Astrologer Bill Attride

New Moon in Pisces (March 1, 2014)

It is the time between...

Between the Darkness and the Light,

All is still, all is quiet.

Your World, this Earth, holds its breath,

As you wait for your next Gift of Spirit.

The Twelfth and Concluding New Moon of the Astrological Year is here. Your year is measured by Twelve. Twelve Signs, Twelve Months and the Twelve New Moons by which to find your way.

At each New Moon the Sun imparts to Luna a new Message of Meaning for you. It is a Gift of Inspiration to lift your spirit and guide your steps as you seek to find your way on this beautiful orb you call home. But there is something special about the Final Moon of the Astrological Year, for it is both a Beginning, (as are all New Moons), but it is most truly an Ending too. How can this be, why is this so?

The Sign of Pisces is the final moment in this progressive series of Spiritual Energies that Unfold, Propel and Guide your journey of Self-Becoming. Each Sign interrelates and integrates with all the others, they depend upon one another for meaning and fulfillment. In one sense, each Sign builds upon those which came "before" and naturally unfolds to lead to those which will come "after". But in truth, all Signs are active all the time, both within you and in real time (as in the "Living Chart of the Now"). They thrill and resonate in varying proportions and combinations to produce the many Songs of Spirit, to form the innumerable Individualities of Spirit that make up this Cosmos from the smallest speck or mote to the grandest Galaxy.

But Pisces is most special, for how could it not be...Because here at the end of the Astrological Year you must pull it all in and make it as One. To gather all the threads of your experiences together and so weave your Golden Cloth of Meaningfulness, to form your Treasure in Heaven and harvest the sweet Nectar that feeds your Soul and brings you Home.

You begin by this Ending, by taking in this Harvest of your Life just lived. You need to spend some time today, tomorrow and maybe a little longer, to gather together and see as one story your Aspirations and Actions, your Feelings and Thoughts of the year just past.

You will treasure your triumphs and successes, for you earned these rewards and so you should smile. But you should pay even more attention to where you stumbled and fell, to those errors of commission or omission that haunt you still. For there is something even greater there...

And it is here that the Gift of Pisces and the New Moon will comfort you, to remind you that you will be okay, that you are in fact Loved unconditionally and for all time by your Higher Self. For the blessing of Pisces is the Gift of Compassion and Understanding, and through this Great Love you are able to do what you can and must do: You need and you will forgive yourself.

You will come to realize and understand that these missteps are really in truth your most precious moments, for in them you will find that your bright Future is truly held. For you only advance, you can only grow and become the Wondrous Being of Light that you are by making these mistakes...and by acceptance and learning and choosing to do better, you will rise.

You are here to Grow, you are here to learn, and by trial and error you will learn to turn away from lesser ways of being-feeling-thinking. You will learn to do better as you follow the gentle, reassuring voice of your Self within who will show you that your errors have formed for you the next Gift of that Humbling Wisdom that forms the path to your Future.

That in forgiveness and understanding, in the love of the One within, your soul will sigh and smile, for you able to let go of the lesser you and draw that much little closer to the Wonder that is within. 

In this precious moment...

In this Crossing, between the Darkness and the Light...

Be not afraid, for you are never alone.

You are filled with a Luminous Light,

Formed and Forged in the Love of the One for one and all.

Bring your harvest home, reap what you have sowed...

Then turn and be a Light.

Mercury Turns Direct (February 28, 2014)

Your attention is turning outwards again...

The melding of Watery and Airy ways within your Mind,

Was for your Bridging, Blending, Becoming...

As you walk upon the Integral Path of Spirit.

You wove them together, the Intuitional and Rational,

To hold together your Head and your Heart.

You sought to Feel Thoughtfully, and

To Think Lovingly too.

And this has brought you a little closer,

To the One True Way Home, The Way of Understanding...

The Path of Wisdom.

Now Mercury Turns, and you must too. Mercury is the Avatar of your Mind, and he leads you toward the Knowing of your Truth and your Path. For you are a Self-Consciously, Self-Unfolding Being, and the Thoughts that you Think will lead you into the Life that you Create.

Today Mercury moves forward in Aquarius, and your Mind is focused upon your Fellowships, your Companionships and the Hopes and Dreams your share with them for a better world. For you will find that in your Heart you know this: that your Dreams are made of one another, your fulfillment is their promise met as well, because their Hopes and Dreams are yours too.

For you never walk alone, your life is filled with hosts upon hosts of fellow travelers, both seen and unseen, known and unknown to you. You and they yearn for that better world in your dreams, a world that could be, if there were some way to make it so.

Mercury the Messenger has done his part, in his dance between Water and Air, between Intuition and Reason, he has led you to the path by which you can become more than what you were... 

You have gone back within yourself, to touch the essence of your Spiritual Self. For at the heart of you is your most precious Individuality, and whenever you experience this quickening contact you are able to accomplish a most marvelous feat. You are able to self-transcend, to go beyond the thought-forms of your ordinary mind.

By listening to that quiet but steady voice of your soul you draw closer to your Higher Self and the freer mind of Spirit. You are able to break the self-made bounds of the thought-forms that formed you, to see beyond the world you came from. You can lay aside and pass beyond the status quo of the old certainties, and there it is before you, the New Earth.

Embrace your newer, freer thought-forms. Turn with Mercury and share with one another the gift of creating a New World together.

Listen to one another,

Believe in one another,

Think Well of one another,

And you will do this, you will

Build a New Earth.

Together.

Jupiter Square Uranus (February 25-26, 2014)

To be Free...

You must care for One Another.

When you Love one another...

You will be Free.

I wrote of this aspect, which is part of the Grand Cardinal Square that is exact in April, in my General Forecast for 2014:

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

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

Here is some of what I wrote about the Jupiter/Uranus/Pluto aspect in the 2013 General Forecast:

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.

Here is what I wrote about the Jupiter/Pluto Square in August 2013:

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). 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 Creation is, a self-unfolding, self-becoming host of Individuals, the many who form and are 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 and 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.   

Sun Conjunct Neptune (February 23, 2014)

Dream a little dream...of you.

The Avatar of your Self and your Imagination meet today, and your Doorway to a more encompassing Reality will open a little wider.

Today is a day to Dream, to Imagine what you might Become...Today is a day to Believe.

You are here quite simply for one thing: To grow. You are Spirit. You are here to forever and ever become something more than before, to reach more deeply into your Higher Self, where you may receive Inspiration from this most precious Wellspring of your Faith and Dreams...For then you are able by this Spiritual Quickening to turn around and reach beyond this world you have so far made and accepted as being the only reality.

This is how you grow: By letting go of assumptions, biases, prejudices and your willful blindness to the Greater Reality in which you actually reside. For you cannot see what you do not believe. You are able with this Inspiration from your Higher Self to lift the veil between this lesser world and what lies beyond and behind it. You are permitted to be more Clear-Seeing, as the shades fall from your understanding and you gaze with wonder upon the possibilities of a life beyond this world of shadows and half-lights.

You step into a more encompassing Space and Time that is filled with Sounds and Sights more supernal. You see a realm filled with a Numinous Light that is formed by the Hopes, Dreams and Spiritual Imagination of your fellow companions who also walk this path of Becoming...For you are here to lift one another out of the darkness as you all reach for and become that very Light.

Neptune is known as the "Universal Solvent", for it offers you this gift of Spiritual Transcendence. It helps to dissolve the Boundaries of Certainty, the Paradigm of the World that you necessarily formed when you and so many others shaped the world as it is today. For you have been doing this for a very long time. You dreamed long ago and it came to this. The present reality is the product of your Faith (but also of your Fears) of long, long ago. But in this Truth you also have your Hope.

For as much as you made this world you can and will re-make it.

The Change that you seek "out there" however,

Must begin where it begun, within yourself.

Let the Gift of Neptune open your Heart and Mind.

Listen for that quiet, loving voice of your Higher Self,

Who whispers to you of Compassion, Selflessness and Wonder.

May it show you the Greater Reality within yourself,

May you Dream of a Better You,

May you have Faith in a more Loving Life,

May a better World come to be.

All you need do,

Is Believe and Become.

Believe.

Sun Enters Pisces (February 18, 2014)

Your year begins in Aries...with the Fires of Inspiration,

You begin in Self-Awareness.

Your year ends with Pisces...in the Waters of Understanding,

You end in Wonder.

Through Fire, Earth, Air and Water you have Circled your Star once more. You have begun, held and released your Self in Spirit, Thought, Feelings and Actions through this Dodecahedron of the Divine, this Circle of Life that is the Zodiac.

Today you cross the final threshold of your Twelve-Fold Yearly journey as you pass through the precious Portal that is Pisces. For though you have been told that you are a Gemini or a Leo or a Capricorn, the truth of Life is that all of these Zodiacal Energies are part of you, for you have them all within you, for how could you not? They are the Energy-Forms of Spirit, they are the Divine Breath that breathes life into every particle, speck and mote of Creation.

You have this entire Zodiac within you as much as it surrounds you too, and so each of you is formed by wondrously differing combinations of these Twelve Energy-Forms. You have them all, blended in such a manner so as to form individualized expressions, finely nuanced integrations, and it is precisely this complex blending that makes your Individuality, it is precisely this that makes you special.

This Time of Pisces is your Final Moment in the Astrological Year, and it is when you can and should bring all of the strands of your Life together from this past year and weave them into a whole and beautiful story of you. This is when you are more able to see and understand the Arc of your Story, this is your Time for seeing the Big Picture. This is how you reap your Harvest of Truth, and it is from this that you will make your Treasure in Heaven.

You need to pause and consider from where you began, to see what Triumphs you had and what Stumbles you made, and so to see what lessons you have learned as you moved through each sign, month by month. Though you will be attached to your successes, for you earned them and they are fine...You must also accept that you learned nothing by them at all. They are the result of your errors of yesteryear made right in this year.

Rather, your precious harvest will be found in the meanings and lessons of your less than perfect moments, for it is then that you learned how not to be or not to do that...and so you let go of the lesser and grew into something greater. There is your treasure, not in your success but in, by and through your humbling acceptance of your imperfection which opened the door to your growth. This is what you are here for, you are here to Grow, to become Self-Masterful...you are here to Shine.

Having come through all the previous signs you are receptive to the meanings and messages of them all, and this is why Pisces is your time for Compassion. You can connect more deeply to the joys and pain of others because in your own way, in your own time, you have been there too. This is the Gift of Feeling that comes out of Water, for it is in the Water Signs of Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces that you experience the Truth of Connectedness, it is in them that you dwell in the Truth of Feelings, it is here that you are made Whole.

In Cancer you Connect and are Nurtured by the security that comes from the refreshing renewal bestowed by Centering yourself in the Truth that is found in the Roots of your Life. For in Truth you are part of One Great Family of Spirit, and "We are all related".

In Scorpio you Connect and are Embraced by the mystery and joy that comes from Two becoming One as you break beyond the illusion that is separation and forge your Sacred Unions with one another. For in Truth you are already Joined as One, for all are ones of the One Divine Spirit.

In Pisces you experience the Wonder of Wonders, for here you sacrifice your Ego to your Self. You see the Light and Love in the other as your own true Self reflected back to you. You Connect to the Greater Reality and find the one true and only Treasure is your Life in Spirit. For in truth, the Highest part of you will always abide in the One, you will always be in Heaven for you never left, and you can Feel this Truth that the whole of Creation is the Love of the One for all of you.

You have walked the Path of Awakening, moving your awareness from point to point, weaving together your inner sensibilities with your outer understandings...spanning Inner Worlds and Outer Realms as you were called by your Higher Self to release and unfold your Greater Understanding.

You have taken yet another step upon the Pathway of Compassion,

You walk the Pathway of Peace, The Path of Love.

You are drawing closer, to the mystery of the ages...

That what is within you surrounds you too.

You are a Shining One...

Self-Luminous,

Filled with Wonder.

And all you need do,

Is be what you are, 

Remember who you are,

You are Love.

North Node into Libra (February 17, 2014)

The Way of your Becoming is shifting once again...

For you have made yourself and this world too...long, long ago.

Following ancient pathways, and guided by those who went before,

You are the Awakening Ones...

Dream Walkers weaving Energies into marvelous Matter-Forms.

Riding wave upon wave, surfing the vast oceans of Eternity,

Your Thought-Forms thrill and resonate through Time & Space.

You are lifted by Hope and Faith...bounded by Fear and Doubt.

But it is you and your companions who have made this,

You and they have made what you were, are and will forever Be.

So be not afraid.

Though memory fails you and much is Lost, veiled by Mystery and Time,

This forgetting is but for a while, and is a gift to you, a blessing in disguise...

For you begin each life anew, unburdened by what you cannot yet face.

But Know this, Your Future is Glorious, waiting upon you and your becoming.

And, all that matters...is this moment. This most Precious NOW. For this is the only space of Freedom that will ever be, the only time that you will find that you can make a choice...and you must choose wisely now.

A wondrous but hidden significator of your Journey of Choices is made by the intersection of two Great Circles of Life, the orbit of the Earth around the Sun and the orbit of the Moon around the Earth. These two integral symmetries of meaning meet in Space, and they form by so doing two opposite points where their orbits intersect which are called the North and South Nodes of the Moon.

These moving fulcrums are the points in space at which the Earth, Moon and Sun are aligned to one another within the same spatial plane, all three as one with one another. Every month as the Moon crosses over the North Node it moves above that plane, and whenever it moves over the South Node it goes below it. But twice a year, when all three bodies align on these points you are witness to a wondrous display.

You "see" this intersection and movement whenever the Sun, Moon and Earth move into these nodes for it is then that you experience a Solar or Lunar Eclipse, as all three Lords become aligned with one another and so illustrate quite dramatically and beautifully their integral relationship with one another.

These Nodal Points in Space move around the Zodiac in about 18.5 years, moving "backwards" from Aries back to Pisces back to Aquarius and so on. For the last 18 months the North Node has been in Scorpio (and the South Node has been in Taurus). Today the North Node moves into Libra (and the South Node into Aries), until November 2015. But of course the question you must ask is, "What does this mean for me"?

The Nodes of the Moon in an Astrological Chart are said to indicate your Karmic Pointing for that life. They can help you discern "The Way", of how you are to receive from your past and understand where you have come from, and how you must look ahead and continue your spiritual development by moving towards developing the opposite sensibility in this lifetime. The South Node is said to be your Karma, the North Node is your Dharma. Together they show how you draw from what you have so far made of yourself, and that you will now take your next step in Spiritual growth as you work with the opposite yet complementary sensibility. By this integration you redeem your past and move upon the one true path of wholeness and Spiritual Integration.

But there is always a challenge when you walk this Karma/Dharma path, for you will often find your Past as familiar and easy, and the change to a new way of being as harder for you to master. If you allow yourself to be overly influenced by your past so that you fall under too much influence from the South Node, you may fail to work towards your Dharma, (you fall back into your familiar but less developed patterns). You must make a conscious effort, to work with the lessons brought to you by the North Node or your Dharma, because by this you can draw upon and use the best parts of your past (Karma) while creating a better future for yourself. You actually bequeath to yourself a better future, your Karma, by maintaining your awareness and focus upon your present Dharma.

With regards to this shift of the Transiting Nodes, the message for you is subtle and profound. The North Node has been in Scorpio since August 2012, and you should have been attentive to your relationship and your need to consciously choose to work with this opportunity of being able to forge deeper Unions with one another. To do this you had to face your fears of rejection, of being rejected or of rejecting yourself, and instead find the way to discern exactly what you could sacrifice in order to make possible the experience of a greater "we".

You should have drawn upon your Karma as indicated by Taurus to help you here, for it would have reminded you that there are some sacrifices that are false, and a true sacrifice means that it is sacred, it is good, it is done for and by love. For this is what makes your core, your essential Value is the Love of You, the love of your Higher Self for you. You must offer sacrifices to join with one another, but you must forever and always honor and hold firm to your Heart, to who you are and to keep as sacred and true your ever abiding love that is your Beloved.

Now with the North Node in Libra, you are also asked to choose wisely as you seek for a more meaningful relationship, but here you are given a different opportunity and challenge. The Way of Libra reminds you now to keep to the path of Balance and Justice, to follow the ways of Fairness and be guided by the fundamental Principle formed by your oneness in Spirit:

There will only be Justice when there is Equality for one and all.

You are here to bring about Harmony and Beauty in your world by forging relationships based upon this essential Truth, that it is Love that holds you as one to one another, and that you need to live in and be guided by a love for the other that is equal to the love you have for yourself too.

For it is Libra's way to think not of oneself, but instead to put the other first, and the good of the relationship above all else...and yet, here too one can and may probably go too far. And so the Karma of the Aries South Node is there for you, to remind you that you that a relationship requires the equal participation of both as Individuals. To do your part to bring about a healthy relationship requires forging a dynamic equilibrium, where balance is found by giving way and holding firm, for you must assert yourself in your Truth and contribute your uniqueness to make a relationship of beauty that is formed by a One and another One who choose to grow together.

The emphasis now will and must be upon Libra, and you will accommodate and place the wellbeing of the partnership and the partner above all else, and this is good. But you must equally remember that you are one half of any relationship that you are in, and so your relationship must be fair and just for you if it is to be lovingly true for the both of you.

The Weaving Way of Spirit is turning again...

You and your companions upon the Path.

So many turnings, so many choices,

But in the end it is simple.

As it was in the beginning,

It will be in the End.

Turn towards one another, knowing

All are equal, there is no other way.

Before you, is just you.

So be True to your Self, Love.

Just Love one another.

Choose Love.

Full Moon in Leo (February 14, 2014)

Twelve New Moons mark your Astrological Year...

Twelve times a year the Sun, your Source of Light, Life and Love releases a new wave of Spiritual Guidance and Inspiration at the New Moon.

During the succeeding Lunar month, this Message of Meaning is integrated into the fabric of your life as dear Luna weaves it into and through your world. The Moon is your interlocutor, she is the Mediatrix of Meaning, and Luna is tasked with nurturing you by stepping down and delivering this Solar Ray of Truth as she swings high and low, as she moves outwards and inwards in her orbit around your home here on Earth.

Two weeks after that Solar Gift, Luna is ready to give back a most precious and needed offering as well. Twelve times a year she reaches where she is now, her farthest point out beyond Earth's orbit. She is out beyond your bounded circle of Space, standing in those outer reaches where she is fully illuminated by the Sun. What she offers you today and what she lovingly gives each month is a most necessary counterpoint, for contained within that New Moon was this revelation, for each Truth is bound and informed by the other, and now you will receive the fruit of meaning that completes and complements the Seed that was released at the previous New Moon.

The Sun is in Aquarius now and your aims and intentions, your heart and soul are focused through your spiritual development as evinced by your social awareness, and your path of purpose is found in your social conscience and consciousness. Your inner peace and outer joys are formed in and by your experience of belonging, of being with those with whom you share your hopes and dreams for a better world to come.

You and your companions are here to bring about the New World, for your dreams of this future is what holds you to your path and to one another too. In the end you are the very substance of what their dreams are made of, and they and their happiness are what truly forms your dreams too. You have been there for one another since the beginning, and come upon one another in life after life for you are bound to one another by Deed, Thought and Love. You have made one another what you are and you will journey together in life after life, in this world and the next. For the only illusion is your separation, you are of one life and for one another for all time.

Yet in this time that thrills to your Truth in Comradeship, of being part of a community or cause or calling, there is the possibility that you may bend to the will of these many others and find too much comfort in conformity, in becoming less of yourself and more like one another, and that is because your self-realization in Aquarius draws you towards social acceptance and your identity may be overly found in, by and through your companions.

So it is at such a time that dear Luna offers you this gift and reminder. She is shining brightly now, beaming with the Ray of Leo and reminding you that your truth is also to be found in your uniqueness, in your Song of Specialness, and by the truth of your essential being, that you are a precious, singular one among many other ones. For as much as you will find your meaning of life by, with and through one another, you and they need you to be true to your Self, to fulfill and flower into you own unique sensibilities, intelligence and ways of loving too.

For this is the Greater Truth, that you are part of a Shining Host who have a common origin and destiny to fulfill. But your very origin and true destiny is also formed by each and every spark of the Divine being a unique expression of this One Spirit. There is only one of you and you are like no other...And it is this that forms and fulfills your Treasure in Heaven, this Oneness in Diversity...For out of One have come the Many, and out of this Many will form a even Greater One, forever and forever.

You are here to love one another...

And you are here to love your Self too.

Be there for one another and,

To thine own self be true. 

But above all,

Love.

Mercury Turns Retrograde (February 6, 2014)

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

Mercury Retrograde (February 6 until February 28)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is the Dance of Mercury now....

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

You are here To Know and To Feel,

To Keep Together your Airy and Watery ways.

For In Wisdom and by your Faith...

You are here to make...

Your Dreams come True.