Astrologer Bill Attride

Venus Square Saturn (July 1, 2013)

You are here to grow...

And you do this as you learn how to weave together these threads of Energy and Form, that are within and around you, and by this most wondrous process of your Self-Unfoldment you and your world become the "Beauty of the Self-Begotten", the Divine made manifest in this Cosmos, your life, your Creation.

Today Venus, your Muse of Beauty and Love encounters Saturn, the Master of Forms and Reality, and you will find the need to adjust again the warp and weave of your Self-Illumined Life. For Venus is sweeping through the Idealistic Fires of Leo, where Love is met in acts of Chivalry and Fealty, where Honor and Loyalty are offered up by and to one another...With Venus in Leo you wish to Love and see yourself as standing upon these foundations of Self-Respect and Honor, which then become expressed through and mirrored in the Considerations and Conduct you should show to one another...

But Saturn comes to this Planetary Joust with another Banner of Truth, he throws down the Gauntlet of Growth and Transformation to these High and Mighty Ideals of Love and Beauty...for Saturn rides for Scorpio now. Saturn is here to remind you that your Idealistic Principles of Love, your outward Acts of Consideration and Respect must not flow from and follow merely these proper Forms or Appearances of Love...Oh no!

Scorpio demands that your love must come from the depths of your being, rooted in those transformative feelings that have been born by your encounter and Union with your own True Self, your Beloved...Which then and only then can open the portal to breaking the "Illusion that is Separation".

For this is how you will experience self-transcendence and transformation, by this death and rebirth of your lesser sense of self, by knowing Love as founded upon your essential Oneness with one another...and that your Rightfully Shared Sacrifices are the Promise Keepers, the Fountain-Source and Foundation for the Greater Union with one another too.

For it is not enough to merely subscribe to the Right Way of Relating to one another, which may bring you self-satisfaction or the commendation of your peers...you must Feel this Love within and between you too...You must become more than mere Ideals, you must become more than you were!

It is not enough to know and believe what is True and Honorable, for these Ideals must be anchored and secured with and to your Soul...They are anchored by, in and through the Sacrifices and Rewards you make with and for one another...They are secured by this most awesome Power of your Feelings that you hold for one another.

These "Ideals made Real through Feelings" will then be woven into your soul, and into your relationship...and so it is this that will hold you to yourself and to one another too, not merely because it is "Right", but because it Feels Right too.

The Venus/Saturn challenge may come as a choice, between doing what is Right, Proper or Respectable versus doing what feels more Authentic, Desirable or Passionate...but in the end you cannot and must not separate yourself or these ways of being...your real Challenge is to face the Choice between one way or another, and then "choose not to choose"...Your Path is to take the Third Way, to not choose because you have found the Middle Way, the Path of Synthesis...

Then you can be what you are meant to be...

You will be Authentically Considerate...

Full of Fealty and Desire...

Passionate and Respectful...

You will be more complete.

You the Self-Becoming Wonder...

Doing what is Right...

Feeling what is True.

Venus Enters Leo (June 27, 2013)

Venus leaves the familiar Waters of Cancer, where you were refreshed and found again your center, your True Source of Love...There in the undying light of your Higher Self, in and through your beloved, you could experience again and so understand that you are unique, a special spark of the Life Divine...That it is in this Fountain-Source of Spirit, in and through The One, whose Love for you and all of Creation is boundless, it is this Love which is the very force that builds, nurtures, shapes and propels this remarkable journey of all of the forms and energies of Life-Consciousness-Spirit, who are in fact this Cosmos.

You and your Avatar of Beauty and Love have come from this realm and time of Attunement within, but Venus and you will now feel a new and answering need, an urgent calling upon you both to go forth...for it is not enough to feel the Love that is of and abides within oneself...

For just as you are a spark of the Divine and your purpose is to grow, so too must your love, so too must you experience your love not merely within, between you and your Higher Self, but you must also Experience those Fires of Emotion, of love Expressed for and to One Another, for all are held together in this Love that abides within yet also surrounds you and all of Creation too.

For what you will experience, when you love another truly, what you will see leaps out from you to them and from them to you, the awesome recognition, out and through those "windows of the soul"...You will see into one another, and what you behold and feel in your heart is that you are in the "Presence" of the Divine...You lift a little that veil of Mystery, of the One and the Many, because you behold another spark of the Divine there before you, and what you feel, what you know, this is love...

You recognize the other as another wondrous, resplendent embodiment of the Divine...as are you...and what you feel for one another, what you give to one another, what you have with one another is this Love that is the Energy that binds all of the ones of the One to and with the One...You will feel and share this most profound experience of the Unity of Creation, you will call to one another, you will say to one another, "you are my Love"...and it is so.

Venus enters Leo...and your heart will leap!

For as the Beloved is within, so is the Beloved before you too.

Look into one another's eyes...

Smile and be glad...

For you have found one another, again.

And it is time, it is time for Love.

Mercury Turns Retrograde (June 26, 2013)

The second Mercury Retrograde of the year was noted in the 2013 General Forecast:

Mercury Retrograde in Cancer (June 26 until July 20)

The second of three Mercury retrogrades in Water, and now it is time to renew your thoughts about home and family. For three weeks Mercury will retrograde through Cancer and you will need to look within to see how securely rooted are the ideas that you hold (or do they have their hold on you?). You need to examine how well you have learned to integrate your thoughts with your feelings...For it is only then that you will communicate with your head and your heart as one...and then your world will listen with wonder and appreciation. As always, present day matters may need put on hold as you go back and tidy up some items left behind. 

This retrograde will span the period for the approach to, and the time of the exact formation of the Grand Trine of Water for Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune...and it should be understood as being formed (and informed) within the context of this greater pattern.

But the Planetary Waves can and will travel both ways for you, in those grand Outer Alignments, but also in these more subtle and nuanced gifts of the Inner Planets too. That as much as the Grand Trine is and will be bringing you a most precious gift of Integral Understanding, wherein you will resonate, respond and thrill to feel the wonderful attunement between the Roots of your Being, your Unions with one another and your Oneness with the Divine...It is still most necessary and right that you take some time during this Mercury retrograde to make even more personal and meaningful that Grander Alignment to come, and this is what dear Hermes offers you now...

With Mercury retrograde you need to go back and reexamine, renew and restore your experience of your Family, your Home and your Innermost Being so that you may more perfectly align the coming Greater Grand Trine in your life. Whenever Mercury is retrograde, your mind and awareness, your attention and intention, your consciousness becomes turned more readily back upon itself...and you can consider anew and exercise its most wondrous attribute, to be Self-Reflective...You are more able to think about thinking, to reexamine your experiences and knowledge and so work towards a greater integration of what is within and what is around you...

For your Feelings about your Center, about your home and security, about your need to nurture and be nurtured...these are very deep and complex experiences that are freighted with complex thoughts, with many-layered and often conflicted feelings...And it would be most helpful to you and those that you care for, and who care for you, it would be very helpful to sort through these Feeling-Thought-Forms so that you may come to better understand and accept yourself as you are, and restore your faith in your greater destiny...

For you carry within you the promise, that as a Spark of the Divine, your growth and Self-Unfoldment will continue forever and ever...but you will need help at times to understand and let go of your lesser attachments, the echoes of old experiences that may sometimes cast their shadows upon your current experience...and these echoes, often originating as reasonable and right in another time and place, these emotional complexes have no healthy, functional purpose for you in the present day...

With Mercury retrograde you are able to step "outside" of yourself and see how some of these old and familiar patterns were developed as responses to needs and circumstances long ago, but now they have become patterns of Reaction, they only serve to hold you back in the Now...and so you must take out your "Sword of Severance" and cut these chords of emotional bondage and so free yourself to choose new responses to your own needs as well as for those for whom you care...

Let Hermes take you inside, to your Home that is within...

For there at the Core of you, there resides the "Pearl of Great Price"...

It is your Self, your Beloved who is your experience of Well-Being...

Of being Home, and Secure and Centered no matter what.

For this Center that is you, is also the Center of the One.

And so you will remember, again, and smile as you realize...

You are already, you are always and forever...

You are Home.

Jupiter Enters Cancer (June 25, 2013)

Another turning in the Wheel of Life that was noted in the General Forecast for 2013:

 Jupiter Enters Cancer (June 25 until July 16, 2014)

The Lord of Truth and Principles moves into the sign of Cancer, and your journey of discovery brings you home again to consider the root nature of what you hold to be true. Your steady growth is founded upon starting with a good foundation, and Jupiter in Cancer will help you deepen your experience of being centered upon what matters most.

I discussed the blessings that Jupiter is offering this year in the 2013 Forecast. With the Grand Trine of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune and then the Grand T-Square with Uranus and Pluto, you could say that Jupiter is playing the starring role in the spiritual forces shaping your world this year...Here is most of that entry again:

...Jupiter will bring to bear a message from the Foundation-Source, the ever-renewing wellspring of life that flows from the sign of Cancer. Jupiter rules the Principles, Truths and Beliefs that give and form the meanings of your life journey, that form the steady guide for your self-unfoldment and purposeful growth. Jupiter is offering this spiritual message from the heart, from the source, from the roots of your life. For as you struggle to find your way between Uranus and Pluto, between Freedom and Order, between self-assertion and self-sacrifice, you will need this cooling, calming and refreshing reminder of what you stand upon, from whence you have come and what holds you true to one another.

Jupiter in Cancer serves to restore and renew your feelings of security that originate in your most intimate and profound experience that you are connected or part of something greater than just yourself. As you grow and develop, in life after life, you will find your own true center by being and belonging with one another. It will usually begin in your affections and bonds experienced in your immediate family group, and it will slowly and increasingly extend itself in any life, (and over many lifetimes, in life after life), into your ever-unfolding expansion of consciousness and spiritual connectedness.

This sense of belonging, of rootedness and security, expands from your immediate family outward to your village, and then perhaps it may move out further to a local area of several communities. Then it continues to grow outward even further in your belonging to some grouping perhaps grounded in your identity with an ethnic group, and then perhaps into some greater grouping of many ethnicities. Eventually you find an even larger sense of identity and meaning within an ever more complex culture and society, until you finally experience your profound familiarity with all who journey in the family known as "human".

This fundamental spiritual truth of connectedness will finally blossom forth, as you reach the "promised land", the profound spiritual epiphany of understanding that all life is one, all beings are one with one another, that everything in this cosmos is a spark of the one Great Spirit in whom we live and love and find our true being.

As Jupiter forms its Square and Opposition, it will bring to bear these influences upon the dynamic struggle of Uranus and Pluto. The challenge for every person and for all groupings of people will be to hold to the highest levels of inspiration that Jupiter can provide here, reminding one and all of their common bonds and interests, eliciting a desire for greater inclusiveness and generating greater considerations for the well-being of one another. If they can do this, then the struggles of Uranus with Pluto can be modulated and even mitigated by finding that deeper center where all can join together, founded upon these shared feelings of belonging.

With Jupiter's influence the fervent drive for freedom by Uranus can be soothed, with a gentle reminder that as much as you must assert and be freer yourself you must equally acknowledge your need to care for one another too. The Plutonian drive to create, maintain and extend your own sacred space must be equally balanced by the consideration you show for the sacred space of one and all. 

But there is also the very real possibility of individuals and groups reacting in a more parochial way to this challenge, and out of fear-formed echoes of their past be steered by the emotional ties of Jupiter in Cancer to react in more exclusive or defensive ways. They will act more narrowly, and identify with whom they belong, whether family, tribe or culture by building walls not bridges and so create an even greater gulf between "us versus them". Then this opportunity for growth and self-transcendence could be lost in those ego-driven fears that have echoed throughout other historical periods faced with similar demands for self-transformation.

The challenge will be laid down, either to rise up to a higher understanding and conduct with one another, to make some mutual sacrifice and unite...or to face the divide within and between us by refusing to join in a greater whole, to give into fear and so increase those separations from one another. And this fear-based failing would most certainly quicken the descent to a more difficult destiny for one and all. The choice will be there, and each must decide...but there is hope...

Yes, it is from Jupiter's meanings as modulated by the Sign of Cancer that you can find the first of three offerings to help you navigate the year ahead. But there is much to be hoped for here, because Jupiter is but one part of a gift of inspiration and meaning that comes within a three-fold blessing from your Starry companions this year. For what Jupiter is anchoring and carrying forward to you in August is the meaning and message of the other great alignment this year, and which will most thankfully still be in force during Jupiter's August alignments with Uranus and Pluto...it is the radiant beauty of the year, the Grand Trine in Water of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune.

We can forget as we go about our busy lives "down here", we can forget how magical and how full of meaning were the patterns discerned by our ancestors. How they marveled at what stood revealed in this great pageantry that sweeps before us every day and night by our Starry company, those constant companions who dance and form beautiful, intricate and meaningful patterns all around us. Yes, we can miss the signs and portents because we do not see them or even look for them anymore, but they are there...these Guardians of Life continue their wondrous weaving, helping us to understand our great unfolding journey through the spaces of space, our walk among stars.

Sometimes these planetary patterns are harder to discern, and their true significance and meaning even more hidden from you. But this mid-summer alignment of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune will, even if not seen, be felt by many...it will be beautiful to behold and its message is sweet and deep.

The aspects between planets, formed by their angular separation from one another, can be understood by dividing the Circle of Life by a particular number. The division of the Circle, which is 360 degrees in circumference, by the number 2 creates the opposition of 180 degrees. The division by the number 4 creates the square aspect of 90 degrees. And for our purposes this July, the division of the Circle of Life by the number 3 forms the Trine aspect of 120 degrees.

Whenever three planets line up equally spaced from one another, it is called a Grand Trine because the pattern is formed by dividing the circle of space around you into three equal portions, and finding that at each dividing point there stands a planet equally distant from the other two along the circle. This division by three resonates with a harmonic that represents a poised balance of energies that are being focused through three distinct avatars, in this case by Jupiter in Cancer and Saturn in Scorpio and Neptune in Pisces. The Grand Trine of July is all about the Meaning and Power of the element of Water. It is through these three Avatars in Water that you will receive inspiration to help you walk your path of destiny in this time of great and transformational change.

Having already observed the contribution of Jupiter, let us turn our attention to the other two Lords, and then turn and see how all three avatars will combine and contribute to a greater influence too.

The message of Saturn in Scorpio resonates with the strength, power and depth of feeling that abides in the experience of Union. For as much as Jupiter in Cancer upholds the truth of finding your connection to one another by looking to the past, to what you and all around you have come through and from, Saturn in Scorpio holds out the necessity of dealing with your ever-resurgent need, your yearning necessity to cross the divide that seemingly separates you from one another and so find your greater strength in joining together in your sacred unions. For when two or more are gathered together, united in a common purpose for which each has made a rightful sacrifice, it is from such acts that the magic and power of spiritual growth is in fact realized and released. For it is not enough to remember and honor from where you came, it is equally important to work together, to forge deeper understandings, to share in the joys and burdens of life and so continue to walk this spiritual path of your self-becoming, self-unfoldment...together.

The message of Neptune in Pisces, like bells pealing in a dew kissed morning, thrill with the third and final form of Water-Feeling, which is that numinous force that resides within each particle of this creation, providing the impetus that inspirits the lives of all who journey within this cosmos. The creative force that is behind all of the phenomena in this universe is known by many names. For many it is called Faith, some would say it is their Dreams or the power of the Imagination, but none can truly capture the mystery behind what flows through each and every being, that leads them out from within, as they unfold as the sparks of the Divine, these self-becomings who ever strive to grow, to become something more.

For it is this feeling that binds all as one and one to the All, and that leads all out so as to grow beyond what they have so far created, to walk the pathways of light and love outward into the spaces of space, out upon their wondrous, spiraling journey. It is this Great Journey which will eventually bring them back to return as something more, having become so much more than what they were, when they return home again.

For as much as Jupiter in Cancer will provide you with your foundation of feeling, and Saturn in Scorpio will teach you about the courage you have within you to reach out and join with one another, it is Neptune in Pisces who completes your circle of life, Neptune brings it all together by singing to you of your ever-renascent power, forged in your beginning by your nature as a spark of the Divine and that holds you as one of countless creators who need but dream of a better world...and it will be so.

For this is how the Universe came to be and continues to become, because your Spirit is the very essence of it all, the power behind your Imagination, Dreams and Faith...The Power of your Becoming, The Power of your Self.

Together these three, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune can show you once again that you are the maker, you are the Creator of what you face now. That you can feel more truly the roots that hold you all together, that you can feel the greater joy that comes from joining with one another, and that you can love and create a better world by believing and dreaming for one another. 

Yes, this will be a year to remember, and quite a summer indeed. The energies delineated above will be building in towards the end of June, growing through July and climaxing in August. The continuing challenge laid down to you by Uranus and Pluto may be somewhat eased by these spiritual emanations that come from this grand alignment of Planetary Lords, and equally and most challenging activated by the T-Square formed by Jupiter too.

There is much to be hoped for here. There is the hope offered in the Grand Trine that perhaps the things which divide the many from one another will be surpassed by this greater understanding of our mutual need to sacrifice for the greater good of one another.

Let us hope, may we dream...and it shall be...

So now you enter your time of Challenge and Opportunity, of these grand and great formations which will elicit, inspire and guide you too...Today Jupiter moves into Cancer and begins a series of Super Alignments in both the Grand Trine of Water with Saturn and Neptune, and the Grand T-Square with Uranus and Pluto...

So it is right and proper that you should bow your head and give thanks for these Gifts of the Spirit that this most Benevolent Lord bestows...and to all the Starry Host who are there for you too...

Your Cosmic Companions Sing and Dance the Truths of Life, for it is what they have become, but in this they also serve...For they are a part of a great Spiritual Hierarchy...And, in time, you too will more fully awaken to these self-same meanings and blessings in your own life and World, you will understand, you will lift up you and yours...and you too will love and serve...

For these Truths and Energies are within you, and your only illusion is the experience of separation...

For you came from the Stars, you are one with the Stars...

and your destiny is to return one day to be a Star among those Stars.

You are on this Journey of Self-Becoming as are these great Lords of Life and Spirit.

You are never alone, not ever, for you travel in this Great Company of Light and Love.

Together you journey through the spaces of Space, and that Self-Same spark of the Divine within you is also with them...as it is with one and All.

Today is a day to celebrate your Family in Spirit, your Family of Life, your Family of Love.

Today, Jupiter enters the Halls of Cancer.

Today, Jupiter brings you Home to your Beginning.

Today, Jupiter reminds you who you are, and

how your Origin is your Destiny.

For you are one of the ones of the One...and,

You are here to Love and care for one another.

You are here to be one with the One.

Full Moon in Capricorn (June 23, 2013)

She is out there now, sweeping your outer courses, your brightly shining Beacon of Balance. For Luna's gift is her Intuitional Light which reflects, responds and offers that most necessary compensation to the awesome power of the Solar Day-Forces, which flow through you now from the Sign of Cancer.

Although your time in Cancer has just begun, it is good to have this reminder of what and to where it all will lead...for those Foundations of Cancer lead to the Towers of Capricorn, to the Fulfillment of your Purpose, to your Mastery and Responsibilities, of Duty and Traditions that Honor, Preserve and Pass down what must be held as Sacred and True...

For all these Traditions, all of your Institutions and Structures, of Government, Religion, Education...they all came about to serve and fulfill a need at some point in time...They began as a response, an answer to a Human Need that over time became embodied in an Order and Edifice whose purpose it is to answer this feeling for one another by meeting the needs of one another...

That most simple but profound human experience, to feel for one another, to wish to care for one another, eventually becomes realized in these systems of Duty and Responsibility...and that is what this Full Moon reminds you of tonight...That the feelings you feel for you and yours have been the Fountain-Source for all that you and your Ancestors have accomplished...

You stand upon the shoulders of those who came before, who answered the call to care for one another and so made a world that is this living testament to the awesome power of feeling, this most sacred trust that you have to guide you...that you care. This is why you must bow your head and give thanks, for you are what you are and must do what you do because much has been won by these heartfelt and purposeful efforts by those who did their duty long ago...

And so it is your turn now...You must consider now in this light of the Moon of Responsibility, what is my purpose, what is my duty? And your answer must be formed and founded upon the fundamental truth that you are part of a Great Family of Spirit and your Nature is to Feel for one another, that you are here to help meet the needs of each and every...for you are one of the ones of the One, and you are all related...

And so it is Right and True that as you look to this Moon of your Purpose and Destiny, as you gaze upon your Luminous Luna, your Avatar of Mother and Home, it is right that you should know this...you are Truly looking "Homeward"...

For just below the Moon tonight is your Home, for what is there is in fact the Galactic Center from which the Divine Spirit, all the Energies and Forms of this Cosmos, and so you too, began a Great Journey long ago...

Look up at your Moon...then look beyond...

There is your Logos, your Source, your Home...

and there lies your Destiny too.

For you came from this One...

You will ever Abide in the One...

And to the One you shall return.

Sun Enters Cancer (June 21, 2013)

You have passed through the first three realms, of Fire and Earth and Air...and now you must complete the first triad of the Sacred Four. The Wheel of Life has turned and so you come into the Circle that is Squared...You need this now, to take this plunge into the Refreshing, Nurturing and oh so Familiar Waters of Cancer.

The seasons of life follow the rhythm of the your journey around the Sun...Four corners divide your year into periods of greater Light or Darkness, the Waxing and Waning of Solar Forces and Night Energies. Today marks the Summer Solstice, and for those who find themselves in the Northern Hemisphere the longest day and shortest night is at hand...

The Solar Force has reached its maximum, which of course is for you a herald of change, you are at "a turning", and it will soon become apparent that the next six months will be of lengthening shadows and shorter days...so in this Brightest of Days, here at the Solar Maximum you need to remember and you need to prepare...for Winter is Coming.

You must gather together with you and yours, to help one another, to make your lives truly secure by caring for one another. This is the time you will seek within, to Feel your way to your Roots, to re-establish yourself upon the foundations of your life...to make your way home again, to nurture as you were nurtured, to pass on and protect what is sacred, to care.

For some that may mean to draw closer, to be held and to hold one another, to feel more deeply that bond of kinship within your immediate family, to find yourself and your meaning within its history and traditions, to feel the close-knit embrace of those with whom one shares the most intimate of life experiences...

For some it will broaden and deepen, into the streams of life that encompass a culture and/or an ethnicity, or more likely a blend of these...and for some it will widen into that river of life, identifying with a more universal spiritual or religious tradition that binds one to another in faith and hope...

And for some, it will broaden still further, to encompass this Ocean of Life and Spirit, the Life Divine from which all came, where all abide as they journey through the spaces of Space, and to which all shall someday return and be held as one with the One...

For this is where this feeling is founded, it arises within you in such personal ways with your family, with your "people" or "family of choice", through and with your culture or nation or the world...but truly your feeling of center, of belonging and origin is much older much deeper and more profound than this...

For your beginning reaches back to The Beginning, of being a spark of the Divine who lovingly sent you on this Journey of Becoming, but who always remains within you, as this Presence, this feeling, this knowing that you are and will always be cared for, nurtured and loved because...because this is who you really are...

You are a Spark of the Divine, and this spark resides within the core of you.

You seek to become more and so fulfill the Divine's purpose...

But always and forever you seek to feel the Center, to feel that Familiar Feeling...

Of Belonging, of being Part of Something Greater...

Of Something/Someone that will hold you, Embrace you...

Until the day arrives and you realize, that it, she/he was always there, within.

You are Home, you are Loved...

You always have been, now and will ever be...

A sparkling Drop in the Ocean of Spirit...

Your true Home...

Abiding within your Heart.

Mercury Conjunct Venus (June 20, 2013)

Your Mind and your Heart are coming together...

And you should heed this beautiful reminder...

For they are your Dear Ones, your Inner Mediators, who are the first to Modulate those streaming Solar Rays for you...They step down, filter and refract the Solar Force into the two principal melodies of your life...

Your Knowing and your Love.

Mercury is the Avatar of your Mind, of your wondrous gift for perceiving, discerning, considering and coming to understand who and what you are. For the core of Spirit is the Self, and from it you are endowed with this most marvelous faculty which you experience as your Self-Awareness...This is what will lead you to your Origins, and equally to your Destiny, and to the fuller understanding as to the one that is before you too.

Venus is the Avatar of your Heart, whereby you come to relate to yourself and experience the truth of what you are, and of the worlds around you too...It is your experience of Value, your Joy in Beauty, of what you are attracted to. This all comes from the Universal Force of Attraction that ultimately resides in the One, yet abides and flows through one and All and is the underlying, undying Value and Force that binds the whole of this Creation as one...it is what you know and experience as Love.

Together in Cancer, Mercury and Venus bear for and bring to you the possibility of knowing yourself better and so loving one another better too, because you are brought together within the Roots that you share with one another, of being part of the Family of the One. And by this foundational feeling, by knowing and loving yourself as you can and should, you will also see, understand and treat the other as your own true self!

Today Venus catches Mercury, (for he is slowing down now as he draws closer to his retrograde next week), and your Heart and Mind are as one, as they should be...

For you should always Speak from your Heart and Consider well how you Love...

That always and forever,

You need to Think Lovingly...

You need to Love Thoughtfully.

Today and every day you should ever strive...

To follow the one true path where...

Your Mind and Heart are One.

Sun Conjunct Jupiter (June 19, 2013)

 

Your Growth, Good Will and Grace begin their yearly cycle...

The Sun, who is your Avatar of Individuality, your Divine Power of Self-Becoming, begins a new 13 Month Cycle with the Avatar of your Principles, Truths and Beliefs, the Lord of Growth and Benevolence, Jupiter...

This means, of course, that you have also just ended your last 13 Month cycle of Growth, and you have should have cast your gaze back upon what was and was not attained in this last period...And having reaped your harvest of meaning and understanding, not giving way to any wallowing in judgments or misgivings, you will find a renewed sense of hopefulness obtained from these essential fruits of your growth in this past period...For it is from this harvest of what was learned that you can now extract the wiser seeds of your future growth, the very seeds which you sow for your new season of opportunity...for your spiritual growth relies upon this, that you continuously reach towards a more inclusive understanding.

You turn and face the prospect of the New Cycle before you with this greater understanding to guide you...For you should know by now that you only learn by making mistakes, reflecting upon them and so correcting those errors...That your successes, though pleasurable and welcome blessings indeed, do not indicate any great growth in your spiritual status, for they only confirm the growth you had previously attained.

Your future is always made in the Now, you redeem your past so that you can resolutely turn your attention to the next cycle of the Self that is Becoming...You separate the wheat from the chafe, for you must refine your harvest of meaning to yield up your gift to yourself, your harvest of newfound faith, of seed ideas/actions that you put forth to continue your cycle of self-becoming...

But life really is not about these fragments or moments, neither beginnings or endings, as in some form of discrete or abrupt disjunction in the flow of your life unfolding. Your life is comprised of many intersecting streams of energies that you work with and work through you, and each of these streaming forces unfold through many interpenetrating cycles of varying durations that sweep through your world, some are just starting, some at a crucial pivot points of decision, some reaching a climax of realization, and some coming to closure...

So, you will always find yourself in the midst of a multitude of energies that you must blend together, at first more or less unconsciously, but over time ever more directed by your Awareness, Love and Will...So that you will eventually become what you are meant to be, a Master Weaver of Life-Consciousness-Spirit, a true Adept of your Self-Becoming.

But if there is one insistent, over-all purpose behind it all it is truly this...

You are here to Grow!

That purpose is founded upon the core and kernel of your essential essence, of you being a Spark of the Divine...This is what comes from your Self and so is held up to you by the Avatar of Self, the Sun. But as to How and to What your purpose of growth will become, well that is determined by where you are within your Journey of Consciousness, where you walk on that Noble Road to the Greater Understanding...And this level of Awareness is formed by you into your Principles, Truths and Beliefs...and so that is what is held up and elicited for you by the Avatar of your Understanding, Jupiter.

Today, your Self and your Understanding have come together to inspire you anew, for you must ever seek to become something more, but you must ever strive to ascend this path of Understanding as your seek to draw that much closer to the Light Divine.

In order to know what you can or must do, in order to understand as to how, why and to where you are going, there is one profound but simple thing you must ascertain. Where exactly are you coming from?

And know this, that is not a question about your individual beginnings or birth, this is the knowing about the Greater Reality of which you are an essential part...That you are a Spark of the Divine, this is true...But so are all who accompany you in this great Journey of Immortals in Mortal Frames...And so your Principles have been and must be formed and shaped by this one most critical understanding that you will come to know and abide in...That the other before me is my brother/sister and so what is "The Good" must be the Good for All.

For this First Principle, this Abiding Truth, of your Origin, this is also your Destiny, for your journey out from the Divine and back to the Stars is a journey in a shining host of sparks of the Divine, and it is this knowing that will steer your heart to find and keep to the one true way, the Noble Path of Compassion...

Your goals and directions in life do not come from nor do they exist "out there" really...

They are ever secured by and forged in your Self and within your Heart.

They Leap out from your Divinity Within, the very Divinity that surrounds you...

The One Divine that is the Energy-Substance of all Creation too.

And as you and all with whom you travel...

Seek to follow that pathway of Light...

To return to the One.

You will know that always there...

Within and around you...

And truly in every spark resides...

The ever-present Reality and Truth of your being.

For to Grow, is to Grow Together...

To forever be, ever and always...

One with the One...

And with one another too.

Venus Square Uranus (June 12, 2013)

Through Your Love...To Your Freedom...

To live by them, Together as One.

Your Preview of the Greater Grand Trine of Water concludes today as Venus like Mercury aligns with Uranus. But within two weeks the pattern will be re-engaged as the Sun moves through Cancer, which will be followed about two weeks later by the Greater Trine itself of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune forming up in mid-July.

This parting message from the Waters of Life concerns the challenges you feel and face with regards to the seeming conflict between your experiences of Freedom and Relationship...For how do you create, adjust and preserve that delicate balance between your need to be True to your Self with your need through Love to sacrifice for one another too.

Venus in the Waters of Cancer is holding the position that is the source for those joyful feelings that come from a life of nurturing and caring for one another, where the requisite concerns for the needs of one another require sacred acts or sacrifice...and this is true. Yet Uranus in Aries is declaiming the Fire-Born Principle of the Uniqueness and Independence of yourself that is beholden to no other...and this, this is also true.

But what is more Truly True, is that each of these experiences, your need for Closeness and Caring for one another, and your need for Independence and Freedom to Be True to you, that these two can only find their Spiritual Fulfillment through a Pathway of Growth wherein each supports and informs the other, because they are only whole and complete through the Integral development of each with and through the other.

Your Truth is founded upon your Belonging, of you and everyone (and everything) originating long ago from the One Divine Source, so that truly "We Are All Related". And so it is Natural and Right to experience the need to care for and be cared for, to make meaningful sacrifices for one another because of your enduring Love for one another...Because whomever is before you is a part of you, and so you and they abide in the Consciousness of the One, with the purest of love formed in this your Greater "Family"...

Your Truth is equally founded upon you being a Unique Spark of this Divine Source, a Monad, an evolving Consciousness Center that is formed upon a Primal Awareness that all share in as Consciousness itself, the source of knowing that "I Am"....But this Consciousness is equally developing, unfolding, and becoming ever more determined to acquire for itself a distinct Self-Awareness, to be a Unique instance and spark of this Universal Self, and so to develop the knowing that "I Am That", and so it must develop Freely in order to be the Self-Becoming.

Your Epiphany regarding these two, The Way of Love and The Way of Freedom, will be found as you accept, balance and integrate both of these Spiritual Truths in a Living Way of Being. This is what is known as The Path, for this is how you must learn to live...for You and Spirit and all of Creation are Indivisible, and you will find your Peace when you truly understand and live this too.

You must develop a strong sense of your unique self, so as to acquire the Wisdom to know where and how to draw the boundaries of how much you are willing to yield and bend for the good of the other, without bringing about undue harm to yourself. Yet you will always need this Centering of Feelings that informs and nurtures these caring/cared for experiences, in order to deeply Secure yourself within your Root Energies. For it is from this Deep Anchoring that you will join with the source of your Unique Essence, to find and to hold it, and so understand that though you are a precious and unique sparkling drop of the Divine, you are also one of an Infinity of drops drawn from those Waters of Life that make up the One Life, The Life Divine.

This is the message of Venus and Uranus today...

That you must be Free to be yourself in order to Love...

That you must Love one another in order to be Free.

You must Feel what you share...

You must Love what is special.

There can be no separation...

For Freedom, For Love...

For Spirit.

Saturn Trine Neptune & Venus Opposition Pluto (June 11, 2013)

May your Dreams come True...

For Love and the Sacred Space of You!

I wrote about this beautiful alignment in the General Forecast for 2013 where I discussed the Grand Trine in Water of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune...and here is what I wrote of Saturn and Neptune making their first of three exact alignments in October 2012:

Saturn Trine Neptune (October 10, 2012)

Reality meets Dreaming...and it is Beautiful!

Okay...this is another one of those "bigger" alignments...Saturn is lining up with Neptune in a wonderful trine today and again in June and July of 2013...but what you need to know is...what does this mean?

The Ruler of the Formed, Saturn, greets and is graced by the Fountain-source of all forms, the Ruler of the Formless, Neptune...and you are reminded once again about this awesome power, your power of Dreaming-Making-Reality.

Saturn rules Reality, what you and everyone else has so far brought into being on Earth. Saturn's drawing down into substance is the fulfillment of your dreams, shaped into reality-forms. Yet these very forms at the same time necessarily limit your pure potential by binding it into some definite (finite) Thing.

Your Ideas, Hopes and Dreams on this plane, in order to be real, become formed into Matter and by doing so they become circumscribed...and therefore subject to the Laws of Time and Cycles...for any and everything here is a composite or compound, and must eventually pass away.

The lesson of this dance of life, of Saturn and Neptune, is that you must continually Imagine anew. You must ever Dream, again and again, to keep forming and re-forming your world and yourself...This is the substance of your spiral journey as Life-Consciousness-Spirit, of you becoming you through countless unfolding forms of self-realization.

Neptune rules your Dreaming and Imagination, it is the representative for the Spiritual source for this awesome power, the power to unfold from within a new world and a new you. You encounter the world before you, your present circumstances. You dare to dream, you imagine and believe that there could be a different world, a better world...and so it begins to take form...And you have been doing this...you have done this...many, many, many times...

How well you create, how much of your dream will be, will depend upon you and those with whom you dream. But within any cycling of Saturn/Neptune there are moments of greater flow and ease, of when it seems "just right", and there are moments that present a greater challenge.

This current cycle of Saturn/Neptune began in 1989, and an old world was ending and new world was being imagined...Then in 2006-2007, Saturn and Neptune were opposite to one another and a reckoning was at hand for how well the dream had been executed...or not...

Today you are at a different moment of the cycle, not a beginning nor a reckoning...Now you find yourself at one of those moments where it does seem possible to bring together the Dream and the Real. You can take the reins of your own life and ride that slipstream between Dreaming and Making...

You are the Dreamer, Dreaming Reality all around you...

You can Imagine a better world...

And when you share your dreams with one another...

When you believe in yourself, and support each other...

You will join to build a New Earth...Together.
 

This ever-unfolding Grand Trine in Water, anchored and formed principally by Saturn to Neptune, completed now by Mercury and Venus, is being further modulated within the Kite Pattern of June 7 and June 8...

Today you experience the second exact Trine of Saturn and Neptune, (which will be exact one more time in July). This time it is brought into greater focus through Venus adding to the Grand Trine and forming the Kite by opposition to Pluto, (along with Mercury who is still there too)...well one thing is for sure, things are certainly busy!

For as much as Mercury aligned with Pluto helped you to focus upon the Thoughts behind your Roots and your Destiny...and helped you to better understand how your Willfully focused Power of Mind is one of the principle means by which you make your Dreams into the New Reality...Today it is Venus with Pluto who will help you to look more deeply into the nature of the Value that Forms those Roots and so Informs your Destiny.

For what lies at the core of you is a Spark of the Divine, which you will often experience as that wondrous feeling of warm familiarity, of Inner Attunement, of being Centered and at Peace...of Being Home, of Being Loved. This is the Love of the Beloved for you...and your adoring love that flows back in return. This is the Source of Love, and it is yours and abides within you, as it also surrounds you too...For this is the Force that fills, binds and holds the whole of this Cosmos in the One Great Life...This is the seed and source within you, it is your Origin...and for this very reason it also holds the key and points the way to your destiny too...

This is the Gift of Venus in Cancer for you, to feel this source and to be nurtured by this ever-lasting love of the Divine for all of the Divine Sparks, who long ago began their journey through the spaces of Space...All of these Sparks are what make...Everything...They are the Forces and Matters of this Universe, and they are of course you too.

But each and every Spark of the Divine must exist within its own Holy Space...For it is in and through this Space that it can unfold and become, as each Consciousness must have its own space to exercise its Power of Will and Self-Becoming...Yet as each Spark is Sacred so is each and every Space Sacred too, and so each Consciousness must learn to form and preserve their own Space, while Honoring, Respecting...by Loving the Sacred Space of every other too...This is the Journey of Self-Becoming that you are on.

This is the message of Venus to Pluto and Pluto to Venus, your love of Self is Integral to the Love you will have for and receive from any Other, just as your keeping Sacred the Space of You is Integral to the you Keeping Sacred all the Spaces that surround you too...

For the Great Illusion is Separation...

The GREAT TRUTH...

Is that there is but One Life...

There is but One Love...

And you are IT...

And it is YOU.

Now, together, in Love and Sacred Space...

May your Dreams come True!