Anoth­er event cov­ered in my overview for 2011, this is what I wrote then:

Back to back Solar Eclipses adds an urgent tone to the mes­sages from the stars. This time the New Moon is in Can­cer, and the new begin­nings for how we can secure our lives requires we more deeply under­stand where secu­ri­ty real­ly comes from first.

In addi­tion I would add the following:

As I not­ed for the New Moon of June 1, dur­ing an “Eclipse New Moon a shad­ow (the past) falls upon you”. That means you have to remove, or move past, that blind spot and uncov­er what is hid­den in order to tru­ly under­stand the mes­sage released by this New Moon.

The Can­cer part of your jour­ney takes you with­in, down to the roots of your being; you reach and secure your center…you fol­low your feel­ings. The Can­cer New Moon binds you back to the famil­iar, to the fam­i­ly, and all those expe­ri­ences which affirm your sense of being whole in your­self, yet part of a greater whole­ness too: fam­i­ly, vil­lage, community…The New Moon in Can­cer cre­ates an oppor­tu­ni­ty to refresh your­self at this well­spring of your exis­tence; and at the truest cen­ter point you feel and affirm the Great Truth, you are one with the One.

But the eclipse puts a shad­ow across the path; there is some­thing that is hid­ing the mes­sage, some­thing you must under­stand about your past before you can refresh your­self at the foun­tain-source of your being. The shad­ow that falls across you now (as always) is…fear. Fear is what comes between you and your becom­ing, between you and your destiny. 

The shad­ow that falls, the fear for Can­cer, is that you do not belong, that you are not embraced…that you have been aban­doned. This is the dark­ness that you must con­front now before you can refresh your soul in the waters of feeling.

This fear comes from the past, from a time and a real expe­ri­ence when you felt uncar­ed for, unconnected…alone. It is not of this time, but is car­ried by the Moon to the present to remind you what this feels like. Why? …So that you may remem­ber and so know what you must do.

You must turn to anoth­er now, anoth­er who feels alone or aban­doned here today, you must hold them, embrace them and demon­strate the truth that they, you, we are nev­er alone.…not ever.

You con­front this echo of false­hood with the light of your life now; your liv­ing pres­ence of shared feel­ings, under­stand­ing and love stands as a tes­ta­ment. The com­pas­sion you feel now breaks up the shad­ows of your past and the pain of the one before you today.

The shad­ow, the past, has no hold over you, a shin­ing one who lives in the Truth that you are nev­er alone; you are always con­nect­ed and will always be cared for because you stand in the light…you are the Light.

Shine on!

Uh oh!  It’s anoth­er test of Will. The chal­lenge will appear out there, between you and anoth­er (or oth­ers). But, as always, the test lies with­in though it appears to come from with­out. You are always upon the path of self-knowl­edge and self-mas­tery; so know that all these tests that are put before you are nec­es­sary for your self-unfoldment.

You began this cycle of will in late Decem­ber, when you had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to reaf­firm that will, your free will, is depen­dent upon your self-knowl­edge. The more unaware of your­self or the world around you, the more “fat­ed” will your life be, things will just “hap­pen” to you. And the more you come into the knowl­edge of your­self (and the world around you), you will then have that much more free will to exer­cise in your life, you will make things happen.

Now you face a rev­e­la­tion, now you see how free and will­ful you are. It is not whether you are stronger than the oth­er. No, the ques­tion is (always) how much self-con­trol or self-will have you mas­tered? For the issue of will, of your free will, is the under­stand­ing you have about bound­aries and tres­pass­ing and your sense of the sacred.

The space that you call your “self”, well that is a very sacred space, it is your space for unfold­ing the light with­in, for “becom­ing the becom­ing”. And that is also so for every oth­er evolv­ing con­scious­ness in this uni­verse. You devel­op your will so as to cre­ate a bound­ary around your sacred space, your “self”, as you inter­act with the oth­er wills in your world, as they must do likewise.

Your unfold­ing will leads to ever greater self-con­trol and self-deter­mi­na­tion that is reflect­ed out­ward­ly in your respect for the bound­aries of oth­ers. You come to under­stand that the only con­trol that mat­ters, the only con­trol that is true and last­ing, is self-con­trol. All else is illusion.

If some­one attempts to push, manip­u­late or guilt you to do some­thing, (well shame on them for that is tres­pass­ing), you move away, you put space between them and you. And like­wise you must restrain your­self, even for the very best inten­tions, from attempt­ing to force anoth­er to do what­ev­er you might think is best for them (or you). Hope­ful­ly, for your sake, you will fail in the attempt.

Instead, turn your sacred pow­er of will back upon your­self so as to con­tin­ue your jour­ney of self-dis­cov­ery, cre­ativ­i­ty and under­stand­ing. And, by your exam­ple, encour­age oth­ers to do the same.

It is this devel­op­ment of free will and sacred spaces that is at the very heart of the jour­ney for Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

This is its Destiny…which is your Des­tiny. So be it. 

You are real­ly show­ing some sparkle today! And so you should. Mars has been trip­ping through Gem­i­ni, encour­ag­ing your inge­nu­ity, intel­li­gence and agili­ty. Now Uranus comes around to add a touch of orig­i­nal­i­ty, inven­tive­ness and creativity.

Mars rules the ways in which you act to ful­fill your­self. You are expe­ri­enc­ing more flex­i­bil­i­ty in Gem­i­ni, com­par­ing, con­trast­ing and try­ing dif­fer­ent approach­es, meth­ods and solu­tions. If one approach does not work, you piv­ot and try anoth­er. Nim­ble (and quick), that’s Gemini.

Uranus now adds a flash of insight (or inspi­ra­tion), that takes your intel­li­gent adapt­abil­i­ty to new heights. Uranus is “the road less tak­en”, the out­sider with the unique view­point; Uranus shifts your focus beyond the bina­ry real­i­ty of either/or.

Uranus with Mars leads you to the “third way”. You are freed from the ordi­nary pat­terns and solu­tions; you move into new and unex­plored path­ways, dis­cov­er­ies and delights. It leads you inward to a deep­er real­iza­tion of your orig­i­nal­i­ty. It leads you out­ward to a greater expe­ri­ence of being a cre­ator. Uranus is the Awak­en­er who leads you to the path­ways of freedom.

Try some­thing new. Cel­e­brate orig­i­nal­i­ty. Dance the dance of the Creator.

It is time to Be Yourself.

It is your Destiny.

Did you feel that? That was some bump (or nudge, or shake…or some­thing). What is that? It almost feels.…well it almost feels shocking.

Oh, that’s just Uranus throw­ing down some jolts to your sense of self. With the Sun mov­ing through Can­cer, you have been very focused upon secu­ri­ty, prac­ti­cal needs, feel­ings and fam­i­ly since June 21.

Uranus in Aries comes along to remind you that, well that’s fine, that’s fine to focus on your roots and secu­ri­ty and all; but what about your Inde­pen­dence, Ide­al­ism and Originality…what about your Free­dom? That’s the song Uranus is singing now and you bet­ter pay attention.

When­ev­er you face a square you often feel as if you are torn between two oppo­site ways of being or act­ing. You feel you must choose; to do one and deny the oth­er. So you must decide between: secu­ri­ty or inde­pen­dence, prac­ti­cal­i­ty or idealism.

But the path of the spir­i­tu­al war­rior is the path of inte­gra­tion. The greater way, the Noble Path, is to see that each of these truths depends upon the oth­er for its own exis­tence. You need your sense of cen­ter from which you pro­ceed out­ward and so extend your orig­i­nal­i­ty into the world. And the growth of that Indi­vid­ual Self is then brought back to your roots, to enrich the core ele­ments that pro­vide you with that very sense of rootedness.

The chal­lenge, real­ly, is not in how to make a choice between one or the oth­er. The chal­lenge is to be more con­scious, to be a liv­ing pres­ence that is attuned to the whole of your spir­i­tu­al unfold­ment. You must hon­or all aspects of your­self and so main­tain a dynam­ic bal­anc­ing of these and oth­er ele­ments in your life

This align­ment, the square of Sun and Uranus, says that right now you will feel that these two sets of truths are out of bal­ance and you need to adjust. Take the mid­dle path, the “Red Road”…Do not over­re­act and cling to secu­ri­ty or assert absolute inde­pen­dence. Lis­ten to your high­er self, your calmer self, the watch­er who is always wait­ing to assist you.

Your watch­er will whis­per: Hon­or your roots for it is that “source song” which car­ries you from begin­ning to end, from life to life. Hon­or your unfold­ing self­hood, your own spe­cial essence, by mod­u­lat­ing, mold­ing and cre­at­ing your own melody with­in the great cho­rus of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Sing on sojourner.…Sing your song.

Today you will find that “luck” is on your side; it is a very good day to make progress with plan­ning and deci­sions that will lead you towards greater self-ful­fill­ment. Back in ear­ly April you start­ed a new cycle of growth; now that growth is sta­bi­liz­ing, solid­i­fy­ing, securing…growth is becom­ing tan­gi­ble now.

The Sun rules your “self”; it is your pure poten­tial seek­ing to real­ize itself in the world. Jupiter rules the ways in which you relate to your world; it is your prin­ci­ples, truths and beliefs. The Sun is your Essence; Jupiter is your Becoming.

You are here to grow, to unfold your poten­tial from your Sun, to real­ize your des­tiny as you “Become the Becom­ing”. To do this you extend your­self, reach out through Jupiter to…to those who jour­ney with you. Your unfold­ment and growth and their unfold­ment and growth hap­pen togeth­er; it hap­pens because, and with, and through one another.

That is why the secret to your growth…what Jupiter is real­ly about.…is Gen­eros­i­ty. The Spir­i­tu­al Law is: “To those who give, more shall be given”…so that they may con­tin­ue to give. This is one of the car­di­nal prin­ci­ples of what you expe­ri­ence as the “Law of Kar­ma”, of cause and effect.

Your growth, your unfold­ment, is found­ed, extend­ed and ful­filled by being on a jour­ney of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it with all the oth­er sparks of the divine who accom­pa­ny you. You can­not and will not be sep­a­rat­ed one from anoth­er for the entire­ty of this jour­ney. You jour­ney togeth­er, grow togeth­er and ful­fill your des­tinies through one another.

What­ev­er you give…is what will come back to you…so be Gen­er­ous to the oth­er, be Gen­er­ous to yourself. 

Ful­fill your destiny…to be a star amongst the Stars…reveal the shin­ing one within. 

Be Gen­er­ous!

So be it.