Final­ly! Mars is mov­ing on…

After all, he has been sail­ing through the Sign of Libra now for over 7 months. When you con­sid­er that on aver­age Mars is in a sign for about 40 days or so, being in one sign for 230 days is sig­nif­i­cant. He entered Libra in ear­ly Decem­ber, went ret­ro­grade on March 1^st, then turned direct on May 19^th, and is final­ly exit­ing Libra today.

You might have hoped for, or believed that hav­ing your Avatar of Desire cir­cling and cycling through the sign that rules Rela­tion­ship, Har­mo­ny, Jus­tice and Equal­i­ty, that this would have mod­u­lat­ed, mit­i­gat­ed and healed many rela­tion­ships in the world, (and cer­tain­ly many did ben­e­fit from this Prime Mover pro­vid­ing the req­ui­site surge of Ener­gy-Forms to go beyond fear-formed walls, and so it did help part­ners and/or groups to re-estab­lish or re-assert a greater bal­ance with­in their relationships).

But all of these ener­gies that course through and around you, that come from with­in you as much as they sur­round you, these ener­gies, well they are just energies…They elic­it and stim­u­late whomev­er and what­ev­er they encounter…and what mat­ters, always for you, is the lev­el of aware­ness with which you Cre­ate or Receive or Release these Ener­gy-Forms into your world.

So yes, for more healthy rela­tion­ships and more evolved beings, the effects of Mars in Libra would have proved uplift­ing and heal­ing, as it can and should be. For those less able to respond to the ener­gies in such a man­ner, or if per­haps only one half of the rela­tion­ship could or would, well things cer­tain­ly could have tak­en a more dis­rup­tive course…For Mars is Pas­sion, Mars is Desire…and Desire denied often turns to Hurt…and those hurts often lead to Anger…and that Anger, being a mal-formed Ener­gy-Form, that will lead to self-hurt or Vio­lence towards some other.

But these results, the Good and the Bad, this is not the fault of Mars, for as the Bard wise­ly put it in his play “Julius Cae­sar”, when Cas­sius tell Brutus:

“The fault, dear Bru­tus, is not in our stars,
But in our­selves, that we are underlings.”

The Path you seek to walk is the Path­way of Under­stand­ing, the Noble Mid­dle Way that leads to Wis­dom and Self-Deter­mi­na­tion. The Key is Self-Con­trol, and that no mat­ter what you encounter, what­ev­er man­ner of Ener­gy-Form, whether felic­i­tous or neg­a­tive, it is “on you” what you do with that. You are a Self-Con­scious being and you must choose.

The anal­o­gy that I use to illus­trate this truth in my per­son­al read­ings runs a lit­tle like this:

Life is like going through a series of door­ways, and there is always some­one pass­ing through the door ahead of you, and some­one fol­low­ing along behind. Now, if that per­son going through before you hap­pens to slam that next door in your face…well, you should know that is pre­cise­ly then and there that you face anoth­er seem­ing­ly small but actu­al­ly very pro­found karmic test. You are endowed with self-aware­ness, you have a choice. The ener­gy of that door slam­ming is indeed neg­a­tive, it car­ries a neg­a­tive valence or charge.

But you, you have a choice. If you, as you go through that door, remain less aware or self-con­scious, if you take the “easy path” and do noth­ing to change that ener­gy-expe­ri­ence, and mere­ly let the door slam in the face of the next soul who comes after you…then that ener­gy-form, which may have been passed down for who knows how long will con­tin­ue to be expe­ri­enced as a neg­a­tive force yet again, and per­haps for quite some time, again and again and again. The world will remain the same, or it like you might stum­ble backwards…but.

But, if you instead have the Pres­ence of Mind, if you fol­low the gen­tle whis­pers from your High­er Self, if you engage the self-aware­ness/other-aware­ness that you are here for, then you will choose to hold that door open…and the World will smile. For you took an Ener­gy-Form that had been the bear­er and pain for per­haps count­less years, you stood at the Cross­ing Point between the dark­ness and the Light and you chose to do what is Good, you chose to do what is Right…you Chose Love. And you and your World moved that much clos­er to the Light.

For this is how you and your world are redeemed, healed and brought clos­er to the One. Although great efforts and grand ges­tures will cer­tain­ly play a major role too upon the Path of Love, it is in these pre­cious moments, in the lit­tlest of ges­tures, it is in and by these small kind­ness­es and con­sid­er­a­tions that your Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it will find and forge the Path­way of Light and Love.

You are here to be Trans­form­ers, that in and by your Tri­par­tite Spir­i­tu­al Core, you will by the Sacred Three: Be guid­ed by your High­er Con­scious­ness, act with Uncon­di­tion­al Love and redeem the world through your Cen­tered Will. You are here to turn what is Neg­a­tive into some­thing Pos­i­tive, trans­form what is Hurt­ful into Kind­li­ness, and elim­i­nate Fear by the one True Pow­er that is Love. This is why you are here.

Now Mars moves on, and until mid-Sep­tem­ber he will swim through the Waters of Scorpio…and you and your world will find that the Ener­gy-Forms of your life and the world around you will become even more inten­si­fied, the issues of your life will be more deeply probed, and so your rewards of choos­ing well, well they will be even greater for you and your world too.

But the risks, well they will be greater also. For the prize is great in Scor­pio, but the shad­ow of fear is stronger here too…For now Mars takes you and your Desires into the Heart of the Mys­tery, into that Sacred Space where “the Mag­ic” can hap­pen, where two may become One, and where the illu­sion that is sep­a­ra­tion may be tran­scend­ed. Mars takes you now into that Sacred Realm where your Rebirth is Forged and the proof of your Immor­tal­i­ty will be found.

The Desire of Mars in Scor­pio, is the Desire of Union. It is here that you wish to join with one anoth­er in so many mys­te­ri­ous and won­drous ways, to come clos­er than ever to one anoth­er and expe­ri­ence some greater or less­er mea­sure of Self-Tran­scen­dence. You long to slip beyond the Illu­sion of your Mat­ter-Body, to set aside your earth­ly vehi­cle of Self-Lim­i­ta­tion, and to move into some form of Phys­i­cal-Emo­tion­al-Men­tal-Spir­i­tu­al Space where­in you expe­ri­ence a One­ness with one another.

But, as in every realm you move through there is the Promise and the Hope, and there is Kar­ma too. You are your his­to­ry, and your past actions and their effects will echo down to find you in your present cir­cum­stances. There is good here, there is much good that you have done and lessons you have learned. You have come a long, long way and mas­tered not a few lessons of life.

But, there is less good too, those errors and mis­steps, those fail­ures and defeats, and you must work with it all. For only you can lift these shad­ows you cast upon your­self, only you can choose to work with your High­er Self and build upon your lessons learned and so lift your­self out of the those shad­ows and into the Light.

Your Desire now is for Union; your Fear is the fear of Rejec­tion, your fear is the fear of loss and sep­a­ra­tion. You must be brave, you must become Fear­less, for in truth you have noth­ing to fear. You must do your part, to extend your hand and space to the oth­er and ask them to join you there.

They can either agree, and your heart will leap and the shad­ows will fall. Or, they could say “no”, but then it was not to be, and you must move on and wait for anoth­er time. But, if you let the fear take hold of you, and by so doing it will hold you back from mak­ing the nec­es­sary space of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty to meet one anoth­er in and through, well then what might have been can­not be…and that would be a cru­el and true Tragedy.

You must see that it is your Heart and your Love that make you strong. And that with this strength you will show it now by being what many might con­sid­er to be a sign of weak­ness. You must be vul­ner­a­ble, you need to be open and accept­ing and cre­ate a more lov­ing space to join togeth­er in, and it will be this, it is this that will be a true sign of your Spir­i­tu­al Strength, for it flows from your heart, it is your true self, it is Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

Only in this way will you form and forge your unions.

Only in this way will you set one anoth­er free…

To turn to the Light and to lift those shadows…

Formed by your ancient fears of rejec­tion, loss and death.

Turn instead to one another,

To the light stream­ing out and to one another…

To know Love,

To be Love,

To be One.

The Pulse of Life moves on,

All eyes fixed now upon the Cen­ter Stage.

It is time to shine, it is time to stretch…

It’s time to dance among the Stars.

Yes, it’s that time again,

It is Time to hear the Lion’s Roar!

Your month in the Waters of Life must yield now to this realm of Solar Fires. Hav­ing found a greater mea­sure of your Self in your Roots, in the expe­ri­ences of Home and Fam­i­ly and Tra­di­tions, in those embrac­ing Feel­ings that are rec­ol­lect­ed, remem­bered and shared in the Time that is Can­cer, and hav­ing by these Feel­ings found a greater mea­sure of your Self being Cen­tered and Secured upon your truest Foun­da­tions, hav­ing Felt this and done this it is time now to release your­self in more Authen­tic Ways of Cre­ativ­i­ty, Lead­er­ship and Love…

It is your time to Shine, to stretch your­self upon New Stages, to take up alto­geth­er new Roles of Self-Real­iza­tion, to Love your­self and one anoth­er as you were meant to be loved, Unconditionally.

The Leo Space, wher­ev­er it may be found in your chart, is that place in which you need to be rec­og­nized in your Truth and Essence, to expe­ri­ence the Heart of you. And, if you have come to a greater accep­tance and truth about the nature of your heart and of your love, then mag­i­cal things will begin to happen.

When you take a stand, as when you lead…you will turn and see that your com­pan­ions are fol­low­ing you, for they now know the real you and they trust you. And, when you cre­ate, now draw­ing from your well of Authenticity…they will say to you, “I see you there in your Creation!”

And when you love, as you can and now know how to do, Uncon­di­tion­al­ly, then you will see that they too are then able to return what you bestowed upon them…You gave to them and now receive what is the great­est and truest form of Love, and all will be good…and you will dance togeth­er under the stars.

For what you seek in the oth­er, is what you must first find and hold with­in yourself…you need to be seen in your truth, to be loved for who you are, Uncon­di­tion­al­ly. And you are so love. You have always and will for­ev­er be so loved by the beloved who is your High­er Self. And once you tru­ly come to know and expe­ri­ence this abid­ing Source of Love, then you will be able to rec­og­nize the one before you in their truth too. You will know and under­stand that the same love that holds you to your truth is also with them. That what you are able to give, is what you shall receive, no more and no less.

For the Love you have with­in, and the love that you share with one anoth­er is the Indi­vis­i­ble Force that holds this whole Cre­ation as it tru­ly is: It is One Life, One Spir­it and One Love.

You have always looked for that spe­cial sign of recog­ni­tion, for that some­one spe­cial to see you for who you real­ly are. You need them, you long to hear them say to you, as they look beyond your mate­r­i­al veils, as they see beyond what is mere appear­ance, they see into your soul and say, “I see you there, I remem­ber this spe­cial feel­ing, I know you, I know who you are…and I love you”.

To be loved, you must be true to who and what you are…and you must love the oth­er as yourself…for in truth they are. For just as you are loved by your High­er Self, so are they too, there is no dif­fer­ence, for in the end there is only Truth, Accep­tance and Love.

It is time to release the Love that is your Life-Force-Sub­stance and let it fill your Life and World with Light.

It is time to live the Love that is yours…

Love your­self,

Love one another,

Just Love.

How do you become more than you are?

How to you rise above your mere con­di­tioned being, of being a prod­uct of “caus­es and effects”, how do you become more than the accu­mu­la­tion of those incre­men­tal changes that are the result of action and reaction?

Three Inte­gral Gifts pro­pel your ever­last­ing Jour­ney of Self-Becom­ing, Three Divine Attrib­ut­es endow you with the abil­i­ty to be the Imag­i­neer, Believ­er and Cre­ator of you.

The secret to your Quick­en­ing, to your remark­able Self-unfold­ing Growth is because you (and real­ly the whole of this Cre­ation) are con­sti­tut­ed as a Hier­ar­chi­cal Spir­i­tu­al Being, endowed with many gifts that range from the Phys­i­cal, to the Emo­tion­al to the Men­tal and on up into the most sub­lime Spir­i­tu­al Qual­i­ties. With­in these High­er Parts of you, in your Spir­i­tu­al Core, there is found the source of this Self-Unfold­ing pro­pelling force that dri­ves your whole jour­ney through the Spaces of Space.

There, abid­ing in your High­er Self, is a Spark of the Divine, which is itself formed by a most Holy Trin­i­ty of Three Inte­gral Prin­ci­ples. And it is these three Prin­ci­ples of Spir­it that form your link with the Divine, “whose Cen­ter is Every­where and whose Cir­cum­fer­ence is Nowhere”. That Divine Spir­it is the Great Unknown, (though many have tried to describe or name it, but tru­ly it is inex­press­ible, unnam­able) so we fee­bly yet most rev­er­ent­ly and humbly call this “the All”, or “Atman”, or “The One” or sim­ply “That”.

These Holy Three, that form your Divine Core, are the three Forms of Spir­it that you will expe­ri­ence in your Human form as: your Freer Mind, your Uncon­di­tion­al Love and your Cen­tered Will. Today Uranus, who is the Avatar of the first of these three, The Prin­ci­ple or Spir­it of Free Mind, is turn­ing retrograde.

For the next 5 months, you are giv­en anoth­er annu­al oppor­tu­ni­ty to do a most essen­tial and nec­es­sary task if you wish lift your­self up and move a lit­tle more quick­ly upon your Lumi­nous path­way of Ful­fill­ment. For though you may expe­ri­ence the delays and imped­i­ments to your jour­ney as being all “out there”, the true locus of your lim­i­ta­tions are most­ly to be found with­in yourself.

And so here it is, your Good News! You are endowed with a remark­able abil­i­ty, to use this Gift from your High­er Self, from your High­er or Freer Mind, and think in such a way that you are able to bend your ordi­nary or every­day mind around the walls of your own real­i­ty-mak­ing. You are able to rise above what formed your con­di­tion­al under­stand­ing, to stand out­side of your­self for a time, and con­sid­er oth­er pos­si­bil­i­ties, oth­er path­ways of Believ­ing, See­ing and then Acting…For you are Spir­it and you are here upon a Jour­ney where­in you will claim your Birthright and so free your­self so that you might become a ful­ly con­scious Co-Cre­ator of this Creation.

You can turn this Uranus Lamp of Aware­ness now back upon your­self. By this you are able to lift your­self beyond your own self-cast shad­ows and see what you have missed or mis­un­der­stood until now. You have to think once again “out­side the box”. It is this very box of belief that you built to explain and move through your world, and it is these very thought-forms which have “boxed you in”. This box of belief is formed by your par­a­digm, your assump­tions, prin­ci­ples, truths and facts, and though these were pos­si­bly ade­quate and func­tion­al and “true” at some lev­el of being, they can only take you so far…

You are old­er now, wis­er now, and you need to stop lean­ing upon your old crutch­es formed of half-truths and false con­vic­tions. For you are a Liv­ing Spir­it, and you need to ques­tion and learn, and to ques­tion and learn, again and again…You have to think Spir­i­tu­al­ly. You have to con­sid­er your­self and your world by think­ing Crit­i­cal­ly and by think­ing Cre­ative­ly, which means to be con­stant­ly self-crit­i­cal and to also cir­cle and cycle back with a renewed approach, to ques­tion again and again, and then again…and always and for­ev­er, you must approach the won­der and mys­tery of this uni­verse, you must seek to under­stand the Divin­i­ty of which you are a part with the great­est Rev­er­ence and Humility…for you do not yet understand.

Uranus is the elic­i­tor of your Intu­ition­al Mind. It flash­es upon your low­er mind, which is bound by its set ways and forms, and reveals some­thing just beyond what you can present­ly com­pre­hend. It helps you to rise above your dichotomies and dual­i­ties, which have been formed main­ly by your old assump­tions, and per­ceive a high­er plane that will lead to a greater inte­gra­tion and uni­ty of Thought-Forms.

Uranus frees you to think again, to won­der what might be, and by burn­ing away your shad­owed thoughts you will find that many of your present day prob­lems dis­solve in the light of Brighter Beliefs.

Your High­er Self, through the Avatar of Uranus, is call­ing to you now…

Step out of your shad­ows and draw clos­er to the Light.

For you abide in an Ocean of Con­scious­ness, and

You are a most pre­cious drop in this Sea of Spirit.

Let the Waters of the Greater Aware­ness into your Heart,

Let the Wis­dom, Love and Will of the One be your guide.

Lift up your­self, and become what you are to be…

Be Wise, Be Lov­ing, Be Strong.

Be Free.

The Lord of Real­i­ty is turn­ing again…

He turns to lead you out­wards now.

For your Des­tiny is formed and forged…

By this weav­ing of your Hopes & Dreams,

Into these worlds of Forms and Matter.

You are here upon this Earth…

To draw down and weave your Wonders.

Wield­ing the Twelve, Sacred Light­full Ener­gies from on high,

You bring to realms of Shad­owed Pathways,

Some greater mea­sure of your love,

You bring your World and your­self out of the darkness,

Self-Illumined…you shine by a more super­nal Light.

I wrote of this turn­ing in my Gen­er­al Fore­cast for 2014:

Sat­urn Direct (July 20 until March 14, 2015)

The Avatar of Real­i­ty has fin­ished anoth­er jour­ney with­in, and now it is time to move with the Lord of Man­i­fes­ta­tion to make more real what you wish for you and yours. You have had the past four and a half months to exam­ine your Fears regard­ing Union, of join­ing with or more deeply with one anoth­er. You need­ed this oppor­tu­ni­ty to make your­self more ready, to face the source of this fear, “the dweller on the thresh­old”. Now you both can try again to find that deep­er, sweet­er promise made by two becom­ing one with one another.

Sat­urn is the Lord of Man­i­fes­ta­tion, the Avatar of the Hier­ar­chy of Cau­sa­tion. He is your Keep­er of Respon­si­bil­i­ties and your stead­fast com­pan­ion on this Path­way of Pur­pose­ful­ness. For you are here because of one spir­i­tu­al imper­a­tive, you are here to become, you are here to unfold all of your potentials…you are here quite sim­ply to Grow.

To do this you must mas­ter all of these Ener­gy-Forms found through­out the many Dimen­sions and Worlds through which you jour­ney. Of all of these Lessons of Life, per­haps the most daunt­ing yet most filled with sweet promise is the chal­lenge posed with­in this Realm of Scor­pio. For it is here that you are chal­lenged to over­come the most appar­ent yet most illu­sion­ary con­di­tion of your jour­ney through Forms.

You are, it would seem, a dis­tinct sep­a­rate enti­ty from all the oth­er human as well as oth­er Life-Forms. Your expe­ri­ence of your Mat­ter-Body is that you come into the world as sep­a­rate and alone, and you strive through­out your life to over­come this sep­a­ra­tion, and to expe­ri­ence some greater or less­er mea­sure of a one­ness with one anoth­er. Yes, you may suc­cumb to the echoes of your Past, to the fear of being alone, of being aban­doned or reject­ed again. Yet if you do, then this very Ener­gy-Form of fear may cre­ate the very pain-filled real­i­ty that becomes your life…and so it this Illu­sion formed by your Past that you must pierce through and transcend…it is your Dweller on the Thresh­old, and you must under­stand and be your Truth before you may pass beyond this shadow.

For the Truth of Spir­it is that you are Nev­er Alone, not ever. With you, for­ev­er and ever, is your High­er Self, your Beloved whose ever­last­ing expe­ri­ence abides in the Con­nect­ed­ness and One­ness of all of this Cre­ation, and whose love for you is unbound­ed and uncon­di­tion­al. To the extent, as you jour­ney in life after life, that you can strive to feel and expe­ri­ence this love that is there with­in you, and to lift your Con­scious­ness and hold your Aware­ness with and by your High­er Self, then to that same extent will you expe­ri­ence “the peace which pass­es all under­stand­ing”. For you will find that you are by your Ori­gin and so are you Des­tined too, to have always been held by, and that you will for­ev­er dwell in, and you will for­ev­er grow through the Love of the One for you and all those who jour­ney with you through these Mate­r­i­al Worlds.

For the last many months you were giv­en yet anoth­er oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­sid­er this fear of Sep­a­ra­tion that lies with­in you, a fear formed by the echoes of past fail­ures, by the ancient pains of rejec­tion and loss, and to real­ize that it is these very echoes which cast­ing for­ward into the present day might lead you to act with doubt, hes­i­tan­cy and fear and so bring about the very expe­ri­ence of loss you were so des­per­ate­ly seek­ing to avoid.

But going forth now with a greater under­stand­ing about your own nature and of the One Life in which you tru­ly abide, you can do what must be done…You must press beyond all that fear, you must be Fear­less and extend your­self to the oth­er, and offer to them the oppor­tu­ni­ty of join­ing you in a more Lov­ing Space of Union…and it just might be, it just might become, that the ancient shad­ows fall away and the Love that is there, that was and will always be there, will become the Real­i­ty of your many, many days, and lives to come…

Let go of your Fears…

Be the Love that is your True Nature…

Cre­ate your Lov­ing Space with One Another…

Step out of the Shadows…

And into your Love and the Light.

Your Avatar of Beau­ty and Love,

Beck­ons to you now.

Join with her and your loved ones,

In joy­ful remem­brances, and with hopes for a bet­ter future too.

Hold to one anoth­er in your most pre­cious and spe­cial space.

Feel the Love that flows from and to this Sacred Center,

Which is found with­in your heart of hearts,

The one and abid­ing source of you,

That you sim­ply call my “Home”.

Venus returns to the Realm of Water and the Sign of Can­cer once more. It is time to move with her and renew your soul­ful feel­ings of kin­ship for one anoth­er. In your Jour­ney of Becom­ing, on this Path of Awak­en­ing, you are to expe­ri­ence all of the many beau­ti­ful forms of this Ener­gy that binds the whole of Cre­ation togeth­er, and it is this that you know and expe­ri­ence, this Life-Force-Con­scious­ness that illu­mines the whole of this Universe…and you call this Love.

Per­haps the most mean­ing­ful, cer­tain­ly the most soul­ful and heart­felt form of this Love is expe­ri­enced here in Can­cer. It is here that your soul finds those “Res­o­nances of Remem­brance”, of your count­less lives stretch­ing back to the One. For it is this, your essen­tial nature, that you are a Spir­i­tu­al Spark of the Divine, it is this which forms the core of your Sil­ver Cord that links you to One and to all of this won­drous Cre­ation too.

That because this is so, you are all relat­ed one to anoth­er by your Moth­er-Father in Heav­en, as well as by your Moth­er-Fathers here and now, and to all of your Broth­ers, Sis­ters, and your Aunts and Uncles too…and like­wise to all of your count­less rela­tions that have made you and you them through all your Lives and Worlds, in life after life, world after world, for­ev­er and ever.

For as has been affirmed in all these Worlds and Lives you have expe­ri­enced so far, in all those times and places, in count­less ways and cul­tures, the truth of Cre­ation and your Jour­ney, the Truth of Spir­it is that we are all One Fam­i­ly, “That we are all Relat­ed”, and so whomev­er is before me yes­ter­day, today and in all my tomor­rows too, there too is my fam­i­ly, there too is part of me also.

You are here to live out this Truth, and in Can­cer you will feel this and you will live this in all those count­less and won­drous Lov­ing ways that you Care for one another.

Your Sil­ver Chord of Immor­tal­i­ty, that con­nects you to all of your Lives that were and are yet to be…

Is forged and formed by your many Dreams and Actions, by your Thoughts and Feel­ings too.

You weave with these your Webs of Destiny…

Which in no small mea­sure are formed by these Car­ing Con­sid­er­a­tions that pass between you and all your relations.

They and you form a Lumi­nous Fam­i­ly of Spirit,

Gath­ered togeth­er in your Sacred Home, your Place of Peace.

And all that you are asked to do…

Is lis­ten to your heart, and do what is right…

Care for one another…

Love one another.

Just love.