The Way of Understanding

The Way of Wis­dom, Humil­i­ty and Love

The Wheel of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it turns once more.

Time to move out of the Waters of the Deep,

The Space of Union that is Scorpio.

Time to draw back your bow of Inten­tion, and take aim by the Clar­i­ty of Fire,

To look for Truth in the Wis­dom Ways of Sagittarius.

You have felt the joy of Union; and you have felt the agony of Sep­a­ra­tion too.

It is time to step back, to widen your per­spec­tive and points of view…

It is time to drink from that Ancient Well of Wis­dom, and add your pre­cious drops too.

Now you wish for one thing only, now you yearn to “under­stand”. You need the essence, the elixir of mean­ing from those heart­felt “meet­ings and part­ings”. You smiled in the joys of find­ing com­mon pur­pose, of shar­ing your life or your work with one anoth­er, and becom­ing even more who you are through join­ing with one another.

Or, you expe­ri­enced the awful pain of being bro­ken apart as you found your com­mon grounds were not so com­mon after all. What defined you and they now made clear, at least for now, that you were too dif­fer­ent from one anoth­er; your paths may have crossed, only to sep­a­rate once again.

What did you learn about your­self (and of them)? What are you sup­posed to make from those awe­some heights of ecsta­sy and these painful depths of despair…exactly where do you go from here?

You need to har­vest the mean­ing from these expe­ri­ences, so you can under­stand the Quin­tes­sence of Truth behind them. You aspire to see how these glean­ings of mean­ing may pro­vide some insight about your­self and your des­tiny, and like­wise offer a Prov­i­den­tial point­ing to the greater des­tiny of “I and Thou” and your larg­er world too. Whether you came togeth­er as one; or fell apart into sep­a­ra­tions (for a time), you need this now. You must under­stand what this means, the how’s and why’s of what hap­pened in that mys­te­ri­ous and Alchem­i­cal space of union.

Know this, it was exact­ly in this fric­tion­al cru­cible of val­ue and mean­ing, of Unions made and Unions lost, it is exact­ly through this that you will dis­cern what is you and what is less you. This is “the way”, you find your­self in and through one anoth­er. That by going out to meet, under­stand and join with them you also dis­cov­ered “you”, that this is the way you come that much clos­er to your own true self too.

But now there is this urgent need to under­stand what hap­pened, to extend your­self into a more encom­pass­ing frame­work of mean­ing. You wish to know how to be your­self, and for them to be them­selves too, and so remain true to the path of light and love. Because you do need one anoth­er, we all need one anoth­er to become who we are meant to be. This is the Spir­i­tu­al Dance of Life, the One and the many, and out of the many we return to the One.

So, you look for answers, you seek in the Halls of Wis­dom and you look with­in your own mind­ful heart too. You look to the gifts of your Ances­tors, from the Teach­ers, Sages and Seers who came this way before. They too strug­gled to under­stand, and their gifts remain a Light in the Dark­ness, and will help you to dis­pel the shad­ows of Igno­rance and Evil in the world. By Phi­los­o­phy, Reli­gion, Sci­ence and Art, their Rea­son­ing and Faith are the hard-won Quin­tes­sence of their spir­i­tu­al strug­gles for the Greater Aware­ness, and their Lives, Love and Rea­son the most pre­cious gift offered for one and all.

Yet the path­ways of Truth are equal­ly found with­in, because the same spir­i­tu­al light behind all that is “out there”, is equal­ly what makes you, you. Your own Wis­dom Well, your High­er Self, will gen­tly whis­per inte­gral affir­ma­tions, align­ing what you inward­ly intu­it with what you out­ward­ly know by expe­ri­ence, and so you take anoth­er step on the path of Truth too. You will offer your­self and your dew­drops of under­stand­ing, adding your expe­ri­ences to the Well of Wis­dom shared by one and all.

But because you are unique, each of you will come to the Greater Aware­ness upon dif­fer­ent paths, so that even in your seek­ing for truth and under­stand­ing, you will come togeth­er but also at times pull apart over what is “the truth”. But through Rea­son and by Love, by com­bin­ing and refin­ing, through inner Inspi­ra­tions and out­ward con­fir­ma­tions, you will come to know the most impor­tant Truth behind all the less­er truths you hold, that before me is anoth­er, just like me, and my only way for­ward is to love them as I love myself.

You start­ed as One, one with one anoth­er, and you will through all your indi­vid­u­a­tions, dif­fer­en­ti­a­tions and res­onations as a unique spark of the Divine, you will end as many but One again. In your jour­neys through Worlds, Forms and Lives you are will always be a spe­cial spark of the divine, and you will bring forth your indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and dif­fer­ences that make you dis­tinct. But this will also bring about your sep­a­ra­tions from one anoth­er too, at least for a time. But for­ev­er and always you must remem­ber the fun­da­men­tal Truth, that you are made by and for one anoth­er. You must strive to hold togeth­er “I and Thou”, to both hon­or the indi­vid­u­al­i­ty in one anoth­er yet ten­der­ly dis­cov­er, nur­ture and abide in the Greater Aware­ness and Real­i­ty which is your Love for one another.

Your Jour­ney is the sto­ry of Con­scious­ness, of the self that is the Self-Becoming.

As you draw ever clos­er to Wis­dom you will find that you will also become more hum­ble too. For this is truth, the more you under­stand, tru­ly under­stand, the more encom­pass­ing, nuanced and lov­ing your truths will become. Your Wis­dom will grow as your Humil­i­ty grows too. There is an inte­gral align­ment between your Mind and Heart, and in this Jour­ney of Self-Becom­ing, no mat­ter how high or far you have come, you must ever “Walk On” to greater Wis­dom, as you equal­ly deep­en your affec­tions for one another.

You shall be inspired by the great ones lov­ing­ly show you “the way”. They did not come to tell you what you do, for you must walk your own path towards Under­stand­ing. But by their exam­ple, they showed you who you real­ly are. By their Illu­mi­na­tion held in the Greater Aware­ness, and by their lives filled with Grace and Humil­i­ty, you see true Wis­dom and feel what is hold­ing togeth­er one and all, Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

Where is the answer, where is the Pearl of Great Price?

It is there in your heart, and found in all hearts too…

There you will find Peace in the Gift of Wisdom.

There you will find Grace in a Life of Humility.

There you will tru­ly Live with Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

You and your world sweep into the “Third Space” of the Super­nal Riv­er of Life, that band of Spir­i­tu­al Ener­gy called The Zodi­ac, mys­ti­cal­ly known as the Cir­cle of the “Liv­ing Ones”, which encom­pass­es your jour­ney around your star.

Each one of these twelve spaces holds a spe­cial mean­ing for you, each holds a truth of the Life Divine. In your annu­al cir­cuit you have come now to this Third moment of the First Quar­ter. Here in this first Trip­tych of Truth, here in the first of Four Turn­ings, you have before you the rev­e­la­tion of your core of con­scious­ness held in these pri­mal three:

Aries res­onates with the first breath, of Pure Aware­ness, “I am”…

Tau­rus res­onates with the sec­ond breath, of Pure Being, “I am that”…

Gem­i­ni res­onates with the third breath, of Self-Aware­ness, “I am that, I am.”

Your jour­ney in this life, and in life after life, is the saga of Spir­it becom­ing. It is a won­drous­ly pro­found jour­ney that start­ed for you eons and eons ago. It is the sto­ry of the unfold­ment of your Spark of the Divine which abides in your core. This is your Dia­mond Body of Infi­nite Love, your Ker­nel of Spir­it, and it is this Life-Atom which holds your Aware­ness-Pres­ence through count­less worlds, forms and through all your many, many lives.

Your jour­ney of spir­it began with you as an non self-aware, unself-con­scious yet pre­cious Spark of Spir­it embark­ing upon a series of embod­i­ments. Each of your sub­stan­ti­a­tions brought you to ever increas­ing­ly more com­plex forms of embod­i­ment, and each life elicit­ed from you a greater range of Aware­ness, and so each was anoth­er pre­cious step along the path of your Awak­en­ing too.

For many, many ages your jour­ney pro­ceed­ed through these increas­ing­ly refined lev­els of con­scious­ness, yet they always remained out­side of that most spe­cial qual­i­ty that you now take for granted…and it is this essen­tial qual­i­ty that sets you and all the beings who are ranged above you, (for you are part of a vast Hier­ar­chy of Light and Spir­it rang­ing from the bare­ly con­scious to the Super or Cos­mic Con­scious), as being quite apart from all that have as yet to reach this “Cross­ing point of the Light”, who have yet to meet this most awe­some moment in Con­scious­ness that you met ages and ages ago.

It is in this moment of awak­en­ing, this pass­ing of the Por­tal of Self-Aware­ness, that is cel­e­brat­ed by what is held in Gem­i­ni. For it is here that some­thing quite extra­or­di­nary hap­pened in your sojourn through this realm known as Human, (and of course this Spir­i­tu­al Quick­en­ing con­tin­ues to hap­pen through­out all times and realms). This is the moment that is held in awe and with great rev­er­ence by all Mas­ters, Sages and Seers, for this is the crit­i­cal turn­ing point in the evo­lu­tion of the all the sparks of the Divine, and it also most tru­ly and lov­ing­ly con­firms the Nature of Spir­it and the Love of the One for one and all.

This moment res­onates with that fun­da­men­tal Truth of this Uni­verse, that real­ly there is One Life and One Spir­it, and it exem­pli­fies and hon­ors the Truth that all are part of a great Riv­er of Life and Con­scious­ness, and that each and every Con­scious-Cen­ter is Inte­gral to one anoth­er, each is con­nect­ed to and part of one anoth­er, and that each and every being is here to love one anoth­er, to help one anoth­er, and join with one anoth­er as we all con­tin­ue upon this same jour­ney in, by, through and even­tu­al­ly return with all these expe­ri­ences as our gifts that we offer up to the One.

Many myths and tales are told of this spe­cial moment. They are there if you know where and what to look for, for they are found in the sto­ries of Prometheus, Lucifer, Loki and Quet­zal­coatl and many, many oth­ers. It is most revered and lov­ing­ly told in the Orig­i­nal or Ancient Teach­ings in the sto­ry of the Kumaras, beings of a much more advanced state than we, who came at the appoint­ed time, when the Human­i­ty of that peri­od was ready for the next step for­ward in Con­scious­ness. It was their Des­tiny to impart to us the Light of Under­stand­ing, for as it had been done for them in anoth­er Cycle of Spir­it, they too now came to pass on this gift to us.

For it was then that the Light of Self-Con­scious­ness was impart­ed to us who were with­out self-aware­ness, we were the “mind­less ones” at that time, lack­ing in Self-Aware­ness. They passed on this Torch of Under­stand­ing, and our Inno­cence was lost, our time in “Eden” was at an end…

But this was the next nec­es­sary step that you had to take in your jour­ney, because now the pace of reach­ing the “promised land” increased, as it became pos­si­ble for you now to become Self-Con­scious­ly Self-Made and tru­ly respon­si­ble for lift­ing your­self towards your Divine Destiny.

You pass the Por­tal that is Gem­i­ni, where inno­cence was sur­ren­dered as your Spir­i­tu­al Flame was quick­ened. You enter the realm of the Promise-Keep­ers, of those who Know, who hold back the Dark­ness by their ded­i­ca­tion to Become and Pre­serve the Light.

You are the Awak­en­ing Ones…

Mov­ing into the Light.

You are Singing the Songs of Spirit…

The Truth shin­ing in your Heart.

You are mov­ing towards your Destiny,

By, with and through the Love of the One.

You are here to lead with Light,

You are here to lead with Beauty,

You are here to lead by Love.

Venus, your bright burn­ing “Star of the Morn­ing”, is ris­ing from the waters of Pisces to begin a new cycle of danc­ing through the stars. It is a new day and a New Year for the Avatar of your Val­ue. This is your dawn­ing day, this is your shin­ing star…this is the sea­son to “spring ahead” with your Heart.

Though your own natal posi­tion of Venus will guide your authen­tic aes­thet­ic and social sen­si­bil­i­ties, as Venus moves through the 12 signs of the Zodi­ac it is most essen­tial and impor­tant for you to appre­ci­ate and look through each and all of these inte­gral lens­es of love too. Though your own Venus might be in Vir­go or Aquar­ius, you have some­where with­in you each of the Signs, and they will each show you anoth­er facet of val­ue, beau­ty and love…and of you.

For you are here to grow, and you need to under­stand and encom­pass these var­ied forms of Beau­ty and Love that you will learn and mas­ter as you move ever clos­er to a life sub­lime. Venus is your Light Bear­er, and she brings you this gift, she shows you how to approach your expe­ri­ence of Beau­ty and Love in every sea­son of your life.

Venus was mov­ing through Pisces for the past few weeks, and your heart was drawn that much clos­er to a high­er expres­sion of com­pas­sion and sac­ri­fice. As always, though stim­u­lat­ed by the shift­ing ener­gies that swirl around and through you, it was and will always be your high­er self who led you onwards, and it was this greater self who inspired you to dis­solve the bound­aries between I and Thou. You slipped beyond your mor­tal heart, and expe­ri­enced a love that was more trans-per­son­al. You found, even if only for a heav­en­ly moment, that you could abide in the Truth that every­thing and every­one is part of the Divine, and so feel and know that all are relat­ed to one anoth­er, all are one in the Love of the One.

But each realm and sea­son of life must yield to the next, each melody of Beau­ty and Love must be sung for the Song of Spir­it to be com­plete, and so it is time to find your Melody of the Eter­nal Flame, it is time to Sing of Love renewed.

For Venus in Aries is a return to Source, to the essen­tial expe­ri­ence of who you are. Before you can tru­ly enjoy any­thing of beau­ty, before you can be loved by anoth­er or love any­one as they should be loved, you must first have this inte­gral expe­ri­ence and so under­stand the true nature of your­self. You must draw ever clos­er to the truth that Beau­ty and Love are for­ev­er the core that makes you who you are.

In your heart of hearts is the Foun­tain Source of Spir­it, and this is your Beloved. Abid­ing there is the Divin­i­ty that uncon­di­tion­al­ly Loves you, that holds you and all of Cre­ation by this force that thrills through­out the entire Cos­mos. That as much as you are loved uncon­di­tion­al­ly, so you should know that you are here to go forth and be your­self pure­ly and lov­ing­ly. That by expe­ri­enc­ing this pure love of your­self, you will open the door­way to the true enjoy­ment of the beau­ty of the world and of your love for one another.

Venus in Aries brings you back to what comes first, to this first Les­son of Love. Your Val­ue, your Beau­ty and your Love are beyond mea­sure for they orig­i­nate in the Spark of the Divine with­in you, and you will unfold from with­in your­self this Song of Cre­ation for­ev­er and ever.

Venus in Aries is about your Love of you which is the reflect­ed won­der of the Love of the One for all. You are loved, you are spe­cial and your pres­ence and pur­pose will be revealed by your Atti­tude and Inten­tion, that being made by Love, you are here to be Lov­ing and to Act by Love.

You are here to shine a Light…

You are Divine.

You are Beautiful.

And, you are here to lead with Love.