Venus aligns with Sat­urn, and like the sto­ry of “Beau­ty and The Beast”, you have come to appre­ci­ate that true love is born in the depths of your soul. Sat­urn reminds you that what draws you to one anoth­er is that you have always been togeth­er; you are part of a great hier­ar­chy of souls on a jour­ney of becom­ing. The great illu­sion of life on this phys­i­cal plane is your appar­ent sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er; the Great Truth of Cre­ation is that all come from and abide in the One Spirit.

Through many ages and many forms you meet up with souls you have met before and you expe­ri­ence…recog­ni­tion. You remem­ber this ener­gy, this feel­ing in your heart; an echo of rec­ol­lec­tion with­in you ris­es up and says “Yes, I have felt this way before”. You look in one anoth­er’s eyes and see past your present forms…you remem­ber…and you smile. That sign, that smile, is your con­scious, out­ward expres­sion of this pre­cious inner assurance…“I am not alone, I have found you, again…I remember”.

You are drawn togeth­er because you were nev­er “apart”. You were only unaware, for a time, of who you were, of where you have come from, and whence you are going. But as you come togeth­er again you are remind­ed by your beloved that though this jour­ney be long, and some­times dif­fi­cult beyond mea­sure, you are Nev­er Alone.

So look beyond appear­ances, beyond the shell that cov­ers the glo­ry with­in; look into the eyes of the one before you…and remember…and smile.

Right on the heels of Mer­cury danc­ing into the sen­si­tive depths of Can­cer, this dou­ble align­ment pro­vides a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty to expe­ri­ence ener­gies which sup­port and sus­tain your sense of being cen­tered, of being you.

Nep­tune graces Her­mes with the sub­tiliz­ing inti­ma­tions of your imag­i­na­tion. Ideas, con­cepts and beliefs that have been hard to under­stand, let alone express, now find path­ways inward and outward.

You under­stand your dream…and oth­ers can share in it too. Your mind is lift­ed up, beyond the bounds of appear­ances, as you sense the pres­ence of a greater real­i­ty. It is time to believe, to have faith…and so you shall.

Jove, the Truth-Bear­er brings gifts for Mer­cury too. Too often your mind moves rest­less­ly from one thing to anoth­er, flit­ting about; your ques­tions remain unan­swered, prob­lems only par­tial­ly solved. But today, Jupiter anchors your fleet-foot­ed friend. The bits and pieces come togeth­er in a grand design. You can envis­age the “Big Pic­ture”, yet appre­ci­ate all the mosa­ic pieces that make it up too.

Ideas, plans and projects that have been under­way (or start now) will be more like­ly to pros­per. If you have been wait­ing for the right time to make a decision.…well now you have it! Your mind is cen­tered; your prin­ci­ples sound.

Today is a day for dream­ing. Today is a day for doing.

Cel­e­brate the gifts of Nep­tune and Jupiter as you become the becoming.…So Be It!

Words may nev­er express what you tru­ly feel…but at the very least you should feel like try­ing now. Till July 2nd, Mer­cury’s dash through Can­cer brings about a deep­er align­ment of your feel­ings and thoughts. It’s time to share with each oth­er your expe­ri­ence of com­mit­ment, nur­tur­ing and love.

Your con­ver­sa­tions and mus­ings will cen­ter upon car­ing and secu­ri­ty. Your mind must be tem­pered by intu­itive sen­si­bil­i­ties. It will not be enough that your thoughts are clear; your inten­tion must feel right too. Nuance, sym­pa­thy and com­pas­sion will be giv­en and received. When ask­ing anoth­er about some­thing, do not say “What do you think about this?” Instead, you should say “How do you feel about this?” You will get a much bet­ter response.

Yes, it is time to laugh, and cry, to sing, and shout…but do it all from your heart, from your soul…It is good to feel whole again!

Thought-Feel­ings turn to the root of things, to your ori­gins. Fam­i­ly, home, tribe and nation…ultimately it all comes togeth­er in the cen­ter of your soul. You feel con­nect­ed, you feel sta­ble, you belong here…

You are home.

A ques­tion was asked about my ear­li­er post­ing: “What is the sig­nif­i­cance of the deep­est total­i­ty of the eclipse and the exact moment of the Full Moon being the same?”

Because we are expe­ri­enc­ing a process, not a moment in time, an eclipse event will last many hours. The moon begins to enter the Penum­bra of the earth­’s shad­ow at around 1:24 pm (all times East­ern Day­light), then into the real shad­ow of the Umbra at 2:22 pm with com­plete cov­er­age being attained at 3:22 pm, that is when the Total Eclipse has begun. The eclipse is at it great­est at around 4:13 pm (yes same time as Full Moon), and total­i­ty “ends” as the Moon begins to move out of the Umbra at 5:02 pm. The Moon pass­es out of the Umbra com­plete­ly by 6:02 leav­ing it with­in the Penum­bra until it pass­es beyond any shad­ow at around 7 pm.

So the Total Eclipse times are: Penum­bral: 5 hours 36 min, Umbral: 3 hours 39 min, and Total Eclipse 1 hour 40 min.

Your ques­tion, “Why does the exact Full Moon and Full Eclipse coin­cide?” (again, the exact moment is only a moment, though per­cep­tu­al­ly to us it lasts much longer. That is the Total Eclipse runs from 3:22 till 5:02, yet it is only “exact” at 4:13).

The rea­son the exact moment of the Full Moon and Eclipse being the same comes from the fact that this Eclipse is tak­ing place almost exact­ly on the South Node of the Moon, (the point at which the Earth­’s orbit of the Sun and the Moon’s orbit of the Earth meet). The node today is at 23 degrees, 26 min­utes of Sagit­tar­ius and the Full Moon is at 24 degrees, 23 min­utes. If the Moon was sev­er­al degrees away from the node, there would still be an eclipse, but the Full Moon and Total Eclipse moments would be far­ther apart.

This is a long eclipse, but not the longest. The Moon is “mov­ing faster” now which is a fac­tor deter­mined by where it is in its cycle from clos­est to far­thest from the Earth. If it was at it apogee, far­thest, then a slow­er Moon would cre­ate the longest eclipse. The Moon was at perigee on June 11, and will be at apogee on June 23. Still it is a longer eclipse than many.

Spir­i­tu­al­ly, I do not think these “exact” tim­ings mat­ter so much. I am much more process ori­en­tat­ed than event driven…I have wit­nessed the ris­ing of an eclipsed Moon with the set­ting of the full Sun…Now that is won­drous to behold. Or a Full Moon ris­ing at the Win­ter Sol­stice. Sig­nif­i­cant cer­e­monies and Sacred Ini­ti­a­tions are held at these very impor­tant align­ments. This par­tic­u­lar eclipse is just such a beau­ti­ful reminder of the larg­er forces at play around and through us that many in our mod­ern world for­get to acknowl­edge, or experience!

For me, I want­ed to point out to my read­ers that this area of space is spe­cial; that is from here that Rays emanate from the Galac­tic Cen­ter, (where­in resides the Logos of our Uni­verse). That is what we are look­ing at tonight, and should pay homage to, when we look upon (or beyond) the Moon tonight. We are look­ing to the Divin­i­ty which ensouls our entire galaxy, the watch­er wait­ing; the head of the Hier­ar­chi­cal Host of “shin­ing ones”.

This was in my overview for 2011 and I wrote then:

The Lunar Eclipse on June 15 is in Sagit­tar­ius and we ordi­nar­i­ly expect that a Full Moon would pro­vide some new rev­e­la­tion about the rela­tion­ship between our low­er mind (Gem­i­ni) and high­er under­stand­ing (Sagit­tar­ius), between our Future and our Past. But with the eclipse our present real­i­ty is obscur­ing the mes­sage. We must con­front some­thing in our present state of mind in order to receive the Full Moon mes­sage. 

I wish to add: Per­haps the eclipse is a reminder that we some­times let myr­i­ad dis­trac­tions of the present day obscure (or eclipse) the greater real­i­ty that we exist in. We need to be remind­ed that behind the “day to day” real­i­ties of our earth­ly lives there is a vast hier­ar­chy of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it that con­sti­tutes our true home.

As you look up tonight at the Full Moon, look past it to the great spaces beyond. Know that at this time of the year you are look­ing out into the Heart of our Milky Way, to the Galac­tic Cen­ter locat­ed near the end of the Sign of Sagit­tar­ius. It is from that cen­ter point, around which the entire galaxy dances, that ener­gies flow out­ward to all those who jour­ney with­in this system.

This Galac­tic Uni­verse is the field for the devel­op­ment of a great spir­i­tu­al host. You are part of this fam­i­ly, of this jour­ney. Like every oth­er pil­grim, you went forth as an unself-con­scious spark of the divine, ema­nat­ing, evolv­ing, ever-becom­ing. Your jour­ney is long, your pur­pose unfold­ing as you seek to understand…everything!

The devel­op­ment of your Intel­li­gence-Wis­dom, which is the focus of the Gem­i­ni-Sagit­tar­ius polar­i­ty, even­tu­al­ly returns you to the path of greater under­stand­ing. You are then ready to receive what stands behind all Philoso­phies, Reli­gion and Sci­ence, what has been known as the Ancient Teach­ings or the Wis­dom of the Ages.

These teach­ings are passed down, gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion, age to age, by those who have gone before you on this jour­ney of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it. They wait, watch and extend a help­ing hand to all those who seek to be lift­ed up into the greater light of Truth. You need only wish to serve…

In that spir­it, today is set as World Invo­ca­tion Day. Here is the Invocation:

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of Light with­in the Mind of God

Let light stream forth into human minds.

Let Light descend on Earth.

From the point of Love with­in the Heart of God

Let love stream forth into human hearts.

May the Com­ing One return to Earth.

From the cen­tre where the Will of God is known

Let pur­pose guide all lit­tle human wills -

The pur­pose which the Mas­ters know and serve.

From the cen­tre which we call the human race

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Pow­er restore the Plan on Earth.

So Be It…