You have turned the cor­ner of the Astro­log­i­cal Year, you have round­ed ’round and met the oth­er in those airy realms of Libra; you have tak­en one anoth­er by the hand and agreed to the begin­ning of “I and thou”, you have thought it through with one anoth­er and come to a mutu­al under­stand­ing or agreement…But it is not enough, not near­ly enough, and so it is that fol­low­ing every Car­di­nal Sign, those eager Signs of Begin­nings, comes this Fixed phase of the Four sea­son­al cycles…And, it is this part of your jour­ney that will take you down into your deep­est depths, where you will face the great­est chal­lenges and reap the great­est rewards.

And, it is said, there is no deep­er depth, no greater mys­tery, than the one you will face and reap in your time of Scor­pio. You move back into Water here, you move with feel­ing and emo­tion, but dif­fer­ent than in Can­cer which was about find­ing your cen­ter with­in, of secur­ing your­self to your Self.

Now you are mov­ing out, out to the oth­er (and inward to your­self). You are seek­ing to con­nect, to join, to sup­port and be sup­port­ed, to over­come that great­est pain in your jour­ney, of sep­a­ra­tion and alone­ness (which is, after all, your great­est illu­sion and comes from your “real­i­ty” of being encased in your mor­tal shell).

You feel the long­ing to become more than you alone; you seek to be two togeth­er who will act as one and so form the greater we. It is here you that you enter those realms of mys­tery, of mov­ing beyond the world of shad­ows of sep­a­rate selves to the greater truth, the hid­den (occult) real­i­ty. You must move beyond your own bound­ed space so to form that sacred shared space of “us”. This deep­est depth excites you and scares you like noth­ing else; and it requires noth­ing less than Courage, Faith and Sacrifice.

Courage is first, for you must dare to extend your­self to one anoth­er. To express your need and offer to meet their need, takes courage. For you have been here before, you “remem­ber” the pain, that they may say “no”, and what we might have won was answered with rejec­tion. Or it might be you who holds back, who dares not enough, who acts out of fear and there­by, in effect, rejects your­self. So from those old mem­o­ries of fail­ure and loss, you might hold back and miss the promise, you might not cre­ate the gift of “we”. Courage is there to move you beyond and into the greater…

Faith is need­ed to cre­ate the foun­da­tions for your courage; Faith is need­ed to form that sacred space of “us”; and Faith is that spe­cial “gift of the Spir­it” that makes it pos­si­ble for you to move beyond the pain and doubt of those count­less attempts and believe, to real­ly believe that maybe this time might be that time. Faith is your spir­it extend­ing itself into the space beyond your­self, to give birth to, to co-cre­ate the shared space that is wait­ing for you and the beloved. Your faith is revealed by the exten­sion of your trust and your will­ing­ness to take a risk, to put your­self in that space of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, which is part of the third step you must take to open the way to becom­ing one with another…

Because as much as Courage and Faith may bring you to the thresh­old, you will not pass, you can­not find your way, with­out Sac­ri­fice. For every tran­si­tion, every step in your jour­ney has required a sac­ri­fice. This word is a most beau­ti­ful word for it sim­ply means “To Make Sacred”. To make a sac­ri­fice means that you give up the less­er in order that you may hon­or and so move into the greater. And there is no greater gift than this, to break the illu­sion of alone­ness, to come to clos­er to the truth that All are One…this fun­da­men­tal truth will now be reflect­ed in the mir­ror of you and you who become the “we”.  

To move into the union, to be one with anoth­er, requires the giv­ing up, (con­stant­ly and con­tin­u­ous­ly) of the less­er things in your life…but you will gain so, so much more. For you will find that in this com­bi­na­tion, in the con­junc­tion of I and Thou, there comes the pow­er of trans­for­ma­tion of your­self and your world. And, won­der of won­ders, you will come to know what is tru­ly you and what is not or no longer you. So that in the end, as you move out to meet the oth­er, to join with the oth­er in your cre­at­ed, shared space, as you do this you encounter the deep­er gift, the pearl of great price now revealed…you meet your “Self”.

You enter Scor­pio, the wheel has turned, the days are get­ting short­er, the light of day is wan­ing, (so that the light with­in may be more eas­i­ly found). Turn to that light with Courage, Faith and Sac­ri­fice as you move into your becom­ing, as you quick­en your ascent in the jour­ney that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Would you like to slip beyond the bounds of nor­mal space…to touch those realms of super­nal light…to reach inward and out­ward and walk into the won­der, into the dreams that you will make true? Well, then today is your day!

The Sun rules your pure poten­tial that is seek­ing to be made real; Nep­tune rules your dreams, your vision…your path­way to illu­mi­na­tion. Today the Sun and Nep­tune align so as to cre­ate a shin­ing chord, a lumi­nous bridge from the realms of imag­i­na­tion that will lift and inspire your next step in the end­less jour­ney of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Today is a day to appre­ci­ate the con­nect­ed­ness of all life…the morn­ing dew that catch­es your eye and reminds you of…; those soar­ing, inter­wo­ven har­monies of sounds and sights and smells and tastes that makes your skin “tin­gle”; that spe­cial sense of tru­ly shar­ing, of being one with that spe­cial one…

Today is a day to cel­e­brate nature or to go to a art muse­um or to be with those to whom you mat­ter and who mat­ter to you…Today is a day for being tru­ly one with Spirit…

And you are…

How Uranus, Nep­tune and Plu­to pro­vide the means to quick­en our self-unfold­ment. The shift of ener­gies in 2011 and beyond that will lead to a new age. The role of Uranus is to open our minds so that we may find new path­ways; the role of Nep­tune is to reaf­firm our sacred con­nec­tion to one anoth­er; and then it is Plu­to’s role to pro­vide the will which cre­ates, main­tains and trans­forms our sacred spaces. All three out­er plan­ets are bring­ing their spe­cial gifts to us now.

The major force for our quick­en­ing at this time is the align­ment from 2012–2015 between Uranus and Plu­to, form­ing their wax­ing square. This is the next great step in their cycle of trans­for­ma­tion which began in the mid-1960’s. It is lead­ing to the end of an age and the dawn­ing of a new one in the 2020’s.

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Her­mes is oppo­site Jove and you need to see how you are work­ing that bal­ance between your Induc­tive and Deduc­tive powers.

Your nev­er end­ing efforts to come up with solu­tions to the prob­lems of life involve the dynam­ic inter­play of these two aspects of your mind. Mer­cury, rul­ing Gem­i­ni and Vir­go, gov­erns your abil­i­ty to build from the many up to the one, to gath­er data points, ana­lyze, cat­e­go­rize, con­trast, com­pare and build up the very infor­ma­tion from which you even­tu­al­ly devel­op your the­o­ries, con­cepts and solu­tions. Jupiter, rul­ing Sagit­tar­ius and Pisces, gov­erns the abil­i­ty to start from those the­o­ries and con­cepts, to start from that Vision, from the One, and build down to the many, as you attempt to apply any exist­ing solu­tion to the prob­lem you are now faced with.

Ide­al­ly, your “low­er” and “high­er” mind work togeth­er, back and forth as in a dance, devel­op­ing data points, net­works and under­stand­ings that are dynam­ic, adapt­able and ele­gant. But some­times, like today, you hit a “bump”; today you may push too far or too hard, so there is the need to step out­side of your­self, to cor­rect or resolve a misunderstanding.

Mer­cury is in Scor­pio now and seeks to go beyond mere appear­ances to the spaces “in between”, to pas­sion­ate­ly delve deep­er, to give or lay down a chal­lenge to the ordi­nary or expect­ed and there­by reveal some deep­er, some yet undis­cov­ered piece of infor­ma­tion, and maybe, just maybe, poten­tial­ly chal­lenge an exist­ing thought-form of your world…but if so, is this dis­cov­ery enough?

Jupiter in Tau­rus is hold­ing firm, cer­tain in those Truths and Prin­ci­ples which have stood for ages and ages, that have proven their worth again and again. Those Teach­ings have been passed down from time immemo­r­i­al, to be as sen­tinels, the steady guides to steer your pas­sage from dark­ness into light.

Jupiter will chal­lenge, or rein in, the doubt and skep­ti­cism of Mer­cury now…and until proven oth­er­wise, Mer­cury must yield. Until there is more exten­sive con­fir­ma­tion, until there is more “proof”, you must or should wait. Let the fer­vor or fever subside…

Per­haps your infor­ma­tion, dis­cov­ery or real­iza­tion will work with­in, yet may add to or move for­ward, the exist­ing struc­ture of what is known and know­able. Maybe it will lead to a more sub­stan­tial change, but for now you must lis­ten to the Ancient Teach­ings which will always steer you back upon the mid­dle path.

You need to stay upon that steady, hum­ble and bal­anced path which will lead you to and is based upon the Greater Under­stand­ing. This path is found­ed upon the truth of your jour­ney in Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it, that the more you come to know, the more you come to real­ize how much you still need to learn. As always the injunc­tion giv­en at every stage in your jour­ney will always be, “Walk on”.

Walk the path of Under­stand­ing, walk the Path of Humility.

Venus (Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love) meets up with Jupiter (Prin­ci­ples, Belief and Truth) in their year­ly oppo­si­tion or “Full Moon”…Today, you stand between these two, and you might, you just might reach an Epiphany…You can feel the pull to one and to the other…And if you hold still, if you can keep to the mid­dle way, you may be ready for a rev­e­la­tion about the rela­tion­ship between what you want (Venus) and what you relate to (Jupiter).

When­ev­er you encounter an oppo­si­tion, it will seem as if life is throw­ing down a chal­lenge, that you must choose between one way or the oth­er… and it seems obvi­ous, that both can­not be true or good, and so it’s either one side or the oth­er, right? 

But of course you have learned, for it is the heart and soul-song of your jour­ney in Life-Consciousness-Spirit…You have come to under­stand that there is but one true path, the Roy­al Road of Spir­it, your path­way home. The Mid­dle Way ris­es above the appar­ent dichotomies of exis­tence, these shad­owed forms that spring from the appar­ent First Divide, of Spir­it and Mat­ter as the oppo­si­tion under­ly­ing all the oppo­sites, the Roy­al Path sees them all and Laughs! Because, in the end.…one and all have all come from THAT, which can­not be named or defined because it is with­out limit. 

So now you face the chal­lenge not to choose again…to find and hold to the Greater Real­i­ty and so see that the real illu­sion is this appar­ent separation…that here and always both Venus and Jupiter are equal­ly speak­ing to truth, and you must hold them togeth­er to live the Truth.

Venus mov­ing through Scor­pio is pulling you into the Union, to the tran­scen­dence of your lim­it­ed “I” so that you may form the more pre­cious “We”. To do so you must sur­ren­der, let go and grow, relin­quish cer­tain, per­son­al forms of val­ue for ones that you can share. Venus in Scor­pio speaks to the truth that ulti­mate­ly noth­ing is “per­ma­nent”.

Jupiter in Tau­rus responds with the affir­ma­tion that there are endur­ing, ever­last­ing val­ues that you must hold to in order to be true to your­self, that you must have, hold and express your own val­ue, to relate as you were des­tined to be…because, after all, you are one of the ones of the One…and the truth of you, the gold­en cord and core of you is…Immortal.

The Epiphany today, the rev­e­la­tion of now, is that both Venus and Jupiter are right. The Truths of Jupiter, those Per­ma­nent Val­ues are and will always be…yet the forms of their man­i­fes­ta­tion, those beau­ties of Venus, must be con­stant­ly evolv­ing, devel­op­ing, chang­ing and final­ly pass away, so that they may lat­er return in a new-formed form…for noth­ing that is com­pos­ite, that is “formed”, is for­ev­er in that form.

Jupiter and Venus are danc­ing their dance of Spir­it and Mat­ter, of Mor­tal­i­ty and Immor­tal­i­ty, of Love and Truth…and this is your dance too.

So cel­e­brate and enjoy the beau­ti­ful sun­set, dance while it may last…but do not mourn its passing…for beau­ty will be born anew as you turn around to sing your wel­comes to a bright new day.

Dance your dance for Love and Truth…