Eighty-two days (and nights)…that’s how long you have trav­elled on that dim-lit path, your world with­in, for 82 long, long days…This is how you have been there…Bending back, return­ing, review­ing, reclaim­ing, restoring…so that you might bet­ter under­stand and move to fulfill…you and your heart’s desire…

For almost 12 weeks, you have jour­neyed through the re-con­sid­er­a­tion of what mat­ters to you, of what you tru­ly desire, and of how you might obtain it. You have had this oppor­tu­ni­ty to go back and make sure that the aims you have and the actions that you employ ring true…to make sure that you are on your path and walk­ing it well…

Now you are at the next turning…for Mars is turn­ing Direct!

This is your time to move ahead, your time to aim a lit­tle higher…and so move your aspi­ra­tions into a greater real­i­ty. Hav­ing done your ret­ro­spec­tive and brought your inner and out­er worlds into a bet­ter align­ment, now you are ready to move through the world with a greater integration…and integrity.

Your bear­ing, demeanor and pres­ence are clear­er so that your authen­tic self is appar­ent to all. You can be your­self because you move through the world with a new­found pur­pose­ful­ness and a deep­er Virtuosity…

Pro­grams, plans and activ­i­ties that have seemed on hold, caught with­in the dol­drums of your jour­ney, for a time out­ward­ly direc­tion­less because that was the point of this pause…now they all can become engaged and car­ried out. Your phys­i­cal renew­al, emo­tion­al con­nect­ed­ness, men­tal clar­i­ty and spir­i­tu­al intent align to inform and light your path ahead.

Right think­ing is your Foun­tain-Source for Right Action…

Right Action leads to Right­eous results…

The path of self-mas­tery is your one true way forward…

This is your jour­ney, dhar­ma to karma…

You on the path of Truth.

Plu­to, Lord of Will and the Col­lec­tive Uncon­scious, the Lord of the Under­world, is going deep­er still…For the next five months you are offered this oppor­tu­ni­ty to do a lit­tle dig­ging into your very own per­son­al, sub­ter­ranean depths…

That’s right, it is time to turn around, grab a lamp and take that cir­cuitous path­way through the cat­a­combs of your inner world. Plu­to, one of the three aspects of the Divine with­in you (Uranus/Mind, Neptune/Love and Pluto/Will) is the Lord and Mak­er of Boundaries…

With­in your space, cen­tered upon your spir­i­tu­al core (the mon­ad with­in) you mark off and define the bound­aries of your life so as to define your sacred space as you sep­a­rate your­self from all the oth­er sacred spaces that sur­round you. Your sacred space and exer­cise of your free will is cir­cum­scribed by your lev­el of con­scious­ness. The more spir­i­tu­al­ly aware you become, the more you become free-willed and your life less “fat­ed”. (And, the more igno­rant and unaware you remain, the more your life will seem to just hap­pen to you.…because you remain unaware of what you have set in motion…of how you have bound­ed your­self by your unconsciousness).

Through the count­less lives of your unfold­ment, as well as ear­li­er in this cur­rent life, you have tak­en many steps, set many things in motion by your will, some with greater aware­ness but some with less…and so you have also cre­at­ed shad­ows with­in your sacred space. With­in those shad­ows lie ener­gies that are trapped, unpro­duc­tive if not destruc­tive to you and to others…they are whirls of ener­gy, of spir­it-mat­ter that loop around with­in and around you (they are what mod­ern sci­ence call “emo­tion­al com­plex­es”, “com­pul­sions”, “pho­bias”, “neu­roses”, etc.)

Now with Plu­to turn­ing, you have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to dig into those bound­ed but unpro­duc­tive spaces with­in your space, to lift up your aware­ness a lit­tle high­er and so make freer your spirit…You can release your­self from this lev­el of pur­ga­to­ry, of self-bondage, from this lev­el of lim­it­ed consciousness…as you walk the path­way that leads you to the Greater Understanding.

The goal, of course, is to reach the end of this human part of your jour­ney, to cre­ate the sacred space of you that is clear, unshad­owed, lumi­nous and ful­ly con­scious. The goal is to pass through that por­tal where the exem­plars and teach­ers gone before you, to become a shin­ing one endowed with Cos­mic Con­scious­ness, to be as Krish­na, Bud­dha, Christ and many, many others.

But for now, at this turn­ing, what is required is the next lit­tle step, the next jour­ney with­in so as to clear and clean your sacred space and make it a more fit­ting home for the being who lives there…

Let Plu­to take you down, into your pit of the shad­ows that you your­self have made…and take com­fort in that knowledge…that you made these shadows…and you can unmake them as well…

Your goal is before you…Three core prin­ci­ples to ful­fill your destiny…

A Free Mind…Unconditional Love…Centered Will…

Now…Take your next step…

Ah…this is more like it…or bet­ter yet, the way you feel today, what’s not to like!

When Venus in Gem­i­ni encoun­ters Inde­pen­dent, Inven­tive and Indi­vid­u­al­is­tic Uranus…well let’s just say your self-appre­ci­a­tion and socia­bil­i­ty are all abuzz (not to men­tion your taste buds!)

Venus in Gem­i­ni is all about curios­i­ty, diver­si­ty and exper­i­men­ta­tion; now Venus enjoys the good graces of Uranus who brings his bless­ings of Open­ness and Orig­i­nal­i­ty. You feel com­fort­able in mov­ing out­side your ordi­nary, stretch­ing your appre­ci­a­tion for the delights of a wider world of sen­sa­tion. Go ahead, why not enjoy some­thing beyond the every­day, that’s right, give your­self a treat!

On the social side, you draw clos­er to each oth­er pre­cise­ly because you can now find in them (and they in you) some undis­cov­ered facet of life, some rev­e­la­tion of your­self. For that is how you become more than your conditioning…your self-unfold­ment is quick­ened by the mutu­al elic­i­ta­tion of one another.

You have and hold to one anoth­er by what you already share; you grow togeth­er, life after life, by help­ing one anoth­er move into those undis­cov­ered reach­es that lie with­in and equal­ly around you.

Look into the fath­om­less mys­tery, gaze into your beloved’s eyes…for what looks back upon you is beyond your imagining.

Today there is mag­ic in a taste, in a touch and in that smile…

Today you are becoming…and it is magical.

Anoth­er day, anoth­er challenge…but this one is “per­son­al”.

Venus rules your Val­ues and she is present­ly skip­ping through those diverse, play­ful and mul­ti­fac­eted delights that Gem­i­ni enjoys. Mars rules your Actions and he has spent quite a while now in Vir­go, all the while attempt­ing to steer you upon a more dis­cern­ing, duti­ful and cir­cum­spect way of being.

Hmm?…Diversity vs. Focus, Play­ful vs. Dutiful…It sure seems as if you have a con­flict on your hands! But, as always, it is just the uni­verse remind­ing you that it is all about you and your jour­ney, work­ing on “The Bal­ance”, stay­ing upon the noble path that comes through syn­the­sis and integration.

After all, you are self-con­scious spir­it and your trip through the Human King­dom is pre­cise­ly for you to fig­ure this stuff out! The low­er life forms fol­low their instincts (they have lit­tle choice), and the beings beyond us…well they are way above and beyond you and your lev­el of under­stand­ing (though they do ren­der assistance)…so you must face and learn from your “Chal­lenge of Choice”.

What do you do in this square, in this chal­lenge between your val­ues and your actions? Venus is cer­tain­ly hav­ing fun in those airy, intel­lec­tu­al pur­suits of the dif­fer­ent and divert­ing, jump­ing from here to there, form­ing new con­nec­tions and con­cepts of what is good, of where and how you find, make and share the val­ues in your life.

Now here comes Mars shap­ing Venus, lay­ing down the oth­er side of the Mer­cu­r­ial Prin­ci­ple, Mars is demand­ing of Venus, “What use is this Diver­si­ty, what pur­pose does it serve, and in the end, is it mak­ing you and your life more whole, inte­grat­ed and at peace?” Venus, may reply, “But I am hav­ing Fun, and this is how to learn”…to which Mars will say…

“Maybe, or maybe you are just amused and amus­ing to oth­ers and noth­ing will come of this”…In oth­er words, Venus and Mars are speak­ing from dif­fer­ent spaces, each true to them­selves in their own space, but seem­ing­ly inco­her­ent or threat­en­ing to the other.

What is the answer? Both are right, both are true…but each must take a turn and not pre­sume or assume that they are in the right or that the oth­er is in the wrong. That just will not do. You have to work so that Venus in Gem­i­ni and Mars in Vir­go come to an under­stand­ing that they each are nec­es­sary to one anoth­er, so that you may have a com­plete and bal­anced, inte­grat­ed and ful­fill­ing expe­ri­ence of Right Actions guid­ed by Mean­ing­ful Values.

Yes Venus, you may have to curb or restrain some of that enthu­si­asm for the out of the ordi­nary, because there are lim­its to how much stim­u­la­tion you can health­ful­ly expe­ri­ence. But, Mars you too will have to con­cede that often some of your very own won­der­ful sys­tems, order­ings and peace­ful ways of being were dis­cov­ered by chance, by the very curios­i­ty you find so disturbing.

Yes Mars, bring your dis­cern­ing cri­tique to bear on Venus’ delights, but do not for­get that won­der­ment (and youth­ful­ness) are the core prin­ci­ples of your inner spir­it. And, Venus, you too must remem­ber that though more is cer­tain­ly more, you will find the high­est spir­i­tu­al val­ue comes by sim­plic­i­ty and service.

Really…it is always this way…as in most Spir­i­tu­al lessons…

When faced with con­tra­dic­tions, when con­found­ed by the ener­gies of the Uni­verse pulling you one way and another.…

There is only one path that you can walk…The Path of Integration…

You rise above your cri­sis and find (again) that you have this oppor­tu­ni­ty to lift your­self to a high­er lev­el of consciousness…

You do this by your unique res­o­lu­tion of what had been in conflict…They have joined now because of and through your greater understanding.…

And so you move closer…that much clos­er to the Light!

Go out­side tonight…turn and face the East­ern hori­zon, and watch as your majes­tic, lumi­nous Luna rises…

Yes, she cer­tain­ly is beautiful…and big! Not only is it a Full Moon but she is at her Perigee or clos­est approach to Earth too…so all those “Tides”, Ocean­ic and Emo­tion­al, are going to be high­er than nor­mal! When­ev­er there is a Full Moon, you have to watch your­self (and oth­ers) because the ener­gies pour­ing through you are at a very high pitch. So, enjoy this spe­cial surge of forces through and around you, but stay cen­tered and calm, mind­ful and considerate.

This is the First Full Moon in the Astro­log­i­cal Year, the Sun in Aries and the Moon in Libra. Just as a New Moon releas­es a new theme of inspi­ra­tion in that sign’s expe­ri­ence for you, so too does the Full Moon 14 days lat­er bring to you a rev­e­la­tion of meaning.

The mes­sage of the Libra Full Moon is about your ever-present need to find the bal­ance between your Self (and your need to be your­self) and your Com­pan­ion (and your need to find your­self through your com­pan­ion). Every oppo­si­tion (and the Full Moon is the pri­ma­ry exam­ple of any and all bod­ies in oppo­si­tion) is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to reach a greater under­stand­ing about the truth of both of these expe­ri­ences, (the expe­ri­ence of Self and of the Oth­er), and to real­ize how nec­es­sary they are to one another.

For the mys­tery of life is that you seek to dis­cov­er and present your­self to the world as “I”…yet you will tru­ly find your­self, express your­self and see your­self in and through your rela­tion­ship with your beloved, through your “Thou”.

For the last two weeks, the Aries ener­gies have been surg­ing through you, urg­ing you to find and release yourself…To be self-assertive, indi­vid­u­al­is­tic and headstrong…To leap up, push for­ward and shout out to the Uni­verse “I Am!” But then comes the turn­ing, then comes the balance…

Now as you watch this beau­ti­ful Libra Full Moon rise, you remem­ber (for you have been here before) that with­out rela­tion­ship there is no mean­ing to any of that. The won­der­ful truth is that you are nev­er tru­ly alone (for­ev­er and always, your high­er self is with you).…and one of the great­est Mys­ter­ies of Life is that the beloved who stands before you is part of you, just as you are part of them.

That “you with you”, sep­a­rate yet togeth­er, and with all the oth­er ones of the One, you are all part of this glo­ri­ous cre­ation, this lumi­nous jour­ney of the One through the many, many ones.

In Aries, “I Am”.…

Through Libra, “We Are”…

For the Mys­tery of Creation…is that I, and You and We…are One!

The One, True and Con­stant path, The One True Way…is to Love One Another!