A New Year…and a New Moon! Spring has sprung and you are all fired up and ready to go…or are you?

It’s “Déjà vu”, (just like last year)…Although those Aries ener­gies are pour­ing in and pro­pelling you for­ward, the out­come might not mea­sure up to your expec­ta­tions. This may seem vague­ly famil­iar and you would be right…you had this “semi-start” last year too when the New Moon in Aries took place while Mer­cury was ret­ro­grade, just like now…What is the uni­verse say­ing? How do you move for­ward when your mind is mov­ing backwards?

Each New Moon releas­es seed-forms of ener­gy from that Sign. With Aries these seed-forms are offered in order to help fos­ter a resur­gence and re-affir­ma­tion of self, of your pro­found need to be “I”. You feel the need to step up and step out and bold­ly go forth…to stake your claim and sim­ply be your­self. Yes indeed, your spir­it is ready, will­ing and able…But what are you going to do about your mind?

Actu­al­ly, this is rather help­ful. If there is one sign of the Zodi­ac which could tru­ly ben­e­fit from a lit­tle more patience and some greater reflection…well, that would be Aries! There is such an urgency in Aries to res­ur­rect the self (after the sac­ri­fices in Pisces) that you might over-reach, become impa­tient and then, well, lose it.

Hav­ing Mer­cury mov­ing ret­ro­grade pro­vides a nice coun­ter­point of reflec­tiv­i­ty, of self-con­trol and delib­er­a­tion. Sure, it feels fine to be bold and take that big leap…but it would be awful­ly nice to have some idea of where you might land!

This New Moon reminds you that in order to go forth, you must also go in.

This New Moon inspires you with the pow­er of new begin­nings, while remind­ing you to tie up your loose ends.

This New Moon begins your build­ing of brand new futures, while help­ing you to hon­or your past.

This is a good New Moon!

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!