The month of July is the time of fire and water. During this stretch of the year these two, totally incompatible elements give us a good lesson in the reconciliation of opposites. As the Dog Days double the heat of the Sun, its fires burst forth to open the heart of the Earth. In that moment the Great Mother has no other choice but to respond, and her waters pour out of her core, fertilizing all of Creation. For the next thirty-one days, what the Sun stirs to life will be purified by the floods that, since the beginning of time, have never failed to rise, and wash everything clean in their wake. The ancients knew of these things. If we have forgotten them, our cellular memory has not – and this time around, without knowing how, or why, we are engaged in this process from a totally different place; all of us can feel it. And what we can already see is that inside this realm of newness and change there is no room for falsehood and no space for anything that isn’t born in the clear light of Truth. With the intensity of the solar force about to be amplified by the Heliacal Rising of Sirius, whether we are ready for it or not, all of us are about to undergo an initiation that will require us to be clear, and free of every trace of falsehood; because inside the heart of the creation process, and within the alchemy that occurs whenever we ascend to another level of consciousness, there is no room for anything but the clear light of Truth. It is in that spirit that we welcome you to our July edition. May everything that you find in this month’s issue give you a way to look at yourself and your place in the world with the soul of integrity and the clear light of Truth that lives in the heart.