Venus is swim­ming, splash­ing through those car­ing, embrac­ing and nur­tur­ing waters of Cancer…and so you remem­ber, you re-affirm and recon­nect to your source, to your val­ue of you, to your per­son­al mem­o­ries, to what is true for you and your love…

Today Venus receives a lov­ing caress as Nep­tune draws you into her Pis­cean Seas…You pass through the appear­ances of real­i­ty, beyond the veils and into her mys­te­ri­ous, dream­ing ocean­ic depths…where all are met and found as one…

Today Venus, through which you val­ue your­self and love the oth­er, who rules your per­son­al affec­tions, the home of your beat­ing heart of love, today you with Venus go beyond and through, as your soul is drawn up into the Trans-Per­son­al way…because today you are touched by the Lord of Uni­ver­sal Love…

Today, through Nep­tune, you can feel the con­nec­tion between I and Thou as being more than just hap­pen­stance or fortune…you real­ize that it is your des­tiny, your kar­ma that has built this bridge, this sym­pa­thy of under­stand­ing, of soul to soul, of heart to heart…

For the great illu­sion is Separation…

Your Shin­ing Truth, felt so strong today…

Is all are One…as all are Loved as ones of the One…

Each one by love reflects this Great Love…this Uncon­di­tion­al Joy…

That keeps each and every on the path, reach­ing upwards, towards the Light…

So that each will find their own true way…

By love, through love…

The only Way.

“Stop, hey, what’s that sound
Every­body look what’s going down…”
(For What It’s Worth, by Buf­fa­lo Springfield)

There was more…yes, there was much more than just Venus slip­ping into those wel­com­ing Waters of Can­cer yesterday…

Some­one else was turn­ing too…Slowing down, stand­ing still and paus­ing before the mighty Por­tals of Consciousness…Mercury stood still…and so did your thinking…

You must have sensed it, a shift of ener­gies, a turn­ing in your awareness…a change of tem­pera­ment too…However, what­ev­er and when­ev­er it came through you, you turned too…For you are part of this won­drous sys­tem of Planetaries…and so you there, danc­ing with your com­pan­ions, you turned with Mer­cury too…

For three weeks, you have gone with­in, dig­ging deep into your mind. You were giv­en a mar­velous oppor­tu­ni­ty to ques­tion, re-exam­ine and repair your assump­tions, atti­tudes and thought-forms…You faced delays in projects, agree­ments were put on hold, you encoun­tered mount­ing misunderstandings…for what? So that you could look again at the ques­tion, at the mat­ter, at the oth­er before you and Re-Con­sid­er…You had to go back before you went on…for this is The Way.

This is the Way of Con­scious­ness, this the way of life, this is the way of your journey…This is The Way. You do not trav­el as if fol­low­ing a straight line, nor is it a sim­ple circle…You trav­el with­in a spi­ral dance of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it, that flows and sweeps along as it fash­ions your world, because it is your world…and so you must sweep and bow, dip and rise too…and so you will grow into the Greater Understanding…

So, take a breath…it is dif­fer­ent now. You can and must go for­ward… you will make it bet­ter now. You have pon­dered the mys­tery of Mer­cury in Leo…you know bet­ter how to think cre­ative­ly, respec­tive­ly…Lov­ing­ly…

You can go for­ward now with your love of self and for the oth­er too…

You can release the beau­ty with­in to join the beau­ty without…

You are ready to go for­ward and be the source…

You turn, you choose…The Way.

It’s time…and it has been a long time coming…but the turn­ing is here…Finally!

It is time for you (and your val­ues) to set­tle down, to take a breath and focus…it is time to dwell with­in and dote upon your car­ing and nur­tur­ing self…it is time for you to deep­en, cher­ish and secure the core of you…for your love, for your life.

Venus has been in Gem­i­ni for a long, long, long time…it has been trip­ping through that divert­ing-dis­tract­ing-rest­less-frac­tal realm since April! (Usu­al­ly Venus is a sign for about a month…it has been in Gem­i­ni Four Times as long as usu­al!) No won­der you have had a hard time focus­ing on what you want!

Appar­ent­ly, the Uni­verse want­ed you (and every­one else) to have an extend­ed expe­ri­ence of hav­ing an appre­ci­a­tion for a diver­si­ty of val­ues, a cir­cuitous trip to explore the myr­i­ad ways you can take the mea­sure (and plea­sure) of the world around you…

But that all ends today…for today you turn away from think­ing about val­ue, you turn away from pars­ing your pleasures…today you turn…towards what makes you feel whole, to what brings you back to center…today you come back to your­self, today your val­ues come home again.

What you want, what you tru­ly need is the warm­ing embrace of your past, which will inform your present and show you the way to your future too. You will find that your cher­ished mem­o­ries rise up to meet your present, and as they do, you mar­vel in a release of echoes as the fra­grances of the famil­iar lift you up. You walk in an ever-present déjà-vu that caress­es you with the glo­ri­ous feel­ing that all is right, all is true…that you are home, that you are cared for and caring…and that you are going to be okay.

Today Venus slips into Water…she brings you home to what has always been your cen­ter, what has always been your source…

Venus brings you to the core of you, where a spark of the Divine shines bright and true and is everlasting…

Venus rev­els and rejoic­es as you feel the truth of it…

This is Love…You are Love…

And every­thing is going to be okay.

The Moon comes around again, arch­ing over to the “far­ther side” of Earth…she stands in that “out­er space”, lean­ing away from the Sun…Whenever she moves out there, she is out­side of Earth­’s orbit, beyond that cir­cled inner realm you call home, float­ing in the vast­ness of the greater beyond.

You look at Luna, she beck­ons to you now…She’s arch­ing there, rid­ing high, “The Bright­ly Shin­ing One”, lov­ing­ly lit by the Sun’s majes­tic Aura stream­ing. For you on Earth, the Full Moon like a bea­con, as you rev­el, as you mar­vel in all her beau­ty and mys­tery. She comes in her Fullness…bearing Gifts of the Spirit…she has a mes­sage for you…

Her Aquar­ius rev­e­la­tion is just right…this Luna Moon-Beam­ing reflects back upon your Leo Need for Atten­tion now, that surge of Per­son­al­iza­tion that comes with the Sun’s sojourn in Leo. The Moon hang­ing up there reminds you, asks you…To what end are all your dra­mas, all your great works of art, your dec­la­ra­tions and feats of derring-do…to what end do you do the things that you do, what or who are they for?

Luna reminds you now, that you, the Actor, the star of the dra­ma that you call “your life”…that your life, this part that you play, this role is part of a greater life too. Your per­son­al life, your striv­ings and strut­tings, they are ever round­ed, bound­ed and thrilled through by the feel­ings and mean­ings, the shar­ings and togeth­er­ness that is made and found, root­ed and joined through the ones you jour­ney with.

For you move with­in a Sacred Company…they are your col­leagues, your com­pan­ions, your best of the best, who chose you and you choose them to be part of this life. These are your Friends, whose dreams are your dreams. For only with one anoth­er can you form the dream, live the dream, become the dream…and that is what takes you from a Star, a one try­ing to turn the tide, takes you and makes you into one of many ones joined as One…who will become the tide that changes the world…

Dance in the light of Aquarius…see Luna shin­ing brightly…

Arch­ing high, she is a Star…embraced in a sea of stars…

As you, the dream­er dreaming…journey in a com­pa­ny of dreamers…

Your life, their life…together made, as One.

You have been wait­ing for it…waiting for your answer…and it is Now!

And, the answer…the answer, always and ever, for­ev­er and ever, the answer is Love!

Mer­cury has been in Leo since June 25 and mov­ing ret­ro­grade since July 14. Now Mer­cury (your mind) aligns with the Sun (your Self) and an answer is here…but you need to make ready to receive it. You need to be qui­et and attentive…you need to be still with­in your­self and there­by open your sacred space to the possibility…for only then are you ready to be touched by the gift, to be lift­ed up by the Wind of the Spirit.

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is your time of oppor­tu­ni­ty to review, revise and renew your under­stand­ing of your­self and your world. This peri­od­ic (thrice-year­ly) rever­sal of Con­scious­ness Force, of mind-stuff, pro­vides the means by which you are able to move out­side of your struc­tured path­ways of facts, assump­tions and points of view.

These ele­ments are need­ed and necessary…they are the very means by which you came to know the world as you do, of how you became self-aware and able to exer­cise your won­drous gift of Intel­li­gence. But your path­way is circuitous…and it is equal­ly true that you must come to see how these pris­mat­ic par­a­digms, your very own view­points have also been the source, the inher­ent cre­ators of the blind spots with­in your dim-lit, self-illu­mined world. For as much as you have turned you eye upon the world with your bright­ly-beam­ings, with your won­drous intel­li­gent illu­mi­na­tions, you have equal­ly been cre­at­ing deep­en­ing shad­ows too. You see through a glass darkly…and you do not know that you do this…and you will not and there­fore can­not under­stand what you do not perceive…

You need help, a way to move beyond or out­side of your­self. You need to find a place upon which to stand and see what lies beyond your self-cast shad­ows, you need to leave this hall of mir­rors that you made. So Mercury/Hermes, the Mes­sen­ger of the Gods, he answers the call, he does his part. He turns around to stir The Waters…he breaks the sur­face still­ness and shows you the refract­ed, mir­rored world through which you move…Yes it was real for you, but lim­it­ed, shad­owed and bounded…bounded by you.

Her­mes reveals oth­er points of view, he shows you oth­er pris­mat­ic per­spec­tives, dif­fer­ent path­ways of perception…and you can move into a greater aware­ness, you may be able to con­sid­er the pos­si­bil­i­ty of anoth­er way of understanding…and you will Grow. You are able to bet­ter com­pre­hend the per­spec­tive of another…and your Com­pas­sion wax­es so that you can draw clos­er to one another…You move along the path­way of Knowl­edge and approach the Halls of Wisdom…

Dur­ing this ret­ro­grade, in this re-turn­ing/­tun­ing of your mind, Mer­cury has danced to the song of Leo. You have been seek­ing to bet­ter under­stand how Leo can help or, if you mis­per­ceive, hin­der your under­stand­ing of your­self and your world…and, giv­en the over-long sojourn that Mer­cury has made here, there has been much to learn or re-learn this time around it seems…

The answer you have sought is here for you today…are you ready? Mer­cury has offered up a greater under­stand­ing about your mind as gov­erned by Leo, by your need for appre­ci­a­tion, respect and approval…by your need for LOVE.

More often than you might like to admit, you may fall into error because you have a point of view that you feel you must uphold and defend, (even if you have your own mis­giv­ings or doubts about it), you hold firm because to admit that you were incor­rect or wrong would be embar­rass­ing to you. So…you hold when you should yield, you dig in when you should give way and the pain you cre­ate is equal to the pain that you will face lat­er on…for that is the law, that is Karma.

But Her­mes shows you the way through these shad­owed path­ways of the low­er self, of your ego…for the true Leo way is the path­way of Love and Under­stand­ing. That rather than see­ing your view as the one and only, the one true way, you extend and encom­pass through your High­er Self the Uncon­di­tion­al Love that links one and all, you extend your Self as you embrace the oth­er before you whom you love as you love yourself…

And it is this greater under­stand­ing, to love the oth­er as one­self, which leads to the break­ing down of your more lim­it­ed views as you blend or incor­po­rate a more inclu­sive view with and through the oth­er, as they do like­wise through you. For this is the truth of it, what stands before you is a spark of the Divine, the Self-Same source as your Divine Flame, and for this rea­son you are held togeth­er in the all-encom­pass­ing Love of this One Divine Spir­it, for­ev­er and always…

Your answer is now…let go of Pride and Fear.

Your answer is within…listen to your High­er Self.

Your answer is LOVE…let it shine, let it shine…

See the shad­ows fade away…as you Shine!