Notic­ing a shift in those Neur­al Nets
late­ly? Mis­cues, mis­un­der­stand­ings and mis­takes pil­ing up? Well, then you
should know what this means by now. Yes, there is a change in the Astral
Weath­er and those Mer­cu­r­ial, Mind­ful Ener­gies are shift­ing around, and so you
need to fol­low along with Her­mes who is here to take you on anoth­er three week rendezvous
with your Self-Awareness.

I wrote of this turn­ing in my Gen­er­al
Fore­cast for 2013:

Mer­cury
Ret­ro­grade in Scor­pio (Octo­ber 21 until Novem­ber 10)

The
third and final of the three Mer­cury ret­ro­grades in Water will take you to your
depths to con­sid­er the nature of your unions. Many plans will be put on hold
now, as you should re-con­sid­er what you are gain­ing ver­sus giv­ing up in any
ven­ture. The ques­tion is are you mak­ing the right sacrifice…or are you in
fact the sac­ri­fice itself. 

You
are here to grow, period.

Some­times
you sal­ly forth, stretch­ing, reach­ing fur­ther, climb­ing high­er, seek­ing that
next plane of awak­en­ing-becom­ing-being, that greater realm, a more Supernal
Light. And some­times, some­times you must turn around and go back, to remember,
to review and renew…

And
know this…All of this good, All of this is true.

It
is just that some­times you wish to go for­ward when it is in fact your time to
turn back. But this is The Way, all Life is Cyclic, and you must expe­ri­ence all
of this, the spi­ral­ing down and the soar­ing upwards if you are to become what
you are des­tined to be.

And
so you will need to be atten­tive to that gen­tle breeze that sig­nals a change,
and you will, if you do, hear that lov­ing whis­per that reminds you of the need
for bal­ance. And so you must turn, for you have this oppor­tu­ni­ty to go back
now, you need to go back and make your­self more whole. You will do this by
bring­ing many seem­ing­ly uncon­nect­ed threads of your life together…You
need them, you need what you might have left undone, you need to recall
what was for­got­ten, and you must take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to release what has held
you back.

You
need this pause to review and repair, and from this you will grow and move that
much clos­er to the Greater Understanding…For this is the Way, this is how you
weave your Robe of Glo­ry, this is your Self-Becom­ing as you cre­ate for yourself
a Won­drous Rai­ment of Spir­i­tu­al Light.

Do not be trou­bled by the lit­tle (and yes, the not so little
annoy­ances now), of what you have mis­placed, the things that do not func­tion as
adver­tised, those thoughts mis­heard or misspoken…Yes, do not be trou­bled by
this for you (and every­one else) are a work in progress…And the first lesson
on your path of Self-Becom­ing is to be Hum­ble, to acknowl­edge and accept your
imper­fec­tions, to take care­ful note of them, and then resolve to do that much
better…and you will lift your­self, and your world, a lit­tle higher. 

For the next three weeks, this ret­ro­grade in Scor­pio will
bring you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to bet­ter Under­stand how you in fact become more of
who you are meant to be through Sac­ri­fice and Union. That it is pre­cise­ly by
this Weav­ing Way, through this Dance of Spir­it, it is by this that you are formed and are
trans­formed by your Unions with one another. 

For any true Union is Trans­for­ma­tion­al, in that by combining
with one anoth­er you will expe­ri­ence “Spir­i­tu­al Mag­ic”, where­by one
plus one does not equal mere­ly two, but often­times much, much more…And even
more than this, it is by this join­ing that you may find the poten­tial to
total­ly trans­form the very con­tent or char­ac­ter of what you pro­duce as well. 

Yet, it is also true, that if the wrong com­bi­na­tion is
formed, or for the wrong rea­sons, or upon dis­parate or con­trary val­ues, if this
is so then the out­come can be quite the reverse, and less is obtained than what
was offered up. The Union fails and the indi­vid­u­als or group will suf­fer a
loss, hope will fail and fear will grow. 

The key will be found in this: are the par­ties in question,
whether two com­ing into union or the many, do they have com­pat­i­ble core values
upon which they may form this union, and are they will­ing and able to exercise
the prop­er dis­cern­ment to make the right­ful, sacred sac­ri­fice of ego and not
the false sac­ri­fice of self?

This is what Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade in Scor­pio is for, this is
why you need this. You need to dis­cov­er what is more tru­ly you, and what is less
so. You must learn to hold to that which is true in you, while
you also hon­or the very same in the oth­er too.

And if, by chance you dis­cov­er that you have enough between,

That there is more here that binds than divides,

Then the Sac­ri­fice you each can and must make,

Will bring you clos­er to your own true Selves and to one another
too.

Well then, it will have been worth this pause, this time of turning
back well spent…

To get it right, to be true to one­self and to something
greater too.

For you are here to move past the Illu­sion of Separation,

You are here to Expe­ri­ence this Joy, to become one with One Another,

You are here To Grow.

Once again your Mir­ror of Mem­o­ries has
reached her far­ther sta­tion, plac­ing Earth between her­self and your Star. The
two Lights of your World, the Day­keep­er and Night­watch­er, stand fac­ing one
anoth­er and their oppo­si­tion holds anoth­er mes­sage of Truth to guide your steps…For
they are here for you, as the Giv­er and Reflec­tor of that Spir­i­tu­al Light of Under­stand­ing which will always be, to ever hold you true to your path.

At each New Moon, a renew­al of meaning
is released so that you might be guid­ed in your next steps upon the path, to
weave into your Life this next unfold­ment of your Spir­i­tu­al Becoming…And at
each Full Moon, there stands revealed for you a pro­found yet essen­tial mes­sage and
chal­lenge, of why and how you must live in and by “The Way”, the Gold­en Chord of Spir­i­tu­al Truth, which you find and forge by walk­ing the Inte­gral Path.

For these two seem­ing­ly oppo­site Ways of
Being, these Roy­al Pairs of King and Queen are part of a Greater Whole in which
you abide. So they, and you, can­not be ful­filled with­out this Inte­gral Dance where­by their mean­ings and mes­sages come to be formed and revealed in their var­ied com­bi­na­tions and
inte­gra­tions with one another. 

These Spir­i­tu­al mes­sages are marked out and
mea­sured in these six pair­ings of the twelve-fold Zodi­a­cal Ener­gies, of Aries
and Libra, of Tau­rus and Scor­pio, and so on, and it is these that inform and
guide your pas­sage in this life, and in life after life, as you move from the
dark­ness into the Light.

This Full Moon is even more spe­cial, as it
is also a par­tial Lunar Eclipse which was not­ed in my Gen­er­al Fore­cast for
2013:

Full Moon
Eclipse in Aries (Octo­ber 18) 

The third
Full Moon of 2013 brings a new theme as it moves back­ward into the sign of
Aries. Here is a map of where the eclipse will be vis­i­ble. It will be seen in most of the
North and South Amer­i­ca (though not the entire event), Europe and Africa and
most of Asia.

The Earth is
cast­ing its shad­ow upon the mes­sage of the Aries Full Moon. This Full Moon
would nor­mal­ly offer a coun­ter­point and bal­ance to the cur­rent dom­i­nant theme
of the Sun mov­ing through Libra. But the mes­sage is hid­den by some­thing in your
present cir­cum­stances. You would nor­mal­ly need to re-assert your­self a bit more
to counter the Libra trend, but per­haps those webs of col­lu­sion are mak­ing it
dif­fi­cult to parse the “I from the Thou”…  

The Chal­lenge of Under­stand­ing you face here, is how are you to mutually
bal­ance and rec­on­cile these oppos­ing energies…How do you hold and keep to the
Libra way of the “We”, the Sun’s Song that sings now of your need for
Har­mo­ny and Accom­mo­da­tion in Relationship…How do you do this as you feel this strong pull of the Moon, which is elic­it­ing those mem­o­ries, those pre­cious remem­brances of the Aries way of the “I”? You Feel the Neces­si­ty to remain true to your Unique Essence which you may feel you have sur­ren­dered over­much, and so you lean towards the Aries path of Self-Assertion.

Your Con­scious­ness is forming
through Libra now, but your Feel­ings are call­ing you back towards Aries…and so you will find your­self caught here, between your head and your heart…and you will strug­gle and suf­fer as you seek to find the “right way”, to do right by your Part­ner but also for your­self too.

And this is pre­cise­ly what is asked of you now. To see that both of these are part of the greater expe­ri­ence of your Self-Becom­ing. For your “I” finds Hap­pi­ness in meet­ing with the “Thou”, and that as you gaze into one anoth­er’s eyes you see look­ing back at you a Unique Being, a Spe­cial Pres­ence that is dif­fer­ent yet com­pli­men­ta­ry to your own. 

The Answer is found in this, by hold­ing to your True Self and they to theirs, you can both enter into this Space of Rela­tion­ship with­out los­ing your­selves at all, but rather you will expe­ri­ence the Inte­gral Joy of greater Self-Real­iza­tion and Shar­ing too. That your Indi­vid­ual Selves and your Rela­tion­ship will mutu­al­ly enrich one anoth­er if you will hold to this Mid­dle Way.

Spir­it always offers what is needed, 

A gen­tle reminder, a way through.

That as you come clos­er to one another,

You must be equal­ly true to yourself.

For only in this Inte­gral Way,

Will you be true to one anoth­er too.

There is but one Path, One Way.

You must hold it all Together,

Your Head and Heart,

And Find the Way of Wisdom,

To Find your Way to Truth.

Illu­mi­na­tion or Illu­sion, Clear-Seeing
or Confusion?

Venus, the Avatar of Val­ue, Beau­ty and
Love has just begun her four week jour­ney through Sagit­tar­ius, and you feel
inspired to seek and extend the bound­aries of your Appre­ci­a­tions, you want to
par­take of some­thing greater than before, to move into ever more exot­ic spaces
of Aes­thet­ic and Social Sen­si­bil­i­ties, to encom­pass a Wider and Wis­er Way of
Liv­ing in Beauty…

Nep­tune, the Avatar of your Faith and
Imag­i­na­tion, is the pow­er that stands behind your Self-Becom­ing. For as you
encounter the Real­i­ty that has so far been made, you will come to dream of a
dif­fer­ent one, and then with this Fac­ul­ty of Imag­i­na­tion and Faith, coupled
with your High­er Mind and Will, you will bring about a New World and a New You! 

But of course, your capa­bil­i­ty to
exer­cise this Essence that you are, this Pow­er of Self-Becom­ing, it is always
and for­ev­er cir­cum­scribed by your Under­stand­ing. Though you may Dream of
Won­drous Worlds for you and yours, what does result is often much less and
lack­ing, for what also enters into this Cre­ation are your Anx­i­eties, Doubts and
Fears…What you encounter, day after day, and life after life, is often a dim
lit ver­sion of the orig­i­nal you had envi­sioned yes­ter­day and many, many lifetimes
before…

But, the won­drous truth is, you will
slow­ly and sure­ly grow, you will step beyond your Self-Cast Shad­ows as you
devel­op your greater Self-Aware­ness and so be able to throw down and cast off your
Doubts and Fears. You will even­tu­al­ly cre­ate a Heav­en here on Earth…and every
day it draws closer…but before that can be true, you must learn and grow.

The mag­is­te­r­i­al Plan­e­tary Align­ments illustrate
these great Life Lessons that you are here to Mas­ter as you become this Dream­ing-Mak­er. The Dance of the Planets
is meant to Lift and Inspire you, to remind you of your Ancient Lin­eage and
your Won­drous Des­tiny. So, what is it that Venus and Nep­tune are reveal­ing, remind­ing and ask­ing of
you today?

As you strive with Venus in Sagittarius
to stretch your Appre­ci­a­tion so as to encom­pass a dif­fer­ent or foreign
Sen­si­bil­i­ty, you may fall into error as you project over­much your own
Assump­tions or Truths upon the expe­ri­ence itself or upon this oth­er that stands
before you. You will try to bridge the divide, from where you stand with your
own Val­ues as you reach to extend your­self into this Expe­ri­ence or Other…But
you may mis­ap­pre­hend, assume too much or mis­in­ter­pret, what is for you, an Exotic
Expe­ri­ence. The bridge from one world to the next will not be crossed, or even
form…and illu­sion, delu­sion and con­fu­sion will be the result.

But this is not the end if you remain
open and sincere…for from your Con­fu­sion will emerge anoth­er real­iza­tion. You
will real­ize that this very con­fu­sion or doubt is the nec­es­sary price and
path­way to your greater under­stand­ing. That your Cer­tain­ties and Assumptions
were the very source of your Self-Cast shad­ows. Though they formed your lesser
real­i­ty and were dear to you, they were the very instru­ments of your more circumscribed
under­stand­ing as regards what is your des­tiny, the Greater Reality.

Now hum­bled and made more open, you are
ready to expand beyond those for­mer para­me­ters that formed your more limited
experience…You are through humil­i­ty, and so by empa­thy, more ready now to
encom­pass and move into a more inclu­sive sen­si­bil­i­ty and find a com­mon space of
shared val­ue and sen­si­bil­i­ty, to pull back from your pro­jec­tions and assumptions
and be open and accepting…

You will grow because you let go of your
cer­tain­ty and open your­self to the Won­der of Nep­tune, which reveals to you that
you real­ly exist in a mar­velous hier­ar­chy of Con­scious­ness and Mean­ing, which
extends back­wards and for­wards, inwards and out­wards. And so you must always
remem­ber, that your ever-present Essence as you walk upon this Path of Self-Becom­ing, that you
fol­low the one essen­tial injunction…you must Grow, you must Walk On.

For those who are cer­tain and fixed in
their ways, who have all the answers, they live in their shad­ow-world of mere appearances…

They have made a world of clay, they remain
bound to mat­ter and dust.

For those who won­der, who have
ques­tions, whose faith is not of Certainties…

They are and abide in the Liv­ing Spirit,
with Won­der and Self-Becoming…Forever.

For this is a Jour­ney of Consciousness,
with no Begin­ning and no End…

Your Path is formed by a Greater
Understanding,

That each and every, that one and All
are held together.

And, that there is but one Val­ue, one Truth
that holds…

That all are one, as the One is in All.

The only Illu­sion is Separation. 

Your only Real­i­ty, is to grow…

Your only path, is to Love.