Her­mes is oppo­site Jove and you need to see how you are work­ing that bal­ance between your Induc­tive and Deduc­tive powers.

Your nev­er end­ing efforts to come up with solu­tions to the prob­lems of life involve the dynam­ic inter­play of these two aspects of your mind. Mer­cury, rul­ing Gem­i­ni and Vir­go, gov­erns your abil­i­ty to build from the many up to the one, to gath­er data points, ana­lyze, cat­e­go­rize, con­trast, com­pare and build up the very infor­ma­tion from which you even­tu­al­ly devel­op your the­o­ries, con­cepts and solu­tions. Jupiter, rul­ing Sagit­tar­ius and Pisces, gov­erns the abil­i­ty to start from those the­o­ries and con­cepts, to start from that Vision, from the One, and build down to the many, as you attempt to apply any exist­ing solu­tion to the prob­lem you are now faced with.

Ide­al­ly, your “low­er” and “high­er” mind work togeth­er, back and forth as in a dance, devel­op­ing data points, net­works and under­stand­ings that are dynam­ic, adapt­able and ele­gant. But some­times, like today, you hit a “bump”; today you may push too far or too hard, so there is the need to step out­side of your­self, to cor­rect or resolve a misunderstanding.

Mer­cury is in Scor­pio now and seeks to go beyond mere appear­ances to the spaces “in between”, to pas­sion­ate­ly delve deep­er, to give or lay down a chal­lenge to the ordi­nary or expect­ed and there­by reveal some deep­er, some yet undis­cov­ered piece of infor­ma­tion, and maybe, just maybe, poten­tial­ly chal­lenge an exist­ing thought-form of your world…but if so, is this dis­cov­ery enough?

Jupiter in Tau­rus is hold­ing firm, cer­tain in those Truths and Prin­ci­ples which have stood for ages and ages, that have proven their worth again and again. Those Teach­ings have been passed down from time immemo­r­i­al, to be as sen­tinels, the steady guides to steer your pas­sage from dark­ness into light.

Jupiter will chal­lenge, or rein in, the doubt and skep­ti­cism of Mer­cury now…and until proven oth­er­wise, Mer­cury must yield. Until there is more exten­sive con­fir­ma­tion, until there is more “proof”, you must or should wait. Let the fer­vor or fever subside…

Per­haps your infor­ma­tion, dis­cov­ery or real­iza­tion will work with­in, yet may add to or move for­ward, the exist­ing struc­ture of what is known and know­able. Maybe it will lead to a more sub­stan­tial change, but for now you must lis­ten to the Ancient Teach­ings which will always steer you back upon the mid­dle path.

You need to stay upon that steady, hum­ble and bal­anced path which will lead you to and is based upon the Greater Under­stand­ing. This path is found­ed upon the truth of your jour­ney in Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it, that the more you come to know, the more you come to real­ize how much you still need to learn. As always the injunc­tion giv­en at every stage in your jour­ney will always be, “Walk on”.

Walk the path of Under­stand­ing, walk the Path of Humility.

Venus (Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love) meets up with Jupiter (Prin­ci­ples, Belief and Truth) in their year­ly oppo­si­tion or “Full Moon”…Today, you stand between these two, and you might, you just might reach an Epiphany…You can feel the pull to one and to the other…And if you hold still, if you can keep to the mid­dle way, you may be ready for a rev­e­la­tion about the rela­tion­ship between what you want (Venus) and what you relate to (Jupiter).

When­ev­er you encounter an oppo­si­tion, it will seem as if life is throw­ing down a chal­lenge, that you must choose between one way or the oth­er… and it seems obvi­ous, that both can­not be true or good, and so it’s either one side or the oth­er, right? 

But of course you have learned, for it is the heart and soul-song of your jour­ney in Life-Consciousness-Spirit…You have come to under­stand that there is but one true path, the Roy­al Road of Spir­it, your path­way home. The Mid­dle Way ris­es above the appar­ent dichotomies of exis­tence, these shad­owed forms that spring from the appar­ent First Divide, of Spir­it and Mat­ter as the oppo­si­tion under­ly­ing all the oppo­sites, the Roy­al Path sees them all and Laughs! Because, in the end.…one and all have all come from THAT, which can­not be named or defined because it is with­out limit. 

So now you face the chal­lenge not to choose again…to find and hold to the Greater Real­i­ty and so see that the real illu­sion is this appar­ent separation…that here and always both Venus and Jupiter are equal­ly speak­ing to truth, and you must hold them togeth­er to live the Truth.

Venus mov­ing through Scor­pio is pulling you into the Union, to the tran­scen­dence of your lim­it­ed “I” so that you may form the more pre­cious “We”. To do so you must sur­ren­der, let go and grow, relin­quish cer­tain, per­son­al forms of val­ue for ones that you can share. Venus in Scor­pio speaks to the truth that ulti­mate­ly noth­ing is “per­ma­nent”.

Jupiter in Tau­rus responds with the affir­ma­tion that there are endur­ing, ever­last­ing val­ues that you must hold to in order to be true to your­self, that you must have, hold and express your own val­ue, to relate as you were des­tined to be…because, after all, you are one of the ones of the One…and the truth of you, the gold­en cord and core of you is…Immortal.

The Epiphany today, the rev­e­la­tion of now, is that both Venus and Jupiter are right. The Truths of Jupiter, those Per­ma­nent Val­ues are and will always be…yet the forms of their man­i­fes­ta­tion, those beau­ties of Venus, must be con­stant­ly evolv­ing, devel­op­ing, chang­ing and final­ly pass away, so that they may lat­er return in a new-formed form…for noth­ing that is com­pos­ite, that is “formed”, is for­ev­er in that form.

Jupiter and Venus are danc­ing their dance of Spir­it and Mat­ter, of Mor­tal­i­ty and Immor­tal­i­ty, of Love and Truth…and this is your dance too.

So cel­e­brate and enjoy the beau­ti­ful sun­set, dance while it may last…but do not mourn its passing…for beau­ty will be born anew as you turn around to sing your wel­comes to a bright new day.

Dance your dance for Love and Truth…

The source of all that you can “Be” meets with what you have so far “Become”. The Sun has reached Sat­urn and your pure poten­tial is get­ting a much need­ed “real­i­ty check”.

Just like in a New Moon, the com­ing togeth­er of two bod­ies in their con­junc­tion rep­re­sents a begin­ning; it is a release of new ener­gy and mean­ing, an oppor­tu­ni­ty for a new rela­tion­ship and what it means to you.

The Sun is your “Self”, it is your poten­tial wait­ing to be released, formed and acknowl­edged. Sat­urn is what you have so far poured your­self into, it is your Real­i­ty. But the Spir­i­tu­al para­dox you face is that this very ful­fill­ment of your Self, your self-real­iza­tion, is also a very real lim­it upon your Self (over time). For you can only “Be” by being some “Thing”, which is by its very nature and being, being formed and man­i­fest­ed, Limited.

This is the dilem­ma of your jour­ney, to be a spir­it in the mate­r­i­al world…

The oppor­tu­ni­ty you are giv­en now is to begin again, to start a new year of releas­ing your­self into your forms of self-real­iza­tion. Today you end a cycle of man­i­fes­ta­tion; today you begin a cycle of New Man­i­fes­ta­tion. Today you feel most poignant­ly that cre­ative ten­sion, the joy and pain, that comes out of all that “could or should be” being faced again with what you (and every­one else) has already made. Yes, there is much to be grate­ful for…but there is much to be done. Today you begin…

It has always been so.…this is your jour­ney, to descend into mat­ter so as to raise it up, into the light…and it takes time, a long, long time to get it right.

But today, today you can yet again make a new beginning.…to set your­self more firm­ly upon that path of promise…as you head back to the light.

Shine on!

Mer­cury plunges down, down into the depths of Scor­pio till Novem­ber 2. Your mind is drawn towards the mys­ter­ies of life, to puz­zling out secrets with­in and with­out. You seek to go beyond mere appear­ances and dis­cov­er the under­ly­ing truth.

But then the ques­tion becomes…what do you do with this knowl­edge, will you, should you share this secret with anoth­er? Well, that depends, of course. Some­times a rev­e­la­tion or dis­cov­ery is for you, and you were made ready for it.

Often­times the oth­er is not and to bring it to their atten­tion might not be wise or kind. Here it is best to fol­low the injunc­tion that applies equal­ly to knowl­edge as it does to med­i­cine, “First, do no harm!”

If you sense that they might be ready to ben­e­fit from your dis­cov­ery, approach the sub­ject with care, cau­tion and con­sid­er­a­tion. Remem­ber, just as Scor­pio cre­ates this pro­found desire for a deep­er union with the oth­er, (and so brings about this greater desire to share with one anoth­er), that same eager­ness to divulge a secret may bring about the oppo­site result, instead of a clos­er bond you may instead be faced with rejec­tion and loss.

What should be your guide? If your desire and inten­tion is per­son­al, if it is for your­self because you hope to gain a clos­er tie by reveal­ing this secret, well then it will not turn out well. If, instead, your moti­va­tion is imper­son­al, that you seek only to help anoth­er and resolve a prob­lem for them and you, then you may be able to serve the cause of truth by illu­mi­nat­ing the path for one another.

As the ancient teach­ing has it, “Be wise as a serpent…and gen­tle as a dove”!

Her­mes is about to leave those airy realms of Libra, where objec­tiv­i­ty, bal­ance and intel­lect hold sway…he’s div­ing down, into deep­er waters, into those mys­te­ri­ous depths of Scorpio…so it is more than appro­pri­ate, in fact it is quite for­tu­itous, that Nep­tune, also known as Posei­don, imparts this gen­tle bless­ing to ease this tran­si­tion from the cere­bral to your intu­itive mind.

Nep­tune rules your imag­i­na­tion, it is the foun­tain source for your abil­i­ty to dis­solve those nec­es­sary bound­aries you formed to frame your space…because you need ever always, after a time, to move beyond and beyond to your next, greater space of understanding.

Today, Nep­tune’s gift for Mer­cury imparts a height­ened intu­ition, a sub­tiliz­ing sen­si­bil­i­ty which encour­ages you to per­ceive, think and con­vey with­out those blind­ers now…and so you slip beyond the rigid cer­tain­ties of yes­ter­days and today.

You can see beyond those old assumptions…you let go, re-imag­ine and dis­cov­er a new real­i­ty, a world beyond.…and you laugh, and smile and remember…this is how, this is the way…to dream, to believe…this is how you become the becoming.