Watch Out! …Some­times too much is well…way, way TOO MUCH!

This Sun Jupiter Cycle began with the promise of Boun­ti­ful­ness on April 6 with the affir­ma­tion “Growth is Good”; now you find that you will need to qual­i­fy this “truth”.

While growth is good, too much growth (or the wrong type of growth) is waste­ful, destruc­tive and will actu­al­ly lead to growth’s oppo­site or dis­in­te­gra­tion. There is good growth and there is less good growth…now you must choose. That is what the Square is for; it rep­re­sents a turn­ing point, a fork in the road of life…and you must choose a fork now in order to con­tin­ue on your (bet­ter) path of growth.

What is the choice you face? With the Sun in Leo you are being dri­ven by ide­al­ism as you seek to stretch your­self in dis­plays of lead­er­ship, cre­ativ­i­ty and love. Jupiter in Tau­rus brings mat­ters to a focus now by shap­ing the scene, bring­ing to bear prac­ti­cal con­sid­er­a­tions that are cen­tered upon sol­id values.

Basi­cal­ly, it is at time where you must not let the pur­suit of the ide­al or the per­fect to become the defeat of the pos­si­ble. You must adjust your plan and path so that your growth is mean­ing­ful and sustainable.

You will see how well you have man­aged the bal­ance when the Sun and Jupiter meet again in ear­ly September. 

What do you want, really?

Well… Tru­ly, you just want to be appre­ci­at­ed for who you real­ly are! And, you want who­ev­er walks along­side you to be free to be true to their self too! Well, today is that day!

Where­as on July 7 the jux­ta­po­si­tion of Venus and Uranus posed a chal­lenge to you (and them), today the Plan­ets of Love and Orig­i­nal­i­ty, of Val­ue and Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty align to forge a bal­ance between shar­ing and inde­pen­dence, between rela­tion­ship and freedom.

Today the promise of what was released on April 22 is met. What began as an inti­ma­tion of truth, of what ties and binds you one to anoth­er has now come as an experience…of real, of substantial…of True Love.

True love is uncon­di­tion­al; it is found­ed upon your fun­da­men­tal expe­ri­ence of your essen­tial self (mon­ad) which is but one spark among count­less shin­ing ones who are upon a great jour­ney out­ward and back from the One Divine Source.

Through many stages and many turn­ings you come upon oth­er con­scious­ly aware sparks of this same Divine Source…and there you see it, in their eyes…the Recognition…

You say, they say “I know this, I know this feeling…I know you”. And then, the recog­ni­tion, the acknowl­edge­ment is shared, by that most pre­cious, most gen­uine of signs…you smile!

Smile today…and say to one anoth­er, “I have always loved you…I love who you are…I love who we are becoming”.

Smile…

You have moved through the First Four, the Ini­tia­to­ry New Moons of the Astro­log­i­cal Year. The Fun­da­men­tal Vibra­tions have been evoked…Fire, Earth, Air and Water have each tak­en their turn around this, the first third of the Wheel of Life. Those New Moons released their seed-forms to inspire, inform and guide you on your journey…

And now you begin again, with a greater under­stand­ing, in the Fire that is Leo. Where­as in Aries you moved through the expe­ri­ence of being for itself; you formed your per­sonas (masks) so as to present your­self to the world. Now in Leo you must go fur­ther and so extend your­self through roles, upon stages and in the dra­mas that are the Dance of Life itself; here in Leo you must cre­ate, per­form and release your­self for you (and the world) to see.

Sing your spir­it song, dance your cre­ator’s dance, as you humbly acknowl­edge, accept and trea­sure the gift that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Misunderstanding…Delusion…Deception…Confusion…

Which will lead you to…eventually…

Acceptance…Revelation…Illumination!

Yes, that’s right; it is anoth­er “Through the Look­ing Glass” moment when Mer­cury and Nep­tune stand oppo­site one anoth­er. Only this time you are real­ly going to be “chal­lenged” (and have a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty); with Mer­cury turn­ing ret­ro­grade next week, this oppo­si­tion is going to occur 3 times in the next 40 days! That’s a lot of Delusion/Confusion as well as Illu­mi­na­tion to deal with!

Mer­cury rules your mind (man­as), your intel­lect, pow­ers of per­cep­tion, analy­sis and com­pre­hen­sion, as well as your fac­ul­ties of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Nep­tune is one of the Great Three, the Avatars from the Beyond, tru­ly gifts from the gods, whose pur­pose is to reveal (re-veil) the mul­ti-dimen­sion­al uni­verse, the “Mul­ti­verse”, that you real­ly move through.

You had a sim­i­lar encounter with­in your­self back around June 3 when Mer­cury Squared Nep­tune. This time the dra­ma of Her­mes and Posei­don will play out more exter­nal­ly, seem­ing­ly between you and anoth­er (or oth­ers). That’s the way it is with an oppo­si­tion, the quick­en­ing of your aware­ness is elicit­ed by the jux­ta­po­si­tion of one con­scious­ness to another.

You may find your­self in a par­tic­u­lar mis­un­der­stand­ing that mush­rooms between you and anoth­er, or you will real­ize each of you have been mak­ing an incor­rect assump­tion about one anoth­er for some time…or you that you have stum­bled into a sit­u­a­tion of delib­er­ate decep­tion. (But, spir­i­tu­al­ly, it is true, that all decep­tion is ulti­mate­ly the prod­uct of self-deception).

But of course, as in all things, the real oppo­si­tion, con­fronta­tion and oppor­tu­ni­ty will take place with­in you; it is real­ly between your more lim­it­ed aware­ness ver­sus your ever unfold­ing poten­tial for a greater aware­ness. Remem­ber, there is noth­ing to fear; you have been through this many times before; and there are many more steps you must take as you become the becoming…

Your unfold­ment pro­ceeds from one lev­el of con­scious­ness to anoth­er; at each lev­el you will even­tu­al­ly move from cer­tain­ty, to doubt, to confusion…Treasure that, for it is that con­fu­sion which is your gate­way for the release from the less­er real­i­ty; it is that let­ting go of the old cer­tain­ty that you were attached to that makes pos­si­ble a re-imag­i­na­tion and move­ment into a greater, more encom­pass­ing consciousness.

So Nep­tune serves you now as The Illu­mi­na­tor, who comes along to help you re-con­nect to your tran­scen­dent, intu­itive mind, your Bud­dhi Mind, and so frees you, for a time, from your more lim­it­ed, dual­is­tic low­er mind; Posei­don takes you into his “sea of mir­rors”, into a por­tion of The Mul­ti­verse, so that you may see the reflec­tions of reflec­tions of reflec­tions, the won­der that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

You will emerge out of the waters renewed, restored and hum­bled by the majesty of cre­ation which you have just, even for a moment, felt your­self to be one with.

This is the Truth that you are mov­ing towards, slow­ly, sure­ly but not yet able to hold.

Not yet…

All right, Shift!

And…Repeat!

Yes, it is a dou­ble-day of inspi­ra­tion as the Winds of Spir­it swirl; it’s time to change direc­tions in your heart and your head.

Venus moves into Leo for the next 3 weeks…Now this is the time for Romance! When Aphrodite dances through the styl­ish, gra­cious and regal rays of Leo you bet­ter put on your finest, know how to bow…as well as make your entrance! 

Venus in Leo means it is time to show your appre­ci­a­tion of beau­ty, life and love; time to have fun in the sun and with one anoth­er. With Venus rul­ing value…what you want to expe­ri­ence now quite sim­ply is…Love, Love, and more Love.

While Venus was in Can­cer you re-affirmed the source of your love, the foun­da­tions of your life that nur­ture, sta­bi­lize and cen­ter you. Now it is time for you to move out from that cen­tered space; now is the time to love your­self and to enjoy your love for one another.

Her­mes’ shifts are more com­pli­cat­ed. He’s mov­ing into his own sign of Vir­go, and your mind will become sharp­er, more discerning…and more prac­ti­cal! But Her­mes is only in Vir­go till August 8th, why so short a time? Well, there is a bump ahead. Her­mes is about to turn around, back up and go into Leo for a lit­tle while longer… that’s right, next week Mer­cury “stands still” and goes ret­ro­grade, (from Aug. 2 till Aug. 26), and so will move out of Vir­go and revis­it Leo from August 9th till Sep­tem­ber 9th.

There is some­thing going on here; you will have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to attend to some issues that were not resolved in July. Maybe you for­got some­thing (with Leo it was prob­a­ble that you or the oth­er were being less than prac­ti­cal or too ide­al­is­tic), or you did­n’t con­vey some mes­sage as well as you could of (maybe you or the oth­er did not show one anoth­er enough respect), or per­haps the mes­sage was not under­stood (maybe you or the oth­er did not exer­cise enough compassion).

What­ev­er the nature of the mis­un­der­stand­ing or dis­agree­ment, you should take the next 10 days with Mer­cury in Vir­go to use your pow­er of reflec­tion and dis­cern­ment to fig­ure out what might need to be adjust­ed. Then on August 8th, take the “high road” but go with­in and recon­sid­er what that means as Mer­cury ret­ro­grades and recon­nects with Leo.

Try to cor­rect the mis­takes made in July because that is the gift that Mer­cury in ret­ro­grade offers you, a chance to go back and get it right this time. Then, as Mer­cury moves for­ward again on August 26, you can take your new under­stand­ing and think, com­mu­ni­cate and act with greater wisdom.

So, get ready to shift gears, dis­play adapt­abil­i­ty and learn…that’s what it’s all about on this beau­ti­ful blue orb called Earth!