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!

Take your part­ner by their hand…For now it is time to walk togeth­er, side by side and “oar to oar”…To grow in under­stand­ing and accep­tance of the gift, the gift of being with the beloved.

The sev­enth New Moon of the Astro­log­i­cal year is here for you. It releas­es those seed-forms which serve to ever inspire, uplift and guide you in and out and through your relationships.

Though many things remain the same, from day to day and year to year, and that is good, the delight to be found in one anoth­er is often encoun­tered in dis­cov­ery, of new real­iza­tions and bound­aries crossed, about the oth­er, and, of course, about oneself.

This is such a time. You are mov­ing into new spaces of relat­ing; new mean­ings, new feel­ings and forms are wait­ing to find their real­i­ty in your expe­ri­ence of one anoth­er. All that is required is your accep­tance of the Truth of Rela­tion­ship. That you acknowl­edge and live the life that says that all that exists is found­ed upon the One Great Truth: that each and every, one and all…we are all ones of the One.

You are always in rela­tion­ship because of this, because you are That. You are here to live the life that sings the song “We Are All Relat­ed”, and so let go of your dread of separation…for that is the great illu­sion. Let it go…in front of you is your “Self”.

Spir­it nev­er ceas­es; it ever yearns to unfold itself into the wider spaces with­in and with­out. And it now seeks to see itself through the eyes of the oth­er, as you seek to con­nect, touch and feel the assur­ance that comes from the Truth that you are nev­er alone, nev­er ever.

As the Mas­ter Robert Frost so won­der­ful­ly wrote:

“Two such as you with such a mas­ter speed
Can­not be part­ed nor be swept away
From one anoth­er once you are agreed
That life is only life forever­more
Togeth­er wing to wing and oar to oar.”

Togeth­er, join hands now…

and always walk the path…Together.

Mer­cury dash­es into Libra till Octo­ber 13 and you will need to con­sid­er one anoth­er’s point of view…and then some! The Vir­go analytical/critical approach gives way to poise and grace, to your social sen­si­bil­i­ty; thoughts and com­mu­ni­ca­tions are full of “on the oth­er hands”, of com­par­isons and con­trasts, of give and take…And you try, you strive, you reach for, maybe even achieve…The Balance!

Your mind is occu­pied with con­nect­ing, turned out­ward to the oth­er for your need has always been to be under­stood and so you seek to understand…It has always been so, for your jour­ney, your unfold­ing, expand­ing con­scious­ness depends upon this. To know your­self, to know the oth­er, this is your journey.

And when you see IT, the light of under­stand­ing in the eyes of the other…you know, you just know that you are that much closer…That you are approach­ing the Mystery…

That it is pos­si­ble to pass beyond the Great Illu­sion, to move beyond the appear­ance of sep­a­ra­tion; you hear the won­drous Heart-Song singing at the core of this Cos­mos, and the Veil begins to lift…

You look into one anoth­er’s eyes and know, you tru­ly know and feel that you are one of the ones of the One, and you are head­ing home.

Always…

You are nev­er alone…ever. But now, now it is time to take anoth­er by their hand, to walk togeth­er, side by side, to face the future that you make togeth­er, to dance the dance of life that is shared, as you become the becoming…

Now comes your time to dance the Dance in Libra.

The wheel is turning…it rolls into a new sea­son, a social sea­son, a time of con­nect­ing to one anoth­er and re-con­nect­ing with your “self”. You have reached the bal­ance point, the tip­ping point, you stand at the Equinoc­tial Moment and you must pause to con­sid­er the life just lived and the life before you.

It is a time of end­ing and a new begin­ning; you have pre­pared your­self while you danced through Vir­go. You cre­at­ed your vir­ginal space with­in and with­out, you made your­self more whole and so more ready for true, rec­i­p­ro­cal rela­tion­ship. Now you must move out from your cen­ter and find your­self through the other…

The Sun moves into Libra, into the next Car­di­nal Sign (Begin­nings), into the next Air Sign (Mind). It is time to gath­er with one anoth­er, to com­fort and reas­sure one anoth­er as your days grow short­er, as dark­ness approach­es. You bring your­self, you offer your­self to the oth­er. You seek to be part of some­thing greater, to be not alone…you seek to belong.

You stand at the Great Por­tal, the Bal­ance Beam of life, seek­ing entrance; and so you must be assessed, val­ued, “weighed” on the Scales of Libra. You want to “belong”, to be part of some­thing beyond your­self, to share and be appre­ci­at­ed for what you have to offer. What is your val­ue? What val­ue do you offer? Of course, it is all about the one true val­ue, the price­less treasure…Love.

So you must watch and see how the scales tip, to and fro, as your­self and your deeds are judged. Will you be found wor­thy or want­i­ng, are you ready for that greater rela­tion­ship? You seek the answer, will your con­tri­bu­tion count, can you join in and become part of some­thing greater…do you love your­self, do you love the other…do you belong?

You wait, at the por­tal of the greater life, nev­er alone, but seek­ing out­ward con­fir­ma­tion and acceptance…You seek to dance the dance of life that moves you now, to seek and know that “I and thou” will move togeth­er, now into the becoming…that we are the becoming…together.

Through the por­tal, you and your beloved must dance the dance togeth­er; for you are ones of the One, nev­er alone but always accompanied…You are one of the count­less sparks of the Divine, and you, togeth­er, are the becom­ing that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Dance!