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!

Brilliance…Genius…that is what this means…pure Genius!

You meet today with the sec­ond gift from Hermes…you move from the expan­sive gifts of Jupiter to the unfet­tered paths that lie beyond Sat­urn’s rings…you walk the Halls of Wis­dom with Uranus by your side…

When found in a Natal chart, this aspect indi­cates that the indi­vid­ual in ques­tion has a mar­velous capac­i­ty to think freely, to tran­scend the nor­mal bound­aries of con­ven­tion­al truth. They are endowed with the means to move beyond…into the realms of a high­er con­scious­ness and so begin to espy, to make a clos­er approach to what is called true Wis­dom or Cos­mic Consciousness.

Today you will have a brush with your destiny…For you are graced by this gift of the Spir­it as it quick­ens what lies with­in you, waiting…it is a pre­view of where you will reside once you have passed through these nec­es­sary but low­er realms. You must pass through these schools of Intel­li­gence, Thought and Rea­son, as you make your­self ready to approach the Halls of True Enlightenment…

Freed from the con­ven­tion­al, even for a brief moment, you can see the world and the prob­lems con­fronting you in a clear­er light. The old assump­tions, which cast their shad­ows, which formed your self-made lim­its to a more com­plete under­stand­ing, those phan­toms melt away as you look upon the issue (and the oth­er before you) with your Self-Lumi­nous Vision.

You are lift­ed up…you taste that sweet fra­grance from a high­er plane of con­scious­ness where all is new, where there is the eter­nal now, the ever-present, where you will always find your Burn­ing Bright, your Watch­er. You reach that van­tage point from which to view the mat­ter with­out the heavy weight of con­ven­tion­al lim­its, beyond your his­to­ry of regrets and fears…you are freer!

Today is a day to think beyond…to solve the puzzle…to touch the deep­er mind and grace the heart of the oth­er before you…

Today you can let go of the less­er and dis­cov­er the greater…for it has always been wait­ing with­in you…

Your High­er Self, you Know­ing Self, always there…patiently, lov­ing­ly inspir­ing you as you jour­ney upon your path…

To know yourself…to know your world…

Today you will reach within…

and you will touch the Stars!

Today is a day for clear think­ing, today is a day to make your point!

Mer­cury as Her­mes, delight­ing in his role as the Mes­sen­ger, is weav­ing a web between Jupiter today and then Uranus tomor­row. He is help­ing to make avail­able, to bring togeth­er and deliv­er on the promise of that Jupiter/Uranus align­ment from this past weekend…

Today Mer­cury gets an assist from Jupiter and you are able to give (or to receive) rea­son­able advice. You will under­stand your own mind bet­ter and form a deep­er more mean­ing­ful con­nec­tion with the oth­er too…

Found­ed upon this, upon more expan­sive and inclu­sive per­spec­tives, your aims and means, your rea­son­ings and deci­sions will span the divide between I and thou…and you will smile.

Today you will under­stand one anoth­er, bet­ter than before!

For a gift is offered that lifts your awareness.…so that

The shad­ow that fell between I and thou, is part­ed for a while…

You see the veil is lift­ed, reveal­ing won­ders all around…

Today is a good day!

And you will smile…

Your year­ly rhyth­mic sweep­ing arc is turn­ing again, radi­at­ing forth in Spir­it-born ener­gies. Your Spi­ral jour­ney forms into the Twelve Sta­tions of Life set by your Star. Today, that awe­some Solar Life-Force comes home. The return of the Sun to Leo turns your atten­tion outwards…it is time for your Debut…Time to take your act out there. It is time to move upon a greater stage!

You need, you must…you will stretch your­self! You will reach out from your new­found Cen­ter and move with greater con­fi­dence into those daz­zling spot­lights of your life…you must release that truer you, the Bet­ter you that was met and secured in your Can­cer sojourn…

You have left the Waters and now re-enter Fire’s realm. You turn from how you feel to the bring­ing forth through Emo­tion.…you are draw­ing-pour­ing-shap­ing those feel­ings into your Ideals and Dreams of Self-real­iza­tion. For you must express your­self, you must be your­self. You move with Pres­ence and see your­self reflect­ed in acts of self-aware Authen­tic­i­ty. You move into your greater spaces, leap­ing and flying…stretched upon your Wings of Emo­tion! You are Joyful!

To release who you tru­ly are…you first must meet your­self, and accept and hon­or the truth of your being and why you are here…

To be authen­tic, to choose your stage, to make that role your own…this is your Leo task…but there is much more…

You seek for approval, you yearn for recognition…You need the out­ward con­fir­ma­tion that you are appre­ci­at­ed, that you have Respect…but you must give if you are to receive…

The les­son of Leo is the les­son of Leadership…A true leader does not tell anoth­er what to do…They inspire them, they lift them up through the Bless­ing of Faith by say­ing “You can do this!”…and so they shall…For this is the Gift of Spir­it, to open the door through which the oth­er may move into their greater space too!

For every being needs respect, each and every needs to be Seen and Acknowl­edged in their truth…

This is the one, true and only path to the source of joy that each will find in them­selves and through one another…

For this is the core of Leo…this is the Heart of your story…

This Is Love!

Oppor­tu­ni­ty is call­ing, call­ing for you to become more than you can imag­ine. The ques­tion is…will you be open to the turn­ing that it offers, are you will­ing to trav­el upon anoth­er pathway…to take “the road less trav­elled by” for “that will make all the difference”?

Jupiter is mer­ri­ly danc­ing through the realms of curios­i­ty, com­mu­ni­ca­tion and intel­li­gence. The Lord of your Prin­ci­ples, Truths and Atti­tudes is tak­ing great delight in help­ing you to forge new dis­cov­er­ies. You are stretch­ing and extend­ing, com­par­ing and con­trast­ing, test­ing and debating…you go back and forth, you puz­zle over those eter­nal questions…Who am I…and who are You…What do you know, how do you know it…and do you tru­ly understand?

To add spice to your soar­ing search­es, to take you on a turn towards the unex­plored and unfore­seen, to seek for your truth upon a high­er plane…Welcome now the Lord of Awak­en­ing. Uranus, who always takes you by sur­prise, who leads you out upon those unex­pect­ed pathways…he takes you now upon those mind bend­ing ways that lie beyond Sat­urn’s Rings, beyond those bands of your Bound­ed Thinking…

Uranus elic­its through sym­pa­thet­ic res­o­nance, he quick­ens from with­in your high­er con­scious­ness, which is your spir­i­tu­al gift that leads you to your freer mind. By being able, even for a moment, to rise above your bound­ed mind, by what is the com­mon and accept­ed, he lifts you beyond the rul­ing par­a­digms so you can see the world with a more unfet­tered appreciation…deeper, vaster, more nuanced and true.

By shift­ing your aware­ness and under­stand­ing, your chal­lenges will become more approachable…your oppor­tu­ni­ties more realizable…your path more true to the noble mid­dle way of Spirit…

So take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to grow beyond your ordinary…

Look ahead, upon that star­ry path­way you walk upon…

Look ahead and see…your road divides in twain…

Look ahead, seek with­in, look up…

and take the road less trav­elled by.