Mer­cury slips into the space that the Sun just depart­ed, as you slide
into part two of your dance with the Sun, Jupiter and Mer­cury, (the third and
final piece of this “pas de trois” will take place on Mon­day when
Mer­cury con­juncts the Sun).

Where­as yes­ter­day’s mes­sage con­sid­ered the nature of your path of
self-real­iza­tion, of what con­sti­tutes “good growth”, today’s
align­ment con­cerns the devel­op­ment of your pow­ers of per­cep­tion and
com­mu­ni­ca­tion, of how you know what you know…and how you share it.

Mer­cury is mov­ing through Vir­go, so your observations/analyses are
sharp­er and clear­er and oh so direct…but they may be lack­ing in self-forgiveness
or tol­er­ance. Jupiter, the source for the Truths, Prin­ci­ples and Assumptions
that form your par­a­digm or point of view, is find­ing the great­est delight in
Gem­i­ni’s world of divert­ing diver­si­ties, of the ever-widen­ing mul­ti­plic­i­ty of
perspectives. 

Those par­a­digm-per­spec­tives, those Jupi­ter­ian ref­er­ence points, actually
cre­ate and form your world of facts. (Remem­ber, many if not most “facts”
are not things in themselves…your facts are fungible…with dif­fer­ing world or
cul­tur­al views, many so-called “facts” do indeed shift, change or
van­ish). That is why it is so impor­tant to estab­lish your par­a­digm, your point of
view, and coor­di­nate it with whomev­er you wish to communicate…for without
that bridge of under­stand­ing you (and they) will end up with a less than
mean­ing­ful experience. 

This is exact­ly what this Mercury/Jupiter square illus­trates for you. You
are most like­ly, with your present Vir­go dis­po­si­tion, to be unaware that with your
laser-like focus (and your sharp­er judg­ments and tongue) you have some­what disabled
your capac­i­ty to be sen­si­tive and open to the larg­er truth, that your very
assump­tions and cer­tain­ties have blind­ed you to what you need most, a more
inclu­sive understanding. 

Jupiter helps here by chal­leng­ing Mer­cury to expand your frames of reference
and look at real­i­ty from dif­fer­ent angles…It is not as if you have to agree with
these oth­er per­spec­tives or points of view, but you must be aware of them if
you are to under­stand where some­one else may be “com­ing from”.

What will usu­al­ly hap­pen is that as Mer­cury squares Jupiter you will have
an argu­ment or mis­un­der­stand­ing with some­one or a group of people…and it is
pre­cise­ly because you do not share enough com­mon under­stand­ing with one
another…The words you speak and the mes­sage they receive just do not match…

What must you do? You must be open…and you must be hum­ble. You must
stretch your under­stand­ing through Jupiter and appre­ci­ate anoth­er way of being.
Again, as always, there is only one path that you must follow…you must grow.

When­ev­er you face a square, you face a choice…

You can fail to rise to the chal­lenge, retreat into your own space and
live in that dim-lit space you call “my world”…or,

You can open your mind and your heart…you can try to under­stand that
this is your journey…and Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it will for­ev­er seek to provide
you with the oppor­tu­ni­ty to become more than you were…because this is why you
are here…to grow.

It is time to build bet­ter bridges…to reach across I and thou…

It is time to live in truth…to under­stand that “we are all
related”…

It is time…

You are here to grow, to learn…to become more than you were…

Today you need to pause and con­sid­er the next step…you need to look out
upon your path of growth and pon­der which way seems rea­son­able, sus­tain­able and
mean­ing­ful to you.

The Sun is in Vir­go now, so you are focused and con­cerned about creating
a sus­tain­able, order­ly life that restores your sense of well-being…You want
things to make sense, you want every­thing to be well ordered…you want
what­ev­er moves you clos­er to your place of con­tent­ment, clos­er to your
goal…to have Peace of Mind.

Jupiter is hold­ing forth in Gem­i­ni. The plan­et of Boun­ty and Growth, of Truth
and Prin­ci­ples is tak­ing you upon a jour­ney of won­der, tak­ing delight in
diver­si­ties and dif­fer­ences, of push­ing you into dis­cov­er­ies by explor­ing the
many faceted view­points you should expe­ri­ence as you con­sid­er your world and
what it has to offer.

The Sun in Vir­go now says you need to focus and con­cen­trate, but Jupiter in
Gem­i­ni says you need to expand and diver­si­fy. What are you sup­posed to do when
the Uni­verse presents you with such con­trary indicators? 

Well, as always, the tru­ly spir­i­tu­al way, the noble path of development,
is the path that weaves the strands togeth­er, that sees all as part of one
Greater Truth…the Mid­dle Path is “The Way”…and it is always and ever your Path­way of Synthesis.

This “pause to pon­der” is offered so that you can see the
impor­tance of each of these ways, for each has great mer­it con­sid­ered by itself,
but each only ful­fills its larg­er pur­pose by being part of a greater Cho­rus of Understanding…that each with­out the oth­er would not, could not work. These
two paths or approach­es can only work in bal­anced inte­gra­tion with one another…for
that is how your greater life is to be lived, in har­mo­ny, in wholeness…Poised
and Balanced.

When the Sun is in Vir­go, you can become enam­ored by, cap­ti­vat­ed by the
prac­ti­cal, means-test­ed meth­ods that make sense and seem to serve you well.
How­ev­er, they were cre­at­ed when some­one else ques­tioned, when they became
curi­ous about a bet­ter way and then made it so…And so must you. Jupiter helps
by remind­ing you that just because some­thing is “work­ing”, does not
mean that you should stop learn­ing, try­ing, reaching…growing.

Like­wise, Jupiter in Gem­i­ni can become enam­ored too…drawn to such
exten­sive, divert­ing curiosi­ties that you become lost among all those points of
view, those mul­ti­ple facets of real­i­ty can leave your head spin­ning. You need simplicity
and order…and so thanks to the Sun in Vir­go, you can sep­a­rate the wheat from all
that chaff and bring your har­vest home.

Take this moment, pause and pon­der on your path­way of self-fulfillment…

Be Curi­ous and Wonder…

Be Focused and Mind­ful too…

Be Poised…Be Balanced…and walk the Path of Wisdom!

For this is how you become, this is how you grow!

Venus is skip­ping into Leo for
about a month…it is time to draw apart the cur­tains, time for your love to
take the stage…that’s right, there is Romance in the air!

Venus/Aphrodite has been
splash­ing through the waters of Can­cer for about a month, as you felt your way
home­ward, as you sought to find, nur­ture and secure the well-spring of your
love…which is your eter­nal flame of self-regard, your bright­ly shin­ing High­er Self.

Now, hav­ing secured your center,
Venus moves into Leo’s fire and you need to release what you feel! (For how
could you not?) You move out­ward through e‑motion, as you express and share the
love that you have with­in you.

And, what will you find? You will
find your love reflect­ed in the smiles of all whom you love, in the eyes of your Beloved…for as you love so
shall you be loved too! For love begets love. Love is life lived in spiritual
truth. 

The fun­da­men­tal force that holds
all togeth­er is this truth, it is this Love…That you are already, in the core
of you, in your heart of hearts, you are for­ev­er and always one with one
anoth­er because each and every, one and all…are the count­less shin­ing sparks of the One
Cen­tral Flame. 

Love was, is and will always be
your reality…We are all relat­ed, we are all loved…For we are all ones of
the One for­ev­er and ever…And it is time, (it is always time!) to live this
truth, to be this truth. Let Venus be your guide…

Dance and Sing…

Be lov­ing…

Be your­self…

Love!

Today you will go deep­er…

Today you will see more clearly…

Today you will come to a Greater Understanding…

Mercury/Hermes is mak­ing him­self home in the earthy realm that is
Virgo…Your thoughts are turned toward the prac­ti­cal, of ideas and techniques
that work. You are dis­posed to engage your mind to make sense of your­self and
your world…you have but one true. elu­sive and fer­vent wish…to reach your sacred
cen­ter and to have peace of mind!

Today you receive a bless­ing from the beyond…the Watch­er at the edge,
the defin­er of bound­aries and Sacred Spaces, Plu­to brings to Mer­cury the gift
of Insight through one of your most pow­er­ful fac­ul­ties, your focused will. 

To know your­self tru­ly, which is all that you real­ly need, (and is the
one cer­tain path to under­stand­ing your world too), requires the pen­e­trat­ing power
known as Insight…Think upon that word, “Insight”. Exact­ly as it
says, you have the abil­i­ty through insight to see into the heart of any matter,
into the heart of you, and so strip away the appear­ances of things and come to a
clos­er rela­tion­ship with this won­drous life as it tru­ly is.

With Plu­to aligned with Mer­cury you are able to see beyond the accepted
dimen­sion­al space and per­ceive a deep­er real­i­ty. The dilem­mas of the ordinary,
which cast their shad­ows of impass­abil­i­ty, the prob­lems for which no solution
seemed pos­si­ble, are bro­ken up and elim­i­nat­ed by your greater consciousness.

It is easy to acquire a pass­ing under­stand­ing of your­self and your world.
It is what soci­ety requires and expects of you, that you learn enough and then
be able to offer back what the world expects you to know…But it takes Insight
to grow beyond the ordinary…It takes will and deter­mi­na­tion to become more
tru­ly what you must be…for you must become Wise.

With your will con­joined to your con­scious­ness, you can pen­e­trate beyond the
mere­ly accept­ed and move toward the profound…you move ever for­ward, upon the path
that takes you clos­er and clos­er to true spir­i­tu­al understanding. 

The ordi­nary sophis­ti­ca­tion of every­day famil­iar knowl­edge, that filled
you with some mea­sure of pride, will give way to humil­i­ty. This is a sign, that is born
of your greater understanding…for the more you under­stand, the more you know
you do not…not yet.

You look upon the lofty heights and the ancient depths of the wis­dom that
now stands revealed before you…and you are thank­ful for those who now offer a helping
hand…and they always will…

You know that you have tak­en an impor­tant step and you must fol­low the
ever-present injunc­tion of all who came before you…to seek, to strive…to find
your way home…

High­er and high­er, freer and freer…

Because this is your destiny. 

Some­times it just hurts…it just does.

So, what are you sup­posed to do with that? What is this pain for anyway?

Spir­i­tu­al­ly, your pain should be seen as that some­times less than gentle
reminder that the sit­u­a­tion or mat­ter in ques­tion is out of bal­ance. It is
“nature’s way” of let­ting you know that you most like­ly have moved
away from your true path of spir­i­tu­al growth, and that you need to make a
change in order to avoid even greater discomfort.

The pain of this moment is about your val­ues, your under­stand­ing about
beau­ty and your expe­ri­ence of love…Whenever Venus makes a “hard”
aspect to Sat­urn there is going to be a test, a challenge…and you will feel
some pain…and it is all about the nature of Love. The test comes from within
your own inter­nal strug­gle, your chal­lenge to under­stand and accept your­self, but it will
prob­a­bly man­i­fest itself as a chal­lenge between you and some­one else.

Venus is fin­ish­ing her jour­ney through Can­cer as she encoun­ters Sat­urn (who
is now near the end of Libra). Venus in Can­cer seeks to express your love as
nur­tur­ing and pro­tec­tive, so you seek to pro­vide for and/or receive security
from those you love. How­ev­er, if you have doubts about your own self-worth, you
might act from fear and end up being “too nur­tur­ing”. You become unbalanced
and project your fear by attempt­ing to con­trol the other…or you could demand
too much atten­tion from the oth­er because you wish to be tak­en care
of…Either way, it real­ly all orig­i­nates from you not being cen­tered within
your­self, of not hav­ing enough uncon­di­tion­al love for yourself.

Sat­urn comes along to make evi­dent these imbalances…It is not there to
test the rela­tion­ship, though it seems to be doing so…It is real­ly there to provide
clar­i­ty about your rela­tion­ship to your “self”, which is real­ly all
that you need mas­ter. Sat­urn, rep­re­sent­ing Real­i­ty and the lim­i­ta­tions you face
at any point in your life, makes you ques­tion your val­ue of your­self, question
your self-worth…and so you ques­tion your love of self…And it is from this
lack of self-love that then spills out and affects your relationship(s).

What you need to do is accept the chal­lenge of Sat­urn and exam­ine your values,
to under­stand that only through a right, lov­ing rela­tion­ship with your “self”
will you be able to have the same with any oth­er. In fact, the Libra mes­sage of
“Bal­ance” is what this test is all about…To the extent that you
love your­self uncon­di­tion­al­ly, then to that same extent will you be able to
give and receive love from the oth­er too. 

It is always in your power
to make your life a won­der­ful world that is full of light and love…because the
clos­er you draw to your true self the clos­er you will come to the source of
uncon­di­tion­al love that sus­tains this Universe.

Let go of your fears…for you are loved unconditionally…

Turn to the oth­er and smile…for they are beloved too…

Pain be gone…

As Love will love…always.