You have been wait­ing for it…waiting for your answer…and it is Now!

And, the answer…the answer, always and ever, for­ev­er and ever, the answer is Love!

Mer­cury has been in Leo since June 25 and mov­ing ret­ro­grade since July 14. Now Mer­cury (your mind) aligns with the Sun (your Self) and an answer is here…but you need to make ready to receive it. You need to be qui­et and attentive…you need to be still with­in your­self and there­by open your sacred space to the possibility…for only then are you ready to be touched by the gift, to be lift­ed up by the Wind of the Spirit.

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is your time of oppor­tu­ni­ty to review, revise and renew your under­stand­ing of your­self and your world. This peri­od­ic (thrice-year­ly) rever­sal of Con­scious­ness Force, of mind-stuff, pro­vides the means by which you are able to move out­side of your struc­tured path­ways of facts, assump­tions and points of view.

These ele­ments are need­ed and necessary…they are the very means by which you came to know the world as you do, of how you became self-aware and able to exer­cise your won­drous gift of Intel­li­gence. But your path­way is circuitous…and it is equal­ly true that you must come to see how these pris­mat­ic par­a­digms, your very own view­points have also been the source, the inher­ent cre­ators of the blind spots with­in your dim-lit, self-illu­mined world. For as much as you have turned you eye upon the world with your bright­ly-beam­ings, with your won­drous intel­li­gent illu­mi­na­tions, you have equal­ly been cre­at­ing deep­en­ing shad­ows too. You see through a glass darkly…and you do not know that you do this…and you will not and there­fore can­not under­stand what you do not perceive…

You need help, a way to move beyond or out­side of your­self. You need to find a place upon which to stand and see what lies beyond your self-cast shad­ows, you need to leave this hall of mir­rors that you made. So Mercury/Hermes, the Mes­sen­ger of the Gods, he answers the call, he does his part. He turns around to stir The Waters…he breaks the sur­face still­ness and shows you the refract­ed, mir­rored world through which you move…Yes it was real for you, but lim­it­ed, shad­owed and bounded…bounded by you.

Her­mes reveals oth­er points of view, he shows you oth­er pris­mat­ic per­spec­tives, dif­fer­ent path­ways of perception…and you can move into a greater aware­ness, you may be able to con­sid­er the pos­si­bil­i­ty of anoth­er way of understanding…and you will Grow. You are able to bet­ter com­pre­hend the per­spec­tive of another…and your Com­pas­sion wax­es so that you can draw clos­er to one another…You move along the path­way of Knowl­edge and approach the Halls of Wisdom…

Dur­ing this ret­ro­grade, in this re-turn­ing/­tun­ing of your mind, Mer­cury has danced to the song of Leo. You have been seek­ing to bet­ter under­stand how Leo can help or, if you mis­per­ceive, hin­der your under­stand­ing of your­self and your world…and, giv­en the over-long sojourn that Mer­cury has made here, there has been much to learn or re-learn this time around it seems…

The answer you have sought is here for you today…are you ready? Mer­cury has offered up a greater under­stand­ing about your mind as gov­erned by Leo, by your need for appre­ci­a­tion, respect and approval…by your need for LOVE.

More often than you might like to admit, you may fall into error because you have a point of view that you feel you must uphold and defend, (even if you have your own mis­giv­ings or doubts about it), you hold firm because to admit that you were incor­rect or wrong would be embar­rass­ing to you. So…you hold when you should yield, you dig in when you should give way and the pain you cre­ate is equal to the pain that you will face lat­er on…for that is the law, that is Karma.

But Her­mes shows you the way through these shad­owed path­ways of the low­er self, of your ego…for the true Leo way is the path­way of Love and Under­stand­ing. That rather than see­ing your view as the one and only, the one true way, you extend and encom­pass through your High­er Self the Uncon­di­tion­al Love that links one and all, you extend your Self as you embrace the oth­er before you whom you love as you love yourself…

And it is this greater under­stand­ing, to love the oth­er as one­self, which leads to the break­ing down of your more lim­it­ed views as you blend or incor­po­rate a more inclu­sive view with and through the oth­er, as they do like­wise through you. For this is the truth of it, what stands before you is a spark of the Divine, the Self-Same source as your Divine Flame, and for this rea­son you are held togeth­er in the all-encom­pass­ing Love of this One Divine Spir­it, for­ev­er and always…

Your answer is now…let go of Pride and Fear.

Your answer is within…listen to your High­er Self.

Your answer is LOVE…let it shine, let it shine…

See the shad­ows fade away…as you Shine!