Trip­tych Teach­ings — Part Two

Lat­er on Wednes­day, part two of your Trip­tych les­son unfolds…And it is tru­ly a time­ly gift from your plan­e­tary companions!

Mars, rul­ing Desire and Action, takes about two years to com­plete its cir­cuit of the Solar Sys­tem and will come back to Sat­urn, the Ruler of Form and Real­i­ty, in this their Con­junc­tion, which is like a New Moon, in just over two years. Their align­ment her­alds a New Begin­ning in the cycle that gov­erns your efforts to real­ize your desires by form­ing them, pour­ing and shap­ing them into your Real­i­ty Structure.

The typ­i­cal inter­pre­ta­tion of Mars with Sat­urn is full of warn­ings about frus­tra­tion, anger and accidents…really?! This is a pow­er­ful con­junc­tion but the mis­use of their com­bined ener­gies lies not with Mars or Sat­urn, but with a lack of under­stand­ing about the way in which ener­gy and mat­ter com­bine togeth­er to form your universe.

You move out­ward, through and by your desires (Mars), you move out­ward to ful­fill your­self and your dreams. To do so, you act with­in the world of form (Sat­urn), shap­ing it into some sem­blance of what you imag­ined your world should be. You pour your­self into forms and there­by both real­ize but at the same time lim­it your­self into those very forms…you ful­fill your­self, yet it can only last so long. For you are con­tin­u­ous­ly devel­op­ing your­self from with­in out­wards, and the world around you is con­stant­ly chang­ing as well…so the forms you made becomes less and less rel­e­vant as you and every­one else con­tin­ue to grow.

The Con­junc­tion of Mars and Sat­urn her­alds the moment in which you begin a new cycle of Desire and Form, of Action and Accom­plish­ment. You need to release your­self from the no longer ade­quate, those old­er forms of self-real­iza­tion. Mars and Sat­urn join to light the way so that you may move to cre­ate new forms of growth, new forms of self-man­i­fes­ta­tion. Their con­junc­tion forms a bea­con to inspire you to cre­ate a bet­ter real­i­ty for the world you wish to move through.

This process is often hard and not with­out pain. Why? Because you have become attached to the famil­iar, you are habit­u­at­ed to the old forms, to your old ways and means…In order to grow, you must let go…but you often resist and so bring about the very pain and suf­fer­ing that many asso­ciate with this aspect.

This need not be your “fate”…You always have a choice. You can always find a bet­ter way…and you will find that way through under­stand­ing. This path of greater under­stand­ing is shown to you now by the Space where Mars and Sat­urn meet with one another…and that Space is found in the way of Libra.

This year, Mars and Sat­urn align, like one Star, in the sign of Libra. Their mes­sage is sim­ple yet pro­found: Desire and Action (Mars), Form and Real­i­ty (Sat­urn) must be guid­ed, formed and so ful­filled through mutu­al­ly agreed upon prin­ci­ples and val­ues that you share with your fel­low trav­el­ers, your trust­ed com­pan­ions, your com­rades in arms.

The Truth of Mars meet­ing Sat­urn in Libra is that your self-real­iza­tions, the meet­ing of your heart’s desire, can only be met, can only be accom­plished with the coop­er­a­tion and/or par­tic­i­pa­tion with many, many oth­ers. Your self-ful­fill­ment depends upon these oth­ers, as your self-real­iza­tion becomes a means to cre­ate their ful­fill­ment too…For only togeth­er can you make your way back to the source, back to your home in the stars…

You are part of a glo­ri­ous, shin­ing host of spir­it seek­ing to become ever more ful­filled, ever more resplendent…Always and for­ev­er, you unfold your poten­tials for your­self and for one anoth­er too…today you begin anew…again.

There is one more les­son, one more pan­el in these Trip­tych Teach­ings to guide you today, so let’s take a look at what Venus and Uranus offer up to light your way…

Trip­tych Teach­ings — Part One

Okay…you had bet­ter take a deep breath…no deep­er! Today and tomor­row, you encounter anoth­er triple align­ment; three inter-linked lessons of life from the cos­mos served up and deliv­ered to you!

First, there is Venus oppo­site Plu­to, then lat­er today Mars con­juncts Sat­urn and final­ly late Wednes­day into Thurs­day Venus squares Uranus…Wow!

When “per­son­al” plan­ets like Venus or Mars make “hard” encoun­ters with out­er plan­ets, there is a pre­sid­ing belief that it just will not go well. But, what you need to know is that these align­ments are just forms of ener­gy that are meet­ing up with one anoth­er, they com­bine and trans­form one another…and that you, being part of this mar­velous cos­mos will be trans­formed too.

For every­thing in the Uni­verse is con­scious, every part of the uni­verse is a con­scious­ness that is unfold­ing and devel­op­ing. That growth, that devel­op­ment takes place as each con­scious­ness unfolds its poten­tial from with­in itself and encoun­ters, com­bines and is trans­formed through the rela­tion­ships it has with oth­er all the oth­er forms of con­scious­ness that trav­el with it. This Jour­ney of Spir­it, seek­ing to know itself, is a won­drous, shin­ing and ever-unfold­ing, ever-evolv­ing host of count­less minds…it is the radi­ant spi­ral of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it with­in the one great mind of Spirit.

The ques­tion real­ly, each and every day, is: Are you ready to unfold and become, to grow? Tru­ly, the ques­tion is: Do you under­stand your jour­ney? For there are no good or bad plan­ets, no good or bad aspects…There is growth (through Faith and Under­stand­ing) and less growth (through Fear and Igno­rance). That’s it!

For as you face it, as you believe it…so shall it be for you. You must choose, (and the great good news is) you can choose the life you wish to cre­ate, the life you wish to live…for you are the dream­er dream­ing Creation.

The first encounter on Wednes­day is pro­found, that is cer­tain­ly true. Venus rules what you hold most dear, your val­ue of you…your love. Plu­to, the Lord of Will and Trans­for­ma­tion, the Cre­ator and Pro­tec­tor of Sacred Space will bring to bear his Will upon Venus today…

For Love depends upon this, it depends upon the Sacred­ness of your Space, the space that you call “you”… To be you, you cre­ate a space that is inte­gral, whole and true. But the truth of it is, (and how else could it be?)…so is every oth­er space, all the spaces of space that sur­round you too…they are all sacred cen­ters, each hav­ing a con­scious­ness cen­ter at its core. Each and every evolv­ing con­scious­ness devel­ops with­in its space formed by Will, pro­tect­ed and made a Holy Con­scious Space, for each con­tains a spark of the Divine and is a sacred, con­scious con­tain­er of Spirit…a con­tain­er of Love.

The Oppo­si­tion of Plu­to to Venus illus­trates this Prin­ci­ple: that one must regard all of space as Sacred. Each cen­ter of con­scious­ness exists in Spa­tial Sacred­ness and each must have some form of Will to cre­ate such space…But, and here it does get chal­leng­ing, each con­scious­ness cen­ter must be care­ful to not mis­use that willpow­er, for to do so would be to tres­pass upon the space of another.

That is often what you encounter when you or anoth­er is less aware of this prin­ci­ple, of this fun­da­men­tal truth. You meet anoth­er who, per­haps for the best of inten­tions, wish­es to change you, make you into some­thing, per­haps to make you “bet­ter”, make you love them or what­ev­er. Like­wise, this is what you may stum­ble into when you try to change anoth­er against their will too…and when they or you do this, you fall into error…you mis­use your willpow­er, you fall…why? You fall because of your Fear.

You fear that if you do not con­trol it or them, you will lose…and by try­ing to con­trol them, by tres­pass­ing upon their sacred space, you do lose…you lose your­self, (only for a time, but you might lose them, that rela­tion­ship, too).

The Venus/Pluto les­son here is the les­son of Bound­aries and Self-Control…the right and prop­er exer­cise of your will fol­lows from the right and prop­er rela­tion­ship you have with your­self. That right rela­tion­ship with your Self is found by you as you secure your uncon­di­tion­al love for your­self, the love which emanates, flows and embraces you and which comes from with­in, from your High­er Self.

Your Love is bestowed by, is the essence of, the Spir­it which is at the core of you…it is You. Hav­ing this true self-love, pos­sess­ing this, you are com­plete in your­self, free yet cir­cum­scribed by the under­stand­ing that each being around is just like you too. You are then free to love anoth­er with­out the false need (from fear) of want­i­ng to con­trol or “own” them…You are Lov­ing, you are Free and you can meet them in a shared sacred space of free­dom too!

But Venus and Plu­to are not the only movers of today…there are two more pan­els, two more dances in your Trip­tych Teach­ings to understand…So, let us see what Mars and Sat­urn have brought your way…

Venus is swim­ming, splash­ing through those car­ing, embrac­ing and nur­tur­ing waters of Cancer…and so you remem­ber, you re-affirm and recon­nect to your source, to your val­ue of you, to your per­son­al mem­o­ries, to what is true for you and your love…

Today Venus receives a lov­ing caress as Nep­tune draws you into her Pis­cean Seas…You pass through the appear­ances of real­i­ty, beyond the veils and into her mys­te­ri­ous, dream­ing ocean­ic depths…where all are met and found as one…

Today Venus, through which you val­ue your­self and love the oth­er, who rules your per­son­al affec­tions, the home of your beat­ing heart of love, today you with Venus go beyond and through, as your soul is drawn up into the Trans-Per­son­al way…because today you are touched by the Lord of Uni­ver­sal Love…

Today, through Nep­tune, you can feel the con­nec­tion between I and Thou as being more than just hap­pen­stance or fortune…you real­ize that it is your des­tiny, your kar­ma that has built this bridge, this sym­pa­thy of under­stand­ing, of soul to soul, of heart to heart…

For the great illu­sion is Separation…

Your Shin­ing Truth, felt so strong today…

Is all are One…as all are Loved as ones of the One…

Each one by love reflects this Great Love…this Uncon­di­tion­al Joy…

That keeps each and every on the path, reach­ing upwards, towards the Light…

So that each will find their own true way…

By love, through love…

The only Way.

“Stop, hey, what’s that sound
Every­body look what’s going down…”
(For What It’s Worth, by Buf­fa­lo Springfield)

There was more…yes, there was much more than just Venus slip­ping into those wel­com­ing Waters of Can­cer yesterday…

Some­one else was turn­ing too…Slowing down, stand­ing still and paus­ing before the mighty Por­tals of Consciousness…Mercury stood still…and so did your thinking…

You must have sensed it, a shift of ener­gies, a turn­ing in your awareness…a change of tem­pera­ment too…However, what­ev­er and when­ev­er it came through you, you turned too…For you are part of this won­drous sys­tem of Planetaries…and so you there, danc­ing with your com­pan­ions, you turned with Mer­cury too…

For three weeks, you have gone with­in, dig­ging deep into your mind. You were giv­en a mar­velous oppor­tu­ni­ty to ques­tion, re-exam­ine and repair your assump­tions, atti­tudes and thought-forms…You faced delays in projects, agree­ments were put on hold, you encoun­tered mount­ing misunderstandings…for what? So that you could look again at the ques­tion, at the mat­ter, at the oth­er before you and Re-Con­sid­er…You had to go back before you went on…for this is The Way.

This is the Way of Con­scious­ness, this the way of life, this is the way of your journey…This is The Way. You do not trav­el as if fol­low­ing a straight line, nor is it a sim­ple circle…You trav­el with­in a spi­ral dance of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it, that flows and sweeps along as it fash­ions your world, because it is your world…and so you must sweep and bow, dip and rise too…and so you will grow into the Greater Understanding…

So, take a breath…it is dif­fer­ent now. You can and must go for­ward… you will make it bet­ter now. You have pon­dered the mys­tery of Mer­cury in Leo…you know bet­ter how to think cre­ative­ly, respec­tive­ly…Lov­ing­ly…

You can go for­ward now with your love of self and for the oth­er too…

You can release the beau­ty with­in to join the beau­ty without…

You are ready to go for­ward and be the source…

You turn, you choose…The Way.

It’s time…and it has been a long time coming…but the turn­ing is here…Finally!

It is time for you (and your val­ues) to set­tle down, to take a breath and focus…it is time to dwell with­in and dote upon your car­ing and nur­tur­ing self…it is time for you to deep­en, cher­ish and secure the core of you…for your love, for your life.

Venus has been in Gem­i­ni for a long, long, long time…it has been trip­ping through that divert­ing-dis­tract­ing-rest­less-frac­tal realm since April! (Usu­al­ly Venus is a sign for about a month…it has been in Gem­i­ni Four Times as long as usu­al!) No won­der you have had a hard time focus­ing on what you want!

Appar­ent­ly, the Uni­verse want­ed you (and every­one else) to have an extend­ed expe­ri­ence of hav­ing an appre­ci­a­tion for a diver­si­ty of val­ues, a cir­cuitous trip to explore the myr­i­ad ways you can take the mea­sure (and plea­sure) of the world around you…

But that all ends today…for today you turn away from think­ing about val­ue, you turn away from pars­ing your pleasures…today you turn…towards what makes you feel whole, to what brings you back to center…today you come back to your­self, today your val­ues come home again.

What you want, what you tru­ly need is the warm­ing embrace of your past, which will inform your present and show you the way to your future too. You will find that your cher­ished mem­o­ries rise up to meet your present, and as they do, you mar­vel in a release of echoes as the fra­grances of the famil­iar lift you up. You walk in an ever-present déjà-vu that caress­es you with the glo­ri­ous feel­ing that all is right, all is true…that you are home, that you are cared for and caring…and that you are going to be okay.

Today Venus slips into Water…she brings you home to what has always been your cen­ter, what has always been your source…

Venus brings you to the core of you, where a spark of the Divine shines bright and true and is everlasting…

Venus rev­els and rejoic­es as you feel the truth of it…

This is Love…You are Love…

And every­thing is going to be okay.