Astrologer Bill Attride

Mars Square Pluto & Sun Square Uranus (December 30, 2013)

This is the "other half" of the year-end Mars' alignments, the first one being Mars Opposite Uranus on December 25. But even more than this, what you are experiencing here is the preview of the Grand Cardinal Cross of 2014, which will be most evident in April 2014.

For during this period that runs roughly from December 24 until about January 8 (and beyond really), you will have Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto forming up with one another in the same Grand Cross that will be much more exact in April, and that Grand Cross will be the most significant and signature aspect pattern for 2014.

At this point in time, various other planets will align to form a resonance with this ongoing and developing pattern of these outer planets. Yesterday it was Mercury aligning with Sun while it also squared Uranus. Today it is Mars Squaring Pluto while the Sun Squares Uranus. Tomorrow on December 31, it will be Mercury conjunct Pluto while Mercury also squares Mars.

Finally, as the New Year begins on Wednesday, which also happens to be a New Moon, the Sun will align with Pluto. Then on January 2, the Sun will Square Mars while Mercury moves to oppose Jupiter. Then the Sun will oppose Jupiter on January 5. Finally for now, Mars will square Jupiter on January 8.

That is quite a Dance of the Planets and quite a flow of Spiritual Energy through and around you by which you are to lift your understanding about yourself and your world!

For today, let us focus upon the meanings that are brought to bear by Mars and Pluto, and then briefly consider the message from the Sun and Uranus...

Whereas the Mars/Uranus Opposition posited a challenge for you to find and walk the integral path that combines your need for Social Harmony and Individual Freedom too, the Mars/Pluto Square requires of you quite a different awareness and response. For the meaning and messages of any square imply a challenge, a struggle and opportunity that is more within yourself, (though of course, given the reality of life, you will certainly experience this between one another too).

Mars, your Avatar of Desire and Action, is singing to you now of your need for Social Justice and Togetherness, and you are motivated to eagerly join or expand the many forms of relationship with one another. But in so doing you are inclined to defer to the needs of the group or of the beloved in order to bring about or maintain what would seem greater Equality and Beauty in your relationships.

But a danger is always present with Mars pushing upon the envelope of your Desires, and so in this matter you may give overmuch, being assertive in seemingly very spiritual and selfless ways, and so by passionately pursuing the good for the other or others you actually end up causing harm to yourself and to them too. That in this pursuit of Balance and Beauty you tip the scales over much, so that you and they are harmed by a failure to forge what is right and true, a relationship that is a seamlessly adaptive response to the needs of one another, that is as it should be, a dynamically balanced experience of giving and receiving. Instead, by your "over-relating", you fail to forge a proportional, reciprocal pattern for meeting the needs of one another. 

Pluto, your Avatar of Will and Sacred Space will weigh in here now, and whether it will help you to right what may be wrong or bring further harm, well that is on you and your awareness truly.

Pluto can lead you into greater error here if you give in to the one and only thing which will delay your journey towards the Light, and that is Fear. For the Power of Pluto is yours, and you may wield it as a mighty force of self-transformation and self-becoming, as you turn this Spiritual Power of Will back upon yourself and thereby exercise the only control you will ever truly have but have yet to master, which is to have Self-Control and thereby Self-Determination...For by so doing you will fulfill your destiny and become a truly Free Co-Creator and be welcomed into the Company of Light.

But you have to learn to do this, and until you do you may fall...Fall into the error of fear and misuse this gift in a vain and futile attempt to control another, to force in this case a relationship to be what you will it to be, to make another be something for you, ever in and by your "generosity" or "selflessness". And in this, you will and must ultimately fail. Oh, you may for a time have "power" over another, or many others. You will bear down upon them and break them for a time, or more likely end up surrounded by weaker wills, and this will not fulfill or satisfy you, but instead it will diminish you and them.

For Power, your Will-Power, comes from whatever is the source of that power, and it is this which must be honored and served if you wish and will to do Good...and with regards to your journey, this means that you are here to learn that it is the One within you, the Light within you, the Love within you that you must serve and be guided by, or you will fall and have to try again, to try yet again.

Pluto in Capricorn sings the Song of Responsibility and Ancient Traditions now, and that there are Teachings and Wisdom and Ways of Being that you need master, that you must learn to always Respect, Honor and Protect the Sacred Space of any other as well as your own. For the Greatest Sin is to Trespass, to force another to Believe or Do what you Will them to do...and this you must never do.

Your over-eager desire for relationship must be guided, restrained and lovingly formed into a greater understanding, that before me is another who is a self-becoming spirit too, and they must freely learn and choose to do what is Loving and of the Light. You must always remember this and by so doing keep their space and spirit as sacred as your own.

Yes, these are mighty lessons, but you have faced them countless times before, and in each and every day you will face them too, in little and large ways you are asked to remember this...

That here before me, this beloved that is before me...

There I am too.

 

The Sun and Uranus also weigh in on today's message from the stars, and again it is a square...You face another choice and challenge, to turn away or towards the Light.

The Sun is your Avatar of Self, your pure potentiality which is that you are a "being who is becoming", held by what is called the Monad or Spark of the Divine Flame at the heart of you, and your unique Individuality will self-unfold through forms and worlds beyond reckoning.

Uranus is your Avatar of Individuality and Freedom, most clearly experienced by you in the insistent drive to ever expand your Consciousness so that it may encompass a Greater Understanding and so move into ever larger forms of Self-Realization.

You will ceaselessly move into Forms of Self-Realization that are right and true to your purposes in that Time and Space. But, given that your Nature as Spirit is to Grow, any Thought or Form or Thought-Form will only last but for a time...What brought you to where you are cannot take you where you must go next. You must be Free, you must break up the old form and be reformed...And this is what Uranus calls for you to remember now, to listen now for those Winds of Spirit are blowing, stronger now, and a world will pass away as a new one rises.

You are called to remember,

Beaten Paths are for the broken and beaten...

It is time to be a Trail-Blazer again.

To know and to believe in the Power of New Beginnings...

To preserve and pass on Traditions,

By honoring and following the Path,

That your forebears blazed long ago.

They did not wish for you to remain the same...

They wished for you what they also won,

To be Free.

Mercury Conjunct Sun & Mercury Square Uranus (December 29, 2013)

An answer is offered as the Avatars of Self and Mind align...

There was a Gift of Spiritual Inspiration released for you during the last retrograde of Mercury in October/November 2013, for that is when the Sun and Mercury aligned while Mercury was retrograde and a seed was planted that will bear its fruit for you now.

That is the way of this, the Cycling of Energies and Forms, of the World and you unfolding and becoming so much more. A seed is planted at a "New Moon" or beginning of any cycle, germination follows and then continues to unfold, as the pure potential becomes realized with the development of various substantiations until a revelation of meaning is realized/released at the "Full Moon" moment, which is where you find Mercury and the Sun at this time.

The seed in November concerned the themes of Scorpio, and it was a gift to help you reach towards a deeper union upon which all your hopes and dreams depend. The inspiration offered by Mercury and the Sun was to remind you that in order to forge or reinforce those deeper connections with one another, you need to remember that you are to approach these sacred spaces of We with Humility, Self-Reflection and Courage.

When you enter into these great mysteries of Union, with regard to both yourself and the beloved, as you draw closer together you will realize that there is still so much more to learn about yourself and about the other, and you will grow together only by surrendering your ego and pride...so be Humble.  

The second gift was that you need to maintain your self-aware/self-reflectivity, that all you are here to master and "control" truly is yourself, so you must try to understand what echoes are within you that create your doubts and fears. You must do what you can to step beyond your self-cast shadows, and so do your part to help create a sacred space for the other to enter in with you...so be Self-Aware.

The third gift was the most precious reminder, that you have within you a spark of the Divine, which is the Fountain-Source of this entire and wondrous Creation itself. That in order to reach out to one another you can rise above those very doubts and fears because of this great legacy. You are endowed with wondrous powers beyond your knowing, and that these will slowly become more and more available to you as you master yourself...so be Fearless.  

From this seeding in Scorpio you find yourself now betwixt and between the Truths of Cancer and Capricorn in your mind. And you will often find yourself at such times, when faced with one way of being or another, that you may stumble and fall into error, of feeling or believing that you must choose between the two, to hold to one and deny or project the other...but this is not the path, this is not the Way of Wisdom.

You are shown these two ways to understand that they both are integral to one another, they only can work together, for they arise and find meaning from and through one another. You are being shown that though your mind is sensitized to the Capricorn Way now, that that is why, precisely why, you need now to be reminded of this "other way" of Cancer too.

You will know when you listen to your Heart and feel with your Head, that you really could not choose anyway. For how could you "choose" between Cancer and Capricorn, between your Home and your Destiny. How could you choose between following your feelings of the moment and yet fail in your honor-bound duty to one another...For in the end, they are the same.

The Dichotomy of Truth here is that needs will arise and be met at first in a more natural and spontaneous manner, but that over time these responses will grow into structures, roles and forms of interaction that become the very substance and fabric of fulfilling your responsibility and purpose in your world. Yet, it is also true that over time that those very structures of duty, if not kept refreshed by the waters of authentic feelings and sensibilities will turn into dust and ash, they become mere formalities or habits without true caring, lacking true love.

Yes you must stand betwixt and between and be the fulcrum of the weaving way of Spirit, you must hold in your mind both Capricorn and Cancer too...

But there is another Song of Spirit singing today. Mercury is aligning with what forms his own higher expression, for Uranus is your Avatar of Individuality and Freedom, and finds his most supreme expression in these realms of Consciousness. Uranus is the very Elicitor of your Higher Mind, he is the true Source and Substance of your Inspired Mind and those wondrous Thought-Forms too.

Today Mercury is Squaring Uranus, and so there is a need to understand this message that is brought to your "Lower" mind of Mercury by your more Intuitional Mind of Uranus. The well-won knowledge and teachings that Mercury in Capricorn is guided by, that have been proven true and most worthy and wise, will necessarily face challenges because of the nature of who and what you are. For Spirit must grow, and you will therefore seek to forever expand beyond the known and familiar, to encompass a Greater Understanding. This larger sphere of knowing may arise from Intuitional promptings, or through the dawning recognition that the present explanations and thought-forms do not so wonderfully reflect the experiences you are encountering in your journey here below.

Whether arising from within, or through dissonances from without, you will have need of Uranus' gift of bending thought into ever greater and more subtle spaces of comprehension, to take you from old but outworn certainties and help you to recover your sense of wonder, to see anew your world and yourself too. For this is truly how those older teachings did at some point arise, that someone at some point questioned the reason and knowing of their day and wondered, "Could there be more than this, could there be some other knowing to explain and show the way?"

This is the Gift of Uranus, to shake up your complacency...to make you question and wonder again, and find new beams of light that will illuminate and show you a better way.

When all are in agreement, when everyone is of one mind, then Uranus will surely come, he will stir Mental Pathways and raise the Questions that must be asked...and that is most true today.

This a time to Question...

It is a time to break free of your Certainties.

It is time to be who you are, Spirit...

It is time to Think Anew,

It is time to Wonder and Dare.

Mars Opposite Uranus (December 25, 2013)

There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear...

Between and behind all the noise and distractions of the everyday problems in the world, there remains "the work" that will ever be your true task, with much larger forces, conflicts and opportunities that will and must continue to demand your Attentive Awareness...for you are here now, and you are here for a reason...

Between now and the end of the year, Mars is sweeping into alignment with Uranus and then with Pluto, and in so doing he will elicit the Uranus/Pluto Square that is the over-arching planetary theme now, for these two are the bearers/revealers of the profound meaning behind the world changes you must see all around you now.

For an age is ending, and a new one will rise...and while you find yourself in this present time and space, when many things will come undone, when you face seemingly senseless strife and storms at every turn, you will look for answers, for some comfort and reassurance that a better world still lies ahead. You will wait upon a brighter day, as you turn your gaze longingly Eastward, hoping to catch a glimpse of your New World dawning through those beaming rays of your Rising Sun.

And as always, throughout all Time and Space, you like your ancestors before you will look up to these Sacred Spaces above, to seek and to find some measure of order and meaning, some form of Constancy in those Stars that whirl above. And when you do take this time, you will begin to discern the patterns that are there, you will hearken to your Magisterial Companions who watch over you, and who will ever sing their Songs of Spirit which are yours too. They will remind you of why you came here, of what this journey is for. They will help you now to find your way back to your Truth, of how to a make a world that is filled with Laughter, Light and Love.

For it is most true that the New World will not come to you, it will come because and from and through you...and so you must do the work, you must become this change you wish for, you must do it for this world that you love.

The first of these two elicitations, of Mars to Uranus, speaks to your ever present, yet now more strongly posited, need to reconcile your Desire for Social Togetherness with your Insistent Calling to extend your Independent Individuality too. For it will seem at first that these cannot be reconciled, that these two will be found upon either side of you, each pulling and pushing upon the other, and that one part of you must give way or be sacrificed so that the other may have its way.

But of course, if you listen to your heart, if you follow the Intuitive promptings of your Spirit, you will know that there is only one way to be who you are. You must embrace and combine your diversities, complexities and your dichotomies too, for this is what truly makes the Individual Spirit that is you. And so you know in your heart, you feel in your soul that each of these ways is part of you, and each without the other will not work, nor will you be you.

You must be true to Uranus and to Mars, to be them both in order to fulfill the truth that is you. You will remember that the Way of Spirit is always like this, for true life, true Spirit is Paradoxical. That you are endowed with this Gift of Unfolding Awareness, you are in fact a wondrous Sacred Space, a Vibrant Field of Myriad Energies where various Sensibilities, Values, Knowings and Truths all come together in a Magical Combination of Synthesis and Uncommon Sense. You are here and will become by being both of any number of these dualities/dichotomies that form the parts of you...and you will do this by finding and following Spirit's one true path, by walking the Integral Way.

Uranus is holding forth from Aries, calling on one and all to strive for Authenticity in self-determinations, to extend the space of self-realization by freeing Minds and Spirits, to help you become unbowed and unbound by limits, fears and doubts. But if you too much force this Individualizing Energy, if you forget your "other half", if by this you cause harm to any other, then your "Freedom" will turn to ash.

Mars is Singing the song of Libra now, where he strives for Justice, Equality and Fairness for one and for all. But if you too much force this Harmonizing Energy, if you forget or dismiss the specialness that is you, if you defer yourself because of the other and always put their ways and truths before your own, then you will not be able to contribute that unique essence that you are, and you will bring great harm to you and all whom count on you.

There is no other way, you cannot be divided from yourself. The only path you will find that will take you home is this Middle Road of Truth. The Way of Wisdom, the Way of the Lonely Ones is to embrace the gloriously complex and yes oftentimes confusing and humbling path of being one who understands that you are meant to hold it all together, and refuse the "easy" path to deny or divide.

You must become a Wisdom Walker...

One who chooses to accept, embrace and celebrate,

And know that your differences and complexities are your strength...

They are what makes you, you.

And that you will find the way,

The Lonely Ones Way of Wisdom,

By choosing to hold it all together by your Love.

Mercury Enters Capricorn (December 24, 2013)

In this Cosmos you call Creation, which is full of and formed by a Host of Beings endowed with varying degrees of Consciousness, there exists an Ordering that forms a Hierarchy of Manifestation for all of these Spiritual Entities. Each Monad "Descends" from the realm Divine to realms Spiritual, from Mental Planes to Worlds of Feeling, and that progression continues "down" into ever more materialized forms of Energy-Matter, which in your present-day Human experience results in the Skin-Walker form you require here on Earth. In all these realms you exist and have an Energy-Form that is required and present on that plane, but you also exist in and upon all these planes at the same time too.

You do not "leave" the realm of Spirit to "descend" and so "arrive" in your fleshy form here on Earth. It is more that a part of you is extended into each succeeding form so that you can exist in that realm, and then the next form is extended from that one, so by this series of "self-projections" and "self-embodiments" you can be active and participate in each and every realm. But forever and always the highest part of you will remain in the Supernal Realms of Light, for the core of you will ever abide in "Heaven" as a spark of the Divine, for this is who you are, a unique instance of the One True Spirit.

And so it is with Mind as well, as part of you and a great part of this Creation is of "The Mind" and will always remain in this form. There are varying degrees within each realm, and this is also true for the realms of Thought, ranging from the simplest and lowest of Thought-Forms to those which provide the very bridge between and to the next realm of the Intuitive/Spiritual part of the Cosmos. There are no "harsh" boundaries between realms, as energies move through and between all of these realms, binding one and all together in the One Life of Spirit.

In each earthly life, you have been endowed with a certain type of Mentality, a unique blend of Thoughtful Sensibilities as indicated by a number of factors in your Astrological Birth Chart, not the least of which is your Zodiacal position of Mercury. From these various indications you will form a particular individuated manner in which to perceive, reason and communicate in this life.

Yet you like everything else also abide in what I like to call the "Living Chart of the Present", the dynamic unfolding interplay of positions and cycles that all the planets form with one another in each and every moment, and this creates the Living Song of Spirit in the Realms of Above. You and your companions in your experiences with one another contribute your own unique melody to this Supernal Chorus, as you sing your own sweet Living Songs of Spirit on Earth below. 

In this Hierarchical formation of Energy-Matter, you are influenced by and need to understand the guidance that is lovingly illustrated and offered by your Planetary Companions sweeping through the heavens above. When there is a change in their song, you need to take note, listen and learn to modulate your own song too.

Today Mercury, the Avatar of your Mind, has shifted and the Sensibilities of your Knowing will respond now to a different melody in the Song of Spirit...and so you too should adjust, in your own special way, and try to modulate your thoughts and communications likewise. No matter what your own predisposition might be, you would do well to bring into your observations and considerations a greater degree of that strong Capricorn gift of Practical Sense and Responsibility.

It is time to emulate a quality of Mind that is focused through the Lens of Tradition, to consider that which has been proven to be true through rigorous and time-tested use, and to know that this is worthwhile and should be preserved, honored and passed on to future generations. Yes, do not forget the Expansive Ideals and Visions stirred by your recent sojourn in Sagittarius, but to take those now and understand that a Great Idea must also be practical, useful and sound.

From now until January 11, you will be wise to follow in the footsteps of fleet-footed Mercury, who is Hermes your Messenger of the Gods, and fulfill your own Purpose by endeavoring to maintain what is Good and True in Thought as has been proven over time, which will then guide you into the proper approach, conduct and consequence for your life. For as it has been said, the key to life is: Right Thinking which forms Right Action which leads to Right Results...and you will accomplish this now when you perceive critically, think practically and offer your contribution humbly.

Mercury in Capricorn calls for you to take care...

For as you Think so shall your Life become.

You have made your present life today...

By the character of your thought long, long ago.

A better Future will be your prize...

By Thoughtful Mindfulness in the Now.

Be a Dream-Maker, a Wisdom-Walker...

Think Responsibly, Respectfully and Humbly...

Think as a Capricorn now.

Sun Enters Capricorn & Venus Retrograde (December 21, 2013)

Alignment...Attunement...Atonement...The Path

Four Portals on this path of Light,

That spiral Circle of Spirit,

Your Pathway of Becoming.

You go round and around,

Seeking, striving, reaching.

At each Portal, an Ending and Beginning,

As Seasons Pass Away.

A time to Pause, Consider and Remember,

That there is but one way.

For the Path of Light is found by,

Alignment...Attunement...Atonement.

For you are endowed with Self-Awareness, you have the power of choice...and you will choose, for you must learn to choose what is true, to know what is good, and you will learn to choose love.

You will walk for a while upon that seemingly easier way, to take your time and be pushed and pulled along a more slowly winding path by the Winds of Fate, and in this you will ascribe what befalls you as chance or accident or the will of some "higher" being, that "luck" or bad "luck" is all there is, that life is what just happens.

But even so, as you walk in that dim-lit, shadowed realm of fate and fear, as you stumble and fall again and again, as you pick yourself up time after time, you will slowly begin to perceive a "dawning", a hint of your greater self-awareness. You will begin to apprehend an order to the way you are, and the way the world is too (for they are the same), and moments will come when beyond all chance, you find yourself at a convergence of circumstances, something magical or mysterious "happens" and time and space will come together, and you feel that chill come over you, the hair on your body rises forming goose bumps upon this fleshy form you move in now.

And there you will be, at a Fulcrum of Free Will and Fate, and in your remembrance and connectivity between one time and another, you will begin to realize that there is more to this journey and you than just "accident"...You will begin to know/remember who you truly are, to take the measure of what you are truly capable of, of why you are here and how it is possible for you to become more through this journey that leads to a Greater Awareness and Purposeful Intention.

Eventually, there will come a time for you to take the next step in self-aware/self-determination, and who can say when or why (or indeed in what life you did), but at some moment you will resolve to climb upon the steeper path. Usually it comes upon you as a feeling/knowing, that you have begun to intuit the purpose and meaning behind your life, and so you turn and you choose to dedicate yourself to something greater, for you are now determined to abide within a Higher Plane of Dreaming, Creating and Being.

You begin to make your way upon that Noble Path which has been followed by many, many before you. They have walked this path long ago, but they too were helped along the way, they did not forget nor will they ever turn away from you now, for this too is part of "The Way". For once you have set yourself upon this Purposeful Path, once you have felt the calling to be Aligned within, you will also become Attuned to what is around you too...You will come to understand the purposes and pathway of this Creation Journey you have been upon. Your loving Self-Aware Connectedness to all of that which is around you will help you to more quickly become what you were destined for, to be a Loving Co-Creator of your world and of one another too.

You will join the company of those elders who have come this way before, and you will know that they are there, extending their loving hearts and hands to you now, (for they have always been there helping in whatever way the Law of Karma would both permit and demand of them too). They are further along the path and already abide in the Knowing-Way, the One Way which is Love, and so they will always answer and reach out to those who follow and now wish to serve, and they will help you now to find "The Way"...

But as always, you will have to choose, you must learn for this is the way, to learn over and over again how to do what is better, to choose to do what is good and loving, and to let go of the rest.

In every day you face this most awesome and fateful choice...To take whatever comes to you, whether it was good or bad, to take it and then to Intelligently, Lovingly and Spiritually pass it on...If good has come to you, then you will release and pass on the same; if pain or hurt or anger came, you will know that it is just energy, formed into this impulse of negativity (that has probably been passed from soul to soul causing untold suffering, perhaps for many, many years), and that now you are given this opportunity and challenge, and you must choose wisely. For you are Self-Aware Spirit and you must learn to use your Love and Wisdom to redeem what was darkness and pain, to understand your purpose and be the Creator who turns Darkness into Light. You will take what is dark and in pain, and you will turn it back into Love & Light.

Four Portals stand within this Circle of Life, Four Great Moments of Choice, Four Beginnings to mark your Sacred Seasons of Spirit. They will also be met when you reach somewhat higher, they will be faced as the Four Great Initiations that mark your Journey into a Fully Illumined Life.

For now, in this journey of your Self that is Becoming, you will meet at the Eastern Portal the Equinox of Aries, where you face the Test and reap the Reward of your renewal of your Presence and Individuality. At the Northern Portal that is the Solstice of Cancer, you face the Test and reap the Reward of your renewal with your Source and Center. At the Western Portal of the Equinox of Libra, you face the Test and reap the Reward of your renewal of Joining with the Beloved in the Love that you share. And now, at the Southern Portal that is the Solstice of Capricorn, you face the Test and reap the Reward of your renewal of Purpose, for you must choose to be Responsible, to Fulfill your Duty and claim your Destiny to be part of the Golden Chord that holds all of this Creation together in One Great Life.

Today you are reminded, that even in the darkest hour, there remains a Light that will not go out, a Love that will not fail, and a Promise that will be Fulfilled. It is all because you stand within a shining Hierarchy of Light that stretches from the Heart of Creation to the furthest reaches of this Cosmos, that every being within this Company of Brave Souls is Aligned and Attuned to one another, joined in At-Onement by the Love which holds all in the Truth that there is but One in whom all are encompassed by the Light.

And so it is most fitting and wonderful that on this special day that Venus, your Avatar of Value, Beauty and Love is Standing Still. She is turning to move across the heavens and take up her position in the New Year as the Brightly Shining One, to be your Light Bearer heralding the Dawn as you move into this next season of your life. Here is what I wrote about this in my General Forecast for 2013:

Venus Retrograde in Capricorn (December 21 until January 31, 2014)

 The year concludes with the planet of Love and Beauty going retrograde until the end of January. Yes, it is time again to re-consider what you have, what you want and the nature of Love in your life...

At this most sacred moment of the Spiritual Calendar, your Avatar of Love is turning and so must you...it is time once to renew your understanding of the why and what of your love. You need to go within again and consider the Nature of Love, where does it come from, why do you have this feeling, and what is it for. 

Venus in Capricorn speaks to you now of this Hierarchy of Creation that stretches back into the mists of time, and likewise ahead into the Infinities of Dimensions and Space. Yet all of it, from the smallest mote to the mightiest of Galaxies and beyond, all of it is encompassed in the one Abiding Energy, the One Abiding Love from the Mother-Father that gave birth to us all.

You love one another, you love the world around you and those stars and galaxies too, because quite simply but profoundly, it is all a part of you. The Illusion is Separation, from which darkness, pain and despair did come...But the Hope and Promise is held by this Truth that all is of One Spirit, all held together by One Sacred Love. There is nothing to fear, the darkness will not stay and the Light that will never fail is there and will shine brightly through one and All.

In Love, from Love and by Love,

The Purpose of this whole Journey is so that Spirit can be through you and you and you...

And all you are asked to do,

Is Love.

Full Moon in Gemini, The Galactic Center & Uranus Direct (December 17, 2013)

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Luna has reached her "Far Point" once again, for she is your Spirit Weaver drawing the threads of life between you and your Star...She sweeps back and forth, linking the inner spaces to the outer realms, pointing to those spaces of Space which you will eventually explore as you seek what lies beyond these familiar worlds that you call home.

Truly Luna is marking a special place for you today, for if you look tonight just to her left you will see dear Jupiter beaming brightly there. And if you then turn to look just to her right, to the right and above Jupiter and also directly above the beauty that is Orion's Belt, well there you will find yourself staring into the "Great Mystery", for you are then gazing upon the point that is opposite to your Galaxy's Center. You are looking to that which is beyond your own local part of the boundless spaces of Space. You are looking out into the Wonder that is Creation, you look upon what is beyond your fathoming, you are gazing into the Majesty of the Infinite, to beyond the beyond.

Yes, it is at this time of year that the Sun is aligned with the Galactic Center, around which all in this part of the Universe revolve. This Full Moon then features the Sun aligned with your Origin while the Moon stands opposite at her far "far point", for it is at this time that she points the way to the Infinities of Space beyond your Galaxy.

But of course this is all relative, for Infinity is to be found as much in looking to the Center of your Galaxy as looking out away from it. Even more, the true nature of the "spaces of Space" include the realms of the Infinitesimal that lie within and behind all of Creation as much as the Infinities that are all around you too.

The true nature of Creation is that it is Hierarchical. and that there are many, many ranges of Dimensional or Vibrational Realms of Energy-Forms (esoterically there are 12 within each Division), and that each of these Divisions or Realms in turn endlessly divide into further 12-fold Divisions both inwardly and outwardly...For this is the Nature of Spirit and of Creation, to Grow and Become, and there is no-thing that is Finite or Fixed, no-thing that is not changing, moving, becoming...There is no "beginning", and there can be no "end". So that Time, Space, Energy-Matter unfold ceaselessly, from Plane to Plane, Dimension through Dimension...and so do you.

This is the Greater Mystery of Spirit, of the One in whom and by whom you have your existence. That you exist in, of and by this One, who is your Father-Mother and of whom it is said can be imagined by you as "The One who is that Circle of Infinity whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere". Just try and get your head and heart around that, you may stretch and strive but you cannot, but it is in your nature to try...because this is your nature, for you are Spirit and you are here quite wonderfully and beautifully to grow.

So it is right and most proper that at such a time, here just before one of the four Sacred Points in the Wheel of Life known as the Solstice of Winter, that you should pause and consider. To stop and look up at Luna arching there above, for she is there to remind you of your Infinity, that you are part of this boundlessness, this wonder that is your Creation too. Yes you should stop and consider for a moment the journey you are part of, to think about how and why you came to be here, to ponder the meaning of your journey and how you shall find your way, as you move out from the Innermost realms to the Cosmos above, as you journey from Infinitesimal to the Infinite, from here and out to the great beyond.

The Sun is arching now through Sagittarius, wherein are held those Teachings, Truths and Faiths that have throughout the Ages been held with Reverence and Awe, offered as the hard-worn assurance by those who came before, to help you stay the course and find your way. This Well of Wisdom is for you, to help you find some Truth, to help you keep your feet upon the path, to help you find your way.

The Full Moon is shining brightly in Gemini, and as always she is there to provide the necessary balance to the Solar Energies that prevail at this time. Whereas Sagittarius seeks for Truth, for that elusive Final Answer which will help you hold and keep to the Noble Path, Gemini reminds you that there are many ways to find "The Way", and that you must not ever stop or become self-satisfied, that you should know that you have yet to find "the truth" let alone "The Truth" to this mystery that is your journey through Time and Space.

You are what you are, spirit of Spirit, a Child filled with Wonder, and part of you will always be as Gemini, and so you will continue your seeking and questioning, endowed with your essentials of curiosity and contrariness, and you will remain ever faithful to what is your abiding truth...that you are here to Grow, and that there is more, so much more, still more for you to discover and understand ...and you must continue to question, and to learn, and to grow.

As if the messengers of the Cosmos thought you might miss their gifts for you today, there is the added blessing of another shift to accompany this alignment of your Center with Circumference, with Sun and Full Moon too, there is another shift today that can help you and remind you that you are here for one thing truly, you are here to be you.

For today Uranus, The Awakener, is turning direct and bringing to the outward realms what he brought to your inner worlds since mid July. Here is what I wrote about this shift in the General Forecast for 2013:

Uranus Direct (December 17 until July 21, 2014)

The Lord of Individuation, of you becoming more truly you, takes you out there to create better spaces of freedom for yourself and your companions. You have spent the last several months freeing yourself from your own patterns of self-denial...Now it is time to go out and experience a truer you, a freer world for you and your friends.

For the past five months you have had these Uranian energies sweep through your inner worlds, helping you to shake off and rise above those self-limitations that you, unknowingly in most cases, placed upon yourself. They were formed in your past by less than perfect efforts to be true to yourself, and now manifest in your fears of being different from others, your fears of not belonging and being part of the company of your peers...when all along, what you and they needed, what you both wanted was for you and for them to be true to who you are.

Now, with Uranus moving forward until July 2014 you can turn your attentions outward again to bring a greater range to your self-fulfillment in and through your shared spaces of self-realization. It is time to make a greater dedication to treat others as you wished be treated and experienced, to be authentic and special in your uniqueness and accord the same to them in theirs.

To do this you will seek to help create, protect and expand those shared spaces of Freedom for them and for you. For by so doing you will sing your Songs of Spirit as they were meant to be sung, where each is able to be true to their own special melody, for each could only realize this and have it made possible by being harmonically combined with and integrally made true through this one Greater Song that is sung by your companions with you.

Bow to the Majesty of Infinity...

Remain true, a child at heart...

Sing loud, sing together,

Your Creation song.

Jupiter Trine Saturn (December 12, 2013)

This is the Second Act of a three-act play of Meaning and Manifestation.

The first alignment happened on July 17 and the final will occur on May 24, 2014. You could say that this Spiritual Triptych is one of the defining Spiritual Messages of this entire period, but this particular moment, being the second of the three should prove to be the critical Second Act of this three act drama, this could be the most special and illuminating of them all.

Within the 20 year cycle of Jupiter and Saturn, your Avatars of Principle and Purpose will align for two moments where your Path of Growth will reach this most perfect alignment between what is True and what is Possible, where the hoped for and what is possible can come together.

Really though, it is at such a time that Jupiter and Saturn are there to help you understand "The Way". For they are always there to guide and illustrate that this is the only path that is true and possible too. That this way is always available to you, and you can follow it if you stay true to your Spiritual Core, which you can do if you remain focused and bring this Awareness and your Love into every thought and action that you do. For when you are this way, when you can hold to this path, to the Way of the Spiritual Warrior, then you will always be Present in the Now, you will always seek to keep together what is Possible and what is True, and you will live as you are, as one of the ones of the One.

For your Journey is made of this, and you should ever seek to keep to this way of the Integral Path, for by this you will avoid, as in this present circumstance, the twin dangers of Unreasonable Enthusiasms (Jupiter) or of Darkening Pessimisms (Saturn). You will instead hold these two energies together as they should be, in balance and proportion, integrated with one another. This is how they must be understood and acted upon, you must hold them and act as you and they are, you must be as One and act as One. For when you do, when you stay undivided, then you live in the Light of this Greater Understanding, you follow the one Path, and in this case, you follow their loving guidance as you hold to the path of Pragmatic Idealism.

Jupiter and Saturn cannot make this happen here on Earth, that is of course on you, but their Song and Dance of Spirit is there to remind you of this Noble Path that is to become your way back to the Light.

Jupiter is singing from the Hearth-Song of Cancer. Your Truth, your Principles have come to you from the Foundations that have formed your Life. Wherever you find your Circles of Centering, wherever you locate your sensibilities of belonging, whether they be from Family, Village, City, Nation or World, your sense of what your Truth is will anchor you and point you towards your Purpose and Destiny. For you belong to these origins as much as they depend upon you for their Fulfillment..You wish to know where you are going, you have need of this. So you will need to know from whence you came, of what you stand upon, and by this you will know, you will understand, the why and the way of what you are here for too.

Saturn is singing from the Heart-Song of Scorpio. Your Purpose and Test in this part of your journey is to follow your Passion and find the joy in deeper Unions. You need to overcome your most terrible fear, to face down the Illusion that is Separation, of Loss and Death, the Darkness of Despair. You need to release the Power of the Spirit that is within you, the force that truly binds together and propels the whole of this Creation. To realize that this most wondrous Light and Comfort is always there, that it IS, and that it can always be experienced as you join with one another, whether in combination with that most special one, or in the forging of all your many Sacred Spaces with your Companions and Comrades, your fellow travelers in the Light.

For in that Fusion, in that Dance of Spirit-Matter where one and one becomes so much more than two, therein lies the Magic that propels all of the Creation that surrounds and created you. For when the Love that is within is met and joined with the Love that is "out there", you will smile and you will laugh, and together you will realize that the darkness was the Illusion, and that only Light and Love is everywhere.

Jupiter in Cancer will help you now, to hold and honor the roots from which you draw your essential nature, and this will help you to find the strength that comes from this Fountain-Source of Love, you remain true and secure in these feelings of belonging and caring, these treasures of your past.

Saturn in Scorpio will then help you to step beyond that space of the familiar, to push beyond your first home of comfort and light. That secure in your truth and your origins, you will find your courage from the love that is within, you will extend your hand and heart to one another, and you will forge your shared sacred spaces, your Unions that form the now.

You will forge and create what was Promised...

Building Sacred Spaces Together...

Releasing and so increasing your Love...

That formed by Light, Love of the One,

This is The Eternal, the Now and Forever,

The Way, the One.

Mars Enters Libra (December 7, 2013)

In the beginning...there was Desire.

The Unnameable, Unknowable and Unmanifest which is beyond all these worlds, THAT which is behind and before this Reality of Time/Space, and which is the true Source of this Sea of Energy-Forms in which you and your companions now create and play within the Human Kingdom of Self-Aware Spirit-Matter...Before any of this could be and become, before any of this at all, the ONE Desired To Be...

So, All of this IS because of a Fundamental Foundational Force that propelled Non-Being into Beingness...All of this became because of this most Spiritual Imperative, which is to Grow, to Become...All of this is because the Infinite wished or Desired to become Finite...all of this is because of Desire.

Your Avatar of Desire is changing his tune...and it is going to be a long, long song indeed. Whereas normally Mars will "skip" through each sign of the Zodiac in about 40 days or so, this time (because of his retrograde that starts on March 1 and does not conclude until May 19) Mars will remain in Libra until July 25, 2014 or for 230 days! That is almost 6 times longer than normal! Evidently, there is much learning and growth that you are about to experience with regards your Desire and Libra!

Your own Natal position of Mars will shape and direct your preferred expression of how you will act on your aims and intentions, of how you will respond or react to opportunities and danger, it reveals what you are passionate about and/or what will make you upset or angry.

And so it is very necessary for you to know the nature of your Desires, and over time, as you grow into a greater awareness, you will learn to make every effort to lift your Self up by an ever more refined expression of this Energy. You are here to learn to live through your Personal Self for something more than just you, you are here to choose to lead a Trans-Personal life that will draw your Desires into Aspirations, and this will lead you homeward to the Light.

The Living Chart of the Now reveals the energies that you and everyone else are subject to from moment to moment, in each and every day, day after day...For you are bathed in a veritable sea of energies that are constantly being modulated, and these myriad streams of energy will interact, influence and elicit from you what become your reactions and responses to the Now...

That is why it is most beneficial to understand and integrate these Living Lessons of Life that your Planetary Companions Sing and Dance for you, for you need to understand these Signs and Portents, you need to hear this Song of the Now in order to know what is asked of you today, of what is needed from you here, and so discover how this will form into the Integral Path that joins what you bring from yourself and what is offered from around you, and by this you will Become Fulfilled as you also lift into Higher Forms these worlds through which you are learning to be a Master Creator.

Mars serves your Self. As you seek to realize your potentials in the world as indicated by your Sun Sign, your Mars will show you the ways in which you seek to be or become what you are meant to be. To fulfill your part in the great Song of Life, you need to release your true nature as fully as you can, to stretch and strut and contribute your own unique chord to the Chorus of Life.

The position of Mars in the Living Chart of the Now quickens your own natal Desire Nature so as to integrate this modulation of Intention and Action into your own life patterns. Remember, all the Signs of the Zodiac are within you, they are just there in differing mixtures and proportions. But as their influences sweep around and through you from this Living Chart of the Now, you would be most wise to listen, to learn and to act with the fullness of the Spiritual Truth you are here to fulfill.

Mars in Libra Desires Beauty and Balance, for the aim of Libra is to make the World more Harmonious in Form as well as to Strive for a Life that is Moral and Just. Wherever ugliness is found, there is the knowing in the wrongness of this and the need to act to correct the imbalance whether in color, shape or sound and to restore the world to Beauty. Whenever injustice is encountered, there is the knowing that this violates the fundamental Principle that All Life is Sacred, and that Spiritual Integrity requires you to stand for Freedom and Self-Determination.

For the next many months, Mars in Libra will make many alignments, both in your chart as well as with his Planetary Companions in the Living Chart of the Now that surrounds you...

Through each and every encounter, whether within yourself or "out there", the strong and steady song he will sing is this:

You are here because the One Desired this...

The One Desired to Become through you.

And so all of this, all of this marvelous Creation, 

Is Spirit made Manifest by You.

Make it Beautiful,

Make it Fair.

And may your Desire....

Become your Aspiration, that will

Lead you from Darkness,

Into the Light.

Mercury Enters Sagittarius (December 4, 2013)

It has been a long, long time...and you are ready for a change.

Your Avatar of Mind has been experiencing an extended modulation of meaning as he swept back and forth through the swirling Waters of Scorpio.

You too should have felt something of this, as you benefited from a heightened state of mental acuity and passion, an offering and a gift of Insight that forged a deeper sense and sensibility about yourself and your world since the end of September.

Though your own Birth Chart or Natal position of Mercury must and will form the predominant and prevailing influence in your life as regards your faculty of Intelligent Perception (as well as indicate the means and manner of how you will connect with your world), you should know that your life experiences will be informed and circumscribed by the "Chart of the Present"...

The ever-unfolding dance of the planets moving through the signs of the Zodiac, as well as their alignment with one another as they form intricate patterns of meaning, this is the Living Chart of the Now which is the ever-present Pleroma of the Living Spirit, the Song and Dance of the Spiritual energies that inform, inspire and guide all life here upon your Earth.

As much as you are rightly told that your true path to Wisdom and Peace is "To Know Thyself", it is equally true that you need to be able to understand these worlds around you too. To be able to read the signs and portents of what is happening all around you or "out there" is the complimentary and integral part of this wondrous Journey by which you become.

You will realize that, in the end, all is truly One and whether you go inwards to understand or prefer to go outwards in order to come back in again, you will find these paths are but the one Path, and they will bring you back to your Source and lead you to your Destiny. 

So as you walk upon this Earth, surrounded and immersed in this veritable Sea of Spiritual Resonances, you will sense these alternating patterns of energies which intersect and influence your own native dispositional nature. These shifting energies of signs and alignments can often be very subtle, and so they may pass unnoticed by many who have become enamored by the fascinations of this material plane.

These Gifts of the Spirit may be dismissed as wisps and whispers, for they will come upon you like the kiss of a gentle breeze or the brush of a feather...and so only the attentive and wise may discern these shifting winds of your Cosmos that can guide you here below...But it is also true, that sometimes all will take notice, as much larger forces will have their way, and the clamor and noise will awe and humble, bearing witness to the truth, "that even gods wrestle with the Mystery, the Great Unknown".

So if you wish to quicken your pace of progress, it would wise to develop your attentiveness and listen to these whispers and songs from above...to hearken, learn and align your still awakening self to these greater realms as they sing and dance, offering their Signs and Portents and Loving guidance for you striving here below.

As Mercury sails into Sagittarius for the next three weeks or so, allow your awareness to shift as you ponder this influence that can help to lift and focus your sensibilities for a while. You have need of a greater encompassing now, to make sense and harvest the meanings to the challenges you have just been through. You have need of this because Greater decisions and Responsibilities are almost upon you, and you need this time to consider from where you have come, what you have learned and to what you must now attend.

Look around your world, to other cultures and beliefs, and to other times in your histories too. For in this you will gain that special place, that Archimedean vantage point of a less biased, more inclusive and lovingly humble View...

The search for Truth and Meaning cannot be or lead to a destination.

For this is your never-ending journey of becoming...

Filled with Stories and Tales that have yet to be told.

You have come far, yet have much further still to go.

Dreaming, Loving, Creating and Becoming...

As you make your way homewards,

As you reach for the Stars.

New Moon in Sagittarius (December 2, 2013)

Your Spirit Weaver has come around once more...

And it is time to pause, and consider your path once again...

Every New Moon should be approached as sacred and precious, for it is your time to prepare the way, to take this seed which is an offering of inspiration and hope as you look to a brighter day.

Each Lunation is a gift; It is a renewal in the Cycle of Life and a chance for you to draw upon the Guidance heralded in the meanings and messages that are formed by the alignment of the Moon with the Sun.

Through each Sign of this journey as you circle around your Star, day after day and in month after month, you experience a spiraling Circle of Self-Becoming as you move through the Twelve Mansions of Life in each and every year.

For though you may believe that you are but one sign, whether a Libra, a Pisces or a Leo, the truth is that what streams in, through and all around you is One Spirit expressed through these Twelve-Fold Energy-Forms. They are all a part of you as you are a living crystal chalice of them, and you need each and every one of them to be and become who you are, and this is why you must come to know and master them all if you are to live in Peace and Beauty and Love.

At each New Moon you are given another gift of this quickening of spiritual energies, which will lift your intent and actions a little higher. Each gift answers to the need that you face now, for it both flows from what you have just experienced as it equally helps you to prepare for your next step that will come in the dawning day.

The Sagittarian New Moon is the answer to the joys and tribulations that you felt in Scorpio, for there you were drawn to the deepest layers of your feeling nature so that you might reach cross the apparent divide between yourselves...to experience the bliss of Union yet equally face the agony of Separation that comes from being an Immortal who walks in these mortal frames...

You have felt these higher highs, and these lowest of lows, and you need to encompass them now with a Greater Understanding. So Spirit answers with the Teachings that have been passed down to you from the beginning of your journey here. Appearing in many forms and guises, sometimes obscured and hidden to but a few, sometimes brightly beaming and resounding clearly for one and all to view, whether woven into the Fabrics of Philosophy or Religion, into Metaphysics or Science too, all speak to your need to have this context of understanding, so that you might explain and accept your experience, as well as add your truth to this well of wisdom too...

You need these Pillars of Purpose, these guiding lights because greater tasks still lie ahead and you must not waver in your need to fulfill yourself and your duty in this world too. You need to understand where you have come from, why you are here, what purpose do you follow and how you will make you way out of this dim lit world and into the Light.

The truths are all around you, in Rock and Wind, and Fire and Water, in Books and Teachers too...but most of all you can rest assured the truth is within you too..For you are made of this and this is why and how you can come to this Understanding at all, because you and the Truth are One...for as above so here below...Whenever you seek to find your way, an answer will come to you...For your path is found in this one Truth that rises above them all:

Know Thyself and you will find the Way.

As a great master once said...

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour...

...God appears, and God is light,     

To those poor souls who dwell in night;

But does a human form display      

To those who dwell in realms of day."

WILLIAM BLAKE Auguries of Innocence

You need but wait in stillness, to find a quiet space, to open your soul through a humble mind and a gentle heart and by the love that is One, true wisdom will come your way.