The Path of Light

From our deep­est expe­ri­ences, we dis­cov­er the true jew­els of life—insights that shape who we are. These truths, once found, become the threads from which we weave the sto­ries of our shared humanity.

Dur­ing the last 30 days of Scor­pio, we searched for truth with­in our­selves. As the Sun moves into Sagit­tar­ius, we are called to share these truths with one anoth­er. It is through sto­ry­telling that we cre­ate mean­ing and pur­pose in our lives, forg­ing a path for­ward, mov­ing togeth­er in light and love.

At this time of year, and for­ev­er part of the unique pat­tern of your own life, you enter the realm of Sagittarius—the sign of seek­ing and shar­ing wis­dom. Since the dawn of self-aware­ness, humans have asked, “Why?” Why is the sky blue? Why do we love and lose? Why are we here at all? This end­less curios­i­ty is at the heart of our jour­ney through the stars.

We need answers because we have felt both the heights of joy and the depths of sor­row. We have wit­nessed the mir­a­cle of birth and faced the mys­tery we call death. We know that we do not know or under­stand, and so we won­der, we search, and we strive to under­stand our­selves, to know where we have come from and where we are going.

Our jour­ney of awak­en­ing has been long. After ages of sim­ple con­scious­ness, the light of self-aware­ness was passed to us by those who came before—the great light-bear­ers of self-aware­ness, who had walked this path long, long ago, and are found in the cre­ation sto­ries from every cul­ture. We remem­ber and we name them to this very day, from Prometheus, Quet­zal­coatl, Adi­ti, Isis, Lucifer and Odin. We hon­or their lega­cy by keep­ing their flame of aware­ness alive, learn­ing from their exam­ple to pass this “light of under­stand­ing” to those who fol­low us too.

We are, at our core, sto­ry­tellers. Through art, music, sci­ence, and con­ver­sa­tion, we share our expe­ri­ences and learn from each oth­er. This is how we grow—by lis­ten­ing, by shar­ing, and by help­ing one anoth­er find greater understanding.

We help one anoth­er to dis­cern the truth from half-truths and false­hoods, the greater real­i­ty from the veils of illu­sion. We live in light when we treat one anoth­er with open­ness and love. Only by lis­ten­ing to one anoth­er can we dis­cern what is truer from the less true, by shar­ing with one anoth­er, by com­par­ing, con­trast­ing, cor­rect­ing, and affirm­ing what is clos­er to the light of the Love Divine, so that we may be a true reflec­tion of the One shin­ing through us all.

The great­est of Truths, the Eter­nals of Light and Mean­ing, have been shared with us by the Sages and Seers whose task it was to pre­serve these “Gifts from the Gods”. They are the wis­est of the Wise Ones, the Teach­ers who we know and hon­or and revere, like Con­fu­cius, Bud­dha, Lao Tzu, Zoroast­er, and Pythago­ras and so many more. These are the known Truthtellers; but many more loved and labored to lift the Torch of Under­stand­ing for us, and we give thanks for their great ser­vice, for those who per­se­vered, pre­served, pro­tect­ed, and served to extend the Light that is Love.

Yes, the great­est truths are time­less, as they form the very fab­ric of the uni­verse and live with­in each of us. This is why you can come to know the truth after all. Whether you look to the heav­ens, or lis­ten to that qui­et, lov­ing voice with­in you, whether you go inwards or out­wards, the light of truth that shines in the stars above is the same light that shines in your own heart too. This is the true mean­ing of “As above, so below”—the undy­ing light of spir­it con­nects us all and to all of Cre­ation too.

Ancient wis­dom teach­es that there is but one spir­it and one life. Truth is present every­where and in every­one. When we open our hearts and minds, we can see and hear this truth in one anoth­er. By hold­ing togeth­er our hearts and minds, we will find our way to ever­last­ing peace.

Let us gath­er togeth­er and tell our sto­ries. Let us look into each other’s eyes and rec­og­nize the blaz­ing truth that is reflect­ed there: “we are here for one another”.

We are here because of love; we are here to be that love.

When we remem­ber this, we remem­ber who we tru­ly are—and our hearts will be at peace.