If appreciation is the way to nurture your love relationships, would it not make sense that appreciation for yourself is a vital part of self love, as well? What if you actually stopped being so hard on yourselves and started acknowledging and celebrating all the things about you that are so amazing and beautiful?

We will tell you what would happen. Your energy would shift profoundly, as would your experiences, to reflect your true beingness. Isn’t that what you’ve been wanting all along? How wonderful that you have the power to make that change right now. ~Archangel Gabriel

1. This moment right now is precious. Live fully in it.

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

“As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.”

“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”

“Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”

“People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.”

Sun enters Venus’ sign this year in a powerful manner. Looking at the ingress chart, Mercury (thought and communication) and Venus (cooperation and collaboration) are in mutual reception, in other words, in each other’s signs. Both aspect Neptune (creativity, imagination, the ideal) in his home sign, Pisces. Concrete communication meets with intellectual collaboration, with a spiritual element mixed with the two. Sun in Taurus signifies concentrating energy (the modality of Taurus is fixed), suggesting heightened endurance and a focus on the material that can be implemented to help complete projects. Mars is a bit out of place in the Taurus sign, but he is still Mars; the qualities of Taurus that fit Venus well are not overly suitable for Mars, but, he forms a nice aspect with his overlord’s (Pluto’s), linking energy to power. Neptune is also an overtone of Venus, and the ingress shows nice opportunities at the beginning of the month with energy and power in harmony; and given the work and effort, cooperating with individuals might lead to merging with a greater collective.

Mercury and Venus might also be in mutual reception towards the middle of the zodiacal year (Sun must be between Leo and Sagittarius, inclusive) when Mercury is in Libra and Venus is in Virgo. The advantage of planets in mutual reception is that they are always “bouncing off” of each other. Therefore, expect an emphasis on being social, people looking sharp, and exchanging more detailed information and intellectual type discussions than usual with Mercury-Venus. Mars-Pluto and Venus-Neptune create additional opportunities for relating to others and using energy and developing perspectives and personal power. Many variations and subthemes in the heavens this month.

Let’s see what the transits might portend…

Ida Lawrence, Contributor
Waking Times

There’s so much I don’t know, so much it would seemingly benefit me to know, and SO much knowledge available to us right now. Recently a friend showed me some of the spiritual/metaphysical videos he had been watching, and he remarked on the availability of such previously sought-after information. It’s true… some of this is treasure! Why is it now freely given to millions?

In the past, people who wanted knowledge would have to first discover that there is such a thing, and then go through great effort to get to the location where that knowledge is, and once found, they would have to qualify to receive it. So ‘seeking to know’ would have to be the person’s destiny: can’t help it, born to do it, pulled to it in fact.