Twelve Seeds of Soulfulness,

One sowed at each New Moon.

These are the “Gifts of the Spirit”,

Bless­ings from the One, to one and to all.

These Seeds become the Twelve Fruitions,

Each a Benef­ic Illumination,

Shin­ing upon you at the next Full Moon.

Today, dear Luna, your Medi­a­trix of the awe­some Spir­i­tu­al Forces that emanate from the Sun, comes between you and your Star once again. Twelve times a year, when the Moon con­joins the Sun, a release of spir­i­tu­al mean­ing emanates from your Sun who is the Avatar of Pure Spir­it in this realm. It appears as if the Sun stands revealed so clear­ly to you, yet it is actu­al­ly veiled, (there is much that is con­cealed behind that Solar Glo­ry), and many mys­ter­ies will and must remain beyond you know­ing as yet…for you have much to learn before you may see what abides behind and beyond these worlds of matter.

It is Luna’s role to take these Gifts of the Spir­it, and to weave her way around you upon the Earth, and by so doing she imparts these Inspi­ra­tional Inti­ma­tions which elic­it and stim­u­late your lives and your loves. Then two weeks lat­er, at the Full Moon, the import and pur­pose of this seed­ing is made clear­er to you. By and through this cyclic dance you under­stand a lit­tle more about your jour­ney to Beau­ty and Truth, and you see a lit­tle more clear­ly what has been woven into the Warp and Woof of your Souls, which form your Liv­ing Robe of life experiences.

This Solar/Lunar dance, this seed­ing-har­vest cycle is the most fun­da­men­tal rhythm of Spir­it. It is the Mas­ter Cycle of Spir­i­tu­al Quick­en­ing for you here upon this Earth, and forms what is known by Mys­tics and Wise Ones as “The Pulse of Life”.

These Twelve Releas­es and Twelve Har­vests mark your year­ly jour­ney. Each is impor­tant, each nec­es­sary and inte­gral to one anoth­er for their full­ness of mean­ing and real­iza­tion. But there is some­thing even more spe­cial about this time of year, some­thing more pre­cious to be found in each New Moon you expe­ri­ence in this the time of Cancer.

For Can­cer is the Moon’s own sign, and this Seed that is offered here will always bring you back to your source, for it con­cerns and car­ries that most sacred ker­nel of Truth that will ever hold you in a Lov­ing Embrace with your Ori­gin and there­by equal­ly point you towards your greater Des­tiny too.

For the New Moon of Can­cer binds you back to your Foun­tain-Source of Spir­it, back to your Self, which is in that Ker­nel of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it also known as your Divine Spark. You are part of a great jour­ney of life-forms, who all can trace their begin­nings back to a “Sin­gu­lar­i­ty”. You are all embraced and ensouled by and with­in this Divine Pres­ence, whose “Cen­ter is Every­where and Cir­cum­fer­ence Nowhere”.

The Truth is, you are “one of the ones of the One”, and because this Divine Spark is your essence, you and all of this Cre­ation are on a Jour­ney of Becom­ing, that leads from a begin­ning as an unself-con­scious spark of the Divine to becom­ing a ful­ly Illu­mined Divin­i­ty. You are upon a jour­ney of Awak­en­ing, to know who and what you real­ly are, and the seed that lies with­in you is the very Force-Sub­stance that pro­pels all of Cre­ation and also dri­ves your self-unfold­ing, self-pro­pelling jour­ney to Wis­dom, Love and even­tu­al Re-Union with the One.

At this New Moon of Can­cer, let your­self feel…You. Know that what you feel as the whole of you, which holds all of you as “one and com­plete as you are”, know that this same feel­ing is lov­ing­ly embrac­ing whomev­er is before you too.

Every Thing and Every One, all of life and you, are part of a Great Fam­i­ly, and the most impor­tant illu­sion you will tran­scend is that false sense of being sep­a­rate, apart and unre­lat­ed to one anoth­er. You are the Uni­verse, and the Uni­verse is in all of you…You came from a Star, you jour­ney out among the Stars, and you are des­tined one day to become a star too…

But today, today you need to feel the Truth.

I am one, we are one…

We are all related…

We are all ones of the One.

We are Family.

HOME

You can­not “see” this far, not yet…

You can­not tru­ly com­pre­hend what or who is there…

You can­not, but you will someday.

It is hid­den, for this impen­e­tra­ble Dark­ness occults the bright­est of Lights and Splendor.

From this Cen­tre of Spir­it, from this Spin­ning Place of Wonder…

All went forth to become this Galaxy,

To par­take in this won­drous spi­ral­ing dance of Light and Shadows.

For you and all of Cre­ation are mak­ing your Way out and back again,

Your Pirou­et­ting Progress through what you know as Time,

And through all these Sacred Spaces of Space you call Home.

Your Jour­ney is the Sto­ry of Spir­it Becoming,

Stretch­ing back beyond all knowing,

And reach­ing for­wards as you Return to the One.

But you can sense some­thing, you feel there is more, and so you know in your heart and soul that there is more to you than “this” life on Earth. There is more than your wak­ing and sleep­ing, more than your labors and your rest­ing, and that there must be more than just being young and grow­ing old too.

You have a feel­ing, and in those inti­ma­tions and whis­pers you will find an assur­ance, that there is some­thing far beyond this Earth­ly life. You may and should won­der what is it all for, why and how you and all of this came to be, and to where it is all going…

And as before so you will now “look up”…and you will behold the Glo­ry that is around you, and you will humbly real­ize that you are part of this won­der too.

Like those who came before you, you will see an Order in these Star­ry Spaces. That above you is Beau­ty and Splen­dor wheel­ing all around, it is The Cos­mos, it is your Universe…and you are part of this Beau­ty too.

All of this Cre­ation wheel around the One, around this Cen­ter that is a Dark­ness that con­ceals the Bright­est of Lights…And from this all have come and will return someday.

Yes­ter­day, tonight and tomor­row and for the next sev­er­al days, you should take a moment. Look to the south, around 11 pm or mid­night or 1 am. Look up and let your­self be filled by the majesty and the won­der of it all. You will see a riv­er of Light stream­ing across the Night Sky. Arch­ing from the hori­zon and up to the left. What you are look­ing at is what is known as “The Milky Way”.

You are look­ing towards the cen­ter of your galaxy and that Milky Path is cre­at­ed by mil­lions of stars who are there between you and the cen­ter of this Galaxy. Then, if you look up, to the right you will see a very bright and unblink­ing star, which is actu­al­ly the plan­et Sat­urn. Then if you look fur­ther to your left you will see a bright red­dish star, Antares who is about the 15^th bright­est star for you. Then just to the left of Antares, about as far again as Sat­urn appears from Antares, and direct­ly in front of you, there you will find your­self look­ing into “The Deep”, into the very heart of your Galaxy.

You are look­ing to that point in space around which we all revolve, from which we all came forth, and to which we shall all return…You are in the pres­ence of the Mys­tery, and so you should bow, and hold your­self with rev­er­ence and feel the Love that is there for you. For you gaze upon,

The One.

You came from the One, you abide in the One, and to the One you will return.

There you see your Ori­gin, there you see your Destiny,

There you see your Alpha and your Omega,

There it is,

Home.

Four Realms to find your way…

There being Four Paths, Four Ener­gies and Four Forms…

That Forge the One True Path.

You are here to live as you are, the One Life,

You are here to find and live all of these ways which form,

The Way.

So far in this Astro­log­i­cal Year, you have come through three of the Sacred Four: You have met your Pur­pose­ful Pres­ence in Fire, found your Lov­ing Sub­stance in Earth and shown your Intel­li­gent Adept­ness in Air. And so there remains but one realm for you to square the cir­cle and find your whole­ness in this first Round of Four.

Now you enter into the first Realm of Feel­ing, where you are to be made whole with­in and with­out in this first of the Three Fours that make up your year of the Twelve Sacred Orders of the Liv­ing Ones. For it is these Prin­ci­pal­i­ties who form that Lumi­nous Band of Spir­i­tu­al Causal­i­ty you know as the Zodi­ac. There is but One Ener­gy, Spir­it, which dif­fer­en­ti­ates into these Four Ele­ments and Three Modal­i­ties of Manifestation.

Today you mark the pas­sage of you and your world into the realm known as Can­cer, the first of the three Water Signs. Where­as Fire bestowed Inspi­ra­tion and Vision, and by Earth you Explored Sub­stan­tial Forms, and by Air you were led and lift­ed to your Greater Under­stand­ing, it is in this realm of Water that you reach the depths of Feel­ing that lov­ing­ly embraces and cen­ters you upon your own true core.

Yet equal­ly, it is this very Self-Cen­ter­ing upon and by the ever-renew­ing Waters of Life-Spir­it that reminds you of and holds you to one anoth­er too. For in these feel­ings of Remem­brance, Rec­ol­lec­tion and Mem­o­ry, forged and formed by that lumi­nous and long Sil­ver Cord of your many Lives and Loves, of Fam­i­ly and Friends, by find­ing your­self by and in those roots of what makes you “you”, it is by this that you equal­ly find that you share in this Com­mon Core of Feel­ing-Truth with one anoth­er too.

It is here in Can­cer that you rejoice and cel­e­brate the Foun­tain-Source Truth that all in Cre­ation come from One Root, and that this is the ori­gin of and forms the lumi­nous lov­ing bonds that are your true and abid­ing con­nec­tions with one anoth­er. In Truth, you in and through all of your many worlds and lives are made up by and through your expe­ri­ences with every oth­er being, and them with you. Inex­tri­ca­bly and won­der­ful­ly, you are “All for one and One in the All”.

And when you expe­ri­ence this in your Soul, that is when you will feel those delight­ful and reas­sur­ing shiv­ers and Goose­bumps of Truth, for you have come home to this most Sacred space of Awe, Rev­er­ence and abid­ing Love too.

It is here in Can­cer that you Feel, “That I am what I am, and I feel this too”.

Cel­e­brate this moment, when your Sun “stands still”,

For you are at a Turn­ing in the sea­sons of your Life.

This is a time that reminds you of whence you came

Ful­filled by what abides with­in the core of you.

You are part of long and illus­tri­ous Family,

Whose ori­gin stretch­es back beyond all your reckoning.

From the One came you, you who are the many,

And all of you and all of Life is this Creation,

Mov­ing through Space, Like a Riv­er of Light,

All of you togeth­er upon a Jour­ney of Self-Becoming,

That leads you out­ward, beyond the beyond and back again.

Yet, you are also head­ing Home­ward, drawn ever homeward,

Singing your way back with, for and to your Family,

Back to your Source of Light and Love,

Home­ward to the One.

Her­mes skips across the face of your Star…

Yes, it is anoth­er “New Moon” for you and your Mind.

It is a time to pause, to be still, to be qui­et and listen,

For the Voice of the Silence is speak­ing to you now.

You have need of this, for qui­etude and peace of mind.

This is your time of attunement,

To align your source, your Tran­scen­dent or High­er Mind,

With the your phys­i­cal or Earth­ly Mind.

For your Low­er Mind, is your vehi­cle of per­ceiv­ing and knowing,

It is the mind you must work through in this realm of matter.

Here on Earth, you grow and learn by and through,

These Prac­ti­cal, Con­cretized embod­i­ments of Spirit-Thought,

Which form the Ener­gy-Mat­ter you know as your Real World.

Three times a year Mer­cury will move past you and seem­ing­ly go back­wards across the face of the Sun. But of course he is just pass­ing you by as he races around the Sun on his inside track…But what mat­ters is your expe­ri­ence, for your Real­i­ty, and your per­cep­tions and Self-Real­iza­tions, and your Self-Lim­i­ta­tions too are here upon this Earth. This is where you must learn, and grow and become ful­ly illu­mined and so awak­ened and aligned to the Divine that resides with­in you.

Since June 7^th, Mer­cury has been ret­ro­grad­ing, first in Can­cer and now in Gem­i­ni, and today he reach­es the “half-way point” of his ret­ro­grade cycle as he pass­es between you and your star. This tran­sit of Mer­cury over the Sun brings the next Infu­sion of Solar Force, which is the purest of Spir­it-Ener­gy that can be expe­ri­enced with­in this plane of Life-Forms. Here you receive a Bless­ing from the Sun, which com­ing as Pure Spir­it is and must be mod­u­lat­ed by and then passed on to you by your Avatar of Mind, dear Mer­cury, your mes­sen­ger of the Gods.

This gift that Mer­cury now offers to you is enshrined with­in the intel­li­gent adept­ness that is Gem­i­ni. Your capac­i­ty to think dialec­ti­cal­ly, to com­pare and con­trast posi­tions and points of view, to hold two dia­met­ri­cal­ly oppo­site posi­tions at the same time so as to exam­ine and under­stand them, to ques­tion and chal­lenge these idea-forms (and your­self) and then ques­tion again, this is how you move from those more cir­cum­scribed thought-forms to ever more nuanced yet all-encom­pass­ing (and com­pas­sion­ate) under­stand­ings of your world and of your­self too.

Your ways of Think­ing-Being can and will become “out of phase” with both the world around you as well as with your own inward­ly unfold­ing path or jour­ney of Spir­i­tu­al Self-Becom­ing. Though your present-day Par­a­digm and its result­ing “Facts” have proven them­selves ade­quate to your pre­vi­ous efforts to under­stand the path that you walk upon in this world, you will also need to remain vig­i­lant and alert to the neces­si­ty that there is but one fun­da­men­tal truth that will ever pro­pel your journey…you are here to Grow. There is much that you have learned, much that you now know, but real­ly you should under­stand by now that you have much, much fur­ther to go than you have come so far…

In the still­ness of this moment…

The Light of a Greater Aware­ness is offered up to you…

Be Wise, Be Humble

Be Gra­cious and full of Gratitude.

Ques­tion Everything!

Let go of your certainties,

For they will only take you down those “dead ends”…

Have that Liv­ing Faith which con­stant­ly seeks and questions,

The Liv­ing Spir­it that Grows and Grows…

And do what you have always done.

For you are a Spir­it Awak­en­ing and your only choice is,

As it will always be,

To Walk on.

Tonight and tomor­row you stand at the cen­ter of two revelations.

When your star­ry com­pan­ions are aligned so that you on Earth are between them, that align­ment is called an Oppo­si­tion. Each phase or step in these cycles of “Growth through Rela­tion­ship”, (which is real­ly what your Spir­i­tu­al jour­ney and Astrol­o­gy is all about), is impor­tant for you to under­stand and mas­ter. But the oppo­si­tion stands out as that sig­na­ture step when the mean­ing and mes­sage of that par­tic­u­lar rela­tion­ship will be revealed to you most clearly.

The cycle of any two bod­ies begins with their con­junc­tion with one anoth­er (which is best exem­pli­fied in the arche­typ­al exam­ple of a New Moon). Then as the two bod­ies move apart in their cycle of rela­tion­ship, they form a series of angu­lar sep­a­ra­tions (which Astrologers call “aspects”) along the arc of their orbital paths, formed along a cir­cle of spa­tial rela­tion­ship mea­sured out by 360 degrees. They move apart and then return to start a new cycle, and dur­ing their jour­ney form many degrees of sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er, yet four prin­ci­pal moments stand out along their path with one anoth­er. From O° or the con­junc­tion, they move out to the “First Quar­ter” or Wax­ing Square aspect of 90°, then to the “Full Moon” or Oppo­si­tion of 180°, then to the “Last Quar­ter” or Wan­ing Square of 270°, and then back to their next Con­junc­tion at 0°.

The Sun, Moon and Plan­ets are Avatars of Wis­dom who wheel around and offer their mes­sages to you, and they are there to teach and guide you as they bear wit­ness for you of the fun­da­men­tal truths you are here to mas­ter. Their Dance of Spir­it through the heav­ens illus­trate the Lessons of Spir­i­tu­al Life you are here to under­stand and learn to live by. They are your stal­wart com­pan­ions, and they are there to show you “The Way”, for you here to learn to live your life aligned with the Spir­i­tu­al Core that abides with­in you, as you will equal­ly find and see that same Spir­it inform­ing each and every mote and speck of Cre­ation too.

Thrilling through you and every moon, plan­et and star, is the Fun­da­men­tal Ener­gy-Sub­stance of this whole Cre­ation which is the One, it is Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it. All of this Cre­ation is this One Spir­it in Evo­lu­tion, all of these lives and life-forms are Spir­it as Becom­ing, all are embod­i­ments of the Con­scious­ness that is Spir­it. Quite sim­ply put, you are here to learn and become a ful­ly con­scious co-cre­ator of this Cre­ation, to achieve self-mas­tery in and through your many lives, as you sojourn here upon this beau­ti­ful realm you call your home, your beloved Earth.

Tonight and tomor­row, two rev­e­la­tions are offered to you once again (for these lessons of life require that you meet, solve and inte­grate them again and again). They can and should be seen as real­ly one mes­sage, but let us look at them sep­a­rate­ly, then see how to hold them as they are in fact, for they form a greater truth when held togeth­er as one.

The oppo­si­tion of Venus and Sat­urn comes every year, and pos­es to you what can be at times one of your most painful of moments of real­iza­tion, yet, as it is in these bal­ance-beam­ing ways of Truth, this rev­e­la­tion also con­tains the promise and reminder of your true, abid­ing source of ever­last­ing joy.

Venus is your Avatar of Val­ue and Worth, which is ulti­mate­ly to be found and held by the core of you by and in your Foun­tain-Source of Truth. This Truth is that you are a spe­cial, pre­cious Spark of the Divine. In Truth your essence, which is your Val­ue or Worth, and is ulti­mate­ly known to you as Love is beyond mea­sure. Yet, at any one point in your jour­ney of self-unfold­men­t/­self-becom­ing, what you have so far real­ized and made man­i­fest of this abid­ing truth is often much, much less, and it is this divide which brings about your pain and feel­ings of loss, for this is how and why you face what is seem­ing­ly a lack of love in your life

For though at your core you are filled with a bound­less love, your expe­ri­ence or man­i­fes­ta­tion of your worth and love in this mate­r­i­al world is cir­cum­scribed by the var­ied stages of unfold­ment of your oth­er “vehi­cles” or souls. The whole pur­pose of your self-unfold­ment is to raise up your Men­tal, Emo­tion­al and even Phys­i­cal Bod­ies or Souls so that they become the ade­quate con­tain­ers and expres­sions of the True Val­ue and Love which you are at your core. But this takes a very long time indeed. Many, many Lives and Worlds must you pass through to mas­ter your­self, for you have to learn to choose what is wis­er and more lov­ing, and so be guid­ed by your Inner Flame to become out­ward­ly what your high­er Self or Beloved is and will always be…and you will then be a Wise, Lov­ing and Free Spark of the Divine.

Sat­urn is the Avatar of Real­i­ty, and for you rep­re­sents what you have so far real­ized and embod­ied of your High­er Essence into those var­ied vehi­cles of Self-Deter­mi­na­tion. You can and will even­tu­al­ly be out­ward­ly what you are inward­ly, but until you have fin­ished your human jour­ney you will be lim­it­ed in your forms of Self-Real­iza­tion, you will have moments when you doubt your worth, you will at times expe­ri­ence that most painful of Illu­sions that you are with­out or lack­ing in Love.

This Oppo­si­tion of Venus and Sat­urn brings to bear this expe­ri­ence of the divide between your Divine Lov­ing nature and your less than per­fect embod­i­ment of the ines­timable Val­ue and Love that you are. Whether you are expe­ri­enc­ing a dis­ap­point­ment in another’s expres­sion of love for you, or they feel that same lack from you, what you both need at a time such as this is to look beyond and behind these Veils of Mat­ter that you attempt to reach one anoth­er through. You need to believe in, know of and act with the Love that is at the core of both of you, always. Nev­er more so than when you feel as if the oth­er has let you down, or you have done so by them. You need to reach deeply with­in to the uncon­di­tion­al love that is your high­er self, and then bring as much of that out­wards and bestow it upon your low­er self, and then equal­ly shine and share it with your beloved who stands before you too.

Whether by a fail­ure of Omis­sion or Com­mis­sion, whether one or both of you feel that you have been wronged, you need to acknowl­edge and accept that you are both a “work in progress”, that you both car­ry doubts, wounds and fears that are the echoes of your past lives as well as of ear­li­er errors made in this present one, and that these dark shad­ows can thwart your expe­ri­ence of one anoth­er today.

Yes, the form of your rela­tion­ship, the qual­i­ty of your love for one anoth­er is lim­it­ed in this time and place, for you and they are not yet what you will some­day become and be. But the only way you will reach it, soon­er than lat­er, is by hold­ing to the eter­nal truths of your inher­ent Divin­i­ty so that you will stay upon the path of Truth and Love. For what you each have that has drawn you to one anoth­er again is of the One. When you look beyond the bod­ies and appear­ances of one anoth­er, when you see “that pres­ence” look­ing back at you there in their eyes, you will know and remem­ber and smile. You need to real­ize it is that, this Divine Love which has and will always bring you back togeth­er, again and again, until you “get it right”. That you need to keep to this Path of Love that is the only way home…and to do this you need to For­give one anoth­er and be that Love with all your might.

Love your­self…

Love one another.

For you are Beautiful,

And so is your beloved.

You are Divini­ties who are Awakening.

You are Love. They are Love.

Love one Another.