The Fields of Creation

Today we have come to one of the four great turn­ings in the Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar, and you can feel the bend­ing of the “light that is life”, as we pass through the Equinox and onto the sec­ond half of the Astro­log­i­cal year.

Four moments frame your jour­ney through the stars, four realms that hold the sources of your expe­ri­ence your­self and of your world. Sim­ply put, your ever-renew­ing under­stand­ing of your­self comes down to these sim­ple but pro­found ques­tions, “who am I, who are you, where did I come from, and where am I going”?

At this time every year, and some­where for­ev­er illu­mi­nat­ing your path­way to per­fec­tion, you walk through the holy space of Libra, as you seek to know your­self, be your­self and ful­fill your­self through all the many rela­tion­ships of your life. Yes, now we must bend our hearts and minds to con­sid­er this sacred expe­ri­ence of “I and thou”.

In truth, you are not a being apart, you are not, nor could you be on your own. You are formed by a ver­i­ta­ble “host of hosts”; you are tru­ly like a con­stel­la­tion, formed by many life-forms or beings. Whether you con­sid­er the minia­ture uni­verse inside of your very own body, or in all of the worlds around you, you are shaped and formed by all your human to human and oth­er life-form relationships.

Yes, it is most cer­tain­ly true that we can only under­stand our­selves and all that is by see­ing that we and every­thing and every­one in Cre­ation are formed or made up of hosts of Ener­gy-Fields, of holo­grams of phys­i­cal, emo­tion­al, men­tal and spir­i­tu­al fields that are inter­act­ing, shap­ing and inform­ing one another.

The ancient wis­dom holds that the Uni­verse is Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, and the One that is Cre­ation becomes man­i­fest by all the count­less hosts of life-forms, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal, which are the mon­ads or sparks of the Divine, on up through all the ener­gy-forms of Cre­ation, in all the atoms, mol­e­cules, beings, plan­ets and stars. All the King­doms of Life are made up of a host of beings who are the One Spir­it, and who are the Life and who alto­geth­er form the Con­scious­ness of Creation.

For me, the whole of Cre­ation can be seen as these “fields with­in fields” of con­scious­ness­es, of hier­ar­chies of hosts, each of them formed from and by their rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er. In essence, rela­tion­ships are life, and with­out these rela­tion­ships there would not be life at all.

For our human King­dom, we most cer­tain­ly can under­stand that our very nature is made by this cru­cible or forge of rela­tion­ship. We “are what we are” because of one anoth­er. We are made in this present life by one anoth­er, just as we were by all the innu­mer­able lives we have lived with one anoth­er before. Since the begin­ning of time, we have been formed and informed by all of our rela­tions, by our mother/father, by brother/sister, by our friends, by our col­leagues, by so-called strangers and of course by our dear­est loved ones too.

Most of what you may think or feel as you, that very “you” was co-cre­at­ed by these many ones with whom you have lived and loved. Yes, it is in this very spe­cial, most sacred space of rela­tion­ship that we make our great­est cre­ation, our true self. Our cre­ation by rela­tion­ship forms the alchem­i­cal space of becom­ing; it is in this forge of human­i­ty that we make one anoth­er. In these “Fields of Cre­ation”, through our sacred spaces, it is here that we make one anoth­er, it is here that we share and shape one anoth­er, and we lift our­selves out of our great­est illu­sion, that we are sep­a­rate and apart from one another.

In every life, whether in the spring­time of our youth, or through the sum­mer of our adult­hood, and into the fall of our lat­er years, we are cre­at­ed and re-cre­at­ed by all of our rela­tion­ships, and most espe­cial­ly by those who care for us and for those for whom we care most deeply.

We are Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, and our pur­pose is sim­ply this, we are here to become a more pre­fect human; we are here to grow, and so we must change. And if that is so, then so must our sacred spaces of rela­tion­ship grow and change too; only if they become bet­ter can we be better.

In all our rela­tion­ships, we have formed pat­terns of action and reac­tion in order to help one anoth­er, to respond to one anoth­er, to meet one another’s needs. It is by giv­ing and receiv­ing, by our shar­ing and cre­at­ing, it is by this that we are able to make pos­si­ble our mutu­al growth and self-real­iza­tion through one anoth­er. We are tru­ly one another’s path to self-fulfillment.

But time and time again, some of our pat­terns may become too fixed and deter­mined, and if we are not atten­tive, we may move away from a spir­i­tu­al­ly true, grow­ing and adapt­able set of respons­es to one anoth­er and devolve into ever more rigid reac­tions to one anoth­er. Rather than act­ing lov­ing­ly and pur­pose­ful­ly, we fall into regrets, recrim­i­na­tions and regressions.

We may and can and should grow togeth­er, but we may also grow apart. We may deep­en our under­stand­ing of one anoth­er or lose our way in a house of mir­rors of misunderstandings.

But here is where the Light of Libra comes in, to show us by a lov­ing rea­son and objec­tiv­i­ty the way for­ward. The first step begins with you, to recon­sid­er “what am I ask­ing of you, and what am I offer­ing to you”. The only way to restore or improve most any rela­tion­ship is to under­stand that you must “be the change” you wish to see, you must return your­self to that place of peace, of under­stand­ing, the space of true love.

This is the gift of true love, which is giv­en with no expec­ta­tion of return. Because love just is. Love is not pos­ses­sive or con­trol­ling or demand­ing, all of which comes from fear.

If all you see is a prob­lem “out there”, you need to ask, “why, why am I expe­ri­enc­ing this chal­lenge with our rela­tion­ship”. By assum­ing a posi­tion of rel­a­tive objec­tiv­i­ty and true love, you will find that in most cas­es, that the res­o­lu­tion requires reset­ting your point of view and atti­tude. You can have a firm hope and belief, that by this move­ment on your part, by your effort to grow, they will respond in kind.

Yes in this time of Libra, and always and for­ev­er part of your nature, you are remind­ed that you are the means to one another’s per­fec­tion. You and your rela­tion­ships are the instru­ments of renew­al and rebirth. The reward is your self-ful­fill­ment, which is true hap­pi­ness, and that this will hap­pen when you stay true to your essen­tial nature, and remem­ber that you are here because of love.

Here at the great turn­ing of the Equinox, as it was in the begin­ning, so shall it be for­ev­er and ever,

Love one another.