Today is also the cli­max of the year­ly Sun/Jupiter cycle. What began as the promise of new boun­ti­ful­ness in April, and faced nec­es­sary adjust­ments in August, now reach­es its moment of rev­e­la­to­ry epiphany. This can be a moment (for some) of great exten­sions and expan­sions of self real­ized, a time of ful­fill­ment. But it will also, and more like­ly be, a moment (for many) that coun­ter­pos­es what was the promised intent ver­sus the less than hoped for accomplished.

The Sun is your pure poten­tial, the foun­tain-source for your becom­ing the becom­ing. Jupiter is your Truth, your prin­ci­ples which shape and guide how you will relate in this world. Quite lit­er­al­ly, the Sun oppo­site Jupiter means that you may feel that you are at odds with your­self today…you lit­er­al­ly “don’t relate to your­self”! What does that mean?

Your unfold­ment of self, your growth and expan­sion is nev­er ceas­ing yet it can­not and will not pro­ceed in a “straight” line. Your cycling ’round is more like a spi­ral dance that swirls and twists, up and down, in and out. You will find your­self in moments that seem remark­able, shin­ing and full of glo­ry and won­der. But these will be fol­lowed, as they must be shad­owed, by the work you have yet to fin­ish. For though you have come very far it does not take much to real­ize, as you look around your world…that there is much to be done.

So, today is for look­ing back at what you hoped to be and accom­plish in this lat­est round of the Sun and Jupiter…and to real­ize that though progress has been made, with­in and with­out, you still have far to go…always.

This moment is here to show you, to help you under­stand, how much you have become in this half of the Solar Circuit…so much and yet so much still to do. But the oth­er half of the cycle beck­ons, this spi­ral turn is not done with you yet. So you do what you must do…

You walk on…

Are you think­ing first, or are you just act­ing? Or, are you think­ing too much, and so fail­ing to act in a time­ly man­ner? That is the issue today as Mer­cury rul­ing your mind, thoughts and com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Mars rul­ing your desires, dri­ves and actions are seem­ing­ly at odds with one another.

Mer­cury in Scor­pio is look­ing to probe beneath the sur­face and dig up what is hid­den; yet Mars in Leo is moti­vat­ed by what is respect­ful and respectable. Do you go deep­er and risk the expo­sure of your­self or anoth­er, per­haps to be true to your­self yet risk the hon­or and respect of some­one else, or your­self? Or do you act respect­ful­ly, with deco­rum and def­er­ence, while inside you churn and chafe over what greater “truth” you have left unsaid?

It is not easy to know what is right or “more right” here. But Mars is the “heavy”, the weight­i­er plan­et in this encounter, and so you should or must act with hon­or and respect­ful­ness. To find and stay on the path of self-ful­fill­ment you should always fol­low the gold­en rule of “First, do no harm”.

With­out ques­tion, your mind and spir­it are quick­ened today so a good approach would be to take even more time to think things through. Do not push your­self or anoth­er into hasty deci­sions or actions. Though excit­ing, dar­ing or bril­liant as they may appear or feel…it could all lead to less by your desire to impress or be appreciated.

Most impor­tant and always remem­ber that the most impor­tant part of com­mu­ni­ca­tion is…To Listen…to the oth­er (and to your own high­er self).

Retain your enthu­si­asm, but you need to lose your impa­tience if you want to dis­play your bril­liance today.