Today your “Self” (Sun) is aligned with your “Truth” (Jupiter); your faith in your­self is well reward­ed. Today is a good day, a very good day! Suc­cess is in the air and good for­tune is at hand.

But what is the source of your “good luck”; from where does this benev­o­lent ener­gy arise? The true nature of luck, (as “luck” would have it!), is to be found in your own beliefs, atti­tudes and actions. Your luck is made by you! With right think­ing comes right atti­tude; and from right atti­tude springs right action; and that right action cre­ates your good life. This is the “Law of Kar­ma”.

Today is your reward to your­self for the right rela­tion­ship that you have estab­lished with your “Self”. By devel­op­ing your greater self-aware­ness, by hav­ing a bet­ter rela­tion­ship with your­self, you are able to ful­fill your­self and relate right­ly to the larg­er world around you.

The Sun is singing the Song of Vir­go now, of your need for order, re-orga­ni­za­tion and heal­ing; the Sun is offer­ing that most pre­cious gift, “Peace of Mind”, which comes from a life “Lived in Beau­ty”. To help you cre­ate and walk that path of beau­ty, Jupiter is bless­ing the Sun now from Tau­rus. Jupiter is pro­vid­ing the prin­ci­ples of your heal­ing and a path­way of beau­ty that is found­ed upon the endur­ing, sub­stan­tial and prac­ti­cal val­ues that Tau­rus cel­e­brates, serves and protects.

Bless­ings are bestowed upon you now because they have “come home” to you, their “par­ent”; what good you cre­at­ed returns to you…Now you must send it out yet again. You reap what you sow…And you must sow so that you may reap. But remem­ber, there is more, through your larg­er asso­ci­a­tions estab­lished by Jupiter, through those “right rela­tion­ships” to oth­ers, there is “mag­ic” to behold.

By join­ing with oth­ers in those “good actions”, your very com­bi­na­tion with one anoth­er cre­ates a “plus”, an increase of ener­gy, force, spirit…a mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of good kar­ma that gets added to what is returned to you eventually…and so you begin again but at a high­er level.

What was a Cir­cle of Energy/Karma becomes a Spi­ral of Life-Con­scious-Spir­it, which goes up and up through time and space, cre­at­ing this Uni­verse of Light and Love. Your good for­tune is mul­ti­plied by your own good inten­tions that are joined with oth­ers who also seek to extend their lives with and through you.

Cel­e­brate the dance of the Sun and Jupiter as those bless­ings born of your good thoughts, feel­ings and actions lift you up in the Spir­it Spi­ral that is your jour­ney as you Become the Becoming.

Be the Cre­ator of your Good Fortune…Be Gen­er­ous, Be Blessed.

So be it.

On the same day that the less­er benef­ic (Venus) aligns with the greater benef­ic (Jupiter) you also have Jupiter turn­ing ret­ro­grade till Decem­ber 25, 2011. What does Jupiter’s ret­ro­grade offer you?

Jupiter is the plan­et of Prin­ci­ples; it rules Truths, Phi­los­o­phy, Sci­ence and Reli­gion. Jupiter is the plan­et of your high­er mind. It is the plan­et that leads you out­ward as you explore the wider world, out into your “rela­tion­ships of choice”. Those rela­tion­ships are made pos­si­ble by and found­ed upon Jupiter’s gift of your ever-expand­ing and greater under­stand­ing. But that growth exter­nal­ly must be matched by growth with­in your­self; a tow­er can only be as tall as its foun­da­tions are deep.

Jupiter’s ret­ro­grade gift offers this oppor­tu­ni­ty for you now. This is the time to grow inward­ly, to con­sid­er what you know and what you believe; you should look with­in and reex­am­ine the truths you stand upon. Those truths form your atti­tudes and there­by cre­ate your inten­tions in the world.

Of course out­ward expan­sion will con­tin­ue now, but your greater rewards, your bet­ter path, will be found by your jour­neys with­in; it will be those dis­cov­er­ies of the deep which will bring you clos­er to your truth-path. And, it will be this Jupi­ter­ian jour­ney with­in that will cre­ate the build­ing blocks for your exter­nal expan­sions in 2012 and beyond.

Jupiter will move back­wards through Tau­rus dur­ing this peri­od, so the expe­ri­ence will be a jour­ney with­in your­self that reviews, reex­am­ines and clar­i­fies your beliefs as regards: 1) The nature of val­ue, the what and why of the val­ue of any­thing, 2) Your rela­tion­ship of val­ue to your­self, your self-worth, and 3) How your under­stand­ing of val­ues and your self-worth cre­ate the expe­ri­ence of your rela­tion­ships, whose core of con­nec­tion is found­ed upon shared values.

Take time dur­ing the com­ing months to reap this har­vest, this fruit of the expe­ri­ence about your truths. It is those truths which have guid­ed and formed your sense of val­ues. Do not judge “good” or “bad”, for you learn from each and often more from when you stumbled.

Seek always to align your truths with the greater wis­dom that is time­less. Then take out your “Sword of Sev­er­ance” as you cut away the less­er, as you har­vest the pre­cious mean­ings of your life.

This har­vest is what brings you clos­er, into the “Greater Under­stand­ing”, and that is your real jour­ney, that is your true path, as you become the becoming.…

Choose wisely…choose the path that leads to the growth of understanding.

May the Light of Jupiter bring you Truth, Love and Understanding.

Beau­ty meets Benevolence…and yes it is very, very good!

Enjoy this align­ment of Venus (values/beauty) with Jupiter (principles/truth). It is the meet­ing of what you want with what you relate to. What does that mean?

Now you will get what you want! But do you under­stand why and how this works?

The true source of your good for­tune is in your own hands, always. It is the end result of your walk­ing the path of truth, of prac­tic­ing right think­ing and right con­duct. You must always remem­ber that your life is gov­erned by one true and immutable law, The Law of Kar­ma, the law of cause and effect. What does that mean?

What I like to say is quite sim­ply, “Life is like a boomerang, what­ev­er you throw or put out there is com­ing back to you”. The thoughts that you think, the feel­ings you feel and the things that you do, well they move out from you into the uni­verse. You are the cre­ator and they are your chil­dren. But even­tu­al­ly they must return from whence they came…That is why there is, ulti­mate­ly, true jus­tice in the world for “as you sow so shall you reap”.

The mea­sure of your good luck today is the result of the gen­eros­i­ty you have offered up in the past. You are receiv­ing the ben­e­fits that you bestowed in the past…and you should take today’s gift and do what? Why, of course, you need to cre­ate more good for­tune by liv­ing spir­i­tu­al­ly; live gen­er­ous­ly, thought­ful­ly and com­pas­sion­ate­ly for one anoth­er each and every day. For part of the mys­tery of good for­tune is that by com­bin­ing with one anoth­er we mul­ti­ply our effects. In oth­er words, you put in so much from your­self, but you reap so much more when you do it with and for one another.

Give so that you may receive.…Receive so that you may give…

And may the cir­cle be unbro­ken, for­ev­er and ever…

Live in Beau­ty! Be at Peace! The Gift of Vir­go is at hand.

Wel­come the sixth New Moon of the Astro­log­i­cal Year. Each Sun Moon align­ment releas­es a new seed-form to guide your under­stand­ing. This time it is a gift from Vir­go, a gift that can move you clos­er to what you have always sought, Peace of Mind.

The Vir­go New Moon offers you Peace through pro­vid­ing new insight, inspi­ra­tion and prac­ti­cal guid­ance for inte­gra­tion with­in your­self, and for your inte­gra­tion with the world around you. You will have greater pow­ers of dis­cern­ment now so that you can make adjust­ments in your life and bring you and your “self” into truer align­ment, into that greater Wholeness…into your State of Grace.

To “Live in Beau­ty” is to acquire, main­tain or restore bal­ance in life. You need to take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to exam­ine your life, to see if there is bal­ance in your life now. To have that peace with­in and with­out, you need to cre­ate a har­mo­ny between: Activity/Rest, Work/Play, Outwardness/Inwardness…you need to cre­ate a whole life. Instead, when you do too much of one thing, and not enough of anoth­er, well then you are mov­ing into non­sense, you are stum­bling into error…and you will suffer.

And just because you had a bal­ance at one time will not serve you for all time; for the world is ever chang­ing as are you…So you must stay alert and adapt inward­ly and out­ward­ly (con­stant­ly); it is quite evi­dent what works for some­one who is 20 will make no sense for some­one who is 40, or 60, (and vice versa!).

When guid­ed by this under­stand­ing of dynam­ic bal­anc­ing, of self-dis­cern­ing adjust­ment with­in and with­out, you move your­self in a State of Grace with a Mind that is at Peace. This is because you are mov­ing clos­er to Under­stand­ing as Prax­is, that you are one with the One, always. That all you need to do is lis­ten to your inner voice, the calm­ing light in your­self that watch­es over you forever…and all will be well.

To hon­or and move your­self along this path you can invoke the say­ing below which is the clos­ing prayer of the Nava­jo Bless­ing Way. Say to your­self now and everyday:

In beau­ty I walk
With Beau­ty before me I walk
With Beau­ty behind me I walk
With Beau­ty above me I walk
With Beau­ty around me I walk
It is done in Beauty

Always remember…You are Beauty…Live in Beauty…Be at Peace.

Okay…Ready?

Now Piv­ot! Yes, that’s right Her­mes has come around and is head­ing for­ward again. You can take all those bril­liant revis­es, revi­sions and reviews and apply them to your life now.

Whew! That was some ret­ro­grade but it gave you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to tune up your mind; you reex­am­ined and adjust­ed your per­cep­tions, pro­cess­ing and shar­ing of your thoughts. For the most part, you pre­pared your­self for today when you could begin to go out­ward with all that you have made ready.

With Mer­cury in Leo till Sep­tem­ber 9, it is time to stretch, strut and reveal your adept­ness in the com­mu­ni­ca­tion arts. The spot­light beckons…

Now show us what you’ve learned.…

Shine on Shin­ing Ones!