Steady, steady…Okay, now you are mak­ing progress!

When your Desires, Aims and Actions (Mars) are steered by your Prin­ci­ples and Truths (Jupiter), you are going to expe­ri­ence pos­i­tive results. You are now able to make sig­nif­i­cant advances in under­stand­ing more about, as well as actu­al­ly mov­ing towards, your goals.

Mars is about 1/3 the way through Can­cer now, still seek­ing to meet your needs for find­ing your cen­ter, feel­ing more secure and being nur­tured. Jupiter in Tau­rus caress­es Mars with the under­stand­ing that in order for you to reach that cen­ter, in order to cre­ate that secure space you must first be ground­ed, (in both inner dri­ves and out­er goals), by sig­nif­i­cant, sub­stan­tial and tan­gi­ble val­ues. This greater under­stand­ing of your fun­da­men­tal truths will keep you in the right spir­it and on the right path. 

When you find the wind is at your back and the trail ahead is steady and sure, well then you are ready to shine indeed. Today cel­e­brate this felic­i­tous fusion of Action and Prin­ci­ple, of Ener­gy and Intention.

Right Inten­tion + Right Action = Right Results. Go for it!

Triple Con­junc­tion Ahead!

Here is some­thing you will not see very often…and it is Beau­ti­ful to Behold…if you only had a van­tage point from which to see it! The radi­ance of the Sun is so strong that you can­not see Mer­cury or Venus because of the Sun’s glo­ry, but they are there, lined up with one anoth­er for you now…

The pic­ture below shows a view as if you were sta­tioned above the Sun look­ing down upon the orbits of the inner plan­ets. Earth is on the far left side, then comes Mer­cury, then the Sun, and on the oppo­site side of our Star is Venus. It is quite sim­ply just Beautiful!

“Ah you ask, but what does it mean?”

With the Sun, Mer­cury and Venus (and Earth) aligned, this is indeed a spe­cial moment for inte­gra­tion, under­stand­ing and answers. The Sun, Mer­cury and Venus are all mov­ing through Leo right now so the ques­tion and answers con­cern the Lessons of the Lion. Let’s tease apart this Star­ry Trip­tych to under­stand the mes­sage of the stars.

Sun/Venus
Aphrodite rules val­ue, beau­ty and love; aligned with the Sun (your “self”) she offers you an oppor­tu­ni­ty (lit­er­al­ly) for attune­ment, for the renewed appre­ci­a­tion and under­stand­ing of your val­ue and self-worth. This “Full Moon” of Venus and Sol re-affirms that the source of your val­ue in this Uni­verse, is also the source of Love that binds all as One; it is the Spir­i­tu­al Spark of the Divine Flame which resides in each and every Consciousness.

The Ancient Teach­ings tell us that every space is Sacred Space, from the most micro­cos­mic to the far­thest reach­es of the Cos­mos; and that what is with­in you also sur­rounds you. You exist in this Ocean of Con­scious­ness and that is why you are loved…because you are Love…because you are a sacred space in the Space that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Mercury/Venus
Her­mes mov­ing “back­wards” over Venus is part two of our Trip­tych today. Mer­cury has been help­ing you to review, reassess and revise your thoughts as regards lead­er­ship, respect and love. Aligned with Venus, Mer­cury receives a bless­ing that re-affirms the true source and nature of your leadership-respect-love…that it comes down quite sim­ply to a con­scious acknowl­edge­ment and expe­ri­ence that love is not “out there” so much as it must be first expe­ri­enced “in here”.

Before you can lead out there you must see where you are com­ing from; before you can earn respect out there you must first see your­self; and before you will be expe­ri­ence true, mature and uncon­di­tion­al love out there you must first open your­self to your “Love” in here. This is what you will expe­ri­ence today.

Sun/Mercury
Final­ly, the third pan­el in our Star­ry Trip­tych brings Mer­cury over the Sun. This is the moment in the Mer­cury ret­ro­grade cycle that is most like a New Moon. It is the moment you have been wait­ing for since at least Mer­cury turned ret­ro­grade on August 2 (and prob­a­bly longer), for now you will receive an answer. Are you listening?

For Real­i­ty is such that the Spir­i­tu­al ener­gies and mes­sages of life, and of the Uni­verse gen­er­al­ly, oper­ate in sub­tle ways, in the “in-betweens”; you have to be aware of the whis­per in your ear or the touch of a feath­er more than a “shout out”. Your “self” as your teacher will not “cast its pearls before swine”, but will wait patient­ly for you to be ready, will­ing and able to “become the becoming”.

You must lis­ten now with your head, your heart and your soul. Turn away from the nois­es and dis­trac­tions around you, turn away from the mun­dane and towards the eter­nal and so lis­ten to your own true Self, your high­er Self who is always there seek­ing to guide you.

Today the mes­sage fol­lows the theme of the first two pan­els of our Trip­tych, (you are again remind­ed to align your­self with your Self). But now the empha­sis is on your thoughts about your­self. The Ideas you hold (or hold you), the thoughts that you think…you will become that. The great­est chal­lenge of this stage in human unfold­ment is the devel­op­ment of your mind…and your most impor­tant lessons require you to fol­low a prop­er “diet”…that is, you need to main­tain a prop­er men­tal diet!

The most impor­tant ele­ment of your men­tal aware­ness is that you must always seek to be inspired by your “Self” and so main­tain good thoughts about your­self. You are what you think…so think well! Today you will hear from your own true Self, from your high­er Self who knows you, guides you and loves you uncon­di­tion­al­ly and forever…listen to this mes­sage and then share it, for you need to spread the good word too… 

Remem­ber, you are nev­er alone, you will always be helped…and then you shall turn and help another…for that is “the way”.

Today cel­e­brate your Triple Attune­ment and gaze with won­der at the Beau­ty of your Star­ry Com­pan­ions who dance the dance of Spir­it as you jour­ney togeth­er along the Path­way of Light that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

The Full Moon of Leo (Sun in Leo, Moon in Aquar­ius) serves to illu­mi­nate the rela­tion­ship between your per­son­al need for self-expres­sion, (for cre­ativ­i­ty, lead­er­ship and love), and con­trasts that to your social need to belong, (to be with your friends, com­pan­ions and com­mu­ni­ty), so that you can ful­fill one anoth­er’s dreams.

With the Sun in Leo now you feel the need to stretch your­self, to go beyond the beyond, to dance in that sun­ny spot­light as you per-form, as you dare to go fur­ther, as you seek to be seen for who you are, to be loved for being you.

But as the Bard said “ay, there’s the rub”; you must do this all with­in the social web of your life, with­in your com­mu­ni­ty, with and through your com­pan­ions and friends. You seek to be “you”, but that very you has been formed and informed by the social con­text through which it came into being. You wish to be “true to your­self”, but you want to appre­ci­at­ed, rec­og­nized, respect­ed even hon­ored by your world. What is the prob­lem or chal­lenge with that?

If you too strong­ly express/stretch your­self to be unique you may lose the hon­or and respect you need, (you will be so unique, so “out there” as to lose the con­text and mean­ing that comes from your rela­tion­ships); yet if you too cal­cu­late and mod­i­fy your mes­sage so as to earn that approval, you risk becom­ing “untrue” to your­self, (you might get the applause, but it is for “some­one” else, and you know it).

From the Leo per­spec­tive, if you so empha­size the need to “be you” your audi­ence can­not offer you their appre­ci­a­tion because there is no bridge, no con­nec­tion between your real­i­ty and theirs, (for the very abil­i­ty to con­nect, appre­ci­ate and respond to one anoth­er is found­ed upon our see­ing our­selves in one anoth­er). From the Aquar­i­an point, if you so sub­merge and lose your iden­ti­ty in the group your con­tri­bu­tion becomes worth-less and you will find your­self cast out, (your friends and com­pan­ions will most like­ly sense that you are some­one whose spir­i­tu­al com­pass spins to fit the sit­u­a­tion and they may turn away from you).

The challenge/awareness posed by this Full Moon is about your need to be aware of this rela­tion­ship and the bal­ance between your indi­vid­ual “truth” and your social “sig­nif­i­cance”. You must have both, for one with­out the oth­er is hol­low. You must hon­or your­self and the social web too.

This Full Moon reminds us that we are Danc­ing the Dance of Life. At this moment in the dance, here and now, you must stretch your­self “Meaningfully”…And, you must join with oth­ers “Authen­ti­cal­ly”. It is not whether you are “to be, or not to be”; rather what mat­ters is for you to be true to your­self as a spark of the Divine, and equal­ly true to your com­pan­ions in this great jour­ney of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Dance your Dance of Spirit…as we all join togeth­er and Sing the Celes­tial Cho­rus Song!

This is some week! This is the oth­er “half” of the align­ment I men­tioned on August 9…now it is Plu­to’s turn to call the tune.

Mars is still swim­ming through the waters of Can­cer; dri­ving you to seek nur­tur­ing, to be car­ing and cau­tious, dri­ving you deep­er, homeward…back to your cen­ter. Plu­to the ruler of Will Pow­er and Con­trol is in Capri­corn the sign which gov­erns Tra­di­tion, Insti­tu­tions, Respon­si­bil­i­ty and Order. Plu­to as Will is an agent of spir­i­tu­al devel­op­ment and is now dri­ving the evo­lu­tion of soci­eties and cul­tures towards a great renew­al, to a spir­i­tu­al re-birth; yet those same will­ful ener­gies are being drawn upon by many pow­ers that be to dou­ble-down on the exist­ing order as they seek to per­pet­u­ate their old ways. This strug­gle will play out over the next sev­er­al years. But what are you being asked to face with this align­ment today?

Mars is dri­ving you inward, towards your Core, to your inner val­ues and feel­ings; Plu­to is pulling you out­ward to face the world around you, to deal with Real­i­ty. You will feel a strug­gle, a tug of war, between your inner needs and your out­er respon­si­bil­i­ties, between your home and your career. The ques­tions raised will be: where is your true secu­ri­ty found; what are your duties/responsibilities to the soci­ety around you; are you act­ing too pro­tec­tive­ly of your­self and not evinc­ing enough com­mon or social con­science; or is the order around you fail­ing to pro­vide a mean­ing­ful, sus­tain­able way of liv­ing? These and many oth­er ques­tions are being con­front­ed here. What might you experience?

Per­haps someone/something is pres­sur­ing you, using (or abus­ing) their author­i­ty in order to force you to give way on some mat­ter that is per­son­al, cen­tral and essen­tial to you. Or you feel threat­ened (or you feel enti­tled) and so are attempt­ing to use your pow­er to force some­thing upon another.

Whichev­er it is…it must be stopped! You shall not yield to con­trol, manip­u­la­tion, and intimidation…you must remain cen­tered, strong and res­olute in your spir­i­tu­al integri­ty. Like­wise, you must respect the bound­aries, the spir­i­tu­al integri­ty of oth­ers and not seek to unrea­son­ably sway, influ­ence or in any way “con­trol” another…the only con­trol you need and must have is “Self” Control…everything else is illusion.

Maybe you are being forced to acknowl­edge that some­thing you desired is not right or pos­si­ble any­more; or maybe you real­ize that some new and high­er aspi­ra­tion must take the lead. You and your world are expe­ri­enc­ing major trans­for­ma­tions Now, and you must dig down deep and re-con­nect to Fun­da­men­tal Truths, to the Peren­ni­al Phi­los­o­phy, to the Ancient Teachings…for they are always there to guide you and keep you upon the spir­i­tu­al path of unfold­ment as you seek to become what you will.

The aware­ness that this oppo­si­tion brings is for your spir­i­tu­al advance­ment. To become more con­scious about why/what you desire, to reex­am­ine the nature of your desires, to ques­tion your aspi­ra­tions and to deep­en your expe­ri­ence of what you are and what you are to be.…

Remem­ber you are becom­ing the becom­ing through the prop­er exer­cise of your will with­in a world you con­tin­u­al­ly cre­ate with oth­er will­ing spir­its. You and they have made this real­i­ty that you now con­front as both a ful­fill­ment and obsta­cle to your fur­ther unfoldment.…

The good news is you have made this world; your chal­lenge today (and every­day) is to re-make the world and your­self as you become a ful­ly con­scious shin­ing one, a star among the stars.

Shine on!

Watch Out! This is a chal­leng­ing jux­ta­po­si­tion of ener­gies; some­body is like­ly to get hurt…or hurt them­selves! More­over, this is hap­pen­ing in the con­text of anoth­er pow­er­ful align­ment that cli­max­es on Thurs­day when Mars Oppos­es Pluto.

Togeth­er, that makes this week a warm-up/wake-up call for the grand align­ment of Uranus and Plu­to as they form their Square from 2012 through 2015, (Note well: Their last “big” align­ment, the Con­junc­tion hap­pened in 1965–66)…In oth­er words…This is It! This is a major part of the Great Trans­for­ma­tion that has been unfold­ing and we are now reach­ing a very impor­tant fork in the road, (bet you could­n’t have guessed that giv­en what has hap­pened lately).

We will be expe­ri­enc­ing (and exam­in­ing) the full mean­ing of this pow­er­ful align­ment in 2012 and beyond, so for now let’s just focus upon: What does today’s aspect mean for you?

Mars rules your desires/aims/aspirations, and the actions you take to gain them. Recent­ly arrived in Can­cer, you are feel­ing your way towards what you want now, you are more cau­tious, care­ful and very con­cerned with security.

Uranus in Aries is chal­leng­ing Mars as regards both what you want and how you go after it. Since Uranus reveals what is hid­den in rather dra­mat­ic ways, (it can feel like a light­ning strike with accom­pa­ny­ing thun­der­claps), you tend to pay attention…but what is Uranus “say­ing”?

Uranus is singing the song of orig­i­nal­i­ty, inde­pen­dence and freedom…it is a clar­i­on call to take up the chal­lenge to forge new begin­nings. Mars is in Can­cer, and is focused upon, (or cling­ing to), the proven but old forms of secu­ri­ty, the old ways of cen­ter­ing. What you are expe­ri­enc­ing is The New Age chal­leng­ing the old order.

Uranus is call­ing the tune here; the old ways must be tran­scend­ed if you are to nur­ture your­self or one anoth­er. Yet the truths of Can­cer are “true”, your core val­ues which are what you are cen­tered upon remain the same, always, but the forms they are expe­ri­enced in and expressed through have become worn out. Uranus says you must forge a new path to your cen­ter, you must find new ways to pro­vide secu­ri­ty. It has always been so…

The “trick” or key is not go to the extremes of either/or, of absolute new free­doms or fear-based cling­ing to old forms…Find the Third Way, the way of Integration…the Way of the Spir­i­tu­al Warrior…

That is your way through, through the time of trou­bles that lie ahead, to the New Age that is dawn­ing all around you.

Though it seems to be a time of end­ings, that the sun is set­ting upon this age…Remember, that is always the way the new begin­ning begins…which means you should…

Turn…turn around and face the glo­ry that is rising!