What you real­ly want, what you real­ly need…what you ache for…is Union.

You must seek for it, with deep Desire…

You must act for it, with fer­vent Passion…

You must be brave, you must be bold…but if you dare…

You will expe­ri­ence the great­est treasure…you will come to what is most
profound… 

You will be as one, again…in your sacred space, in your Com­mu­nion with
the beloved.

Mars will take you now, into the mystery…beyond the cross­ing point of “I
and Thou”, Mars will draw you down, to dive through those swirling subterranean
Waters and into your deep­est longings…Come, it is time, let Mars take you now
into his realm of Scorpio…

You seek noth­ing less than self-tran­scen­dence, to move beyond the
iso­la­tion of your phys­i­cal real­i­ty, beyond the appar­ent sep­a­ra­tion between one
and another…Mars will take you now, by pas­sion and desire…as you move beyond your bound­ed realm to the heart of sacred fires. 

You will be able to pass beyond, even for a moment, your “real­i­ty”
of a sep­a­rate existence…you will taste, touch and mar­vel with won­der as you feel
the thrilling that cours­es through you now, as you bow before the awesome
majesty…you are hum­bled, trans­formed and uplift­ed by the won­drous mag­ic of
being one with one another!

With a reward so great, so too must be your offer­ing, (for the prize
could not be greater)…so you must be ready, will­ing and able to sacrifice
what is less­er if you are to cre­ate the space for the greater in your life. You
must hon­or and keep what makes you “you”, your core values,
prin­ci­ples and beliefs, as you let go of the periph­er­als in your life, the
less­er things that would keep you apart from one another…

And, the mag­ic of this moment is…that as you choose between what to
hold and what to release, you actu­al­ly move clos­er to your true self. You give
up what was less con­se­quen­tial in your life and reaf­firm the greater…and you
do this because you were mov­ing clos­er to anoth­er, but you also and equally
drew clos­er to your Self!

How­ev­er the great­est chal­lenge, the great­est sac­ri­fice must be accepted
and met if you are to co-cre­ate your shared sacred space, the space of
togeth­er­ness, your space of “We”. For the great­est chal­lenge to your growth
and self-tran­scen­dence always lies with­in you…for it is always wait­ing, ever holding
you back and down…the only thing that stands in your way in your twelve-fold
journey…is Fear. 

You must under­stand, face and pass beyond your fears if you are to gain
the greater in your life…Each step, each chal­lenge in the wheel of life has a
fear that must be met, a shad­ow that must be illu­mined if you are to find your
way… 

The shad­ow cast by seek­ing Union is found in what holds you back, in what
makes you pause and take half-mea­sures to meet the oth­er in the “we”…You
put your­self “out there”, into a space of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty and say
“won’t you join me here?” Yet, you fear the response might not be
equal so you only risk so much…you hold back. 

You have the fear of Rejec­tion. You fear that you will open the door to the pos­si­bil­i­ty with anoth­er and they
will turn away…and you will be in the deep­est pain for what was nev­er gained.
So you hold back, or they hold back and the sacred space can­not be made…what
might have been, could have been is all you can take away…

The answer is, “always and always”, to face your fear and
under­stand that it is but a shad­ow from yesterday…It is only pains of what
was long ago but must be cast away. So laugh at your fear, break up those
shad­ows, by show­ing what you have learned…that you are Spir­it, you are the
ever-becoming…there is noth­ing that you shall fear. 

Mars in Scor­pio is said to bring indomitable will and fear­less­ness. As is
true in all spir­i­tu­al mat­ters, you para­dox­i­cal­ly reveal your true strength in
Scor­pio by plac­ing your­self in a posi­tion of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty! That by such grace you
show your true spir­i­tu­al strength and char­ac­ter, that you are will­ing to take
the risk in order to cre­ate the pos­si­bil­i­ty of Union. You reveal it all, hold nothing
back, and by so doing you have ful­filled your part…you have made your move to
cre­ate the sacred space of we…and now it rests upon the oth­er to see what
there will be…

Let Mars in Scor­pio bring you to your deep­est longing…

To sat­is­fy and relieve the ache that is in your heart.

You can and you will be as one for one another…

To be all for one and one in All…

This Union, this Oneness…this is your destiny!

“Live in Beauty”!

You have always sought this…and you know, you tru­ly know you need it now…more
than ever.

Your heart’s desire has always been…to reach and find one priceless
trea­sure, that one spe­cial place, where every­thing makes sense, where all will
come together…and when you find it…

You will smile…for all is good, in your place of Peace…in your place
of Beauty!

Of course, you know, there is no “place” as such, it is not here
or there, it is not around or outside…it comes to you, ris­ing from with­in as
you align your life and move into a Greater Understanding…as you grow, as you serve…

When you live in truth, when what is with­in and what sur­rounds you is
brought into true accord…then you are “there”, where you were
always meant to be…

When you do this, you have put your­self upon that noble path…you live
as one of the ones, you are at peace with­in as you move towards a greater gathering
too…you walk the path of harmony…you “Live in Beauty”…you share in Beauty.

You have tried to do your best, each and every day…but now you must
pre­pare your­self, you must ascer­tain what has been and turn to what will be…you
sense a turn­ing in the rhythms, a new sea­son is approaching…A Time of Fire
must give way to Earth…

Yes, it is there in the ear­ly morn­ing mists…in the creep­ing twilight’s
shad­ows too…the ener­gies are shifting…The light is bend­ing further…slanting, shad­owed, still gleam­ing but
dim­ming ever more…and you know, you feel it in your soul…you know you must prepare…

The Time of Vir­go is at hand…your time to make ready, to har­vest the
mean­ing of what you have made of yourself…and then to do bet­ter, to become
bet­ter and make the world bet­ter too…

Because it is Time, because it is your way…

Walk in Beau­ty, Live in Beauty…

It is done in Beauty…

It is The Way.

She slips between…she moves into that shad­owed space…beyond the cross­ing point, between Dark­ness and the Light…she comes back to her beloved, her Bright­ly-Shin­ing One. She returns to renew and begin again, to mark her sacred duty. For she is the weaver who works her ways with­in a shim­mer­ing web, she gath­ers the plan­e­tary ener­gies, she steps them down so that you might feel them too…but most of all, she will ever return to the source of life and love, and so renew her­self as so you do too…

Once again, your dear Luna has come around, between you and the Sun. You look for her, but she is gone…She has come back to her beloved and is lost in that Glo­ry for a time…Yes, it is dark again, there is no light at night, no Moon to reflect upon…So you must have faith, you must be open for a sign. It is your time to pause, it is your time to wait…it is time to give thanks and wel­come your chance for a new beginning.

Today, the Moon meets her com­pan­ion, and in the Sun’s own sign…So, it is the gift of Leo, which is offered up for you at this time. Here in the dark­est hour, when you can­not find your way, the bright­est bea­con will be revealed, and dark­ness will fly away. For Leo asks you noth­ing less than to become who you are meant to be: that you see your­self, that you Love yourself…and so you laugh as you smile…because you see.

You turn around…you look with­in, and find an ember there. It is a spark, the same glo­ri­ous source, from which all of Cre­ation came. It is the Light Divine, pure love of course, that is your one and true, your ever­last­ing source…It lights your Sun, the Stars and Moon and all who accom­pa­ny thee…

The New Moon of Leo calls to you, to remem­ber from whence you came…To remem­ber and rejoice…for you are a child of great descent whose path­way stretch­es ever on. You cycle through count­less forms, through end­less worlds that you have made…For this is your path, your destiny…and you will make your way.

You are a Cre­ator, here to release, reveal and express your Love, to be the Love and to share the Love that you are…for you are That.

Cel­e­brate your source, your heart…your Love.

So be it!

Trip­tych Teach­ings — Part Three

This final act in your spi­ral­ing Trip­tych rounds out the lessons of life on the Ides of August…

In this third gift of grace from your Star­ry Wan­der­ers, you receive a plan­e­tary bless­ing that flows from the align­ment of Venus (Love and Beau­ty) as she dances her way beside Uranus (The Awak­en­er, the Lord of Free­dom and Individuality).

The First Trip­tych les­son, from Venus and Plu­to, affirmed the sacred nature of the space that is You. Your cen­ter is one with, and insep­a­ra­ble from, the count­less sacred cen­ters in all of the spaces of Space. The Bound­less All or One is found with­in and forms the radi­ant source upon which all sacred cen­ters reside…it is the ever­last­ing light at the core of each and every consciousness.

The Sec­ond Trip­tych les­son, from Mars and Sat­urn, affirms the Prin­ci­ple of growth that con­stant­ly dri­ves the unfold­ment of your Real­i­ty-Mak­ing. Your per­son­al self-real­iza­tions are pro­por­tion­al to the self-real­iza­tions of your fel­low trav­el­ers. For each and every one is a co-cre­ator in the jour­ney of Life-Consciousness-Spirit…Truly, it is All for one and One for All!

Now you turn to this your Third Trip­tych, and the les­son is about the inti­mate rela­tion­ship that pre­vails between Love and Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty. Venus rules your val­ues, the why, where and how of you and of the beau­ty in your world. Venus rules the source of all your val­ues, which is the val­ue of you, your Self…That Self is quite sim­ply your spir­i­tu­al source, your Divine essence or core, which you know and feel as Love. Quite sim­ply, you Love your Self because this ker­nel or core of you is pure Spir­it, is pure Love.

The most essen­tial prin­ci­ple of this val­ue of you is that you are Unique, that you are an Indi­vid­ual. You are a unique spark of the Divine…you are one of the ones of the One. Uranus rules this prin­ci­ple, which is called Self­hood (or Swab­hā­va), and it is this defin­ing essence that shapes and defines your unique­ness. It is this unique self­hood that forms the source-ener­gy that dri­ves your ever-unfold­ing journey.

Your Self­hood is the rea­son for your growth from with­in out­wards and forms and pro­pels the sto­ry of your self-real­iza­tion. For you are here to ful­fill your destiny…you become your Self as you unfold your poten­tial and take your place as a one of the count­less voic­es who will each add their own voice to the Song of Creation.

It is through Venus that you con­nect to your beloved by those val­ues that you share…You come togeth­er and form your rela­tion­ship upon a bedrock of val­ues that you find mean­ing­ful, pleas­ing and wish to expe­ri­ence with and through one anoth­er. By this shar­ing and love for one anoth­er, you recon­nect and reaf­firm your source-love which is that eter­nal love of your High­er Self…and which you now see reflect­ed back to you through the eyes of your beloved…for it is there that you expe­ri­ence the very same love that pours forth from the cen­ter of Creation.

What Uranus reminds and reveals to Venus today is that what draws you to one anoth­er yes­ter­day, today and tomor­row, is that very prin­ci­ple at the heart of your val­ue, your unique essence, your Self­hood, your Swab­hā­va. It is that which you see, acknowl­edge and love in one anoth­er, this unique beingness…you remem­ber this feel­ing, you know this energy…and you smile.

For you have met before, and will meet again…and it is how you know, how you tru­ly know that you have found one anoth­er yet again…because there is that something…that essen­tial essence of unique­ness that dis­tin­guish­es and defines who you are and who they are…and you love one anoth­er for exact­ly That!

Uranus reminds Venus that to be Loved you must release your Self, your true ever-unfold­ing essen­tial being, your Radi­ant Ray. And that this will also bring you back, again and again, to your com­pan­ions and com­rades, to your friends and loved ones, and to your beloved…who love you as you love them…because you love one anoth­er for being exact­ly what you are becoming…

You are the becoming…

You are the Radi­ant Splendor…

You are one of the ones of the One.

So be it!

Trip­tych Teach­ings — Part Two

Lat­er on Wednes­day, part two of your Trip­tych les­son unfolds…And it is tru­ly a time­ly gift from your plan­e­tary companions!

Mars, rul­ing Desire and Action, takes about two years to com­plete its cir­cuit of the Solar Sys­tem and will come back to Sat­urn, the Ruler of Form and Real­i­ty, in this their Con­junc­tion, which is like a New Moon, in just over two years. Their align­ment her­alds a New Begin­ning in the cycle that gov­erns your efforts to real­ize your desires by form­ing them, pour­ing and shap­ing them into your Real­i­ty Structure.

The typ­i­cal inter­pre­ta­tion of Mars with Sat­urn is full of warn­ings about frus­tra­tion, anger and accidents…really?! This is a pow­er­ful con­junc­tion but the mis­use of their com­bined ener­gies lies not with Mars or Sat­urn, but with a lack of under­stand­ing about the way in which ener­gy and mat­ter com­bine togeth­er to form your universe.

You move out­ward, through and by your desires (Mars), you move out­ward to ful­fill your­self and your dreams. To do so, you act with­in the world of form (Sat­urn), shap­ing it into some sem­blance of what you imag­ined your world should be. You pour your­self into forms and there­by both real­ize but at the same time lim­it your­self into those very forms…you ful­fill your­self, yet it can only last so long. For you are con­tin­u­ous­ly devel­op­ing your­self from with­in out­wards, and the world around you is con­stant­ly chang­ing as well…so the forms you made becomes less and less rel­e­vant as you and every­one else con­tin­ue to grow.

The Con­junc­tion of Mars and Sat­urn her­alds the moment in which you begin a new cycle of Desire and Form, of Action and Accom­plish­ment. You need to release your­self from the no longer ade­quate, those old­er forms of self-real­iza­tion. Mars and Sat­urn join to light the way so that you may move to cre­ate new forms of growth, new forms of self-man­i­fes­ta­tion. Their con­junc­tion forms a bea­con to inspire you to cre­ate a bet­ter real­i­ty for the world you wish to move through.

This process is often hard and not with­out pain. Why? Because you have become attached to the famil­iar, you are habit­u­at­ed to the old forms, to your old ways and means…In order to grow, you must let go…but you often resist and so bring about the very pain and suf­fer­ing that many asso­ciate with this aspect.

This need not be your “fate”…You always have a choice. You can always find a bet­ter way…and you will find that way through under­stand­ing. This path of greater under­stand­ing is shown to you now by the Space where Mars and Sat­urn meet with one another…and that Space is found in the way of Libra.

This year, Mars and Sat­urn align, like one Star, in the sign of Libra. Their mes­sage is sim­ple yet pro­found: Desire and Action (Mars), Form and Real­i­ty (Sat­urn) must be guid­ed, formed and so ful­filled through mutu­al­ly agreed upon prin­ci­ples and val­ues that you share with your fel­low trav­el­ers, your trust­ed com­pan­ions, your com­rades in arms.

The Truth of Mars meet­ing Sat­urn in Libra is that your self-real­iza­tions, the meet­ing of your heart’s desire, can only be met, can only be accom­plished with the coop­er­a­tion and/or par­tic­i­pa­tion with many, many oth­ers. Your self-ful­fill­ment depends upon these oth­ers, as your self-real­iza­tion becomes a means to cre­ate their ful­fill­ment too…For only togeth­er can you make your way back to the source, back to your home in the stars…

You are part of a glo­ri­ous, shin­ing host of spir­it seek­ing to become ever more ful­filled, ever more resplendent…Always and for­ev­er, you unfold your poten­tials for your­self and for one anoth­er too…today you begin anew…again.

There is one more les­son, one more pan­el in these Trip­tych Teach­ings to guide you today, so let’s take a look at what Venus and Uranus offer up to light your way…