Apotheosis.

The Promise will be kept…

The Hier­ar­chy of Light will not fail…

And, you will nev­er, ever walk alone.

For you are embraced and protected…

By the Wis­dom, Grace and Love

Of the Awak­ened Ones.

Today is the Full Moon for the month of Tau­rus, this is the Full Moon in Scor­pio. It is at this time of the year that cel­e­bra­tions and cer­e­monies are held around the world. This is the Fes­ti­val known as Wesak, this is the Full Moon of the Buddha.

It is held that Sid­dhārtha was born at, achieved enlight­en­ment dur­ing, and final­ly left his mor­tal frame by such a full moon as tonight’s. Today, Seers, Teach­ers and Stu­dents will bow their heads and give thanks and praise to he who was the first to lift him­self out of spir­i­tu­al bondage, to become Self-Awak­ened, to become a tru­ly Self-ful­filled human. This achieve­ment, of human Apoth­e­o­sis, this is the goal of each and every human, and the Bud­dha is the lov­ing, benef­ic bea­con of inspi­ra­tion for one and for all.

Every Full Moon brings a Spir­i­tu­al mes­sage for you, a teach­ing that you need to under­stand and apply in your life as you seek to fol­low the one true path, the Noble Path of Awak­en­ing and Self-Ful­fill­ment. For you are on that path in one form-stage or anoth­er, you are here to grow and even­tu­al­ly become an Illu­mined One too. One day, you will join that com­pa­ny of Light and Love who guide and inspire all who yet sojourn upon this Earth.

The Seed that was plant­ed at the New Moon of Tau­rus two weeks ago now reach­es its moment of revelation…Two Ways, Two Paths and Two Truths of Being stand revealed by the Light of this Full Moon. One is of Tau­rus, the oth­er of Scor­pio. Each with­out the oth­er is real­ly only a half-truth, for each is part of the oth­er, each is inte­gral to the oth­er. The High­er Truth that embraces all of these Truths in the Riv­er of Life, this Cir­cle called the Zodi­ac, is that there is but One Way of Being, there is but One Way, The Path of Inte­gra­tion, the Noble Path of Spir­i­tu­al Integri­ty and Wholeness.

The Great Inte­gral Les­son of Taurus/Scorpio is con­tained in the ever-unfold­ing para­dox­es you encounter as you move from world to world and life to life. For you are an Immor­tal pass­ing through many mor­tal forms, and though each world and each life is pre­cious to you, you are there in that form for a short time in the end. The Bud­dha taught of this, he reit­er­at­ed a fun­da­men­tal truth about the con­sti­tu­tion of this Uni­verse, that most of Cre­ation is formed by com­pos­ites, and all of these are tem­po­rary and ephemer­al. There is noth­ing “per­ma­nent” in these mor­tal realms, and this includes your low­er vehi­cles or bod­ies which you require to dwell upon this Earth.

There is an immor­tal core that moves with you from life to life…but there will nev­er be again the you that you know now. For how could that be, as you might very well return in a vast­ly dif­fer­ent cul­ture, in a far dis­tant time, and most like­ly change your gender…How could you pos­si­bly be the “same”? But the “pres­ence” who is behind who you are, the watch­er who is ever watch­ing, guid­ing and inspir­ing you to your next great­est self-real­iza­tion, the one who is draw­ing you ever clos­er to your even­tu­al Awak­en­ing, that is your High­er Self, that is your Immor­tal Core, and that is who returns again and again and draws togeth­er the var­i­ous pieces of you to begin a New Life, and your Beloved does this with and for you in life after life.

The great les­son of the Bud­dha, is that he demon­strat­ed and spoke of this truth: that you are here to learn to live the weav­ing way of spir­it, to live as an Immor­tal in the these tem­po­ral realms by lead­ing with Love and non-attach­ment. You must move through these realms of Spir­it-Mat­ter, to bring Love and Light into mat­ter and so lift your­self and these forms high­er and high­er. But you must also know and fol­low the path that is formed by your Dia­mond Cen­ter, that you are an Immor­tal, and there is no form, no life and no world that will be your ves­sel forever…for your one and only Spir­i­tu­al imper­a­tive is that you are here to grow. You must move in and out of all these realms, to form into, grow through and release your­self, again and again.

There is a prayer that is offered at such sacred cer­e­monies as will be wit­nessed tonight. It is the Great Invo­ca­tion that in some form or oth­er has been passed down since the first human on Earth became self-aware:

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.

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.