Well…this is just quite sim­ply Beautiful…Beauty to Behold!

Astrol­o­gy seeks to under­stand the ener­gies that influ­ence our exis­tence by observ­ing our heav­en­ly com­pan­ions who cir­cle with us around our Star. As they orbit the Sun they form align­ments and pat­terns with one anoth­er that release and mutu­al­ly mod­i­fy the spir­i­tu­al ener­gies that tru­ly cre­ate the sto­ry of all that unfolds with­in our par­ent Star’s fam­i­ly, our solar system.

Today you are blessed by a beau­ti­ful align­ment of sev­er­al plan­ets with one anoth­er, form­ing what is called in Astrol­o­gy a “Grand Trine”. That is when 3 or more bod­ies are arranged and spaced apart from one anoth­er so as to form a per­fect Tri­an­gu­lar rela­tion­ship to one anoth­er. Today, this beau­ti­ful for­ma­tion begins with Venus and Jupiter con­joined in Tau­rus, which con­nects to Mars in Vir­go, which then goes on to con­nect with Plu­to in Capri­corn, and comes back final­ly to com­plete the Grand Tri­an­gle with Venus and Jupiter.

The “Stars” of this star­ry tri­an­gle are Venus and Jupiter, who have been draw­ing ever clos­er these last few days, burn­ing bright­ly in the west­ern evening sky after the Sun has set. They shine like two resplen­dent bea­cons that come bear­ing gifts for you. Gifts indeed are offered here for these two plan­ets are called the Less­er (Venus) and Greater (Jupiter) “Benefics”.

With Venus rul­ing Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love, and Jupiter rul­ing Prin­ci­ples, Truths and Expan­sion, their com­ing togeth­er sig­nals great, good for­tune to you and yours. You relate well to what you want; your appre­ci­a­tion of the beau­ty with­in and around you bestows bless­ings upon your enjoy­ment of your phys­i­cal world and your social life too…

Today is a day that you are tru­ly Beau­ti­ful…

Pro­vid­ing ener­gy and focus, Mars is next in your lumi­nous tri­ad today. Mars in Vir­go adds just the right and rea­son­able focus or mind­ful­ness to the day’s beau­ty. Some­times when Venus and Jupiter com­bine you get so enam­ored with beau­ty (and with your taste buds!) that it can lead to too much of a good thing. Mars pro­vides the req­ui­site dis­crim­i­na­tion to enjoy but not over-indulge. More­over, Mars in Vir­go brings you to that align­ment which affirms that for there to be Beau­ty (and Love) there must also be a mean­ing­ful order to your life. Mars in Vir­go pro­vides the way to a life that is whole, inte­grat­ed and beau­ti­ful­ly proportional.

Today is a day you are tru­ly poised, measured…you are full of Grace…

Com­plet­ing your “Tri­une Attune­ment”, you turn now to the out­er­most plan­et, to the plan­et of Will and Trans­for­ma­tion, to the plan­et of Bound­aries, to the plan­et who rules the Sacred­ness of Space…Pluto.

Plu­to in Capri­corn is steadi­ly work­ing to bring you into a clos­er rela­tion­ship with the Foun­tain-Source of Arche­types, those Eter­nal truths of Spir­it which stand behind your shad­owed reflec­tion, what you call “Real­i­ty”.

Today Plu­to stead­ies and brings your will to bear so that you may be guid­ed in your actions (Mars) so as to strength­en your deter­mi­na­tion to find and walk the path of Whole­ness; and Plu­to pro­vides the pow­er to stay true to your Val­ues & Truth (Venus/Jupiter) while equal­ly observ­ing the Teach­ing to nev­er impose them upon another…for your Jour­ney is the unfold­ment of Spir­it, your path is the path of Self-Mastery.

Today is a day you are tru­ly Mas­ter­ful…

Make today (and every­day) the day you walk your path and live the Ancient Teach­ing of Beau­ty, Grace and Mastery:

In beau­ty I walk.  

With beau­ty before me, I walk.  

With beau­ty behind me, I walk.  

With beau­ty below me, I walk.  

With beau­ty all around me, I walk.  

It is fin­ished in beauty. 

Today you are Beautiful…

and you are sur­round­ed by Beauty…

Today and everyday…

Live in Beauty!

This is the third and final (for now) align­ment of Jupiter Trine Plu­to. This is what I wrote about this aspect in the 2011 Gen­er­al Forecast:

Jupiter Trine Plu­to (Jul. 7, Oct. 28, Mar. 13, 2012)

The cycle of Jupiter and Plu­to moves into this more pos­i­tive phase for the next 9 months. Hav­ing faced the chal­lenge in late Feb­ru­ary, we will find our­selves able to expand more effort­less­ly now in our mate­r­i­al life and spir­i­tu­al under­stand­ing. Because Jupiter has moved into Tau­rus (Earth) and Plu­to is in Capri­corn (Earth), this cre­ates very pos­i­tive con­di­tions for real eco­nom­ic growth. Though there are always expand­ing and con­tract­ing forces at play in any year, this is cer­tain­ly a strong fac­tor sup­port­ing those areas that are capa­ble of growth, espe­cial­ly those which have read the signs of change and adapt­ed. Spir­i­tu­al­ly, to the extent the right choic­es were made in Feb­ru­ary, the oppor­tu­ni­ty now is to bring about a real evo­lu­tion in our moral affir­ma­tion of one anoth­er. We are will­ing to seek accom­mo­da­tion with each oth­er as an expres­sion of our under­stand­ing for one another.

I would add what I wrote about this dur­ing the sec­ond pas­sage on Octo­ber 28:

Jove meets Hades and the arche­types are stir­ring in your soul. Jupiter rules your Truths and Beliefs; Plu­to rules Will and the Pow­er of Trans­for­ma­tion. This Plu­ton­ian pow­er is part of your Tri­par­tite spir­i­tu­al poten­tial; and this most pre­cious Triple Gift of Spir­it is the foun­tain-source of you becom­ing more than your con­di­tion­ing. These gifts of the Spir­it, exem­pli­fied and car­ried by Uranus-Nep­tune-Plu­to, cre­ate a quick­en­ing through plan­e­tary ini­ti­a­tion, and offer you a steep­er and sur­er path as you jour­ney in Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

It is has been said, passed down from “mouth to ear”, that the real unfold­ment of your soul’s jour­ney, your real and True Evo­lu­tion, does not pro­ceed from or orig­i­nate in the phys­i­cal plane. It does not come from the cell and its muta­tions, or from some com­pe­ti­tion of life forms with each oth­er. The Ancient Teach­ings affirm that your unfold­ment, growth and jour­ney from uncon­scious spark of the Divine to full Divine Con­scious­ness, comes from, orig­i­nates in and is dri­ven by Spir­it and the unfold­ment of your essen­tial nature. All these oth­er agents of change and trans­for­ma­tion are deriv­a­tives of the pow­er that surges through each and every one of the ones of the One.

Today is the sec­ond of the three align­ments of Jupiter trine Plu­to. The first align­ment was in ear­ly July, and the last will occur in March of 2012. You are always expe­ri­enc­ing these gifts of the Spir­it bestowed by your plan­e­tary com­pan­ions. Today’s offer­ing is here to re-ener­gize the Immor­tal Bridge between realms tem­po­ral and sub­lime, between what is and what will always be. That shin­ing arch, like a bridge of light, will burn brighter and span the space between your present prin­ci­ples and truths to those ever-present, ever-resur­gent Arche­types which under­lie the All.

The present truths that you have come to embrace, that give your life mean­ing, form and guid­ance, your Laws of Life, your philoso­phies, beliefs and reli­gion were forged from a mighty gold­en chain of expe­ri­ence that con­nects you with every oth­er one who has walked this path of becom­ing the becom­ing. The source or core of all those lessons learned and re-learned are the ever-renew­ing, ever-resur­gent Arche­types of Spir­it that have been named by some as the “Col­lec­tive Unconscious”.

These seed-forms are ruled by Plu­to which serves to cre­ate the bound­aries, the spaces of space for Spir­it, Mind and Mat­ter. In cycle after cycle the great truths are released and become man­i­fest­ed in the Teach­ings, Philoso­phies and Reli­gions that form and guide your jour­ney. But over time those forms becomes rigid, truths become dog­ma and the Ancient Wis­dom becomes obscured as the shad­ows deepen.

It is at such a time as this that Spir­it answers, mov­ing to fill the void by a release of renewed Arche­typ­al mean­ing. Plu­to brings to bear those Seed-Forms which burn away the accu­mu­lat­ed dross and reveal again the Spir­it behind the form.

And, at the most impor­tant turn­ing points, in the dark­est of hours, a teacher is always sent forth, an Avatar whose task it is to repair the bridge between heav­en and earth. And for a time it is a Gold­en Age once more…but then you for­get, as we have forgotten…

Many look now for a sign, for the Emissary…you look for the turn­ing and seek to find your way out of the darkness…you look for the cross­ing into the light.

It is here, it is now…

Oops…have you for­got­ten some­thing, or some­one? Mis­placed some­thing, or won­dered why you went into this room any­ways (it was to get some­thing, or some­one, right?)…Yep, you guessed it, there’s been a change com­ing in the last few days, a shift of energies…Your guide “down here” has been slow­ing down and today goes into “reverse” for the next 3 weeks. That’s right, wel­come to the first Mer­cury ret­ro­grade of the New Year from March 12 till April 4.…

Of course Her­mes nev­er “real­ly” goes back­wards; he’s just pass­ing Earth on his inside orbit and so com­ing between us and the Sun. Those Mer­cu­r­ial ener­gies are wax­ing now, but they are turn­ing inwards…towards re-exam­i­na­tion, reviews and revi­sions. Ide­al­ly, if you could make it so, you would take the next 3 weeks and go on a retreat, to take an inner jour­ney, into your space for reflec­tion and so use this won­der­ful shift to bet­ter under­stand you!

But, of course, for many if not all…life goes on! (But do set aside some extra time for reflec­tion). As your seem­ing­ly ordi­nary life unfolds, make sure to be more aware of the pit­falls of Mer­cury as he does his “Moon Walk”. Since every­one is expe­ri­enc­ing this rever­sal, this pre­dis­po­si­tion to be “inward”, you have to remind your­self to pay more atten­tion to all com­mu­ni­ca­tions, both the trans­mit­ting and the receiv­ing. Because your atten­tion to the here and now may not be what it should, you are more like­ly to make a mis­take (assum­ing too much, not being clear or dis­tract­ed) so you fail to make your point…and, the receiv­ing end is just as impaired because of the same deficit of attentiveness…

But do make use of this gift to bend your mind back on itself and use your won­der­ful self-reflec­tive fac­ul­ty to bet­ter know your­self. The first peri­od of Mer­cury ret­ro­grade will be in Aries till March 23. Dur­ing this pas­sage use this Mer­cu­r­ial Mir­ror to see how you present your­self to the world around you…how do you appear to oth­ers? Are you lean­ing too far for­ward in your bear­ing so that you are over-whelm­ing? Or, are you so pulled back that you pass un-noticed by the world because you are under-whelming…Or maybe, just maybe you’ve got it “just right”, you are in that sweet spot…You are Strong and Sen­si­tive, know­ing when to take a stand… and when to yield…so that you walk on Earth with the right amount of pres­ence and your influ­ence upon those who accom­pa­ny you is beneficent.

Then from March 23 till April 4 Mer­cury will make a return vis­it to Pisces, and you will tru­ly need to go deep­er, down into the mys­ter­ies of your Imag­i­na­tion and reex­am­ine those well-springs of your Faith. Your aware­ness then will call for more sub­tle­ty; you will need to be more open and aware to the less appar­ent but under­ly­ing real­i­ty you move through. Where­as Mer­cury in Aries is all ideals and excitabil­i­ty, Pisces calls for a soft­er more recep­tive approach, to the worlds with­in and without.

To enter these sub­tle realms, to move into your intu­ition­al know­ing, you will need to let go of cer­tain­ties, to the fixed geome­tries of your out­ward real­i­ty as you open your­self again to won­ders, mys­ter­ies and the deep, deep waters from which all life springs…

Remem­ber, as before, the inspi­ra­tions of Mer­cury in Pisces will not come in the obvi­ous forms…your high­er self, your truer self will not shout or declaim…The gifts will come in that gen­tle whis­per, in the hint of some­thing pro­found but so famil­iar too…And then you will know that you have been touched, you have been graced by the mys­tery that is with­in you.

Yes, it is going to be an inter­est­ing 3 weeks…

All hail Her­mes, the Mes­sen­ger of the Gods who brings you the gifts of Greater Awareness…

The Greater Aware­ness of You!

Twelve New Moons have come and gone; twelve times you have received those Gifts of the Spir­it. For at each Moon there is a release of inspi­ra­tion, a present offered to you, filled with the bless­ings spe­cial to that sign…

And equal­ly, twelve times a year, the Sun and Moon come to their oppo­si­tion­al alignments…And it is at these Full Moons that a rev­e­la­tion is offered, a greater mean­ing is unveiled, and you are shown the way, the way to find the bal­ance between the dark­ness and the light.

Today as the Sun sets in the West a Beau­ti­ful Full Moon will rise; now you face the last Solar/Lunar coun­ter­point of the Astro­log­i­cal year. This, the final rev­e­la­tion, is your Omega moment of mean­ing. The Sun soar­ing through Pisces forms your pur­pose here which has been to under­stand, accept and appre­ci­ate the whol­ly spir­i­tu­al nature of your jour­ney year after year.

It is in Pisces that you meet again with the Full­ness of Spir­it through which your life unfolds. And, you can actu­al­ly expe­ri­ence the most fun­da­men­tal reas­sur­ance, that super­nal affir­ma­tion which was Sung by all the ones of the One at the dawn of Cre­ation. It is the cen­tral prin­ci­ple of the Ancient Wis­dom and is held up as a Bea­con of hope to com­bat the weary des­per­a­tion of all those who have fall­en for the great untruth. (What untruth is that? The mis­un­der­stand­ing that aris­es from a fun­da­men­tal flaw of per­cep­tion, (what is called the “Great Illu­sion”), which came about for you from your “falling into matter”…It was this that formed your expe­ri­ence of the Untruth of Sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er and from the whole of Creation)…

Pisces, the Final Por­tal in the Cir­cle of Life, affirms the Way of Truth.…That all of Cre­ation is One in Spir­it, One in Con­scious­ness and One in Love.

But this expe­ri­ence of Uni­ty, this Dream­ing Won­der, (at what­ev­er lev­el you may per­ceive it and through what­ev­er form you may touch it), can some­times lead you beyond the bound­aries of the expe­ri­ence of Space that you are pre­pared for. That razor’s edge, between the Dark­ness and the Light, between Illu­mi­na­tion and Delusion…that bound­ary realm is mag­i­cal, mys­te­ri­ous but may trap the unwary, may con­found the unprepared…

To find your way, to find The Way, you need some assis­tance, a lit­tle clarity…a guide to help you dis­cern a path through these won­drous, swirling spaces of Space…Tonight, look up and behold that Lumi­nous Sphere, look up to Luna who shines resplen­dent­ly with the Truths from Vir­go’s realm. She brings you bal­ance by way of Ser­vice, she extends a help­ing hand…

For equal to these gifts of Pisces, you have need of this bal­ance offered by Vir­go. As much as the Pis­cean expe­ri­ence of the One­ness of Cre­ation is the foun­da­tion for your expe­ri­ence of Com­pas­sion, Sac­ri­fice and True Uncon­di­tion­al Love…you need to stay upon your path of Pur­pose­ful Inte­gra­tion which is the Way of Beau­ty, the Path of Wholeness.

So give thanks and accept these bal­anc­ing gifts of Virgo…

The Gift to be Dis­cern­ing in your Compassion…so that you may tru­ly hon­or your­self as much as you care for the other…

The Gift to be Mind­ful in your Sacrifice…so that you may wor­ship the sacred with­in you as much as you feel it in the other…

The Gift to be Whole in your Love…so that you may open your heart to the beau­ty that is You as much as you see it in the other… 

Cel­e­brate the final Full Moon in this year’s Cir­cle of Life…

Cel­e­brate this “Har­vest of Spirit”…for all the mean­ings you have mas­tered in what has come before…

Now use your har­vest to pre­pare, the seeds from fruits you made…for just ahead are those New Begin­nings, your Equinox is com­ing soon…

It brings renew­al, a chance to begin again, high­er now…as you con­tin­ue your nev­er-end­ing journey…along your Spi­ral Light­way to the Stars.

Your mind is lean­ing for­ward now, eager to push beyond old men­tal bound­aries as Mer­cury skips through Aries. But the thing about those bound­aries, (your assump­tions, your par­a­digms, your “Matrix”), is that you often can­not either see how you are bounded…or how, even if you do espy those self-made blind­ers, how exact­ly do you get beyond your con­di­tion­ing, beyond your dimen­sion­al space with­in Space?

But lucky you, today Her­mes is graced by Uranus, who offers you his gift, the pow­er of re-con­cep­tu­al­iza­tion that takes you beyond those assump­tions, beyond your bound­ed spaces…Uranus moves your mind along that razor’s-edge of reason/intuition by elic­it­ing a spark of spir­i­tu­al light­ning which illu­mi­nates the dark­ened spaces, the shad­owed realms that you your­self have cast about you.

For Uranus is one of the 3 gifts of the Spir­it, here to lead and lift you up, time and time again. Uranus lifts up that “Veil of Isis” by elic­it­ing a high­er con­scious­ness, a more inclu­sive view­point, as you ever seek to under­stand your­self and your world.

Your con­scious­ness is pro­gres­sive­ly devel­op­ing, but more often in incre­men­tal, step by step accu­mu­la­tions of per­cep­tive capac­i­ty. But through­out that devel­op­ment you will find your­self at those bar­ri­ers beyond which you seem­ing­ly can­not pass…because those bar­ri­ers or lim­its are cre­at­ed by your lev­el of con­scious aware­ness. You have come to your Ring Pass Not, and beyond lies the shad­ows (and fears) of the great unknown.

Uranus, the awak­en­er, comes along and pro­vides the “Eure­ka” moment, the break­through or Epiphany where­by you are lift­ed up into a new realm of con­cep­tion, a new realm of con­scious­ness. Now it was not that the old con­scious­ness was wrong or bad. It was a nec­es­sary stage, a space that you resided in so as to expe­ri­ence your­self and your world for a time. It was true, it was real…but it was limited…shadowed.

There is (always) a greater Real­i­ty and Con­scious­ness wait­ing for you…because your jour­ney is found­ed upon your ever-unfold­ing, ever self-becom­ing spir­i­tu­al spark of the Divine. You will reach many stages of aware­ness; you will pass through many por­tals of con­scious­ness in your journey…

And always and for­ev­er you must be will­ing to let go of the famil­iar and brave the bound­ary realms…

But you will not walk them alone, you are ever accom­pa­nied by your high­er self and oth­ers sent to help you…

You need only be will­ing to open your heart and mind to the Greater Real­i­ty that is your home…

Arise, awake and lift your eyes up…behold the won­der of Creation!