Your wait is over… (At least for now)

You have been seek­ing for an answer, you have been search­ing through your inner (and out­er worlds), won­der­ing, questioning…Considering…

Today, well today you get your answer! (How­ev­er, it is prob­a­bly best if you do not “act” on it yet…it would be far bet­ter to wait until Mer­cury turns direct on April 4).

Since March 12^th Mer­cury has been mov­ing ret­ro­grade, you have been review­ing and sift­ing through your thoughts, ideas, facts and the­o­ries, pon­der­ing the very nature of your con­scious­ness. You have been turn­ing your mind back on itself, using your self-reflec­tive capac­i­ty to Con­sid­er (or recon­sid­er) your path ahead.

What does that word mean, “Con­sid­er”? The Eng­lish “con­sid­er” comes from the Latin “con­sid­er­are” which means to exam­ine care­ful­ly, and was orig­i­nal­ly a term used in Augury. It derives from “sidera” which means “stars”. The word “con­sid­er” is a com­bi­na­tion of “con” or “among” and “sider” “the stars”. “Con­sid­er” lit­er­al­ly means to be among or with the stars!

When you con­sid­er any­thing, you are repeat­ing what humans have done since the begin­ning of the dawn of our self-aware­ness. You fol­low in the foot­steps of what your ances­tors did long, long ago when they first became con­scious and began to con­sid­er who they were or what life was all about…they lit­er­al­ly looked up to the stars for guid­ance and answers.

They found mean­ing in that majes­tic pageantry above which pro­vid­ed reassurance…that there is an order to the uni­verse. There was this essen­tial sense, this “know­ing” that what hap­pened “up there” pro­vid­ed con­text and mean­ing for what tran­spired “down here”, so the say­ing became, “as above, so below”.

As much as those plan­e­tary cir­cu­la­tions release pow­er­ful energies…as much as your plan­e­tary com­pan­ions dance their dance which elic­it as well as depict the won­drous­ly com­fort­ing eter­nal truths, as much as this takes place in those star­ry spaces around you…it is equal­ly through and through to be found with­in you as well.

For you are made from, you have come from, that very same “star-stuff” as your plan­e­tary cousins. With­in you, in your holy of holies, at the inner­most of you, there is a spark of the Divine Flame. It is this, your immor­tal core, which pro­vides your bridge to the ever­last­ing Truths; your sacred cen­ter has an unbreak­able bond, the foun­tain-source Truth of your essen­tial one­ness with the One.

So that is why…and you need remem­ber this, ever and always, that the answers to any (and all) of your questions…the answers to the rid­dles of your life are to be found with­in you…always. Because your own high­er self, (the watch­er who is ever by your side), is wait­ing to guide you.

How­ev­er, you often become dis­tract­ed, mes­mer­ized by all that takes place around you. Life seem­ing­ly leads you from this to that, up and down, in and out, until you find your­self at a loss, turned around and confused…So you pause, you look for guidance…You look up…and you look within…

In the cur­rent peri­od with Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, in order to forge ahead, you have been cast­ing a glance back­wards upon the way you have already come, see­ing how true or not your path is…because you need to make sure you are in Align­ment. To be aligned with what? It is your ever-present need to be in align­ment with your­self and so align your pur­pose with your path…

Today your Mind (Mer­cury) aligns with your Self (Sun). Today you will have an answer…from with­in. It may come in a burst of insight, one of those “Ah-Hah!” moments…and those are tru­ly mem­o­rable. How­ev­er, it is true that often an answer will come in more sub­tle forms, as a whis­per or like the gen­tle brush of a feath­er; and that con­tact will elic­it some new­found aware­ness for you.

Since your con­scious mind is usu­al­ly pre­oc­cu­pied with nor­mal and every­day neces­si­ties (and dis­trac­tions), you will find that your high­er self must patient­ly wait for this oppor­tu­ni­ty to reach you. But you can help, espe­cial­ly at this time with Mer­cury aligned with the Sun.

What can you do? You must cre­ate a space for You to con­tact you! Find a qui­et place and still your mind, calm your spir­it, then ask your question…and wait. Or, you can think of the issue before going to bed, then ask for help or guidance…and it will be giv­en you.

Your high­er self is ever seek­ing to have a more con­stant, con­sis­tent rela­tion­ship with you…but you have to open the door, you have to make your space sacred.

With Mer­cury con­joined with the Sun today, you can mir­ror their out­er align­ment with a per­son­al align­ment of your own.

Lis­ten care­ful­ly now…the beloved is call­ing to you…

Lis­ten.

It is Done!

From Alpha to the Omega, from the Begin­ning to the End…You have round­ed round that ever upward Spi­ral­ing “Cir­cle of Life”; you have vis­it­ed for a while, in each of the Twelve Man­sions of Being, the Sacred Spaces through which winds your path towards Self-Mastery…You have moved from Fire to Earth, in Air and Water, you have Dreamt and Touched, Thought and Felt your way along that Star­ry Path…

Now you stand ready at year’s end, your soul trem­bles with antic­i­pa­tion, for the “Dawn­ing Day” is beyond the thresh­old that you now cross…Yes it is time to turn, turn and face the Ris­ing Sun and give your hearty wel­come to the next New Astro­log­i­cal Year…It is time for a New Begin­ning, a new chance to take your­self high­er, towards greater self-real­iza­tions and deep­er accom­plish­ments, to clear­er thoughts and peace­ful feelings…

Aries is the First Sign…the sign of Embod­i­ment, of Spir­it mov­ing back into form. Hav­ing come dur­ing the past 30 days to feel more your one­ness with all the worlds around you, hav­ing deep­ened your feel­ings for self­less­ness and com­pas­sion, hav­ing searched with­in and har­vest­ed the mean­ing of the year just lived…Now, now your soul yearns and must expe­ri­ence itself for itself again! You must begin again, at the very begin­ning with that most sim­ple affir­ma­tion, “I Am”.

This is your first les­son, the expe­ri­ence of “Pres­ence”. How do you see your­self, and how do oth­ers see you? Your per­sonas, your masks that you wear in the var­i­ous roles you live through, of Cre­ator, Lover, Father, Moth­er, Sis­ter, Broth­er and all the ways of your being…in each of these you release some greater or less­er part of your true inner self as you seek to become…Fulfilled.

Dur­ing these next 30 days look in that mir­ror of your life and ask your­self, “How do I look, how am I pre­sent­ing myself to my world? Do I come around the “cor­ners of my life”, all those spaces that I enter, and bring to bear the just-right com­bi­na­tion of ele­ments that each sit­u­a­tion requires? Or am I lean­ing for­ward to much, am I over-bear­ing? Or do I go in with too lit­tle, my pres­ence is an absence, am I under-whelm­ing?” Or, or do I have it right? Do I enter the space and bring to bear what is just right, my pres­ence poised so as to bring life to what is dull, heal­ing to what is hurt?” And, if you can do this, then you will find your pres­ence is aligned with the Greater Pres­ence with­in and around you.

First things mat­ter. Each of these begin­nings, of mov­ing into the spaces around you, each and every thought, feel­ing and action changes you and your world too. These moments, these Alphas, are your pre­cious seeds that you release and they radi­ate out into the Ocean of the Uni­verse, form­ing, changing…making the real­i­ty that Is.

This is how you cre­ate your Kar­ma, every action result­ing in a con­se­quence that even­tu­al­ly comes back to you the cre­ator. It all starts with your self-aware­ness; with “I am!”…You stand upon your self-under­stand­ing and the pro­jec­tion of your Pres­ence into each and every moment. It is in the Now where you are the Cre­ator, where you are free to make a bet­ter begin­ning and move towards a more per­fect tomorrow.

The Past you have made… and hope­ful­ly made your peace with. The Future is unknow­able, for you (and every­one else!) are con­tin­u­al­ly mak­ing and re-mak­ing it from the har­vest of what you were as you for­ev­er live in the now, stand­ing at the thresh­old of all possibilities…

Turn now and Face the Ris­ing Sun, a New Year, your new beginning…

All Hail the Ris­ing Sun in Aries, the Dawn of a New Day.

It all begins with you! It all begins with your Atti­tude.

May you be Hope­ful, Lov­ing, Cre­ative and Peaceful…

May you con­tin­u­ous­ly strive to bet­ter your­self and your World each and every day…

Arise! Arise! It is the Dawn­ing of a New Day!

And your bet­ter world awaits You!

You are brilliant…yes you are! No rigid, hard lines for you; no cor­ners to paint your­self into! Your mind is free, con­trar­i­an, intuitive…you are think­ing “out­side the box”! Why? Why, you’ve got Uranus by your side…and you are think­ing beyond your self-cast shadows!

Uranus brings you the gift of Man­as, your radi­ant high­er con­scious­ness (which is in real­i­ty the high­er-self­’s mind, a much more evolved “vibra­tion” of Mer­cury). Mer­cury is your low­er mind which observes, cat­e­go­rizes, com­pares and con­trasts in order to build up infor­ma­tion about what you have to come to know as “Real­i­ty”.

It is through Mer­cury that you build up your knowl­edge of your world…but Uranus leads beyond mere know­ing, Uranus leads you to your Greater Understanding.

Your Mer­cury delights in puz­zling through the phe­nom­e­na you encounter day after day, find­ing appro­pri­ate con­nec­tions between one thing and anoth­er, form­ing a body of expe­ri­ence that pro­vides you with your tools for nav­i­gat­ing “Real­i­ty”. You form spe­cif­ic win­dows or points of view to look at your world through, and make sense of, the chaos of the mul­ti-verse. You have your answers to life’s dai­ly chal­lenges and you can dip and weave through the nor­mal maze of every­day life.

And, when­ev­er you encounter some­thing that has changed or some­thing entire­ly new for you, a puz­zle or prob­lem that you have no solu­tion for, your low­er mind engages its great­est gift of Intel­li­gence. Your mind soars as it dis­plays it mar­velous adapt­abil­i­ty and nim­ble­ness, it tries one approach after anoth­er, look­ing through one win­dow or facet after anoth­er to see how this mat­ter might be under­stood by you.

But even so, you can and will get stuck at cer­tain junc­tures of your life. You will try to imag­ine and look at the prob­lem from alter­nate points of views, shift­ing your assumptions…but you will always be (uncon­scious­ly) con­fined with­in your larg­er par­a­digm which deter­mines the pos­si­ble from the impos­si­ble to you…and so you will not even con­sid­er or com­pre­hend the Greater Mys­tery that lies before, nay even sur­rounds you…

Uranus, the Awak­en­er, pro­vides the answer! Uranus breaks through those par­a­dig­mal self-cast shad­ows, lift­ing you out of those dim-lit realms so as to bring you into your high­er con­scious­ness. Through releas­ing the Intu­itive Mind Uranus reveals the larg­er cos­mos with­in which your small­er real­i­ty exists. Flash­es of insight illu­mi­nate what was not vis­i­ble, even incon­ceiv­able, because you had no frame of ref­er­ence, no way or means to per­ceive that dimen­sion of reality.

Prob­lems that seemed unsolv­able find ele­gant solutions…and many prob­lems, many prob­lems are no longer “there” because the dilem­ma or dichoto­my, that either/or and black or white, which formed the very prob­lem in the first place…well, they have all van­ished like the fog of Maya from which they held you enthralled. You will often find in these Epiphanal Elic­i­ta­tions that the world you had been mov­ing through, what you had expe­ri­enced as Real­i­ty was tru­ly decep­tive (or delusional)…at least that is how it appears now…

But, of course, it was/is real…at that lev­el of aware­ness, at that lev­el of con­scious­ness it was Real­i­ty for you. What Uranus pro­vides is a means to quick­en your spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing so that you might more eas­i­ly move into a high­er lev­el of per­cep­tion, into a greater com­pre­hen­sion of the majesty and beau­ty of the Cos­mos you jour­ney through.

Let us give thanks to Uranus, the Awak­en­er who comes bear­ing gifts for his cousin Mercury…

Arise, awake…there are new Vis­tas to Amaze…

Bril­liant Worlds of Won­der to behold!

Open your eyes…Free your Mind!

Hail, hail Uranus who leads you from the dark­ness into the Light!

Well…this is just quite sim­ply Beautiful…Beauty to Behold!

Astrol­o­gy seeks to under­stand the ener­gies that influ­ence our exis­tence by observ­ing our heav­en­ly com­pan­ions who cir­cle with us around our Star. As they orbit the Sun they form align­ments and pat­terns with one anoth­er that release and mutu­al­ly mod­i­fy the spir­i­tu­al ener­gies that tru­ly cre­ate the sto­ry of all that unfolds with­in our par­ent Star’s fam­i­ly, our solar system.

Today you are blessed by a beau­ti­ful align­ment of sev­er­al plan­ets with one anoth­er, form­ing what is called in Astrol­o­gy a “Grand Trine”. That is when 3 or more bod­ies are arranged and spaced apart from one anoth­er so as to form a per­fect Tri­an­gu­lar rela­tion­ship to one anoth­er. Today, this beau­ti­ful for­ma­tion begins with Venus and Jupiter con­joined in Tau­rus, which con­nects to Mars in Vir­go, which then goes on to con­nect with Plu­to in Capri­corn, and comes back final­ly to com­plete the Grand Tri­an­gle with Venus and Jupiter.

The “Stars” of this star­ry tri­an­gle are Venus and Jupiter, who have been draw­ing ever clos­er these last few days, burn­ing bright­ly in the west­ern evening sky after the Sun has set. They shine like two resplen­dent bea­cons that come bear­ing gifts for you. Gifts indeed are offered here for these two plan­ets are called the Less­er (Venus) and Greater (Jupiter) “Benefics”.

With Venus rul­ing Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love, and Jupiter rul­ing Prin­ci­ples, Truths and Expan­sion, their com­ing togeth­er sig­nals great, good for­tune to you and yours. You relate well to what you want; your appre­ci­a­tion of the beau­ty with­in and around you bestows bless­ings upon your enjoy­ment of your phys­i­cal world and your social life too…

Today is a day that you are tru­ly Beau­ti­ful…

Pro­vid­ing ener­gy and focus, Mars is next in your lumi­nous tri­ad today. Mars in Vir­go adds just the right and rea­son­able focus or mind­ful­ness to the day’s beau­ty. Some­times when Venus and Jupiter com­bine you get so enam­ored with beau­ty (and with your taste buds!) that it can lead to too much of a good thing. Mars pro­vides the req­ui­site dis­crim­i­na­tion to enjoy but not over-indulge. More­over, Mars in Vir­go brings you to that align­ment which affirms that for there to be Beau­ty (and Love) there must also be a mean­ing­ful order to your life. Mars in Vir­go pro­vides the way to a life that is whole, inte­grat­ed and beau­ti­ful­ly proportional.

Today is a day you are tru­ly poised, measured…you are full of Grace…

Com­plet­ing your “Tri­une Attune­ment”, you turn now to the out­er­most plan­et, to the plan­et of Will and Trans­for­ma­tion, to the plan­et of Bound­aries, to the plan­et who rules the Sacred­ness of Space…Pluto.

Plu­to in Capri­corn is steadi­ly work­ing to bring you into a clos­er rela­tion­ship with the Foun­tain-Source of Arche­types, those Eter­nal truths of Spir­it which stand behind your shad­owed reflec­tion, what you call “Real­i­ty”.

Today Plu­to stead­ies and brings your will to bear so that you may be guid­ed in your actions (Mars) so as to strength­en your deter­mi­na­tion to find and walk the path of Whole­ness; and Plu­to pro­vides the pow­er to stay true to your Val­ues & Truth (Venus/Jupiter) while equal­ly observ­ing the Teach­ing to nev­er impose them upon another…for your Jour­ney is the unfold­ment of Spir­it, your path is the path of Self-Mastery.

Today is a day you are tru­ly Mas­ter­ful…

Make today (and every­day) the day you walk your path and live the Ancient Teach­ing of Beau­ty, Grace and Mastery:

In beau­ty I walk.  

With beau­ty before me, I walk.  

With beau­ty behind me, I walk.  

With beau­ty below me, I walk.  

With beau­ty all around me, I walk.  

It is fin­ished in beauty. 

Today you are Beautiful…

and you are sur­round­ed by Beauty…

Today and everyday…

Live in Beauty!

This is the third and final (for now) align­ment of Jupiter Trine Plu­to. This is what I wrote about this aspect in the 2011 Gen­er­al Forecast:

Jupiter Trine Plu­to (Jul. 7, Oct. 28, Mar. 13, 2012)

The cycle of Jupiter and Plu­to moves into this more pos­i­tive phase for the next 9 months. Hav­ing faced the chal­lenge in late Feb­ru­ary, we will find our­selves able to expand more effort­less­ly now in our mate­r­i­al life and spir­i­tu­al under­stand­ing. Because Jupiter has moved into Tau­rus (Earth) and Plu­to is in Capri­corn (Earth), this cre­ates very pos­i­tive con­di­tions for real eco­nom­ic growth. Though there are always expand­ing and con­tract­ing forces at play in any year, this is cer­tain­ly a strong fac­tor sup­port­ing those areas that are capa­ble of growth, espe­cial­ly those which have read the signs of change and adapt­ed. Spir­i­tu­al­ly, to the extent the right choic­es were made in Feb­ru­ary, the oppor­tu­ni­ty now is to bring about a real evo­lu­tion in our moral affir­ma­tion of one anoth­er. We are will­ing to seek accom­mo­da­tion with each oth­er as an expres­sion of our under­stand­ing for one another.

I would add what I wrote about this dur­ing the sec­ond pas­sage on Octo­ber 28:

Jove meets Hades and the arche­types are stir­ring in your soul. Jupiter rules your Truths and Beliefs; Plu­to rules Will and the Pow­er of Trans­for­ma­tion. This Plu­ton­ian pow­er is part of your Tri­par­tite spir­i­tu­al poten­tial; and this most pre­cious Triple Gift of Spir­it is the foun­tain-source of you becom­ing more than your con­di­tion­ing. These gifts of the Spir­it, exem­pli­fied and car­ried by Uranus-Nep­tune-Plu­to, cre­ate a quick­en­ing through plan­e­tary ini­ti­a­tion, and offer you a steep­er and sur­er path as you jour­ney in Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

It is has been said, passed down from “mouth to ear”, that the real unfold­ment of your soul’s jour­ney, your real and True Evo­lu­tion, does not pro­ceed from or orig­i­nate in the phys­i­cal plane. It does not come from the cell and its muta­tions, or from some com­pe­ti­tion of life forms with each oth­er. The Ancient Teach­ings affirm that your unfold­ment, growth and jour­ney from uncon­scious spark of the Divine to full Divine Con­scious­ness, comes from, orig­i­nates in and is dri­ven by Spir­it and the unfold­ment of your essen­tial nature. All these oth­er agents of change and trans­for­ma­tion are deriv­a­tives of the pow­er that surges through each and every one of the ones of the One.

Today is the sec­ond of the three align­ments of Jupiter trine Plu­to. The first align­ment was in ear­ly July, and the last will occur in March of 2012. You are always expe­ri­enc­ing these gifts of the Spir­it bestowed by your plan­e­tary com­pan­ions. Today’s offer­ing is here to re-ener­gize the Immor­tal Bridge between realms tem­po­ral and sub­lime, between what is and what will always be. That shin­ing arch, like a bridge of light, will burn brighter and span the space between your present prin­ci­ples and truths to those ever-present, ever-resur­gent Arche­types which under­lie the All.

The present truths that you have come to embrace, that give your life mean­ing, form and guid­ance, your Laws of Life, your philoso­phies, beliefs and reli­gion were forged from a mighty gold­en chain of expe­ri­ence that con­nects you with every oth­er one who has walked this path of becom­ing the becom­ing. The source or core of all those lessons learned and re-learned are the ever-renew­ing, ever-resur­gent Arche­types of Spir­it that have been named by some as the “Col­lec­tive Unconscious”.

These seed-forms are ruled by Plu­to which serves to cre­ate the bound­aries, the spaces of space for Spir­it, Mind and Mat­ter. In cycle after cycle the great truths are released and become man­i­fest­ed in the Teach­ings, Philoso­phies and Reli­gions that form and guide your jour­ney. But over time those forms becomes rigid, truths become dog­ma and the Ancient Wis­dom becomes obscured as the shad­ows deepen.

It is at such a time as this that Spir­it answers, mov­ing to fill the void by a release of renewed Arche­typ­al mean­ing. Plu­to brings to bear those Seed-Forms which burn away the accu­mu­lat­ed dross and reveal again the Spir­it behind the form.

And, at the most impor­tant turn­ing points, in the dark­est of hours, a teacher is always sent forth, an Avatar whose task it is to repair the bridge between heav­en and earth. And for a time it is a Gold­en Age once more…but then you for­get, as we have forgotten…

Many look now for a sign, for the Emissary…you look for the turn­ing and seek to find your way out of the darkness…you look for the cross­ing into the light.

It is here, it is now…