Astrologer Bill Attride

Mars Enters Leo (August 27, 2013)

The Sentinel of your Desires is changing his tune...

He is the watcher of the East, rising now under a new Banner of Heaven...

The Dance of your Planets is shifting again, and for the next seven weeks you will make your way through Fire, you will set your sights a little Higher, and take your aim as you follow your Heart's Desire, now to be formed/informed, drawn forth and guided by the Inspiration of your Leonine Nature...

(For although you may know as you must, and feel as you should, to be of a very different Sign as regards your true Individual Nature, there is always within you this Greater Reality, that you are all of these energies and forms, and that somewhere within you as in all the worlds around you, there abides and will now awaken this Lion part of your nature...your Courage, your Heart).

Since mid-July your Aspirations and Directions have been guided by those Watery Ways of Cancer, and all your Ends and Means sought to bring you back to Source and then move you out with Attentive Intention from your Center, as you strove to be anchored by your deeper Feeling and extend yourself in Caring for one another too.

But now a new Wind of Spirit is singing through your soul, stirring your Heart and Mind to move outward, to demonstrate your purposefulness as a Creator, your inspiration as a Leader and your consideration as a Lover.

Having come from that sacred space at the center of you, from that place where you felt a deeper connection to the truth of yourself, you feel this calling now, for it is time to perform when in Leo.

You are inspired by this longing, this necessity and opportunity to reveal yourself to the Self and your world...You need this now, to extend and stretch yourself from your heartfelt realizations, and through courage and in joy, you can and will bring a greater measure of authenticity to this wondrous play, to that great drama of your Spiritual Journey, to this Creation that is your Life.

Your Aims and Actions are guided by one fervent Aspiration now...

You need Respect, you wish for Appreciation...you long to be Loved.

And, as in all things, what will be is what was given, for the Law is the Law...

You will get what you give, you will create from what you are.

Lead by Truth, Create in Authenticity...

And Love one another as you are Loved...

With all your Heart.

And knowing this, feeling this, now being this...

Let your Lion Roar!

Sun Opposite Neptune (August 26, 2013)

Four Turnings every year...

Four Portals to connect what is to what might be...

Four Mirrors to bridge the worlds between You and Your Dreams...

For it is you, the Self that is Becoming who is...

The Dreamer, The Maker...The Imagineer.

You are the Builder of Worlds, the maker of Heavens (and these lesser realms too)...For this is the Law: It is the Dreams that you dreamt that became the Ideas that you thought and the Feelings that you Felt, and it was these that combined together to form the Actions that you took...and so it is you who made this, this is Your Creation, this is your Now.

It is time once again to pause and consider, to take stock of how well what was envisioned by you six months ago (and much, much further ago, of many lives and many worlds too), how well your vision has been drawn down and brought forth into your Reality...For this is yours, this is your life, this is of your making.

The Sun is your Avatar of your Pure Potential for Being, your Spark of the Divine, and all that you can ever become is held within yourself, your diamond center sparkling like the morning dew, and your whole journey is this wondrous dance in which you are learning to master the Energies and Forms of the Universe as you spin and twirl those streams of consciousness and forms, as you unfold from within your supernal, heavenly birthright.

Neptune is your Avatar of Imagination, of your Dreaming-Reality-Making, the Faculty of Clear-Seeing, the Ruler of Illumination and Illusion too, of your Now and how it appears to you "out there", this Reality/Maya. For your Journey of Self-Unfoldment is a Journey of Awareness and Consciousness, and you will pass through many stages or levels as you journey from unself-conscious spark of the Divine to a self-aware yet only semi-conscious perceiver, to ever and ever higher realms of inspired awareness as you reach for your Human potential of becoming a Co-Creator with Cosmic Consciousness.

Yet at each and every stage, at every level of awareness, and there are many levels within each major stage, you will perceive the Reality you are in as the one true one...and it is for you, at that time and place, as it must be so...

But the Truth is, of course, that it is a Reality and it is a Maya too! For you can only perceive what you believe and understand, and so what is before you is true, but there is always a Deeper, Higher, Finer Truth, a Greater Reality behind the one you are in, and then another beyond that...and so on...

And so Neptune shows you, inspires you to remain true to the One Path, and you must be open, you must know that the more you know, the more there is still to know and understand...and your only path home, the only way to Wisdom and Truth is by finding and holding yourself in that most precious state...Humility.

For you are of this and yet you must remain in awe of where you abide, to marvel at this wondrous Creation, made by you and your Starry Companions. It is a Mystery...and as you travel the path, of going forth and coming home, you will be pass through your Certainties that seem to comfort you, but only hold you in their thrall...they will, they must eventually fail you, and so lead you into your sojourn in Confusion and Doubt...but it is this darkness which holds the greater light, for it leads you in and out again, as you open up to the wonder again, you will ponder and dream, you will let go and grow...and so you will see it before you, the New Vision, the Next Step as a new dimension beckons you onwards...

And so you will learn...and accept...and understand...

That you must follow the Ancient Injunction...

That all pilgrims of Spirit hold dear and true...

There is but one Path, one Way,

And you will find it,

By remaining Open and Wondrous,

Secure in your loving Humility...

You take to heart what is the only way,

To Walk On.

Mercury Enters Virgo (August 23, 2013)

Mercury is sweeping around the "far-side" of your Star, moving about as fast as he can now (at least from your perspective here on Earth), and will overtake the Sun tomorrow to form a Superior Conjunction (and perhaps offer up some answer to what you have been waiting for).

Today, he dashes into his own sign of Virgo, and as he only has time to stay for two and a half weeks, you best make ready to take advantage of this brief but welcome shift in your mental pathways...

Yes, it is time once again to pause, pivot and reconnect your "networks" into a more grounded, purposeful and discerning mode of musing. You are the apprentice who must  apply yourself to a most necessary task: That guided by your Principled Ideals and Plans, which formed and flowed from your Fiery Mind, you must carefully, attentively and adeptly shape these Archetypes and Visions into your Reality.

For you are here on Earth, and you must use your Artisanal skills to fashion what was merely imagined, to bring your world into being a more meaningful ordering, so that with critical assessments, through dutiful application and aligned by a sincere willingness to be of service, you may bring about a more perfect state of grace and beauty for you and for your world.

You weave these webs, these Energies and Forms, as you apply yourself to the making of the real from what was only imagined...

You are the Apprentice...

An Adept in the making,

From this Guild of Earth.

You are Drawing down,

And you are Lifting up.

For you are the Dreamer and the Maker,

Fashioning yourself and your Creation,

Into a World of Wonders,

In which you now abide.

Sun Enters Virgo (August 22, 2013)

The Wheel of Life Turns, and so must you...

For there is a Time for everything,

A time to Begin...a time to Hold...and a time to Release.

The rhythm of your life moves through Three Fundamental Phases, and also through Four Fundamental Qualities, and it is these which in their integral combination form themselves into what you know as the Twelve Astrological Signs.

These Energies and Forms combine and create, they sweep and soar, they lift you as they inspire you, they unfold with and through you, as you and they continue this marvelous journey, you and they and the countless shining ones who with the One are on this path, the Path of the Self that is Becoming.

And know this, that in all these worlds and through all these forms and in all those lives you are never alone, for all the while there is within you your one, Still and Attentive, who is your awareness of Awareness, the Watcher who watches and waits, in your quiet place, lovingly abiding in your center, your Higher Self, your Beloved who waits for you to come into that perfect place, that Holy State, your place of Grace, your World of Beauty...Peace.

For as you grow, as you learn, as you seek and strive for that most perfect prize, to discover and secure the treasure beyond measure, you will come to realize that in all these travels and through all these forms, this Circuitous Journey will always bring you back to that one that waits and watches and knows...for what you are seeking is already there, waiting within you...It is you, your shining splendor, abiding in your place, your garden, your place of Peace.

This is the hidden meaning behind this time, the Time of Virgo, the time of the Virgin. For to be Virginal means to be whole, to be complete within and throughout oneself, to be beholden to no-thing and to no one, to be purely, truly...You. Your journey is an unfolding, a revealing of you to yourself as you understand and release what is within.

So after the performance, after the stretching and strutting and reaching for the Light that is Leo, you must turn and attend to what is needed now. You seek to do better, to become more attentive to what is needed and necessary, to find fulfillment in the small things and simple kindnesses...to live in Spirit in the real world, upon this Earth, in this Garden of Becoming, as you seek to walk the path of Truth, to Live in Beauty...and to reach for, to be with, to be at Peace.

You will come to know and understand, that it is not a place "out there". Your Well-Ordered World, your Place of Beauty and Peace, they are immanent for they abide within you, they are your true nature, that abides within your own Higher Self, with your Divine Spark and thereby in the One.

But in your present state you have forgotten this as you have become enamored and glamored by these bodies and worlds you travel through. You Suffer because you are not yet what you will be, and so you hold onto what brings you pain, you suffer because you do not yet understand...and when there has been enough, when you are ready, then you are able let go of this lesser sense of yourself, you will then rise into the Greater Understanding, that was always there, waiting, abiding and lovingly watching over your journey...for you were never alone, and you were always and will be forever loved.

So, you must turn now to what is needed and necessary...

To Understand these past months, filled with your Triumphs and your Trials.

You must Harvest the Meanings, and let go of the rest...

For you have made all of this and yourself, and your journey is not done...

You must turn with the Season, to attune and align...

Your path is before you, your path is within you.

May you Walk in Beauty, May you Live in Beauty...

May you move closer to Peace.

Jupiter Square Uranus (August 20-21, 2013)

This is the "other side" of the Grand T-Square for this year (and remember, this is the first of three such alignments...this same T-Square formation will repeat two more times in the first part of 2014).

This time you have Jupiter Squaring Uranus, and the Song of Spirit is here to remind you that you need to always strive to maintain an integral balance between your Self-Becoming Individuation (Uranus/Freedom) and your Immanent, Ever-Renewing Fountain-Source or Center found and formed by the Avatar of your Root-Source Principles (Jupiter/Truths).

Here again is what I said about this in my 2013 General Forecast:

 The Great Cardinal T-Square, Uranus, Pluto and Jupiter August 7-21, 2013

In the month of August, coming between the two exact alignments of Uranus and Pluto in 2013, 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.

The first half of the T-Square, Jupiter opposite Pluto, highlighted your ever-present need to create/preserve/protect your own sacred space while at the same time according and affirming the very same to every other...For you are here to learn to guide and so conduct yourself with this Fundamental Truth:

That you understand and so come to experience Life as One and fundamentally Indivisible, (the Great Illusion is Separation), and that All of space is Sacred. That you are part of and surrounded by countless, divinely sparkling, sacred spaces known to you as the Universe...That you and they are of the One, all of one Energy/Form, and that just as you are a spark of this Divine Reality so too are the innumerable sparks that fill the entirety you know as Creation. You must not and shall not trespass.

Now this side of the T-Square concerns another Avatar in this Truth of Tripartite Spirit. The Lord Uranus is the vehicle of your Individuation, of the Self-Unfoldment of You, of what is called in the Ancient Teachings your "Swabhava".

This is the principle that Drives the Story that is Creation, for there resides a spark of the Divine at the core of every particle of Creation, (for Space is not empty but is truly a Fullness, Full-Filled by an unfolding, developing Consciousness behind all Energies/Forms), and yet each such Energy/Form is also a Distinct, Unique instance of Spirit. That propelling the growth or unfoldment of each Spark of the Divine, residing in every Instance of Creation, is a Divine sparkling Consciousness, an Individuality, that is wondrously revealing itself to itself and so for the One...For this is what is your Creation, a self-unfolding, self-becoming host of Individuals, the many of the One.

Yet here too without the Gift of the Spirit, without the Balance that is Bliss, without Integral Development whereby each Avatar contributes to the whole and so be of and for the One, the realization of this Individuality could become skewed from or depart from the wholeness of which, from which it shall and should obtain its most essential directionality.

So, here the Lord Jupiter comes into this Alignment, offering to Uranus' insistently Individuating Song a Centering, Integrating and Loving reminder of Origin, of the Roots of Creation...That every being is a one or individual, yes this is True. But every being is also a one of the ones of the ONE. So the self-unfoldment of any and all Energy/Forms, which begin as unself-conscious sparks of the Divine to rise and unfold into fully Self-Conscious and Awakened Humans (and much more beyond), that this Principle of Individuation is equally and lovingly guided and informed by this Intuiting/Knowing/Feeling, this Truth of Being:

That you are all related...

That you are all of One Family, and

You are here to Love and Care for one another...

As you Become, as you Awaken...

And Return, Singing your Songs...

Home, one with the One.   

Full Moon in Aquarius (August 20, 2013)

Well, this is something special!

Today is the second Full Moon in Aquarius. Normally, you experience only one New Moon and One Full Moon per Sign. However, because the Lunar Cycle, that is from New Moon to Full Moon and back to New Moon, is about 28 days, yet the Sun resides in a sign for just over 30 days, there will be occasions when either two New or two Full Moons will occur within the Sun's movement through a Sign...

This is such a time, for the Sun is residing in Leo and you now have had two Full Moons in Aquarius, two revelations of this integral relationship between Personal Self-Expression and Social Consciousness, between being True to who you are, and to your Fellow Companions too.

For the Signs are all of a piece, they are each a chapter in the Story of Life, and they only can be understood, integrated and so release their Truth in and through you by being experienced as what they are, as one Great Story in which all are joined together...That by, in and through one another, each Sign singing their special Song of Spirit, that this is what brings Fulfillment to every particle of Creation...They are truly the Waters of the Living Spirit wherein each informs and enriches every other as they also bring Light and Love through you and to one another.

The Sun is your Avatar of Individuality, sweeping now through his own sign of Leo, declaiming the virtues that springs from the Fires of Authenticity, pursuing the Purity of Self-Realization through your experience of Self-Expression, by your extension into Roles of Leadership, through embracing the Joys of Personal Love that is offered and received as it must be for it to be true, Unconditionally...

To this the Moon in Aquarius provides a most necessary Counterpoint...for in each of these forms of the Release of your Self, you can fall into error, of being over or under whelming...There is a need for context, for deeper, wider and greater meaning by placing these experiences of your self-realization into the larger world in which you find and fulfill yourself.

For you travel in a grand company of fellow-seekers, you unfold and become who you are through and with them, through mutual support, in your shared challenges and triumphs. Your dreams are their dreams, for you become your dreams of one another...You must know this, you have come here at a particular time and place, and not by accident, you have arrived exactly at this appointed time with a wave of other souls, of fellow travelers with and to whom you owe and are owed many things...That they, like you, seek to become more than what they were, to grow and stretch and be acknowledged, to be seen in their Truth...and for this you form and are formed by your Fellowships with one another, into Communities wherein you aspire, dream and make the future...

Your performances and displays, your creations and loves, reside within this larger social space of meaning and context...and this is what dear Luna reminds you of today. That you are unique and you must be true to you, yes. But your forms of self-realization, your meanings and methods are formed within this greater Sacred Space that you have made with one another. You are one, and you are the many too.

That you are you by, because and through your fellow seekers...

These are yours, these are your Band of Becomers...

With whom you travel with for life after life...

Your Friends, your Dreaming-Makers...

Who will ever be and have so become...

All for one,

One for All.

Venus Enters Libra (August 16, 2013)

Venus comes home...

To her Airy realm of Living Values, to the shared sacred spaces of your social sensibilities, togetherness and love...

This is where and how you seek to find your worthiness now, in the mirror of the other, to see with and through them, and so to catch yet another glimpse of the truth of spirit, the truth of you.

For with Venus in Libra you are more able to move into that space outside of yourself, to consider life from the Archimedean Point of Spirit, and it is this which can allow you to more clearly experience the value of you by and through your relationship with your beloved.

You weigh yourself upon those Scales of Libra, of Values forged and found in Relationship, and in that measure for measure, you find your Truth in and by the Love that you share with one another.

You will see and understand yourself by and through one another, as you make your way through beauty beheld and found within. You find a knowing and deeper appreciation for the fundamental Truth that governs this Universe, the Principle of Spiritual Justice experienced by you as the Weaving-Way, of giving and receiving, of Cause and Effect, the Principle of Balance, The Law of Karma...and what binds one to all and all to One is this...

The Foundational Value, the measure of all things, is Love...In this you know and feel the Value that you are. You are the Measure of you, and this Value is revealed and affirmed by how you live your Life...for in Truth, from the beginning of your journey until the very end, it is what you Give that you shall Get...you are the Seed and the Fruit, you are the Maker of your Destiny.

Venus dances through Libra now for over three weeks, and it is your time to move out and back again in Laughter and Love, as you weave your way to yourself and to your beloved, in loving reciprocities...by gracefulness, through justice and in beauty.

Venus leads you now upon the pathways of Greater Understanding, the pathways of love found in and through a life shared.

She offers you joy as you offer your Love...

She sings of your Love for one another...

She finds you worthy, for you are...

Loving and Loved.

Beloved.

Mercury Enters Leo (August 8, 2013)

Well, it has been a long, long time...in fact Mercury has been in Cancer, swimming through those oh so sensitive seas since the end of May! Usually, Mercury will zip through a sign in about two to three weeks, but this was over two months! So, you have had a special opportunity to experience the mystery and beauty that graced and altered your Perceptions and Communications...for over two months your mind took a rather circuitous journey through those familiar Waters of Home, Security and Centeredness.

Now of course for each of you, your own position of Mercury, and its particular alignments or aspects within your own chart, forms the fundamental determination, the critical factor for how you perceive, process and communicate in your life...But know this, as transiting Mercury moves through the Twelve Signs every year it creates for you this need and opportunity to experience your natural sensibilities as they become modulated through these other facets that are the Circle of Life, the other signs of your Zodiac.

After all, every sign is within you, for you are the Zodiac as much as it is around you too. You are a unique fusion of these Twelve Energy-Forms, your true nature found in these variations of Planetary and Sign combinations, and this fulcrum of energies creates the individualized self-unfoldment or self-becoming of your faculties and awareness, revealed by your own Astrological Chart...But all of the Signs are present, active and integral to your complete experience. You must understand and master them all, for this is how you become Self-Masterful in this life, and in Life after Life to come. 

Your rather extensive sojourn in Cancer is done for this year, it is time now to shift your Mercurial sensibility...You are moving out of the Waters and into Fire. Having forged deeper connections with your origins and roots, you should feel a greater centering and purposefulness, and as a response you will experience a resurgence of your need to express yourself more truly, as your new-found authenticity springs from, moves out from this Well-Spring of your Source.

It is time for your mind to leap from those waters and into the Fires of Leo...It is time to stretch your mind, to perform upon a new stage, to act through a new role, to reveal the love that is yourself...Your mind needs this now, to be recognized and appreciated, for you take your delights in Leo by and from "The Performance"...You find your joy in Forms of Self-Realization, for you need to know that "I am that, I am".

But then you must turn this experience around, and consider not only what you have but who you are and need to offer...For as much as you may yearn and desire recognition and respect, to be self-fulfilled, honored and seen by the other for who you really are...so also does the one who offers this to you.

You cannot have what you will not give...

You must look upon the other as yourself.

Returning their kind recognitions by your own, you

Smile, as you look them in their soul-filled eyes and say,

"I See, I see who you are...

I see and Love you too".

Jupiter Opposite Pluto (August 7, 2013)

The one you have been waiting for is here...

The signature alignment of the decade, (which you can read about here), the ongoing Uranus-Pluto square from 2012 through 2015, (which really became self-evident as Pluto moved into Capricorn in 2008, and lasting well beyond the last Uranus-Pluto square of March 2015), this emissary of the "end of an age and the birth of a new" receives a quickening caress from the Lord of Truth, as mighty Jupiter forms an opposition to Pluto and then a square to Uranus.

For the next two weeks you will pass through this bend in time, a distillation of the greater spiritual interregnum in which you now abide. It is a moment where the forces shaping your world will tilt at the windmills of the old, as emergent new energy-forms spring forth from within. It is a time in which those perennial and ancient truths are resurgently resplendent, their light piercing through and exposing the fetishes of worn-out and hollow dogmas, and the veil between what "was, is and will be", that scrim between you and the Greater Reality, will lift a little more to remind and reveal that you are what you have always been and will ever be, the Maker of your Destiny...

I wrote of this in my 2013 General Forecast:

The Great Cardinal T-Square, Uranus, Pluto and Jupiter August 7-21, 2013

In the month of August, coming between the two exact alignments of Uranus and Pluto in 2013, 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.

So as the next two weeks unfold for you, (and for these many months and even years to come), you will find that within yourself and in the world about you there stands revealed more clearly the greater questions of this time...That as you consider what is for you more Truthful and Loving and Just, you will find your renewal in a remembering...

That as you reach within, down deeper inside to the roots of you (and thereby most wonderfully and mysteriously out into your Universe too), that there will be found in your Heart and Soul those Sacred Seeds of Spiritual Truth.

The answers to life's greatest challenges are there, held within your heart by your Higher Self, and these Intuitional-Knowings propel and inform your journey, they remind you from whence you came, of how and why you must journey...and where you will bring yourself one fine day...

...and you will smile, you will smile and laugh (and cry too), for it was The Way, it is the only way...For every Spark of the Divine must learn, through trial and error, through Action and Reaction, each and every must come to know and understand, and by their own effort achieve that Greater Awareness, to know and to choose what is Good...

To become a Self-Mastered Maker in this precious human time of your Spiritual Journey, to be fulfilled before the end of days...

Returning then with all the other Angels and Prodigals,

Bearing their Gifts of The Spirit, for The Spirit...

Back home to the Divine, one with the One...

That.

New Moon in Leo (August 6, 2013)

The Mirror of your Heart and Soul has turned away...now as your Sun sets there is only Mystery and Darkness, and you must wonder, you must wait and hold your breath...

Seeking an answer, you lift your head up and gaze out upon those starry expanses, those spaces of Space so illumined now by Luna's monthly absence, and you wonder as you look upon what the dark reveals...for there it is, what surrounds you, (and what you are made of), is a magisterial, wondrously beautiful and Infinite Realm of Light.

Still, you are waiting and awaiting what now will come...from that last flash of dusky light until first blush of dawn...waiting, waiting for the New Day, for a Renewal, for your Faith restored.

Today the Moon receives the gift of your Star, as the Sun kisses the Moon he bestows a new Message that Luna will bear...she will wing her way to those outer bounds beyond the Earth, waxing towards her revelation as she makes her way once again...She will be dancing for you, singing her song of Spirit, bearing wondrous gifts...

Luna brings the Gift of the Spirit, so that you might better ponder and hold to your own journey, which is for you but one mighty task: To know yourself truly, to become what you will be...to Grow.

Twelve Lessons of Life, each integral to one another, this is the Light-Song of Spirit, your spiral journey through the Stars, filled with countless variations of octave, tempo and truth...All must be met and mastered, for all together depend upon each to make you whole and make whole this Creation too, all sparks being self-illumined and unique, yet held together in One Great Song.

The Gift of Leo is offered now, the gift of your heart, of the flame within. The force that holds you and all of Creation as one, binding all to One and one in all, is the same Light Divine found in every part and particle, in every corner of this vast Universe, and you know it, most beautifully and simply, as Love.

This is your Burning Bright, the Light that is the Universe, which surrounds you, bathes you yet also abides within you too...for Love or Spirit is not "out there", but it is here within you...for it is you, as it is the fundamental Energy-Substance of all of Creation too.

The Gift of Leo is to remind you that you are a Divine Being...

That you are on a wondrous journey of self-discovery and self-becoming...

And you are here to reveal, release and express your love...

As a Dreaming Maker, an Illumined Creator...

Loving yourself and one another too.