Beau­ty meets Benevolence…and yes it is very, very good!

Enjoy this align­ment of Venus (values/beauty) with Jupiter (principles/truth). It is the meet­ing of what you want with what you relate to. What does that mean?

Now you will get what you want! But do you under­stand why and how this works?

The true source of your good for­tune is in your own hands, always. It is the end result of your walk­ing the path of truth, of prac­tic­ing right think­ing and right con­duct. You must always remem­ber that your life is gov­erned by one true and immutable law, The Law of Kar­ma, the law of cause and effect. What does that mean?

What I like to say is quite sim­ply, “Life is like a boomerang, what­ev­er you throw or put out there is com­ing back to you”. The thoughts that you think, the feel­ings you feel and the things that you do, well they move out from you into the uni­verse. You are the cre­ator and they are your chil­dren. But even­tu­al­ly they must return from whence they came…That is why there is, ulti­mate­ly, true jus­tice in the world for “as you sow so shall you reap”.

The mea­sure of your good luck today is the result of the gen­eros­i­ty you have offered up in the past. You are receiv­ing the ben­e­fits that you bestowed in the past…and you should take today’s gift and do what? Why, of course, you need to cre­ate more good for­tune by liv­ing spir­i­tu­al­ly; live gen­er­ous­ly, thought­ful­ly and com­pas­sion­ate­ly for one anoth­er each and every day. For part of the mys­tery of good for­tune is that by com­bin­ing with one anoth­er we mul­ti­ply our effects. In oth­er words, you put in so much from your­self, but you reap so much more when you do it with and for one another.

Give so that you may receive.…Receive so that you may give…

And may the cir­cle be unbro­ken, for­ev­er and ever…

Live in Beau­ty! Be at Peace! The Gift of Vir­go is at hand.

Wel­come the sixth New Moon of the Astro­log­i­cal Year. Each Sun Moon align­ment releas­es a new seed-form to guide your under­stand­ing. This time it is a gift from Vir­go, a gift that can move you clos­er to what you have always sought, Peace of Mind.

The Vir­go New Moon offers you Peace through pro­vid­ing new insight, inspi­ra­tion and prac­ti­cal guid­ance for inte­gra­tion with­in your­self, and for your inte­gra­tion with the world around you. You will have greater pow­ers of dis­cern­ment now so that you can make adjust­ments in your life and bring you and your “self” into truer align­ment, into that greater Wholeness…into your State of Grace.

To “Live in Beau­ty” is to acquire, main­tain or restore bal­ance in life. You need to take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to exam­ine your life, to see if there is bal­ance in your life now. To have that peace with­in and with­out, you need to cre­ate a har­mo­ny between: Activity/Rest, Work/Play, Outwardness/Inwardness…you need to cre­ate a whole life. Instead, when you do too much of one thing, and not enough of anoth­er, well then you are mov­ing into non­sense, you are stum­bling into error…and you will suffer.

And just because you had a bal­ance at one time will not serve you for all time; for the world is ever chang­ing as are you…So you must stay alert and adapt inward­ly and out­ward­ly (con­stant­ly); it is quite evi­dent what works for some­one who is 20 will make no sense for some­one who is 40, or 60, (and vice versa!).

When guid­ed by this under­stand­ing of dynam­ic bal­anc­ing, of self-dis­cern­ing adjust­ment with­in and with­out, you move your­self in a State of Grace with a Mind that is at Peace. This is because you are mov­ing clos­er to Under­stand­ing as Prax­is, that you are one with the One, always. That all you need to do is lis­ten to your inner voice, the calm­ing light in your­self that watch­es over you forever…and all will be well.

To hon­or and move your­self along this path you can invoke the say­ing below which is the clos­ing prayer of the Nava­jo Bless­ing Way. Say to your­self now and everyday:

In beau­ty I walk
With Beau­ty before me I walk
With Beau­ty behind me I walk
With Beau­ty above me I walk
With Beau­ty around me I walk
It is done in Beauty

Always remember…You are Beauty…Live in Beauty…Be at Peace.

Okay…Ready?

Now Piv­ot! Yes, that’s right Her­mes has come around and is head­ing for­ward again. You can take all those bril­liant revis­es, revi­sions and reviews and apply them to your life now.

Whew! That was some ret­ro­grade but it gave you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to tune up your mind; you reex­am­ined and adjust­ed your per­cep­tions, pro­cess­ing and shar­ing of your thoughts. For the most part, you pre­pared your­self for today when you could begin to go out­ward with all that you have made ready.

With Mer­cury in Leo till Sep­tem­ber 9, it is time to stretch, strut and reveal your adept­ness in the com­mu­ni­ca­tion arts. The spot­light beckons…

Now show us what you’ve learned.…

Shine on Shin­ing Ones!

Ouch! That hurt…but that’s what hap­pens when the plan­et of “Motion” meets the plan­et of “No!” Delays lead to frus­tra­tions, frus­tra­tions lead to anger…which takes you down the road of tri­als, trou­bles and tribulations…and so on. What are you sup­posed to do with this?

Remem­ber, you are here to grow and some­times that is easy, and some­times it is hard. When some­thing or some­one is block­ing you what are you sup­posed to do? You need to stop, (as if you had a choice), and look around to see what is the real prob­lem. Usu­al­ly it involves two points: 1) Where are you going, and 2) How are you get­ting there?

With Mars in Can­cer and Libra in Sat­urn it prob­a­bly involves the ten­sion between your desire and dri­ve for Secu­ri­ty and Nur­tur­ing (Mars) bump­ing into the Real­i­ty you have made, and now con­front, in your Rela­tion­ships (Sat­urn). You need to reex­am­ine that goal of secu­ri­ty and see whether what you are try­ing to get is what you real­ly want or need now. Maybe you have changed or the world has changed (or both), and the kind of secu­ri­ty you real­ly need is dif­fer­ent than the one you are aim­ing for. That is why the uni­verse is slow­ing you down…so you can see that. Your first chal­lenge is that you need to con­firm or change the goal.

The oth­er pos­si­bil­i­ty is that the goal is fine, that is where you need to go. But what you also need to affirm is the way you are get­ting there. Again, maybe you or the world has changed (or both), so that the old way of obtain­ing your goal is no longer appro­pri­ate or even avail­able. You need to look at your options, at the var­i­ous path­ways before you and try some­thing else in order to move to your goal.

Whichev­er it is, and some­times it is a lit­tle of both, the chal­lenge and oppor­tu­ni­ty here, as always, is for you to grow in under­stand­ing. You must not hold in your frus­tra­tions or anger, and you must not let them out either. Okay, now what?…You must take the Third Way, the Way of Under­stand­ing which is Way of Spir­it and your one True Path of Growth.

This is what is known as the Red Road, The Mid­dle Way, The Roy­al Road, which is the one and only way that will lead you in your unfold­ment from an unself-con­scious Spark of the Divine to the com­plete real­iza­tion of your Divine nature.

This is your journey…to grow con­tin­u­ous­ly, to become the becom­ing, as you unfold your­self upon the path­way that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

The Sixth Por­tal opens…and a Sac­ri­fice should be made for you are enter­ing the Sacred space that is Virgo…you are enter­ing your Vir­gin Space…you are enter­ing a time of Healing.

To be Vir­ginal, in the ancient teach­ings, real­ly means to “make your­self whole again”. You pre­pare for and go through an ini­ti­a­tion, to become more com­plete, more inte­grat­ed, and there­by read­ied for that fuller par­tic­i­pa­tion in the larg­er world of soci­ety and rela­tion­ships (which will come next as you enter into Libra’s realm).

Before you can tru­ly relate to anoth­er, you must har­vest the mean­ing of what you have so far under­stood of your­self, and you must use this knowl­edge to make your­self more whole. You do this so that you may become more at peace with your­self and the life you have made. Then, and only then, can you move into bal­anced, mature inter-depen­dent relationships.

The days of Leo, of dra­mat­ic per­for­mances, of dar­ing lead­er­ship, of roman­tic love must give way now… Out­ward­ness again yields to Inward­ness, to your need for refine­ment, order­li­ness and peace of mind. Fire gives way to Earth, your great ideas and bold plans must prove their worth in the real world…The Ide­al must work and so serve some purpose…this is the mes­sage of Virgo.

Fixed deter­mi­na­tion to “Release the Self” is fol­lowed now by the Muta­ble adapt­abil­i­ty of your mind as you seek to “Under­stand the Self”. You must work now to rec­on­cile and har­mo­nize your life with­in with your world without.

The pow­ers of Vir­go, the gifts of Dis­cern­ment, Analy­sis and Applied Self-Improve­ment, are here for you now; Vir­go is here so that you may ascer­tain, cor­rect and refine what you have so far become in your becom­ing. There is no “right” or “wrong”; there is more evolved or less evolved, more inte­grat­ed or less integrated.

In order to bring about your devel­op­ment you will encounter “Suf­fer­ing” in your present cir­cum­stance. It is this suf­fer­ing which forces you to let go of a less­er sense of your­self and dis­cov­er the Greater. Suf­fer­ing is not “doled out” by some judg­men­tal fig­ure out­side of your­self; you “attract” or bring your suf­fer­ing as a less than gen­tle reminder that you are not yet what you can be; and you must sac­ri­fice that less­er self and the old ways in order to move into your new and greater life.

To make a Sac­ri­fice is lit­er­al­ly to “Make Sacred”; you must give up some­thing less­er, some­thing that is not or no longer true for you in order to unfold and release your Self into your life. True Sac­ri­fice, though involv­ing some pain for the loss of what is pass­ing, is Joy­ous as you become more aligned with the mean­ing and pur­pose of your life. 

This is the gift of Vir­go; you are expe­ri­enc­ing the Quick­en­ing of your spir­it as you become the becom­ing. You are approach­ing that most Sacred gift which all the Mas­ters and Teach­ers have held as the Most Pre­cious Gift above all oth­er treasures.…you are giv­ing up the less­er to hon­or the greater and so receive the great­est gift… Peace of Mind.

Cel­e­brate the Sea­son of Virgo…

Your Time for Sac­ri­fice and Healing…

Your Time to Move into your Space of Peace!