion­al body, or men­tal body and even spir­i­tu­al con­sti­tu­tion, are not yet what they can be and will be someday.

In any one life, and through­out your many, many lives, 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.

Yes, you and I are on a jour­ney through many forms and lives, and in each and every life you will learn to become a bet­ter human, more attuned and aligned with your high­er self. Like those who walked this path long, long ago, you must learn to choose what is more per­fect from the less per­fect, to be more lov­ing, and less fear­ful, and this takes many lives.

And because Divine Love is what you are, that you are one of the ones of the One, you will even­tu­al­ly reach that pre­cious moment when you will also arrive at the final step of becom­ing a com­plete human.

There you will be greet­ed by those who came this way before, whose Love and Inspi­ra­tion for you has nev­er wavered, as you fol­lowed the path of Awak­en­ing that brought forth ful­ly your essen­tial nature of Uncon­di­tion­al Love, just as they fol­lowed this path long, long ago.

Until that beau­ti­ful sub­lime moment comes to you, may you live by the light that you were made to be,

May you be lov­ing and be loved eternally.

The Pow­er of your Presence

Today we begin the Astro­log­i­cal New Year, as we move into the Sign of Aries. At this time every year, and for­ev­er part of your essen­tial nature too, we should cel­e­brate the gift of Aries, the well­spring of all.

For the last 30 days, the veil between your mor­tal being and your spark of the divine gave way, and in your visions, dreams and rec­ol­lec­tions of what you did and what you did not do, as you walked in the sacred realm of the Twelve Holy Ones, in the time and place we call Pisces, you found hope and for­give­ness in spir­i­tu­al renew­al. Pisces brings the gift of clo­sure, as you sift through the har­vest of the past year and under­stand the immutable law that holds every­thing togeth­er in the “Great Work”. That all that was is true and right, as you are the mak­er of you, and “you will always reap what you sow.” In Pisces, you under­stood the unbreak­able bond between the growth of your wis­dom and the deep­en­ing of your humil­i­ty. Sup­port­ed by the grace of for­give­ness, you were hum­bled by the under­stand­ing that your sins of omis­sion and com­mis­sion actu­al­ly form the dia­mond body of your char­ac­ter, and it is this foun­da­tion for your faith that you will help you in all of your tomor­rows. In the Waters of Pisces, you found the way to hold it all, the good and the bad, because of the com­pas­sion and love of the One who loves us all.

Now you enter Aries, the first sign in the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, the Avatar or ves­sel that holds the first foun­da­tion­al truth, root­ed in the essen­tial nature of Spir­it. What is this truth? The essen­tial nature of Spir­it, which forms and forges your quin­tes­sence, is the most pre­cious gift of being a Cre­ator. This is the ever-beat­ing heart of the cos­mos, it is the “light ever­last­ing,” form­ing the pro­pelling agency by which you exist here, now, and for­ev­er. You are a self-unfold­ing, self-becom­ing, self-mak­ing spark of the divine. You are here, “to be and become what you are, the Divine made man­i­fest upon this Earth.”

Of course this is true of every sin­gle par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, for the entire cos­mos is the “One” now made man­i­fest through­out the cos­mos. But for you, hav­ing achieved the bless­ing of self-aware con­scious­ness long, long ago, and by mov­ing through these hier­ar­chies and realms of human­i­ty for count­less ages, your gift of self-cre­ation has become much more sub­stan­tial and con­se­quen­tial, more tru­ly divine than ever before. Now you feel and know the law of Kar­ma, you have aware­ness of the law of cause and effect, of your actions and your reap­ing of the con­se­quences. And day after day, and life after life, you are per­son­al­ly respon­si­ble for you, and for the world you enter, and for the world you have made, and the world you will leave behind.

Now this New Year begins, and the Fire of Aries is upon you. By Aries, you leap forth with the gift of Inspi­ra­tion, with visions and ideas that come upon you, bend­ing your heart and soul to joy­ful exhil­a­ra­tion, so that you may cel­e­brate a brand-new day in the ever-renew­ing joy fill­ing you with light and the pow­er of new beginnings.

In Aries, you rush into action, to be and become what­ev­er you will be. But the first les­son on the path of life is here too. At each por­tal, and in each sign, you are asked a ques­tion, and the one before you, well, it is prob­a­bly the most pro­found of all: “Who are you?”

But to answer this ques­tion, you must under­stand what it means to be human, what is this all for, why are you here?

Quite sim­ply, you are here as a spark of the divine in order to learn to be a bet­ter human. To dis­cov­er through inspi­ra­tion and doubt, by attempts and fail­ures, through suc­cess and defeat, you are here to learn by cause and effect how to be ful­ly human, and how to become a wise being who choos­es to live by Love and who turns away from fear.

And it all begins here, with the very first step, and then your next step. And then the one after that. Life is a jour­ney, with you cease­less­ly mov­ing through what only exists which is the Eter­nal Now, from moment to moment and from one space to anoth­er. Imag­ine Life as mov­ing through a series of doors, leav­ing one space as you enter anoth­er. Here, at this cross­ing point you will encounter the ever­last­ing gift and test that is Aries, which offers you the gift of devel­op­ing your char­ac­ter, of form­ing your bear­ing, build­ing your demeanor, forg­ing your aware­ness of you that you will bring to each pre­cious moment, to each and every oppor­tu­ni­ty so that you live by love.

As you move through these series of doors, you will find that there is always some­one going through just ahead of you. If you are for­tu­nate, that per­son will hold the door open for you, per­haps lend you a help­ing hand. But some­times, the one who is ahead of you is trou­bled, thought­less, or angry, and they do not con­sid­er who is behind them, and they slam the door in your face.

Now you have your moment, your quin­tes­sen­tial test is upon you. What hap­pened just then was that you expe­ri­enced some­thing neg­a­tive, some­thing that you may cer­tain­ly feel you did not deserve nor need at all. But now comes the ques­tion, “What will you do?” What will you do with this energy?

It would be easy, almost effort­less, to take that neg­a­tive ener­gy and pass it on to who­ev­er is fol­low­ing you. Take that bad ener­gy that came at you and just get rid of it. That is easy, but your life will not be easy if you do this. You will not grow and change, and you will not be bet­ter, and you can­not become bet­ter unless you are this change for the better.

Instead, you must stop and real­ize that you have a choice. You are sup­posed to choose here. You will real­ize that the neg­a­tive ener­gy you received is just an acci­dent of fate, per­haps a neg­a­tive emo­tion passed down for many years, and you can be the change, you can be as you are meant to be, a trans­former of ener­gy, turn­ing the neg­a­tive into the pos­i­tive, and you do that by choos­ing to take the path not tak­en as you hold the door open for the one who fol­lows you.

That is it. That is how you change your­self, and it is how you change the world.

You have agency, you can make a choice, and you can be the rea­son that not only for your life but for the lives of so many oth­ers, you can make it be bet­ter. For all you know that neg­a­tive form of ener­gy you trans­mut­ed might have been pass­ing down for thou­sands of years, but it end­ed with you, as you turned the dark­ness into light.

This is the gift of Aries, this is the gift of Pres­ence, of “liv­ing with lov­ing awareness.”

You are here to grow, to be and become, to change your­self and heal your world too.

If we all do this, if we choose to turn the neg­a­tive into the good, to turn dark­ness into light, to turn fear into faith and hate into love, well…

Well, that is the whole point after all.

May you be the Love that was the First Step.

May you be a one like the One.

May you shine like the Sun.

That is the way, the only way.

The Way of Light, and of Truth and of Love.