“Walk in Beau­ty… beau­ty before you, beau­ty behind you, sur­round­ed by beau­ty, it is done in beau­ty”. Guid­ed by the bal­ance of per­son­al val­ues (Venus) and social prin­ci­ples (Jupiter), you are poised and graceful.

The inte­gral syn­the­sis of per­son­al worth and love for anoth­er cre­ates true under­stand­ing, both with­in one­self and between one anoth­er. You val­ue your­self tru­ly; you appre­ci­ate anoth­er sincerely.

Enjoy time spent with those whose dreams are your dreams; love of self and love of anoth­er meet in per­fect harmony. 

Epiphany… Elec­tric­i­ty is the air… and in your mind. It is as if some­thing has turned up the “juice” in your ner­vous sys­tem; flash­es of insight, break­throughs and those “ah hah!” moments come upon you so you bet­ter have your notepad (or Ipad) ready to record your brilliance.

The con­junc­tion of Mer­cury and Uranus cre­ates an oppor­tu­ni­ty to think “out­side the box”. Intel­li­gence is typ­i­cal­ly defined as a mea­sure of how much you have mas­tered the accept­ed solu­tion to what­ev­er chal­lenge you face. But that is what I would call “encod­ed intel­li­gence”, also known as “knowl­edge”.

Liv­ing, breath­ing Intel­li­gence involves the capac­i­ty to devel­op under­stand­ings and solu­tions to prob­lems that no longer seem to be resolved by the old way of doing things. Sure, try to apply the old solu­tion, but it does not work. Okay, try again, (maybe you for­got some­thing), but it still does not work.

Now your true Intel­li­gence should kick in, either the world has changed, or you have changed, (or both), and you need to look at the chal­lenge from anoth­er per­spec­tive. You need to go from being on “auto­mat­ic” to being engaged with the world around you; you need to look at the world from the per­spec­tive of “won­der”, “imag­i­na­tion” and “free­dom” again… you need Uranus.

Nor­mal vision, and the per­spec­tive of “encod­ed intel­li­gence”, is like shin­ing a focused beam of light upon an object (prob­lem); you see it bright­ly illu­mi­nat­ed, but you also cre­ate and cast a very deep shad­ow. You don’t know what you do not know (or see). You need to elim­i­nate the shad­ow; you need to see what is hid­den, but how?

By engag­ing Uranus you shift your per­spec­tive. You shine “mind-light” from anoth­er per­spec­tive and begin to reduce the shad­ow; you gain insight that cre­ates the pos­si­bil­i­ty of find­ing a bet­ter solu­tion to your prob­lem that was not even con­ceiv­able from the for­mer point of view. You break out of the accept­ed, nor­mal and knowl­edge-based worldview…you begin to devel­op Wisdom.

Enjoy the won­der… Let the Light of Uranus Shine through your Mind…

Cel­e­brate your Epiphany!

Mer­cury moves into Aries till May 15; that’s a long time to be in a “fast” sign. The rea­son for such a long sojourn is that Mer­cury will turn ret­ro­grade at the end of March and so loop back and forth in Aries.

But what does Mer­cury in Aries mean? Fast thoughts, quick speech.…and as a result mis­takes will mount up unless you main­tain an aware­ness of what is happening. 

Aries brings an ener­gy of enthu­si­asm, dar­ing and Ide­al­ism to your mind now. You are per­sua­sive; you daz­zle your oppo­nents and you are “right” too.

What’s the prob­lem? Well, maybe all of it if you are not care­ful. Don’t let your enthu­si­asm lead you to impa­tience; don’t let your dar­ing lead you to reck­less­ness; and, don’t let your ide­al­ism lead you into egotism.

Let the spir­i­tu­al fire of Aries remind you that the true source of greater aware­ness comes through more mean­ing­ful con­nec­tions, with­in and with­out. Be quick, yet poised. Be dar­ing, and grace­ful. Be ide­al­is­tic, and reasonable. 

As it was in the begin­ning, so it is at the end…You began your jour­ney as a spark of the divine mov­ing out into uncon­scious yet inde­pen­dent exis­tence; you com­plete this cir­cuit of life, end­ing now as a ful­ly con­scious being seek­ing to tran­scend your inde­pen­dent state and so become one with the One. And, in the next turn­ing of the wheel, you will go forth again to seek, learn and under­stand your­self and your world once more, but at a new, high­er lev­el of participation.

Your jour­ney is not a line, nor is it a circle…it is a spi­ral of life-con­scious­ness-spir­it, and you have many turns around the wheel to mas­ter your human form. Each time you begin in Aries you draw from the well of your past (kar­ma) of already devel­oped fac­ul­ties as a base to sup­port you. You then devel­op and add to these gifts dur­ing your jour­ney around the wheel of life till you reach the final moment of Pisces.…before you begin again.

Just as in life after life, we also grow from year to year. Now at the last New Moon of the year you must reap what you have sowed. You must col­lect and har­vest the trea­sure of your expe­ri­ences and dis­till them into the essence that is your spir­i­tu­al under­stand­ing. This is the har­vest of your soul’s jour­ney; it is the gift you pass onto to your­self as you pre­pare to begin the jour­ney again.

So, at this New Moon remem­ber where you have come from, hon­or what you have learned, and now face your future with imag­i­na­tion, faith and joy that is your birthright as one of sparks of the Divine. Shine on!

Your aims and actions are focused, deep and pur­pose­ful. With Mars rul­ing the ener­gies of self-real­iza­tion and Plu­to rul­ing willpow­er, you are firm­ly apply­ing your­self to the task at hand.

You will suc­ceed now because the imag­i­na­tive actions of Mars in Pisces are stead­ied by the struc­tur­al knowl­edge of how to get things done by Plu­to in Capricorn.

Mars in Pisces can some­times take self-sac­ri­fice to an unhealthy place. Plu­to’s influ­ence reminds you that you are respon­si­ble for what you cre­ate; and, that your first respon­si­bil­i­ty as a dream­ing/cre­ative/­self-made spir­it is to be respon­si­ble with and to your “self”.

You appre­ci­ate what is dif­fer­ent or new, yet clas­sic, in some­thing (or some­one). With Venus rul­ing val­ue (and about to leave Capri­corn, see below) and Uranus rul­ing orig­i­nal­i­ty, you want to smell, taste, touch, hear or see some­thing that is out­side of your “nor­mal”. Enjoy a new aspect of an old clas­sic, or appre­ci­ate some­thing new for the clas­sic qual­i­ties it express­es in a new way.

In rela­tion­ships, respect those shared val­ues that have bound you one to anoth­er, and then find and share with each oth­er some new found way of express­ing them. What keeps us togeth­er is what we share; what keeps us inter­est­ed is dis­cov­er­ing some­thing new about one another.

Venus moves into Aquar­ius till March 26. The true basis of love shines through friend­ship now. You are with your beloved because at the end of the day you are also the best of friends.

The free­dom to live out your true self is met in the space of rela­tion­ships that are built on accep­tance, tol­er­ance and the cel­e­bra­tion of indi­vid­ual dif­fer­ences. Be your­self with those who appre­ci­ate you for you. Friend­ship is forever.