Your Year of Waters is here…

And so begins your pre­view of the Grand
Trine for this Sum­mer between Jupiter, Sat­urn and Nep­tune, which I wrote about
in my Gen­er­al Fore­cast for 2013. Jupiter will enter Can­cer lat­er this month and
begin to form this most aus­pi­cious Align­ment, but for now you can par­take in this bless­ing as Mer­cury and then Venus lat­er this week, on Venus’
day (Fri­day), steps into the space that Jupiter will assume in a few
weeks…and so you will begin to receive, feel and respond to these won­drous energies
and mes­sages now…Here again is what I wrote about the Grand Trine of July
2013:

The
Grand Water Trine, Jupiter, Sat­urn and Nep­tune July 17–19, 2013 

We can for­get as we go
about our busy lives “down here”, we can for­get how mag­i­cal and how
full of mean­ing were the pat­terns dis­cerned by our ances­tors. How they marveled
at what stood revealed in this great pageantry that sweeps before us every day
and night by our Star­ry com­pa­ny, those con­stant com­pan­ions who dance and form
beau­ti­ful, intri­cate and mean­ing­ful pat­terns all around us. Yes, we can miss
the signs and por­tents because we do not see them or even look for them
any­more, but they are there…these Guardians of Life con­tin­ue their wondrous
weav­ing, help­ing us to under­stand our great unfold­ing jour­ney through the
spaces of space, our walk among stars.

Some­times these planetary
pat­terns are hard­er to dis­cern, and their true sig­nif­i­cance and mean­ing even
more hid­den from you. But this mid-sum­mer align­ment of Jupiter, Sat­urn and
Nep­tune will, even if not seen, be felt by many…it will be beau­ti­ful to
behold and its mes­sage is sweet and deep.

The aspects between
plan­ets, formed by their angu­lar sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er, can be understood
by divid­ing the Cir­cle of Life by a par­tic­u­lar num­ber. The divi­sion of the
Cir­cle, which is 360 degrees in cir­cum­fer­ence, by the num­ber 2 cre­ates the
oppo­si­tion of 180 degrees. The divi­sion by the num­ber 4 cre­ates the square
aspect of 90 degrees. And for our pur­pos­es this July, the divi­sion of the
Cir­cle of Life by the num­ber 3 forms the Trine aspect of 120 degrees.

When­ev­er three planets
line up equal­ly spaced from one anoth­er, it is called a Grand Trine because the
pat­tern is formed by divid­ing the cir­cle of space around you into three equal
por­tions, and find­ing that at each divid­ing point there stands a plan­et equally
dis­tant from the oth­er two along the cir­cle. This divi­sion by three resonates
with a har­mon­ic that rep­re­sents a poised bal­ance of ener­gies that are being
focused through three dis­tinct avatars, in this case by Jupiter in Can­cer and
Sat­urn in Scor­pio and Nep­tune in Pisces. The Grand Trine of July is all about
the Mean­ing and Pow­er of the ele­ment of Water. It is through these three
Avatars in Water that you will receive inspi­ra­tion to help you walk your path
of des­tiny in this time of great and trans­for­ma­tion­al change.

Hav­ing already observed
the con­tri­bu­tion of Jupiter, let us turn our atten­tion to the oth­er two Lords,
and then turn and see how all three avatars will com­bine and con­tribute to a
greater influ­ence too.

The mes­sage of Sat­urn in
Scor­pio res­onates with the strength, pow­er and depth of feel­ing that abides in
the expe­ri­ence of Union. For as much as Jupiter in Can­cer upholds the truth of
find­ing your con­nec­tion to one anoth­er by look­ing to the past, to what you and
all around you have come through and from, Sat­urn in Scor­pio holds out the
neces­si­ty of deal­ing with your ever-resur­gent need, your yearn­ing neces­si­ty to
cross the divide that seem­ing­ly sep­a­rates you from one anoth­er and so find your
greater strength in join­ing togeth­er in your sacred unions. For when two or
more are gath­ered togeth­er, unit­ed in a com­mon pur­pose for which each has made
a right­ful sac­ri­fice, it is from such acts that the mag­ic and pow­er of
spir­i­tu­al growth is in fact real­ized and released. For it is not enough to
remem­ber and hon­or from where you came, it is equal­ly impor­tant to work
togeth­er, to forge deep­er under­stand­ings, to share in the joys and bur­dens of
life and so con­tin­ue to walk this spir­i­tu­al path of your self-becoming,
self-unfoldment…together.

The mes­sage of Nep­tune in
Pisces, like bells peal­ing in a dew kissed morn­ing, thrill with the third and
final form of Water-Feel­ing, which is that numi­nous force that resides within
each par­ti­cle of this cre­ation, pro­vid­ing the impe­tus that inspir­its the lives
of all who jour­ney with­in this cos­mos. The cre­ative force that is behind all of
the phe­nom­e­na in this uni­verse is known by many names. For many it is called
Faith, some would say it is their Dreams or the pow­er of the Imag­i­na­tion, but
none can tru­ly cap­ture the mys­tery behind what flows through each and every
being, that leads them out from with­in, as they unfold as the sparks of the
Divine, these self-becom­ings who ever strive to grow, to become some­thing more.

For it is this feeling
that binds all as one and one to the All, and that leads all out so as to grow
beyond what they have so far cre­at­ed, to walk the path­ways of light and love
out­ward into the spaces of space, out upon their won­drous, spi­ral­ing journey.
It is this Great Jour­ney which will even­tu­al­ly bring them back to return as
some­thing more, hav­ing become so much more than what they were, when they
return home again.

For as much as Jupiter in
Can­cer will pro­vide you with your foun­da­tion of feel­ing, and Sat­urn in Scorpio
will teach you about the courage you have with­in you to reach out and join with
one anoth­er, it is Nep­tune in Pisces who com­pletes your cir­cle of life, Neptune
brings it all togeth­er by singing to you of your ever-renascent pow­er, forged
in your begin­ning by your nature as a spark of the Divine and that holds you as
one of count­less cre­ators who need but dream of a bet­ter world…and it will be
so.

For this is how the
Uni­verse came to be and con­tin­ues to become, because your Spir­it is the very
essence of it all, the pow­er behind your Imag­i­na­tion, Dreams and Faith…The
Pow­er of your Becom­ing, The Pow­er of your Self.

Togeth­er these three,
Jupiter, Sat­urn and Nep­tune can show you once again that you are the mak­er, you
are the Cre­ator of what you face now. That you can feel more tru­ly the roots
that hold you all togeth­er, that you can feel the greater joy that comes from
join­ing with one anoth­er, and that you can love and cre­ate a bet­ter world by
believ­ing and dream­ing for one another. 

Yes, this will be a year
to remem­ber, and quite a sum­mer indeed. The ener­gies delin­eat­ed above will be
build­ing in towards the end of June, grow­ing through July and cli­max­ing in
August. The con­tin­u­ing chal­lenge laid down to you by Uranus and Plu­to may be
some­what eased by these spir­i­tu­al ema­na­tions that come from this grand
align­ment of Plan­e­tary Lords, and equal­ly and most chal­leng­ing acti­vat­ed by the
T‑Square formed by Jupiter too.

There is much to be hoped
for here. There is the hope offered in the Grand Trine that per­haps the things
which divide the many from one anoth­er will be sur­passed by this greater
under­stand­ing of our mutu­al need to sac­ri­fice for the greater good of one
another.

Let us hope, may we
dream…and it shall be…

 

Today it is Mer­cury, the Avatar of your
Mind, who takes the lead­ing role in offering
you a pre­view of Jupiter’s gift of a deep­er con­nec­tion to your Cen­ter, to your
Home and Foun­da­tion. Mer­cury in Can­cer will start this process of Inte­gral Aligning
for you, as he Holds the Lamp of The Way of Can­cer and forms this bridge to The
Ways of Scor­pio and Pisces…For it is these three Water Signs that together
form and fash­ion your Feel­ing of Whole­ness, of Heart­felt Well-Being and Love.

It is from Can­cer that you secure
your Self to the Ori­gins of your Life and Journey…this is the gift you pass down to your­self from the Past.
And from Scor­pio, you find the strength to reach beyond your seem­ing­ly sep­a­rate exis­tence to join
with the Beloved in a more per­fect Union…this is the Gift you give to one anoth­er in the Present. And from Pisces,
you reach beyond your mere Human form to con­nect with all of
Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it that is the Full­ness of Creation…this is your
Future.

From these three you are made whole as Past, Present and Future are
made as One and you feel the Truth of Liv­ing as a Car­ing, Lov­ing and Faithful
soul.

Your Immer­sion into the Tripartite
Waters of Life begins today with Mer­cury in Cancer…

Who can help you form these Mind­ful-Feel­ings about your Roots.

Now through your Cen­tered Self is Lift­ed the Illu­sion of your sep­a­ra­tion from the other.

And it is this that will lead you to the Joy­ful Knowl­edge that you are For­ev­er and Ever One with the
Divine…

The Divine, from whom, with whom and to whom you will Find your way Home.

Wel­come, wel­come the Grand Trine…

Bow your head and be one with “the Waters of Life”.

Beau­ty
is Tru­ly, “in the Eye of the Behold­er”…

For with­out your Love of your True Self,
which like a reflec­tive Mir­ror reveals to you the Beau­ty that you are, with­out this there
would be no way for you to appre­ci­ate, under­stand and con­nect to the Beau­ty and
Love that is around you too…

Today your Avatar of Beau­ty and Love returns
home, to those Famil­iar Waters of Cancer…Today you return to the Source of
your Val­ue, you return to the Roots of You, to your Origins…to Home. For it
is here in the Heart of you, it is here that you will find the Gold­en Chain of
all your Lives strung like Pearls back to your begin­ning where and when you
emerged as a Spark of the Divine.

Your Path is long and you pass through
many forms and worlds, cease­less­ly unfold­ing your­self in a jour­ney of Self-Becoming,
which is the Jour­ney of Spir­it weav­ing an ever expand­ing Light of Consciousness
into ever more com­plex Beings and Worlds…But through them all there ever
remains this Core, this Seed, the Root of it all from which you came and to
which you will one day return…and this Sacred Space is what you expe­ri­ence as
your Home.

And so through every Stage of your
Jour­ney, in every form and world you find your­self in, you will Feel this
Feel­ing, of your Con­nec­tion to what­ev­er you now call this place from which you
came, how­ev­er you expe­ri­ence it, of what you can so far under­stand as that
Foun­tain-Source, this Real­i­ty and Feel­ing of what you call “my Home”.

For some it will be mere­ly, but tru­ly for
them, found in their imme­di­ate fam­i­ly, for it is in “the blood” and
that phys­i­cal pres­ence and lin­eage, it is by hav­ing this tan­gi­ble connection
that the iden­ti­ty is secured to kin and kith, and that feel­ing of home is found there at
this lev­el of understanding…For oth­ers it will grow, to per­haps encompass
their local group, or tribe or ethnicity…Eventually, it will grow even wider,
to find Mean­ing and Belong­ing in a cul­ture, of being part of an Age, of sharing
in a Time and Place…

But, even­tu­al­ly, the High­er Self will
beck­on, and when tru­ly awak­ened the Pil­grim will see revealed their great
jour­ney and Joy­ful­ly feel this all Encom­pass­ing Truth of each and every soul as
belong­ing to one Great Family…That there is but One Home…That we are all relat­ed…We are all
ones of the One and this, this entire Cos­mos is your Family.

Venus returns now to immerse you in the
Waters of Remem­brance and Fam­i­ly. How­ev­er you expe­ri­ence it, wher­ev­er and
when­ev­er you feel this, you know and feel that you are Home, and you know and
feel Love.

Behold yourself…and you know…

You are home, you
are Beautiful…

You are Love.

Now you know, there is but one way…

Be your­self,

Be Lov­ing.

Wel­come Home!

Just
to keep things a lit­tle in bal­ance, as Mer­cury dives into those Waters of
Can­cer, guid­ing you towards your Foun­tain-Source of Feel­ings, Mars jumps over
the prover­bial can­dle­stick into that most Airy World of Gemini!

So, for the next 44 days you are going on a thrilling ride, you are moti­vat­ed and mov­ing, as you charge ahead with this spike in your
Enthu­si­asms, Activ­i­ties and Drives…You are to expe­ri­ence a quick­en­ing or
resur­gence in your desire and need for dis­tract­ing diver­si­ties and multiple
stimulations…Forget about doing one thing at a time…this is your time to
run and jump while jug­gling sev­er­al dif­fer­ent tasks at the same time…Yes, you
are all excit­ed now, you are Nim­ble, and you are Quick…okay, let’s see you
jump over that Candlestick!

Where­as Mars in Tau­rus brought your Desires into a more
Sub­stan­tial Focus, to a more Val­ued and Mea­sured pace of Tangible
Manifestation…Mars in Gem­i­ni inspires you to release your­self into the
delight­ful Vir­tu­osi­ties of Mind and Body Coor­di­na­tion, to dis­play your élan and
agili­ty, to go as fast as you can go, to piv­ot, jump and tumble…and then do
it again!

Yet as much as you feel this thrill of ener­gy cours­ing through
you, your nerves fir­ing and mus­cles jump­ing, remem­ber that there is a higher
pur­pose to this Infu­sion of Inspiration…For Mars in Gem­i­ni is here to remind
you that the Key to the King­dom, to the ful­fill­ment of your Dreams and Desires,
requires that you strive to be an Adept, that you Under­stand that the Pathway
to Attain your goals will only be found through being Alert, Adapt­able and
Intelligent.

For
you are on Earth to learn, and so you will be pre­sent­ed with many challenges
and choic­es. You will devel­op your best solu­tions to the prob­lems of life that
you encounter…but because the world and you are ever-chang­ing, these elegant
or some­times less than ele­gant answers to the chal­lenges of your world will
over time “go out of phase” or fail…You will encounter the
seem­ing­ly ordi­nary prob­lem, apply your solution…and, nothing…it does not
work. Well, you must have for­got­ten or missed a step, so you try again…And again, nada…That
is when the prover­bial “light bulb” is sup­posed to come on in your
head…And you real­ize, things are not as they were or seem, and you need to do
that quick step and get crack­ing at devel­op­ing a bet­ter approach and find a new
solu­tion to your problem…Yes, that’s right…it is time to show your Intelligence!

Well,
with Mars in Gem­i­ni, you had bet­ter pay atten­tion because this is what you are
going to face again and again now…The World is chang­ing, and so are you!…Yes, things are def­i­nite­ly bend­ing beyond the ordi­nary and expectable, and you real­ly need this Gem­i­ni Gift of Intel­li­gence in Action…

So
show your Adeptness…Stay Alert, Be Adapt­able and be thankful…

For the Wis­dom of the Stars will always guide you…

Their Signs and Por­tents are there to be read…

With those who have eyes to see, and ears to hear.

For it is this, this Song and Dance of Spirit…

That will keep you upon the Path.

Aware, Alert…and filled with Wonder.

Now, Jump!

Get
ready to set­tle in to a long, long sojourn with your Intu­itive or “Feel­ing
Mind”, because Mer­cury is not going to stay here for the usu­al two or
three weeks…oh no, he is mak­ing him­self home in Can­cer until August 8th! That
is Ten Weeks! Wow!

That is a very long time for your mind to be splash­ing, swimming
and div­ing through those Waters of Mem­o­ry, Car­ing and Home…So get ready, curl
up with your feel­ings, and set­tle into this Heal­ing Jour­ney, for you are going
to the roots of you, you are going to your Cen­ter, for it is in Can­cer that you
return to the begin­ning, to the Foun­tain-Source of your life…Your Mind and
Heart will turn to what binds you to your core…to fam­i­ly, to belong­ing to a
peo­ple, to being one of the ones of the One…

Of course the rea­son as to why Mer­cury is resid­ing in Can­cer for
so long is that he will turn ret­ro­grade on June 26, and then turn direct on
July 20 and so he will abide in these Waters of Ori­gin for quite some time, and
in the process take you even deep­er to those cat­a­combs of your past…so you
must real­ly need this…this reminder of where you come from, this deep­er truth
as to how you know, and this truer way to share it too…

For as much as Mer­cury in Gem­i­ni remind­ed you of your most
won­der­ful instru­ment of under­stand­ing, that self-reflective,
con­trast­ing-refract­ing and won­drous­ly curi­ous fac­ul­ty you know as
Intelligence…Mercury in Can­cer is here to remind you that you are more than a
mind, that you secure your­self to what was and is and what will be through Feelings,
and it is through this weav­ing-way of Feel­ing-Thoughts or Thoughtful-Feelings
that you can tru­ly come togeth­er with one another…

For
thoughts alone can and often will divide you from one anoth­er. Your Rainbow
Bridge of Under­stand­ing, of heart­felt con­nect­ed­ness is absent when you only reside
in that Tow­er made of Pure Thought…and that with­out this mod­u­la­tion of
Feel­ing, where­in is found your com­pas­sion, sym­pa­thy and caring…well, without
that you are real­ly not human at all…

For
it is your Feel­ings that bring you into your Com­mon Ground, that Space that is
shared by one and all…For you are part of some­thing greater, you and all of Creation
come from one Divine Source. You and every­one you have ever known, know and
will meet some­day, you are all relat­ed to one anoth­er, and you all partake,
find your feel­ings and share in this expe­ri­ence of being ulti­mate­ly of this One Fam­i­ly. That you
are one in your Ori­gin, each a beau­ti­ful, unique spark of this One Divine Flame…You are all related
and at the core of your expe­ri­ence is this join­ing with one anoth­er, that you par­take in this com­mon feel­ing of the experience
of your jour­ney of self-becoming…of car­ing for, nur­tur­ing and sup­port­ing one
anoth­er as you become so much more…

You
share in your Over-Com­ings or Tri­umphs, you com­fort one anoth­er in your moments
of Defeats or Despair…Because, because you have been there too, and so you
have Com­pas­sion and Sympathy…You feel their joy, you share in their sadness
and you hope togeth­er for a bet­ter day, Together…For what they feel you have
felt and feel too, and so you can help
one anoth­er to find the way beyond the pain and shad­ows, to find and con­nect to
your Home and so Know and Believe in the Light Everlasting…You can Think and
Feel, Together…and so accept, let go and grow into the Greater Understanding.

This
is how you Feel and Think…

This
is how you Thought­ful­ly Feel…

By
Car­ing, Nur­tur­ing and Help­ing one another.

By
Remem­ber­ing and Hon­or­ing each and every Spark…

Because
you Feel and you Know that every oth­er is tru­ly part of One­self too…

The
Bridge is Formed, the Illu­sion of Sep­a­ra­tion thrown down…

Your
Minds and Hearts are One…

Joy­ful­ly
mov­ing closer…

To
the Ever­last­ing Light.

And now part 3 of your “Pas de
Trois”, as Venus catch­es up and aligns with Jupiter too…and this one,
well this is tru­ly “a bless­ing” for you…It is most certainly
beau­ti­ful for it is formed by the Con­junc­tion of what Astrologers call the Two Benefics,
Venus is the Less­er and Jupiter the Greater Benefic…and so today’s align­ment is
known by those who have found the path as “The Bless­ing Way”…Today
these two renew their cycle with one anoth­er, they offer their gifts to you and help you to find your way…

Venus is the Avatar of your experience
of Val­ue and Beau­ty, for the one True and Ulti­mate Mea­sure of your Divin­i­ty is what
you know as Love…Venus is your Avatar of Love and helps you to find your way
to the One Truth, to your Uncon­di­tion­al Love of your Self, who is in fact your
Beloved and is your source of Love within…And this Love that abides within
the Heart of you is the only path that will in equal mea­sure per­mit you to
Share and Receive your Love for one anoth­er too…for you can only Receive
what you are able to Give.

Jupiter is the Lord of Truth and Wisdom,
who leads you out beyond the famil­iar, to encour­age and sup­port you as you strive to reach that far dis­tant shore of Understanding…For your one most
insis­tent and inspired Seed of Truth is held by the Divine with­in you, it is the Core of you because you are a Spark of that Divine. This Spir­i­tu­al Seed means that you are
here for One Pur­pose, to ful­fill your Des­tiny as a child of the One Spir­it, and that means you are here “To Grow”…

And as you move from with­in out­wards in
your jour­ney to Under­stand your Self and your World, to become what you are
des­tined to be, it is Jupiter who stead­fast­ly sup­ports you, to pro­vide and remind
you of the One True Path…That you are to con­duct your­self with Hon­or, Truth
and Benev­o­lent Gen­eros­i­ty. For it is from these Prin­ci­ples and Truths of
Jupiter that you project your­self into the world around you, it forms The Way
in which you relate to your world and to all with whom you journey.

So these Benef­ic Two, Venus form­ing your
Love, Jupiter form­ing your Char­ac­ter, they will ever work togeth­er to help you
find your way to Love and Truth, to stay upon that Nar­row Path, The Noble Way…The
Way of Spirit.

For you must be Lov­ing to be Loved, you
must be Gen­er­ous to be Favored. Today you see these two as one, and they reveal
this sacred truth, that Love brings Love, Good­ness brings Grace. 

In the more ordi­nary inter­pre­ta­tions of Astrol­o­gy, the Union of Venus and Jupiter means
“Good Luck”. But for those who Know and Under­stand, they bow their
heads and give thanks to this reminder shin­ing above…That you will make your world
as you live it…So be Lov­ing and be Gen­er­ous and those Stars will smile with you as
you do your part to Lift and Light the Way…and Those Regents of Spir­it will Shine the brighter for you as well.

For the soul still seek­ing, Phi­los­o­phy means
“The Love of Wisdom”…

For the Seek­er who has found the Path…

Phi­los­o­phy is revealed to be “The
Wis­dom of Love”.

May you Walk in Beau­ty, May you Walk in
Kindness…

May you always Walk in “The Blessing
Way”.