I am That

The Cir­cle of Liv­ing Ones has turned once more; the first way of Fire must yield to the first forms of Earth. Tau­rus is here and your visions, ideals, aspi­ra­tions and desires that were fash­ioned in the Fires of Aries must be drawn down and made real and sub­stan­tial. For you are a unique spark of the one Divine Light, and your jour­ney of self-becom­ing will take you through many, many worlds, forms and lives.

If you are to tru­ly know and become what you are des­tined to be, (a con­scious co-cre­ator of Cre­ation), then you must par­take in all these realms of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it. For you to be ful­ly human, you must become a mas­ter-builder of you.

The Way of Aries is, “I am”.
It is the first step of life; it is here that you expe­ri­ence the won­der of being self-aware.
In Aries, you must answer the ques­tion, “Who are you?”

The Way of Tau­rus is, “I am that”.
This is the sec­ond step in life; it is here that you expe­ri­ence you are some-thing.
In Tau­rus, you must answer the ques­tion, “What are you?”

In some way, you can see these two signs form­ing in their uni­ty one of the fun­da­men­tal truths of your jour­ney in con­scious­ness, your dual­is­tic expe­ri­ence of real­i­ty. There is sub­jec­tiv­i­ty, of being aware of your­self, or self-aware­ness. And, there is objec­tiv­i­ty too, as you expe­ri­ence your­self, (and every­thing and every­one else), as being formed into bod­ies or vehi­cles of manifestation.

But, of course in terms of the Greater Real­i­ty (or Truth), you see the world split into Spir­it and Mat­ter as you attempt to under­stand your one­ness of being or “Life”. Life is Spir­it and Mat­ter togeth­er; they are insep­a­ra­ble. Yet they are the two fun­da­men­tal aspects of Life. Mat­ter forms the less­er realms of Spir­it; as Spir­it forms the high­est realms of Mat­ter. The Great Truth is that there is but One Life, there is the One Spir­it which man­i­fests through innu­mer­able forms from the low­est to the most sub­lime. Spir­it is the one eter­nal life; and Mat­ter the count­less ves­sels into which all life flows.

The great mys­tery is that in all these count­less forms or ves­sels, in each atom, min­er­al, plant, ani­mal, human, deva, plan­et and star, through them all what is con­tained or held there is the One Spir­it. There are count­less forms; and there is one Life. There is only One spir­it flow­ing through the hier­ar­chies of the Uni­verse, whether those realms be Divine, Human, Ani­mal or Mineral.

The Sign of Tau­rus is not mere­ly some month, mark­ing some as “a Tau­rus”. Tau­rus is found every­where, in each moment and most cer­tain­ly in you, and some sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of you (and of course your astro­log­i­cal chart) is formed by this pri­mal expe­ri­ence of Spirit/Matter. When you look at the part of your chart that is ruled by Tau­rus, you can find the answer to what you val­ue in you, of how you expe­ri­ence your gifts of spir­it, and you can dis­cov­er by this what you have and what you want.

What you are to expe­ri­ence in Tau­rus is the Val­ue of You…The mys­tery you seek to unveil in Tau­rus is how to under­stand what you have, to expe­ri­ence what can you do, and dis­cov­er what are you worth. The val­ue of you at any one time is made of a range of fac­tors: phys­i­cal pow­ers, emo­tion­al depths, intel­lec­tu­al prowess and spir­i­tu­al integri­ty. Through­out any day, week, year or life, these val­u­a­tions of you will wax and wane. The gifts of youth may shine forth in phys­i­cal strengths and emo­tion­al enthu­si­asms; but matu­ri­ty will bring both a mod­u­la­tion and even­tu­al wan­ing of these as you age. Like­wise, the tem­per­ing of your emo­tion­al nature, sea­soned by the grow­ing depths of your judge­ment and wis­dom, will lift your spir­its as oth­er fac­ul­ties fade.

But if you become too attached to one or anoth­er gift or strength you pos­sess, you will find your expe­ri­ence of val­ue to swing wild­ly up and down, and that is real­ly not “the way” to be or become what you real­ly are. You are Spir­it liv­ing by and through these won­der­ful forms or bod­ies that you have cre­at­ed for your­self. Your life (and lives) are made in these vehi­cles that are phys­i­cal, ether­ic, emo­tion­al, men­tal and spir­i­tu­al. But they are all held togeth­er and bound to one anoth­er by the spark of the Divine which is your high­est Spirit/Form, your High­er Self. You are in your essence this One Spir­it; you are here to grow and move beyond any one world, form or life.

In your heart of hearts, in your high­est vehi­cle of Spir­it, you are a spark of the One Divine Light. Quite sim­ply, won­der­ful­ly and for­ev­er and ever your true mea­sure is beyond mea­sure. In your High­er Self, and through­out all your forms too, there is the one true Light of Spir­it shin­ing through, so that fill­ing and inform­ing all of you is quite sim­ply Divine Love.

Know this: the val­ue of you is beyond ques­tion, you are quite sim­ply uncon­di­tion­al Love.

You are pre­cious. Yes­ter­day, today and for all your tomor­rows, you are a shin­ing jewel.

From the begin­ning, as it will be in the end, you are a Divinity.

You began as an unself-con­scious spark of the Divine.

You unfold your­self, become your­self, through innu­mer­able worlds, forms and lives.

You will become a ful­ly con­scious co-cre­ator of Cre­ation someday.

Look with­in your­self, and “bow” to that divin­i­ty that is the core and true essence of you.

Now turn, to your broth­ers and sis­ters, and to all crea­tures, plants, moun­tains and stars…

Acknowl­edge the Bless­ings of Truth and Beau­ty, the One­ness of Creation.

Bow your head in most joy­ful acknowl­edge­ment, and say…

“Namaste” (“I bow to the Divine with­in you”).

Namaste.