Do you know what you want…

and do you know what you have?

Well, it is that time again…

You need to pause, step back and
con­sid­er what is val­ue, what is beauty…

and what is Love to you.

Venus is your Avatar of Val­ue, your
guide to what you want and the keep­er of your heart. She is shin­ing through the
win­dow of Vir­go now, and your aes­thet­ic and social sen­si­bil­i­ties are more
dis­cern­ing and exact­ing than usual…

How­ev­er, there can come a point, that
tip­ping point or moment of inflec­tion, at which your jour­ney through Vir­go can
turn from being won­der­ful­ly atten­tive, mov­ing beyond a greater clar­i­ty to a more
crit­i­cal, exact­ing and cool­er dispensation…and this, well this is often found
to be less welcome…

Whether you are look­ing in the mir­ror of
your own life, or assess­ing the world about you, your sharp­ness and judgment
can go too far, for you will find faults and fail­ings every­where, in yourself
and in this world, for both are works in progress…and so your dis­cern­ing eyes
will leave you lost in those frac­tured frag­ments of that greater mosa­ic of your
life which is still unfolding.

So it is quite won­der­ful to have this
beau­ti­ful reminder from Nep­tune, who is swing­ing through her home sign of
Pisces now…For, as in any con­tra­po­si­tion, Nep­tune is here to offer an answer
and balm to the Venus mod­u­la­tion in Vir­go now.

For as much as dis­cern­ment and
refine­ment are part of your jour­ney of val­ue, beau­ty and love, it is then even
more nec­es­sary to remem­ber and hold with the greater Love and Grace that arise
in the One­ness of all of Life, that all are one in Spir­it, all are of the One…who is Love.

Com­pas­sion, empa­thy and your Unconditional
Love forge your accep­tance of imper­fec­tion and equal­ly shine a light on your path­way towards Perfection…Neptune in Pisces reminds you of this and forms the very means by which you become
this Self-Unfold­ing wonder…For your Self-Becom­ing is premised upon you being this unique work in
progress, as you jour­ney from the less­er to the greater in life after life after life…

Love your­self and one another…

With Dis­cern­ment…

And Com­pas­sion too.

For you are not yet what you will become…

But only Love will take you there.

Luna’s has reached her out­er bounds, she
is out there shin­ing for you beyond Earth­’s Ellip­ti­cal Path, form­ing what is always
a most need­ed and nec­es­sary coun­ter­point to her com­pan­ion, your Star. For this
is Luna’s role, to be the medi­a­tor between you and the pow­er­ful ener­gies which
sweep around and through you, she is there to nur­ture, to care and provide…

Today you have entered into a new realm,
it is the Sun’s time in Leo, and so Luna’s role at this Full Moon, as always,
is to be a bal­ance of that for you, to offer the nec­es­sary balm and guid­ance so
that you might find your way and stay upon the Noble Mid­dle Path of the
Inte­gral Life…

For with the Sun in Leo, you have your Burning
Bright desire, to have that sig­nal recog­ni­tion, to be what you are, to be authentic
and true…But you may strive over­much, to so be your­self that you for­get that your
life and your mean­ings are not for you alone.

For although you are a unique experience
and expres­sion of sen­si­bil­i­ties and gifts, these are found­ed and formed by more
than just you, they are shared, shaped and bound­ed by those with whom you
journey…your stal­wart stew­ards, your friends and com­pan­ions whose dreams are
yours and yours is theirs too.

Your decla­ma­tions and dis­plays, your
brav­ery and courage, can only find ful­fill­ment in this Greater Life, a life that
you dream and share with those who accom­pa­ny you…Luna
reminds you now, that as you strive to be even more what you can be…she reminds
you what this is tru­ly for, that you are here to Dare and Dream for one another… 

You ful­fill yourself…

and ful­fill one another.

For your Dreams are made,

of and by one another. 

There is no deny­ing it, this is a very busy
day of Plan­e­tary shift­ing and align­ments. Com­ing right after Venus moves into
Vir­go, the Sun also shifts into that Mid­dle Sign of Sum­mer, Leo…and then
about two hours lat­er you encounter a Full Moon in Aquar­ius too! No won­der your
head and heart are spin­ning! So take a deep breath, hold it and then release,
because what you are feel­ing is, well it is real­ly real…

The Sun arch­es now into his Hall of
Mir­rors, where reflec­tions bounce from one pres­ence to anoth­er, all eyes seeking
that sign of recog­ni­tion, to be beheld by anoth­er as you tru­ly are, that reas­sur­ing sense…“I
Am that, I Am!”

For hav­ing found and felt in the time of
Can­cer, embraced and cen­tered by those root ener­gies which lead back to your
ori­gins, you felt equal­ly drawn towards the promise sub­lime, the
path­way of your Destiny…

And so it is now in Leo that must sally
forth, as you seek to show your­self and the world who and what you tru­ly are…Yes,
you have met a lit­tle more of your­self at your Cen­ter, and you have need to
hold to what you remem­bered, to be how you felt, and become who you will be…In
Leo you must be you, and you must Perform!

You must stretch your­self now, extending
your role and reach upon the stages of life you have prepared…Or per­haps you
are ready, to go beyond what was attempt­ed, to take your­self, to reveal
your­self by and through an entire­ly new role and realm…

You respond to the inspi­ra­tion that
aris­es from with­in you, and by your exam­ple you inspire oth­ers to do likewise,
to reach with­in them­selves and dream and do beyond what they were before, so they
like you may reach a lit­tle high­er too.

For Leo must lead, to be a light and
inspi­ra­tion unto oth­ers, and you must do this for one anoth­er, for each needs
the oth­er to be, to be seen for who you are, to be authen­tic, to have and bestow respect and
honor…for what you are, you are together.

To become and be seen for who you truly
are,

Requires the con­sid­er­a­tion of others…

Who see and encour­age you to be just
that…yourself.

And so you must do the same.

For with­in each and every one of you…

There burns the Eter­nal Flame.

You Bow to one anoth­er, for you

See beyond that mor­tal frame.

You are Stars in the Making…

Your Des­tiny, this Creation…

The play with­in the Play.

You live with­in a Mag­is­te­r­i­al Dance of the
Planets…Their wheels with­in wheels, spi­ral and arc beau­ti­ful­ly, sweep­ing and
weav­ing through Inner and Out­er Spaces, cre­at­ing for you a Liv­ing, Vibrant
pageantry of Ener­gies and Forms, Mean­ing­ful-Motions that tru­ly form the
Liv­ing Pres­ence of Spir­it, of the Now in your life.

In oth­er words, you live in an
ever-unfold­ing Astro­log­i­cal Chart of the Present, and the con­tin­u­ous series of
Plan­e­tary Align­ments and their Pro­ces­sion through the Signs cre­ate a Song of
Spir­i­tu­al Mean­ing and Inspi­ra­tion for one and all…

For you are made of this, and each Sign,
each Song of Spir­it is with­in you as much as it is sur­rounds you too…and your
Hap­pi­ness, Peace and Ful­fill­ment draws ever clos­er as you under­stand You as living
in the Greater Aware­ness of this Presence…That you are one with Spir­it, one with
the One…

Venus, your Avatar of Val­ue and Beauty
calls to you now, for there’s a melod­ic shift in her Song of Love today. For
the past few weeks you have lis­tened and respond­ed to the Leo Side of Val­ue and
Beau­ty, you have pur­sued your Love with your burn­ing bright of Fired-formed
Ide­alisms, ever striv­ing to earn and bestow respect, to lead by exam­ple, to know
and love one­self, to be authen­tic to your true nature…and so to love the
oth­er as one­self, unconditionally…

But often those Spir­i­tu­al Fires can burn
over-bright lead­ing to excess and error, so you have need of ground­ing and
focus…That the promise of Fire will and must be met in the cru­cible of Earth…So
Spir­it answers with a nec­es­sary Gift, a balm of calm­ness and car­ing, of
atten­tive­ness to detail…and you turn now to those small but so meaningful
acts of ser­vice, sac­ri­fice and heal­ing, as you seek to find the Peace that
pass­es all Under­stand­ing, the Peace that lies with­in your heart…and this,
this is the Love that is Virgo.

For it is easy to put on “the
show”, to declaim your Ideals, devo­tion and love…but at the end of the
day it is the “lit­tle things” that mat­ter, it is what is done without
boast­ing or seek­ing recog­ni­tion, because it is right…and rights what is
wrong…Yes, it is in these qui­et, unas­sum­ing ways of kind­ness and con­sid­er­a­tion, it
is in these things that your soul shall be weighed and found to be beautiful…

It is through your prac­tice of the
sub­lime in the most ordi­nary or mun­dane, of your every­day duties, con­sid­er­a­tions and con­cerns that you reveal to one anoth­er the beau­ty of your
soul and bring greater heal­ing to your world…It is these in these
“lit­tle things” that you ful­fill your promise as a Spark of the Divine,
you the self-becom­ing won­der whose pur­pose is to grow and ful­fill the promise
of that Flame which burns within.

Venus returns to the heal­ing gar­dens of
Virgo…

Where Beau­ty is found in delicacy,
refine­ment and grace.

And Love is there as you serve one
another…

As you Walk the Path­way of Forgiveness
and Strength.

You Walk in Beauty…

To Find the Place of Peace…

Togeth­er.

Her­mes turns around, and so must you…

As not­ed in the entry for when Mer­cury
turned ret­ro­grade, the par­tic­u­lar oppor­tu­ni­ty Mer­cury offered to
you for the past three weeks was that:

“…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…”

Your atten­tive­ness was turned back onto yourself,
and so you were able to regard with greater objec­tiv­i­ty those Feeling-Thought-Forms,
which run like tapes with­in you. Some­thing hap­pens, or does not hap­pen, with
regard to anoth­er, where­in action “A” leads auto­mat­i­cal­ly to reaction
“B”, which inevitably leads to result “C”.

There is very
lit­tle to no input or thought that you bring to these auto­mat­ic reac­tions, once
they start they often impel or com­pel you to be in a state of suspended
aware­ness as you go through the motion-emo­tion­al loop. The ques­tion then becomes, is this good or not for you (and them)?

These pat­terns of semi to unconscious
reac­tions allow you to live much of your life with­out too much think­ing, so
that many of your ordi­nary or dai­ly inter­ac­tions are put on
“auto­mat­ic”, which frees your mind to attend to oth­er mat­ters, and that is good. But these pat­terns also hold you in thrall, and often bind you to what­ev­er stage of
emo­tion­al aware­ness you were in when they were formed. They can take on a life
of their own, indeed becom­ing self-pre­serv­ing, deeply embed­ded ener­gy-forms that
are shaped by those Mem­o­ries-Rec­ol­lec­tions-Remem­brances of your “Life
Famil­iar”, of your home and fam­i­ly, as well as deeply root­ed in your ethnic
or cul­tur­al archetypes.

With Mer­cury ret­ro­grade in Can­cer, you
were able to some­what step out­side of this self-made pat­tern­ing, to watch yourself
and con­sid­er whether a par­tic­u­lar Reac­tion-Pat­tern was a mean­ing­ful response to present cir­cum­stances, the deter­min­ing fac­tor being whether it well met
your needs or that of anoth­er. Cer­tain­ly, many of these pat­terns serve a useful
pur­pose, but many can ben­e­fit from a review and revi­sion, and some, well some
need to be “erased” as they do not serve you well at all.

Hope­ful­ly, you took this oppor­tu­ni­ty to
clar­i­fy, cor­rect and clear your heart and mind as to what you need from the one
before you, and or what you could mean­ing­ful­ly offer to them. Then you could
choose to con­tin­ue with your now bet­ter informed reac­tion-pat­tern, or replace it
with a more evolved response to one another…

Mer­cury is Turning…

Time to turn your primary
atten­tion out­wards again…

To sal­ly forth with your New­found Understanding.

More aware of your Reac­tive, Past
Patterning…

You are able to Choose.

Act­ing now through more Meaningful
Responses,

You the Self-Becom­ing Wonder…

Mov­ing out of Dark­ness and into the
Light.