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.

There is but One Life…All is Sacred.

There is but One Light…Pure Consciousness.

There is but One Truth…Unconditional Love.

Through­out your jour­ney, in Life after Life, in year after year, and in day after day, you expe­ri­ence these Three-in-One Prin­ci­ples in this world of Spir­it-Mat­ter. Your Life is real­ly about your Jour­ney as Con­scious­ness in which you expe­ri­ence and make your world through the Twelve Facets of the One Light. You expe­ri­ence this Cre­ation with and through the Twelve Rays that form the Hier­ar­chies of Life-Con­scious­ness Spir­it. You live these Twelve mod­u­la­tions of the One Ener­gy of Spir­it in, through and by the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac.

All Twelve Signs are active all the time, both around you in what I call the “Liv­ing Chart of the Now”, and as embod­ied and ener­gized through the var­i­ous facets of your being too. But these Twelve com­bine in delight­ful­ly dif­fer­ent ways to pro­duce what every­thing is…That every snowflake or tree or dol­phin or human or plan­et or star is unique…Every par­ti­cle or mote, from every Infin­i­tes­i­mal on up to this Galaxy and beyond in this Cos­mos, each is a tru­ly Indi­vid­ual instance and expres­sion of the One True Spirit.

In your year­ly jour­ney through the Signs, as the Sun illu­mines one facet of Spir­i­tu­al Truth after anoth­er, you can and should attune your­self to this unfold­ing Song of Life because it is your song too. Yes, you may be a “Gem­i­ni” or a “Leo” or “Scor­pio” as fig­ured by the day upon which you took your first breath, but you are much, much more than this, as you well know.

All the signs sing with­in you! And, you need to lis­ten when the Sun sings through each song for you again, because you can and should par­take of this if you wish to live a live that is Full, a life that is True, a Life as you are meant to live it, as one of the ones of the One.

Today the Song of Aries is giv­ing way to the next Song of Spir­it. Now is the time of Tau­rus and you need to bring out this Sec­ond Song of Spir­it that is also part of you.

You have met and answered again the ques­tion that is Aries: “Who are you? How do you present your­self, how do you look, what is your demeanor, what is your atti­tude, (and from which all of this comes), What is your Inten­tion?” The Ques­tion of Aries is the ques­tion of your Pres­ence, for it is from how you begin or start any­thing, from that form of Ener­gy-Mat­ter that your put forth in that first moment, from this all else will fol­low. Your Pres­ence is your Alpha, and it will lead to your Omega too.

You move through the Sec­ond Por­tal of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it, and you must lis­ten to the Divine who is with­in you, to your High­er Self who is lead­ing you onward and upward. Now you must answer this most pro­found ques­tion: “What are you? What are you made of, what do you Pos­sess? What do you bring to this world, what will you Make of Your Self…What is the Val­ue of you?”

Your under­stand­ing and expres­sion of this Val­ue is to be found in your Ori­gin. At the heart of you, in your Inner­most, you are Spark of the Divine. You are a Self-Aware Con­scious­ness-Cen­ter that is slow­ly but sure­ly com­ing into the exer­cise of your true nature. You are a Being of Light who has descend­ed through these var­i­ous worlds of increas­ing den­si­ty in order to bring your light and under­stand­ing into this realm of Mat­ter-Forms, and by so doing you will lift them and your­self up and back towards the Light.

You are here to Cre­ate, to lift your­self and this Cre­ation to a high­er plane of being, and you do this because you are here for one true Rea­son, you have guid­ing you one Fun­da­men­tal and pre­cious Pur­pose, you are here because of Love…you are here to Love.

In all your forms, in all your Thoughts, Feel­ings and Actions, in all that you were, are and are yet to be, there is one Gold­en Thread that binds you to one anoth­er and to all Cre­ation too…

You are a pre­cious spark of the ONE.

You are a Divine Being in training…

You are here to live in Beauty…

You are here to Light the Way…

You are here to Sing one Song…

You are here to Sing of Love.

Mer­cury, the winged-foot mes­sen­ger of the Gods,

Links the Super­nal realms above,

With these less­er realms below.

His Caduceus of Consciousness,

Twin Ser­pents climb the rod.

Reveal­ing and Con­ceal­ing, for it is

A mys­tic sym­bol, of Ancient Truths.

It is the Promise of your Awakening,

For your Self-Becom­ing was foretold.

Today your Ser­vant of the Light, the Lord Mer­cury, aligns with the Fourth and final cor­ner of the Grand Car­di­nal Cross. You have already received his three pre­vi­ous gifts:

From Jupiter, you were remind­ed that you will find your Cen­tered Space with­in the Ancient Truths that have always held you to your true Path and Des­tiny; from Uranus, you were remind­ed that you have the Jew­el of Self-Tran­scen­dence with­in your own High­er Mind; and from Plu­to you were remind­ed that you are to use your Will in order to form your own Sacred Cen­ter as you also pro­tect all of Sacred Space.

From Jupiter you touched the Roots of Truth, from Uranus you touched the Wis­dom with­in, and from Plu­to you touched your Pow­er to Become…and now there remains but one guardian, one last bless­ing on this Car­di­nal Cross of Con­scious­ness, now it is time to lis­ten to Mars.

Mars is your Avatar of Action and Inten­tion. He moves with you through Time & Space as you stir the Waters of Life, as you Cre­ate these worlds with your Heart and Mind. He is the Pas­sion­ate Plan­et, he is your source of becom­ing, he is your Desire.

For in “the begin­ning” there is and will always be the One, unman­i­fest, THAT, pure poten­tial “wait­ing” out­side of Time and Space…and then, the Desire to become stirs, the One becomes Man­i­fest, and the One becomes the many, and this Cos­mos comes into being, again.

You are a most impor­tant part of that becom­ing, of that Jour­ney of Spir­it and Life. And in your heart of hearts, in the Spark of the Divine that is your inmost, that same Desire to be, that same insis­tent dri­ve to become is there…For you are here for one rea­son, you are dri­ven by one pur­pose as is all of this mar­velous Creation…You are here quite sim­ply for this, you are here To Grow.

Today your Avatar of Mind stands oppo­site to your Avatar of Desire, and you need to con­sid­er them as they are and are meant to be. You are to hold them togeth­er for they are nec­es­sary to each oth­er. You need to under­stand how they each are inte­gral to one anoth­er as you jour­ney on this path­way of Light.

For you will find in your many forms, expe­ri­ences and lives, that Action with­out Thought­ful guid­ance will lead to pain and suf­fer­ing for your­self and oth­ers. But equal­ly you will find that Knowl­edge and Under­stand­ing for them­selves are not enough, for you are here to become, you are here to Cre­ate and so you must Act too.

The Inte­gral rela­tion­ship of Mer­cury and Mars is how you learn to Mas­ter a most basic part of how you make and remake your­self and your worlds. That it is from Right Think­ing that you will bring about Right Action…But it is equal­ly true, that it is by Right Action that you lift your­self and your Mind from these realms below to the Star­ry realms above.

It is a most del­i­cate balance,

To mas­ter your Mind and your Desires too.

But you are here to learn,

Through the one Law, Kar­ma, Cause and Effect.

You will learn by thought­ful actions,

To make your world and yourself,

Into your Heart’s Desire.

The Mag­is­te­r­i­al dance of the Planets,

Sweeps through your Heav­ens above.

Singing and Danc­ing, their Songs of Spirit,

Offer­ing Gifts of Meaning,

By their Intri­cate, Inter­con­nect­ed Patterns,

Of Light and Grace and Love.

Tonight, your Star and Moon join with you on Earth, to put on a spe­cial show of mean­ing for you. It is a beau­ti­ful reminder of how intri­cate, inter­con­nect­ed and syn­chro­nized are the count­less lives of each and every being who share this Sacred Space you trav­el in, named for your Sun, what you call your “Solar System”.

Twice a year the Sun, Earth and Moon will come into align­ment with one anoth­er. Tonight the Moon will be posi­tioned so that the Earth­’s shad­ow will block the Sun’s light for a short while (and the Moon will glow instead with the reflec­tive light that arcs around the Earth). It is called a Full Moon Total Eclipse and here is what I wrote about it in the Gen­er­al Fore­cast for 2014:

Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse (April 14–15)

The first Eclipse of the year is a total eclipse of the Moon in Libra. The shad­ow of the Earth falls across the face of the Moon, and the Mes­sage of Mean­ing you would nor­mal­ly seek and find as revealed to you by Luna is obscured by some shad­ow formed by your present cir­cum­stance (Earth­’s shad­ow being the “Present” dims the Illu­mi­na­tion of the Moon). You will have to more deeply exam­ine the inte­gral rela­tion­ship between the Sun in Aries and the Moon in Libra.

Here is infor­ma­tion about the Eclipse and where it will be vis­i­ble. The West­ern Hemi­sphere, both North and South Amer­i­ca, will be able to view this eclipse.

Every Full Moon is a mes­sage of rela­tion­ship, for it artic­u­lates the inte­gral mean­ing found between the Sun’s ener­gies that are being focused through one Sign being coun­ter­point­ed (and this is the point), coun­ter­bal­anced by the oppo­site Sign’s mean­ing held by the Moon.

As the Sun swings through any Sign there is ten­den­cy to empha­size that facet of Spir­i­tu­al Truth over any oth­er. There is a need, a neces­si­ty that Spir­it will respond with so as to bring in the oppos­ing ener­gy of point of view. There is the Desire of Spir­it to restore bal­ance and equi­lib­ri­um to this Jour­ney of Ener­gies, to this Sto­ry of Light and Love.

But when there is an Eclipse of the Moon, the mes­sage that is there is some­what hid­den, for some­thing has got­ten in the way…the Earth! The shad­ow of the present day (which is where you are on Earth), is some­what block­ing the mean­ing that is need­ed in order to bal­ance and inte­grate the Sun’s ener­gies with the Moon’s answer­ing song. You will need to dig a lit­tle deep­er, think a lit­tle hard­er to see and feel the Truth that dear Luna offers you now.

The Sun is in Aries, and those Indi­vid­u­al­iz­ing, Inde­pen­dent and Self-Assertive ener­gies have been wax­ing strong­ly. That is why you have the need of the Moon, who rules your Mem­o­ry and the Past. The Moon is there now to bring to you the Gift of Remem­brance that is focused through the Way of Libra now:

That although your Song of Aries sings of you as a pre­cious one, a tru­ly unique Spark of the Divine (and you are that), you are also and equal­ly one of count­less, many oth­er ones too. That your Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty is only made True by your life that you share in as a life you live togeth­er, that you are here for one anoth­er, that you are here because of Love.

That it is in, by and through your rela­tion­ships that you have been formed into what you are, and it is through this intri­cate Dance of Spir­it, of won­drous inte­con­nect­ed rela­tion­ships, it is by this Liv­ing-Lov­ing expe­ri­ence that you will even­tu­al­ly become a Shin­ing Star in a Space filled with all your fel­low Stars.

The Full Moon of Libra reminds you…

That you are One,

And you are Many.

All held together,

By Love.

The ful­crum of 2014 draws closer…

Deci­sions, choic­es, challenges…they

Are all around you.

Behind, before, above and below you,

But most espe­cial­ly, the ones that count

Are always found within.

Many oth­ers will pull and push upon you,

You may become confused,

Or you may become disillusioned.

But all you need remember,

Is that always and forever,

There is a calm, qui­et sanctuary,

A source of love and light for you.

When­ev­er you become unsure,

As you seek The Way,

Just lis­ten to that gen­tle, lov­ing voice within.

Your true Self is there,

With you for­ev­er and always.

The kind­ly lov­ing “Voice of the Silence” is there,

And you will remem­ber, oh yes you will know,

What is right and what is wrong.

For in the end, there is no oth­er way,

“To Love or not”,

That is the only question.

Remem­ber this one Truth,

Be at Peace and be assured,

You true Self, your Beloved will for­ev­er keep you,

Cen­tered, safe and loving,

In your walk among the Stars.

The Dance of the Plan­ets is build­ing to a most seri­ous and aus­pi­cious crescen­do. Though many voic­es will be heard preach­ing and pre­dict­ing the very worse, (and some­times more that this!), you should know that these align­ments are not excep­tion­al, they are most cer­tain­ly not “bad” (or “good” for that matter).

These kind or type of align­ments have and will hap­pen again and again. All that mat­ters for you, all that you are here to learn is how to Mas­ter your­self. For it is from your degree of Spir­i­tu­al Aware­ness, it is from your pre­sid­ing lev­el of self-con­scious­ness, self-con­trol and self-deter­mi­na­tion, that you fash­ion your life from what­ev­er is flow­ing around and from with­in you. For it is you who forges your Real­i­ty, and your Future too. Remem­ber, these ener­gies that sweep around you in the Star­ry spaces above are no more or less than the awe­some pow­ers that reside with­in you as well, “For as above, so below”. Be not afraid and choose to be who you real­ly are, always choose Love.

Remem­ber, no one can say when you will awak­en to the Greater Aware­ness, and so live in the Truer Real­i­ty that is with­in and around you too. But as you slow­ly begin to par­tic­i­pate more con­scious­ly in lift­ing your­self (and so your world) to a more cre­ative and lov­ing space, so too will these awe­some ener­gies that are the true you be put to a more cre­ative and lov­ing purpose.

What you have and need to do always, (as a more or less self-con­scious, self-aware spir­it that is learn­ing to be a con­sid­er­ate, lov­ing co-cre­ator of this Cos­mos of Won­der) is this:

You have a respon­si­bil­i­ty to choose how you will use your Pow­er, you have to stay focused and cen­tered and not be con­fused or dis­tract­ed by those who tell you that things “hap­pen to you”, that you have no choice, when in fact it is you as a Liv­ing Spir­it that is help­ing to make it all hap­pen. And know too, that when sev­er­al of you gath­er togeth­er with this greater spir­i­tu­al under­stand­ing, well that is when the real “mag­ic” begins!

Though every day you need to draw clos­er to this Truth of your Spir­i­tu­al Iden­ti­ty, there are times in any life that will stand out and remind you that what will be the mea­sure of you at the end of this sojourn on Earth is this:

That what you gave is what you did receive. In this pre­cious time that you have to live here, every sin­gle moment, every thought you share, every feel­ing you express, every action you take…all of it is or will become your Future. You are your Kar­ma, and you with your com­pan­ions are the cre­ators who make your own heav­en or hell here on Earth.

Today the Grand Car­di­nal Cross of 2014 is most cer­tain­ly acti­vat­ed as Mer­cury, the Lord and Avatar of Thought and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion is align­ing exact­ly with three of the four plan­ets who now stand in those Car­di­nal Cor­ners, (and he will align with the fourth cor­ner held by Mars on Wednesday).

And, not only does Mer­cury align today with Jupiter, Uranus and Plu­to, but Plu­to is chang­ing direc­tion and “stand­ing still” too, turn­ing ret­ro­grade (until Sep­tem­ber 22), and that will bring into even greater focus the qual­i­ty and con­di­tion of your Will and Sacred Space.

More­over, not only is all of this “hap­pen­ing”, but today/tonight is also the day of the first Lunar Eclipse of 2014. Every month, at each Full Moon, you are remind­ed to stand back and con­sid­er the potent mes­sages and guid­ance that is offered to you by this pri­ma­ry dance of your Sun and Moon. But a Total Lunar Eclipse is a mes­sage that rein­forces the mean­ings of this moment, and reminds you by the beau­ty of this dance of Light and Shad­ows of the com­plex­i­ty and inter­con­nec­tiv­i­ty of your life here and what is hap­pen­ing “up there”.

Yes, this is quite a time, this is quite a month…but what you need to know, of course, is what does this all mean? Since I will exam­ine in more depth the mes­sages of the Grand Car­di­nal Cross when it is most exact between April 20–23, for today let us focus upon the par­tic­u­lar mean­ings of Mer­cury’s elic­i­ta­tions that are here in this moment. I will post anoth­er com­ment after­ward with regards to the Total Lunar Eclipse as well.

Where­as all 4 align­ments of Mer­cury with the Cross should be held as one com­plete mes­sage, as they only form a com­plete spir­i­tu­al mes­sage when inte­grat­ed and bal­anced by one anoth­er, it is help­ful exam­ine them sep­a­rate­ly, each as one melody in a four part har­mo­ny of truth.

The first melody of Spir­it is that of Mer­cury in Aries Squar­ing Jupiter in Can­cer. The Enthu­si­asm and Ide­al­ism of Mer­cury in Aries is most need­ful of tem­per­ing by the ancient, famil­iar and cen­ter­ing truths that flow to you now from your Spir­i­tu­al Roots by Jupiter in Can­cer. As you “lead” with your mind­ful inten­tions now, as you prac­tice the Art of the Pres­ence in Aries, you need to con­sid­er most care­ful­ly the feel­ings that bind you to one anoth­er, for you are all part of the fam­i­ly of human.

For as much as you need to stretch your thoughts into new spaces of self-expres­sion, you must equal­ly remain in touch with the con­texts of mean­ing formed by the lega­cy and efforts of those who came before you, as well as remain under­stand­able to your present-day com­pan­ions. For if you push your­self (and them) to far, you may slip beyond what is rea­son­able and sound, and your Ide­al­ism could cre­ate the very oppo­site of your well-inten­tioned meaning.

There is always present this ten­sion in Spir­i­tu­al Truth, between what is Ide­al or Right and what is Tru­ly the Good. That if the Law is such and such, then so be it, let it be done. But always between the Let­ter of the Law, between what is seem­ing­ly absolute and true, comes the inter­ces­sion of Love and Com­pas­sion in how one should Think and then Act. That as much as you must hold to the High­est Ideals, there is no high­er Truth than to Care and to Love one anoth­er. So you must find the tru­ly Spir­i­tu­al Way, the way between, to find what is right and lov­ing too.

The sec­ond melody of Mer­cury today is elicit­ed by his Con­junc­tion with Uranus who is also in Aries. Here you will find one of the most potent keys to the mys­tery of your Self-Tran­scen­dence, of how you are able to walk the path of Mind­ful advance­ment. For it is by Uranus, the Avatar of your High­er Mind that resides with­in your­self, it is by this that you are aid­ed in step­ping out­side of your nec­es­sary but self-lim­it­ing and self-made bound­aries of thought-forms. For these Thought-Forms have been cre­at­ed by you, and they form your per­cep­tion of what you see as your world, that is true. But these very Lens­es of Illu­mi­na­tion that you have formed will then also shad­ow and obscure from you what is the Greater Real­i­ty beyond your present know­ing too.

Through­out your jour­ney, you have to assume cer­tain para­me­ters, prin­ci­ples, ideas and beliefs in order to cre­ate your par­a­digm of life, and so you must. But that very par­a­digm will become its own prison of per­spec­tive that will hold you in a shad­owed world. That is until some sparkling, shock­ing, often­times upset­ting but won­drous burst from Uranus will reveal to you some­thing beyond what was known, expectable or accept­ed by you or your world…And it is then that you will have your Epiphany, the scales will fall from your eyes, and you rise into a greater, more inclu­sive under­stand­ing, once again.

The third melody of Mer­cury is formed by his Square with Plu­to in Capri­corn. Much as with Mer­cury to Jupiter, Plu­to here is mod­u­lat­ing the enthu­si­asm of Mer­cury by one of the three core prin­ci­ples of Spir­it. You are here to mas­ter your­self in order to devel­op and exer­cise your will, for by this you will cre­ate and live in Sacred Spaces with one anoth­er. Your most impor­tant task here is to main­tain Men­tal Self-Con­trol, hold­ing your own Mind as a Sacred Space, but at the same time to equal­ly treat all oth­ers with this same con­sid­er­a­tion, for of course their thoughts and men­tal space are sacred too.

If you mis­un­der­stand or mis­use your will with regards to your mind, you may be tempt­ed to bend anoth­er to your way of think­ing, and even go so far that in so doing you feel you have “won” or proven right when you force them to think as you. But all you have done is dimin­ish them and their will, and equal­ly cause dam­age to your own soul too.

For by think­ing and act­ing in this way you most cer­tain­ly reveal that you have failed to appre­ci­ate the very nature of how your Con­scious­ness formed, and you have failed to under­stand how it is that you will grow beyond your own lim­it­ed space of know­ing. The word Con­scious­ness lit­er­al­ly means “Togeth­er-Know­ing”. It means that the only way in which you are able to form your under­stand­ing, the only way you will advance your under­stand­ing is through and by shar­ing, blend­ing and inte­grat­ing your thoughts and sen­si­bil­i­ties with one anoth­er. You are made of one anoth­er and the only way to see beyond your own self-cast shad­owed thought-forms is by bring­ing into your own thought-forms the per­spec­tive and light that comes from many oth­ers too.

This Pow­er of the Will is most empha­sized now, for it is also today that Plu­to turns ret­ro­grade. I men­tioned this in my Gen­er­al Fore­cast for 2014 where I noted:

Plu­to Ret­ro­grade (April 14 until Sep­tem­ber 22)

The Lord of Will and Sacred Space begins his annu­al peri­od of ret­ro­grade, and it is time once again to re-con­nect to the well-spring of your Sacred Space, to re-affirm one of your three Prin­ci­ple Spir­i­tu­al Gifts, the Pow­er of your Will. It is time to use this pow­er as it must and will be even­tu­al­ly mas­tered by you, to use this pow­er for what must come first, which is that you are here quite sim­ply to Mas­ter Your­self, to have Self-Con­trol and there­by Self-Deter­mi­na­tion. For only then can you com­bine with oth­er Cen­tered, Self-Con­trolled Com­pan­ions to cre­ate and build your shared Sacred Spaces together.

Yes, Mer­cury the Mes­sen­ger is acti­vat­ing the Grand Car­di­nal Cross today by form­ing a tri­par­tite link for you and these three of four Avatars.

From Jupiter the imper­a­tive to stay cen­tered with­in the Ancient Truths that have guid­ed your jour­ney from the beginning.

From Uranus the gift of Self-Tran­scen­dence that is there with­in your own High­er Mind.

And from Plu­to the pow­er to choose to ful­fill your respon­si­bil­i­ty to pro­tect all Sacred Spaces, start­ing most impor­tant­ly with your own mind.

Now what remains is your Fourth Car­di­nal Cor­ner, and we will look at Mars when Mer­cury meets him on the 16th, Wednes­day, which is Mer­cury’s day.

Now, lis­ten for the whisperings,

Gen­tle stir­rings from within.

The Light is draw­ing closer,

The Path­way now is clear.

You are an Immortal,

Upon a Long Journey,

Lift­ing up your Soul.