Where did you come from, why are you here, and where, where are you going?
Today we enter the first house of the Holy Ones, the sign we call Aries, and at this time of the year, and forever somewhere in your very own chart as well, you need to consider what your journey is all about, to experience what lies at the heart of all of this and of every one of us, and to understand exactly how you need to face and meet your “journey of becoming”.
For the last 30 days you have wandered and wondered in the realm of Pisces. The purpose of all of the water signs is for you to connect, to feel the realm of Spirit that supports and holds you, as you go to your roots and the self at the center by Cancer, as you join with one another through unions in Scorpio, so that you may finally reach above and beyond to all of Creation with Pisces. The gift of Pisces dissolves the illusion of separation as you move by love, compassion, and grace to the source of self, and you feel once again that you and all of the entirety of Creation are one in the One.
Yes, it was in Pisces that you were able to hold in your heart and mind the whole journey of your life to this point, to feel the loves and the losses, to see the triumphs and the setbacks, to hold them all as they are, the very experiences that shaped you into the spiritual vessel that you are today. You understand that your errors and mistakes, and their eventual correction and overcoming, that they were the very forge of spirit that made you better today, so that you are wiser and more humble, both stronger and gentler, and so you are ready to once again turn and face what lies before you now, the only place you can ever be in Space-Time, the Eternal Now.
Today you enter the realm of Aries, the sign of emergence, wielder of the power of new beginnings, and you welcome the first gift of spirit, the formation of Presence. As much as in Pisces you experienced the encompassing truth that all of Creation is formed by the one energy-form of Divine Unconditional Love, so that in truth every speck and mote of Creation shines with this sublime light, and that everything and everyone are all eternally inseparable from one another, now it is here in Aries that you must equally understand and embrace the truth that you are also a unique spark of the Divine, that you are separate and distinct, formed by your very own Swabhāva or Quintessence, and that there is no other like you in the entirety of the Cosmos too.
What Aries holds is this this fundamental truth about your experience of being and time, that you have feelings and memories of your “past”, and you hold hopes and dreams about your “future”, but in truth there is only one place that you will eternally be. Throughout your journey from unself-conscious spark of the divine to a completed human, now shining as a deva or angel, it is this omnipresent space of creation that you live and love in, the ever-unfolding forge of Spirit known as “the eternal now”.
As you journey through every life, “you move yet stay” in this space-time of the everlasting moment of creation, the only place you can be, in the eternal now. The past is behind you, and it cannot be changed or undone; the future is awaiting and will in some way be made by what you do or do not do in the now.
But what you encounter in this forge of Creation is not an empty or virgin space, no it is full of what you and countless ones have made just a moment ago, and thousands and thousands of years ago too. The purpose of Aries is to remind you of this ever-folding moment you are in, and that you must be aware of the importance and power of how you meet this moment, for it will make the next moment, and the next after that and forever after.
The gift of Aries is the forging of your “presence”, it is your bearing, your demeanor, your persona, or personas, that you meet with in the moment that awaits. You must be aware of what you are here for, what are your truths that forge your motivations, that create your intentions and lead to your actions. And yet you must be equally receptive, sensitive, and prescient as to what is in this moment already, and sense what it may need or require of you.
I like to say that we experience life as if moving through a series of rooms one after the other, and just as you enter you must quickly sense what “kind” of space you are entering. Is it quiet or loud, is it peaceful or unsettled? As you enter you must sense what is before you and what it might need of you. If it lacks energy and direction then bring your lively, bolder self to bear, and if it is disturbed or chaotic, then bring your gentle and calming self instead. Moment to moment, day after day, you will make a difference in what you offer to the eternal now, when guided by this power of presence that you forge day by day.
And when you really master yourself, when you have formed all your various personas and masks to meet each moment, and as you lead with your very best, then you become a “one”, a leader of light and love, building that better future for yourself and for one another too.
The gift of Aries is to live as you are, a redeemer of the past and a path-maker to the future.
With light in your eyes, and love in your heart,
You know who you are, and why you are here.
You are here to make right what is not,
And turn what was lost into a bright shining future.
A new year has begun,
May you shine like the rising Sun that you are!
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