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…

Can you feel it? Did you sense some­thing? Oh yes, yes you did! It’s been build­ing for some time now…but now the stars have aligned. You’ve reached a cross­roads, a fork…a real piv­ot point in the ener­gies of the cos­mos. It is a “triple-play” of the Sun, Mer­cury and Plu­to who align with one anoth­er today; you need to lis­ten to their mes­sage, and work with these ener­gies that flow down to work through you, a gift and a chal­lenge from your celes­tial companions.

The Sun square Plu­to reminds you of the pow­er of the will in your life and in the world around you. You are a sacred space that you have estab­lished and main­tain by your will. You jour­ney through the greater space around you that is filled with oth­er will­ing souls. The chal­lenge, always, is to unfold one­self and devel­op ever greater self-con­trol so that you may pro­tect your space while hon­or­ing the sacred space of others.

As the Sun squares Plu­to you may feel as if some­thing or some­one is press­ing upon you, attempt­ing to per­suade or force you to feel, think or do some­thing you do not wish to do. And you must not allow this. Or, it may be you who is attempt­ing to do this, (and prob­a­bly with the best of inten­tions), and so you must stop your­self. For they or you will fail in the end.

Because the only change that holds, the only dif­fer­ence they or you can make will be done will­ing­ly and so freely…by respect­ing, hon­or­ing and lov­ing the sacred spaces of one anoth­er. The only true use of the pow­er of the will, the pur­pose of this test, is so that you may gain greater con­trol over your­self. Use this ener­gy now; turn it back upon your own space and make it stronger, deep­er and so clos­er to your “Self”.

Then it is Mer­cury’s turn to dance with Plu­to. Again you are in a test of wills, but now it is focused upon your mind, upon the words, ideas, beliefs which you use to under­stand and con­nect to the sacred spaces around you. Now it is men­tal pres­sure, mind-stuff that is weigh­ing on you. Either some­one is con­vinced that their view must become yours, or you are the one exert­ing your will upon anoth­er’s mind.

Yes, again the les­son is the same as before. The only con­trol you had, have and will have is “self-con­trol”; every­thing else is illu­sion. For if anoth­er forces you to their way of think­ing, it will not hold because you have not freely accept­ed and inte­grat­ed that point of view. And, if you force anoth­er to your way, you only dimin­ish their will for a time and so make them, (and you in the end), weak­er. Again, use this ener­gy as you should, to gain ever greater con­trol and so depth of your own mind.

Final­ly, Mer­cury aligns with the Sun in what is called the Supe­ri­or Con­junc­tion, since it takes place on the far side of the Sun (for us). It is more like a Full Moon of the mind and so it is a moment of rev­e­la­tion. The mind is Illu­mined by the Sun; har­nessed, focused and intent upon one thing only now…Relationship.

To con­nect with anoth­er, to real­ly under­stand and appre­ci­ate the truth of rela­tion­ship con­scious­ly, is remark­able and hum­bling. When you expe­ri­ence the light of under­stand­ing in the oth­er, be it in a word, phrase, con­cept or that look in their eye, your soul smiles.

Because you have come to under­stand that alone you would know very lit­tle (or less); for it is the very nature of the Men­tal Plane that it is formed, devel­ops and tran­scends its own lim­its by the com­ing togeth­er of more and more, of an ever grow­ing host of count­less minds that form that greater con­scious­ness, the ones of the One.

The know­ing of this is reflect­ed in your lan­guage which hon­ors this greater truth; that very word “Con­scious­ness” is real­ly made up of two words: Togeth­er (Con), Know­ing (Scious­ness). The word con­scious­ness real­ly means Togeth­er Know­ing! What bet­ter image of the align­ment of the Sun and Mer­cury in Libra could you ask for?

The unfold­ment of the pow­ers of your mind, your capac­i­ty to become know­ing, depends upon each oth­er because it is found­ed upon your rela­tion­ship with one anoth­er. This is the rev­e­la­tion of the Sun and Mer­cury now; you know your­self through, with and because of one another.

Cel­e­brate your know­ing, Together!