You have tak­en the mea­sure of one
anoth­er, you have sought the bal­anced way, mea­sure for mea­sure, as you offered
and received, as you tried to walk the mid­dle path with one anoth­er, the path
of con­scious coun­ter­point­ing, the path of peace…and you did it with grace,
and beau­ty and love…

But the wheels of life are spinning
’round and Venus must take her plunge, she is here to take you deep­er, into the
waters, into the depths of your feel­ings for one anoth­er. There she will help
you to find the “weav­ing way”, of blend­ing and bend­ing, as she weaves
her mag­ic webs of love, bring­ing you much, much clos­er to one another. 

For the next three weeks, Venus will
take you into the mys­ter­ies of Love and Union. She will ask you to exam­ine your
val­ues so that you might under­stand which of them are more true of you, which are the ones what
are tru­ly non-nego­tiable and make you, You! For any­one who wish­es to be with
you, would nev­er ask you to give those up, for if you did, well, then they would not be
able to expe­ri­ence a rela­tion­ship with you…because you would no longer be
there!

And, she will equal­ly help to show you which
val­ues are more periph­er­al to the real you. Those val­ues are not essen­tial or
con­se­quen­tial, and can be sac­ri­ficed and sur­ren­dered to cre­ate or strengthen
your shared space of We with one anoth­er. For you must know, it is part of the
dance of life, you must be will­ing to sac­ri­fice to grow, you must be will­ing to
give if you are to receive the rewards of a greater life.

For that is the mys­tery and beau­ty of
True Union, that is the source of the growth you will expe­ri­ence through a True Rela­tion­ship. What is essen­tial, what it demands and offers, is that you make a deep­er com­mit­ment to what is true for you and you let go of what is not. You give up the less­er val­ues of your life as you
forge a deep­er tie with one another…and mag­i­cal­ly, won­drous­ly, you find that
in mov­ing clos­er to your beloved, in draw­ing close to one anoth­er, you have
actu­al­ly come that much clos­er to your own true self! For the only path you can follow…is Love.

Let Venus take you into the Waters of
Union…

Where you will hold and you must let go.

You will sac­ri­fice and discover…Love.

Co-cre­at­ing, you are the sacred mak­ers of
Union.

You will only find your way to one another…

When you Love and Hon­or your own true
Self! 

Venus, god­dess of Love…

Only love will show you the way.

You are back again, mov­ing into the
world of Ideals, reach­ing for your inspi­ra­tion in the realm of Fire…

After eight signs, hav­ing walked the
cir­cle of life for almost three sea­sons, the wheel of des­tiny comes to this
final turn­ing of the Astro­log­i­cal Year. You are ready for one more push,
through Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Now you begin the Final Four Signs, and as
before, you begin with Fire…Today you cross the thresh­old of Truth, you
release your­self into the world of Sagittarius.

You have emerged from the Waters of
Union, from those mys­ter­ies where­in two moved clos­er to becom­ing one, the
won­drous yet chal­leng­ing trans­for­ma­tions of Scor­pio. What is this urge that is
pulling you, draw­ing you upward and out­ward now? You need to know, you need to
understand…you seek the more inclu­sive per­spec­tive, you wish to gaze upon those
freer, wider vistas…you need to find it…the Greater Understanding. 

You must put these expe­ri­ences you have
Felt into some larg­er per­spec­tive, to see what explains your life now and where
you might be head­ing next…And, and you have dis­cov­ered more about this world
and your­self, you find that you have some­thing to offer now, some­thing to share
with the world as well…

So it is time to dip into the Well of
Wis­dom and explain your greater sto­ry to your­self. You need to step back and
see the big­ger pic­ture, to link your own expe­ri­ence into a larg­er frame­work of
mean­ing, to look again at what guides your steps, to exam­ine what you believe
to be true, whether that be in Philo­soph­i­cal or Reli­gious or Sci­en­tif­ic or even
Meta­phys­i­cal expla­na­tions. You need them more than ever now, because even more will
be asked of you…and you must pre­pare. You enter those hal­lowed halls of the
Greater Under­stand­ing and seek for your most elu­sive trea­sure, to be at Peace,
to have Peace of Mind…

But remem­ber, your own sto­ry, your
expe­ri­ences, are part of this his­to­ry too, and you need to add your understanding
to this greater Well of Wis­dom, for that is how it has always grown…and that
is how you can help one anoth­er now. Par­take of the Well, let it soothe your
soul, and add your full mea­sure too.

This is a time for sto­ry­telling and
sto­ry shar­ing, this is when you need to look back to the Ancient Ways and see
how they speak to your Heart and Soul and Spir­it. You need to come togeth­er and
share your under­stand­ing with one anoth­er, to join in cer­e­monies that re-affirm
the ancient truths, to look at oth­er times, to vis­it oth­er cul­tures to see how
it is so very dif­fer­ent and yet just the same, always the same…

You need to walk among the soar­ing Cathedrals
of for­est, to look upon those far hori­zons of mead­ow and field, for Nature’s
mys­ter­ies hold the key to your own. Then turn and bow your head as you behold
the mighty trea­sures found in ancient scrolls and tes­ti­monies of those who came
before…Yes, many have been this way before, for your past is present and you
will nev­er walk alone. You need tell your new sto­ries and re-tell the old ones
too as you con­nect them all with this great­est sto­ry ever told, this your journey
of Life-Consciousness-Spirit…

Then you will remem­ber, where it all
began…you lift up your head and look to the heav­ens all around, you turn and
look at your won­drous Star burn­ing bright­ly in this quick­en­ing Autum­nal Air. For
know this, though it can­not be seen nor pro­faned by any mor­tal eye, behind your
Lord beam­ing, beyond your Sun there is the great­est won­der for you now. 

Behind
and beyond your Star is the inner­most sanc­tum at this time of year, in clouds
of dark­ness and light, you are pee­ing into the heart, the cen­ter of your Galaxy,
into the mys­ter­ies of your begin­nings, and your des­tiny too. Your Alpha is
there, long, long ago…And your des­tiny, well that is your self-becom­ing wonder,
many lives and greater dis­tances, yes many more yet to be trav­elled, many long
ways to go before you can be behold what is to be…

For now, it is enough, to know that you
are reaching…

You are striv­ing, and search­ing and
seeking…

To Under­stand, to Accept, to
Prepare…for you must…

Move ever clos­er, clos­er to the crossing
point of the Light.

As you fol­low the Ancient Injunction,
always and forever…

“Walk On!”

Your Dri­ves, Your Desires…they are
com­ing into focus…

You have been climb­ing for quite a while
now, up that twist­ing, turn­ing, ever-steep­en­ing path of self-realization…and
now, as you come around the shoul­der of your Spir­it-Mat­ter moun­tain, you can
see it up ahead…your prize is just there, with­in reach.

Your pas­sion­al pur­suits, those ideals
and dreams that inspired you to reach ever high­er have pushed you beyond to
this final hurdle…And now you seek what seems to be the ulti­mate prize for
you, it has tak­en form, it is the sub­stan­tial proof of your worth (in this
moment). 

For some it is suc­cess, and is well
earned. For oth­ers seek­ing by and dri­ven by the out­ward­ly seem­ing, they may
find some pass­ing fame (or infamy). So many strivers, so many souls seek­ing to
lift them­selves up…and some will ever seek to be above all others. 

But all and
every will find that there is a reck­on­ing, all walk upon a wind­ing path formed
upon one fun­da­men­tal truth. Your tri­umph, your self-ful­fill­ment will always rest
upon the mighty efforts of count­less ones who have walked this path before (and
with many who walk with you now)…so first must come Humil­i­ty, Grat­i­tude and Thanks for those
help­ing hearts and hands…

You must take care now, as you reach for
that next some­thing higher…it is with­in your grasp, it is real and tangible
to you now. Remem­ber that you need always stay ground­ed as to how you really
arrived here…That as you reach for the prize with one hand you equal­ly extend
your oth­er (help­ing) hand to those still below, who seek to find and fol­low the
path­way you have walked, the way that so many have come before. 

For your real prize, (found with­in these
out­er forms), is formed and lived as you walk upon this path of hon­or and duty…it
is your true spir­i­tu­al ful­fill­ment. It is that nev­er-end­ing gift made by you
for you…that you are the self-becom­ing, the self-unfold­ing won­der who’s
promise and progress is made by the releas­ing and real­iza­tion of the divine
that lives with­in you.

You have sought for­ev­er, seek­ing all
around and about, but you find that your Goal has always been here, always held
with­in your sacred space, your ever-faith­ful guide, your high­er self, the
beloved.

You have climbed the Moun­tain of
Man­i­fes­ta­tion, seek­ing to become…

You draw close to your moment of
Self-Ful­fill­ing triumph.

Quick, you must drop down, on bended
knee, bow your head…

And with Love and Humility…as you offer
thanks…

You smile and extend your help­ing hand.

Her­mes is hurtling around the Sun and
mak­ing his clos­est approach to Earth on Sat­ur­day when he forms a Conjunction
with the Sun…That is when the Earth, Mer­cury and the Sun will all line up
with one anoth­er. For you right now, he appears to be going back­wards and today
he slips from Sagit­tar­ius into Scor­pio until Decem­ber 10…what does this
mean?

It means you are going to expe­ri­ence a shift
of ener­gies now and re-engage your Feel­ing-Mind again…You are turn­ing from
espous­ing your truths to inquir­ing more about how you know them! Apparently,
the Uni­verse is say­ing, that there is a lit­tle more dig­ging need­ed here to uncover
what is “real­ly real”, a deep­er re-exam­i­na­tion is required before you
can move for­ward with a bit more clar­i­ty and certainty. 

You do not know what
you do not understand…so take your time to feel your way upon this path, for
true under­stand­ing requires more con­sid­er­a­tion for the nuance and sub­tle­ty of
Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Your Head and your Heart need this…they
need to work togeth­er if you are to under­stand your world in all its wondrous
complexity.

It is Time, time to Think and
Feel…Together.

The Eighth New Moon of the Astrological
Year has some­thing spe­cial for you this time. I wrote about this Luna­tion in my
2012 Fore­cast:

Solar Eclipse in Scorpio
(Novem­ber 13)

Right in the mid­dle of Mercury’s
ret­ro­grade we expe­ri­ence the sec­ond New Moon Eclipse of the year. The theme for
the Solar/Lunar eclipses is shift­ing now, away from the realm of thoughts and
ideas (Gemini/Sagittarius) and onto the thorny ques­tions of Value
(Taurus/Scorpio). The release of some new under­stand­ing about the nature of
your unions is being obscured by shad­ows from the past…time to con­front those
fears of rejec­tion and loss and take the high­er path of show­ing your strength
by cre­at­ing a bet­ter space for mutu­al sacrifice.

New Moons always pro­vide a release of
new spir­i­tu­al inspi­ra­tion to help guide you through the lessons and opportunities
of the Astro­log­i­cal Sign that we are all mov­ing through dur­ing that month. Usually
two times a year, and rough­ly six months apart, some­thing spe­cial hap­pens as the
Earth, Moon and Sun line up with one anoth­er in the same plane of
orbital space. The Moon pass­es exact­ly in front of the Sun to bring about a
Solar Eclipse, and a shad­ow falls upon and races across part of the Earth
turn­ing day into night.

This par­tic­u­lar Solar Eclipse is
hap­pen­ing in the South­ern Hemi­sphere, start­ing by North­east­ern Aus­tralia and
speed­ing across the Pacif­ic towards South Amer­i­ca, so most of the world will
not see this event directly…but the mes­sage of the Eclipse brings a nuanced
mean­ing to this New Moon for you no mat­ter where you reside.

Much Kar­ma is held and passed on to you by
your con­stant com­pan­ion, the weaver of those webs of des­tiny, the Moon. The
Eclipse pro­vides a shock of Solar Illu­mi­na­tion to these ele­ments of your past,
and some­thing will be revealed that had been hid­den from you, some block or
fear that stood in the way of your growth will be thrown into stark relief. 

The Sun, the
Solar Ray, as rep­re­sent­ing your High­er Self, the Pure Poten­tial of all that you
can and will be, will burn through to reveal for you a deep­er under­stand­ing of
what always stands athwart your path and must be overcome…like in the tale of the Gor­dian Knot, you must free your­self by under­stand­ing the true nature of the chal­lenge if you are to con­tin­ue your journey
of self-becoming. 

What are these chal­lenges? You know, oh yes
you do…they are the neg­a­tive self-cast shad­ows you have made long ago that
must be van­quished so that you may move more freely, more truly…They are what
you know as your Fears. 

These fail­ures of yes­ter­year, the doubts, anx­i­eties and
bit­ter emo­tions of your might haves but were not, these emo­tion­al com­plex­es must
be faced and released if you are to reach what awaits you beyond the shadows,
what you have always dreamt of and wished for…and at this time, you long for this one true thing, the Union with the Beloved. 

What is this present form of fear then,
what is this shad­ow that looms at this time of year? The fear you face now is
your fear of rejec­tion, the fear of aban­don­ment, the fear of loss…you fear
that you will lose one another…that you will reject one anoth­er out of fear,
that you both will fall again.

The Sun through the Solar Eclipse
illu­mi­nates this fear so that you can see it for what it is…it is the Past. It
comes from a time and place when you attempt­ed but failed, or the oth­er failed
in their effort towards you, so the union that could have been was not. You do
not want to feel that again, the awful echo of that pain caus­es you to do
exact­ly what you should not do…it makes you react and lead with your fear.
You approach this pos­si­ble union now with trep­i­da­tion and fear, you anticipate
los­ing again…and by so doing, by act­ing on the basis of this fear you bring
about the very thing you were try­ing to avoid…of course!

The Sun shows you the way through,
burn­ing through the gloom and shad­ows of your past to illu­mi­nate the one true
path ahead…You must be fear­less, for at your core you must remem­ber, in the
truest part of who you are which the Sun illu­mi­nates, you live in Love and you
live with­out fear, for­ev­er and ever. 

You have noth­ing to lose, and everything
to gain by extend­ing your­self yet again. You need to act from your Love and
take anoth­er chance, make anoth­er brave attempt to cre­ate that req­ui­site sacred
space, that shared space of mutu­al vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty where two may become one. And
then, and then ask the oth­er to join you there…to take this chance with you…And
maybe, just maybe they will also let go of their fear and join you there…

For Love rec­og­nizes Love…Love feels,
ris­es and rejoices…and fear, fear has no hold.

Love is always drawn to that, to itself…to
the Light…

It is with­in you, it is You…lead with
it always.

Lead with Love!