The Power of your Presence
Today we begin the Astrological New Year, as we move into the Sign of Aries. At this time every year, and forever part of your essential nature too, we should celebrate the gift of Aries, the wellspring of all.
For the last 30 days, the veil between your mortal being and your spark of the divine gave way, and in your visions, dreams and recollections of what you did and what you did not do, as you walked in the sacred realm of the Twelve Holy Ones, in the time and place we call Pisces, you found hope and forgiveness in spiritual renewal. Pisces brings the gift of closure, as you sift through the harvest of the past year and understand the immutable law that holds everything together in the "Great Work”. That all that was is true and right, as you are the maker of you, and "you will always reap what you sow." In Pisces, you understood the unbreakable bond between the growth of your wisdom and the deepening of your humility. Supported by the grace of forgiveness, you were humbled by the understanding that your sins of omission and commission actually form the diamond body of your character, and it is this foundation for your faith that you will help you in all of your tomorrows. In the Waters of Pisces, you found the way to hold it all, the good and the bad, because of the compassion and love of the One who loves us all.
Now you enter Aries, the first sign in the Circle of the Living Ones, the Avatar or vessel that holds the first foundational truth, rooted in the essential nature of Spirit. What is this truth? The essential nature of Spirit, which forms and forges your quintessence, is the most precious gift of being a Creator. This is the ever-beating heart of the cosmos, it is the “light everlasting,” forming the propelling agency by which you exist here, now, and forever. You are a self-unfolding, self-becoming, self-making spark of the divine. You are here, “to be and become what you are, the Divine made manifest upon this Earth."
Of course this is true of every single particle of Creation, for the entire cosmos is the “One” now made manifest throughout the cosmos. But for you, having achieved the blessing of self-aware consciousness long, long ago, and by moving through these hierarchies and realms of humanity for countless ages, your gift of self-creation has become much more substantial and consequential, more truly divine than ever before. Now you feel and know the law of Karma, you have awareness of the law of cause and effect, of your actions and your reaping of the consequences. And day after day, and life after life, you are personally responsible for you, and for the world you enter, and for the world you have made, and the world you will leave behind.
Now this New Year begins, and the Fire of Aries is upon you. By Aries, you leap forth with the gift of Inspiration, with visions and ideas that come upon you, bending your heart and soul to joyful exhilaration, so that you may celebrate a brand-new day in the ever-renewing joy filling you with light and the power of new beginnings.
In Aries, you rush into action, to be and become whatever you will be. But the first lesson on the path of life is here too. At each portal, and in each sign, you are asked a question, and the one before you, well, it is probably the most profound of all: "Who are you?"
But to answer this question, you must understand what it means to be human, what is this all for, why are you here?
Quite simply, you are here as a spark of the divine in order to learn to be a better human. To discover through inspiration and doubt, by attempts and failures, through success and defeat, you are here to learn by cause and effect how to be fully human, and how to become a wise being who chooses to live by Love and who turns away from fear.
And it all begins here, with the very first step, and then your next step. And then the one after that. Life is a journey, with you ceaselessly moving through what only exists which is the Eternal Now, from moment to moment and from one space to another. Imagine Life as moving through a series of doors, leaving one space as you enter another. Here, at this crossing point you will encounter the everlasting gift and test that is Aries, which offers you the gift of developing your character, of forming your bearing, building your demeanor, forging your awareness of you that you will bring to each precious moment, to each and every opportunity so that you live by love.
As you move through these series of doors, you will find that there is always someone going through just ahead of you. If you are fortunate, that person will hold the door open for you, perhaps lend you a helping hand. But sometimes, the one who is ahead of you is troubled, thoughtless, or angry, and they do not consider who is behind them, and they slam the door in your face.
Now you have your moment, your quintessential test is upon you. What happened just then was that you experienced something negative, something that you may certainly feel you did not deserve nor need at all. But now comes the question, "What will you do?" What will you do with this energy?
It would be easy, almost effortless, to take that negative energy and pass it on to whoever is following you. Take that bad energy that came at you and just get rid of it. That is easy, but your life will not be easy if you do this. You will not grow and change, and you will not be better, and you cannot become better unless you are this change for the better.
Instead, you must stop and realize that you have a choice. You are supposed to choose here. You will realize that the negative energy you received is just an accident of fate, perhaps a negative emotion passed down for many years, and you can be the change, you can be as you are meant to be, a transformer of energy, turning the negative into the positive, and you do that by choosing to take the path not taken as you hold the door open for the one who follows you.
That is it. That is how you change yourself, and it is how you change the world.
You have agency, you can make a choice, and you can be the reason that not only for your life but for the lives of so many others, you can make it be better. For all you know that negative form of energy you transmuted might have been passing down for thousands of years, but it ended with you, as you turned the darkness into light.
This is the gift of Aries, this is the gift of Presence, of “living with loving awareness."
You are here to grow, to be and become, to change yourself and heal your world too.
If we all do this, if we choose to turn the negative into the good, to turn darkness into light, to turn fear into faith and hate into love, well…
Well, that is the whole point after all.
May you be the Love that was the First Step.
May you be a one like the One.
May you shine like the Sun.
That is the way, the only way.
The Way of Light, and of Truth and of Love.
