Our Destiny

Since first you crossed that sacred line,
where dark­ness yields and dawns arise,
You, and all of humankind,
wan­dered, won­der­ing, search­ing wide.
The ques­tion of ques­tions before you still,
Why are we here, is there a purpose,
behind our many lives?

We gaze above, the stars align,
pat­terns shim­mer in the sky;
we look around, to find those signs,
mir­rored in each other’s eyes.

Twelve arche­types, eter­nal and bright,
Shape and inspire what we might be.
From atoms’ danc­ing to cos­mic streams,
The Cir­cle of Liv­ing Ones, guides our dreams.

The One became the many,
Each spark a soul set free;
Through birth and death, through fate and chance,
Cre­ation weaves as we learn the dance.

The Wheel of Time turns again, Aquar­ius lifts our gaze,
Beyond achieve­ments, past old praise.
True mas­tery is nev­er to hold or rest,
But to reach for dreams unknown, unmet.

You grow not alone, in isolation,
For all are part of a fel­low­ship of light.
Our pur­pose, illu­mined self-transformation,
Togeth­er, for­ev­er, in life after life.

We are seeds of the future,
A fam­i­ly of souls,
Bound by love’s endur­ing nature,
Each part of a greater whole.

We are only what we are,
because we’re part of a sacred band.
We help each other’s dreams come true,
our hap­pi­ness, theirs, and theirs is ours too.

You are not here for self alone,
with­in us shines the eter­nal spark.
Immor­tal seed of Love Divine,
the hope that breaks the dark.

We have not seen our finest days,
we hope, have faith, and dream of what will be.
A brighter dawn, a world redeemed,
We’ve set our sights on destiny.

So, let us build tomorrow’s dawn,
With Love and Truth to lean upon.
One for all, and all for One,
Togeth­er, ris­ing with the sun.

To Become a Star

There are Four Cor­ners in your jour­ney round the Sun,
Four sacred turn­ings as Earth rolls and sweeps,
A dance of Light and Shadow
Sea­sons of birth, life, death, and rebirth
Spi­ral­ing year after year upon this liv­ing Earth.

The Sun stands still
and the world holds its breath.
Shad­ows stretch,
the light grows faint,
and we wait for a sign
a whis­per of hope
that life and light will return,
that our path will once again
be bright and beautiful.

Now, at the final turn­ing of the Astro­log­i­cal Year,
We cross from Sagit­tar­ius into Capricorn
It is a time to bow our heads,
to kneel in gratitude
for the Eternal,
to the ever­last­ing light
that shines through every one of us,
and through all the realms of Creation.

Now, at the wheel of life’s great turning,
We meet the Four Ques­tions again,
The com­pass points of every soul:
Who am I?
Who are you?
Where do I come from?
Where am I going?
At this sacred threshold,
Let these ques­tions be lanterns
As you walk your path today.

You stand at a crossroads,
The air thick with possibility:
Which way to go?
What path is right?
What is my destiny?

Capri­corn whispers:
“Do you know your Destiny.”
Those who understand,
hear the wis­dom of the ancients,
and know that “Char­ac­ter sets your fate.”

By word and deed,
you have made yourself.
Day by day, life after life,
you have learned from mistakes
by fail­ing, falling, ris­ing again,
by learn­ing what not to do,
and how to do better,
you have become a bet­ter you.

This is the Law of Karma:
the uni­verse held by cause and effect
and what­ev­er you sow, so shall you reap.

But what does this mean?
Your life is not fated
it is forged by you,
in the cru­cible of how you live.
What is before you today
was set in motion before;
the future you will meet tomorrow
is being made by your con­duct today.

Capricorn’s wis­dom is this:
You are responsible
for what you were
and what you will become.
Not fame, not for­tune, not power
but by remain­ing true to yourself,
hold­ing to the path of Self-Fulfillment.
Your worth is forged
by being a bet­ter you,
day after day.

As you mas­ter yourself,
As you come to know your truest nature,
So too does your life align
With the music of the light sublime.

Self-aware­ness is the gift divine
A flame that shapes character.
No longer tossed by wild passions
Or scat­tered by the world’s distractions,
You become a stead­fast soul,
No longer a pawn of fate,
For­ev­er a one of the One,
Self-lumi­nous seek­er on the Path of Perfection.

And you know this truth:
You have grown in stature
by a deep­en­ing com­pas­sion and caring.
Because you learned from your own struggles,
You tru­ly feel the suf­fer­ing and pain of others,
And your heart will shine ever brighter
With self­less love to help them too.

For you could not, nor could you ever,
Have done this Great Work alone.
You are part of a host of souls
Some here with you today,
Many more stretch­ing backward,
into the mists of long, long ago.
Like a great rib­bon of light,
All the souls who helped make you
Are with you now.
Part of your char­ac­ter, forge of your wisdom,
Bright­ly shin­ing in your com­pas­sion too.

This is why we give thanks
to those who came before,
To those with whom we jour­ney now,
And to those who will con­tin­ue this work
after our time is done.
You are part of this Great River,
a Hier­ar­chy of Life and Love.

As you reach up for help from some­one above,
You extend your hand to those who fol­low behind.
This is the way of Spirit,
This is the Truth of Love.

This is the pledge and pur­pose of Capricorn:
Our path of Fulfillment,
made pos­si­ble by the spark of the Divine within,
And the great work of Cre­ation made by us all, through love.

And that is why today we bow, give thanks as we pray:

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light with­in the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the mas­ters know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Pow­er restore the Plan on Earth.

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.