There is no “mag­ic”, there is
only what you do not yet understand…

What you think of as mag­ic, is that
which remains out­side of your con­scious­ness at this point in your jour­ney. It
lies in the beyond, out­side the bor­ders of your beliefs, beyond your paradigms
and per­cep­tions, in those Shad­owed Lands where you are con­found­ed by the
Mystery.

What­ev­er is beyond your cur­rent lev­el of
com­pre­hen­sion appears as Mag­i­cal and Won­drous, but it mere­ly because you do not
yet under­stand who or what you are, nor do you per­ceive the true nature of
these realms in which you abide.

To unfold your won­drous poten­tial, to move
beyond and keep climb­ing through these spi­ral­ing stages of Reality/Illusion you
must expand your aware­ness into a high­er, more inclu­sive Realm of
Being-Know­ing. This requires your right­ful appli­ca­tion of one of your three
most pre­cious Spir­i­tu­al Gifts, your awe­some Gift of Will. By a focused
Desire, with a pas­sion­ate Aspi­ra­tion to lift your­self to a more Awak­ened State, you are able to
pierce through the Maya of your for­mer con­scious­ness and pro­ceed to the next
step in your self-unfold­ing, self-realization.

As you part the Veil of Isis, as you once
more raise your lev­el of Con­scious­ness, you lift your­self (and your world) that
much higher…For you are a Pil­grim, a Spark of the Divine seek­ing “The
Way”, and by your Will­ing to go Deep­er and High­er you steadi­ly and surely
draw that much clos­er to what is known as the Greater Under­stand­ing, towards
that pre­cious, sub­lime realm, tru­ly the King­dom of the Gods…and so find and
enter your Place of Peace.

You can­not know what you do not yet
per­ceive, and you will not com­pre­hend with­out let­ting go, releas­ing yourself
from these famil­iar Thought-Forms which brought you thus far but can take you
no further…You can­not pro­ceed beyond your self-cast shad­ows, formed by your
more lim­it­ed assumptions…They have brought you to this place, indeed they
have help to form this very Real­i­ty for you (because all of this is yours, it
is your Spir­it-Mind-Mat­ter that has formed this world). This Cre­ation, this Now
is your ful­fill­ment but it equal­ly forms the very imped­i­ment to your next realm
of Thought-Form, and so these old friends, these old Ideas, Beliefs, Truths and
Prin­ci­ples can take you no further…

Mer­cury is the Avatar of your Mind, Pluto
the Avatar of the your Will. Their align­ment today rep­re­sents a choice (as
always) between using your Will to pierce through Illu­sion, or to retreat in
fear and use your Will to hold your­self (and oth­ers) in the more lim­it­ed but
famil­iar Mind-Maya-Matter…but this regres­sion, this poor­er choice, will only delay your pas­sage to
the Realms of greater Light and Love.

If you would but real­ize, that the only
true and spir­i­tu­al exer­cise of your will is for Self-Con­trol, that this Awesome
Gift is for form­ing, pre­serv­ing and yet also con­tin­u­ous­ly Trans­form­ing your Sacred Space, which also includes this space
of your Mind or Con­scious­ness. Under­stand­ing this, you would accept that what
Mercury/Pluto offers you is a chal­lenge to quick­en your growth, it is an opportunity
for Self-full­fill­ing Liberation.

Their align­ment is a less than gentle
reminder that you must fol­low your one abid­ing Injunc­tion that forms the Kernel
of your Spir­i­tu­al Flame…that you are here To Grow. That you must ever seek to
chal­lenge your assump­tions, to nev­er rest in your quest to under­stand yourself
and your world (which are the same thing), for at every lev­el, in each and
every Realm of Man­i­fes­ta­tion and through all the Worlds that you must travel
you have been giv­en this one guid­ing prin­ci­ple, you must become what you are
meant to be, you must Walk On.

If you choose wise­ly you will engage
your Will by turn­ing it and your Mind back upon your­self and your Assumptions,
Per­cep­tions and Cer­tain­ties. You will reen­gage your mind’s most precious
fac­ul­ty of com­par­ing and con­trast­ing points of view, con­sid­er­ing and
recon­sid­er­ing, form­ing and reform­ing so as to reach the New World that you will
make in, by and through your renewed Awareness.

Your Jour­ney is made of many points of
Inflection…

There are many paths, and many forks
along the way…

And at each junc­ture you are offered a
choice, for this is the only way.

This is how you learn, how you become
what you are meant to be…

You must learn to choose what is good,
what is truer…what is wise.

For that is the Noble Path, this is The Way of Light
and Truth.

Found by Accep­tance, filled with Grace and offered with Humility…

You Choose.

Sweet Avatar of Beau­ty, the Muse of Love
slips from her Airy home…

She is mov­ing Deep­er now, into those
swirling Waters of Passion,

Where you, by her leave and
encouragement,

Will ease past, far beyond those ordinary
spaces of relationship.

Beyond your I, beyond your Thou’s…

The Seas she sails upon, they offer
some­thing Greater,

And so you must ren­der more to win this
prize.

It is the Mys­tery of Union, beyond painful
Divi­sions and Divides. It is the Gift, the Promise of Self-Transcendent,
Self-Real­iza­tion. Of becom­ing more tru­ly one­self by, with
and through your Union.

For found in this Realm, in this Sacred
Space of We…

Forged by mutu­al sac­ri­fice, here in this
Cru­cible of Values…

You draw near­er to the Greater Reality. 

You can see through, beyond the Great
Illu­sion that is Sep­a­ra­tion, and feel, even if for just a moment of
ecsta­sy, the sweet bliss of being One for a time. 

By Tests, Tri­als and Rewards you will be
led into trans­for­ma­tion and rebirth, to that most Holy Land, where lies
sparkling the Pearl of Great Price, your Spir­it, your Soul…The Spark of
the Divine.

Scor­pio is where Mars, her Con­sort and
Com­pan­ion, holds sway…And they, like you and yours, must find
the Inte­gral Way. Where one plus one can nev­er merely
equal two. For by blend­ing, com­bin­ing, merg­ing and
melding…magic will occur. 

Togeth­er you seek, you strive, you yearn
to cross, to reach beyond and find what is there between what is mine and
thine…you make and find that shared sacred space of Val­ue, Beauty
and Love…your Sacred Space of Us. 

For this is what Venus in Scor­pio asks
and offers to you now, that you will be able, you must dis­cern, discover
and decide, what is more of me and what is less…and what, what do we share. For you must understand…What can I sur­ren­der, and what must I not? 

You will find with­in this Frictional
Forg­ing, revealed in the to and fro, that you will let go of the less­er and find what
is greater…and you will know more what makes you “you”,
than you ever could before…You move clos­er to one anoth­er, only to dis­cov­er a Truer You. 

This is the Key and the Prize…

For Venus is your Avatar of Val­ue and Beauty.

And what brings
you to any Union…

Is what you will share with one another.

And at the core of you and them,

As in all of this Creation…

Is found the Promise, the sweet Dream.

The Force that Binds each to every,

That embraces One and all,

Love.

There is no deny­ing it, this one is
harder…

But this is how you grow…through
Forging/Finding a Greater Understanding…

By pass­ing beyond the divi­sions and
divides which lead to pain, which are the true cause of your suffering…

You must find your way beyond your self-limitations,
to let go of the lesser…

You seek the High­er Way, the Way of
Com­pas­sion and Humility…and you come upon…

The promise, the prof­fered gifts from
those who have walked the path before you. They extend their love and help to you now…but you must
choose, you must forge and find your own way as must all who tread the path,
you must reach for the Light with­in in order to see the Light in which you
abide.

You will strug­gle, you will strive and
even­tu­al­ly you will find and will fol­low the One Path of Truth…The Integral
Way.

So, when you feel this pain, when you
encounter Suf­fer­ing, you will ask why…

Why must it be this way? Why this pain?
Why must I Suffer?

And in the Still­ness, in the Sacred
Place that is at your Center…and is found in every sin­gle Cen­ter of all that
IS…a kind­ly, gen­tle voice will remind you of this one sim­ple truth…

You Suf­fer, because you do not
Under­stand, you Suf­fer because you are not yet what you will some­day BE…and
so you Attract this suf­fer­ing to break your hold upon the less­er and
dis­cov­er the Greater that is With­in and Around you too…For this is how you
grow from that unself-con­scious Spark of the Divine and slow­ly but surely
assume your Des­tiny of a ful­ly Illu­mined Being, a Self-Lumi­nous Co-Cre­ator of
Spirit/Matter, to be one of the Anoint­ed, to be Fulfilled.

So do not turn from this Pain…turn
into it. See it for what it holds, and how it has this hold upon you…For it
is your Des­tiny to Mas­ter all of this, and so move beyond this Suf­fer­ing into
Accep­tance, Joy and Uncon­di­tion­al Love…And every blow, every pain is there to
“lift” you up as you let go of the less­er and move towards the
Greater Understanding.…for this is it, this is The Way.

Today, your Pain is sharp and you will
and you must pay atten­tion, for this is your opportunity…and yes, though this
is one of the “hard ones”, it is even more to be trea­sured for this is
how your growth is quick­ened and your promise more clear­ly met.

Mars is sweep­ing through that Regal
realm of Leo, inspir­ing one and all to draw down those Spir­i­tu­al Fires and
extend their hearts of courage into cre­at­ing, lead­ing and lov­ing actions in
order to build bet­ter worlds…But Sat­urn holds forth from the Reality
Struc­tures of Scor­pio, from those oh so ancient edi­fices and more recent
substantiations. 

Sat­urn is the Avatar of the very Real­i­ties your Mars
Desires/Actions forged long and not so long ago, those Unions which brought
about the Mag­ic of Self-Trans­for­ma­tion and Growth…and this Con­cret­ed Light, this
Spir­it formed into Mat­ter, is the Can­vas of Life upon which you attempt to extend
your present opportunities.

And yet, this hard-won Real­i­ty will equal­ly present to you the “Ring
Pass Not”, the immov­able Objec­ti­fi­ca­tion of those for­mi­da­ble limitations
which con­front you in the now, for you are a Spir­it who is learning
self-mas­tery in this most mate­r­i­al of Worlds.

As you face the pain of delay, of
endeav­ors thwart­ed and goals denied, as stres­sors and stress­es build and the
aches of your loss­es mount…you will won­der why, what is this for?…

The goals you have are what they have
been, the way to them remains as it was…whatever could cause such pain? You
dou­ble down on your efforts, only to feel an equal rise in resis­tance to your
way…and you ask, what is wrong, what do I do now?

You need remem­ber but one truth, and that
there is always help if you sur­ren­der your ego, if you sur­ren­der your pride…and
if you would but lis­ten, in a qui­et place, in the still­ness there you will feel
the pres­ence, there will come a stir­ring in your heart, and a lov­ing voice will
remind you, of what you now remem­ber, of course, that there is but one constant
in All these worlds…and that is Change. 

How could your goal remain for­ev­er, how
could the path remain unchanged? The answer, as always, is Understanding…that
you need to see behind, beneath and beyond what appears to your ordi­nary ways
and means. You need to rise above your every­day cer­tain­ties and expectancies,
to lift your sights from your Deter­mi­na­tions and ques­tion again “Where you
are going”, to con­sid­er again “What is my path?”

Your part­ner, your fam­i­ly, your boss or
the Uni­verse is not try­ing to “stop” you, it is mere­ly your Future
ask­ing you to let go of the less­er you and to move that much clos­er to the
Light-Bear­er, to the Divin­i­ty that lights your way with­in you.

You must grow and change in equal
mea­sure to these worlds…

These Realms who are ris­ing with, by and
through you.

As you and your Illu­mined Companions
seek to become, and

To lift your­selves and all these
Worlds too.

Spir­its danc­ing through Matter…

Mat­ter illu­mined by Consciousness.

Wing­ing your way back…

Sparks of the Divine…

Head­ing home to the One.

Time to work on your Knowing,

To lift your­self by and through your “Consciousness”…but
you bet­ter get on with it…

For Mer­cury will only be here for less
than three weeks, and then he is on to those Mys­te­ri­ous, Deep­en­ing Waters of
Scor­pio where, in plumb­ing the depths that lie with­in and between, he and you
will abide for over two months!

So take in hand this short-lived
opportunity…it is time to turn from pars­ing prac­ti­cal­i­ties and lift your mind
into that realm where it finds great delight, into those Airy Spaces where
ideas and thoughts do sparkle and dance through the ethers of Mind-born
energies…

It is time to
com­pare and con­trast, to join in con­ver­sa­tions and dialogs, to share your
thoughts with one anoth­er and so expand your under­stand­ing in
point/counterpoint, to find that your own aware­ness is quick­ened by that
Mer­cu­r­ial Mélange where a prof­fered thought sparks anoth­er, and then leads to
yet anoth­er, and your spi­ral dance of Men­tal Mag­ic is off and running…

You move into that felic­i­tous space where
you can come to a greater under­stand­ing, where you will forge agree­ments upon
what you share, and then diplo­mat­i­cal­ly agree to dis­agree on the rest…For you
need help, to see beyond your self-cast shad­ows. Your point of view like a very
bright light illu­mines, and yet forms the very hid­den spaces of what you do not
perceive…So wel­come your broth­er and sis­ter, your part­ner and Mak­er, for they
are here to shine a dif­fer­ent light for you and so dis­pel a lit­tle your
shad­owed knowing…

For this is your Jour­ney, it is a
Jour­ney Spir­it, of Mind-Born Sparks of the Divine…and you can only per­ceive and
know so much on your own…so, be blessed and give thanks, for you are not
alone…not ever. You have one anoth­er, you need one anoth­er, you are one another…and
you will only tru­ly come to that Greater Under­stand­ing by know­ing with and
through one another…share and grow.

Your Thoughts, your Words reveal this to
you…

That your Jour­ney of Spir­it is this
mar­velous, illu­mined spi­ral dance of Consciousness…

And know this, “Con­scious­ness”
means: Con=Together, Sciousness=Knowing,

So your very jour­ney, this spi­ral dance of
Spirit/Mind…

Is a won­drous path you share with one
another.

Of Know­ing…

By Under­stand­ing…

Through, with and for One Another.

You are togeth­er upon the one True Path… 

Reach­ing beyond the shadows…

Illu­mined, Luminous…

Oh how you Shine!

Togeth­er.