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.