Astrologer Bill Attride

Mars Enters Gemini (May 31, 2013)

Just to keep things a little in balance, as Mercury dives into those Waters of Cancer, guiding you towards your Fountain-Source of Feelings, Mars jumps over the proverbial candlestick into that most Airy World of Gemini!

So, for the next 44 days you are going on a thrilling ride, you are motivated and moving, as you charge ahead with this spike in your Enthusiasms, Activities and Drives...You are to experience a quickening or resurgence in your desire and need for distracting diversities and multiple stimulations...Forget about doing one thing at a time...this is your time to run and jump while juggling several different tasks at the same time...Yes, you are all excited now, you are Nimble, and you are Quick...okay, let's see you jump over that Candlestick!

Whereas Mars in Taurus brought your Desires into a more Substantial Focus, to a more Valued and Measured pace of Tangible Manifestation...Mars in Gemini inspires you to release yourself into the delightful Virtuosities of Mind and Body Coordination, to display your élan and agility, to go as fast as you can go, to pivot, jump and tumble...and then do it again!

Yet as much as you feel this thrill of energy coursing through you, your nerves firing and muscles jumping, remember that there is a higher purpose to this Infusion of Inspiration...For Mars in Gemini is here to remind you that the Key to the Kingdom, to the fulfillment of your Dreams and Desires, requires that you strive to be an Adept, that you Understand that the Pathway to Attain your goals will only be found through being Alert, Adaptable and Intelligent.

For you are on Earth to learn, and so you will be presented with many challenges and choices. You will develop your best solutions to the problems of life that you encounter...but because the world and you are ever-changing, these elegant or sometimes less than elegant answers to the challenges of your world will over time "go out of phase" or fail...You will encounter the seemingly ordinary problem, apply your solution...and, nothing...it does not work. Well, you must have forgotten or missed a step, so you try again...And again, nada...That is when the proverbial "light bulb" is supposed to come on in your head...And you realize, things are not as they were or seem, and you need to do that quick step and get cracking at developing a better approach and find a new solution to your problem...Yes, that's right...it is time to show your Intelligence!

Well, with Mars in Gemini, you had better pay attention because this is what you are going to face again and again now...The World is changing, and so are you!...Yes, things are definitely bending beyond the ordinary and expectable, and you really need this Gemini Gift of Intelligence in Action...

So show your Adeptness...Stay Alert, Be Adaptable and be thankful...

For the Wisdom of the Stars will always guide you...

Their Signs and Portents are there to be read...

With those who have eyes to see, and ears to hear.

For it is this, this Song and Dance of Spirit...

That will keep you upon the Path.

Aware, Alert...and filled with Wonder.

Now, Jump!

Mercury Enters Cancer (May 31, 2013)

Get ready to settle in to a long, long sojourn with your Intuitive or "Feeling Mind", because Mercury is not going to stay here for the usual two or three weeks...oh no, he is making himself home in Cancer until August 8th! That is Ten Weeks! Wow!

That is a very long time for your mind to be splashing, swimming and diving through those Waters of Memory, Caring and Home...So get ready, curl up with your feelings, and settle into this Healing Journey, for you are going to the roots of you, you are going to your Center, for it is in Cancer that you return to the beginning, to the Fountain-Source of your life...Your Mind and Heart will turn to what binds you to your core...to family, to belonging to a people, to being one of the ones of the One...

Of course the reason as to why Mercury is residing in Cancer for so long is that he will turn retrograde on June 26, and then turn direct on July 20 and so he will abide in these Waters of Origin for quite some time, and in the process take you even deeper to those catacombs of your past...so you must really need this...this reminder of where you come from, this deeper truth as to how you know, and this truer way to share it too...

For as much as Mercury in Gemini reminded you of your most wonderful instrument of understanding, that self-reflective, contrasting-refracting and wondrously curious faculty you know as Intelligence...Mercury in Cancer is here to remind you that you are more than a mind, that you secure yourself to what was and is and what will be through Feelings, and it is through this weaving-way of Feeling-Thoughts or Thoughtful-Feelings that you can truly come together with one another...

For thoughts alone can and often will divide you from one another. Your Rainbow Bridge of Understanding, of heartfelt connectedness is absent when you only reside in that Tower made of Pure Thought...and that without this modulation of Feeling, wherein is found your compassion, sympathy and caring...well, without that you are really not human at all...

For it is your Feelings that bring you into your Common Ground, that Space that is shared by one and all...For you are part of something greater, you and all of Creation come from one Divine Source. You and everyone you have ever known, know and will meet someday, you are all related to one another, and you all partake, find your feelings and share in this experience of being ultimately of this One Family. That you are one in your Origin, each a beautiful, unique spark of this One Divine Flame...You are all related and at the core of your experience is this joining with one another, that you partake in this common feeling of the experience of your journey of self-becoming...of caring for, nurturing and supporting one another as you become so much more...

You share in your Over-Comings or Triumphs, you comfort one another in your moments of Defeats or Despair...Because, because you have been there too, and so you have Compassion and Sympathy...You feel their joy, you share in their sadness and you hope together for a better day, Together...For what they feel you have felt and feel too, and so you can help one another to find the way beyond the pain and shadows, to find and connect to your Home and so Know and Believe in the Light Everlasting...You can Think and Feel, Together...and so accept, let go and grow into the Greater Understanding.

This is how you Feel and Think...

This is how you Thoughtfully Feel...

By Caring, Nurturing and Helping one another.

By Remembering and Honoring each and every Spark...

Because you Feel and you Know that every other is truly part of Oneself too...

The Bridge is Formed, the Illusion of Separation thrown down...

Your Minds and Hearts are One...

Joyfully moving closer...

To the Everlasting Light.

Venus Conjunct Jupiter (May 28, 2013)

And now part 3 of your "Pas de Trois", as Venus catches up and aligns with Jupiter too...and this one, well this is truly "a blessing" for you...It is most certainly beautiful for it is formed by the Conjunction of what Astrologers call the Two Benefics, Venus is the Lesser and Jupiter the Greater Benefic...and so today's alignment is known by those who have found the path as "The Blessing Way"...Today these two renew their cycle with one another, they offer their gifts to you and help you to find your way...

Venus is the Avatar of your experience of Value and Beauty, for the one True and Ultimate Measure of your Divinity is what you know as Love...Venus is your Avatar of Love and helps you to find your way to the One Truth, to your Unconditional Love of your Self, who is in fact your Beloved and is your source of Love within...And this Love that abides within the Heart of you is the only path that will in equal measure permit you to Share and Receive your Love for one another too...for you can only Receive what you are able to Give.

Jupiter is the Lord of Truth and Wisdom, who leads you out beyond the familiar, to encourage and support you as you strive to reach that far distant shore of Understanding...For your one most insistent and inspired Seed of Truth is held by the Divine within you, it is the Core of you because you are a Spark of that Divine. This Spiritual Seed means that you are here for One Purpose, to fulfill your Destiny as a child of the One Spirit, and that means you are here "To Grow"...

And as you move from within outwards in your journey to Understand your Self and your World, to become what you are destined to be, it is Jupiter who steadfastly supports you, to provide and remind you of the One True Path...That you are to conduct yourself with Honor, Truth and Benevolent Generosity. For it is from these Principles and Truths of Jupiter that you project yourself into the world around you, it forms The Way in which you relate to your world and to all with whom you journey.

So these Benefic Two, Venus forming your Love, Jupiter forming your Character, they will ever work together to help you find your way to Love and Truth, to stay upon that Narrow Path, The Noble Way...The Way of Spirit.

For you must be Loving to be Loved, you must be Generous to be Favored. Today you see these two as one, and they reveal this sacred truth, that Love brings Love, Goodness brings Grace.

In the more ordinary interpretations of Astrology, the Union of Venus and Jupiter means "Good Luck". But for those who Know and Understand, they bow their heads and give thanks to this reminder shining above...That you will make your world as you live it...So be Loving and be Generous and those Stars will smile with you as you do your part to Lift and Light the Way...and Those Regents of Spirit will Shine the brighter for you as well.

For the soul still seeking, Philosophy means "The Love of Wisdom"...

For the Seeker who has found the Path...

Philosophy is revealed to be "The Wisdom of Love".

May you Walk in Beauty, May you Walk in Kindness...

May you always Walk in "The Blessing Way".

Mercury Conjunct Jupiter (May 27, 2013)

This is part 2 of your "Pas de Trois" of Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, and so hopefully your beautiful sunset has turned into twilight and you are able to see these "two as one"(though of course they will still appear as separate points of light for you). You can click on the image above to see this Dance unfold, but if you can go outside and see it, well that is how it should be. And this particular alignment is quite special, for it concerns how you know what you know...

Mercury is the Avatar of your Inquisitive, Inductive and Curiosity-Infused Mind...Whereas Jupiter is the Avatar of your Theorizing, Deductive and Reasoning-Infused Mind. Both actually need and depend upon one another, for each informs and supports the other. Today they come together, to begin again their yearly journey, wherein they will bob and weave and influence one another and you...Each has and must make its rightful contribution to your journey of understanding, for you must go in and go out, you must dance the with them, as you Weave your understanding by means of this Warp and Weft of your Mind...for it is from both that you form an ever-unfolding understanding of yourself and your world.

However, because of Cultural and Dispositional Preferences, the Unfoldment of various Spiritual or Philosophical Understandings led to one or the other approach as being more esteemed or dismissed for a time, and each side claimed the superiority or correctness of "their way of knowing"...But what is truly true, is that one without the other is really not possible...Yes, as in most dualities, the truth lies in the mystery of their Union.

Each gave rise to two approaches to your Knowing...Idealism versus Objectivism, or of Spirit versus Matter. Taken to it most extreme expression, the Absolute Idealists would claim that all of this Physical World is a Maya, an Illusion and that only Energy, Thought or Mind is Real. The Absolute Materialists would hold that everything is founded upon and arises from Matter, that your Thoughts or Ideas are merely chemical-electro interactions, that nothing is real if it is not also ultimately seen as having tangible properties, perhaps by being founded upon some absolute particle of creation (which they keep searching for), probing ever deeper into the cosmos of the sub-atomic world.

But just as today you see these two planets joining together "as one", the Ancient Teachings have always rested upon the Noble Middle Way, the integral approach that might be best termed an Objective Idealism. Spirit and Matter are merely mirrors to one another of the whole that is Creation, Matter is Spirit Materialized as Spirit is Matter Etherealized...For Truly, the Universe you exist in, all its wondrous and varied forms and manifestations, it is Real for you as you perceive it...it is Real and yet it is also a Maya or Illusionary too...

Now Maya has come to mean for many that this external world is not real, that is all an Illusion. But this is not what Maya meant or means...Maya comes from the Sanskrit "ma", which means to measure, to form into something limited. Maya means that you try to measure and understand your world, using your Inductive and Deductive Powers, but being imperfect you form in your thoughts a fiction, a fabrication or illusion that is of your making and that you hold onto this for the world that IS...But Creation, The Divine is not this, it is only this for you at this time...

But the Outer Reality does in fact Exist (just as it exists within you and throughout countless Dimensions within and without)...The Divine IS, but it will always be much more than you can perceive or deduce, of course...But as you strive, as you grow into your Humility and Wisdom by forming a deeper connection with Divine that is within yourself (which is the very reason as to why you can come to know this Universe, because you are of this Divinity too), you can lift some more of this Veil and approach that much closer to what is THAT, the Greater Reality, you can approach and bow your head to the All-Encompassing and Compassionate...

And yet even still you will be, forever and ever you will be in a Maya, for all in this Creation are in the Mahamaya or the Greater Maya...which is...

What is beyond this Creation is the Divine which is not Manifested. All that is, is in this Creation, and it came from and is an Emanation of THAT which is beyond, and that is Truly Unknowable and Unspeakable...Nameless. This Creation you are in is Real for you who are of it, but it is a Maya when compared with the Un-Nameable, the Ineffable and Unlimited Non-Being from which this very Creation sprang...and to which it and you will one day return...

Your Journey of Knowing and Being stretches back and forward through such an Immense and Immeasurable Arc of Time and Space, and yet you have within yourself this Divine Immanent Gift of Mind to Perceive, Conceive and Comprehend your Journey and Destiny, and this is truly a wonder in itself!

But at each stage of your journey, in each step you make up that Ladder of Light which is your Understanding, you must forever know that you are still and will always be as a child, filled with Wonder, Sensing-Feeling something that is Greater, and then when you finally reach even to this next Greater Realm, you will find yet again that there is still something beyond...and so you must walk on...

This is the Journey that you are on, that the more you understand, the more Wise and so Humble you will become, because you realize how much further there is yet before you...You may look to the Great Ones for Inspiration, for they have walked the path that is ahead of you, and you will believe and hope that they have reached that All-encompassing, Complete Understanding of the Mystery...and they will smile and turn their heads and bow to THAT, for it is The Mystery that is before them too...The Journey of Spirit is and will ever be, for them as for you...

So, Today is for beginning again....

To Commence the next cycle in your Journey of Understanding...

Of Deduction and Induction, Of Spirit and Matter...

Of drawing Down and Looking Up to the Wonders that Surround you...

To see that The Mystery is All Around you, but inside of you Too!

And that is why...

The Key to your Journey...

Is to Know Yourself...

And so your Universe Too!

And you will accept, and you will draw closer...

To the Greater Understanding...

To Wisdom, To Love...To the Divine.

Looking within, Reaching up...

To the Light.

Walk on.

Sun Square Neptune (May 26, 2013)

First it was Venus (May 13), then it was Mercury (May 18) and now it is the Sun's turn to be "Glamoured" by the Lord of Dreams and Visions...Neptune is shifting the focus to your Self...

Whereas Neptune Elicits a Greater Love from Venus, who is the Avatar of your Value of Yourself, Your Love...and Neptune Bestows a Wider Understanding upon Mercury, who is the Avatar of your Mind, Your Consciousness...Now Neptune will bring to bear these Wondrous Powers of Illumination to your Sun, the Avatar of Your Self, Your Individuality or Spark of the Divine.

But just as with your Love and your Mind, this process is often not what it seems...For how could it be otherwise? To Unfold and Become requires the letting go and transcending of what was Normal and Expectable...To move to the next Level requires something Extra-Ordinary, and you must Understand, Accept and let go of this World of Shadows if you are to move closer to the Light...As Always, you must let go of the Lesser if you wish to Rise into the Greater...which is in fact your Destiny...

But more often than not you are comfortable and attached to your lesser Experience/Expression of Energies and Forms...You think you know what and who you are...and you will not find so appealing this "gift" of a promise of something Greater, because it requires that you move into the Unknown, into that which disturbs and threatens your comforts and complacency...Growth is Challenging, but it is, after all and ultimately, Inevitable...

The Only question is: Are you Ready to take up the Burdens and Joys of a quicker Ascent now...Or do you wish to remain in the Shadows of Delusion and Fantasy longer than "Necessary"...Do you wish to pull the covers over yourself, to remain in your world of Pretenses and Presumptions, to remain in a Consciousness that has revealed itself to be Illusionary?

For this is Why Neptune is here, The Lord Neptune wields this Awesome Power of Illumination/Illusion, and you will find yourself encountering your supposedly True, Steadfast and Enduring "Reality" as full of errors...and you will be caught by a less than welcome surprise, for Low and Behold, your Reality is not what you had known or assumed it to be.

You will and must pass through this experience, Again and Again in your Spiral Journey of Light...You must Walk the Way of the Seeker, who is the Self-Becoming...You must walk down and through, again and again, that most necessary Passageway of Humility, which is the only Way to Wisdom...For this is how you Progress and Become, and it is this which will lead you to Your Greater Understanding...and it this Gift from Neptune, to take you through that Mystical Passageway, which will Free you from Illusion, and that Way is known to you as Confusion!

Whether from within yourself as you feel a growing sense that things are not quite what they seemed...or outwardly, as you encounter an experience that appears out of focus and unfamiliar, you find that your world of meaning and order, those familiar Energies and Forms no longer align, that things are out of phase or place...and you realize that what was expectable has become most certainly Not! 

Your Certainty is Broken as you Enter this Sacred Space of Doubt and Confusion...and this is your Salvation. For when your Faith made you Certain, it was then that you did not See or Understand...

But now with your New-Found Eyes of Wonder and Questioning, you can move into that Living Faith of Seeking...of Greater Inclusiveness, of Deeper Humility...towards the Ever-Unfolding, Ever-Upreaching Consciousness...

For That is who You Truly Are!

You are the Self-Becoming, now Freer Spirit who is reaching and drawing closer to the Greater Understanding...

And so you smile, and you accept...and walk on...

Ever on, drawing closer...

Reaching Higher, towards the Light...

The Path, clearer to you now...

Humility, Acceptance...Understanding...

It is The Way...

It is You.

Full Moon Eclipse in Sagittarius (May 24-25, 2013)

This is another of the eclipses that I wrote of in my General 2013 Forecast:

 Full Moon Eclipse in Sagittarius (May 24-25)

The second of three Lunar Eclipses moves the topic from Taurus/Scorpio to Gemini/Sagittarius. Here is a map of where the Eclipse will be visible. It will be seen in North and South America and Southwest Europe and Western Africa.

This Lunar Eclipse concerns the relationship between your lower mind and your higher mind, between your inductive and deductive ways of comprehending your world. The Sun in Gemini has been extolling the virtues of your Inductive Mind, and the Full Moon would normally be able to offer a balancing point of view of Deductive Reasoning.

But the Earth's shadow is getting in the way, so something in your present assumptions, something in regards to your Truths, Beliefs or Principles is obscuring the message. It is time to challenge yourself and question your assumptions so that you might become less blinded by your self-cast shadows.

You may look, but you will not notice anything different about this Full Moon that is Eclipsed today...and that is because the Moon will barely enter the Penumbra of the Earth's shadow, and to the unaided eye there will be no discernible shadowing whatsoever. The Veil is there, but you cannot see it, and so the message of the Full Moon will appear to be clear and true, but things are not what they seem, (of course, they seldom are). Moreover the Moon is very close to you now, at what is called its "Perigee" or closest point to Earth, so her influence upon various matters, (physical, emotional and intuitive) are that much stronger.

Normally, the Sagittarian Full Moon would provide a welcome and necessary counterpoint to the Sun's passage through Gemini. Every sign needs and benefits from the Illumination provided by contemplating and integrating the sensibilities, sensitivities and strengths of its opposite sign. So much so that if you really wish to fulfill your Aries Individuality for example, you must understand and accept the Truth of Libra too...Or for the Capricorns, you can only find your way to the Mountaintop if you equally understand and secure your Life in those Foundational Waters that Cancer provides. Each sign needs this balancing and integration, and at each Full Moon we should see and celebrate this wonderful interplay of Spiritual Energies and Forms...

But here at the Eclipse of the Sagittarian Moon the Earth's shadow is somewhat obscuring this message of the integral relationship of Gemini with Sagittarius. For it is from Sagittarius that Gemini obtains the very Framework of Understanding that permits the perception, gathering, collating, categorizing and relating of the data points and "facts" of the world you walk through. Gemini seeks to gather and assimilate experience, but to do so requires some framework of understanding, some form of aligning the various senses to bring in these inputs, to find the order and meaning veiled in the Chaos.

So it is from these Principles, Assumptions and Points of View of Sagittarius that you create the window on the world for your Gemini Inquisitiveness and Curiosity to play in...And if you alter this Paradigm, if you Change your Point of View, then these very "Facts" will change for you too!

But here the hope for Illumination of your Assumptions, and the understanding that it could provide regarding the Relativity of your Facts, this Revelation may be hidden from you by this Shadowing of the Moon. What can you do? Well, as always, remember the Ancient Teachings and forever seek to stay upon the Middle Path, the Noble Way of being neither wholly Inductive or Deductive in your Understanding of your Reality.

The Way to Wisdom is also the Way of Humility which requires that you dance between Induction and Deduction, refining and adjusting your assumptions and data points, and then adjusting again...Constantly...For what is True and Real at a particular Level of Consciousness or Understanding will become superseded and revealed as being incomplete at your next Greater Understanding...

The only Path is the Way of Humility and Openness, of Knowing that the more you Know the more you realize how little you truly Understand, as ever Wider and Deeper Vistas are opened before you at each stage of this, your Journey of Revelation Unbounded...

The only Truth for you the Pilgrim of Light, Love and Will is to follow the Great Injunction...

At each Plateau of Perception...

As you pause at this new Higher Plane of Understanding...

You need do but one thing...

Remember that you are here to grow...

And so you must...

Walk on!

Mercury Conjunct Venus (May 24, 2013)

Ballet of the Stars - "Pas de Trois" of Mercury, Venus and Jupiter

Well, this should be some show! If you are fortunate, you should be able to look to the west at sunset over the next few days and experience a Triple Treat! From where the Sun has just set you should look up from the horizon and you will see lined up three "Stars", which are in fact the Planets Mercury and Venus close together and then slightly above them Jupiter forming a Triple Conjunction! The Sun in New York will set around 8:10 pm EDT and around 7:50 pm in Los Angeles, so as twilight wanes and night begins you should be able to see these brightly shining three..

Just click on the image above to see a GIF animation of their beautiful dance with one another.

Then over the next week, you can watch their dance unfold every evening as after Mercury aligns with Venus on May 24, then Mercury will align with Jupiter on May 27 and finally Venus catches up and aligns with Jupiter on May 28, after which they will begin to slowly separate from one another. In fact Jupiter will slowly vanish from this "Pas de Trois" altogether as the Sun "catches up" to Jupiter who is then enveloped or "lost" in the glory of the Sun.

This first of the three, Mercury Conjunct Venus, brings together the Avatars of your Mind and your Heart. This is truly a most wonderful time to reflect and share your thoughts with your beloved, to enjoy your most intimate appreciations for life and for one another. With both Mercury and Venus in Gemini, you will find your delight in extension and variety, in the many facets and refracted, nuanced pleasures of Value, Beauty and Love. Gemini being an Airy Sign of the Mind, modulates your Love and Passion for Life to flow through your Conversations, Texts and Messaging, weaving your way of Love and Beauty through your Writings and Word-Plays...

This is when you can see Life and Beauty through the multiplicities of your world, celebrating the delightful varieties of shapes and colors, of scents, sounds and touch...The Ordinary or Routine just will not do...it is in Discovery, Chance, Interplay and the pleasures found in the Joy of your Minds reaching out to touch the Larger World and One Another...

Yes, it is here with the Sylphs of Air that you can Sing and Dance and celebrate the Beauty Within and Around you too!

Though you will and must ever "Walk in Beauty"...

This is a Day to Sing of Beauty...

This is a Day to Speak in Beauty...

This a Day to tell your Beloved...

You are...Beautiful!

Uranus Square Pluto (May 20, 2013)

This is the defining aspect for our time, certainly for this decade from roughly 2008 until 2015 or so, with references back to the 1960's when Uranus and Pluto began their latest New Cycle with one another, and pointing onwards to when they reach their next climax in opposition to one another from 2046-48. I date this present alignment from 2008, for that is when Pluto began to move through the Sign of Capricorn, which historically has led to Institutional Crises, signaling the end of a Spiritual-Cultural-Economic-Political Order and the rise of a new one (which is occurring all around us now as if you did not notice, for the Birth of a New Order always takes place as the Old Order is falling down)...

I wrote an extensive article about this Uranus/Pluto aspect in my General Forecast for 2012 and you can read that here.

I also wrote about how it is manifesting this year in my General Forecast for 2013 and here is that update:

 Uranus and Pluto Square, May 20 and November 1

The fundamental transformational influence of this decade continues to weave its way into your life as Uranus in Aries continues to form a waxing square to Pluto in Capricorn in 2013 (and on into 2014 and 2015). The dates above are merely when the aspect is exact, but the influence that it bears continues throughout all the year. Having already laid out the influence this aspect has brought into focus in the overview for 2012, I thought it would be best to describe the modulation of this aspect by a third planet this summer and in the first part of 2014.

Uranus is in the first Cardinal Sign of Aries while Pluto is in the last Cardinal Sign of Capricorn. Now the biggest planet in the Solar System, Jupiter, slips into the second Cardinal Sign of Cancer in late June 2013. During the month of July, Jupiter will form up with Uranus and Pluto creating an aspect in August known as a T-Square, wherein three planets form up into one opposition bracketed by two squares, one on either side of the opposition. In this alignment, there will be Uranus square Pluto, while Jupiter moves in to square Uranus and at the same time oppose Pluto. This is a most powerful, compelling and transformational aspect indeed!

The principle articulated by Uranus and Pluto concerns your constantly self-unfolding, self-realizing efforts to achieve a balance between Freedom and Sacred Boundaries. Uranus declaims the urgent need to liberate the spirit into ever-widening reaches of self-determination, challenging the status quo and static structures that formerly fulfilled but now deny individuality. Pluto holds the position of equal necessity to use the Will to define and protect the sacred space you reside within, and hopefully to honor those around you too, to preserve the Sacred Spaces of spirit within which all reside, and from and through which Spirit seeks the ever-unfolding, self-realization (freedom) of each individuality.

But if pushed too far, if Uranus gains too much for itself then there is the danger of unbridled freedom tipping into anarchy where all structures are overthrown but may leave no clear path toward true self-restraint, tolerance and love of one another. If Pluto overwhelms, then all will be bound to the greatest Will, and there will be no space for Freedom or Sacredness whatsoever. So these two Lords must be bound and balanced by one another, each finding their true melody in harmony with one another...and perhaps, just perhaps, here is where the great Lord Jupiter may lend a hand...or could tip the balance the other way, it really is a choice for each and every soul to make.

During the month of August, standing betwixt the two great passes of Uranus and Pluto with one another, Jupiter will throw his weight into the great decisions that face one and all, and you will see how the world and you will choose to turn towards greater integration or not.

Today I would like to speak to the more personal side of how this Grand Alignment may be playing out our lives...

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.

Sun Enters Gemini (May 20, 2013)

 

The Great Journey of Spirit has come around to this most sacred way, this most holy place...for this is where innocence was lost...and your redemption was born...This is the Portal to your Greater Awareness...

Every Sign speaks to your Journey of Spirit, of the Self-Unfoldment of your powers and abilities, as you pass through many dimensions, with many energies and through many forms in this great Spiral Journey of Light. But something quite remarkable and integral to your journey back to the stars happened (and happens) here in the mystery that is Gemini. This is the moment, in the past and in those far distant-futures, but always and forever in your ever-present Now, this is that moment that is forever and ever that you became/become Self-Aware.

Whether in the "myths" of Prometheus, Lucifer, Loki, Kali, Quetzalcoatl and countless and forgotten others, the story is told as to how the Non Self-Aware Beings, in our case Humans, receive the gift from those "whose great honor and sacrifice is to do what was also done unto them", they descend so as to pass on "The Light", bestowing upon the still Sleeping Ones this Fire or Light of Self-Awareness.

This is "the Fall" from the so-called "Blessed State" of the Self that is Undifferentiated (the Pure State of "I Am"), of Being one with the One, who by becoming Self-Aware are thereby cast out of the Garden of Eden (of Blissful Ignorance) and into that Wilderness of Wandering through these Worlds of Duality...

By becoming a Being awakened to "I am That", now distinct and feeling this wondrous and yet painful separation, being aware of this, they take up the journey of Self-Conscious Beings who now strive to Understand these Energies and Forms of Reality in Matter, and so by their Self-Making/Self-Realizations they Forge their Pathway of Light back to the One...They return as Prodigal Sons and Daughters, bringing back to the One these Gifts of the Experience of Self-Realization...

This is the Portal, that leads to the Greater Awareness, the path is through Duality, to be caught between Self and Other, Darkness and Light, Being and Non-Being as you, The Pilgrim, seeks ever to understand from whence did I come, for what reason am I here...and where and what am I to become?

This is The Journey...That you left from the One as Un-Self Conscious Sparks of the Divine, winging your way through Time and Space, through Dimensions, Energies, Worlds and Forms...

For countless eons your journey was experienced but remained without Self-Knowing, until this Portal and the Gift Bestowed...

For the rest of your journey you will seek to return..

To find the way to heal these divisions of Self and Other...

From which so much confusion, error and pain arise.

To find your way beyond the Illusion...

Where each and every appear as separate from one another...

Back to the One, back in the Living Truth.

That all are ones of the One...

Whose Wisdom, Love and Strength...

Will Abide Forever and Ever...

Within you, Between you and Throughout Creation.

For you are the Prodigal Pilgrims, the Sons and Daughters...

Finding your way Home.

Mercury Square Neptune (May 18, 2013)

Feeling a bit fuzzy or distracted...Maybe you misremembered something, or you lost or misplaced something (or someone!)...Your mind wandered off or you did not pay attention to what was being said, or where you were going...And so you have inadvertently crossed over into that twilight realm, of swirling mists, of twinkling lights and dancing shadows, and you realize that you are really "not in Kansas anymore"...

Well, that's just fine because your Consciousness needed this...You always need this really, for it is this kind of experience that is most necessary for your Spiral Journey of Light, as this is how you grow into your Greater Awareness...You grow because you encounter this challenge to your Perceptions, Assumptions and Certainties and begin to realize that maybe there is more here than you have imagined.

Because when you stumble into these errors or confusion, you become turned around and about, and you have to lift yourself up and consider another way of perceiving, conceiving and knowing you and your world...Over time you will come to know and accept that your journey of Consciousness is a cycle of moving ceaselessly from Certainty, to Doubt, to Confusion...and it is then that you turn with a new-found Openness...and this in turn gives birth to your New Awareness...But of course, you again become "Certain" about that...until...

It is the Great Lord Neptune who is ever there and will make and remind you of this today. For you will only grow by letting go, and you only let go when the holding on to what is nonsense is clearly the one thing you are certain you can no longer do!

And so Neptune, who you might wish to hold at fault for bringing this confusion into your life, is equally and actually the Avatar who offers you this way through to the Light of a Greater Understanding. For only when you acknowledge that your former understanding was full of Illusions can you open your Mind (and Heart) to the Clear-Seeing, Compassionate Light of Illumination that is the Truth of Neptune.

For it is this which Neptune offers you, it is the Fountain Source of your Faith and Imagination that springs from what holds the entirety of Creation and you together as One...the One Abiding and Binding Light, the Forces and Forms of the Divine that you call Love.

Do not be troubled if you are confused...

For it is a sign that you are aware and awakening...

Letting go of your shackles of Certainty, you question.

Let yourself move into a Living Faith of Openness and Love...

Seeking and so finding a more Expansive, Inclusive and Humble Way.

For this is Wisdom, this is your path...

This is the Wisdom of Love.