Four Por­tals stand before you, Four Thresh­olds of Begin­nings you must cross
every year, and these Four Sea­sons, these Four Cor­ners mark your way around the
Cir­cle of Life.

These Four Turn­ings, these Four Direc­tions form and guide your jour­ney of
self-unfold­ment, they inspire and chal­lenge your ever-expanding
self-real­iza­tion and self-awareness…and it is today that you enter the Fourth
and final Por­tal, today you begin your jour­ney through the final three Signs of
the Astro­log­i­cal year. 

Today the pow­ers of Night and Shad­ow have reached their cli­max, the
Sun has dimmed, set­ting low­er and low­er, ever fur­ther south as your
Earth bends away
from her Star­ry Lord…And for the next sev­er­al days the world will wait
and
won­der, will the light return, will the Sun rise again? 

It is called the
“Win­ter Sol­stice” because sol­stice means the “Sun stands
still”. The Sun will appear to rise or set in the same posi­tion upon the
hori­zon for the next sev­er­al days. But around Decem­ber 24 or 25, the Sun will
rise a lit­tle High­er, Light will begin to return, the Sun will begin to climb
back again and your days will grow longer and longer…and Light, and Love and
Hope will rise up to warm the hearts of One and all…

Each Por­tal, each turn­ing will point you towards a new direc­tion for that
sea­son of your life, help­ing you to find your way through four ways of
Relat­ing. The First Por­tal of Aries, The East­ern Gate­way, begins the jour­ney as
you come to renew your Pres­ence, of how you relate your­self to your world. The
Sec­ond Por­tal of Can­cer, The North­ern Gate­way, takes you with­in, to the roots
of your being so that you may refresh your soul in the Waters of Life, so that
you can feel your way as you relate your­self to your foun­da­tions. The Third
Por­tal of Libra, The West­ern Gate­way, helps you to see your­self through one
anoth­er as you expe­ri­ence the won­der of the We, you relate to your world ever
more con­scious­ly as you find the real “you” in and through one another. 

The Fourth and final Por­tal of Capri­corn, The South­ern Gate­way, lifts you up
to scale the heights of Duty and Respon­si­bil­i­ty, so you may ful­fill yourself
through par­tic­i­pa­tion in the larg­er world or soci­ety, as you substantially
relate your­self to your Des­tiny and Purpose. 

From Aries you seek to know who am I, from Libra you seek to know who are
you, in Can­cer you seek to know from where did I come, and now in Capricorn
you seek to know, “What am I des­tined to be? What is my pur­pose, why have
I come to this place…and where am I to go?”

The prin­ci­ple essence of Capri­corn is con­tained in the words “Ful­fill­ment”
and “Respon­si­bil­i­ty”.

For this is what you must ask of your­self at this Fourth and Final Por­tal of
Life. As you climb the ever-wind­ing path of des­tiny, as you the self-unfolding,
self-becom­ing won­der grow to be more than you were before, you release and bring
into being your won­drous poten­tials from with­in yourself…and the ques­tion you
must ask is what is this for, what is my true pur­pose, what will be my fulfillment? 

But of course you will find that there can be no final answer to this
ques­tion, because you walk upon a path of self-unfold­ment that takes you from
form to form, through realms and upon worlds, and there will be no final
end­point to your jour­ney what­so­ev­er. Yet, at every step along this path, you
are to learn to mas­ter these forms and realms and worlds as you come to know
your­self as you tru­ly are…that you are a spark of the Divine Spir­it, singing
and danc­ing through time and space and your ful­fill­ment is your becoming…your
pur­pose is to grow.

And as to that sec­ond word “Respon­si­bil­i­ty”, well it car­ries a
most sacred truth. You are a spark of the Divine, you are part of the One
Great Self, and you need know that each and every being who trav­els with you is
just like you, a self-unfold­ing spark of this Divine too. To under­stand this
con­cept you need to turn it around, the word respon­si­bil­i­ty becomes your duty
as mea­sured by your “abil­i­ty to respond”, by your capac­i­ty to respond
to the needs around you.

What are you are respond­ing to, to who or what are you responsible? 

You are here as part of a lumi­nous host of evolv­ing forms of
Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it, and you are quite sim­ply here to be respon­si­ble for
one anoth­er, to respond to one anoth­er, to care for one anoth­er. Because you
are here to rec­og­nize that when you look upon any par­ti­cle, being or world in this
won­drous Cre­ation, you are to rec­og­nize that quite pro­found­ly and simply…there
you are too!

You reach one hand upwards, as you see that those who have gone ahead
are now bend­ing down to help you on your way…and you extend your
oth­er hand behind you, because you need to help those who look to you
for guid­ance, as they in turn help those behind them, and so on…It is
the Way, this unbro­ken path, this chain of Life-Consciousness-Spirit
that thrills and cours­es through all of Creation…and this is it, this
is the rea­son why…you do this because…because you and they and all
of Creation…because you Love.

You are here at the Fourth Turning…

You are here to assume your prop­er place, to take up your Right­ful and True
Responsibilities.

For you and your fel­low com­pan­ions have trav­elled far and made this realm…

You are the cre­ators of this won­drous and most trou­bled, this world of
Lights and Shadows.

You are here at the Turn­ing, and it is your time to Decide…

Will you take your place of responsibility…Will you ful­fill your Destiny?

For you are the won­der, the Light-Bear­er blaz­ing across the heavens.

Becom­ing, ever-becom­ing an ever more con­scious co-cre­ator of this Cosmos…

Who sim­ply needs to extend their heart and their hand with Love.

Your Jour­ney of Awareness…continues…Today
your low­er mind rep­re­sent­ed by Mer­cury stands oppo­site to your high­er mind
whose avatar is Jupiter, and you need to con­sid­er how you may grow clos­er and
clos­er, come that much clos­er to lift­ing the veil of mys­tery that hides the
Greater Reality…

Mer­cury in Sagit­tar­ius is pulling your
atten­tion towards find­ing the one and only way of see­ing things…that there is
one Truth and you must have it. But Jupiter in Gem­i­ni stands opposed now,
pro­vid­ing a much need­ed coun­ter­point, because Mer­cury’s way now can lead to
rigid­i­ty and dog­ma­tism, cre­at­ed by your self-cast­ed shad­ows of cer­tain­ty. Most
like­ly, anoth­er will come along now to shine anoth­er point of view upon some issue,
and you will have to shift your focus again, so that you may encom­pass a more
inclu­sive understanding…and you should be most grate­ful for this gift…

Mer­cury seeks the bright shin­ing light
of the One Way, the True Way to view your world, but this will most certainly
lead to casting/creating very deep shad­ows too. Jupiter’s cor­rec­tion reminds
you that you live in a mul­ti­tudi­nous, mul­ti­fac­eted and infi­nite­ly varied
uni­verse and that you must nev­er rest upon one song in the cho­rus of
under­stand­ing but you must instead learn to sing (and see) from many
melodies…

For you trav­el in forms and worlds, and
worlds with­in worlds, where diver­si­ty and dif­fer­ence reign supreme in the
hier­ar­chies and worlds of this cos­mos. There are cer­tain abid­ing principles
that under­gird and guide this unceas­ing growth and self-real­iza­tion of Spirit,
and so you should seek for these com­mon themes and refrains in this grand Symphony
of Spirit…but you must be care­ful to not nar­row your view, or lim­it your
appre­ci­a­tion for the won­drous diver­si­ty that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit…

Mean­while, you approach a spe­cial time
of the year…For always around this date of Decem­ber 17, 18, 19 or so, the
Earth and Sun do some­what line up with the cen­ter of our Galaxy. It is nothing
to be alarmed about, or over­awed by either, it is just a moment to reflect that
now our Star, from our posi­tion as we orbit around this beam­ing won­der, have come
to this align­ment as we do every year. So as you gaze up at the Sun now know
that you are look­ing out towards the Cen­ter of your Galaxy, the hom­ing point, the
ori­gin point for the lives that fill this Galac­tic home of ours. It is time to
bow your head and give thanks for the Light, and Love and Life that streams
from this cen­ter to every and all who call the Milky Way home…

But there is some­thing more, a greater
mys­tery that you should acknowl­edge at this time of year too. If you should look
up tonight and for the next sev­er­al nights, say around 11 pm or 12 pm or 1 am.
If you face south and look up you will see a bright shin­ing star above you. That
is no star, it is the largest Lord after the Sun for your sys­tem, you behold
the Lord Jupiter, the Greater Benef­ic stand­ing there. Now, if you look to the
left and up from Jupiter, and cast your eyes upon that space above the
Con­stel­la­tion of Ori­on, above the “Belt of Ori­on”, you will find
your­self gaz­ing out upon a great expanse of Space. You are actu­al­ly look­ing out
upon the vast­ness of the beyond, you are gaz­ing out into eter­ni­ty, into the “spaces
of Space”.

You are look­ing out because you are
turned away from the Cen­ter of our Galaxy…you are look­ing out towards the
bound­less expans­es of space, towards the greater mys­ter­ies beyond your universe
and out into the count­less uni­vers­es that fill the end­less expanse of Space. 

For your Galaxy is one of countless
uni­vers­es of life-forms that fill the spaces of space. As the Ancients knew you
should too, that Space is not a void, and there is no “emp­ty”
space…Space is not a mere “con­tain­er” of mat­ter and ener­gy. Space
is quite sim­ply THAT. Space is filled with Life, it is the Plero­ma, and through
and through filled with, made by a shin­ing host of Life-Consciousness-Spirit…

Spir­it is Everywhere…

Mat­ter is Everywhere…

And hold­ing, embrac­ing them both
together,

Love is Everywhere!

And you should know that there is but
one Self…

And you are part of THAT! 

The Ancient Truth, behind all of
Creation:

“I am That, I Am”!

Venus emerges from the Waters of Scorpio
to take flight through the Fires of Sagit­tar­ius. For the next three and half
weeks, your expe­ri­ences of val­ue, beau­ty and love are mov­ing out­ward again…you seek to know, to expand beyond the familiar…to find some greater peace and
accep­tance as you seek those sub­lime pathways
of understanding.

While in Scor­pio, you grap­pled with your
pas­sions for Union, with that urgent need to tran­scend your sep­a­ra­tion from one
anoth­er, and to expe­ri­ence, even for a moment, the unimag­in­able joy of being
one with one another. 

But if that divide was not spanned, then you experienced
the loss, the unimag­in­able pain of what was or could have been, or per­haps that
was nev­er meant to be…and you col­lapsed and sobbed for there is no greater
hurt than this…

Now you need to bring your­self to a
greater aware­ness, you need to under­stand what can inspire, guide and propel
your search for per­son­al mean­ing and sig­nif­i­cance. What beliefs do you hold, (or
do they have their hold on you)? Why do you want this thing, or this person?
Where does val­ue come from, what makes for your expe­ri­ence you call beauty,
where can you find your most precious…Where is Love?

If you find your­self with­out the
com­pan­ion, or in a union that is in jeop­ardy now, then you need to seek for reasons
as to why or how the bonds of val­ue that need be between you have not been met
and matched to the val­ues you hold with­in. Per­haps you can dis­cov­er, perhaps
you can seek togeth­er and find that there is more of val­ue out there and within
you too, and that you can find in this jour­ney your greater com­mon values…by going with­in as you go out­ward you may forge a deeper
under­stand­ing together. 

If you have come through Scor­pio as one,
then you can take this time to extend your expe­ri­ence of shared val­ues by
explor­ing the world togeth­er, and so deep­en and re-affirm the mean­ings behind
your val­ues, beau­ty and love. You can move beyond the famil­iar bound­aries and
bor­ders, explore new tastes, sen­si­bil­i­ties and delights togeth­er and help one
anoth­er become more to one anoth­er in your larg­er space of meaningfulness.

It is time, time to lift up your eyes
and gaze upon that far horizon…

To dream of times and tastes from a
hun­dred lands.

To explore this wide, won­drous world
before you…

Yes, it is time to dis­cov­er the mean­ing of
it all…together.

The Ninth New Moon of the Astrological
year holds spe­cial sig­nif­i­cance this year, for today is also when Uranus (The Awakener)
is turn­ing direct as well. Although most New Moons may come upon you dream­i­ly, often
drift­ing over you like a gen­tle breeze in which you can sense a sub­tle shifting
of ener­gies, bring­ing inti­ma­tions, feel­ings and the promise of new­found hopes that
bestow a renew­al of spir­i­tu­al meaning…Today, well today is
dif­fer­ent, very dif­fer­ent! In this New Moon, you will most cer­tain­ly feel a
most potent shift of ener­gies cours­ing through you and your world. There is a
crack­ling, elec­tri­cal fire burn­ing in the Air as Uranus adds his eclectic,
indi­vid­u­at­ing sparkle to the mix!

Every year, the New Moon of Sagittarius
encour­ages you to lift your eyes from your path and con­sid­er where you have
come from, to look back upon what you have so far encoun­tered in your yearly
journey…And, to try to look out to that far­ther hori­zon to see where you might
be going. But most impor­tant­ly, it is there to encour­age you to seek to understand
the “Why” of it all…how and why you are here? 

This is what you feel mov­ing through
your soul when you walk in the time of Sagit­tar­ius. You need to find that most
elu­sive prize, that long-sought treasure…the mean­ing to your life, the
pur­pose behind Cre­ation, behind all this phe­nom­e­na you know as your everyday
life.

As you do this in Sagit­tar­ius, you turn
to con­sid­er what the “Great Ones” have shown you. For it is by their
sto­ries, teach­ings and lessons that was their life, by their lives and cre­ations left
behind for you that you may find a ray of hope. Their exam­ple is ever set before you like a lamp to light your
way out of the dark­ened forests of igno­rance, to lead you out, through and
beyond your shad­ows and fears. You seek the way to the straight,
nar­row and ever steep­en­ing way…you seek the path that leads you to the Light…and they offer their life and their love to you.

Their sto­ries and teach­ings, the Truths
declaimed by Phi­los­o­phy, the hal­lowed feel­ings enact­ed in the Sacred rituals
of Reli­gion, those Laws of life as encod­ed in the works of Science…it is by these
gifts of your fore­bears that you may dip your hand into the Well of Wisdom
where you find the way of mean­ing. You stand upon their efforts as you seek to
under­stand the where and what of your world…as you move inward and outward,
deep­er and high­er, clos­er and clos­er to the Greater Understanding.

But this New Moon is spe­cial for it is
accom­pa­nied by an Emis­sary from Beyond, by one of the Three Lords of your Self-Becoming…this
New Moon is her­ald­ed by Uranus turn­ing direct. 

From the Sun out to Sat­urn, from your
pure poten­tial of Being out to your most Crys­tal­lized Forms of Sub­stan­ti­a­tion, your
jour­ney of self-real­iza­tion unfolds by those pat­terns that have been set in
motion, laid down by you and your fel­low com­pan­ions, gov­erned, guid­ed and
cir­cum­scribed by that mas­ter prin­ci­ple of Cause and Effect. It is by this, in The Law
of Kar­ma, that Cre­ation unfolds as a Dance of Ener­gies and Forms that ensures your steady devel­op­ment as you learn
through expe­ri­ence to take your prop­er place as the self-aware, con­scious Cre­ator of your Life.

But if this were all there was, a life
of auto­mat­ic, self-pro­pelled cau­sa­tion, if it was only action/reaction form­ing your
inci­den­tal and incre­men­tal under­stand­ings, your jour­ney from form to form and
world to world would be very long indeed. 

But at the core of all beings, with­in each
and every con­scious­ness there resides a spark of the Divine Flame which is ever
seek­ing to bring forth its glo­ry. As cre­ation unfolds, more and more of this
Spir­i­tu­al Essence comes into being, into ever-widen­ing forms of self-becoming,
of greater and greater Indi­vid­u­a­tions. And so the Uni­ver­sal pace and scope of
Spir­i­tu­al Awak­en­ing and Real­iza­tion takes flight…

The out­ward agent of this most precious
gift of self-becom­ing with­in you, this spark of Divine Quick­en­ing, is outwardly
embod­ied, emanat­ed and elicit­ed by the Plan­et Uranus. Today Uranus moves
for­ward again, hav­ing spent the last sev­er­al months in his retrograde
dance, and in so doing he act­ed to quick­en your inner realm of indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, chal­leng­ing you to
let go of your less­er sense of your­self so that you might behold and bring forth the greater…

And now? Now he moves for­ward, and so you
with him need move out­wards and chal­lenge the forms of being that you formed around you, that for­mer­ly ful­filled yet may now
cir­cum­scribe, lim­it or even deny what you now know to be the truer you…

It is time to move for­ward again upon your path of Spir­i­tu­al Unfoldment…

You, the self-becom­ing, the self-aware wonder…

The Cre­ator danc­ing your dance of Creation.

It is time, time to become, time to be as the Great Ones were before you…

It is time to be yourself.

Are you feel­ing a bit con­fused? Well, if
you are not then there is prob­a­bly some­body else in your world that is! So, either
way, you best pay atten­tion to the sub­tleties today because the Uni­verse is
speak­ing in tongues and you may find that those lit­tle mis­cues are creating
big­ger and big­ger snafus…for you and every­one else.

The best advice is to pause, take a step
back and remem­ber that you need to make sure that what you con­veyed was received
as you intend­ed. Make your best case, but then have the oth­er par­ty con­firm by
repeat­ing back what they heard…and then make sure that they get the same
ben­e­fit by you doing the same for them…What you will prob­a­bly find is that
you each prob­a­bly came to this mis­un­der­stand­ing through hold­ing differing
assump­tions or points of view that cloud­ed your communications.

Part this fog of doubts, misunderstandings
and hurt feel­ings by tak­ing the time to remove those self-cast shad­ows, by
show­ing a lit­tle more consideration…by remem­ber­ing that the most important
part of com­mu­ni­cat­ing is through lis­ten­ing with your heart and not just your head!