The Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, the Zodiac

You always need to remem­ber: Where did we come from, and where are we going?

And to this, all the Teach­ers and Mas­ters have replied: You are on a nev­er-end­ing jour­ney of Light and Love.

Today we mark the begin­ning of the Astro­log­i­cal Year. Hav­ing con­sid­ered dur­ing Pisces the mean­ings and mes­sages of the year just past, we turn our heads and look ahead to the far hori­zon of what is yet to be writ­ten in the Book of Life, the Sto­ry of Spir­it. And, as always, we begin with the sign of the Spir­i­tu­al War­rior, the Sign of Aries.

As I have not­ed since before 2008, the year when Plu­to entered the sign of Capri­corn, we are here to be those humans who wit­ness the “end of age and the dawn of anoth­er”. The entire hier­ar­chy of insti­tu­tions by which we meet one another’s needs, rang­ing from the most fun­da­men­tal and inti­mate in our fam­i­lies, on up through com­mu­ni­ty, state and nation­al struc­tures are being test­ed again and again, and again.

Some­times we will be sur­prised by their resilience and rel­e­vance; and some­times we will wit­ness their fail­ure and obso­les­cence. The aware­ness we had, the actions we took, and the world that we made brought us to this moment of des­tiny. Yes, in so many ways this world that we made is like a fog that is giv­ing way, and it is mak­ing way for the dawn of a new world that we must make now.

It is our chal­lenge to under­stand the world we made, its trea­sures and its fail­ings. The way we met our needs and lived with one anoth­er brought us to here; but we can no longer live this way if care for one anoth­er and our dear plan­et too. We must accept the respon­si­bil­i­ty for what we have cre­at­ed, for much of this world is now human-shaped, for good and for ill. We are the “gods in the mak­ing”, but we are very, very imper­fect embod­i­ments of the one divine light.

We must come togeth­er, take sacred oaths and pledge our lives and for­tunes to one anoth­er. We have only one choice now, and that is to take up the chal­lenge of this moment; for it is your respon­si­bil­i­ty, duty and priv­i­lege to make a bet­ter world right now and for those who will follow.

Aries is the space for the begin­ning of all things; and in this time and wher­ev­er it is found in your chart, Aries is the Avatar of what is the most impor­tant truth that you must hold in your heart and mind: you only exist here. What was you can­not change; and what will be you can­not know; the only place you can redeem your past and make a bet­ter future is in this Space­time we call the Eter­nal Now.

That is why the most impor­tant step you will ever take is the next one. And not just the actu­al step. Before you leap, you must look with­in, and you must look around you too. You must con­sid­er most care­ful­ly the truths that guide you, for these will shape and form your moti­va­tion or rea­son behind your next step. Yes, you must be clear: what is my inten­tion, what is my pur­pose or goal, and then move for­ward with that decisively.

But equal­ly you must per­ceive or appre­hend, and ask your­self “what exact­ly what am I encoun­ter­ing here?” You must act with under­stand­ing and humil­i­ty, by clear­ly con­sid­er­ing what is need­ed from you. You must ask: What does this space, what does this exist­ing con­di­tion need from me?

Then, once you under­stand, you must do your very best; to give what you can and let go of what you must.

This is the begin­ning, but there will be many begin­nings and you will take many steps.

You must be present in each moment; you must be ful­ly awake, alert, and ready to respond with what will make pos­si­ble a bet­ter world for one and all.

You must be coura­geous, self­less and guid­ed by love, for this is the way of spirit.

This is the mes­sage of Aries; this is the moment Now.

This is the Way of the Spir­i­tu­al Warrior.