It is time, time to go deep­er, into the mys­tery and the wonder…you approach the beloved… you enter the union…two become one, the sacred, mys­ti­cal mar­riage of Sun and Moon…There beyond the bound­aries of your lim­it­ed self…where the veil is lifted…and you encounter the deep­er truth of your­self in the other.

Venus moves into Scor­pio for three weeks and the urgent, insis­tent ener­gies of attrac­tion are hold­ing sway. It is not enough to be side by side anymore…now your jour­ney must cross the bound­ary, between the known and unknown. Now the mys­tery beck­ons and the promise of immor­tal­i­ty is whis­pered, offered…For when two become one, when that “Illu­sion­al Divi­sion” is crossed, well that is when it happens…and you know, you just know that this is your moment of revelation.

You are approach­ing the greater real­i­ty, that binds one to all and all in One. That Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love are the ever re-occur­ring forms of the one true Real­i­ty. Find­ing its sub­stance in a form, but only for a while…for Spir­it must con­tin­ue to grow, con­nect and become by mov­ing beyond each form after a time…as must you.

And so you under­stand, how very pre­cious this moment is…that when two meet again and see past their forms, you move beyond the veil and so per­ceive the end­less lives before and beyond where you have met and will meet again.

This moment of con­nec­tion, this union now, is but a dimmed but won­der­ful reminder; that there is no sep­a­ra­tion, for you are always one of the ones whose greater real­i­ty is your jour­ney togeth­er in Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

As Venus pre­pares to leave her home sign of Libra, there is an offer­ing, a gen­tle caress and a numi­nous kiss impart­ed by her high­er octave, the lord of dreams…Neptune.

Venus, the ruler of val­ue, beau­ty and love is about to move into the deep­er spaces of Scor­pio, beyond mere rela­tion­ship, into the mys­tery that is the union with one’s beloved. Per­haps to pre­pare the way, to lift that veil between self and the oth­er, Nep­tune brush­es Venus now with whis­pers of won­der, with inspi­ra­tion from beyond more lim­it­ing expe­ri­ences, reach­ing towards the greater realms of self-affirm­ing yet self-tran­scend­ing love.

For true love is found­ed upon this greater real­i­ty that Nep­tune abides in, that all of cre­ation, all life and all of space, is held togeth­er as ones of the One from which and through which all are related.

You have always looked into the eyes of the beloved with your aware­ness cen­tered in your per­son­al self, (with your Venus). And, you will always find your trea­sure is before you, that the beloved is some­thing to be desired, is need­ed and loved in that per­son­al way.

But at the same time, on a more inef­fa­ble plane of expe­ri­ence, your true, eter­nal soul-self pierces beyond these shad­owed glo­ries, beyond these less­er forms, because it beholds the star that shines within…and it is that same star that shines with­in you and you and you.

This rev­e­la­tion, this Nep­tun­ian vision, is the self-tran­scend­ing love which binds this entire cos­mos togeth­er; it gath­ers, holds and leads you onward in the one great life that is your jour­ney in Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

And as you jour­ney, upon the star­ry arc of descent and ascent, you will always seek and ever find the reflect­ed, less­er cousin of ever­last­ing love in the eyes of the beloved before you…and you will know, and you will smile…because it is so very, very good to feel…Love.

Attention…Serious Think­ing Ahead!

Your “mind meets mat­ter” as Mer­cury aligns with Saturn…It’s like a New Moon for thoughts, for that seri­ous side of your mind. It her­alds new begin­nings and a real­i­ty check about proven and reli­able “facts”, of what you per­ceive, con­sid­er and com­mu­ni­cate as regards your reality.

Her­mes has been pre­oc­cu­pied with the delights of com­par­ing, shar­ing and con­nect­ing your thoughts with one anoth­er. Now Sat­urn brings to bear a reminder that right think­ing is right when it is respon­si­ble; that your thoughts (and deeds) need to be ordered by those fun­da­men­tal val­ues, prin­ci­ples and truths that cre­ate thought­ful, car­ing conditions…Conditions that are just and mea­sured, con­di­tions that are premised on the under­stand­ing that all must be treat­ed fair­ly, equitably…lovingly.

Right think­ing means to accept respon­si­bil­i­ty for what you cre­ate; for your thoughts are pow­er­ful, and what­ev­er you offer up or put out there will ulti­mate­ly return to you their author. To think seri­ous­ly, to think respon­si­bly means to under­stand that you have the pow­er to cre­ate the world, to cre­ate the real­i­ty that you will encounter in your future.

Every thought, every word and deed that you offer up will tip the bal­ance, those scales of Libra, one way or the oth­er. It is up to you to choose: self­less or self­ish, car­ing or careless…it is up to you.

Now think…  

When Mars squares off with Jupiter the ques­tion becomes are you act­ing right­eous­ly or self-right­eous­ly? How can you tell? Well, if it is the for­mer, your actions are guid­ed, gov­erned and direct­ed by your high­er, intu­itive under­stand­ing of what is not mere­ly good for you or a few but for the many. If the lat­ter, well, then you are just try­ing to jus­ti­fy what might be in the end plain, self­ish self-inter­est (and that lit­tle voice in your head, the one you are attempt­ing to ignore, is telling you that this will not turn out well).

Mars is charg­ing through Leo, and so you may strive over­much to pur­sue and push your ideals, to grab the prize (and the spot­light). But as a result you could aim so high that what was pos­si­ble, doable or rea­son­able becomes sac­ri­ficed on the altar of unre­al­is­tic, over-reach­ing ide­al­ism. The pur­suit of the per­fect becomes the down­fall of the achievable.

Jupiter, in Tau­rus, is attempt­ing to rein in Mars by bind­ing him back to sol­id, proven, and depend­able val­ues, to help you ground and curb the fer­vor of Mars’ ide­al­ism. Jupiter (Prin­ci­ples) is remind­ing Mars (Desires) that it is not enough to pas­sion­ate­ly act to right wrongs (or slay dragons).

First you must make sure that you have turned this pas­sion­ate ide­al­ism inward to exam­ine your real moti­va­tions; is your con­science clear, (and back­ing you up, are you lis­ten­ing to that “inner voice”)? And, have you aligned your­self not just with uni­ver­sal ideals but also sound prac­tices? Both steps require you acknowl­edge that act­ing alone, with­out the sup­port and con­straint of oth­ers will lead to less than ide­al results.

For then you must gaze out­ward to be sure that what­ev­er you are seek­ing to accom­plish is well received by your com­pan­ions and com­mu­ni­ty, that they are in agree­ment that your aim is true and your cause their cause.

One indi­vid­ual act­ing alone can accom­plish some­thing, cer­tain­ly, but when two or more are gath­ered togeth­er in com­mon inten­tion, linked by mind and heart in caused-found­ed action…well then more than some­thing is pos­si­ble. For this is the way home, the way of the Spirit…This is how you become the becom­ing, together.

This is the shap­ing that Jupiter offers your actions today. You are right to act to bring about what is truer, fin­er and good…But that is some­thing that you alone can­not ascer­tain or accom­plish. Your desire must be tem­pered with Wis­dom, the Wis­dom which is impart­ed by both the calm voice with­in and also by your trav­el­ling com­pan­ions, those ones of the One who strive with you to make a bet­ter world…Together.