Fetch me the Spirit, the Son, the Father–

Tell him I see his light living

in all his sons, in all his daughters —

Fetch me the Mother, the Moon, her Holy Soul–

tell Her i want to make Her proud,

to be a man wise, kind, honorable —

let me sing to the Jester, 

Hermes, the messenger Mercurial —

tell him I’ve learned his lesson

that in the mind is youth eternal

for a mind that never stops learning

and keeps its curiosity

can never age.

and how could one ever forget

her majesty, her grace, 

Aphrodite, Venus —

lend me your ear, 

hear my serenade!

my heartbeat, 

goddess, you are life’s very meaning!

for to live is to love, 

and a life without you

is a heart without blood.

your divinity does bring me 

to my very knees

my very source of strength

that renders me oh so weak.

and MARS!

there is a war essential to life, isn’t there?

there is a war that rages inside of me too, is there not?

between those fundamental opposites: love and fear.

you are the reason I can lift my sword and fight for love.

you bear the fire of alchemy

it is through you

that I wage war against the conditioning I seek to rise above

that I wage war against intolerance

that I wage war against my own ignorance

that I wage war and want to become better every day.

You are beautiful.

…

oh, 

and Jupiter —

if Saturn is life’s mountains,

it is you who reminds me

that it is faith that moves them.

you remind me

that faith is anything but blind —

no, when you opened my heart,

you also opened my eyes

for the very first time.

and Saturn,

oh wise Saturn,

teacher, mentor, guide,

I’ve libraries of words for you —

but I’ll tell you more succinctly this:

you are disguised gold.

I hadn’t met you

until I was ready to meet myself.

you are the hidden benefic

disguised as maleficence —

to view you as malefic 

is to moan about 

the effort

the work

the strain 

it takes 

to learn  

to grow

to mature

to evolve 

You are making me a man

and I’m prepared to walk 

the path laid out for me.