Are you think­ing first, or are you just act­ing? Or, are you think­ing too much, and so fail­ing to act in a time­ly man­ner? That is the issue today as Mer­cury rul­ing your mind, thoughts and com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Mars rul­ing your desires, dri­ves and actions are seem­ing­ly at odds with one another.

Mer­cury in Scor­pio is look­ing to probe beneath the sur­face and dig up what is hid­den; yet Mars in Leo is moti­vat­ed by what is respect­ful and respectable. Do you go deep­er and risk the expo­sure of your­self or anoth­er, per­haps to be true to your­self yet risk the hon­or and respect of some­one else, or your­self? Or do you act respect­ful­ly, with deco­rum and def­er­ence, while inside you churn and chafe over what greater “truth” you have left unsaid?

It is not easy to know what is right or “more right” here. But Mars is the “heavy”, the weight­i­er plan­et in this encounter, and so you should or must act with hon­or and respect­ful­ness. To find and stay on the path of self-ful­fill­ment you should always fol­low the gold­en rule of “First, do no harm”.

With­out ques­tion, your mind and spir­it are quick­ened today so a good approach would be to take even more time to think things through. Do not push your­self or anoth­er into hasty deci­sions or actions. Though excit­ing, dar­ing or bril­liant as they may appear or feel…it could all lead to less by your desire to impress or be appreciated.

Most impor­tant and always remem­ber that the most impor­tant part of com­mu­ni­ca­tion is…To Listen…to the oth­er (and to your own high­er self).

Retain your enthu­si­asm, but you need to lose your impa­tience if you want to dis­play your bril­liance today.

It is time to cross the divide between I and thou, to push beyond the lim­its of your mor­tal shell, to move clos­er to a realm sublime…Yes it is true, this is when the veil is thin­ner, when the worlds with­in worlds, of spaces between, of with­in and with­out become translu­cent. It is now in your jour­ney that you are asked and enabled to take that next step, to move into and beyond, to join in fuller mea­sure with one, two or many others. 

The Eighth Moon of the Astro­log­i­cal year arrives now so to release those seed-forms, those inspi­ra­tions, new poten­tials and chal­lenges for Union in the year ahead. Your jour­ney has always been lead­ing to this, to become more than just a one, to become one of the ones of the One. To join togeth­er, remain­ing true to your self…yet dis­cov­er­ing, extend­ing, trans­form­ing one anoth­er in the jour­ney that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

The path of self-unfold­ment, of self-dis­cov­ery and trans­for­ma­tion is quick­ened now by the fric­tion­al process of com­bi­na­tion with one anoth­er. You need to join togeth­er, to syn­er­gis­ti­cal­ly mul­ti­ply one anoth­er’s poten­tial, to gain and give sup­port to one anoth­er. But in doing so you must meet on the field of val­ues and deter­mine what you will cleave to and what you will sur­ren­der, what you will hon­or and what you must sacrifice.

And to the extent that you have entered into such a com­bi­na­tion with those whose core val­ues are more like your own, to that same extent you will sac­ri­fice the periph­er­al val­ues of one anoth­er while hon­or­ing, expand­ing and bring­ing to greater real­iza­tion the core val­ues that you share. More­over, that very process of fric­tion­al dis­cern­ment will lead to even greater self-under­stand­ing; that by mov­ing clos­er to one anoth­er you will para­dox­i­cal­ly come that much clos­er to your true self.

If instead you have attempt­ed to main­tain or enter into a union which does not have those req­ui­site, sacred core val­ues bind­ing you to one anoth­er, then there is prob­a­bly no pow­er on heav­en or earth which can hold you togeth­er. Instead of hon­or­ing and expand­ing that core you will become entan­gled in the emp­ty world of periph­er­al val­ues and the cen­ter will not hold.

Or it may be that you had entered togeth­er, bond­ed well and true, but over time hav­ing devel­oped dif­fer­ent­ly, you have moved away from those core prin­ci­ples and so must part…for as the Bud­dha reminds us there is noth­ing com­pos­ite that will last…

This is the expe­ri­ence of Scor­pio that you move through now.…That the Great, Undy­ing and Ever­last­ing Truths and Val­ues are ever present and yet their forms of man­i­fes­ta­tion must ever change. Your uni­verse is both Change­less and Ever-Chang­ing; and this is the fun­da­men­tal dilem­ma you face as a Spir­it in this World of Mat­ter. You wish to hold, but must let go, you wish to stay but must walk on.…but you will return, you will come this way again…and again. 

Cel­e­brate your new begin­ning in Scor­pio, bow down to the Eter­nal while danc­ing your Tem­po­ral Tan­go. It is your spi­ral dance of Birth, Death and Re-Birth; it is the one true path, your won­drous jour­ney in Life-Consciousness-Spirit…

Dance and sing your Sun-Song…for you are here to wit­ness and co-cre­ate this promise, this time of end­ings and new beginnings…You stand at the thresh­old, an age is pass­ing and a new world is dawning.…again.

You have turned the cor­ner of the Astro­log­i­cal Year, you have round­ed ’round and met the oth­er in those airy realms of Libra; you have tak­en one anoth­er by the hand and agreed to the begin­ning of “I and thou”, you have thought it through with one anoth­er and come to a mutu­al under­stand­ing or agreement…But it is not enough, not near­ly enough, and so it is that fol­low­ing every Car­di­nal Sign, those eager Signs of Begin­nings, comes this Fixed phase of the Four sea­son­al cycles…And, it is this part of your jour­ney that will take you down into your deep­est depths, where you will face the great­est chal­lenges and reap the great­est rewards.

And, it is said, there is no deep­er depth, no greater mys­tery, than the one you will face and reap in your time of Scor­pio. You move back into Water here, you move with feel­ing and emo­tion, but dif­fer­ent than in Can­cer which was about find­ing your cen­ter with­in, of secur­ing your­self to your Self.

Now you are mov­ing out, out to the oth­er (and inward to your­self). You are seek­ing to con­nect, to join, to sup­port and be sup­port­ed, to over­come that great­est pain in your jour­ney, of sep­a­ra­tion and alone­ness (which is, after all, your great­est illu­sion and comes from your “real­i­ty” of being encased in your mor­tal shell).

You feel the long­ing to become more than you alone; you seek to be two togeth­er who will act as one and so form the greater we. It is here you that you enter those realms of mys­tery, of mov­ing beyond the world of shad­ows of sep­a­rate selves to the greater truth, the hid­den (occult) real­i­ty. You must move beyond your own bound­ed space so to form that sacred shared space of “us”. This deep­est depth excites you and scares you like noth­ing else; and it requires noth­ing less than Courage, Faith and Sacrifice.

Courage is first, for you must dare to extend your­self to one anoth­er. To express your need and offer to meet their need, takes courage. For you have been here before, you “remem­ber” the pain, that they may say “no”, and what we might have won was answered with rejec­tion. Or it might be you who holds back, who dares not enough, who acts out of fear and there­by, in effect, rejects your­self. So from those old mem­o­ries of fail­ure and loss, you might hold back and miss the promise, you might not cre­ate the gift of “we”. Courage is there to move you beyond and into the greater…

Faith is need­ed to cre­ate the foun­da­tions for your courage; Faith is need­ed to form that sacred space of “us”; and Faith is that spe­cial “gift of the Spir­it” that makes it pos­si­ble for you to move beyond the pain and doubt of those count­less attempts and believe, to real­ly believe that maybe this time might be that time. Faith is your spir­it extend­ing itself into the space beyond your­self, to give birth to, to co-cre­ate the shared space that is wait­ing for you and the beloved. Your faith is revealed by the exten­sion of your trust and your will­ing­ness to take a risk, to put your­self in that space of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, which is part of the third step you must take to open the way to becom­ing one with another…

Because as much as Courage and Faith may bring you to the thresh­old, you will not pass, you can­not find your way, with­out Sac­ri­fice. For every tran­si­tion, every step in your jour­ney has required a sac­ri­fice. This word is a most beau­ti­ful word for it sim­ply means “To Make Sacred”. To make a sac­ri­fice means that you give up the less­er in order that you may hon­or and so move into the greater. And there is no greater gift than this, to break the illu­sion of alone­ness, to come to clos­er to the truth that All are One…this fun­da­men­tal truth will now be reflect­ed in the mir­ror of you and you who become the “we”.  

To move into the union, to be one with anoth­er, requires the giv­ing up, (con­stant­ly and con­tin­u­ous­ly) of the less­er things in your life…but you will gain so, so much more. For you will find that in this com­bi­na­tion, in the con­junc­tion of I and Thou, there comes the pow­er of trans­for­ma­tion of your­self and your world. And, won­der of won­ders, you will come to know what is tru­ly you and what is not or no longer you. So that in the end, as you move out to meet the oth­er, to join with the oth­er in your cre­at­ed, shared space, as you do this you encounter the deep­er gift, the pearl of great price now revealed…you meet your “Self”.

You enter Scor­pio, the wheel has turned, the days are get­ting short­er, the light of day is wan­ing, (so that the light with­in may be more eas­i­ly found). Turn to that light with Courage, Faith and Sac­ri­fice as you move into your becom­ing, as you quick­en your ascent in the jour­ney that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Would you like to slip beyond the bounds of nor­mal space…to touch those realms of super­nal light…to reach inward and out­ward and walk into the won­der, into the dreams that you will make true? Well, then today is your day!

The Sun rules your pure poten­tial that is seek­ing to be made real; Nep­tune rules your dreams, your vision…your path­way to illu­mi­na­tion. Today the Sun and Nep­tune align so as to cre­ate a shin­ing chord, a lumi­nous bridge from the realms of imag­i­na­tion that will lift and inspire your next step in the end­less jour­ney of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Today is a day to appre­ci­ate the con­nect­ed­ness of all life…the morn­ing dew that catch­es your eye and reminds you of…; those soar­ing, inter­wo­ven har­monies of sounds and sights and smells and tastes that makes your skin “tin­gle”; that spe­cial sense of tru­ly shar­ing, of being one with that spe­cial one…

Today is a day to cel­e­brate nature or to go to a art muse­um or to be with those to whom you mat­ter and who mat­ter to you…Today is a day for being tru­ly one with Spirit…

And you are…

How Uranus, Nep­tune and Plu­to pro­vide the means to quick­en our self-unfold­ment. The shift of ener­gies in 2011 and beyond that will lead to a new age. The role of Uranus is to open our minds so that we may find new path­ways; the role of Nep­tune is to reaf­firm our sacred con­nec­tion to one anoth­er; and then it is Plu­to’s role to pro­vide the will which cre­ates, main­tains and trans­forms our sacred spaces. All three out­er plan­ets are bring­ing their spe­cial gifts to us now.

The major force for our quick­en­ing at this time is the align­ment from 2012–2015 between Uranus and Plu­to, form­ing their wax­ing square. This is the next great step in their cycle of trans­for­ma­tion which began in the mid-1960’s. It is lead­ing to the end of an age and the dawn­ing of a new one in the 2020’s.

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