Triple Con­junc­tion Ahead!

Here is some­thing you will not see very often…and it is Beau­ti­ful to Behold…if you only had a van­tage point from which to see it! The radi­ance of the Sun is so strong that you can­not see Mer­cury or Venus because of the Sun’s glo­ry, but they are there, lined up with one anoth­er for you now…

The pic­ture below shows a view as if you were sta­tioned above the Sun look­ing down upon the orbits of the inner plan­ets. Earth is on the far left side, then comes Mer­cury, then the Sun, and on the oppo­site side of our Star is Venus. It is quite sim­ply just Beautiful!

“Ah you ask, but what does it mean?”

With the Sun, Mer­cury and Venus (and Earth) aligned, this is indeed a spe­cial moment for inte­gra­tion, under­stand­ing and answers. The Sun, Mer­cury and Venus are all mov­ing through Leo right now so the ques­tion and answers con­cern the Lessons of the Lion. Let’s tease apart this Star­ry Trip­tych to under­stand the mes­sage of the stars.

Sun/Venus
Aphrodite rules val­ue, beau­ty and love; aligned with the Sun (your “self”) she offers you an oppor­tu­ni­ty (lit­er­al­ly) for attune­ment, for the renewed appre­ci­a­tion and under­stand­ing of your val­ue and self-worth. This “Full Moon” of Venus and Sol re-affirms that the source of your val­ue in this Uni­verse, is also the source of Love that binds all as One; it is the Spir­i­tu­al Spark of the Divine Flame which resides in each and every Consciousness.

The Ancient Teach­ings tell us that every space is Sacred Space, from the most micro­cos­mic to the far­thest reach­es of the Cos­mos; and that what is with­in you also sur­rounds you. You exist in this Ocean of Con­scious­ness and that is why you are loved…because you are Love…because you are a sacred space in the Space that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Mercury/Venus
Her­mes mov­ing “back­wards” over Venus is part two of our Trip­tych today. Mer­cury has been help­ing you to review, reassess and revise your thoughts as regards lead­er­ship, respect and love. Aligned with Venus, Mer­cury receives a bless­ing that re-affirms the true source and nature of your leadership-respect-love…that it comes down quite sim­ply to a con­scious acknowl­edge­ment and expe­ri­ence that love is not “out there” so much as it must be first expe­ri­enced “in here”.

Before you can lead out there you must see where you are com­ing from; before you can earn respect out there you must first see your­self; and before you will be expe­ri­ence true, mature and uncon­di­tion­al love out there you must first open your­self to your “Love” in here. This is what you will expe­ri­ence today.

Sun/Mercury
Final­ly, the third pan­el in our Star­ry Trip­tych brings Mer­cury over the Sun. This is the moment in the Mer­cury ret­ro­grade cycle that is most like a New Moon. It is the moment you have been wait­ing for since at least Mer­cury turned ret­ro­grade on August 2 (and prob­a­bly longer), for now you will receive an answer. Are you listening?

For Real­i­ty is such that the Spir­i­tu­al ener­gies and mes­sages of life, and of the Uni­verse gen­er­al­ly, oper­ate in sub­tle ways, in the “in-betweens”; you have to be aware of the whis­per in your ear or the touch of a feath­er more than a “shout out”. Your “self” as your teacher will not “cast its pearls before swine”, but will wait patient­ly for you to be ready, will­ing and able to “become the becoming”.

You must lis­ten now with your head, your heart and your soul. Turn away from the nois­es and dis­trac­tions around you, turn away from the mun­dane and towards the eter­nal and so lis­ten to your own true Self, your high­er Self who is always there seek­ing to guide you.

Today the mes­sage fol­lows the theme of the first two pan­els of our Trip­tych, (you are again remind­ed to align your­self with your Self). But now the empha­sis is on your thoughts about your­self. The Ideas you hold (or hold you), the thoughts that you think…you will become that. The great­est chal­lenge of this stage in human unfold­ment is the devel­op­ment of your mind…and your most impor­tant lessons require you to fol­low a prop­er “diet”…that is, you need to main­tain a prop­er men­tal diet!

The most impor­tant ele­ment of your men­tal aware­ness is that you must always seek to be inspired by your “Self” and so main­tain good thoughts about your­self. You are what you think…so think well! Today you will hear from your own true Self, from your high­er Self who knows you, guides you and loves you uncon­di­tion­al­ly and forever…listen to this mes­sage and then share it, for you need to spread the good word too… 

Remem­ber, you are nev­er alone, you will always be helped…and then you shall turn and help another…for that is “the way”.

Today cel­e­brate your Triple Attune­ment and gaze with won­der at the Beau­ty of your Star­ry Com­pan­ions who dance the dance of Spir­it as you jour­ney togeth­er along the Path­way of Light that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

The Full Moon of Leo (Sun in Leo, Moon in Aquar­ius) serves to illu­mi­nate the rela­tion­ship between your per­son­al need for self-expres­sion, (for cre­ativ­i­ty, lead­er­ship and love), and con­trasts that to your social need to belong, (to be with your friends, com­pan­ions and com­mu­ni­ty), so that you can ful­fill one anoth­er’s dreams.

With the Sun in Leo now you feel the need to stretch your­self, to go beyond the beyond, to dance in that sun­ny spot­light as you per-form, as you dare to go fur­ther, as you seek to be seen for who you are, to be loved for being you.

But as the Bard said “ay, there’s the rub”; you must do this all with­in the social web of your life, with­in your com­mu­ni­ty, with and through your com­pan­ions and friends. You seek to be “you”, but that very you has been formed and informed by the social con­text through which it came into being. You wish to be “true to your­self”, but you want to appre­ci­at­ed, rec­og­nized, respect­ed even hon­ored by your world. What is the prob­lem or chal­lenge with that?

If you too strong­ly express/stretch your­self to be unique you may lose the hon­or and respect you need, (you will be so unique, so “out there” as to lose the con­text and mean­ing that comes from your rela­tion­ships); yet if you too cal­cu­late and mod­i­fy your mes­sage so as to earn that approval, you risk becom­ing “untrue” to your­self, (you might get the applause, but it is for “some­one” else, and you know it).

From the Leo per­spec­tive, if you so empha­size the need to “be you” your audi­ence can­not offer you their appre­ci­a­tion because there is no bridge, no con­nec­tion between your real­i­ty and theirs, (for the very abil­i­ty to con­nect, appre­ci­ate and respond to one anoth­er is found­ed upon our see­ing our­selves in one anoth­er). From the Aquar­i­an point, if you so sub­merge and lose your iden­ti­ty in the group your con­tri­bu­tion becomes worth-less and you will find your­self cast out, (your friends and com­pan­ions will most like­ly sense that you are some­one whose spir­i­tu­al com­pass spins to fit the sit­u­a­tion and they may turn away from you).

The challenge/awareness posed by this Full Moon is about your need to be aware of this rela­tion­ship and the bal­ance between your indi­vid­ual “truth” and your social “sig­nif­i­cance”. You must have both, for one with­out the oth­er is hol­low. You must hon­or your­self and the social web too.

This Full Moon reminds us that we are Danc­ing the Dance of Life. At this moment in the dance, here and now, you must stretch your­self “Meaningfully”…And, you must join with oth­ers “Authen­ti­cal­ly”. It is not whether you are “to be, or not to be”; rather what mat­ters is for you to be true to your­self as a spark of the Divine, and equal­ly true to your com­pan­ions in this great jour­ney of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Dance your Dance of Spirit…as we all join togeth­er and Sing the Celes­tial Cho­rus Song!

This is some week! This is the oth­er “half” of the align­ment I men­tioned on August 9…now it is Plu­to’s turn to call the tune.

Mars is still swim­ming through the waters of Can­cer; dri­ving you to seek nur­tur­ing, to be car­ing and cau­tious, dri­ving you deep­er, homeward…back to your cen­ter. Plu­to the ruler of Will Pow­er and Con­trol is in Capri­corn the sign which gov­erns Tra­di­tion, Insti­tu­tions, Respon­si­bil­i­ty and Order. Plu­to as Will is an agent of spir­i­tu­al devel­op­ment and is now dri­ving the evo­lu­tion of soci­eties and cul­tures towards a great renew­al, to a spir­i­tu­al re-birth; yet those same will­ful ener­gies are being drawn upon by many pow­ers that be to dou­ble-down on the exist­ing order as they seek to per­pet­u­ate their old ways. This strug­gle will play out over the next sev­er­al years. But what are you being asked to face with this align­ment today?

Mars is dri­ving you inward, towards your Core, to your inner val­ues and feel­ings; Plu­to is pulling you out­ward to face the world around you, to deal with Real­i­ty. You will feel a strug­gle, a tug of war, between your inner needs and your out­er respon­si­bil­i­ties, between your home and your career. The ques­tions raised will be: where is your true secu­ri­ty found; what are your duties/responsibilities to the soci­ety around you; are you act­ing too pro­tec­tive­ly of your­self and not evinc­ing enough com­mon or social con­science; or is the order around you fail­ing to pro­vide a mean­ing­ful, sus­tain­able way of liv­ing? These and many oth­er ques­tions are being con­front­ed here. What might you experience?

Per­haps someone/something is pres­sur­ing you, using (or abus­ing) their author­i­ty in order to force you to give way on some mat­ter that is per­son­al, cen­tral and essen­tial to you. Or you feel threat­ened (or you feel enti­tled) and so are attempt­ing to use your pow­er to force some­thing upon another.

Whichev­er it is…it must be stopped! You shall not yield to con­trol, manip­u­la­tion, and intimidation…you must remain cen­tered, strong and res­olute in your spir­i­tu­al integri­ty. Like­wise, you must respect the bound­aries, the spir­i­tu­al integri­ty of oth­ers and not seek to unrea­son­ably sway, influ­ence or in any way “con­trol” another…the only con­trol you need and must have is “Self” Control…everything else is illusion.

Maybe you are being forced to acknowl­edge that some­thing you desired is not right or pos­si­ble any­more; or maybe you real­ize that some new and high­er aspi­ra­tion must take the lead. You and your world are expe­ri­enc­ing major trans­for­ma­tions Now, and you must dig down deep and re-con­nect to Fun­da­men­tal Truths, to the Peren­ni­al Phi­los­o­phy, to the Ancient Teachings…for they are always there to guide you and keep you upon the spir­i­tu­al path of unfold­ment as you seek to become what you will.

The aware­ness that this oppo­si­tion brings is for your spir­i­tu­al advance­ment. To become more con­scious about why/what you desire, to reex­am­ine the nature of your desires, to ques­tion your aspi­ra­tions and to deep­en your expe­ri­ence of what you are and what you are to be.…

Remem­ber you are becom­ing the becom­ing through the prop­er exer­cise of your will with­in a world you con­tin­u­al­ly cre­ate with oth­er will­ing spir­its. You and they have made this real­i­ty that you now con­front as both a ful­fill­ment and obsta­cle to your fur­ther unfoldment.…

The good news is you have made this world; your chal­lenge today (and every­day) is to re-make the world and your­self as you become a ful­ly con­scious shin­ing one, a star among the stars.

Shine on!

Watch Out! This is a chal­leng­ing jux­ta­po­si­tion of ener­gies; some­body is like­ly to get hurt…or hurt them­selves! More­over, this is hap­pen­ing in the con­text of anoth­er pow­er­ful align­ment that cli­max­es on Thurs­day when Mars Oppos­es Pluto.

Togeth­er, that makes this week a warm-up/wake-up call for the grand align­ment of Uranus and Plu­to as they form their Square from 2012 through 2015, (Note well: Their last “big” align­ment, the Con­junc­tion hap­pened in 1965–66)…In oth­er words…This is It! This is a major part of the Great Trans­for­ma­tion that has been unfold­ing and we are now reach­ing a very impor­tant fork in the road, (bet you could­n’t have guessed that giv­en what has hap­pened lately).

We will be expe­ri­enc­ing (and exam­in­ing) the full mean­ing of this pow­er­ful align­ment in 2012 and beyond, so for now let’s just focus upon: What does today’s aspect mean for you?

Mars rules your desires/aims/aspirations, and the actions you take to gain them. Recent­ly arrived in Can­cer, you are feel­ing your way towards what you want now, you are more cau­tious, care­ful and very con­cerned with security.

Uranus in Aries is chal­leng­ing Mars as regards both what you want and how you go after it. Since Uranus reveals what is hid­den in rather dra­mat­ic ways, (it can feel like a light­ning strike with accom­pa­ny­ing thun­der­claps), you tend to pay attention…but what is Uranus “say­ing”?

Uranus is singing the song of orig­i­nal­i­ty, inde­pen­dence and freedom…it is a clar­i­on call to take up the chal­lenge to forge new begin­nings. Mars is in Can­cer, and is focused upon, (or cling­ing to), the proven but old forms of secu­ri­ty, the old ways of cen­ter­ing. What you are expe­ri­enc­ing is The New Age chal­leng­ing the old order.

Uranus is call­ing the tune here; the old ways must be tran­scend­ed if you are to nur­ture your­self or one anoth­er. Yet the truths of Can­cer are “true”, your core val­ues which are what you are cen­tered upon remain the same, always, but the forms they are expe­ri­enced in and expressed through have become worn out. Uranus says you must forge a new path to your cen­ter, you must find new ways to pro­vide secu­ri­ty. It has always been so…

The “trick” or key is not go to the extremes of either/or, of absolute new free­doms or fear-based cling­ing to old forms…Find the Third Way, the way of Integration…the Way of the Spir­i­tu­al Warrior…

That is your way through, through the time of trou­bles that lie ahead, to the New Age that is dawn­ing all around you.

Though it seems to be a time of end­ings, that the sun is set­ting upon this age…Remember, that is always the way the new begin­ning begins…which means you should…

Turn…turn around and face the glo­ry that is rising!

Her­mes moves back into Leo and so you must adjust your think­ing accord­ing­ly. The prac­ti­cal details and finite re-order­ing of your thoughts in Vir­go must give way to larg­er con­cerns; you must now exam­ine the under­ly­ing assump­tions of your point of view.

Where­as since Aug 2 till today Mer­cury’s ret­ro­grade offered the oppor­tu­ni­ty to recon­sid­er your per­cep­tions as reflect­ed through the lens of Vir­go, now you must shift and con­sid­er the ide­al behind the idea as Mer­cury slides back­wards through Leo. Until August 26, when Mer­cury turns direct, you need to re-exam­ine your assump­tions, the prin­ci­ples-ideals-truths, which col­or the lens of your mind’s eye.

Use this oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­sid­er how your need for respect and approval (Leo), may lead you to form “blind spots”, and there­by lose the con­nec­tion you must have with those before you. You must offer that respect and approval to those before you if you wish to receive it. Like­wise, you must guard your­self from too eas­i­ly “waver­ing” on your own truths so as to “please” oth­ers as you seek their approval. All you will affirm by such a per­for­mance is your own lack of self-respect.

Enhanc­ing this oppor­tu­ni­ty for you today, Mer­cury forms an oppo­si­tion to Nep­tune who is now in Aquar­ius. This is the sec­ond of three such align­ments between Her­mes and Posei­don. Dur­ing the first on July 29, the chal­lenge seemed to take place between your­self and anoth­er as regards mis­per­cep­tion, illu­sion or, at its worst, decep­tion. But as not­ed then, the real chal­lenge was with­in your­self, you need­ed to work on your pow­ers of per­cep­tion by re-exam­in­ing your cer­tain­ties, by ques­tion­ing your per­cep­tu­al assumptions.

Here, today, the empha­sis is even more deter­mined­ly turned inward with Mer­cury’s ret­ro­grade motion. Though a disturbance/confusion/delusion will prob­a­bly man­i­fest between your­self and anoth­er, it will most cer­tain­ly lead you to ques­tion those ideals which inform your point of view.

Wel­come the gift of Nep­tune’s Intu­ition­al Inspi­ra­tion, which helps you to inward­ly pierce through that veil of pride­ful-cer­tain­ty, the veil which obscures the deep­er truth about the ques­tion before you. Guid­ed by Nep­tune’s com­pas­sion, you will be able to let go of any one-sided approach and appre­ci­ate the Mul­ti-Verse you tru­ly live in.

Though Nep­tune’s grace may lead you through an ini­tial peri­od of uncer­tain­ty and doubt, yes even fear, know that this is the Path that you must trav­el towards true accep­tance, greater under­stand­ing and divine wisdom.

Com­pas­sion, Humil­i­ty and Love…follow the Path­way to the Light.