Forecast for Thursday 12 May 2016

Thursday 12 May 2016

^Paths^

Moon in Leo   ***

A day with no lunar phenomena of changeability, no void-of-course or Via Combusta or |difficult third|, like today, is a day when we can get things accomplished and feel good about it.

The only question is the other phenomenon we're dealing with, Mercury Retrograde (until the 22nd), which can make things fascinating, deep, profound, or dicey. Sometimes deep, which is welcome; sometimes dicey, which might or might not be welcome. 

I felt tonight that I would, rather than write an astrological report, just chat about things from a more spiritual angle. That is a symptom of Mercury Retrograde--wanting to get a better overview of things, and to see things from higher or broader angles. This could be done with astrology, of course, or through whatever approach works for oneself. I was at a spiritual meeting Wednesday evening where the discussion went in all directions. I remarked that in a group like that, where there was no central path (neither Jesus nor Buddha nor Krishna nor Sai Baba nor Sri Aurobindo nor . . . ), something was missing. A spiritual path requires a center, or a central figure at the end and beginning of the path. What is your center? To whom or what have you given your allegiance? I know the answer to that for myself. Those who do not know their answer to that question have some work to do. That is why I don't feel like writing an astrological report this time. We have more serious work than that. 

But, in terms of astrology, we can say that today is a good time for discovering or rediscovering one's spiritual path because Luna is in Leo the sign of the sun, who is the Deity of our Solar System. Leo is the King, or the Queen, because its ruler is the sun, or Sol, our Center without whom we could not live. Further, Luna is today in a trine aspect with both Mars and Saturn in the sign Sagittarius, a sign of religion and of spirituality. We can go deep. 

In trying to talk about spiritual things, we stumble on words. I was reading H. P. Blavatsky today, perhaps because Luna was, as also it shall be Thursday, in Leo her sun-sign; but I was also reading Sri Aurobindo, the supreme Leo of our era because he was the Avatar. That is true whether or not you believe it. If you do not believe it, you are very very much mistaken.

Blavatsky was a lesser Avatar of the 19th and early 20th Century; then Sri Aurobindo came to complete and fulfill what she began in terms of reviving the deepest esoteric teachings ever manifested on this planet. There is nothing after Sri Aurobindo except The Mother, his partner in the work of building a new life for humanity. And she left this world, to the appearance of our physical eyes, in 1973. All the teachings which have appeared since then, from any source, are mediocre. These two provided the peak of instruction for humanity. All the rest is just the past redevouring itself as the serpent devours its own tail. 

Well, if you say that you believe in the teachings of Alice A. Bailey, well, so do I. If you say you believe in Rudolf Steiner, so do I. If you believe in Mary Baker Eddy, or Charles Fillmore, or Emma Curtis Hopkins, the three biggest stars of the American New Thought movement (the rest, including the Course in Miracles and The Secret, is fluffy cotton candy by comparison), so do I. If you believe in Edgar Cayce, so do I. 

Especially, if you say you believe in Abraham and his progeny, in the Hebrew prophets, and in Jesus the Christ, so do I. 

But Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are the leaders into a new world.

I am saying this not to insist that you follow my own spiritual path but to challenge you to find yours. If it is not that of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, it is a lesser path, but perhaps that is all of which you are capable in this lifetime. 

So that is that. If you decide that I am wrong about this, you may decide also that these reports are not for you. I wish you well along whatever path you need for this era and lifetime in your endless journey toward ever more complete realizations of Truth and Love. And those are not just words.

Hugh

Cosmic Piper