The first Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade is here and this is what I wrote in my Gen­er­al Forecast:

Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade (Feb­ru­ary 6 until Feb­ru­ary 28)

Mer­cury begins the first of three ret­ro­grades of the year, this time mov­ing from around 3 degrees of Pisces and back to around 18 degrees of Aquar­ius. While in Pisces you are asked to look with­in and to pay par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to your pow­er of Imag­i­na­tion, to con­sid­er your Dreams and face down your Fears. While in Aquar­ius, your atten­tive­ness should be drawn to the recon­sid­er­a­tion of your Social Con­scious­ness as ful­filled and made pos­si­ble in and through your Dream-Liv­ing Com­pan­ion­ships. As usu­al, many issues in your present day life may slow down or be put on hold as you go back to fin­ish some mat­ters that you left behind.

Your Avatar of Mind is skip­ping around for the next cou­ple of months, so you bet­ter get ready to bend along with those Mer­cu­r­ial rays. One of your great­est gifts is your Intel­li­gence, and it is cer­tain­ly nec­es­sary now to show how adept you are with this most mar­velous fac­ul­ty, it is time to show how nim­ble, agile and adapt­able you are when it comes to your Per­cep­tions and Thoughts. This World is the sub­stan­tial result, it is the con­cretized embod­i­ment of Thought-Forms that you formed and made into your Reality…For as you think so shall you become.

Mer­cury moved into the Water sign of Pisces on Jan­u­ary 31, but he will only be there for less than two weeks…why so short a time? Because today, Thurs­day Feb­ru­ary 6, he is turn­ing ret­ro­grade for three weeks. Which means Mer­cury will move back out of Water and into the Airy sign of Aquar­ius by Feb­ru­ary 12. Mer­cury will turn direct on the last day of Feb­ru­ary, and on March 17 Mer­cury will return to the sign of Pisces and remain there until April 7. Now that is a quite a lot of skip­ping and jump­ing around between the Watery Worlds of Pisces and the Airy Spaces of Aquarius…and that is pre­cise­ly the point, that is exact­ly the gift you are being offered here.

You are about to have an extend­ed invi­ta­tion to work the “weav­ing way” that leads to a more adept and nuanced sen­si­bil­i­ty. By mov­ing back and forth between Watery Pisces and Airy Aquar­ius, you will be bet­ter able to appre­ci­ate the qual­i­ties of both, and more exact­ly see how they both inform and enhance one another.

For your Feel­ings form the con­tex­tu­al back­ground upon which your Thoughts seek to con­struct your ratio­nal view of your world, and it is this which cre­ates the per­cep­tu­al frame­work of your under­stand­ing. Your Thoughts in turn form the medi­um and means of com­mu­ni­cat­ing your Feel­ings, so that you may bet­ter com­pre­hend your Intu­itive (non-ratio­nal) per­cep­tions that per­mit you to per­ceive what is beyond your con­scious know­ing. It is by weav­ing togeth­er these two ways of expe­ri­enc­ing your rela­tion­ship to your­self and of the world around you, by bal­anc­ing and blend­ing the Mental/Rational and Feeling/Intuitive that you cre­ate the expe­ri­ence of your real­i­ty that not only makes sense but feels right too.

The move­ment of Mer­cury through Pisces inclines your per­cep­tions and thoughts to the more Intu­ition­al Way of Know­ing, for it is here that the focal lens­ing of your mind seeks to slip between or tran­scend the lim­its of any one bound­ary or realm of com­pre­hen­sion. You find your­self inspired by con­sid­er­a­tions of the ulti­mate ques­tions of your Life: of Self­less­ness and Sac­ri­fice, of Com­pas­sion and Uncon­di­tion­al Love, of your Faith and your Fear, of your Ego-Lim­i­ta­tions and your Self-Transcendence.

With Mer­cury ret­ro­grade in Pisces, you need to take time to look more deeply with­in your­self to recon­sid­er your most pre­cious gifts of Dream­ing and Imag­i­na­tion, for they form the core of the pow­er of your Ever-Becom­ing, that you are here quite sim­ply to Grow. But to tru­ly release this won­drous gift, you must nev­er cease to chal­lenge your­self to remove what might fore­stall or impede your spir­i­tu­al progress. And what is that? The shad­ow on your path is prin­ci­pal­ly formed by those haunt­ing echoes of your past fail­ures which form your present day fears, and togeth­er these weigh upon your capac­i­ty to believe in your­self or your fel­low companions.

With Mer­cury ret­ro­grade in Pisces you are asked to lis­ten to your inner voice, your calm and steady com­pan­ion, and remem­ber what has been the source of you and of all that is around you too. That at your core you are of the Divine, and it is this lov­ing Pres­ence that pro­vides you with your Foun­tain Source of Hope. It forms your firm and unshake­able Foun­da­tion that becomes sub­stan­tial and shines forth in the Love you have and the Love that you share and is known to you as your Faith. That from this you know you can rise above any past error or mis­take, that you can learn to do and be bet­ter and that you have noth­ing what­so­ev­er to fear, “for thou art with me”. 

When Mer­cury re-enters Aquar­ius on Feb­ru­ary 12, you will find your­self drawn to reex­am­ine your­self and your world through your Rational/Reasoning Mind, for you need to bet­ter under­stand how you do this, how through your Thought-Forms you are able to cre­ate a New­er, Bet­ter World from the Old in which you abide.

For hav­ing had your Thoughts and Beliefs, your very Hopes and Dreams formed with­in the World as it is, how or from where would the Seed of the New arise, from where would come those won­der­ful­ly dis­rup­tive and free­ing Ideas of Inven­tive­ness, Orig­i­nal­i­ty and Spir­i­tu­al Progress?

Again, you must recon­sid­er and return to source, for here at the Aquar­i­an part of the Heart of you, it is here that you will find that your High­er Mind ever seeks to be as free as pos­si­ble from con­straint and con­ven­tion. That you as a fun­da­men­tal­ly Spir­i­tu­al Being, when you hold your­self with­in these High­er Thought Realms, are able to con­sid­er the world that is and the world that could be from out­side the Per­cep­tu­al Hier­ar­chy of the sta­tus quo. You can ride along with these high­er Thought-Forms which will then take you beyond the accept­ed and rea­son­able of today and show you a Brighter Tomor­row, your High­er Con­scious­ness can show you a New You and a New Earth too.

But just as your Intu­ition­al Know­ing in Pisces must be formed into Thoughts so that you might share your Faith, your Greater Know­ing in Aquar­ius is more Lov­ing­ly expressed when com­bined with those Feel­ings of Fel­low­ship that you share with one anoth­er. For this is most cer­tain­ly true, you must have Faith and you must Believe if you are to See and Know a bet­ter Way too.

This is the Dance of Mer­cury now.…

As you work the “weav­ing-way” of your Ratio­nal and your Intuitional.

You are here To Know and To Feel,

To Keep Togeth­er your Airy and Watery ways.

For In Wis­dom and by your Faith…

You are here to make…

Your Dreams come True.

 

I wrote of this turn­ing of Venus in my Gen­er­al Fore­cast:

Venus Direct (Jan­u­ary 31 until July 25, 2015)

This con­cludes the Venus Ret­ro­grade, and you may now direct your atten­tion more out­ward­ly to con­sid­er the real­i­ty and truth of your lov­ing nature in the world. You have had your “40 Days in the Desert”, a most pre­cious time to seek with­in for the “trea­sure beyond mea­sure” which lies at the core of your­self, which goes by many names such as your High­er Self or the Beloved. Now you need to turn and look around you, to act upon this knowl­edge and live with the under­stand­ing that this self-same core resides in every aspect of your world, for it is this which forms the Grace, Beau­ty and Love that is behind all of this Won­drous Creation.

Since Decem­ber 21, you have had this most pre­cious oppor­tu­ni­ty to turn back upon your­self, to look more deeply with­in and con­sid­er again the ques­tion of val­ue in your life. For this is one of the foun­da­tion­al prin­ci­ples of your Spir­i­tu­al Jour­ney. If you are to have the right rela­tion­ship to one anoth­er (and to oth­er life-forms), if you are to have right rela­tion­ships to the “things” in this world too, then you must mas­ter this les­son of Value.

Your moral and social sens­es by which you live out your love for one anoth­er, and your aes­thet­ic sen­si­bil­i­ties by which you live out your love for the beau­ty found and made by you in this world, and most cer­tain­ly the under­stand­ing that have for your own Divine Essence, (the same essence which you share equal­ly with your fel­low trav­el­ers upon this great jour­ney of Spirit)…All of this comes down to one sim­ple but pro­found truth, all of this depends upon your under­stand­ing and expe­ri­enc­ing the one essen­tial Truth that is the Core of you…That you are a spark of the Divine, and Love is sim­ply what makes you You. 

These past “40 Days in the Desert” have been a time for dis­cov­ery, of peel­ing back and delv­ing into the core of what you were, have and can become…for this time your attune­ment was focused through the Ray that is Capricorn.

It is through Capri­corn that you per­ceive the Hier­ar­chy that is Cre­ation: That this entire Cos­mos is like a Lad­der of Life that stretch­es back beyond reck­on­ing through Time and Space, span­ning count­less eons and made up of infi­nite expres­sions of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it. It extends from the Incon­ceiv­able Infin­i­tes­i­mals that form the count­less Inner Worlds to the Incom­pre­hen­si­ble Infin­ites that form the Out­er Planes that stand beyond any sim­ple or sin­gu­lar Dimen­sion of Space-Time…all of it is “That”. All of this puls­ing, stream­ing, surg­ing, unfold­ing Won­der is the Lov­ing Cre­ation of the One True Spir­it that is the Val­ue that forms one and all…and forms you too.

You have real­ized some­thing of this, that some­how you feel or intu­it this as you look out upon the wheel­ing won­ders of the cos­mos above you. Then you turn and you gaze into your dear beloved’s eyes…and then you see, and you under­stand that what looks back at you is you, it is you with­in one anoth­er, you see­ing one anoth­er behind the illu­sion of this form in which you abide. You feel the love that is there with­in, and that is to be found all around you, because this is the ener­gy that binds every speck and mote, every being, plan­et, star and sys­tem into this one Great Life of Spirit.

The Illu­sion that is Sep­a­ra­tion is pierced through at once as you mar­vel at the Love that stands behind it all, that fills you and yours with the ever-unfold­ing poten­tial to become and be so much more…and you will.

The only thing you need to become what you were meant to be…

To make man­i­fest your won­drous Apotheosis…

The only thing you need to do…

Is to Love one Another.

All you need to be,

Is Love.

I wrote of this in my Gen­er­al Fore­cast for 2014:

Jupiter Oppo­site Plu­to (Jan­u­ary 31 & April 20) *also August 7, 2013

This aspect was first exact in August 2013 (and you can read about that here), and con­tin­ues with two more align­ments in Jan­u­ary and April, with the lat­ter being of great­est sig­nif­i­cance since it will coin­cide with the next Uranus Plu­to Square and be part of what is known as the Grand Cross in Astrol­o­gy of 2014, (as Jupiter will be also Squar­ing Uranus the same day). I will write about this exten­sive­ly in April. The fun­da­men­tal issue artic­u­lat­ed here is to stand firm and cen­tered in your truth by the prop­er exer­cise of your Will, but in this you must know that you should nev­er seek to impose a truth upon any oth­er, for this vio­lates one of the Great­est Prin­ci­ples of Spir­it, that all spaces are Sacred and you must not trespass.

Jupiter is your Avatar of Prin­ci­ples and Beliefs. Mov­ing through Can­cer now, Jupiter is help­ing you to more deeply con­nect to the root sources of your foun­da­tion­al truths. For where you stand now in your under­stand­ing is formed by numer­ous streams of life expe­ri­ences. Your fam­i­ly, your cul­ture and your spir­i­tu­al tra­di­tions among many oth­er influ­ences have formed in and through you to cre­ate a sense of the mean­ings of your life. From these you have some notion or belief of where you have come from, of why you are here…and per­haps an idea of where you may or should be going.

It is from these beliefs, which then form your inten­tions and way of relat­ing in your world, that you find your­self in a world-view, par­a­digm or real­i­ty that you share with oth­er mem­bers of your fam­i­ly, tribe, sub-cul­ture and cul­ture. It binds you to one anoth­er in these shared sen­si­bil­i­ties of what you believe to be true for you and yours.

Plu­to is your Avatar of the Will, which is the third Prin­ci­ple abid­ing in your Spir­i­tu­al Core, and is the means by which you come to mas­ter your­self by slow­ly learn­ing to exer­cise your self-con­trol, lead­ing to your ever-expand­ing pow­er of self-deter­mi­na­tion. It is this which allows you to form the sacred space in which you will abide, the sacred space of your­self. As much as you must learn to exer­cise this pow­er of self-deter­mi­na­tion with­in, you will equal­ly learn to mas­ter your Will with regards to all those around you, who equal­ly exist in their sacred spaces too.

Then each from their own more or less cen­tered sacred space, seek­ing to live, love and cre­ate with one anoth­er as you must if you are to ful­fill your­self, each will­ing­ly may choose to form with one anoth­er those shared sacred spaces of per­son­al, pro­fes­sion­al and oth­er unions…and it is here in the spaces you make with one anoth­er that the “mag­ic” of com­bi­na­tion, of “two becom­ing one” can happen.

The Oppo­si­tion of Jupiter and Plu­to sings to you about a most impor­tant les­son that you are learn­ing with regard to your Beliefs and your Will. The prop­er inte­gral rela­tion­ship here between your Truth and your Sacred Space should hold you to the path of being true to your­self, of hold­ing and abid­ing in your Beliefs, Faith, Sci­ence and Phi­los­o­phy so that you may direct your life upon the path that is true for you while you abide in your own sacred space.

But you must nev­er seek to impose upon anoth­er your Truth, to force them to believe or fol­low what they do not under­stand or agree to. Even for the most of so-called noblest of pur­pos­es, if you force anoth­er to go against their own con­science or lev­el of under­stand­ing you break this most fun­da­men­tal spir­i­tu­al law, that each per­son­’s space is sacred. And, if you vio­late that space by break­ing their will and impos­ing your own upon them, you do great dam­age to them, and to yourself.

Even if you are con­vinced, or “know” that your way or belief is high­er or bet­ter or truer, it gives you no right to impose it, for that is a greater untruth. You may cer­tain­ly engage with them, dis­cuss and debate and see how each oth­er’s par­tic­u­lar view­points or posi­tions leads to cer­tain out­comes, and then see what may be shown by this. You may end up chang­ing their mind, or they yours. You may end up agree­ing to disagree.

But no mat­ter what you can­not impose truth. You can only elic­it it, draw it out from with­in them…just as it was drawn out from you.

For that is where Truth resides, in each and every soul’s core there is the High­er Self, there is The Truth of the One in which all do share, and some­day it will be released…but you can­not make this hap­pen by force.

You must and will become as you are in your core…

You will find your way by being true to your Spirit.

You will find your way by this…

Hon­or your three Spir­i­tu­al Principles…

A Free Mind, Uncon­di­tion­al Love and Sacred Space.

This is your Truth, this is The Way.

You have jour­neyed far and wide, sweep­ing around…

This Cir­cle of Life and Love.

Dark­er nights have been met and mas­tered, and

Your days are length­en­ing once again.

There is anoth­er Astro­log­i­cal Year, just ahead…

Still, it seems far away to you…for it is always dark­est before the dawn.

A bet­ter world is just beyond, and some­where out there is Spring, out there is your hope for a new begin­ning. You need help, you need one anoth­er to make real and true that promise you hold so dear…of brighter days, of good times and a future for you and yours.

So you come to the next Truth in your Jour­ney. That after the tri­als and tribu­la­tions, beyond the suc­cess­es (and so-called defeats) you need to know what comes after those rewards and respon­si­bil­i­ties that made your time of Capri­corn. You have your hard-won achieve­ments, you ful­filled your pur­pose, you did your duty in your world, and you built some­thing worth pre­serv­ing and pass­ing on…and now you come to this.

Luna returns to the Sun for yet anoth­er bless­ing, she pass­es between you and your Star to receive and bring to you this next mes­sage of mean­ing to guide your steps, for she is ever there to help you find the one true path that will take you out of the dark­ness and into the Dawn of a New Life.

You need to know, after pass­ing over the pin­na­cle that is Capri­corn, hav­ing made your way to the top, you need to know what was it for, what are you real­ly here for?

You look around…and you remem­ber. You remem­ber it would not have been, nor would it have mat­tered with­out the love you have for one another…for you have and will nev­er trav­el alone, not ever. You have always been with your fel­low Stal­wart Seek­ers with­out whom you would have nev­er come this far at all.

For your dreams are made of them, your life is found in their fel­low­ship. You are here for anoth­er, and you are made of and by one anoth­er too. For your dreams are their dreams, and theirs is yours too. You are made what you are by your com­pan­ion­ship, you became what you are by your believ­ing and car­ing for one other.

You were formed by one anoth­er in life after life, and from your begin­ning you have jour­neyed in this Grand Adven­ture of the Divine that is your self-becom­ing, each help­ing one anoth­er to be and become who they are. You help one anoth­er by being true to your­self, by accept­ing and delight­ing in one anoth­er for being exact­ly that, for being a spe­cial one among many oth­er spe­cial ones…for you are each a unique spark of the one Divine Flame and you help one anoth­er to be that, to just be who you are.

This Eleventh Moon of your Astro­log­i­cal year reminds you of this, that you are here quite sim­ply to grow…and you can only be free to do this with oth­er free-seek­ers too. You dream of a bet­ter time to come, and you can brave the dark times that must be endured because you have one anoth­er, and you can hold one anoth­er, and lift one anoth­er and believe in one anoth­er for you know that togeth­er you will step into that bet­ter world that is com­ing with Dawn.

The New Moon in Aquar­ius reminds you of your Truth, that you are part of a Com­pa­ny of Dream­ers-Mak­ers-Cre­ators who will bring about a New World. You are with your Con­stant Com­pan­ions, in life after life and togeth­er you will bring about the Dawn.

You are what you are because of these ones whom you love, the ones you call “my friend”.

Gath­er togeth­er, cel­e­brate your dreams and hopes…

And with a lit­tle help from your friends…

A Bet­ter Day will Dawn.

With a lit­tle help from my friends…

OTHER MAJOR ALIGNMENTS and PHENOMENA

I will note and com­ment upon some of the remain­ing major astro­log­i­cal move­ments and align­ments for this year. I will offer more detailed analy­sis for when they actu­al­ly occur.

Jupiter Oppo­site Plu­to (Jan­u­ary 31 & April 20) *also August 7, 2013

This aspect was first exact in August 2013 (and you can read about that here), and con­tin­ues with two more align­ments in Jan­u­ary and April, with the lat­ter being of great­est sig­nif­i­cance since it will coin­cide with the next Uranus Plu­to Square and be part of what is known as the Grand Cross in Astrol­o­gy of 2014, (as Jupiter will be also Squar­ing Uranus the same day). I will write about this exten­sive­ly in April. The fun­da­men­tal issue artic­u­lat­ed here is to stand firm and cen­tered in your truth by the prop­er exer­cise of your Will, but in this you must know that you should nev­er seek to impose a truth upon any oth­er, for this vio­lates one of the Great­est Prin­ci­ples of Spir­it, that all spaces are Sacred and you must not trespass.

Venus Direct (Jan­u­ary 31 until July 25, 2015)

This con­cludes the Venus Ret­ro­grade, and you may now direct your atten­tion more out­ward­ly to con­sid­er the real­i­ty and truth of your lov­ing nature in the world. You have had your “40 Days in the Desert”, a most pre­cious time to seek with­in for the “trea­sure beyond mea­sure” which lies at the core of your­self, which goes by many names such as your High­er Self or the Beloved. Now you need to turn and look around you, to act upon this knowl­edge and live with the under­stand­ing that this self-same core resides in every aspect of your world, for it is this which forms the Grace, Beau­ty and Love that is behind all of this Won­drous Creation.

Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade (Feb­ru­ary 6 until Feb­ru­ary 28)

Mer­cury begins the first of three ret­ro­grades of the year, this time mov­ing from around 3 degrees of Pisces and back to around 18 degrees of Aquar­ius. While in Pisces you are asked to look with­in and to pay par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to your pow­er of Imag­i­na­tion, to con­sid­er your Dreams and face down your Fears. While in Aquar­ius, your atten­tive­ness should be drawn to the recon­sid­er­a­tion of your Social Con­scious­ness as ful­filled and made pos­si­ble in and through your Dream-Liv­ing Com­pan­ion­ships. As usu­al, many issues in your present day life may slow down or be put on hold as you go back to fin­ish some mat­ters that you left behind.

Jupiter Square Uranus (Feb­ru­ary 25–26 & April 19–20) *also August 21, 2013

This aspect is the sec­ond of three in the series and will reap­pear in its final align­ment to form the Grand Car­di­nal Cross in April. I wrote about this first in August and I will write at length about the final one in April. The mes­sage of this aspect con­cerns your need to find the inte­gral path that com­bines Jupiter and Uranus, so that each will mutu­al­ly inform one anoth­er: that Jupiter in Can­cer reminds you to hold and keep to your Truths that are found­ed upon by the deep­est roots of your life, while you equal­ly hear­ken to song of Uranus in Aries, which calls for you to break out of old and out­worn thought-forms, to free your Mind and Spir­it once more.

Mer­cury Direct (Feb­ru­ary 28 until June 7)

Mer­cury con­cludes his ret­ro­grade and you are now ready to take a renewed/refined under­stand­ing about your Faith and your Dreams and move out upon those more exter­nal spaces that form the mate­ri­al­iza­tions of your mind.

Mars Ret­ro­grade (March 1 until May 19)

The Avatar of your Desires is tak­ing you upon an inner jour­ney. You will have the next 80 days to reex­am­ine what your aims and inten­tions tru­ly are. From where do they come, and where are they tak­ing you? It is time to pause and recon­sid­er two points: Is this Goal True for you now? Is this the best path of action to take you there?

Sat­urn Ret­ro­grade (March 2 until July 20)

Sat­urn begins his year­ly ret­ro­grade, and once again he is tak­ing you inward in Scor­pio to con­sid­er what may be found there that might form the obsta­cle to a greater Union in your life. As before, the shad­ows of the past, your fears about rejec­tion or loss have to be faced and released here first, with­in your­self, for only then will you find it pos­si­ble to expe­ri­ence your joy of a deep­er Union out there with one another.

Jupiter Direct (March 6 until Decem­ber 8)

Jupiter who has been ret­ro­grade since ear­ly Novem­ber moves for­ward again. You have had the last four months to con­sid­er the nature of your Prin­ci­ples, Truths and Beliefs. The focus of Growth and Under­stand­ing has been with­in one­self. Now with this renew­al of the way in which you relate to your world, you can move out to sub­stan­ti­ate this Greater Under­stand­ing in your build­ing of a bet­ter world.

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.

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.

Jupiter Square Uranus (April 19–20) last of 3

The Grand Car­di­nal Cross has arrived, and the foun­da­tions of your world will shake over the next few days, weeks and more. This align­ment of Jupiter with Uranus is the final of three con­tacts between these two; the first was in August 2013 which you can read about here, the sec­ond occurred in late Feb­ru­ary 2014. This align­ment will be ana­lyzed in depth with­in the post­ing for the Grand Cross in April.

Jupiter Oppo­site Plu­to (April 20) last of 3

The Grand Car­di­nal Cross is most exact with this align­ment of Jupiter to Plu­to (and Jupiter to Uranus just hours ear­li­er). This is the also the third align­ment of Jupiter with Plu­to, the first was in August 2013, the sec­ond being at the end of Jan­u­ary of 2014. This part of the Grand Cross was dis­cussed in the first part of this Gen­er­al Fore­cast, and will be part of a more exten­sive analy­sis in April.

Uranus Square Plu­to (April 21 & Decem­ber 15) *also March 15, 2015

Two times in 2014 this ongo­ing Song of Spir­it will form up exact­ly, as Uranus and Plu­to con­tin­ue their Square Dance (though of course giv­en the very small amount of move­ment that they have and will make in any year, this align­ment could be said to have begun as ear­ly as when Plu­to entered Capri­corn in 2008 and will cer­tain­ly be felt for sev­er­al years beyond 2015). The April align­ment is the fifth out of sev­en such exact con­tacts, and is of the great­est sig­nif­i­cance as it forms the crit­i­cal ele­ment of the Grand Cross of April. The sec­ond square in Decem­ber will not seem as potent, but it most cer­tain­ly is.

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.

Mars Direct (May 19 until April 17, 2016)

The Avatar of Desire moves for­ward again until April 2016. Now that you have had your 80 days to recon­sid­er your Aims and Actions, it is time to move for­ward again. But remem­ber to fol­low the Noble Path of con­scious inten­tion, for what you must under­stand is that you are the mak­er of your real­i­ty, Right Think­ing leads to Right Action!

Jupiter Trine Sat­urn (May 24) *also July 17, 2013 and Decem­ber 12, 2013

This is the third and last trine of Jupiter to Sat­urn until August 2026, bet­ter make the most of this one! The first align­ment was in July 2013 and the sec­ond was in Decem­ber 2013. When the Avatar of your Prin­ci­ples makes this beau­ti­ful align­ment with the Avatar of your Real­i­ty, then you have arrived at what is known as “the sweet spot” of your unfold­ment. You can have a most won­der­ful expe­ri­ence, a bal­ance is found between your Opti­mism and Prag­ma­tism, between your Prin­ci­ples and your Reality.

Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade (June 7 until July 1)

The sec­ond ret­ro­grade of 2014, this time Mer­cury goes from about 3 Can­cer back to around 24 of Gem­i­ni, and just as in the pre­vi­ous ret­ro­grade you are mov­ing back­wards from the begin­ning of a Water Sign and back into an Air Sign. Again, you are being offered a chance to forge a deep­er con­nec­tion between what you feel and how you think. To more deeply under­stand that your Secu­ri­ty and Cen­ter depend upon a Mind that is curi­ous, adapt­able and ques­tion­ing. As always with Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, many issues in your present day life may slow down or be put on hold as you go back to fin­ish some mat­ters that you left behind.

Nep­tune Ret­ro­grade (June 9 until Novem­ber 15)

The Avatar of Intu­ition and Dreams is turn­ing your atten­tion inwards. For the next five months you will do well to lis­ten more care­ful­ly to the prompt­ings of your Intu­itive Self who whis­pers to you from and of your Immor­tal­i­ty. It is time to dream a lit­tle more, to imag­ine a bet­ter you by fol­low­ing the path of Mys­tery and your Muse. It is most tru­ly a time to look with won­der at the Cre­ation with­in and around you.

Mer­cury Direct (July 1 until Octo­ber 4)

It is time to apply those lessons and dis­cov­er­ies about your Feelings/Thoughts that you have made over the past three weeks. Know­ing bet­ter how they won­der­ful­ly influ­ence one anoth­er, you can take with you that more nuanced blend of mind/feeling now as you move out­ward­ly to bring this under­stand­ing into your con­duct and communications.

Jupiter Enters Leo (July 16 until August 11, 2015)

The Lord of Prin­ci­ples and Social Under­stand­ing enters the Regal Sign of Leo for the next 13 months. This is the time to expand or stretch your­self upon even grander stages, to slip into new and renewed roles of self-real­iza­tion. You had the last 13 months while in Can­cer to restore and recon­nect to your roots, to remem­ber and feel what lies at the heart of you. Now it is time to go forth and reveal to your­self and oth­ers what you are, to be and live a more Authen­tic Self.

Sat­urn Direct (July 20 until March 14, 2015)

The Avatar or 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.

Uranus Ret­ro­grade (July 21 until Decem­ber 21)

The Lord of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty is turn­ing you inwards again. Before you can co-cre­ate a more beau­ti­ful Space of Free­dom for your­self and oth­ers, you must attend now to the con­di­tions with­in your­self that may pre­vent this promise of a Freer Space of Self-Real­iza­tion for one and all. That greater space of Free­dom depends upon your efforts to lib­er­ate your­self from the famil­iar but often­times reac­tive and less than evolved pat­terns that form the way you relate with one anoth­er. Uranus is tak­ing you with­in so that you may con­tin­ue your jour­ney of Indi­vid­u­a­tion which is found and found­ed upon a Mind that is Free.

Plu­to Direct (Sep­tem­ber 22 until April 16, 2015)

The Avatar of Will and Sacred Space is bend­ing your atten­tion out­ward again to con­sid­er the nature of your Will as it relates with and through the Wills of those with whom you share your world. You have had the past five months to work more with­in your­self, to under­stand one of your most spe­cial sacred gifts, the Pow­er of your Will. The key to your Self-Becom­ing is Self-Mas­tery or Self-Con­trol. Now you need to bend your atten­tion to how you and oth­ers exer­cise your wills with one anoth­er, for your ful­fill­ment depends upon this co-cre­ation of bet­ter shared Sacred Spaces.

Jupiter Trine Uranus (Sep­tem­ber 25, March 3, 2015 and June 22, 2015)

The Avatar of Truth meets the Lord of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty. This is the major ele­ment that forms one side of the Grand Trine in ear­ly Octo­ber (the oth­er two sides being Mars Trine Jupiter and Mars Trine Uranus). This is the focal ele­ment of this beau­ti­ful aspect and illus­trates one of the pre­vail­ing qual­i­ties that dri­ve or cre­ates your tru­ly unlim­it­ed poten­tial for growth. Your Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty or process of Self-Becom­ing (Uranus) is the real source of Growth or Expan­sion (Jupiter). You are always unfold­ing your poten­tial, your Seed of Spir­it con­tains this germ of Indi­vid­u­a­tion as does every speck of Cre­ation, for it is from this need of the One to man­i­fest and become the many that the whole Uni­verse has come into being in all its won­drous and diverse Beauty…and you are a most essen­tial part of this spe­cial­ness that under­lies and gives mean­ing to this Cosmos.

Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade (Octo­ber 4 until Octo­ber 25)

The third and final ret­ro­grade of 2014 is here, and Mer­cury will move from about 2 Scor­pio back to around 17 Libra. Just as in the pre­vi­ous two ret­ro­grades, you are bridg­ing the ele­ments here as you move back out of Water and into an Air Sign. With all three Mer­cury ret­ro­grades hav­ing had this link­age of Water and Air, you have been giv­en an oppor­tu­ni­ty to form a much deep­er appre­ci­a­tion of the inte­gral con­nec­tion between the depth of your Feel­ings and the wis­dom of your Thoughts. As you will often find though with Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, many issues in your present day life may slow down or be put on hold as you go back to fin­ish some mat­ters that you left behind.

Full Total Lunar Eclipse (Octo­ber 8)

The third Eclipse of the year is a Total Lunar Eclipse in Aries. As in all Lunar Eclipses, the Earth­’s shad­ow is pass­ing over the Moon. This means that the mes­sage you need from Aries is hard­er to dis­cern as it is obscured by the Earth­’s shad­ow, and the req­ui­site bal­ance you would receive to the pre­vail­ing Solar Forces in Libra may take more effort to understand.

Here is infor­ma­tion about the Eclipse and where it will be vis­i­ble, which is through­out the Pacif­ic Ocean and the lands that sur­round it.

Solar Par­tial Eclipse (Octo­ber 23)

The final Eclipse of the year is a Par­tial Solar Eclipse at 0 degrees of Scor­pio. Here is infor­ma­tion about the Eclipse and where it will be vis­i­ble, which begins off of Kam­chat­ka, Rus­sia and races over to Cana­da and most of the Unit­ed States.

On this first day of Scor­pio, when you again take up a most awe­some task (that you will encounter again and again in your jour­ney upon this Earth), you face the Spir­i­tu­al Neces­si­ty of over­com­ing the Illu­sion that is your expe­ri­ence of Sep­a­ra­tion. Today you now meet this moment with the added empha­sis and pow­er brought by the eclipse. A deep­er seed­ing of mean­ing will be offered to those who have the courage to look beyond appear­ances and seek for the under­ly­ing truth. 

Mer­cury Direct (Octo­ber 25 until Feb­ru­ary 6, 2015)

Mer­cury goes direct until Feb­ru­ary of 2016. You have com­plet­ed three rounds of Water/Air ret­ro­grades of Mer­cury. This three-fold dance that showed you the link­age between your Feel­ings and Thoughts ends with this reminder that for you to expe­ri­ence the pas­sion of a more per­fect Union depends upon your Con­scious­ness being guid­ed by true Jus­tice and shared Prin­ci­ples, that you must ever be guid­ed by tol­er­ance and under­stand­ing for one another.

Nep­tune Direct (Novem­ber 15 until June 11–12, 2015)

The Lord of Dreams and Imag­i­na­tion leads you out­wards again. You have for the past sev­er­al months been dis­posed to be atten­tive to the whis­pers of your Intu­ition, to be turned more with­in and wan­der through your worlds of imag­i­na­tion, to seek in your dreams for those brighter days. Now it is time to take your visions of sweet tomor­rows, to take your dreams and live the future you wish to be…It is time to Dream, it is time to Believe, it is time to be an Imagineer.

Jupiter Ret­ro­grade (Decem­ber 8 until April 8, 2015)

The Lord of Truth is tak­ing you with­in for the next four months, and it is time once again to con­sid­er the nature of your prin­ci­ples and beliefs. This time Jupiter is mov­ing back through the sign of Leo, so you will have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to go with­in to the heart-source and well-spring of your Truth. You wish to extend your space of self-real­iza­tion, to be expand your Cre­ativ­i­ty and your Lead­er­ship, but first you must go with­in and expand your under­stand­ing of the source of your Cre­ative Spir­it, you need to lis­ten and learn from your Muse.

Uranus Square Plu­to (Decem­ber 15) *and March 15, 2015

The next to last Uranus/Pluto Square is here, and though you have been through this many times by now, this piv­otal align­ment is by no means “over” as Uranus and Plu­to will stay in res­o­nance with one anoth­er for sev­er­al years to come. Though we tend to look for an instance or moment when some­thing is most “exact”, life and the dance of the plan­ets is not about dis­crete points or moments. It is about Ener­gies, Lights, Vibra­tions, Sounds that sparkle and dance and ring out like rip­ples in a pond, or chimes sound­ing in the air, and should be seen as mark­ing phas­es and peri­ods in time and space, and not as iso­lat­ed or sep­a­rate, no not at all. All of these Star­ry Com­pan­ions weave and dance and flow togeth­er with one anoth­er, they inter­twine to form a greater Song, and so we too should give our­selves some time and space to expe­ri­ence and under­stand what is being offered to us by these Won­ders sweep­ing around our world. It takes time to understand.…give your­self time, to dream, to hope, to believe…and then do.

Uranus Direct (Decem­ber 21 until July 25–26, 2015)

The Avatar of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Free­dom is lead­ing you out­wards again, and it is a most spe­cial turn­ing indeed. For this is also the day of the Sol­stice, which means this win­ter begins with a New Moon. This is rec­og­nized as a most sacred event in the Spir­i­tu­al Cal­en­dar. When­ev­er a New Moon is also the begin­ning of one of the Four Sacred Sea­sons, spe­cial cer­e­monies and ini­ti­a­tions are observed and hon­ored at such at time. This is a time of Quick­en­ing, and for those who have pre­pared and are ready to accept the next sac­ri­fice, their Joy­ful Ser­vice is hon­ored and reward­ed now as they move that much clos­er to the Light of Under­stand­ing. All should bow their heads and lift their lov­ing hearts to those who live for and in the One, and find their own peace in the words of the Great Invo­ca­tion which will be said at many a cer­e­mo­ny today:

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.

 

Sat­urn Enters Sagit­tar­ius (Decem­ber 23, back to Scor­pio June 14, 2015 and back into Sagit­tar­ius Sept 17, 2015 until Decem­ber 2017)

The Avatar of Real­i­ty is mov­ing into Sagit­tar­ius, but he will pause at the thresh­old of this sign and go back into Scor­pio from June until Sep­tem­ber of 2015, so you will be strad­dling these two signs too as he dances between them. You have faced many lessons of Union while Sat­urn was in Scor­pio, and now you will be encour­aged to take your next step…to Under­stand and move towards Wisdom.