You are a self-lumi­nous spark of the Divine,

A resplen­dent jew­el of Pure Potentiality,

A sin­gu­lar sparkling drop,

In an Ocean of Spir­i­tu­al Wonder.

You are part of a nev­er-end­ing Sto­ry of Unfoldment,

For you are the Self-Becom­ing cre­ator of You,

And a co-cre­ator of these worlds you trav­el through too.

You can and will become any­thing that you can imagine…

That is your Truth, that is your Destiny.

Yet at any one moment in your journey,

You will have to face the many choic­es already made,

That served to make what is real, yet now cir­cum­scribes you too.

Though each Form you take is anoth­er step in your Self-Fulfillment,

Each Life and Body is equal­ly your “fall” into Self-Limitation.

This is “The Para­dox”: You are an Immor­tal in a mor­tal frame, and

You can only grow by Lim­i­ta­tion, by you falling into Matter.

You can only become through being some “Thing” for a time,

Yet, being Immor­tal, you must also let go of that form at the appoint­ed time,

For you must con­tin­ue your jour­ney, as

You have far to trav­el, in this and many, many oth­er realms too.

Your one Spir­i­tu­al imper­a­tive is to grow,

Your one true Des­tiny is Super­nal, and

Your Splen­dor is to be ever revealed in the Divinity,

That shines through in all your lives,

As you Jour­ney through the Stars.

Today you stand between the two Plan­e­taries of your Becoming:

The Sun is your Avatar of Pure Poten­tial, and Sat­urn the Avatar of any Real­i­ty that you have made of you. Their year­ly cycle marks this path of your self-unfold­ing/­self-lim­it­ing jour­ney in your ever­last­ing jour­ney of Self-Becoming.

Six months ago the Sun and Sat­urn met in their con­junc­tion and so began anoth­er cycle of self-unfold­ment for you. Now they have reached their “Full Moon” moment, and you need to pause and con­sid­er, you need to look both Inward and Out­ward. You need to look back from where you have come, and to brave­ly face the here and now. For it is by this that you can then cast your gaze for­wards and so con­sid­er well your inten­tion of how you will strive to draw that much clos­er to your Destiny.

It is time once again to take anoth­er mea­sure of your under­stand­ing of this inte­gral spir­i­tu­al process, that your Self-Ful­fill­ment comes through your Self-Lim­i­ta­tion. You must pour your Infi­nite Poten­tial into ves­sels of Lim­i­ta­tion, for this is how you learn to work and play in all the realms of Spirit-Matter.

Though you will be attached to cer­tain expe­ri­ences of tri­umph and suc­cess, and why would you not, you will learn over time that these are mere­ly your well-deserved rewards for lessons mas­tered long ago. You will find your truer trea­sures come through seem­ing­ly more bit­ter fruits…your errors, mis­takes and fail­ures, that these are how you learn to become what you are yet to be, for they remind you that you have much to still learn of this world, and of your­self too.

Your High­er Self knows this, that you are here to mas­ter your­self and these worlds, and you can only do this by learn­ing to choose what is good and true. That you can only dis­cov­er this when you fall into error, reap the kar­ma and so learn to choose bet­ter the next time around…and the next time after that, and so on. You earn your Wis­dom, you find the one True Path because it is the only way to become, it is the only way, it is “The Way” to become a Star.

You are here, in this most pre­cious place, in this King­dom of Human, where you are giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty to choose (and often to choose poor­ly), and so face those con­se­quences you made…and so, over time, over count­less years and lives, you learn to choose Love and Kind­ness and Con­sid­er­a­tion, you learn you are here to cre­ate “The Good”…and so you will join those who have gone ahead of you, and you with they will become con­scious co-cre­ators of “the good”, of what is Beau­ti­ful and Lov­ing and True.

Today you stand between all that may be, and all that is so far. You have come very far, and you have very far to go, that is true.

But you are not alone, not ever…

And there is the promise and help of those who wait for you.

Who have been where you are now…

And just like you, they learned to choose, and

They Chose to Grow

They Chose to Care

They Chose Love.

The One becomes the Many.

The Divine “falls”, through realms of ener­gy and form,

Bring­ing Light and Love to Spirit-Matter.

It is all a play of Light & Shadows,

From Galax­ies and Worlds beyond the beyond,

To your Star and Moon, and you as well.

It is all a won­drous full­ness of Life and Light,

A spi­ral­ing, swirling, and sparkling dance of Spirit,

Of which you “see” but a little…so far.

With­in these emanating/reflecting/refracting ener­gies and forms,

You are embraced and sup­port­ed by your stel­lar companions,

In this lit­tle cor­ner of space, in this spe­cial world you call home.

Today/Tonight a spe­cial play of Light and Shad­ow will dance across your world. Twice a year the Sun, Moon and Earth align “just so”, and their shad­ows fall upon one anoth­er. It is a won­der­ful affir­ma­tion of how intri­cate­ly and won­der­ful­ly you can feel whole with the uni­verse. This spi­ral­ing dance of Light and Mat­ter forms a joy­ous affir­ma­tion that all of Cre­ation is of one Life, of one Spir­it which is you too.

This is the sec­ond eclipse and first Solar Eclipse of 2014. Here is what I wrote about this align­ment in the 2014 Gen­er­al Forecast:

Annu­lar Solar Eclipse (April 28–29)

The sec­ond eclipse of the year is an Annu­lar Solar in Tau­rus. The annu­lar type eclipse cre­ates the effect of a “Ring of Fire” around the Sun as the Moon’s dis­tance from the Earth does not com­plete­ly cov­er the Sun, and so a small por­tion of the Sun appears around the edges of the shad­ow formed by the Moon. The term Annu­lar comes from the word annu­lus which means “bright ring”.

Here is infor­ma­tion about the Eclipse and where it will be vis­i­ble. It will only be vis­i­ble in the extreme south­ern hemi­sphere, most vis­i­ble in Antarctica.

The mes­sage of the Tau­rus Solar Eclipse is cen­tered again upon the fun­da­men­tal ques­tion of val­ue: where does your under­stand­ing arise as to how you val­ue your­self and how do you val­ue this world around you? The answer is that the true source of val­ue is to be found with­in your expe­ri­ence of your High­er Self, for in your heart of hearts you are Spir­it, in your core you are sim­ply pure Love.

Each New Moon pro­vides you with a bless­ing from Spir­it, lit­er­al­ly formed as an Inspi­ra­tion that is lov­ing­ly offered so as to lead you out from with­in. As the moon aligns with the Sun, a mes­sage is impart­ed, a drop of Divin­i­ty offered up, and the Moon will mod­u­late and bring this to you here on Earth. But dur­ing a Solar Eclipse, there is a even deep­er work­ing of Spir­it through Mat­ter, a greater play of Light and Shad­ow will dance before you now.

Every year, the New Moon of Tau­rus will bring you a refresh­ing reas­sur­ance that your true val­ue, your inher­ent worth, is beyond any­thing you can imag­ine or mea­sure on Earth. Yes, at any one time of man­i­fes­ta­tion, in any one life or even peri­od in a life, you might imag­ine a lim­it to what you can do or become (but even here you would be mis­tak­en, for you do not real­ly know yet what tru­ly lies with­in the depths of you). Your mea­sure is beyond mea­sur­ing because at the core of you is a Spark of the Divine, and this means you are Divine too. And it is this which forms your Peren­ni­al Promise of becom­ing more and more, of grow­ing, learn­ing and reach­ing for the beyond, for­ev­er and ever.

But at the Tau­rus Solar Eclipse your gift of Inspi­ra­tion elic­its a deep­er welling up of pat­terns that were laid down long, long ago. For the Moon is the Bear­er of your Past, (just as the Earth is your present, and the Sun your Avatar of ever-unfold­ing Tomor­rows). So as the Moon comes between you and your Star, she will cross over and shad­ow the mes­sage that is there. You will have to be a lit­tle stronger, a lit­tle more res­olute, and so pierce through these shad­ows of old fail­ures and fears that are elicit­ed by the Sun from the Moon, for these are the remain­ders, those hopes and promis­es unmet, in a far dis­tant time, these are those loss­es that broke your heart.

For your Jour­ney is not a straight line, and there will be ris­es and there will be falls. You will feel the full­ness of your strengths, but also live through the wan­ing of them too. You will find though that in the end that there is one source of strength, that there is one abid­ing pow­er which will stand with you through it all. For behind all your lives, and with­in each life there is the Beau­ty and Good­ness and Love that will nev­er fade.

Your Foun­tain-Source of strength is with you always, for your high­er Self will help you through. So at such a time of karmic pre­cip­i­ta­tion, when a welling up of old shad­ows is fold­ed into the Sun’s gift of the New, you need to remem­ber who and what you real­ly are, to lis­ten to your beloved there with­in you, your High­er Self, who will tell you once more, that you are beau­ti­ful, you are val­ued, you are love and loved…and you will Love and be Loved, for this is who you are.

Then you can turn and face the shad­ows, and redeem those bro­ken rem­nants of yesteryear.

You can for­give your­self and one anoth­er, for you are not yet what you will some­day be.

You will see through these tem­po­rary forms of matter…

Know­ing tru­ly you are more than these.

For you are Light and Love danc­ing out of shadows…

Draw­ing ever closer…

To the Cross­ing Point of the Light.

The Dance of the Plan­ets tells a story…

The Sto­ry of Spirit,

The Sto­ry of You.

One of the most impor­tant sto­ries they sing and dance for you con­cerns the unfold­ment of your mind. For in the order of the Hier­ar­chies of the Uni­verse, beyond, behind and above all there is the Divine, then there is Spir­it and then there is Con­scious­ness or Mind.

The weav­ing dance between the Sun (Spir­it) and Mer­cury (Mind) is full of much Beau­ty and Mean­ing for you. It is in their cycle of rela­tion­ship that you see the sto­ry of your know­ing, as they illus­trate the var­i­ous lessons of con­scious­ness that you must mas­ter as you seek to become ful­ly human, as you draw ever near to the Greater Aware­ness, as you become what you are des­tined to be, Awakened.

Their cycle, much as in the arche­typ­al cycle for you between the Sun and Moon, begins when the Sun and Mer­cury align, (like in a New Moon), in what is called their infe­ri­or con­junc­tion. The cycle will reach a point of rev­e­la­tion of mean­ing at their supe­ri­or con­junc­tion (just like a Full Moon). This cycle repeats about three times a year, seri­al­ly unfold­ing through the twelve signs of the Zodiac.

Today you have reached anoth­er “Full Moon” for Mer­cury and you, for today Mer­cury is on the “far side” of the Sun and oppo­site to you. To under­stand the “answer” that is offered here you will need to look back to the last “New Moon” of Mer­cury with the Sun, which was in the mid­dle of Feb­ru­ary dur­ing Mer­cury’s ret­ro­grade. That align­ment in the infe­ri­or con­junc­tion released a “Seed of Mean­ing” that was formed in the Sign of Aquar­ius, and that Thought-Form has unfold­ed and devel­oped into the rev­e­la­tion of this moment. The rev­e­la­tion today is the answer to a ques­tion posed in Aquar­ius, and that answer is found in the rela­tion­ship of Tau­rus to Scorpio.

This seed of Aquar­ius for your mind con­cerns the nature of your Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, of your need, (because you are here for one true Spir­i­tu­al Pur­pose, which is to Grow, to Become, to unfold your Divin­i­ty), your need to con­stant­ly free your mind from the old (and out­worn) assump­tions that per­mit­ted you to rise to a cer­tain lev­el of under­stand­ing. That is because it is these very cer­tain­ties that will be unable to lift you beyond your present par­a­digm into the next or Greater Real­i­ty. The mes­sage of the Sun/Mercury align­ment in Aquar­ius is that you must con­stant­ly seek to chal­lenge your assump­tions, to be open to and inspired by your High­er Mind, and to move through and beyond the ordi­nary mind of dual­i­ties and self-cast shad­ows. By so doing, you can think out­side of the very “box of thought” you put your­self into, (which was of course a nec­es­sary “box” to thrive in that real­i­ty, but becomes your self-made mir­rored realm that only reflects what you expect to see and understand).

Yet, the prob­lem this cre­ates for you is equal­ly pro­found. For how can you let go of the sure­ty of the present form of believ­ing with­out know­ing whether what you are attempt­ing is a mark of the “genius” and gift from your Spir­i­tu­al Self, or a descent into delu­sion or worse? How do you “Parse the Par­a­digms”, how do you know what is real­ly Real? How will you know or rec­og­nize, (and so draw clos­er to) the Greater Reality?

As always, Spir­it shows the way, and this is where today’s mes­sage of mean­ing is offered to won­der­ful­ly illus­trate for you the way through. For the mes­sage of the rela­tion­ship of Tau­rus and Scor­pio for your devel­op­ing con­scious­ness is this: That you will come to appre­ci­ate and under­stand the Uni­ver­sal Truths and Val­ues (Tau­rus) that stand behind all these var­i­ous worlds of man­i­fes­ta­tion. That they are found in the Ancient Teach­ings which form the often­times hid­den core of Truth, found scat­tered through and through­out the many Meta­physics, Philoso­phies, Sci­ences and Reli­gions that have been passed down to you.

But that you equal­ly must know that any par­tic­u­lar man­i­fes­ta­tion of any such truth or real­i­ty struc­ture is only for a time, for all things, includ­ing Thought-Forms, are com­pos­ites and they can only be rel­e­vant and true for a time. Spir­it-Ener­gy moves into and through these lim­it­ing forms, but these forms must give way and pass the ener­gy along (Scor­pio). That the Great Truths are found in this flow of Con­scious­ness and Life which like you expands from realm to realm, from life-form to life-form. That as every­thing is Spir­it, every­thing is Divine-Spir­it-Con­scious­ness, the one under­ly­ing imper­a­tive for Every­thing is to grow.

But still you will won­der, how will I know what is truer and less true at any one time? How will you know if you are draw­ing clos­er to the light or head­ing into a deep­er dark­ness of under­stand­ing? First, you must always lis­ten care­ful­ly, to the voice of your High­er Self who can guide you here. And you should cer­tain­ly share and com­pare and con­firm with your com­pan­ions, to see whether they can appre­ci­ate and accept this greater way of see­ing-believ­ing-act­ing too…

The real answer lies in Spir­it, in what holds each of you with, to and for one anoth­er. It lies in the Ener­gy-Mat­ter that is the core expe­ri­ence of your Jour­ney through the Stars. In the end you will know that this new way of think­ing is truer by one qual­i­ty, by the One Cen­tral Truth, the only ques­tion to answer is:

Is it Lov­ing?

If your way of think­ing, if your thought or idea is more inclu­sive, more con­sid­er­ate, more com­pas­sion­ate and more just, if it is more bound to the Fun­da­men­tal Truth of Spir­it: That before you is just anoth­er you…Then you will know you are indeed head­ing towards the Light, you are ful­fill­ing your Des­tiny, you are grow­ing into your Divin­i­ty, and you are mak­ing your way Home.

Yes, today you will have a revelation…

A pre­cious answer to your prayer.

For you are a seek­er in a journey…

But you are not sure of get­ting there.

You seek for answers to many questions…

But the Truth is writ­ten in your Heart.

Just love one another…

Just lis­ten to your Heart.

THE GRAND CARDINAL CROSS OF 2014

The Way,

There is only one way…

You will, as you must and always should,

Stand in your Center.

Be True to who you are,

Be what you are here for,

Be the Heart of the Cross.

The Four Directions,

Point you to the Truth.

You must look within,

For there it will be found,

The Gold­en Immor­tal Chord,

The One True Path,

Your Way of Wis­dom, Light and Love. 

The Grand Cross

There is noth­ing unusu­al or rare about a Grand Cross. Yes, you have been here before, one way or anoth­er, in this life (and in many oth­ers). If we just exam­ine the Grand Cross­es formed by the plan­ets from Mars out to Plu­to in the last 100 years, (though some of these would be more and some less than exact), you would find about 10 Grand Cross­es. Of those, five were Car­di­nal, two were Fixed and three were Muta­ble Grand Crosses.

Of those Car­di­nal Grand Cross­es, the one most like “our own” of 2014, (it actu­al­ly involves the same four plan­ets!), is the Grand Car­di­nal Cross of 1933, which had Plu­to in Can­cer (oppo­site to where it is in 2014), Uranus in Aries (the same as now in 2014), Jupiter in Libra (where Mars is in 2014), and Mars in Capri­corn (where Plu­to is in 2014).

The key or crit­i­cal fea­ture of the Car­di­nal Cross­es in 1933 and in 2014 is also the same. That key fea­ture is the prin­ci­pal square aspect of the pat­tern. (A square is formed when plan­ets are 90 degrees apart, which is one quar­ter of the cir­cle of 360 degrees. In a Grand Cross, formed by four plan­ets, two pairs oppose one anoth­er and each plan­et squares two oth­er plan­ets, as shown in the pic­ture at the top of this post).

The main square in 1933 and 2014 is formed by two of the out­er­most plan­ets, Uranus and Plu­to. In 1933, Uranus was form­ing a wan­ing square to Plu­to, and in 2014 Uranus is form­ing the wax­ing square to Plu­to, (and between these two squares they aligned to start a new cycle of their rela­tion­ship to one anoth­er dur­ing the 1960’s).

It would be quite right to view the cycle of Uranus and Plu­to in this man­ner: The wan­ing square of 1933 pre­pared the way for the plant­i­ng of New Seeds of Spir­i­tu­al Truth which were released when Uranus and Plu­to formed a con­junc­tion (like a New Moon) in the 1960’s. You should approach and live the Wax­ing Square you are expe­ri­enc­ing now as the “growth pains” of that seed­ing of New Inspi­ra­tion that was released in the 1960’s.

The Uranus/Pluto square is the crit­i­cal and key ele­ment to under­stand with­in the Grand Car­di­nal Cross for 2014. If you have time or wish to review what I have writ­ten about this before, you will cer­tain­ly want to read my series of post­ings about this impor­tant align­ment, as it has been one of the main spir­i­tu­al themes you have been expe­ri­enc­ing since Plu­to entered the Sign of Capri­corn in 2008. Here is a link to those arti­cles on Uranus/Pluto: The Uranus-Plu­to Square.

The Grand Car­di­nal Cross of 2014 will form up exact­ly over the next sev­er­al days. Today Jupiter will square Uranus as Jupiter Oppos­es Plu­to. Then on April 21, the main ele­ment will be exact, Uranus will Square Plu­to once again. Then Mars will seri­al­ly align with the oth­er three plan­ets: on April 22 Mars will Square Jupiter and on April 23 Mars will oppose Uranus and also Square Pluto.

For today, let us look at these two alignments:

Jupiter Square Uranus & Jupiter Oppo­site Plu­to.

Here is what I wrote about this two-fold align­ment in May 2013:

For each of us has a part to play in this great dra­ma unfold­ing with­in and around us…and as I men­tioned above, the mes­sage and mod­u­la­tion of Jupiter this year can help you find your way.

For as you strug­gle with­in your own world to bal­ance Uranus and Plu­to, to weave togeth­er your Aspi­ra­tions for Greater Self-Real­iza­tion and Free­dom (Uranus) while also Cre­at­ing, Pre­serv­ing and Hon­or­ing your own and every­one else’s Sacred Space (Plu­to) too, it is per­haps from Jupiter in Can­cer that you can draw upon and find com­fort in the Age­less Wis­dom to help guide you in your Under­stand­ing and Actions.

For it is through Jupiter, The Lord of Truth and Wis­dom, who can show you the way to the Source of the Prin­ci­ples and Teach­ings which have always and will for­ev­er Inspire, Guide and Keep you upon the Noble Mid­dle Path. This Wis­dom Teach­ing has been passed down in many forms through the ages, and it will be ever obtained by those who tru­ly seek to serve, and as it is found­ed by and upon the Peren­ni­al Foun­da­tions formed from the very Ener­gies and Forms of Cre­ation itself, this Rock of Ages will always be there to guide you tru­ly in these days when an Age will End and a New World Rise.

Jupiter is in Can­cer and form­ing an align­ment to both Uranus and Plu­to, and this Gift of the Spir­it can inform and guide you as to how to inte­grate these pow­er­ful ener­gies trans­form­ing you and your world at this time.

To Uranus, who blazes with the Fires of Aries Ide­al­ism, where Impa­tient Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Unbri­dled Enthu­si­asms can often betray the inten­tion to do “what is right”, Jupiter offers the Waters of Can­cer which remind you that your Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty is born through and aris­es from the Foun­da­tions and Roots of your jour­ney which ulti­mate­ly con­nects you to all of your fel­low humans, and ulti­mate­ly to all forms of Life, and your need to be True to One­self must nev­er result in the Harm to another…

For “we are all relat­ed”, we are all ones of the One, and each Indi­vid­u­al’s Unique con­tri­bu­tion to the Song of Life must be Hon­ored and Free to Be…yet Each must also respect, sup­port and so join in pay­ing Homage and Fideli­ty to one and all…For as you must to thine own self be True, you must equal­ly be True to all your Broth­ers and Sis­ters too.

To Plu­to, who brings and bears the Will that Forms, Pre­serves and Trans­forms the Sacred Spaces of Spir­it, Plu­to can, when Unbound­ed in Capri­corn, wield this Pow­er in such a man­ner that what one intend­ed to Pre­serve is in fact Lost, what was Trans­formed is actu­al­ly Destroyed, because your Sacred Spaces become bro­ken by the Will that stands for Absolute Pow­er alone, where there is either Dom­i­na­tion or Sub­mis­sion and no Free­dom or Sacred Space remains.

To this Jupiter offers the Heal­ing Grace from Can­cer, that Plu­to’s Pow­er with­out Bounds, which was formed from and fueled by Fear, may be washed away by those Lov­ing, Car­ing and Nur­tur­ing Waters of Jupiter in Can­cer where­in is found the Root of your Being. It is found­ed for­ev­er, with­in the heart of each spark of the Divine, in the Love of the One for all of the ones of the One, and it is in fact this All-Embrac­ing Love which forms the Divine Sacred Space whose cen­ter is every­where, and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere.

For each Space is Sacred, and to harm anoth­er is to Harm Oneself…For you abide with­in the Greater Space of the One, and what you do the least of these, you do also to the One, to all oth­ers and so to your own self too.

Yes, Kar­ma is per­fect, what­ev­er you wish to cre­ate you must also Be and you will Become. Help one anoth­er to Grow the Sacred Spaces for each and every, for their Integri­ty is your own too. As always, keep your­self aligned to the Greater…Let Thy Will be Done.

As to all things, all chal­lenges and hopes, the answer lies with­in you…it is in your Mind that is Free from Fear, your Heart that is Uncon­di­tion­al in Love and your Will that is Cen­tered and Bound­ed with­in the Sacred­ness of Space.

It is from these, The Ancient Teach­ings, that your Hope and Path will be ever found and secured. When­ev­er you are in doubt or trou­bled by fear, remem­ber the Great Invo­ca­tion and repeat:

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light with­in the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the mas­ters know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call Humanity

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.

Stand in your Center.

Lis­ten to your Heart.

Be not afraid,

For you are here to Love

and be Loved.

That is the Way.