As Venus pre­pares to leave her home sign of Libra, there is an offer­ing, a gen­tle caress and a numi­nous kiss impart­ed by her high­er octave, the lord of dreams…Neptune.

Venus, the ruler of val­ue, beau­ty and love is about to move into the deep­er spaces of Scor­pio, beyond mere rela­tion­ship, into the mys­tery that is the union with one’s beloved. Per­haps to pre­pare the way, to lift that veil between self and the oth­er, Nep­tune brush­es Venus now with whis­pers of won­der, with inspi­ra­tion from beyond more lim­it­ing expe­ri­ences, reach­ing towards the greater realms of self-affirm­ing yet self-tran­scend­ing love.

For true love is found­ed upon this greater real­i­ty that Nep­tune abides in, that all of cre­ation, all life and all of space, is held togeth­er as ones of the One from which and through which all are related.

You have always looked into the eyes of the beloved with your aware­ness cen­tered in your per­son­al self, (with your Venus). And, you will always find your trea­sure is before you, that the beloved is some­thing to be desired, is need­ed and loved in that per­son­al way.

But at the same time, on a more inef­fa­ble plane of expe­ri­ence, your true, eter­nal soul-self pierces beyond these shad­owed glo­ries, beyond these less­er forms, because it beholds the star that shines within…and it is that same star that shines with­in you and you and you.

This rev­e­la­tion, this Nep­tun­ian vision, is the self-tran­scend­ing love which binds this entire cos­mos togeth­er; it gath­ers, holds and leads you onward in the one great life that is your jour­ney in Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

And as you jour­ney, upon the star­ry arc of descent and ascent, you will always seek and ever find the reflect­ed, less­er cousin of ever­last­ing love in the eyes of the beloved before you…and you will know, and you will smile…because it is so very, very good to feel…Love.

Attention…Serious Think­ing Ahead!

Your “mind meets mat­ter” as Mer­cury aligns with Saturn…It’s like a New Moon for thoughts, for that seri­ous side of your mind. It her­alds new begin­nings and a real­i­ty check about proven and reli­able “facts”, of what you per­ceive, con­sid­er and com­mu­ni­cate as regards your reality.

Her­mes has been pre­oc­cu­pied with the delights of com­par­ing, shar­ing and con­nect­ing your thoughts with one anoth­er. Now Sat­urn brings to bear a reminder that right think­ing is right when it is respon­si­ble; that your thoughts (and deeds) need to be ordered by those fun­da­men­tal val­ues, prin­ci­ples and truths that cre­ate thought­ful, car­ing conditions…Conditions that are just and mea­sured, con­di­tions that are premised on the under­stand­ing that all must be treat­ed fair­ly, equitably…lovingly.

Right think­ing means to accept respon­si­bil­i­ty for what you cre­ate; for your thoughts are pow­er­ful, and what­ev­er you offer up or put out there will ulti­mate­ly return to you their author. To think seri­ous­ly, to think respon­si­bly means to under­stand that you have the pow­er to cre­ate the world, to cre­ate the real­i­ty that you will encounter in your future.

Every thought, every word and deed that you offer up will tip the bal­ance, those scales of Libra, one way or the oth­er. It is up to you to choose: self­less or self­ish, car­ing or careless…it is up to you.

Now think…  

When Mars squares off with Jupiter the ques­tion becomes are you act­ing right­eous­ly or self-right­eous­ly? How can you tell? Well, if it is the for­mer, your actions are guid­ed, gov­erned and direct­ed by your high­er, intu­itive under­stand­ing of what is not mere­ly good for you or a few but for the many. If the lat­ter, well, then you are just try­ing to jus­ti­fy what might be in the end plain, self­ish self-inter­est (and that lit­tle voice in your head, the one you are attempt­ing to ignore, is telling you that this will not turn out well).

Mars is charg­ing through Leo, and so you may strive over­much to pur­sue and push your ideals, to grab the prize (and the spot­light). But as a result you could aim so high that what was pos­si­ble, doable or rea­son­able becomes sac­ri­ficed on the altar of unre­al­is­tic, over-reach­ing ide­al­ism. The pur­suit of the per­fect becomes the down­fall of the achievable.

Jupiter, in Tau­rus, is attempt­ing to rein in Mars by bind­ing him back to sol­id, proven, and depend­able val­ues, to help you ground and curb the fer­vor of Mars’ ide­al­ism. Jupiter (Prin­ci­ples) is remind­ing Mars (Desires) that it is not enough to pas­sion­ate­ly act to right wrongs (or slay dragons).

First you must make sure that you have turned this pas­sion­ate ide­al­ism inward to exam­ine your real moti­va­tions; is your con­science clear, (and back­ing you up, are you lis­ten­ing to that “inner voice”)? And, have you aligned your­self not just with uni­ver­sal ideals but also sound prac­tices? Both steps require you acknowl­edge that act­ing alone, with­out the sup­port and con­straint of oth­ers will lead to less than ide­al results.

For then you must gaze out­ward to be sure that what­ev­er you are seek­ing to accom­plish is well received by your com­pan­ions and com­mu­ni­ty, that they are in agree­ment that your aim is true and your cause their cause.

One indi­vid­ual act­ing alone can accom­plish some­thing, cer­tain­ly, but when two or more are gath­ered togeth­er in com­mon inten­tion, linked by mind and heart in caused-found­ed action…well then more than some­thing is pos­si­ble. For this is the way home, the way of the Spirit…This is how you become the becom­ing, together.

This is the shap­ing that Jupiter offers your actions today. You are right to act to bring about what is truer, fin­er and good…But that is some­thing that you alone can­not ascer­tain or accom­plish. Your desire must be tem­pered with Wis­dom, the Wis­dom which is impart­ed by both the calm voice with­in and also by your trav­el­ling com­pan­ions, those ones of the One who strive with you to make a bet­ter world…Together.

Today the Sun and Mars meet, they align in that “sweet spot”, that sacred inter­sec­tion of space and time where poten­tial and real­iza­tion, your promise and the prize have come togeth­er. Today is the day for steady, sure progress…especially with regards to relationship.

The Sun is your pure poten­tial, all that you can ever be in this life; your self-becom­ing is ever unfold­ing as you seek to real­ize your­self in the worlds with­in and around you. Mars is the dynam­ic force of your out­ward reach­ing; it is your inces­sant dri­ve, your desire and aspi­ra­tion to become what you will be.

The prin­ci­ple theme of the Sun in Libra is the mys­tery and won­der of you reach­ing a greater self-aware­ness through and because you reached out to anoth­er; you moved out and yet you moved in to con­nect more deeply with yourself.

Mars in Leo guides the Sun now by remind­ing you that one of the sacred prin­ci­ples of this process is that your moti­va­tions, intents and actions with regard to rela­tion­ship must be formed, guid­ed and so express an over-arch­ing rev­er­ence, respect and love for your­self, the oth­er and that third part of the equa­tion, the space between that forms the “we” of I and thou.

Today is a day to expe­ri­ence this sym­me­try, of right rela­tion­ship found­ed upon right action. The key is respect, for oneself…for the oth­er. You move out with respect from your sacred space to con­nect to the oth­er in their sacred space. And when this is so you are able to cre­ate, con­nect and move into the new­ly sacred space that is “we”.

And then…well, then mag­ic happens!

It is “Beau­ty meets the Beast” time again. But this time their “Pas de Deux” begins a new cycle for you… It’s their dance of val­ue and form, of love and order…But just like in a New Moon their com­ing togeth­er offers you a new dis­pen­sa­tion, a new mes­sage and inspi­ra­tion for the won­drous, delight­ful expe­ri­ence of being with one another.

Venus is in Libra, her own sign, skip­ping along and rejoic­ing in the delights and diver­sions that beau­ty, and beau­ti­ful rela­tion­ships, bring into your life. The mys­te­ri­ous force that draws you to all and every, that sings through, binds togeth­er and forms the Spaces of Space, is the Foun­tain Source of attrac­tion of one to anoth­er because all are one through the One. It is this shim­mer­ing, glow­ing ener­gy that holds all of cre­ation together…and you expe­ri­ence and know this as Love.

This is the Song of Venus and she is singing it strong­ly now.

Sat­urn, the plan­et of order, respon­si­bil­i­ty and real­i­ty is also sail­ing through Libra. He has brought the need to bear wit­ness, to make clear­er and more objec­tive, the neces­si­ty for prin­ci­ples and rules, for agree­ments and laws, so that each and every par­ty to a rela­tion­ship can be mutu­al­ly assured of what is to be offered and what is to be received. Sat­urn is the voice of tra­di­tion; Sat­urn is rea­son and cau­tion, and seeks to pre­serve and pro­tect what has come to be known, estab­lished and proven to be true so far.

Sat­urn sings the Song of Hon­or, of your respon­si­bil­i­ty to one anoth­er now.

The dance of Venus with Sat­urn reminds you that your rela­tion­ship to one anoth­er is found­ed in love and bound­ed by expe­ri­ence. Venus loves the “beast” Sat­urn for he rep­re­sents the endur­ing forms of love that have been met, mas­tered and passed down in the Ancient Teach­ings, in the wis­dom which helps you to find your way to one anoth­er; and Sat­urn loves and bends his knee to Venus, the beloved, for she holds the promise of love ever­last­ing, of love eter­nal, which is the bea­con and light in the dark­ness, hold­ing you steady, as you jour­ney out and in along the path that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Dance your dance of the plan­ets, dance for ever­last­ing love…