Ouch! That hurt…but that’s what hap­pens when the plan­et of “Motion” meets the plan­et of “No!” Delays lead to frus­tra­tions, frus­tra­tions lead to anger…which takes you down the road of tri­als, trou­bles and tribulations…and so on. What are you sup­posed to do with this?

Remem­ber, you are here to grow and some­times that is easy, and some­times it is hard. When some­thing or some­one is block­ing you what are you sup­posed to do? You need to stop, (as if you had a choice), and look around to see what is the real prob­lem. Usu­al­ly it involves two points: 1) Where are you going, and 2) How are you get­ting there?

With Mars in Can­cer and Libra in Sat­urn it prob­a­bly involves the ten­sion between your desire and dri­ve for Secu­ri­ty and Nur­tur­ing (Mars) bump­ing into the Real­i­ty you have made, and now con­front, in your Rela­tion­ships (Sat­urn). You need to reex­am­ine that goal of secu­ri­ty and see whether what you are try­ing to get is what you real­ly want or need now. Maybe you have changed or the world has changed (or both), and the kind of secu­ri­ty you real­ly need is dif­fer­ent than the one you are aim­ing for. That is why the uni­verse is slow­ing you down…so you can see that. Your first chal­lenge is that you need to con­firm or change the goal.

The oth­er pos­si­bil­i­ty is that the goal is fine, that is where you need to go. But what you also need to affirm is the way you are get­ting there. Again, maybe you or the world has changed (or both), so that the old way of obtain­ing your goal is no longer appro­pri­ate or even avail­able. You need to look at your options, at the var­i­ous path­ways before you and try some­thing else in order to move to your goal.

Whichev­er it is, and some­times it is a lit­tle of both, the chal­lenge and oppor­tu­ni­ty here, as always, is for you to grow in under­stand­ing. You must not hold in your frus­tra­tions or anger, and you must not let them out either. Okay, now what?…You must take the Third Way, the Way of Under­stand­ing which is Way of Spir­it and your one True Path of Growth.

This is what is known as the Red Road, The Mid­dle Way, The Roy­al Road, which is the one and only way that will lead you in your unfold­ment from an unself-con­scious Spark of the Divine to the com­plete real­iza­tion of your Divine nature.

This is your journey…to grow con­tin­u­ous­ly, to become the becom­ing, as you unfold your­self upon the path­way that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

The Sixth Por­tal opens…and a Sac­ri­fice should be made for you are enter­ing the Sacred space that is Virgo…you are enter­ing your Vir­gin Space…you are enter­ing a time of Healing.

To be Vir­ginal, in the ancient teach­ings, real­ly means to “make your­self whole again”. You pre­pare for and go through an ini­ti­a­tion, to become more com­plete, more inte­grat­ed, and there­by read­ied for that fuller par­tic­i­pa­tion in the larg­er world of soci­ety and rela­tion­ships (which will come next as you enter into Libra’s realm).

Before you can tru­ly relate to anoth­er, you must har­vest the mean­ing of what you have so far under­stood of your­self, and you must use this knowl­edge to make your­self more whole. You do this so that you may become more at peace with your­self and the life you have made. Then, and only then, can you move into bal­anced, mature inter-depen­dent relationships.

The days of Leo, of dra­mat­ic per­for­mances, of dar­ing lead­er­ship, of roman­tic love must give way now… Out­ward­ness again yields to Inward­ness, to your need for refine­ment, order­li­ness and peace of mind. Fire gives way to Earth, your great ideas and bold plans must prove their worth in the real world…The Ide­al must work and so serve some purpose…this is the mes­sage of Virgo.

Fixed deter­mi­na­tion to “Release the Self” is fol­lowed now by the Muta­ble adapt­abil­i­ty of your mind as you seek to “Under­stand the Self”. You must work now to rec­on­cile and har­mo­nize your life with­in with your world without.

The pow­ers of Vir­go, the gifts of Dis­cern­ment, Analy­sis and Applied Self-Improve­ment, are here for you now; Vir­go is here so that you may ascer­tain, cor­rect and refine what you have so far become in your becom­ing. There is no “right” or “wrong”; there is more evolved or less evolved, more inte­grat­ed or less integrated.

In order to bring about your devel­op­ment you will encounter “Suf­fer­ing” in your present cir­cum­stance. It is this suf­fer­ing which forces you to let go of a less­er sense of your­self and dis­cov­er the Greater. Suf­fer­ing is not “doled out” by some judg­men­tal fig­ure out­side of your­self; you “attract” or bring your suf­fer­ing as a less than gen­tle reminder that you are not yet what you can be; and you must sac­ri­fice that less­er self and the old ways in order to move into your new and greater life.

To make a Sac­ri­fice is lit­er­al­ly to “Make Sacred”; you must give up some­thing less­er, some­thing that is not or no longer true for you in order to unfold and release your Self into your life. True Sac­ri­fice, though involv­ing some pain for the loss of what is pass­ing, is Joy­ous as you become more aligned with the mean­ing and pur­pose of your life. 

This is the gift of Vir­go; you are expe­ri­enc­ing the Quick­en­ing of your spir­it as you become the becom­ing. You are approach­ing that most Sacred gift which all the Mas­ters and Teach­ers have held as the Most Pre­cious Gift above all oth­er treasures.…you are giv­ing up the less­er to hon­or the greater and so receive the great­est gift… Peace of Mind.

Cel­e­brate the Sea­son of Virgo…

Your Time for Sac­ri­fice and Healing…

Your Time to Move into your Space of Peace!

Dream­ing time…The Won­der of Wonders…Worlds with­in Worlds…

Who am I, the Dream­er or the Dream? And, who are You?

That’s right, it is anoth­er oppor­tu­ni­ty to align your “self” with the Ambas­sador of Tran­scen­dence, the Lord of Illu­mi­na­tion, Nep­tune graces the Sun with a kiss from…

From Beyond the Beyond.

Where­as in their last embrace in May you were guid­ed with­in to find the deep­er sources of the real­i­ty through which you jour­ney, your “self” that is always mov­ing-seek­ing-reach­ing to become…Now the encounter comes through “the oth­er”; you must look into the win­dows of the soul, into those eyes before you, which reveal the sto­ry that is never-ending.

The Sun is about to leave the Spaces of Leo for Vir­go, but before Sol shifts you receive this part­ing gift from Nep­tune in Aquar­ius. The Sun’s jour­ney through Leo has re-kin­dled and con­nect­ed your “self” with the joys of self-expres­sion, with Cre­ativ­i­ty, Lead­er­ship and Love…all so that you could gaze upon your­self revealed by your­self and so exclaim:

“I am that, I am!”

But an actor needs the audi­ence, a leader serves their fol­low­ers and your love must be returned…Now, as you pre­pare to leave Leo’s stage, you look to see, to see whether you are appre­ci­at­ed, respect­ed and loved. You look out and the Muse of Mys­ter­ies gazes back and asks the eter­nal ques­tion, “Who are You?”

Nep­tune stands before you now, reflect­ing back to you the mes­sage of the Greater Cos­mos that is always “Beyond”, (but tru­ly “With­in”), and the mes­sage is about the Mys­tery of Com­pan­ion­ship and the true Foun­da­tion for Friend­ship. For as you sought to express and so “know your­self” you drew upon your Well of Dreams, the Spir­it of Inspi­ra­tion that is with­in you, that Spark of the Divine Flame that is the Ever-Unfold­ing Core of you.

And the only rea­son that you could have any response from your world, from the oth­er before you, the one and the true basis for all of your rela­tion­ships to any­thing and any­one, is that they too are part of this same Eter­nal Source of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it. You, me we are all Sparks of the One Divine Flame that is the Light that will nev­er fail, the ever-present Foun­tain-Source from the Begin­ning and to the Beyond.

Today, Nep­tune greets the Sun and reminds you that you are the Dream­er, you are the “Imag­i­neer” and you jour­ney with a glo­ri­ous host of fel­low Mon­ads, fel­low Dream-Walk­ers seek­ing to become. You unfold your dream with­in the greater dream of your com­pan­ions, who accom­pa­ny, sup­port and make sub­stan­tial your dreams as you do the same for them.

Dream today, dream togeth­er and believe in the becom­ing that you are. You are the Shin­ing Ones who togeth­er are dream­ing the Song of Songs.

That is who you are…

You are a Shin­ing One!

It’s that time again, to be “picky”, dis­cern­ing, circumspect…yes, even crit­i­cal. Venus enters Vir­go for over 3 weeks and your tastes are due for a tune-up. Enough with high-sound­ing ideals, bold plans and dra­mat­ic gestures…what works is what counts!

While Venus was in Leo you rev­eled in the worlds of cre­ativ­i­ty, lead­er­ship and love; and romance, well romance was every­where. Now you need to be “cor­rect­ed” (and of course you must do unto oth­ers as they will do to you); so it is time to cri­tique your cre­ation, improve your per­for­mance and refine your love.

Bring to bear your chis­el eye, your per­spic­u­ous point of view so that noth­ing is over-looked. Bring your love to the small­est of details, the refined nuances of taste, smell, touch, of sound and sight.

Your sub­tle­ty and that rapi­er wit will be in demand now, but show that you tru­ly care by help­ing one anoth­er to find “the bet­ter angels of your nature”. Offer your advice but be pre­pared to receive it too…

You are here to serve one another…with Love, always with Love.

How do you mea­sure your­self; how do you mea­sure any­thing? How do you know what you are “worth”; and how do you know what anoth­er means to you? How?

You went on a sim­i­lar jour­ney of dis­cov­ery with­in your­self in June; now the oppor­tu­ni­ty to grow seems to be tak­ing place between you and anoth­er. The align­ment of Venus and Nep­tune takes you beyond the beyond so that you might pon­der the source and sub­stance of Val­ue in your life.

Are you ready to lift the veil of Maya and see what is behind this Real­i­ty? Are you ready to step through the “Look­ing Glass” and see that there are many real­i­ties to con­sid­er? You (should) answer, “Yes of course I am”…for then you are ready to go on Posei­don’s ride into the depths of understanding.

Venus rules your Val­ues, your notion of what is good, wor­thy and beau­ti­ful. It rules what you need and want. By estab­lish­ing your hier­ar­chy of val­ues you are able to have the right rela­tion­ships with every­thing and every­one in your life. You know what you have, what you can give and what you must get.

Nep­tune rules Illu­mi­na­tion, the pow­er of Clair­voy­ance (Clear-See­ing), the pow­er that dis­solves bound­aries and opens you to the greater real­i­ty you real­ly exist in. You live in an appar­ent (to you) Uni­verse (which is lim­it­ed by your perceptions/assumptions); Nep­tune will con­tin­u­ous­ly keep open­ing the doors of per­cep­tion through­out your life to a greater, more encom­pass­ing real­i­ty called the Mul­ti-Verse, bet­ter known as Chaos (since that is how it appears to you with your more lim­it­ed consciousness).

That is what is real­ly “out there”; the Full­ness of the Glo­ry that is Cre­ation which you can only per­ceive in a lim­it­ed fash­ion. You can only encom­pass, hold to and see by your cir­cum­scribed point of view. Your growth depends upon expand­ing your aware­ness so that your per­cep­tion and under­stand­ing becomes more nuanced, more sub­tle, deep­er and truer.

As you do, you approach the “Truth”, but you can nev­er “touch” it. You become more val­ued as “Wise” to the extent that you also become more hum­bled. Your growth becomes real by let­ting go of your less­er sense of val­ue, your less­er sense of self, so that you might dis­cov­er the greater. Yet that very achieve­ment of a Greater Aware­ness is bal­anced and con­firmed by your ever wax­ing Humil­i­ty. For no mat­ter how far you have come, you still have very, very far to go.…

So, take this won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty today to pierce through your mis­per­cep­tions, con­fu­sions and delu­sions of your own val­ue and worth that will be reflect­ed by and shown to you through your rela­tion­ship with anoth­er. Oppo­si­tions work like that; you see the “thing” or “issue” or “prob­lem” in the oth­er, but it is that “Look­ing Glass”, that mir­ror reflect­ing back upon you some­thing you need to see with­in yourself.

Look at that reflec­tion, imag­ine your­self mov­ing beyond, through the mir­ror and beyond the for­mer val­ues and assump­tions that lim­it you and that relationship…then you will per­ceive that greater space of under­stand­ing and say, “Ah hah! Now I see through a lens more clear­ly, the dark­ness is break­ing into dawn”.

And you smile and exclaim, “Now, I see You!”

And so you shall.…