The Grand Trine of Mer­cury, Mars and Pluto

Your Plan­e­tary Dance Continues…As Mer­cury turns away from Mars, whose gift to you was that calmer, clear­er sense of Mind…He turns and looks to dis­tant spaces, beyond these sun­lit realms. There Mer­cury meets the One who stands, who draws the sacred cir­cle lines…Now it is Plu­to’s turn, Lord of Bound­aries, who comes to dance this dance with Mer­cury, to ele­vate your mind.

This Spi­ral­ing, Whirling Trip­tych of Earth glides from “first to sec­ond position”…Today, Mer­cury in Tau­rus meets with Plu­to in Capri­corn and your thoughts are div­ing deep­er, beyond what seems to be…to what is tru­ly true.

Mars in Vir­go brought a spe­cial spark of refine­ment, a dis­cern­ing heal­ing gift to calm your trou­bled mind…Pluto in Capri­corn now offers a stronger push, your mind enhanced to reveal some Greater truth within.

Your mind is often pulled from point to point, find­ing fan­cies and fas­ci­na­tions that spin you ’round and round. So much expect­ed, so lit­tle to show. Today, with Plu­to’s added mea­sure, you will find your focus bound…you can probe your deep for greater trea­sures, for truths you had not found.

Today, the prob­lem that would not sur­ren­der, the rid­dle too complex…they fall today, bow down today, before your pierc­ing, lucid wit. Secrets are bared for you to see, but dis­cre­tion you need apply, for many things remain for you to know and hold inside.

Today with Mer­cury and Plu­to, you are the Mind­ful Mind…

You pierce through those mir­rored illusions…dispel shad­ows from your path…

Today you are the Watch­er watching…

Your Truth revealed at last.

The Grand Trine of Mer­cury, Mars and Pluto

Beautiful…Magical…Wondrous…

Today and for the next sev­er­al days, the plan­ets will dance for you…

Three plan­ets will glide through their mag­is­te­r­i­al waltz, they will sweep and bow…weaving in and out…These Celes­tial Regents of Life will move into their grand rendezvous…They will align and form a pow­er­ful Trip­tych of Meaning…and it is all for you.

Three plan­ets will form into posi­tion, equal­ly spaced along the Cir­cle of Life, mov­ing with grace through three…Together they will cre­ate this per­fect Tri­ad of Ener­gies, form­ing for you a glo­ri­ous Grand Trine in Earth.

They will each have their time, each have their day…Today, it is Mer­cury aligned with Mars…then tomor­row, Mer­cury turns and forms his trine with Pluto…Finally, on Wednes­day, it will be Mars who will trine Plu­to. Three times three, they will sing and dance for you in their cos­mic wheel­ing wonder…and togeth­er they will stand by and deliv­er their mes­sages and ener­gies for you.

Today Mer­cury feels the quick­en­ing pres­ence of Mars…today your Mind leaps in response to your heart’s Desire! Mer­cury is mov­ing through Tau­rus, being stead­ied and pur­pose­ful, slow­er to decide and resis­tant to change, your mind finds its focus as it dwells upon ques­tions of val­ue and beauty.

Mars in Vir­go brings a dis­cern­ing touch, a crit­i­cal appre­ci­a­tion for the fin­er mat­ters in these cal­cu­la­tions and val­u­a­tions. The ener­gies of Mars elic­it a stronger deter­mi­na­tion in your mind to move out from mere appre­ci­a­tion into the fields of action…it is not enough to con­sid­er what is beau­ti­ful, you must make right what is wrong, heal what is hurt and bring rea­son, order and the way of beau­ty to the world around you.

The com­bi­na­tion of Mer­cury and Mars brings Mind and Action together…You dance in the realm known as Praxis…where your Ideas become real and formed…

Your Actions guid­ed through your Greater Understanding…

You, the Cre­ator, the mak­er of worlds…as you thought or imag­ined it would be…

Mind in Motion, danc­ing the dance of Creation.

You are the Self-Unfolding…you are the Self-Becoming…

You become by releas­ing from with­in your pure potential…and by doing so you dis­cov­er, reveal and make man­i­fest your true nature…

This is your purpose…this your ever-unfold­ing path…with one goal…To Grow.

Today begins your next Year­ly Cycle of Growth as Jupiter aligns with the Sun.

The Sun rules your “Self”, it is the seed of you from which will spring count­less won­ders. Jupiter rules your Truth, it deter­mines the way in which you relate to your world, shap­ing and guid­ing you on your path­way of Understanding.

Once every year the Sun will form a con­junc­tion with Jupiter…and each year this cycle will advance by one Zodi­a­cal Sign, mov­ing for­ward through this won­drous Cir­cle of Life. Today the Sun and Jupiter align in Tau­rus and the mes­sage they offer speaks to one of the core prin­ci­ples of your essen­tial nature, of what you have that forms your essen­tial val­ue, your most pre­cious possession.

The mys­tery behind your bound­less poten­tial is that you are, at the very core of you, a spark of the Divine…And this Mon­ad, this Lumi­nous Being, your High­er Self, is for­ev­er and always part of the Divin­i­ty that encom­pass­es this Uni­verse, the Sub­stance-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it that is the ulti­mate Real­i­ty of this Cosmos.

Your val­ue is beyond mea­sure because you are an essen­tial part of the Cosmos…and because of this rela­tion­ship, you will con­tin­u­ous­ly grow, ever increas­ing, ever unfold­ing as you become more aware of the true nature of who you are and your kin­ship with all that sur­rounds you.

In order to know where you are going (or even why you should go there) you must under­stand Who You Are!…In order to know where you should go, you need to know where you are com­ing from!

Today reminds you that your most impor­tant jour­ney is your inner jour­ney; your most impor­tant rela­tion­ship, your rela­tion­ship with your Self! The align­ment of the Sun with Jupiter offers you a moment to pause, reflect upon and accept the year that is passing…

You need this moment, to cast a glance back­wards, to see how and in what man­ner you became some­thing more, to har­vest the mean­ing of it all and use this as your seed-form to begin this New Year of Growth.

Then turn your head around and look out to the far horizons…take your Har­vest of Under­stand­ing and relate to what is around you with your new­found Greater Awareness.

Look out upon all those tomor­rows wait­ing for you…

As you become an ever more con­scious, co-cre­ator of this Cosmos…

Look out upon this, your Creation…

And smile.

Anoth­er read­er asked this ques­tion in response to my ear­li­er answer about Mayan prophecies:

Dear Bill, does that mean the Mayas were wrong?

Dear Marie, I mere­ly answered the ques­tion about what some indi­vid­u­als claim to be a mes­sage or pre­dic­tion that is sup­pos­ed­ly derived from Mayan teach­ings. I can­not com­ment on what the Mayans meant or believed, (that is for the Maya!) Either the cur­rent advo­cates of this claim have mis­in­ter­pret­ed those mes­sages, or they have will­ful­ly cho­sen to inter­pret some mes­sage in such a way as to raise again the specter of dis­as­ters and/or rap­tures which humans seen to be drawn to time and again.

Through­out this jour­ney of Spir­it, (and for us present­ly in our human unfold­ment), the con­sis­tent mes­sage found in all times and cul­tures, (what is found as a core prin­ci­ple with­in the Ancient Teach­ings), is one sim­ple truth. The devel­op­ment of Spir­it pro­ceeds from with­in outwards…

We are tasked by our nature to unfold from with­in the Divine Light which suf­fus­es all of Cre­ation. The attempt to find some exter­nal device, mech­a­nism or event (some Deus ex machi­na) to explain away or solve our prob­lems or dilem­mas is under­stand­able but not helpful.

We, along with many oth­er con­scious life forms, are the creators…and we are slow­ly becom­ing more ful­ly con­scious of this awe­some respon­si­bil­i­ty, this supreme gift of the Spir­it. There is no sim­ple solution…Each and every one of us must do the work…We must lift our­selves up through devel­op­ing a Greater Aware­ness as we equal­ly seek to extend our Greater Com­pas­sion to oth­ers as well.

All the Teach­ings, all The Mas­ters have come with the same message…

And every gen­er­a­tion needs to hear those teach­ings again and again…

But slow­ly and steadi­ly, we are get­ting it!

The Mystery…Looking towards the Cen­ter of our Galaxy

A read­er posed this ques­tion today and I thought that I should share the answer with you all:

Dear Bill,

Would real­ly like to hear what you think of this and your insight to these par­tic­u­lar dates and plan­e­tary align­ments ♥ On May 20th of this year, which is only 10 days away, the Earth, the Moon, the Sun and the Pleiades star sys­tem all simul­ta­ne­ous­ly line up with the Cen­ter of the Milky Way galaxy. The Mayans had this very clear in their cal­en­dar, and many crop cir­cles depict this event. To add a side note, the Pleiades star sys­tem is referred as the Anti-Cen­ter of the galaxy to the Mayans. They saw that these 2 points in the sky nev­er move to the per­cep­tion of Earth.

Dear Tere­sa,

There is actu­al­ly no Astro­log­i­cal (or Astro­nom­i­cal) con­fir­ma­tion that this align­ment will or can hap­pen on May 20, 2012. There can­not be an exact align­ment with the Pleiades and there could nev­er be an align­ment with the Galac­tic Cen­ter on that date at all.

There is a New Moon (Solar Eclipse) on May 20. This Solar/Lunar align­ment is locat­ed near to an align­ment with the posi­tion in space for the Pleiades (which are about 430 Light Years from Earth). How­ev­er, the Pleiades clus­ter is about 5 Degrees above the Eclip­tic so there is no direct align­ment of the Sun, Moon or Earth with them what­so­ev­er. Yes, there is a seem­ing order­ing or arrange­ment between this star clus­ter and the Sun and Moon, (and this can hap­pen quite reg­u­lar­ly from year to year), but there can be no exact alignment.

The Cen­ter of the Milky Way Galaxy is approx­i­mate­ly 27,000 Light Years from our Sun (and Earth) and is locat­ed in the Equa­to­r­i­al Coor­di­nate Sys­tem as: Right Ascen­sion: 17h45m40.04s, Dec­li­na­tion: ‑29° 00′ 28.1″. This puts it zodi­a­cal­ly near to the very end of Sagit­tar­ius, which the Sun will seem­ing­ly pass in front of (in our era) around Decem­ber 18 or so every year. The “align­ment” of the Sun, Earth or Moon with the Cen­ter of the Milky Way Galaxy can only hap­pen 2 times per year, around Decem­ber 18 and June 18, give or take a day (giv­en our irreg­u­lar cal­en­dar sys­tem, leap year and all).

Rel­a­tive to the Galac­tic Plane, the Solar Sys­tem is not in per­fect align­ment with the Cen­ter of the Galaxy and we are present­ly about 5 degrees off from being in the Cen­tral plane, which means per­haps as much as 80 Light Years away. As we revolve around the Galac­tic Cen­ter, (we are in the “Ori­on Arm” and it takes per­haps as much as 235 mil­lion years to make one turn), the Sun and Earth weave up and down with­in the Galac­tic Plane. We are now most def­i­nite­ly above (or you could argue below) the plane and so there is no pos­si­bil­i­ty of an exact align­ment with what is at the cen­ter of our galaxy whatsoever.

On May 20, there can­not be any align­ment with the Galac­tic Cen­ter since that will occur on or about June 18. That is a spe­cial date and I will write about it then…but con­sid­er this. Where­as we can look at the Sun’s posi­tion on Decem­ber 18, (not­ed in my post­ing for that date) and know that we are look­ing towards the Galac­tic Cen­ter, and we can and should give thanks for the spe­cial ener­gies that flow from and to this point of ori­gin, it is on June 18 that we can look up at the Night Sky and actu­al­ly SEE IT! (Of course, we can­not “see” it, because it so very far away and there are far too many Stars, Clus­ters, Neb­u­las, etc between us and the Center).

How­ev­er, when we look up around June 18 and gaze at this beau­ti­ful Arc of Light, at the won­der that is the Milky Way, we can also know that we are look­ing into the very Heart of our Galaxy, towards the Divin­i­ty who watch­es over us all.

Yet, we should more tru­ly acknowl­edge and take com­fort from that fact that with­in each of us is a spark of that Divine Flame, which is always with us, known to us as our High­er Self. We do not need to look up to the “heav­ens” to expe­ri­ence or touch the Divine, because we are embraced by and for­ev­er one with this Divine…we are the ever-unfold­ing ves­sels or embod­i­ments of this great Spirit.

We need to look with­in and lis­ten to our own Teacher and Guide who waits patient­ly for our awak­en­ing, and then we can turn our gaze out­wards upon those whom accom­pa­ny us and see that the Cen­ter of our “Galaxy” is all around us as it is also with­in us.

The Cen­ter we need to focus upon is not “out there” but right here…for we are the Cre­ators and there is much work and joy in our Cre­ation that is yet to be…