Astrologer Bill Attride

Mars Squares Jupiter (August 1, 2014)

Your Lords of Meaning and Means are having a moment with one another…

They are bound to one another these two.

Jupiter shapes your Intention and Goals,

Mars provides the Propelling Force.

From one you set your Sights…

From the other you make it so…

The Key is Right Intention,

Forming an integral balance with

Right Action.

Jupiter is your Avatar of Truth & Principles, holder of your Beliefs and Philosophies, your Religions and Sciences too. He is the preserver, protector of the hard won Wisdom of those who came before you…and you need this Gift of Truth to help you find your way. For you are a self-aware spiritual being, and so you need this, you really need to know that all of this, that your life and that all of Life, that it all somehow makes sense.

You look to the Ancient Wisdom and Great Souls, those revered Teachers, to the great precepts passed down in Religions, you look to the great Philosophers and to the various ways in which you may approach the fundamental questions of that life behind each life…Where did I come from, Why am I here…and Where am I going? You seek and hopefully are able to form your own Paradigm or World-View, you create the boundaries and meanings of your world, and so you abide in the structures and facts that make sense of what you encounter in this life.

Mars is your Avatar of Desire and Action, providing you with the Life-Force-Substance by which to reach out and stride forth as you seek to move ever upwards upon the Pathway of Perfection. For as it was in “the beginning”, at the Sacred Crossing point from non-being into all of this that you call Creation, there was and always will be, for it is ever-present in the Eternal Now, there will always be behind every speck and mote, planet and star, behind it All, there is the First Desire, the primal Desire of the One who sought/seeks to Become through and by all the countless lives and loves of all of you. 

Ideally, the Beliefs you hold will provide the guidance for what you Desire, and your Actions will forge and form that Truth into a meaning-filled Reality. But there are times, such as now, when the dance of Mars and Jupiter will come to a seemingly more dissonant or challenging turn. When planets align in this way, it seems as if two irreconcilable Energy-Forms are pulling and pushing upon you. You will feel that your only recourse is to cleave to one side or one way of being and to suppress or deny the other…But this is not “the way”, this is not your Path of Spirit, this is not the way to move from darkness into the Light.

You are an Intelligent Spirit, and you are here in these conflicted realms in order to learn how to bring together what has come apart. You are a Life-Consciousness-Energy Field and it is through Intelligence, Love and Will that you can and will heal these apparent divides. You are here to be the Living Bridge of Understanding, by which the so-called divisions of nature will become healed and made whole.

This particular challenge (really, your particular opportunity to grow) is formed by Mars in Scorpio forming a square with Jupiter in Leo. Though many will comment or write about the negativity or violence of this alignment, (for in some minds certain aspects or planets or signs are better or worse, good or evil), the truth is that Energy is neither “good” or “bad”, what matters is Spiritual Consciousness, what matters is the level of Awareness of the being or group of beings experiencing these flows of energy in, through and around them.

The essence of the challenge/opportunity is this: Mars in Scorpio is pushing/pulling one and all to act with greater Passions and Actions to break through the fear of Separation and Loss and claim the prize of a Deeper, Transformative Union. Yet if passions are too inflamed, and desires pursued too strongly, if one party pushes or pulls too hard it might very well violate the spiritual integrity of the other. Rather than forming a better shared, sacred space through mutual sacrifice, the excesses inflaming one or both into fear-based passions will force one another into an arrangement that ends badly for both.

Jupiter is holding forth from the realm of Honor and Respect, from the regal realm that is Leo. Jupiter is shaping, informing and hopefully calming the Passions of Mars, by firmly yet Lovingly reminding Mars that a Union formed upon the violation of another’s integrity will only end by diminishing both. Jupiter reminds Mars that a healthy Union is lived and demonstrated by acting with the intention guided by the Love for what is best for the other, and this follows from the principle that you must love the other as you love yourself, and you would never wish to have yourself or your space be diminished by such misplaced desires. All unions are formed by loving, mutual and integral sacrifice, for your love for each other means you wish what is best for one another.

Sacrifice means “to make sacred”, and it is only right and proper that you give up the lesser things in your life for the Greater qualities of Life. But it is a false sacrifice to implore, persuade or force another to surrender their core beliefs, principles or values even if it were to lead to some (illusionary) space of togetherness. If someone is forced into a false sacrifice, they have been made to surrender their core to another's ego, and what made them who and what they are is lost in a vain attempt to forge a Union that is based upon a lie, formed upon fear and not by love.

The Lords of Truth and Desire have aligned, and

You must walk the Middle Way,

With Righteousness and through Right Action.

You will find that Path of Truth,

By following the true meaning of the word “Philosophy”...

For though most will know that Philosophy means “the Love of Wisdom”,

It’s truer meaning is held and revered by those who are wise,

Philosophy means truly “The Wisdom of Love”. 

Desire Truth,

Act by Love,

Just Love.

Mercury Enters Leo (July 31, 2014)

Your Avatar of Messaging and Mind has finished his looping between the elements of Air and Water. Since May 7^th, Mercury has gone back and forth between Airy Gemini and then into the Waters of Cancer on May 29^th, retrograding back into Gemini on June 17^th, and then moving forward and back into Cancer on July 12^th. Today he finally enters the Fires of Leo and your mentality will be more sensitive about and attentive to your needs for Authenticity, Honor and Respect.

Your own position of Mercury, and the aspects it forms to the other placements in your chart, is the primary indicator of your own mental disposition. But as Mercury moves through the twelve signs in “real time”, you will find it beneficial and illuminating to attend to the modulation of meaningfulness that he brings to the World as Ideas or Thought-Forms. You will enhance your own self-knowledge, as well as better understand the varied approaches of others, by attuning yourself to these shifting energy-forms that form the bridge of consciousness you create by and through your thoughtful exchanges with others.

Whereas his time in Cancer brought to the fore concerns and conversations about Security and Caring, of where you come from and what you hold to as your core beliefs, Leo is about moving from this more centered space now to reveal yourself in Ways and by Means that express and affirm the unique person that you are. Mercury in Leo is about your Authenticity.

When you speak from your core, when you listen and then release as guided by your Heart and your Higher Self, then you will be true to the real you. You pay homage to all the lives that came before, that made you what you are today, as you also keep faith with your connection to all the lives that are yet to be. You keep to the Noble Middle Path, the Silver Cord that binds Past, Present and Future into the Reality of the One Life that is Now. Mercury in Leo is about your Honor.

When you are rooted in your Authenticity, and when you Honor the past, present and future by living Life in the Now, then you fulfill your purpose as you sing your song in the Temple that is Truth. You show your divinity by humility, for by this you are true to the Divine that is within you. You treat others as yourself, for this is the Law, and by this you live by Love. You live your Truth in Self-Respect; and you show Respect by the Love you share with every other being that you encounter.

Yes, Mercury in Leo is about expressing who you really are…

Mercury in Leo is about Authenticity…

You are here to be true to you.

Mercury in Leo is about Honor…

You are here to keep your faith.

Mercury in Leo is about Respect…

You are here to love one another.

Yes, you are here to Know, Hold and Live by Love,

You are here to Love.

New Moon in Leo (July 26, 2014)

Your Muse of Memory and Remembrance returns to her beloved…

Time to dip your chalice of grace,

Into the Ever-Renewing Waters of Life and Love.

Your Star and Moon kiss…

And a New Gift of Spirit is imparted to your world,

Time to turn and face your New Dawn, as always,

With Faith, with Hope and with Love.

Your Daykeeper and Nightwatcher begin another new cycle of meaning as the Moon aligns once more with the Sun. This time your Sun and Moon will join one another in the Regal Realm of Leo.

Each New Moon is like a seeding, an offering and release of a new spiritual spark of Inspiration. Much like your own beating heart, the Sun/Moon cycle is for you the heartbeat of spiritual energy. The Moon receives this gift from the Heart/Sun and then weaves her way around you, dispensing these energy-forms through you and to your world, until she returns once more to meet the Sun in about 28 days and receive her next gift of Solar Force...and your next beat in Life-Consciousness-Spirit begins.

The Gift of Leo is really all about you being you. This is the Sun’s Sign; here is the Avatar of your Heart. Each New Moon builds upon what came before, each Gift of Spirit elicits the next. The precious, prior gift was from Cancer, this was the Gift from your Soul. Cancer brought you closer to your home, and you renewed your feelings that will ever embrace and center you through your foundations of family, culture and spirituality.

Now in the Leo New Moon, there is an answering surge of energies which draws upon these refreshed roots. Now you seek yourself, to see yourself through and by the release of this renewed sense of self. You will stretch yourself into better roles and upon better stages, you will renew your forms of Creativity, Leadership and Love.

Leo is the Answer to what you felt in Cancer; You seek to put “out there” something more of what you felt “in here”. Each sign unfolds and become what is next, and so on and so on. At each New Moon, as today, you should pause and be still, and listen to the Winds of the Spirit singing to you of your Heart and your Soul. You are meant to let these energies lift and inspire you, and they will.

Yet, in Truth there is, always and forever, a continuous streaming of these Spiritual Energies, dancing and swirling, intertwining and blending, counterpointing and balancing one another...for these are the Living Waters of the Cosmos, this is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

These Signs are your Songs of Spirit, with 12 fundamental themes that themselves become differentiated into countless nuanced expressions and combinations. They form a chorus of Light and Love that is the Energy-Substance that fills the Spaces of Space. This is the Pleroma, the mystery of the Presence made Manifest, for there is only the One.

Tonight, there is but darkness,

No Moon will light your way.

For she is with her Beloved,

The Ruler of the Day.

Tonight listen carefully,

For the Songs from high above.

Your Heart and Soul, now joined together

In Faith, and Hope and Love.

Mars Enters Scorpio (July 25, 2014)

Finally! Mars is moving on…

After all, he has been sailing through the Sign of Libra now for over 7 months. When you consider that on average Mars is in a sign for about 40 days or so, being in one sign for 230 days is significant. He entered Libra in early December, went retrograde on March 1st, then turned direct on May 19th, and is finally exiting Libra today.

You might have hoped for, or believed that having your Avatar of Desire circling and cycling through the sign that rules Relationship, Harmony, Justice and Equality, that this would have modulated, mitigated and healed many relationships in the world, (and certainly many did benefit from this Prime Mover providing the requisite surge of Energy-Forms to go beyond fear-formed walls, and so it did help partners and/or groups to re-establish or re-assert a greater balance within their relationships).

But all of these energies that course through and around you, that come from within you as much as they surround you, these energies, well they are just energies…They elicit and stimulate whomever and whatever they encounter…and what matters, always for you, is the level of awareness with which you Create or Receive or Release these Energy-Forms into your world.

So yes, for more healthy relationships and more evolved beings, the effects of Mars in Libra would have proved uplifting and healing, as it can and should be. For those less able to respond to the energies in such a manner, or if perhaps only one half of the relationship could or would, well things certainly could have taken a more disruptive course…For Mars is Passion, Mars is Desire…and Desire denied often turns to Hurt…and those hurts often lead to Anger…and that Anger, being a mal-formed Energy-Form, that will lead to self-hurt or Violence towards some other.

But these results, the Good and the Bad, this is not the fault of Mars, for as the Bard wisely put it in his play “Julius Caesar”, when Cassius tells Brutus:

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings." 

The Path you seek to walk is the Pathway of Understanding, the Noble Middle Way that leads to Wisdom and Self-Determination. The Key is Self-Control, and that no matter what you encounter, whatever manner of Energy-Form, whether felicitous or negative, it is “on you” what you do with that. You are a Self-Conscious being and you must choose.

The analogy that I use to illustrate this truth in my personal readings runs a little like this:

Life is like going through a series of doorways, and there is always someone passing through the door ahead of you, and someone following along behind. Now, if that person going through before you happens to slam that next door in your face…well, you should know that is precisely then and there that you face another seemingly small but actually very profound karmic test. You are endowed with self-awareness, you have a choice. The energy of that door slamming is indeed negative, it carries a negative valence or charge.

But you, you have a choice. If you, as you go through that door, remain less aware or self-conscious, if you take the “easy path” and do nothing to change that energy-experience, and merely let the door slam in the face of the next soul who comes after you…then that energy-form, which may have been passed down for who knows how long will continue to be experienced as a negative force yet again, and perhaps for quite some time, again and again and again. The world will remain the same, or it like you might stumble backwards…but.

But, if you instead have the Presence of Mind, if you follow the gentle whispers from your Higher Self, if you engage the self-awareness/other-awareness that you are here for, then you will choose to hold that door open…and the World will smile. For you took an Energy-Form that had been the bearer and pain for perhaps countless years, you stood at the Crossing Point between the darkness and the Light and you chose to do what is Good, you chose to do what is Right…you Chose Love. And you and your World moved that much closer to the Light.

For this is how you and your world are redeemed, healed and brought closer to the One. Although great efforts and grand gestures will certainly play a major role too upon the Path of Love, it is in these precious moments, in the littlest of gestures, it is in and by these small kindnesses and considerations that your Life-Consciousness-Spirit will find and forge the Pathway of Light and Love.

You are here to be Transformers, that in and by your Tripartite Spiritual Core, you will by the Sacred Three: Be guided by your Higher Consciousness, act with Unconditional Love and redeem the world through your Centered Will. You are here to turn what is Negative into something Positive, transform what is Hurtful into Kindliness, and eliminate Fear by the one True Power that is Love. This is why you are here.

Now Mars moves on, and until mid-September he will swim through the Waters of Scorpio…and you and your world will find that the Energy-Forms of your life and the world around you will become even more intensified, the issues of your life will be more deeply probed, and so your rewards of choosing well, well they will be even greater for you and your world too.

But the risks, well they will be greater also. For the prize is great in Scorpio, but the shadow of fear is stronger here too…For now Mars takes you and your Desires into the Heart of the Mystery, into that Sacred Space where “the Magic” can happen, where two may become One, and where the illusion that is separation may be transcended. Mars takes you now into that Sacred Realm where your Rebirth is Forged and the proof of your Immortality will be found.

The Desire of Mars in Scorpio, is the Desire of Union. It is here that you wish to join with one another in so many mysterious and wondrous ways, to come closer than ever to one another and experience some greater or lesser measure of Self-Transcendence. You long to slip beyond the Illusion of your Matter-Body, to set aside your earthly vehicle of Self-Limitation, and to move into some form of Physical-Emotional-Mental-Spiritual Space wherein you experience a Oneness with one another.

But, as in every realm you move through there is the Promise and the Hope, and there is Karma too. You are your history, and your past actions and their effects will echo down to find you in your present circumstances. There is good here, there is much good that you have done and lessons you have learned. You have come a long, long way and mastered not a few lessons of life.

But, there is less good too, those errors and missteps, those failures and defeats, and you must work with it all. For only you can lift these shadows you cast upon yourself, only you can choose to work with your Higher Self and build upon your lessons learned and so lift yourself out of the those shadows and into the Light.

Your Desire now is for Union; your Fear is the fear of Rejection, your fear is the fear of loss and separation. You must be brave, you must become Fearless, for in truth you have nothing to fear. You must do your part, to extend your hand and space to the other and ask them to join you there.

They can either agree, and your heart will leap and the shadows will fall. Or, they could say “no”, but then it was not to be, and you must move on and wait for another time. But, if you let the fear take hold of you, and by so doing it will hold you back from making the necessary space of vulnerability to meet one another in and through, well then what might have been cannot be…and that would be a cruel and true Tragedy.

You must see that it is your Heart and your Love that make you strong. And that with this strength you will show it now by being what many might consider to be a sign of weakness. You must be vulnerable, you need to be open and accepting and create a more loving space to join together in, and it will be this, it is this that will be a true sign of your Spiritual Strength, for it flows from your heart, it is your true self, it is Unconditional Love.

Only in this way will you form and forge your unions.

Only in this way will you set one another free…

To turn to the Light and to lift those shadows…

Formed by your ancient fears of rejection, loss and death.

Turn instead to one another,

To the light streaming out and to one another…

To know Love,

To be Love,

To be One.

Sun Enters Leo (July 22, 2014)

The Pulse of Life moves on,

All eyes fixed now upon the Center Stage.

It is time to shine, it is time to stretch…

It’s time to dance among the Stars.

Yes, it’s that time again,

It is Time to hear the Lion’s Roar!

Your month in the Waters of Life must yield now to this realm of Solar Fires. Having found a greater measure of your Self in your Roots, in the experiences of Home and Family and Traditions, in those embracing Feelings that are recollected, remembered and shared in the Time that is Cancer, and having by these Feelings found a greater measure of your Self being Centered and Secured upon your truest Foundations, having Felt this and done this it is time now to release yourself in more Authentic Ways of Creativity, Leadership and Love…

It is your time to Shine, to stretch yourself upon New Stages, to take up altogether new Roles of Self-Realization, to Love yourself and one another as you were meant to be loved, Unconditionally.

The Leo Space, wherever it may be found in your chart, is that place in which you need to be recognized in your Truth and Essence, to experience the Heart of you. And, if you have come to a greater acceptance and truth about the nature of your heart and of your love, then magical things will begin to happen.

When you take a stand, as when you lead…you will turn and see that your companions are following you, for they now know the real you and they trust you. And, when you create, now drawing from your well of Authenticity…they will say to you, “I see you there in your Creation!"

And when you love, as you can and now know how to do, Unconditionally, then you will see that they too are then able to return what you bestowed upon them…You gave to them and now receive what is the greatest and truest form of Love, and all will be good...and you will dance together under the stars.

For what you seek in the other, is what you must first find and hold within yourself…you need to be seen in your truth, to be loved for who you are, Unconditionally. And you are so love. You have always and will forever be so loved by the beloved who is your Higher Self. And once you truly come to know and experience this abiding Source of Love, then you will be able to recognize the one before you in their truth too. You will know and understand that the same love that holds you to your truth is also with them. That what you are able to give, is what you shall receive, no more and no less.

For the Love you have within, and the love that you share with one another is the Indivisible Force that holds this whole Creation as it truly is: It is One Life, One Spirit and One Love.

You have always looked for that special sign of recognition, for that someone special to see you for who you really are. You need them, you long to hear them say to you, as they look beyond your material veils, as they see beyond what is mere appearance, they see into your soul and say, “I see you there, I remember this special feeling, I know you, I know who you are…and I love you”.

To be loved, you must be true to who and what you are...and you must love the other as yourself…for in truth they are. For just as you are loved by your Higher Self, so are they too, there is no difference, for in the end there is only Truth, Acceptance and Love.

It is time to release the Love that is your Life-Force-Substance and let it fill your Life and World with Light.

It is time to live the Love that is yours…

Love yourself,

Love one another,

Just Love.

Uranus Turns Retrograde (July 21, 2014)

How do you become more than you are?

How to you rise above your mere conditioned being, of being a product of “causes and effects”, how do you become more than the accumulation of those incremental changes that are the result of action and reaction?

Three Integral Gifts propel your everlasting Journey of Self-Becoming, Three Divine Attributes endow you with the ability to be the Imagineer, Believer and Creator of you.

The secret to your Quickening, to your remarkable Self-unfolding Growth is because you (and really the whole of this Creation) are constituted as a Hierarchical Spiritual Being, endowed with many gifts that range from the Physical, to the Emotional to the Mental and on up into the most sublime Spiritual Qualities. Within these Higher Parts of you, in your Spiritual Core, there is found the source of this Self-Unfolding propelling force that drives your whole journey through the Spaces of Space.

There, abiding in your Higher Self, is a Spark of the Divine, which is itself formed by a most Holy Trinity of Three Integral Principles. And it is these three Principles of Spirit that form your link with the Divine, “whose Center is Everywhere and whose Circumference is Nowhere”. That Divine Spirit is the Great Unknown, (though many have tried to describe or name it, but truly it is inexpressible, unnamable) so we feebly yet most reverently and humbly call this “the All”, or “Atman”, or “The One” or simply “That”.

These Holy Three, that form your Divine Core, are the three Forms of Spirit that you will experience in your Human form as: your Freer Mind, your Unconditional Love and your Centered Will. Today Uranus, who is the Avatar of the first of these three, The Principle or Spirit of Free Mind, is turning retrograde.

For the next 5 months, you are given another annual opportunity to do a most essential and necessary task if you wish lift yourself up and move a little more quickly upon your Luminous pathway of Fulfillment. For though you may experience the delays and impediments to your journey as being all “out there”, the true locus of your limitations are mostly to be found within yourself.

And so here it is, your Good News! You are endowed with a remarkable ability, to use this Gift from your Higher Self, from your Higher or Freer Mind, and think in such a way that you are able to bend your ordinary or everyday mind around the walls of your own reality-making. You are able to rise above what formed your conditional understanding, to stand outside of yourself for a time, and consider other possibilities, other pathways of Believing, Seeing and then Acting…For you are Spirit and you are here upon a Journey wherein you will claim your Birthright and so free yourself so that you might become a fully conscious Co-Creator of this Creation.

You can turn this Uranus Lamp of Awareness now back upon yourself. By this you are able to lift yourself beyond your own self-cast shadows and see what you have missed or misunderstood until now. You have to think once again “outside the box”. It is this very box of belief that you built to explain and move through your world, and it is these very thought-forms which have “boxed you in”. This box of belief is formed by your paradigm, your assumptions, principles, truths and facts, and though these were possibly adequate and functional and “true” at some level of being, they can only take you so far…

You are older now, wiser now, and you need to stop leaning upon your old crutches formed of half-truths and false convictions. For you are a Living Spirit, and you need to question and learn, and to question and learn, again and again…You have to think Spiritually. You have to consider yourself and your world by thinking Critically and by thinking Creatively, which means to be constantly self-critical and to also circle and cycle back with a renewed approach, to question again and again, and then again…and always and forever, you must approach the wonder and mystery of this universe, you must seek to understand the Divinity of which you are a part with the greatest Reverence and Humility...for you do not yet understand.

Uranus is the elicitor of your Intuitional Mind. It flashes upon your lower mind, which is bound by its set ways and forms, and reveals something just beyond what you can presently comprehend. It helps you to rise above your dichotomies and dualities, which have been formed mainly by your old assumptions, and perceive a higher plane that will lead to a greater integration and unity of Thought-Forms.

Uranus frees you to think again, to wonder what might be, and by burning away your shadowed thoughts you will find that many of your present day problems dissolve in the light of Brighter Beliefs.

Your Higher Self, through the Avatar of Uranus, is calling to you now…

Step out of your shadows and draw closer to the Light.

For you abide in an Ocean of Consciousness, and

You are a most precious drop in this Sea of Spirit.

Let the Waters of the Greater Awareness into your Heart,

Let the Wisdom, Love and Will of the One be your guide.

Lift up yourself, and become what you are to be…

Be Wise, Be Loving, Be Strong.

Be Free.

Saturn Turns Direct (July 20, 2014)

The Lord of Reality is turning again…

He turns to lead you outwards now.

For your Destiny is formed and forged…

By this weaving of your Hopes & Dreams,

Into these worlds of Forms and Matter.

You are here upon this Earth…

To draw down and weave your Wonders.

Wielding the Twelve, Sacred Lightfull Energies from on high,

You bring to realms of Shadowed Pathways,

Some greater measure of your love,

You bring your World and yourself out of the darkness,

Self-Illumined...you shine by a more supernal Light.

I wrote of this turning in my General Forecast for 2014:

Saturn Direct (July 20 until March 14, 2015)

The Avatar of Reality has finished another journey within, and now it is time to move with the Lord of Manifestation to make more real what you wish for you and yours. You have had the past four and a half months to examine your Fears regarding Union, of joining with or more deeply with one another. You needed this opportunity to make yourself more ready, to face the source of this fear, "the dweller on the threshold". Now you both can try again to find that deeper, sweeter promise made by two becoming one with one another.

Saturn is the Lord of Manifestation, the Avatar of the Hierarchy of Causation. He is your Keeper of Responsibilities and your steadfast companion on this Pathway of Purposefulness. For you are here because of one spiritual imperative, you are here to become, you are here to unfold all of your potentials…you are here quite simply to Grow.

To do this you must master all of these Energy-Forms found throughout the many Dimensions and Worlds through which you journey. Of all of these Lessons of Life, perhaps the most daunting yet most filled with sweet promise is the challenge posed within this Realm of Scorpio. For it is here that you are challenged to overcome the most apparent yet most illusionary condition of your journey through Forms.

You are, it would seem, a distinct separate entity from all the other human as well as other Life-Forms. Your experience of your Matter-Body is that you come into the world as separate and alone, and you strive throughout your life to overcome this separation, and to experience some greater or lesser measure of a oneness with one another. Yes, you may succumb to the echoes of your Past, to the fear of being alone, of being abandoned or rejected again. Yet if you do, then this very Energy-Form of fear may create the very pain-filled reality that becomes your life...and so it this Illusion formed by your Past that you must pierce through and transcend...it is your Dweller on the Threshold, and you must understand and be your Truth before you may pass beyond this shadow.

For the Truth of Spirit is that you are Never Alone, not ever. With you, forever and ever, is your Higher Self, your Beloved whose everlasting experience abides in the Connectedness and Oneness of all of this Creation, and whose love for you is unbounded and unconditional. To the extent, as you journey in life after life, that you can strive to feel and experience this love that is there within you, and to lift your Consciousness and hold your Awareness with and by your Higher Self, then to that same extent will you experience “the peace which passes all understanding”. For you will find that you are by your Origin and so are you Destined too, to have always been held by, and that you will forever dwell in, and you will forever grow through the Love of the One for you and all those who journey with you through these Material Worlds.  

For the last many months you were given yet another opportunity to consider this fear of Separation that lies within you, a fear formed by the echoes of past failures, by the ancient pains of rejection and loss, and to realize that it is these very echoes which casting forward into the present day might lead you to act with doubt, hesitancy and fear and so bring about the very experience of loss you were so desperately seeking to avoid.

But going forth now with a greater understanding about your own nature and of the One Life in which you truly abide, you can do what must be done…You must press beyond all that fear, you must be Fearless and extend yourself to the other, and offer to them the opportunity of joining you in a more Loving Space of Union…and it just might be, it just might become, that the ancient shadows fall away and the Love that is there, that was and will always be there, will become the Reality of your many, many days, and lives to come…

Let go of your Fears…

Be the Love that is your True Nature…

Create your Loving Space with One Another…

Step out of the Shadows…

And into your Love and the Light.

Venus Enters Cancer (July 18, 2014)

Your Avatar of Beauty and Love,

Beckons to you now.

Join with her and your loved ones,

In joyful remembrances, and with hopes for a better future too.

Hold to one another in your most precious and special space.

Feel the Love that flows from and to this Sacred Center,

Which is found within your heart of hearts,

The one and abiding source of you,

That you simply call my “Home”.

Venus returns to the Realm of Water and the Sign of Cancer once more. It is time to move with her and renew your soulful feelings of kinship for one another. In your Journey of Becoming, on this Path of Awakening, you are to experience all of the many beautiful forms of this Energy that binds the whole of Creation together, and it is this that you know and experience, this Life-Force-Consciousness that illumines the whole of this Universe…and you call this Love.

Perhaps the most meaningful, certainly the most soulful and heartfelt form of this Love is experienced here in Cancer. It is here that your soul finds those “Resonances of Remembrance”, of your countless lives stretching back to the One. For it is this, your essential nature, that you are a Spiritual Spark of the Divine, it is this which forms the core of your Silver Cord that links you to One and to all of this wondrous Creation too.

That because this is so, you are all related one to another by your Mother-Father in Heaven, as well as by your Mother-Fathers here and now, and to all of your Brothers, Sisters, and your Aunts and Uncles too…and likewise to all of your countless relations that have made you and you them through all your Lives and Worlds, in life after life, world after world, forever and ever.

For as has been affirmed in all these Worlds and Lives you have experienced so far, in all those times and places, in countless ways and cultures, the truth of Creation and your Journey, the Truth of Spirit is that we are all One Family, “That we are all Related”, and so whomever is before me yesterday, today and in all my tomorrows too, there too is my family, there too is part of me also.

You are here to live out this Truth, and in Cancer you will feel this and you will live this in all those countless and wondrous Loving ways that you Care for one another.

Your Silver Chord of Immortality, that connects you to all of your Lives that were and are yet to be…

Is forged and formed by your many Dreams and Actions, by your Thoughts and Feelings too.

You weave with these your Webs of Destiny…

Which in no small measure are formed by these Caring Considerations that pass between you and all your relations.

They and you form a Luminous Family of Spirit,

Gathered together in your Sacred Home, your Place of Peace.

And all that you are asked to do…

Is listen to your heart, and do what is right…

Care for one another…

Love one another.

Just love.

Jupiter Enters Leo (July 16, 2014)

Your Lord of Truth beckons to you once again…

Jupiter, your Avatar of Aspiration reminds you,

That you are here for one reason...

The Self-unfolding Fountain-Source of your journey,

Flows from your nature as a Spark of the Divine.

That your Truth, as a Being of Light, forms an irrepressible Spiritual Injunction…

You are here for one wondrously, joyously and humbling purpose only,

You are here to become, you are here to awaken…you are here to Grow...

You are here quite simply to Love.

As I noted in my general forecast for 2014, Jupiter is moving into the Fire Sign of Leo today:

Jupiter Enters Leo (July 16 until August 11, 2015)

The Lord of Principles and Social Understanding enters the Regal Sign of Leo for the next 13 months. This is the time to expand or stretch yourself upon even grander stages, to slip into new and renewed roles of self-realization. You had the last 13 months while in Cancer to restore and reconnect to your roots, to remember and feel what lies at the heart of you. Now it is time to go forth and reveal to yourself and others what you are, to be and live a more Authentic Self.

Jupiter passes through all the signs of the zodiac in about 12 years, moving through the three Modalities of Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable and the four Modulations of Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Through these 12 Spirit-Forms you slowly but surely come to appreciate and understand your nature and purpose. Whether found in Metaphysics or Physics, whether sourced and sung of by Religion, Philosophy or Science, this Experiential Journey of you and all your forebears is forged, carried and passed down through the ages. This River of Wisdom is truly contained within your spiritual core, held in trust by your Higher Self…and because this is so, as you come to recognize once again the “truths out there”, you find a calming assurance of recognition and remembrance within you too…for “as above, so below, as within so around you too”…there is but One Spirit, there is but one Life-Consciousness-Love which embraces one and All.

Through these ever-unfolding Teachings of Meanings, of the “Whys and Wherefores” of your journey, you fashion and form the Purposes of your Life and so likewise forge the Path you follow in life after life. Sometimes you just struggle to survive, to live with little and hope for a better day...and sometimes you reach a little higher as you understand that what is “the good” is to be for the Greater Good. So that over the course of many worlds and lives you come ever closer to the Luminous Halls of Wisdom, to the realization that it is you who are to fashion your Road of Redemption, and that it is your own path of Dharma/Karma that will lead you to the Promised Land of Fulfillment. That it is only by piercing through the illusions of any one time, space or culture that you will accept and so realize that your Journey is an integral and precious part of the One great story of all of the countless sparks of the Divine. For you all went forth ages ago to grow into your Divinity; you went out to lift yourselves and your worlds higher, to learn and to live and to love one another unconditionally.

This particular transition will bring Jupiter back into the realm that is Fire, after having spent a year within the Soul-Centering sign that is the Watery Realm of Cancer. It was there that you felt the truth that abides within your soul, that you are part of a great Family of Spirit. This Truth is found, anchored and centered within your feelings that are first felt and forged within your immediate Family, and that is extended outward over many lives to encompass your Ethnicity, and then extends further to your Culture and then, as you draw closer to your truth, to encompass all of Humanity. But, as you draw even closer, you will find the "pearl of great price", that what is within you is all around you too, and that your True Home is held by the Soulful Experience that the whole of Creation, that all of Life-Consciousness-Spirit is your Home and Family too.

Having had this humbling through Self-Centering experience, you are ready now for the next lesson that is Jupiter in the Sign of Leo. This year ahead is about you moving outwards into ever greater roles of self-realization, to move out upon ever larger stages of living in your Truth. At the core of you is a Divine Spark, and you are here quite simply to Love yourself and pour and release that love into all of your Dreams, Acts, Thoughts and Feelings. You need to be seen and respected for who and what you are…but, you must know this now, so does any other that is before you too…The Key drive for Leo is to earn Respect, to be seen in your Truth as a unique Spark of the Divine. Your need for this can only be obtained when you understand and show this same consideration to every other too...You are here to Encourage and Inspire one another to believe in your Selves, to help one another to reach a greater measure of Self-Fulfillment, to Love one another as you Love yourself too. 

Moreover, as I also noted in my 2014 General Forecast, this procession of Jupiter into the Fires of Leo will lead to a beautiful alignment of three planets equally spaced from one another, each in one of the Three Fire Signs of Aries, Leo and Sagittarius in September/October. Here is what I wrote about this Spiritual Trinity of Truth:

The Grand Fire Trine (Uranus, Jupiter and Mars) Sept/Oct 2014

Truly a gift of the spirit, this beautiful pattern formed by these three will provide a greater measure of hope and inspiration for your world. I will write more extensively about this pattern in September and October, but for now I will summarize it in this overview:

Though forming up over the period of about three weeks, you will probably feel the foreshadowing of this beauty when Mars enters into the Fire Element when he moves into Sagittarius on September 13. Then you most certainly will feel the fuller effects when Jupiter and Uranus reach their exact trine alignment on September 25, which is followed about a week later as Mars joins the pattern exactly as he aligns first with Uranus and then with Jupiter between October 4 and October 8.

The Fire Element concerns the Energies of Inspiration, Idealism and Vision. When planets are found in one of each of the three Fire Signs, and equally spaced from one another, they then form a most beautiful pattern that mirrors or reflects the beauty and balance found by this resonance of energy formed by this particular element, in this case a Grand Triangle of Fire.

From their interplay and integration with one another, their Fiery Message will be articulated in this manner:

From Uranus in Aries, you will receive a renewal of Inspiration so that you may forge a Freer Presence that will help you to move through your world with Grace and Adeptness. From Jupiter in Leo, you will receive a benevolent gift of renewed Idealism so that you may lead from the Truth that lies at the core of you, and so find and release your Courage in Authentic Performances. And from Mars in Sagittarius, you will be filled by a most vital gift of focused Intention, your Desires being transmuted into ever Greater Aspirations, as right Thinking and Right Action combine to keep you upon the Noble Path of Wisdom.

These three in combination bring to you a triple Gift of Spirit so that you and your companions may find that Bridge of Light between the Old and the New, between Left and Right, between Fear and Delusion...and find a way to the Greater Truth that there is more that we hold dear and in common than separates us from one another.

We need this reminder now more than ever, we need to recall that the guiding principle of our Intentions and Actions will come to be guided by what binds one to one, and all to the One and that is Love.

The Lord of Truth returns to the Realms of Fire…

It is time to follow your Heart,

And listen to your Soul.

You are here to Lead by Love,

You are here to Hold by Love,

You are here to Love one Another.

This is why and how you Grow...

The Wisdom of the Ages,

Is Love.

Full Moon in Capricorn (July 12, 2014)

The Sun will set,

Your Moon will rise.

It is time to remember,

Where you came from, and

Why you are here…

The Cycle of the Sun and Moon is the signatory or primary experience you have of your spiritual path, of this wondrous dance in spirit that is your journey through the stars. Their cycle, which moves from New Moon to First Quarter to Full Moon to Last Quarter, and then back to the next New Moon in about 28 days, illustrates the archetypal, self-unfolding relationship of meaning that will help you find your way towards the Light. They form the primary example of these loving Gifts of the Spirit in which all the other planetary pairs help to circumscribe, propel and inform your life in this Circle of Spirit, this family of planets with which you journey through the spaces of space and beyond.

It would seem that the Sun and Moon form a “dance of dualism”, with each expressing a meaning specific to their nature, as well as modulated by the sign that they are passing through. That each forms a counterpoint to the other, and that their dance with one another, and through the signs, forms an ever-unfolding “weaving of meaning”, of inspirational messages, and by this they create a living testament of the integral spiritual energy-forms for you and your world.

But you need to step back from this appearance and recognize a fundamental truth…That every such relationship is not formed by only two points, as in this archetypal dance of the Sun and the Moon…really in each and every pair there are actually Three! For, as in this instance, here is the Sun, and there is the Moon, but low and behold, between them both there you are, here upon your beloved Earth. It is you, this third element, who by being a living spirit forms a Triad of Truth that is the bridge and integration of these ever-unfolding “Pairs of Presence and Polarity”.

Tonight the Sun will set and the Moon will rise, and you will witness once more the beauty of this primary relationship for your world, as the Lights of your Life stand opposite to one another again. The Full Moon is a time of revelation, a time to acknowledge that the Truth of the Sun, and the Truth of the Moon can only be understood in their wholeness by being seen and held as they are, together. The Full Moon brings to a climax of meaning, transcendence and resolution what was lovingly offered to you about 2 weeks before at the prior New Moon.

The seeding of that New Moon was in Cancer, and it reminded you of your Origins and Roots. That in your beginning there was the One, who became the many of which you are one of these ones. That you are in your heart to feel yourself to be part of this great family of Spirit, and that the fundamental truth of every mote and speck in this Creation, of every creature, planet, star and planetary system, that in this wholeness there is found the fundamental truth, that “we are all related”, we all come from the One, and that we are all made of one another in, through and by our love for one another.

In Cancer you feel this connection, to your family, to your village, to your clan, tribe, nation and to your world…and if you allow your spirit to lift you just high enough, then you can look out upon these wondrous spaces that surround you too...and you will tremble and feel the awesome truth, and so shout to the stars wheeling above you, “There you are, there is my family, there are my fathers and mothers, there are my sisters and brothers, there they are, all my relations, sweeping across these heavenly spaces above…and there, there is my home too”…

And from this Truth-Seeding springs tonight the necessary and integral realization that is embodied by the Capricorn Full Moon. If you are indeed an inseparable part of the “One Family”, that indeed all of this Creation is indeed the One Life of Spirit, then each of you is responsible to and for one another too. You are here to take care of your Mother and Father (as they have taken care of you), you are here to care for your Sister and your Brother, to Love and Protect your home world of Earth, and all these other worlds too…They are your family and you are theirs…They are there to take care of you, and you are here to care for them, for what is there holding you all with one another is the one true Energy-Form, which you call Love.

The Seed of Origin that is sown in every time of Cancer will lead you now to this “Fruit of Fulfillment”, and this is the testament of Capricorn: You are to Feel at one with yourself and with your world; You are to fulfill this feeling by being Responsible for and to one another too. These Truths cannot be divided nor you from yourself, your origin is your destiny, to Love and be Loved is your Truth and Destiny too.

Watch your Star set,

Then turn and watch your Moon rise.

Feel these Roots of your Beginnings,

Then shoulder your Responsibilities too.

You are here to Feel this Truth,

That you are here for One Another,

You are Family, and you are here,

To Care for one another.

You are here because of Love,

You are to Love one another too.