Four months ago you turned around; you went on an inner jour­ney of dis­cov­ery, reex­am­i­na­tion and renew­al of your under­stand­ing. Your great­est good growth was not “out there”…your path of progress was bend­ing back, turn­ing ’round…your advance­ment was to be found on those sub­tler planes of intu­ition as you re-con­sid­ered the val­ues that give mean­ing and sub­stance to your life.

Today Jupiter turns direct and your plans, projects and dreams can start mov­ing ahead! You and your dreams have ben­e­fit­ed from those four months of revaluations…you have come to bet­ter under­stand what val­ues you have, what val­ues you wish to cre­ate and what val­ues you will share.

There are times and sea­sons for going inward and times to move out­wards again…now you go for­ward to make the future you wish to be!

Cel­e­brate Jupiter’s turning…

Be joy­ful, be opti­mistic and may your heart be filled with the spir­it of generosity.

You have jour­neyed through nine moons this year; you have walked that cir­cuitous path­way, lift­ing your­self up and up the ancient stair­way that climbs the steep­en­ing mountain…This is your ascent, the unfold­ment of your “self”; it is your becoming…your life after life’s jour­ney. Each les­son that you have encoun­tered, each lev­el and por­tal that you have passed, has point­ed you onwards to the next, and then to the next, and then ever onwards…till…now…

Now you reach a sum­mit, you have come to the apex of the year­ly Astro­log­i­cal Cycle; you have arrived at your moment of truth, your des­tiny is now to be made more clear in the New Moon of this epiphanal dark…a dark­ness that con­ceals so as to reveal the bright­est of lights, the light that shines within.

This, the tenth release of Solar/Lunar ener­gy in the Astro­log­i­cal Year, is that moment that brings to a cli­max all the efforts to unfold and real­ize your poten­tial in the year­ly cycle. What began 9 months ago in Aries, was root­ed and secured through Can­cer and moved out­ward into the larg­er world in Libra, all of that has led to this moment…and so you must ask your­self, “Am I ready? Have I pre­pared the Way? What am I to do?”…

Of course you are ready…your prepa­ra­tion was the journey…and you must do what you must do!

This is your time of Capri­corn; it is your time for Duty, your time for Ful­fill­ment…your time to be Respon­si­ble. Now at the New Moon you can and should re-ded­i­cate your­self to the ever-renew­ing, time­less tra­di­tions that have always been there to guide your jour­ney. You stand upon the shoul­ders of many, many lives that have brought you to this time of con­se­quence, who have labored long and hard to unfold the poten­tials of this great spir­i­tu­al jour­ney. There is much to appre­ci­ate, hon­or and be thank­ful for. And, as it has always been, much of what was won must and should be passed on to those that fol­low you…

But the winds of change blow stronger every day…The foun­da­tions of your world seem to bend and break as the chal­lenge of the ever-resur­gent, liv­ing spir­it seeks to extend the spaces of free­dom and so crash­es against the old orders of your world. It must do so, it will do so…because the one and true con­stant of this jour­ney of spir­it is growth and change.

And so you must ask your­self at this New Moon, “What am I to do?”…and the Sun and the Moon (and the stars) will pro­vide an answer, (as they always have).

You must do your duty; and you estab­lish that sense of duty by your ded­i­ca­tion to walk the path of spir­it. You must ful­fill your­self; and that ful­fill­ment you under­stand is to always seek to grow clos­er to and release your spir­i­tu­al truth. You must be respon­si­ble; and that respon­si­bil­i­ty is ever guid­ed by your aware­ness that you are part of a great riv­er of life, a spi­ral of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it that extends behind and ahead of you…And so you know and feel that Truth, that you are nev­er alone, not ever, and that as much as you can extend your hand to help those beneath you, so too will hands above reach down and lift you up…always.

As you reach this epiphanal Moon, as you mount the heights of that greater under­stand­ing, you must get down and touch your home, this Earth…get down upon your knees and acknowl­edge and be grate­ful to every and all that have come before.

Reaf­firm and ded­i­cate your life to the spir­i­tu­al path…“May thy will be done”.…

Let Light and Love and Pow­er restore the Plan on Earth.

Peace to one and all…

The Sun has just begun to walk those hal­lowed halls, to stroll through the ancient tem­ples that pro­claim, pre­serve and pass down your tra­di­tion­al val­ues. The Sun is mov­ing through those sacred spaces where Capri­corn rules when, all of a sud­den, he encoun­ters the plan­et of con­tra­dic­tion, inde­pen­dence and rev­o­lu­tion him­self, Uranus…Oh boy, this is going to be a bumpy start to Capri­corn’s month…

The Sun in Capri­corn seeks to guide you now upon the path­ways of preser­va­tion, of ful­fill­ing your pur­pose as defined by the real­i­ty around you. You do your duty because it is the right and prop­er thing to do…but this square says you face a chal­lenge, you face a choice…

Uranus squares the Sun and says, “Are you being you? Have you freely cho­sen this task, this role, this duty? And, whom do you serve?” These are good and nec­es­sary ques­tions because you can become part of a sys­tem that has lost its way, enmeshed into per­form­ing your duty in a real­i­ty which has become increas­ing­ly devoid of mean­ing, that is, in effect, spir­i­tu­al­ly “dying”…and if you con­tin­ue to act with­in such hol­low roles your own light will become dimin­ished too…

So, Uranus comes along, like a breath of fresh air, (or more like­ly a strong gale), and chal­lenges that sta­tus quo and the assump­tions that under­lie it. Uranus in Aries pro­claims the neces­si­ty of striv­ing for inde­pen­dence and orig­i­nal­i­ty; it chal­lenges the hier­ar­chies of the sta­tus quo and rais­es the flag of new path­ways and freedom.

Here the Sun stands for tra­di­tion and order and with­out these there would be noth­ing to stand upon; Uranus stands for the indi­vid­ual spir­it that must chal­lenge a bro­ken sys­tem, the spir­i­tu­al path of self-unfold­ment and liberty.

Both are speak­ing truths, both must be honored…So you must find that high­er path of blend and balance…you must walk the syn­cretis­tic path­way of the spir­i­tu­al war­rior where you can be both pre­serv­er and reformer, respon­si­ble and trans­form­ing too.

The way of spir­it is the way of bal­ance and whole­ness, of nei­ther too much this or too much that. Today you must try and find your way between the ancient and mod­ern, between tra­di­tion and the undiscovered…

You are always learn­ing, always seek­ing for this mid­dle path…and it is found today by being tra­di­tion­al and transformational…together.

Three sea­sons have come and gone…through Spring and Sum­mer and Fall…and you have marked each accord­ing to its pur­pose, you have lived and learned anew…

And, with­in each sea­son you have passed through 3 stages, moved through three ways of being-time: a time to begin, a time to hold, and a time to let go…You have come through three sea­sons and three ways of being…you are three times three…

For nine months you have jour­neyed, much as you wait­ed nine months to begin this life…nine times you have crossed a thresh­old; nine times in nine signs you have entered a new realm of spir­i­tu­al discovery…and now…

Now you face the silence, now you face the great­est dark­ness, and so you must hud­dle togeth­er with loved ones, find­ing strength in one another…for the light has pulled away, the shad­ows have descend­ed, and dark­ness con­sumes the light…

But you are at a Turning…and so here at the begin­ning you must bow your head and stand still…you must watch and wait for the sign, for the promise of rebirth, you must wait for the light…to return.

Today is one of the four Turn­ings, four moments when you move into a new sea­son of being. At equinox­es, in Spring and Fall, you are at moments of equal day and equal night, light and dark are bal­anced. At sol­stices, Sum­mer and Win­ter, you are at the moments of great­est dif­fer­ence, the longest day or the longest night, light and dark as far apart as they can be…

Today the Sun “Stands Still” and it will rise and set at the same point, at dawn and dusk for 3 days it will not move, and the world will wait, and you will hold your breath and pray for the Sun to return…and on the third day, on Decem­ber 25…the Sun will begin to move, your Sun will shine a lit­tle brighter…and light will return to Earth.

You have turned a cor­ner, one of the four sacred cor­ners of the Zodi­ac. You enter the realm of Capri­corn and new expe­ri­ences and lessons await. These Four cor­ners, the Four Car­di­nal Signs ini­ti­ate the four sea­sons of life. Each has its pur­pose; each points you to the four ways of relating.

In Aries you were direct­ed to find your pres­ence in ide­al inten­tions. In Can­cer you were direct­ed to find your foun­da­tion in cen­tered feel­ings. In Libra you were direct­ed to find your oth­er in con­scious rela­tion­ships. And now…now at the Fourth Turn­ing in Capri­corn you are direct­ed to ful­fill your des­tiny in pur­pose­ful responsibilities. 

Capri­corn is about mastery…to be the best of the best. To move through Capri­corn is to move through accom­plish­ment, achieve­ment and the cre­ation of last­ing tes­ta­ments to what you are and what you stand for.

But the one and true mas­tery is your mas­tery of your own being, your Self-Mastery.

Capri­corn is about tradition…to hon­or the gift of those who came before. To move through Capri­corn is to act so as to pre­serve, pro­tect and pass on what was achieved by many.

But the one and true tra­di­tion is the wis­dom of the ages, the Ancient Teachings.

Capri­corn is about Responsibility…to ful­fill your role in soci­ety. To move through Capri­corn is to extend your hand, upwards and down­wards, seek­ing help and offer­ing help in the spi­ral jour­ney of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

For the one and true respon­si­bil­i­ty is to the spir­it with­in you, the spark of the divine that lights your way home­ward, the light that will not fail…ever.

Shine on!

Just after Venus arrives in Aquar­ius, she bumps (squares) into Jupiter. Though these two are called the “benefics” in Astrol­o­gy, too much of any­thing is still too much! When plan­ets square one anoth­er, their com­bined effects can lead to each going to a more extreme expres­sion. So be care­ful tonight so as not to overindulge or go to excess…about or with any­thing or anyone!

Squares always pose chal­lenges and choic­es; they seem­ing­ly force you into the posi­tion of hav­ing to choose one thing or anoth­er. Here you think you must choose between what Venus is ask­ing for, or to choose what Jupiter is stand­ing for. As always, the right and true path is the mid­dle road, the path­way of integration.

Venus is attract­ed to what is beyond the ordi­nary now…if it is dif­fer­ent, unusu­al or excep­tion­al it must be good. Jupiter in Tau­rus rais­es the reminder of a “but”…different and unique is fine, but Jupiter asks is your rela­tion­ship wor­thy, last­ing and sen­si­ble too? It seems as if you must choose between the sparkle of excep­tion­al­ism and the com­fort of the reliable…but you can (and must) have both. How? Easy, you must believe that it is possible…and then it is!

Remem­ber, this is your real­i­ty and your own self-made dilem­mas are what you encounter…and so you can change them by being true to the whole of you. Real­ly, both ways are true and necessary…measure to mea­sure they should bal­ance, sup­port and inform one anoth­er. For what was excep­tion­al once will become the expect­ed; and what is now expect­ed will always attract a refresh­ing vis­it from the exceptional.

Venus and Jupiter are mere­ly remind­ing you that in order to live a life that is true, you must believe in and then live a life of one­ness, not of divi­sion and denial…

You must be true to all of yourself…and equal­ly to one anoth­er. For only then will you secure for you and yours the boun­ty of life and love, to have your “Bread and Ros­es” too.