Venus (Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love) meets up with Jupiter (Prin­ci­ples, Belief and Truth) in their year­ly oppo­si­tion or “Full Moon”…Today, you stand between these two, and you might, you just might reach an Epiphany…You can feel the pull to one and to the other…And if you hold still, if you can keep to the mid­dle way, you may be ready for a rev­e­la­tion about the rela­tion­ship between what you want (Venus) and what you relate to (Jupiter).

When­ev­er you encounter an oppo­si­tion, it will seem as if life is throw­ing down a chal­lenge, that you must choose between one way or the oth­er… and it seems obvi­ous, that both can­not be true or good, and so it’s either one side or the oth­er, right? 

But of course you have learned, for it is the heart and soul-song of your jour­ney in Life-Consciousness-Spirit…You have come to under­stand that there is but one true path, the Roy­al Road of Spir­it, your path­way home. The Mid­dle Way ris­es above the appar­ent dichotomies of exis­tence, these shad­owed forms that spring from the appar­ent First Divide, of Spir­it and Mat­ter as the oppo­si­tion under­ly­ing all the oppo­sites, the Roy­al Path sees them all and Laughs! Because, in the end.…one and all have all come from THAT, which can­not be named or defined because it is with­out limit. 

So now you face the chal­lenge not to choose again…to find and hold to the Greater Real­i­ty and so see that the real illu­sion is this appar­ent separation…that here and always both Venus and Jupiter are equal­ly speak­ing to truth, and you must hold them togeth­er to live the Truth.

Venus mov­ing through Scor­pio is pulling you into the Union, to the tran­scen­dence of your lim­it­ed “I” so that you may form the more pre­cious “We”. To do so you must sur­ren­der, let go and grow, relin­quish cer­tain, per­son­al forms of val­ue for ones that you can share. Venus in Scor­pio speaks to the truth that ulti­mate­ly noth­ing is “per­ma­nent”.

Jupiter in Tau­rus responds with the affir­ma­tion that there are endur­ing, ever­last­ing val­ues that you must hold to in order to be true to your­self, that you must have, hold and express your own val­ue, to relate as you were des­tined to be…because, after all, you are one of the ones of the One…and the truth of you, the gold­en cord and core of you is…Immortal.

The Epiphany today, the rev­e­la­tion of now, is that both Venus and Jupiter are right. The Truths of Jupiter, those Per­ma­nent Val­ues are and will always be…yet the forms of their man­i­fes­ta­tion, those beau­ties of Venus, must be con­stant­ly evolv­ing, devel­op­ing, chang­ing and final­ly pass away, so that they may lat­er return in a new-formed form…for noth­ing that is com­pos­ite, that is “formed”, is for­ev­er in that form.

Jupiter and Venus are danc­ing their dance of Spir­it and Mat­ter, of Mor­tal­i­ty and Immor­tal­i­ty, of Love and Truth…and this is your dance too.

So cel­e­brate and enjoy the beau­ti­ful sun­set, dance while it may last…but do not mourn its passing…for beau­ty will be born anew as you turn around to sing your wel­comes to a bright new day.

Dance your dance for Love and Truth…

The source of all that you can “Be” meets with what you have so far “Become”. The Sun has reached Sat­urn and your pure poten­tial is get­ting a much need­ed “real­i­ty check”.

Just like in a New Moon, the com­ing togeth­er of two bod­ies in their con­junc­tion rep­re­sents a begin­ning; it is a release of new ener­gy and mean­ing, an oppor­tu­ni­ty for a new rela­tion­ship and what it means to you.

The Sun is your “Self”, it is your poten­tial wait­ing to be released, formed and acknowl­edged. Sat­urn is what you have so far poured your­self into, it is your Real­i­ty. But the Spir­i­tu­al para­dox you face is that this very ful­fill­ment of your Self, your self-real­iza­tion, is also a very real lim­it upon your Self (over time). For you can only “Be” by being some “Thing”, which is by its very nature and being, being formed and man­i­fest­ed, Limited.

This is the dilem­ma of your jour­ney, to be a spir­it in the mate­r­i­al world…

The oppor­tu­ni­ty you are giv­en now is to begin again, to start a new year of releas­ing your­self into your forms of self-real­iza­tion. Today you end a cycle of man­i­fes­ta­tion; today you begin a cycle of New Man­i­fes­ta­tion. Today you feel most poignant­ly that cre­ative ten­sion, the joy and pain, that comes out of all that “could or should be” being faced again with what you (and every­one else) has already made. Yes, there is much to be grate­ful for…but there is much to be done. Today you begin…

It has always been so.…this is your jour­ney, to descend into mat­ter so as to raise it up, into the light…and it takes time, a long, long time to get it right.

But today, today you can yet again make a new beginning.…to set your­self more firm­ly upon that path of promise…as you head back to the light.

Shine on!

Mer­cury plunges down, down into the depths of Scor­pio till Novem­ber 2. Your mind is drawn towards the mys­ter­ies of life, to puz­zling out secrets with­in and with­out. You seek to go beyond mere appear­ances and dis­cov­er the under­ly­ing truth.

But then the ques­tion becomes…what do you do with this knowl­edge, will you, should you share this secret with anoth­er? Well, that depends, of course. Some­times a rev­e­la­tion or dis­cov­ery is for you, and you were made ready for it.

Often­times the oth­er is not and to bring it to their atten­tion might not be wise or kind. Here it is best to fol­low the injunc­tion that applies equal­ly to knowl­edge as it does to med­i­cine, “First, do no harm!”

If you sense that they might be ready to ben­e­fit from your dis­cov­ery, approach the sub­ject with care, cau­tion and con­sid­er­a­tion. Remem­ber, just as Scor­pio cre­ates this pro­found desire for a deep­er union with the oth­er, (and so brings about this greater desire to share with one anoth­er), that same eager­ness to divulge a secret may bring about the oppo­site result, instead of a clos­er bond you may instead be faced with rejec­tion and loss.

What should be your guide? If your desire and inten­tion is per­son­al, if it is for your­self because you hope to gain a clos­er tie by reveal­ing this secret, well then it will not turn out well. If, instead, your moti­va­tion is imper­son­al, that you seek only to help anoth­er and resolve a prob­lem for them and you, then you may be able to serve the cause of truth by illu­mi­nat­ing the path for one another.

As the ancient teach­ing has it, “Be wise as a serpent…and gen­tle as a dove”!

Her­mes is about to leave those airy realms of Libra, where objec­tiv­i­ty, bal­ance and intel­lect hold sway…he’s div­ing down, into deep­er waters, into those mys­te­ri­ous depths of Scorpio…so it is more than appro­pri­ate, in fact it is quite for­tu­itous, that Nep­tune, also known as Posei­don, imparts this gen­tle bless­ing to ease this tran­si­tion from the cere­bral to your intu­itive mind.

Nep­tune rules your imag­i­na­tion, it is the foun­tain source for your abil­i­ty to dis­solve those nec­es­sary bound­aries you formed to frame your space…because you need ever always, after a time, to move beyond and beyond to your next, greater space of understanding.

Today, Nep­tune’s gift for Mer­cury imparts a height­ened intu­ition, a sub­tiliz­ing sen­si­bil­i­ty which encour­ages you to per­ceive, think and con­vey with­out those blind­ers now…and so you slip beyond the rigid cer­tain­ties of yes­ter­days and today.

You can see beyond those old assumptions…you let go, re-imag­ine and dis­cov­er a new real­i­ty, a world beyond.…and you laugh, and smile and remember…this is how, this is the way…to dream, to believe…this is how you become the becoming.

Halfway through the Astro­log­i­cal Year, you’ve reached the oth­er equinoc­tial Full Moon; it is the bal­ance beam­ing, your coun­ter­point rev­e­la­tion to what you received at the Aries Full Moon. Back in April, the days were grow­ing longer, and life and love were resur­gent after a long win­ter’s night.

You stretched and yearned to find, to become more tru­ly what you are to be…it was a time for mov­ing into your greater sense of being “you”, unique…separate…exceptional. But you need­ed a reminder then, a bind­ing back to that Great Truth…that you are only you, can only become you, through your rela­tion­ship to one anoth­er. For you are not alone, ever.

But now you face the dark­ness, each day grows shorter…for you know, it is your gift to be aware, and so you must prepare…for you know, you can feel it, taste it…“Winter is Coming”!

The Sun is in Libra now, you have crossed the thresh­old, the cross­ing point of the Light; and Libra extols the virtues, the wis­dom and neces­si­ty of gath­er­ing togeth­er in fel­low­ship, com­pan­ion­ship, in all the ways to be “We”, for that is how you can brave the dark days ahead…together.

Now you face the oth­er edge, that razor’s edge, that tip­ping point, which can lead you too far from your “I” as the needs, wants and demands of all of your rela­tion­ships pull and push upon that “I” with­in the “We”.…you can lose your­self into the other.

So the Full Moon in Aries, so high and bright in the Autum­nal sky, shines upon you now, to remind you of your ori­gin and des­tiny, as one of the ones of the One; your unique­ness and integri­ty, that space of “I” is sacred, pre­cious and nec­es­sary for there to be any rela­tion­ship whatsoever.

The Libra Full Moon illu­mi­nates this great para­dox of Life-Consciousness-Spirit…That now, as you come clos­er togeth­er, to brave the days and nights ahead, you must equal­ly be true to your­self in order to be true to one another.

The Roy­al Road, the Noble Path, is always found in the Bal­ance, in the Mid­dle Way that the Mas­ters speak of…and which you will find if you lis­ten to the wis­dom of your soul…and hear­ken to the song of the Stars…you will find your way.