Mer­cury plunges down, down into the depths of Scor­pio till Novem­ber 2. Your mind is drawn towards the mys­ter­ies of life, to puz­zling out secrets with­in and with­out. You seek to go beyond mere appear­ances and dis­cov­er the under­ly­ing truth.

But then the ques­tion becomes…what do you do with this knowl­edge, will you, should you share this secret with anoth­er? Well, that depends, of course. Some­times a rev­e­la­tion or dis­cov­ery is for you, and you were made ready for it.

Often­times the oth­er is not and to bring it to their atten­tion might not be wise or kind. Here it is best to fol­low the injunc­tion that applies equal­ly to knowl­edge as it does to med­i­cine, “First, do no harm!”

If you sense that they might be ready to ben­e­fit from your dis­cov­ery, approach the sub­ject with care, cau­tion and con­sid­er­a­tion. Remem­ber, just as Scor­pio cre­ates this pro­found desire for a deep­er union with the oth­er, (and so brings about this greater desire to share with one anoth­er), that same eager­ness to divulge a secret may bring about the oppo­site result, instead of a clos­er bond you may instead be faced with rejec­tion and loss.

What should be your guide? If your desire and inten­tion is per­son­al, if it is for your­self because you hope to gain a clos­er tie by reveal­ing this secret, well then it will not turn out well. If, instead, your moti­va­tion is imper­son­al, that you seek only to help anoth­er and resolve a prob­lem for them and you, then you may be able to serve the cause of truth by illu­mi­nat­ing the path for one another.

As the ancient teach­ing has it, “Be wise as a serpent…and gen­tle as a dove”!

Her­mes is about to leave those airy realms of Libra, where objec­tiv­i­ty, bal­ance and intel­lect hold sway…he’s div­ing down, into deep­er waters, into those mys­te­ri­ous depths of Scorpio…so it is more than appro­pri­ate, in fact it is quite for­tu­itous, that Nep­tune, also known as Posei­don, imparts this gen­tle bless­ing to ease this tran­si­tion from the cere­bral to your intu­itive mind.

Nep­tune rules your imag­i­na­tion, it is the foun­tain source for your abil­i­ty to dis­solve those nec­es­sary bound­aries you formed to frame your space…because you need ever always, after a time, to move beyond and beyond to your next, greater space of understanding.

Today, Nep­tune’s gift for Mer­cury imparts a height­ened intu­ition, a sub­tiliz­ing sen­si­bil­i­ty which encour­ages you to per­ceive, think and con­vey with­out those blind­ers now…and so you slip beyond the rigid cer­tain­ties of yes­ter­days and today.

You can see beyond those old assumptions…you let go, re-imag­ine and dis­cov­er a new real­i­ty, a world beyond.…and you laugh, and smile and remember…this is how, this is the way…to dream, to believe…this is how you become the becoming.

Halfway through the Astro­log­i­cal Year, you’ve reached the oth­er equinoc­tial Full Moon; it is the bal­ance beam­ing, your coun­ter­point rev­e­la­tion to what you received at the Aries Full Moon. Back in April, the days were grow­ing longer, and life and love were resur­gent after a long win­ter’s night.

You stretched and yearned to find, to become more tru­ly what you are to be…it was a time for mov­ing into your greater sense of being “you”, unique…separate…exceptional. But you need­ed a reminder then, a bind­ing back to that Great Truth…that you are only you, can only become you, through your rela­tion­ship to one anoth­er. For you are not alone, ever.

But now you face the dark­ness, each day grows shorter…for you know, it is your gift to be aware, and so you must prepare…for you know, you can feel it, taste it…“Winter is Coming”!

The Sun is in Libra now, you have crossed the thresh­old, the cross­ing point of the Light; and Libra extols the virtues, the wis­dom and neces­si­ty of gath­er­ing togeth­er in fel­low­ship, com­pan­ion­ship, in all the ways to be “We”, for that is how you can brave the dark days ahead…together.

Now you face the oth­er edge, that razor’s edge, that tip­ping point, which can lead you too far from your “I” as the needs, wants and demands of all of your rela­tion­ships pull and push upon that “I” with­in the “We”.…you can lose your­self into the other.

So the Full Moon in Aries, so high and bright in the Autum­nal sky, shines upon you now, to remind you of your ori­gin and des­tiny, as one of the ones of the One; your unique­ness and integri­ty, that space of “I” is sacred, pre­cious and nec­es­sary for there to be any rela­tion­ship whatsoever.

The Libra Full Moon illu­mi­nates this great para­dox of Life-Consciousness-Spirit…That now, as you come clos­er togeth­er, to brave the days and nights ahead, you must equal­ly be true to your­self in order to be true to one another.

The Roy­al Road, the Noble Path, is always found in the Bal­ance, in the Mid­dle Way that the Mas­ters speak of…and which you will find if you lis­ten to the wis­dom of your soul…and hear­ken to the song of the Stars…you will find your way.

It is time, time to go deep­er, into the mys­tery and the wonder…you approach the beloved… you enter the union…two become one, the sacred, mys­ti­cal mar­riage of Sun and Moon…There beyond the bound­aries of your lim­it­ed self…where the veil is lifted…and you encounter the deep­er truth of your­self in the other.

Venus moves into Scor­pio for three weeks and the urgent, insis­tent ener­gies of attrac­tion are hold­ing sway. It is not enough to be side by side anymore…now your jour­ney must cross the bound­ary, between the known and unknown. Now the mys­tery beck­ons and the promise of immor­tal­i­ty is whis­pered, offered…For when two become one, when that “Illu­sion­al Divi­sion” is crossed, well that is when it happens…and you know, you just know that this is your moment of revelation.

You are approach­ing the greater real­i­ty, that binds one to all and all in One. That Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love are the ever re-occur­ring forms of the one true Real­i­ty. Find­ing its sub­stance in a form, but only for a while…for Spir­it must con­tin­ue to grow, con­nect and become by mov­ing beyond each form after a time…as must you.

And so you under­stand, how very pre­cious this moment is…that when two meet again and see past their forms, you move beyond the veil and so per­ceive the end­less lives before and beyond where you have met and will meet again.

This moment of con­nec­tion, this union now, is but a dimmed but won­der­ful reminder; that there is no sep­a­ra­tion, for you are always one of the ones whose greater real­i­ty is your jour­ney togeth­er in Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

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.