Four times a year, you meet four turns in the wheel of life. Four moments of deci­sion, you find four ways to make it “real”.

The Sun is your pure poten­tial wait­ing to unfold, wait­ing to be brought forth into real­i­ty. Sat­urn rules Real­i­ty; it is what you and every­one else have so far made into the “real”.

When­ev­er the Sun aligns with Sat­urn in one of the quar­ter turns of their cycle, (Con­junc­tion, Wax­ing Square, Oppo­si­tion and Wan­ing Square), you will find your­self at some impor­tant moment of decision. 

You will look at what you have so far made of yourself.…and you will com­pare this to your potential…and then you will have to decide…what is to be your next step. To turn left or right, go up or down, in or out…you must decide and so con­tin­ue to become.

Today you are at the next turn­ing of your wheel. Most like­ly, what­ev­er you may have start­ed, released or unfold­ed 3 months ago has now reached a piv­ot point. You have to choose what to cleave to and what to let go of.

With the Sun in Capri­corn and Sat­urn in Libra, the deci­sion and action to be tak­en will con­cern and com­bine Respon­si­bil­i­ty and Rela­tion­ship. You will need to decide how to inte­grate your need to ful­fill your pur­pose (self-ful­fill­ment) while hon­or­ing your rela­tion­ships (which make your ful­fill­ment pos­si­ble and mean­ing­ful). It may appear as if there is a con­test or choice between duty and love, but it is a false choice.

The only way for­ward, the only path pos­si­ble is the path of integration…you need to be both respon­si­ble and respon­sive, to be ful­filled and considerate…you need to be a whole person…

You need to choose.…Duty and Devo­tion, together.

Venus enters Pisces and for the next 3 weeks you will enjoy the mag­i­cal, inspi­ra­tional and spir­i­tu­al aspects of beau­ty and love. 

Venus is said to be exalt­ed in Pisces because here she finds her high­est under­stand­ing of the nature of val­ue and the expe­ri­ence of love; this under­stand­ing is found­ed upon the spir­i­tu­al truth that you are the dream­er who is dream­ing this real­i­ty. You need only abide in that spir­i­tu­al aware­ness, to be “Faith-Full”, in order to unfold your poten­tial and so change your­self and your world too.

Venus rules val­ue, beau­ty and love. Here in the final sign of the zodi­ac she dances with delight to the song of cre­ation, the song of spir­it ever-becom­ing. You appre­ci­ate your­self more tru­ly for what you are; that you are not some “thing”…you are a spe­cial spark of the Divine and your ever-unfold­ing poten­tial “to be” has no lim­its. You need only look with­in and dis­cov­er a won­drous world of the won­der­ful; it is you and the yet to be real­ized cre­ative essence wait­ing to be released through you.

Your val­ue is immea­sur­able because it is ever-unfolding…you are the creator.

Your true form is lumi­nous, sparkling and radiant…you are sur­round­ed in beauty.

Your Love is eter­nal as is the spir­it with­in you…you are one of the ones of the One.

Dance the dance of Venus in Pisces…

You are the dream­er danc­ing your dance of Creation.

Dream…Dance…Create…

This is a very busy and beau­ti­ful day in the heavens!

Tomor­row Venus will depart from Aquar­ius and enter Pisces, but on this last day in Aquar­ius she will make beau­ti­ful con­tacts with both Sat­urn and Nep­tune. Mer­cury mean­while aligns with Plu­to to pro­vide you with very insight­ful per­cep­tions and challenges.

Venus rounds out her jour­ney in Aquar­ius with two won­der­ful influ­ences. First she is graced with the grav­i­tas of jus­tice by Sat­urn in Libra, (Libra is Venus’ sign so this is quite for­tu­itous, and mean­while Venus is in the sign that Sat­urn was held to rule in clas­si­cal astrol­o­gy! This “trad­ing of places” is called by Astrologers a con­di­tion of “Mutu­al Recep­tion” which is very, very good indeed). Here Venus and Sat­urn mutu­al­ly ben­e­fit one anoth­er, each affirm­ing and rein­forc­ing one anoth­er in your ever-unfold­ing under­stand­ing about the nature of rela­tion­ship in your life.

Sat­urn in Libra stands for the prin­ci­ple that right and healthy rela­tion­ships are found­ed upon objec­tive and con­scious­ly agreed to prin­ci­ples of fair­ness, equal­i­ty and mutu­al regard for one anoth­er. Venus in Aquar­ius con­curs in that those rela­tion­ships must equal­ly be based upon a fun­da­men­tal shar­ing of per­son­al, social and spir­i­tu­al val­ues with one another…in oth­er words the sound­est, truest and most ful­fill­ing of rela­tion­ships are also ones of abid­ing friendship.

Today you should have some deep­er expe­ri­ence of these two truths, some con­se­quen­tial con­fir­ma­tion of a rela­tion­ship or rela­tion­ships that are found­ed upon the prin­ci­pled pil­lars of Jus­tice and Friendship.

Mean­while the plan­et that rules your mind and ordi­nary pow­ers of per­cep­tion, Mer­cury, is lin­ing up with the ruler of the will, Plu­to. This is a day for “x‑ray” vision; you will have more pen­e­trat­ing insights and deep­er thoughts. It is a day that you may real­ize that you had been look­ing through a dimmed or dark­ened lens, but now see “clear and true”; a whol­ly deep­er lev­el of per­cep­tion is before you and so you are thrilled by the rev­e­la­to­ry vision of a new world.

But what hap­pens now is crit­i­cal, for with Plu­to rul­ing your willpow­er you may feel it to be most urgent and impor­tant to impart, nay to force this truth upon another…and that, you should know, is a far greater wrong than poor or incor­rect thoughts. You can­not force anoth­er to see “the Truth”, because that very impo­si­tion of your will and thought upon anoth­er is the most griev­ous vio­la­tion of spir­i­tu­al integri­ty. You must resist doing this and instead seek to lead by example…encourage the oth­er to con­sid­er your per­spec­tive or posi­tion, and so through com­par­i­son and con­trast to re-con­sid­er their own…but you must not, you can­not, force them to truth!

Con­trari­wise, if some­one is so cer­tain of them­selves that they are attempt­ing to force their ideas upon you, then you must do every­thing you can to dis­suade them from this fol­ly and point out how very wrong this is.

Instead, use this excep­tion­al gift bestowed by Plu­to to plumb the depths of your own per­cep­tions, assump­tions and thoughts. Turn this fusion of Mind and Will back upon your­self; you should seek to root out your own incon­gruities and false men­tal path­ways and there­by arrive at a clear­er and more hum­bled appre­ci­a­tion of reality.

Final­ly, Venus is won­der­ful­ly graced by her pas­sage over Nep­tune today. The plan­et of per­son­al love and beau­ty aligns with her spir­i­tu­al dou­ble, for it is said that Nep­tune is the high­er form or expres­sion of Venus and rules inspi­ra­tion, imag­i­na­tion and uni­ver­sal love.

Venus rules val­ue, beau­ty and your expe­ri­ence of per­son­al love for one anoth­er. All of these rest upon one fun­da­men­tal foun­da­tion for you, the val­ue you have for your­self or self-worth. To the extent that you under­stand your own, ever-unfold­ing real­iza­tion of val­ue with­in your­self, then to that same extent will you be able to have right rela­tion­ships to the things in your world and more espe­cial­ly to oth­er beings in your world.

Today you are blessed with Nep­tune’s mes­sage that at the core of each and every one, (the ever-renew­ing foun­tain-source of your true and abid­ing love for one anoth­er), is estab­lished and main­tained by that spark of the Divine, your divine essence or mon­ad, which is the illu­mined core of you and every oth­er too. Nep­tune rules this Uni­ver­sal basis of Love; for true love is found­ed upon this com­pas­sion­ate con­nec­tion forged by each and every one being “ones of the One”. You can love and be loved because in truth who­ev­er stands before you is one with the Divine too.

The great illu­sion is sep­a­ra­tion, the high­est truth is that all are one in Spirit.

Today is a day for inspiration…

Today is a day for imag­i­na­tion and dreams…but most truly…

Today is a day for Love.

This is a good day!

The Sun (your pure poten­tial to become) favor­ably aligns with Mars (your aims, actions and aspi­ra­tions) so that today is a day you can “Be your Becoming”!

Ener­gies are flow­ing, the stars are aligned and you will find that min­i­mal effort earns max­i­mum results…

The Sun in Capri­corn is strid­ing through the realms of tra­di­tion, accom­plish­ment and ful­fill­ment. Mars in Vir­go pro­vides that focused sparkle by order­ing your pur­pose along lines of mean­ing­ful, inte­grat­ed struc­tures. You live to serve and through ser­vice find your ful­fill­ment. No effort is wast­ed, no detail overlooked…but most of all you can count on the sin­gu­lar gift that all the oth­ers rest upon, self-mastery.

You (along with each and every spark of the Divine) are always seek­ing to real­ize your pur­pose; you find ful­fill­ment in the under­stand­ing of, and then through express­ing your unique poten­tial. While the Sun is in Capri­corn you con­nect to this sense of pur­pose­ful striv­ing to reach high­er, to be your best, to be the mas­ter-crafts­man of your own life.

Now Mars in Vir­go pro­vides one of the key ingre­di­ents, which is your capac­i­ty to ana­lyze and so improve on your aims and actions; you can more clear­ly dis­cern what to strive for and then apply your­self to those bet­ter ways of mov­ing towards it.

Today is a very good day to be and to become…

Today is a day for fulfillment!

The annu­al release of Capri­corn spir­it which began to unfold at the New Moon two weeks ago comes to the moment of rev­e­la­tion, your epiphanal cli­max. The posi­tion­ing of two bod­ies in oppo­site signs, here the Sun in Capri­corn and the Moon in Can­cer, pro­vides a beau­ti­ful illus­tra­tion of the inter­de­pen­dent, dynam­ic rela­tion­ship between two forms of your being, two approach­es to your life and two ways of truth.

This is Capri­corn’s time, and so the empha­sis has been upon your struc­tures, for­mal­i­ties and duty. In the spir­it of Capri­corn you do what is right because it is prop­er, tra­di­tion­al and upholds the sta­tus quo…for what has been achieved by you is impor­tant and needs to be safe­guard­ed, hon­ored and passed along…Capricorn is about the hier­ar­chies of your life, who you are respon­si­ble for and who or what you are respon­si­ble to. 

But today the Moon is in her own sign of Can­cer, and she is singing a dif­fer­ent song. Where­as Capri­corn does what is “right”, Can­cer does what “feels right”; with Can­cer you fol­low your feel­ings, respond­ing to the needs of the moment for your­self and those you care for.

Capri­corn is duty-bound, Can­cer is spon­ta­neous; Capri­corn is dri­ven and ambi­tious, Can­cer is pro­tec­tive and care­ful. Capri­corn is prag­mat­ic and reli­able, Can­cer is sen­si­ble and respon­sive. So what does the oppo­si­tion tell you about this moment?

The Full Moon is always a time when you feel pulled in two direc­tions, and you feel that you must “choose”. Of course, the real chal­lenge is to remem­ber that you can­not choose between them, you must always take the path of integration…which is the way of spir­i­tu­al truth.

The Full Moon illu­mi­nates some­thing that you need to acknowl­edge, and equal­ly illus­trates what you should do. Per­haps you are fac­ing a choice between the demands of your job ver­sus the needs of your fam­i­ly. Maybe you have sac­ri­ficed too much to secure some­thing for your fam­i­ly, sac­ri­ficed so much that you are los­ing the very fam­i­ly that you were try­ing to sup­port. Or it could be that you have been too involved with a per­son­al mat­ter, you have tried to meet the needs of those who are clos­est to you, but this has caused you to stum­ble in your duties to the larg­er world.

This is a time to face these dilem­mas square­ly. Remem­ber, you can­not choose here. You must find the inte­gra­tive bal­ance because each of these forms of life, each of these ways of truth, are essen­tial parts of your being that depend upon one anoth­er for ful­fill­ment. Each with­out the oth­er can­not be and only through one anoth­er can you find both secu­ri­ty and ful­fill­ment. Seek to bal­ance out these worlds by under­stand­ing whether you need to bring more feel­ing back into your life or cre­ate stronger struc­tures to have those feel­ings in.

Here in the cold win­ter light of the full Moon, stand and be still, between the dark­ness and the light…

Seek and you will find the illu­mined path of liv­ing whole; to walk in bal­anced understanding…

Be the cen­ter of your cir­cle of life, whole and inte­grat­ed, with­in and without…

Feel­ings and Fulfillment…

Com­plete.