The Door is held open for you…

By those who wait and watch, who guide and inspire…they stand fast, and they will hold the por­tal open till the very last, for this is their ded­i­ca­tion, this their love for you and all of Creation.

They have gone ahead but they have not for­got­ten, they have walked the same path­way you now follow…they under­stand and they offer to you what they can…They are The Watch­ers, the Devas, the Shin­ing Ones, whose Com­pas­sion and Love deflect some of what oth­er­wise might make more dif­fi­cult and delay your jour­ney of unfold­ment and becoming…

These Great Ones are a liv­ing sac­ri­fice, they stand firm as the Bud­dhas of Compassion…and it is today, always at the Full Moon dur­ing the month of Tau­rus, the Scor­pio Full Moon, it is tonight that all the novices and chelas, all the Ini­ti­ates and Mas­ters of the Sacred & Mys­ti­cal schools will bow their heads, they will give thanks…They will dance and sing, chant and pray to cel­e­brate the sub­lime mes­sage and exam­ple which was set before us all by the one known as Sid­dhārtha Gau­ta­ma, The Buddha.

Today, tonight is the cel­e­bra­tion known as the Wesak Fes­ti­val where­in the promise that was made, kept and con­tin­ues to be passed on through this Hier­ar­chy of Love and Com­pas­sion is re-affirmed by the exam­ple set before you by one of your own. For Bud­dha was a human who showed you the way to your Free­dom. He achieved full con­scious­ness through self-striv­ing, freed from the uncon­scious he is the self-anoint­ed, The Enlightened…The Bud­dha walked the path that you walk now.…to unfold your poten­tial as you seek to become a Spir­it freed from the Karmic Cycle of Death and Rebirth.

The Bud­dha, as Teacher and Guide, whose bound­less love is the Com­pas­sion­ate Bridge, offers you a clear­er way to your destiny.…And, it is this Full Moon tonight which pro­vides a beau­ti­ful illus­tra­tion of the core prin­ci­ple of the Bud­dha’s Teach­ing, (which is one of the cen­tral Pil­lars of the Ancient Teachings)…

This core prin­ci­ple is that your true nature, your true being, is Spir­it. At the core of you, the high­est part of you, (which is always “in heav­en”), is quite sim­ply a spark of the One Divine Prin­ci­ple which is the Foun­tain-Source of the Uni­verse. Your jour­ney, begun as an unself-con­scious spark of the Divine, moves out through the Uni­verse so that the One can become man­i­fest in all the var­i­ous dimen­sions of Cre­ation. To do this, you move through forms, sur­round­ing your­self with vehi­cles of man­i­fes­ta­tion that per­mit you to expe­ri­ence each dimen­sion of real­i­ty as you grow into greater and greater con­scious aware­ness. You tru­ly are spir­it mov­ing through the worlds of mat­ter, spir­it in the mate­r­i­al world.

Yet, as you move into any form of val­ue you become attached to that form…which leads to suf­fer­ing. You, a spark of the Divine, descend into forms that delight you…but these very forms lim­it you too. These vehi­cles of man­i­fes­ta­tion per­mit the exer­cise and growth of your under­stand­ing and pow­ers, but because these forms are lim­it­ed, because they are imper­ma­nent, they weak­en and fail, and you suffer…and you often for­get, for a while, your Divine nature.

Bud­dha taught that the way through these worlds of mat­ter, of Val­ue-Formed was to devel­op the mid­dle path, the noble “way of non-attach­ment”. Your truth is Spir­it! You are Spir­it mov­ing through the forms of Cre­ation, you bring life and con­scious­ness to these forms, but you must not iden­ti­fy or become stuck with­in any form. Nei­ther glam­oured by the Beau­ty of Val­ue beyond form, or by the won­drous glo­ries of the Val­ues in Form, you must be the Con­scious­ness in Motion, the Dancer who dances the spi­ral Song of Spir­it in and through Form­less­ness and Formation.

This is the mes­sage of the Full Moon dur­ing Tau­rus, of the Scor­pio Full Moon, of Bud­dha’s Moon. For Tau­rus cel­e­brates Embod­i­ment, it is the great­est surge of val­ue tak­ing form, of the word made flesh, of beau­ty and val­ue exalt­ed. The desire for and attach­ment to form is nev­er greater as life, and beau­ty and love are surg­ing through and around you.

Yet the mes­sage of the Full Moon of Scor­pio is that all of this is only for a time, that all things must even­tu­al­ly pass away and return to formlessness…so that Spir­it and Val­ue may be Free to come into new forms…again and again. You must and should cel­e­brate beau­ty and fruit­ful­ness, to take joy in the abun­dance of life and love well lived…yet be equal­ly ready and at ease in releas­ing your spir­it from these forms when the day is done.

The mes­sage of Bud­dha, the mes­sage of this Scor­pio Moon, is that the great­est real­iza­tion of val­ue comes when you are able to be unat­tached to the forms of value…that as you cel­e­brate your move­ment through the forms of val­ue you under­stand and accept that you can­not tar­ry in any one form of value.

Reach­ing this state of non-attach­ment, you can be at peace with the things of this world and with one another…self-possessed and non-pos­ses­sive, you move beyond fear…

You move clos­er, into the Greater Awareness…

Your love unbound­ed, uncon­di­tion­al and true…

Even­tu­al­ly you will cross that thresh­old, between the dark­ness and the light, join­ing those who have come before you.…

And you will turn, like they who stand, watch and wait…

To extend your love to those that follow…

As you wait and hold the door.…

For those who fol­low you…

Into the Light.

Well this is nice, yes very nice indeed! Mer­cury and Venus will form this aspect sev­er­al times a year, either before, dur­ing or after a Mer­cury retrograde…and each time it is a real gift for you.

Mer­cury the Mes­sen­ger rules your thoughts and Venus the Beau­ti­ful rules your values…so when they com­bine in this benef­ic aspect you find your­self in that sweet­est of spots, you are at ease with your­self as you observe, under­stand and share what mat­ters to you to most.

Today is a day to share with one anoth­er the beau­ty of the day, to take your delight in artis­tic diver­sions or in one anoth­er. You will find your rela­tion­ships more effort­less, mean­ing­ful and reward­ing as you are guid­ed by a kinder con­sid­er­a­tion for one another.

Today your Mind and Heart find that del­i­cate bal­ance, you walk the noble path, the path of know­ing-lov­ing gra­cious­ness which comes with beau­ty shared.

May you walk togeth­er, for­ev­er in Beauty!

Today, your Infi­nite Poten­tial resides with­in your Per­fect Space, your Spark of the Divine embod­ied by your Lov­ing Will…Poised and bal­anced, you move to cre­ate a more per­fect world with­in and without…

It is said, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”…Or, bet­ter, as it is passed down from “mouth to ear” through the Ancient Teach­ings, “Through your Will you will make your Way”…

The Sun rep­re­sents your Cen­ter, the source of your ever-unfold­ing poten­tial wait­ing to be real­ized and so released by you in your jour­ney from unself-con­scious spark of the Divine to ful­ly awak­ened Co-Cre­ator of this Cos­mos. To bring out this poten­tial requires the ever-unfold­ing cre­ation of a Sacred Space to hold the won­der that is you.

Plu­to, the Lord of Will and Bound­aries, is the final arbiter in this sys­tem for this unfold­ment of your potential…For although that poten­tial is tru­ly bound­less it must take place with­in and so unfold (as it devel­ops, expands and trans­forms) in your Sacred Space.

Of course your space is Sacred, but so are all of the “spaces of Space” around you…because all of Space, which is a Full­ness not an empti­ness, a true Plero­ma, is equal­ly Ensouled by a mag­nif­i­cent host of Shin­ing Ones, a mul­ti­tude of ever-unfold­ing con­scious beings, who, like you, are ever striv­ing to move toward their Greater Under­stand­ing too.

That is why one of the great­est pre­cepts or Laws of this Cos­mos is the invi­o­la­bil­i­ty of these infi­nite Sacred Spaces with­in which each and every spark of the Divine resides. As it is said in many ways, in all lands and in all ancient teach­ings, “Thou shall not Trespass”…

You as a spark of the Divine, a being endowed with a Will to Become, must ever strive to cre­ate your world with­in a space that is sacred and secure…but you must do this as you equal­ly relate to the spaces around you with rev­er­ence and love…for what sur­rounds you are the sacred spaces of your fel­low sparks of the Divine.

Today is a day that you are remind­ed that your Spark of the Divine, the Mon­ad or core of you, and your Divine Will, that which is ever at work to define your sacred space, find their most per­fect expres­sion when you under­stand the pre­cept that the only con­trol you need or are indeed per­mit­ted to express is Self-Control.…all else is fol­ly, dan­ger­ous and leads to darkness.

Today you cel­e­brate, because your ever-expand­ing, lumi­nous cre­ation is one of the count­less songs that fill the spaces of Space with the Light Divine.

Today your will, in an ever grow­ing align­ment with the Divine Will, pre­serves, pro­tects and expands your sacred space of self-real­iza­tion in a more con­scious har­mo­ny with the sacred Space that sur­rounds you.

Today you find your Path in that most Ancient Invo­ca­tion to be ever observed as you wing your Way to the Greater Under­stand­ing, that for­ev­er and always…

“Let Thy Will be Done”!

Remember…Your Life is not about “winning”…Life, your Jour­ney, from form to form, from life to life, from world to world, your jour­ney is about the unfold­ment of your Consciousness…It is about you mov­ing into the Greater Understanding…That is why you came before, that is why you are here now…and why you must keep com­ing back…It is all so you can become, to unfold from with­in your­self, what you are meant to be…And you will do this, more and more, as you come into a more inclu­sive aware­ness, for that is the key to this Greater Understanding…

But now, in the heat of the moment, when you or some oth­er have “truth” (or an agen­da) on your side, well then all Under­stand­ing is put aside…it all comes down to Will and Power…it all comes down to being Right and Righteous…

That is cer­tain­ly the issue when Mer­cury Squares Pluto.…Communications can turn into a “zero-sum” game, there will seem to be a win­ner, and a loser…but nobody real­ly “wins”, nobody moves that way into the Greater Understanding…because when force trumps Under­stand­ing there is an equal dimin­ish­ment of Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, Rea­son and Truth.

The Pow­er of the Will, the Pow­er of Plu­to is best employed when it is turned back upon one­self in order to dig deep­er, to ques­tion, to reex­am­ine and so renew one­self. In this con­text, when applied to Mer­cury, it gives you an oppor­tu­ni­ty to dive deep­er into your assump­tions and those self-made “facts” and see behind those shad­owed data-points. Plu­to pro­vides the laser-like pow­er to go beyond the Phe­nom­e­na, the appear­ances of things, and seek out the Noume­na, that which stands behind your appar­ent real­i­ty, what is the under­ly­ing cause or thing-in-itself.

Rather than seek­ing to bend anoth­er’s thoughts to your own, or sub­mit to their entreaties or demands, instead of this you must stand in the Cen­ter and try and under­stand what is real­ly the issue, what is real­ly the point of this encounter.

You will find that your real task is to mas­ter your own mind, which is no easy challenge…especially giv­en the dis­tract­ing times we move through. Your mind seems to be for­ev­er dash­ing about and chas­ing after itself, pro­pelled to flit from one per­cep­tion after anoth­er, one stim­u­lus or idea after another…and you find that there is no peace, no center…All that infor­ma­tion, all of that sophis­ti­ca­tion and being so “au courant” leads you away from your true self and to a lack of real understanding.

You need to use this gift of Will to still those swirling, whirling dervish­es in your mind…You need to move into the Silence which is a Full­ness, into the Sacred Space where­in waits your High­er Self…Who has always been there, patient­ly abiding…whispering, inspir­ing, encour­ag­ing you all the while to do the Good.

You have questions…you will have your answers…

But it is not “out there”…

Be Still

Be Cen­tered

Be com­fort­ed for you are nev­er alone…

Wait…and the beloved will come…

And you will Understand.

You are mov­ing for­ward now…and with a greater purpose!

The Sun (the ever-unfold­ing poten­tial with­in you) and Mars (your aspi­ra­tions and actions) align favor­ably again today. Hav­ing received your insight about where you are going (and how you might get there) back on March 3, you are ready to put into motion your heart’s desire.

The Sun is mov­ing through Tau­rus now, pro­vid­ing a strong, steady pur­pose­ful­ness so you can cre­ate, improve and pre­serve your most impor­tant val­ues. Today you arrive at this per­fect align­ment with Mars in Vir­go, which helps to shape your present quest for val­ue by adding a more dis­cern­ing sensibility.

Some­times the quest for val­ue becomes sim­ply about more val­ue, for more of more, which will always lead to phys­i­cal waste­ful­ness as well as spir­i­tu­al pover­ty. You have a need to estab­lish a hier­ar­chy of val­ue in your world, of what is good and how much is good…By doing this, you learn to live in har­mo­ny, cre­at­ing an order with­in and an order with­out that is in bal­ance with your­self and your world…You are then said to walk the path of Grace, you “Live and Walk in Beauty”.

Mars in Vir­go pro­vides the means to dis­cern, devel­op and apply this sen­si­bil­i­ty of a mean­ing­ful order in your life as you align your Val­ues and Actions with your high­er self. You can cre­ate a Hier­ar­chy of Val­ue and a Liv­ing-Way that is worthwhile…You can enjoy the val­ues that you cre­ate, con­sume and share because you are liv­ing a life that is right and true.

Cel­e­brate your Spir­i­tu­al Abundance…Ever-Unfolding, behold the Bound­less Beauty.

Find your Full­ness in Simplicity.…your Val­ue mea­sured by your Grace.

And may you fol­low the one true noble path…

May you Walk in Beau­ty for­ev­er and ever…