The
War­den of the Night can­not be seen, for she has come back into those Inner
Realms that lie between you and your Star. For the past few days, and for the
next few to fol­low, you will not see her, nei­ther ris­ing or set­ting, for she is
veiled now with­in those stream­ing Solar rays that fill and inform these spaces
of Space that you call home.

Every month the Solar-Lunar rela­tion­ship sweeps across the heavens
and lays down for you the basic Arche­typ­al Cycle of your Self-Unfold­ment. At
each New Moon a release of new inspi­ra­tion gives impe­tus to your striv­ing to
become a lit­tle bit more of what you are to be…and at each Full Moon you are
reward­ed with a new Under­stand­ing of the Inte­gral rela­tion­ship between the
Ener­gy-Forms of the Signs where­in the Sun and Moon stand watch at that time.

Today’s mes­sage con­cerns the release of a new Ener­gy-Form, a
renew­al of the mes­sages that Eter­nal­ly flow out from the Realm that is Cancer.
It is time to pause again and wel­come these sooth­ing, calm­ing reassuring
Feel­ing-Mem­o­ries that flow from the Cen­ter of your being, that flow from the Cen­ter of the Cos­mos and from your
Heart, and lead you back again to that warm embrac­ing feel­ing of being part of a
some­thing, of belong­ing some­where, of being home again.

This is the Gift of Can­cer, that in these Waters of Life that
con­nect you from your present day and back to your most ancient of Ori­gins, you
expe­ri­ence the Fun­da­men­tal Truth that you, what you know as your­self, are part
of some­thing more, that you move with­in a stream of Ener­gy-Forms that form this
larg­er expe­ri­ence of Self­ness, a wave of won­drous Light that you know as your
Family.

And it is here in your heart, where your Soul is Root­ed, that you can fol­low a Gold­en Chord of your many, many sojourns in this realm…and this chord forms your path­way that con­nects you to your past and to all who
trav­el with you, bind­ing you all to one anoth­er in these many lives and many
man­sions of your fam­i­ly home, your home on Earth.

So take a moment in this your cur­rent sojourn upon the Earth, take
a moment to feel the Moon there slid­ing between you and your Star, take a
moment to feel and remem­ber the con­nec­tions that hold you with and to your
imme­di­ate fam­i­ly, and with your Fam­i­ly of Light too…

For you are one of a
Com­pa­ny of Fel­low Seek­ers, Trav­el­ers in Time and Space, who for a time abide
upon this spe­cial Cor­ner of Space, your Home here upon this World of Wonder,
your home here on Earth.

Take
a moment…

Breathe deep…

Open your heart,

and Remem­ber this Feeling.

Yes, there it is now…

The Cross­ing Point,

Between the Dark­ness and the Light.

Your beau­ti­ful jew­el of Blue and White…

Home.

The
Lord of Forms and Real­i­ty stands still as he turns to move for­ward again
through Scor­pio until March 2014…It is time for you to turn the focus of your
atten­tion from inner to out­er realms, as you take with you now a deeper
under­stand­ing of what hopes and fears you bring into this sacred space of unions.

The past sev­er­al months have giv­en you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to reflect
upon what may hold you back from an even deep­er con­nec­tion with the one before
you. You would have encoun­tered what Sat­urn in Scor­pio will and must always
show you…That your long­ing for this deep­er Union must face the chal­lenge of
your Fears, for you have been here before, and your self-cast shad­ows of doubt
might bring about the very thing you wish to avoid, your fears will make
man­i­fest some form of rejec­tion, sep­a­ra­tion or loss rather than a deeper
bond­ing with one another.

What you require is a fear­less faith based upon a deeper
under­stand­ing of what core Prin­ci­ples, Truths and Val­ues makes you who you
are…That the pre­req­ui­site for Union is met by a truer Union with one­self, for
by this you will deter­mine how and what you are will­ing to sac­ri­fice in order
to cre­ate the con­di­tions for this union, but also there­by know which sacrifices
are too great…That it would be to no avail to sac­ri­fice what makes you and
cre­ate a Union, only to real­ize that the real you is not to be a part of it!

Yes, all com­bi­na­tions require that you make a Sac­ri­fice, but the
true mean­ing of that word means to “Make Sacred”, you are asked to
give up the less­er parts of your­self, but to always and for­ev­er hon­or, preserve
and pro­tect your Spir­i­tu­al Core. Yes sac­ri­fices will hurt, for you are attached
to many less­er things in your life, but the glo­ry and gain of a deep­er union
will be so much more for you and your beloved too.

So now you can turn with this greater Self-Knowl­edge, you can form
and forge your joint endeav­ors upon a sig­nif­i­cant shar­ing of com­mon val­ues and
interests…If there is enough val­ue shared between you, then you can hold to
one anoth­er, help one anoth­er, and actu­al­ly bring about a quick­en­ing of your
prin­ci­ple pur­pose which is to Grow…For it is in your com­bi­na­tion with one
anoth­er that you expe­ri­ence an inte­gral self-trans­for­ma­tion through the mutual
sup­port you give to one anoth­er. In your Sac­ri­fice, Join­ing and
Self-Tran­scen­dence you and they become more than you could, even if you were
some­how able to go for­ward alone.

But you also come togeth­er pre­cise­ly for what is not shared, because
each of you is spe­cial, dif­fer­ent and unique from one anoth­er, and so you come
into unions to com­ple­ment one anoth­er. You come togeth­er to work, to play to
grow because you are dif­fer­ent from one anoth­er and in your com­bi­na­tion with
each oth­er you are able to become so much more than you could ever be on your
own. You need your com­mon, shared bonds which form the basis of your joining,
but the rich­ness and reward of your union comes from your dif­fer­ences with one
another…and this is where today’s oth­er aspect is adding a spe­cial gift and
mes­sage to your Union Making… 

For
today Venus aligns most beau­ti­ful­ly with Uranus, and the Avatar of Val­ue is
graced by the Avatar of Individuality…and it is pre­cise­ly at such a time that
you can and should be delight­ed by and cel­e­brate how each of you is tru­ly a
unique aspect or spark of the Divine too…

Each of you has spe­cial qual­i­ties, sen­si­bil­i­ties and contributions
to make, and your Unions depend upon these as much as they are found­ed and
secured by what you have in com­mon in your core com­mit­ments and shared values.

For what you are and would become is some­thing spe­cial, each spark
of the Divine is here to come into and real­ize its own spe­cial song in the
Cho­rus of the Cosmos…and so you need to acknowl­edge this to one
anoth­er, sup­port one anoth­er in your dif­fer­ences and so dis­cov­er more in and
through one anoth­er about your­self and about these worlds through which you
jour­ney. You must forge a Union with one anoth­er that does not bind you blindly
to one anoth­er, but serves to estab­lish a greater space of free­dom to be, that
lib­er­ates your spir­its to soar into greater ranges of self-realization. 

You are free because you are com­mit­ted to one anoth­er, knowing
that each is there for the oth­er, secure­ly found­ed upon your core beliefs and
principles…and, you are also there for one anoth­er with that Uncon­di­tion­al Love which finds its true joy in the ful­fill­ment of one anoth­er’s jour­ney of
self-becom­ing. For each must ful­fill their pur­pose as a unique spark with­in the
Flame of Spir­it, and to do this you must hon­or, respect and sup­port one another…you must find your love in the jour­ney of the oth­er too…

You are here to grow, for your­self and for one another…

You do this by join­ing with one anoth­er in what you share…

And by tak­ing your delights in what is dif­fer­ent too.

By forg­ing Unions which Free you to become…

You reflect the greater Light with­in which you abide.

The Love of the One…

Hold­ing you to one another…

In the Ever­last­ing Union,

That is the Wis­dom, Love and Will

Of the One.

You are here to grow…

And you do this
as you learn how to weave togeth­er these threads of Ener­gy and Form, that are within
and around you, and by this most won­drous process of your Self-Unfold­ment you and your world become the “Beau­ty of
the Self-Begot­ten”, the Divine made man­i­fest in this Cos­mos, your life,
your Creation.

Today Venus, your Muse of Beau­ty and
Love encoun­ters Sat­urn, the Mas­ter of Forms and Real­i­ty, and you will find the need
to adjust again the warp and weave of your Self-Illu­mined Life. For Venus is
sweep­ing through the Ide­al­is­tic Fires of Leo, where Love is met in acts of
Chival­ry and Feal­ty, where Hon­or and Loy­al­ty are offered up by and to one
another…With Venus in Leo you wish to Love and see your­self as stand­ing upon
these foun­da­tions of Self-Respect and Hon­or, which then become expressed
through and mir­rored in the Con­sid­er­a­tions and Con­duct you should show to one
another…

But Sat­urn comes to this Plan­e­tary Joust
with anoth­er Ban­ner of Truth, he throws down the Gaunt­let of Growth and
Trans­for­ma­tion to these High and Mighty Ideals of Love and Beauty…for Saturn
rides for Scor­pio now. Sat­urn is here to remind you that your Idealistic
Prin­ci­ples of Love, your out­ward Acts of Con­sid­er­a­tion and Respect must not
flow from and fol­low mere­ly these prop­er Forms or Appear­ances of Love…Oh no!

Scor­pio demands that your love must come
from the depths of your being, root­ed in those trans­for­ma­tive feel­ings that have
been born by your encounter and Union with your own True Self, your Beloved…Which
then and only then can open the por­tal to break­ing the “Illu­sion that is Separation”. 

For
this is how you will expe­ri­ence self-tran­scen­dence and trans­for­ma­tion, by this death
and rebirth of your less­er sense of self, by know­ing Love as found­ed upon your essen­tial One­ness with one another…and that your Right­ful­ly Shared Sac­ri­fices are the Promise Keep­ers, the Foun­tain-Source and Foun­da­tion for the Greater Union with one
anoth­er too.

For it is not enough to mere­ly subscribe
to the Right Way of Relat­ing to one anoth­er, which may bring you
self-sat­is­fac­tion or the com­men­da­tion of your peers…you must Feel this Love
with­in and between you too…You must become more than mere Ideals, you must become more
than you were! 

It is not enough to know and believe what is True and Honorable,
for these Ideals must be anchored and secured with and to your Soul…They are anchored by,
in and through the Sac­ri­fices and Rewards you make with and for one another…They are secured
by this most awe­some Pow­er of your Feel­ings that you hold for one another.

These “Ideals made Real through Feel­ings” will then be woven into your soul, and into your relationship…and so it is
this that will hold you to your­self and to one anoth­er too, not mere­ly because it
is “Right”, but because it Feels Right too.

The Venus/Saturn chal­lenge may come as a choice, between
doing what is Right, Prop­er or Respectable ver­sus doing what feels more Authentic,
Desir­able or Passionate…but in the end you can­not and must not separate
your­self or these ways of being…your real Chal­lenge is to face the Choice
between one way or anoth­er, and then “choose not to choose”…Your Path is to take
the Third Way, to not choose because you have found the Mid­dle Way, the Path of
Synthesis…

Then you can be what you are meant to
be…

You will be Authen­ti­cal­ly Considerate…

Full of Feal­ty and Desire…

Pas­sion­ate and Respectful…

You will be more complete.

You the Self-Becom­ing Wonder…

Doing what is Right…

Feel­ing what is True.

Venus leaves the famil­iar Waters of
Can­cer, where you were refreshed and found again your cen­ter, your True Source
of Love…There in the undy­ing light of your High­er Self, in and through your beloved,
you could expe­ri­ence again and so under­stand that you are unique, a spe­cial spark
of the Life Divine…That it is in this Foun­tain-Source of Spir­it, in and
through The One, whose Love for you and all of Cre­ation is bound­less, it is this
Love which is the very force that builds, nur­tures, shapes and pro­pels this
remark­able jour­ney of all of the forms and ener­gies of
Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it, who are in fact this Cosmos.

You and your Avatar of Beau­ty and Love have
come from this realm and time of Attune­ment with­in, but Venus and you will now feel
a new and answer­ing need, an urgent call­ing upon you both to go forth…for it
is not enough to feel the Love that is of and abides with­in oneself…

For just as you are a spark of the
Divine and your pur­pose is to grow, so too must your love, so too must you
expe­ri­ence your love not mere­ly with­in, between you and your High­er Self, but you
must also Expe­ri­ence those Fires of Emo­tion, of love Expressed for and to One Another,
for all are held togeth­er in this Love that abides with­in yet also surrounds
you and all of Cre­ation too.

For what you will expe­ri­ence, when you
love anoth­er tru­ly, what you will see leaps out from you to them and from them
to you, the awe­some recog­ni­tion, out and through those “win­dows of the
soul”…You will see into one anoth­er, and what you behold and feel in
your heart is that you are in the “Pres­ence” of the Divine…You lift a lit­tle that veil of Mys­tery, of the One and the Many, because you behold another
spark of the Divine there before you, and what you feel, what you know, this is
love…

You rec­og­nize the oth­er as anoth­er wondrous,
resplen­dent embod­i­ment of the Divine…as are you…and what you feel for one another,
what you give to one anoth­er, what you have with one anoth­er is this Love that
is the Ener­gy that binds all of the ones of the One to and with the One…You
will feel and share this most pro­found expe­ri­ence of the Uni­ty of Creation,
you will call to one anoth­er, you will say to one anoth­er, “you are my Love”…and it is so.

Venus enters Leo…and your heart will
leap!

For as the Beloved is with­in, so is the
Beloved before you too.

Look into one anoth­er’s eyes…

Smile and be glad…

For you have found one anoth­er, again.

And it is time, it is time for Love.

The sec­ond Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade of the year
was not­ed in the 2013 Gen­er­al Fore­cast:

Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade in Can­cer (June 26 until
July 20)

The sec­ond of three Mer­cury ret­ro­grades in Water, and now it is
time to renew your thoughts about home and fam­i­ly. For three weeks Mer­cury will
ret­ro­grade through Can­cer and you will need to look with­in to see how securely
root­ed are the ideas that you hold (or do they have their hold on you?). You
need to exam­ine how well you have learned to inte­grate your thoughts with your
feelings…For it is only then that you will com­mu­ni­cate with your head and
your heart as one…and then your world will lis­ten with won­der and
appre­ci­a­tion. As always, present day mat­ters may need put on hold as you go
back and tidy up some items left behind. 

This ret­ro­grade will span the peri­od for
the approach to, and the time of the exact for­ma­tion of the Grand Trine of
Water for Jupiter, Sat­urn and Neptune…and it should be under­stood as being
formed (and informed) with­in the con­text of this greater pattern.

But the Plan­e­tary Waves can and will
trav­el both ways for you, in those grand Out­er Align­ments, but also in these
more sub­tle and nuanced gifts of the Inner Plan­ets too. That as much as the
Grand Trine is and will be bring­ing you a most pre­cious gift of Inte­gral Understanding,
where­in you will res­onate, respond and thrill to feel the won­der­ful attunement
between the Roots of your Being, your Unions with one anoth­er and your Oneness
with the Divine…It is still most nec­es­sary and right that you take some time
dur­ing this Mer­cury ret­ro­grade to make even more per­son­al and mean­ing­ful that
Grander Align­ment to come, and this is what dear Her­mes offers you now…

With Mer­cury ret­ro­grade you need to go
back and reex­am­ine, renew and restore your expe­ri­ence of your Fam­i­ly, your Home
and your Inner­most Being so that you may more per­fect­ly align the coming
Greater Grand Trine in your life. When­ev­er Mer­cury is ret­ro­grade, your mind and
aware­ness, your atten­tion and inten­tion, your con­scious­ness becomes turned more
read­i­ly back upon itself…and you can con­sid­er anew and exer­cise its most
won­drous attribute, to be Self-Reflective…You are more able to think about
think­ing, to reex­am­ine your expe­ri­ences and knowl­edge and so work towards a
greater inte­gra­tion of what is with­in and what is around you…

For your Feel­ings about your Center,
about your home and secu­ri­ty, about your need to nur­ture and be
nurtured…these are very deep and com­plex expe­ri­ences that are freight­ed with
com­plex thoughts, with many-lay­ered and often con­flict­ed feelings…And it would be
most help­ful to you and those that you care for, and who care for you, it would
be very help­ful to sort through these Feel­ing-Thought-Forms so that you may
come to bet­ter under­stand and accept your­self as you are, and restore your
faith in your greater destiny…

For you car­ry with­in you the promise,
that as a Spark of the Divine, your growth and Self-Unfold­ment will con­tin­ue forever
and ever…but you will need help at times to under­stand and let go of your
less­er attach­ments, the echoes of old expe­ri­ences that may some­times cast their
shad­ows upon your cur­rent experience…and these echoes, often orig­i­nat­ing as
rea­son­able and right in anoth­er time and place, these emo­tion­al com­plex­es have
no healthy, func­tion­al pur­pose for you in the present day…

With Mer­cury ret­ro­grade you are able to
step “out­side” of your­self and see how some of these old and familiar
pat­terns were devel­oped as respons­es to needs and cir­cum­stances long ago, but
now they have become pat­terns of Reac­tion, they only serve to hold you back in the
Now…and so you must take out your “Sword of Sev­er­ance” and cut
these chords of emo­tion­al bondage and so free your­self to choose new responses
to your own needs as well as for those for whom you care…

Let Her­mes take you inside, to your Home
that is within…

For there at the Core of you, there
resides the “Pearl of Great Price”…

It is your Self, your Beloved who is
your expe­ri­ence of Well-Being…

Of being Home, and Secure and Centered
no mat­ter what.

For this Cen­ter that is you, is also the
Cen­ter of the One.

And so you will remem­ber, again, and smile as you
realize…

You are already, you are always and forever…

You are Home.