Sue Moon’s Blog

I am particularly fond of research and reading about the original Bible, not the generally used one of today. Years ago when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered and then bit by bit information was released, I was amazed at what one simple word change could make in a statement. For instance, when it says “The meek shall inherit the earth”, the original translation was “awake or aware”. I never understood why being meek would work, not in my nature anyway, so that was an important puzzle piece for me to hear.

I love the translation of the Our Father and I use it often. I find the words holy and I say them very slowly and with meaning. Now, I have a very beautiful addition to that prayer that fits more with what I believe.

Enjoy, Sue

The Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic, the language in which it was originally spoken…

O Breathing Life, your Name shines everywhere!
Release a space to plant your Presence here.
Envision your “I Can” now.
Embody your desire in every light and form.
Grow through us this moment’s bread and wisdom.
Untie the knots of failure binding us, as we release the strands we hold of others’ faults.
Help us not forget our Source, yet free us from not being in the Present.
From you arises every vision, power, and song, from gathering to gathering.
Amen: may our future actions grow from here.

Neil Douglas-Klotz – translation

Such an interesting winter. I use that word lightly so as not to say anything negative. We can always find something positive to say about anything, and so it is a very interesting winter. Sloughing off old patterns that can keep us trapped in negative feedback loops is also very interesting. I’m not a big fan of continual deep internal clearing but it seems to be the only game in town right now.
Jupiter is in and out of Pisces this year creating opportunity to delve into our deeply spiritual natures. And finally, I think, getting it, that everything is spiritual. It’s a huge paradigm shift from church/religion/compartmentalizing spirituality and so on. I can feel the collective brakes grinding to a halt and people looking all confused and saying “what”? What indeed. Great expansive, beneficial, philosophical Jupiter in the dreamy, creative, psychic Pisces is opening up doors and windows to our souls and removing the veils from out brow chakra. As we peer out and see the world in a much less pollyanna way, the world, all of it, is shown as all of our home, not just Mexico, Haiti, England etc……….what happens everywhere is also happening to us. This is the awakening of Jupiter in Pisces…….the call to justice.
Robert Wilkinson has a nice clip about this I’ve pasted below:
“Jupiter in Pisces can lead us to greater faith, blessings, and connectedness if we dare to dream our deepest Truths. It is where we can “put our bread upon the waters,” trusting in our feeling-knowledge to be led to a greater Way, Truth, and Life. It is a time to say goodbye to whatever is no longer part of our quest for Truth, and get ready for the fiery new beginnings of Jupiter in Aries.

As I recently told a fan of the site, perhaps Jupiter in Pisces marks a closure on old sorrows and motives while embracing a greater wisdom-compassion within a sense of an all-enveloping Divine Mother energy. It could be a time to find a deeper sense of ourselves as Divine Witnesses, along with a greater appreciation of the value of solitude. This can help all of us say goodbye to many things as we prepare to leap into the new this Summer.

I’ll conclude these musings with a good Jupiter in Pisces meditation:

Imagine yourself as a leaf floating on the surface of the ocean of Divine Mother energy.
Infinite sky and depth are all around while you gently float, securely held on Her lap.
Feel the unity with All-That-Is.
Watch as resistance and fear flow away as vague sensations, and experience vaster and deeper feelings of protection than you’ve ever known.
Say goodbye, forgive, and be at peace held gently within the All.

© Copyright 2010 Robert Wilkinson

We’ve now made it through the first opposition, with Sun opposition Mars still occurring between now and Friday’s Full Moon. This is the eye of the storm, with heart strength and a greater sense of higher purpose the rewards for those who persevere.

Figure out what needs to be done to keep things moving forward, and be deliberate in continuing to “gather your medicine” so that your heart is strengthened in association with others who share that magnetic solar fire. The momentum is about to quicken in our affairs, though there will be adjustments and sacrifices in the very near future.

Keep your eye on the prize despite momentary interruptions and deflecting distractions during this time of slowest momentum. Fit things into a long range perspective while beginning to do what must be done to renew and/or complete what was started Autumn 2009.

Been a bit down and wondering what to do next….so, of course found this piece by Robert and can see a little bit better. Might need more patience, I don’t know, these are some odd energies we are all in. You may be experiencing it in really good ways, but many are stuck in the letting go process I’ve noticed.
“Play with ideas, see the source of all ideas, and explore the inner connections with All-That-Is to receive new inspirations that will help you plan anew, knowing you have “made it through the night.” For those who have strived for many months, the tide is about to turn. February 8-18 completes the process of transfiguration.

We all have much to learn from the subtle world and its signals during this time of Jupiter in Pisces. Having needed protection from unnecessarily aggressive human elements, now we can experience our indestructibility as we move into more complex relationships that will help us master any lingering tendencies toward discouragement.

Overall, this polarization/realization process we’re going through is preparing us for the new energies emerging this coming June. It’s as though what’s going on is creating a powerful void that we will fill each in our own way beginning June 2010 that will re-shape our personal and collective world in 2011.

This is the time to see things as realistically as possible, stay focused on long term goals and friendships, make preparatory actions, and get ready as things begin to roll forward in dynamic ways by mid-February.” -Robert Wilkinson

Feels like one of the old Boilers at school. When it would kick in it would rumble your insides. That’s the kind of vibration this Mars retrograde has.
Another feel is waiting for something to happen, grrrrrrr. I’m an action person, with a cardinal sun and ascendant I like to move forward first, take care of business and move on.
Sigh, not a lot of moving on these days. I have to work really hard at getting anything done. It would be a better use of this energy to lay plans for the spring forward boost into action.

This Mars is sitting on my Pluto/Mars/Saturn conjunction in the 7th house.  Personal relationships are just “sitting” there also.  Not getting better, not getting worse and certainly under scrutiny.  What do I want with these relationships anyway?  That’s what this is good for…………..what do I want you to be in my life?  Do I even want you in my life?

I feel a call for solitary hermitude (if that isn’t a word it should be!)  After March 10th, watch for the hermit to be gone!

“Change is constant and all things change. Suffering is caused when we act against the changes that are inevitable. We must cooperate with the inevitable even though there is pain in the letting go of the familiar.” -a core teaching of Buddhism

Much is changing in work, relationships, our country, our world.  I can’t see a bit further than the next bloke.  Just trying not to suffer too much with it all and working on letting go.

This fits in nicely with the Stars at this time, they too are asking for change, letting go and trusting the process.  I am reminded of a saying about leaping off the cliff and knowing that you will either sprout wings and fly or there will be a soft landing.

Even though Mercury has gone direct we are still experiencing a backlash of energy that started during that time. It’s just plain odd out there.
It’s not a comfortable energy and you can’t especially count on anything.
I’m just looking out to see what is going to happen next.
Still hassling with email lists that I can’t send out, no printer at work and a sense of being in a bubble.
As I peruse through many astrologers sites I hear much the same.
Of course Mars is still retrograde till Spring and so is Saturn, I will be ready for intense forward movement after all this downtime!

“These times are about coming out of drifting into focus, letting go of corrosive or divertive relationships and ideals, and finding a self-organizing balance and perspective to achieve a greater initiative, autonomy, and ability to care for what really matters. Due to Mercury’s influence, the next 45 months will definitely require a broader point of view, more fair, just, and balanced interpretations, and seeing the core of things to strip away superficialities and glamorous assumptions. It will certainly end old illusions of control.
major new beginnings are on the way for those who have prepared, even if it didn’t seem like they were preparing. New groups are being formed (if somewhat slowly and in a roundabout manner thanks to Mars RX), and what will end over the next 45 months will start being replaced with new ways of acting creatively or in a wholehearted ways beginning May 2010.” -Wilkinson

If you have been feeling a little intense these days, welcome to 2010 and the ongoing rapid-fire evolution of humanity! Near as I can tell, no one is being left unscathed with this.
Just a heads up, as Mercury goes direct in a couple of days, you still might want to hold off on buying electronics for 5 days or so, same with signing contracts. An added dose of mega energy that is going to be slamming a few doors in people’s lives, is the New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Capricorn on the 15th. My Ascendant is in Capricorn and it is affecting me in some pretty strong ways. Look to your chart to see where this Eclipse will be zinging you as it is so much better to work with these energies than try to swim cross current in a wildly cavorting/changing Universe.
Or better yet, get your transit chart done….it’s a new year, get some help on how to navigate, it makes it so much easier.
Email me from this site or to home at: suemoon@cox.net
Jai Bhagwan and Keep the Faith, baby!

Metro magazine did a nice piece on the Center that Dixie and I started about seven years ago.  Let me know what you think of it.    -Sue

http://www.spiritofomaha.com/Metro-Magazine/January-2010/Guiding-Lights/

Shifting, changing, wheels grinding to a halt, while the spaceship of my being leaves this galaxy for future adventures…..it’s evolution baby!!

Check out my monthly article in Metro Magazine on Astrology for all the signs, it’s called Vibrations:

http://www.spiritofomaha.com/Metro-Magazine/January-2010/JANUARY-2010-VIBRATIONS-Countdown-to-2012/

Working out some fairly intense computer glitches both at home and at work. Will post more when fixed…………Sue

2009 is almost finished and I believe I speak for many when I say, it cannot go soon enough. Yes, there were some amazingly wonderful things that happened, but for the most part it was just plain hard in almost every area.
The New Years Eve is a Blue Moon (that is a 2nd full moon in a month-not usual) and also a Lunar Eclipse. Eclipses show us what is ending or will end soon.
We will feel the effects for several months for sure. And since Mars (power/strength) and Mercury (communications) are both retrograde, everything will slow down in those areas while we all have time to re-think and re-configure what we really want.
For all signs, this Eclipse will affect you:
ARIES-Home is highlighted, you need to be nurtured more, take a break.
TAURUS-Think kinder thoughts and you will receive that back. Slow it way down.
GEMINI-Start pulling up some old talents and see if they need to be in your life again.
CANCER-Time to re-invent your body/personality, join the gym and go out!
LEO-You may want to hang with your pride, but better to be off in a cave meditating.
VIRGO-Social friendships don’t really give you what you need-true friends do.
LIBRA-Career could use some re-thinking before the dam breaks in a few months.
SCORPIO-Foreign travel might be calling, but better wait til spring.
SAGITTARIUS-The mysteries of life and death can be pondered deeply now.
CAPRICORN-Relationships could use a rest, you need it.
AQUARIUS-Take a break from work and re-think your priorities.
PISCES-What makes your heart sing? Be creative and a little self-indulgent, you deserve it.

Due to our amazing Mother Nature I have had quite the pause to re-think and re-discover who I am these days. I certainly resisted at first. My lifestyle is so intense with caring for others that it has made me pretty uncomfortable to just be me.
By the second day of being completely snowed in with mountains of the lovely white stuff everywhere, I was able to be present for myself. What a lovely thing and I had so forgotten how great that feels. I was able to spend many hours re-organizing my jewelry bench, cleaning out all the dusty bead drawers and putting them in color order starting with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, black and browns……………wow, can’t believe how much pleasure that is giving me.
During this hiatus from “normal” life I have also had many hours of contemplation on what I want to do next. That would be personal life and work life.
Nothing is set in stone but I do feel a very strong sense of slowing it down a bit more. Do I really want to be so busy? Why don’t I get away more often? Why aren’t I doing more of what I would like to do?
Then comes the question, what do I really want to do with the rest of my life? Feeling a bit of urgency in that one as I search around to see if any of that is what I am currently doing. Hmmm………….
The nice thing is that I feel like I have come home inside myself once again after being away for a very long time. I think the rest will naturally fall into it’s own place. Sigh…………………………….Welcome 2010!

Found some great quotes on a website (sorry forgot which one), thought I’d share, my favorite is the Van Gogh……………
“If they’re in your life, love them.” -Mike Dooley

“I have disciplined myself so much in love, that now I don’t criticize, I don’t even think of his ups and downs, I just find his energy in everything, his love in everything.” – Joan Koppelman (on loving her husband)

“We are what our deep driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.” – From the Upanishads: Brihadaranyaka IV.5

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” -Vincent Van Gogh

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don’t let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. -R.I. Fitzhenry

There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I’m far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink. -Brian Andreas

It’s an old theme about the real reason for the season and if I hear Jesus one more time…………………and I’m sure he feels the same.
So what can stir up feelings of goodness and giving and love and so on when we are faced with the pretty much same old, same old?
I usually get so caught up in the giving and making happy energy I forget it is also about receiving.  What a concept….letting in the good and really receiving.

I’ve been feeling like I’m in a vacuum or limbo, which I don’t like and will start getting busy to avoid that place. True to form, I focused on making everyone else’s Christmas magical and then felt invisible.

A friend pointed out that it is not my responsibility to make everyone else’s Christmas magic and that I had forgotten about it being their responsibility to tune into the real nature of what we are all about-Love.
Oops, too late for that this year :>), so  I can now gracefully back away into a little corner………. job done (almost) and open up to receive the Grace of the Universe into my own little Christmas.
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti, Peace, Peace, nothing but Peace…………Namaste to one and all!

Just some brief info on what we will all be experiencing for the time period of December 26 through January 15.
Mercury retrograde in the sign of Capricorn…….It is helpful to know that Mercury is the Winged Messenger which has to do with communications, thinking, how we access information, make decisions, and just basically how we view our reality.
Capricorn asks us to take a look at our role in this life and see if it serves our higher destiny and the world…..how are your foundations?…………Where could your boundaries be “shored up”?…………This is a test and you will be graded.
During this time period we will be given the opportunity to re-think and re-work how we “make it” in the world and if we have chosen the “right” path for our destiny this time around.
Look for many people that have been in jobs 20+ years to either be downsized (even more than has been going on) or to suddenly leave on a quest to find happiness elsewhere. We are all being pulled along in this evolutionary tug of war, or better yet, The Force, to be of service to ourselves and to humanity. Now is the time of the Great Surrender of Ego.
You will be pondering what exactly is your purpose and where is your power and where are you going.

I love Sagittarius’ philosophic outlook and expansive generosity and wisdom. I’m not too crazy about it’s tendency to go into denial about what is blatantly in front of it, oh well…………..time for all forms of growth……….This is the New Moon, so plant your seeds for some dreams you have let go of lately. Sagittarius loves a quest for some form of truth and understanding. Compassion for others is a lot easier at this time.
My friend Robert has this to say about today’s New Moon:
This New Moon at 25 Sagittarius will help us open to wider views, greater truths, productive philosophies, and imaginative experiences which will help us grow. Over the past 3 New Moons we’ve found wisdom amidst the passages by understanding Nature’s cycles and continued our journey away from “a narrow destiny” and “routine duties.” We’ve seen how to purify our personality so the Soul can come forth, and how to accept power or Grace to take the lead in our world. This one helps us bust loose from some old stuff forever, leaving us free to pursue higher awareness, however we define that.
This New Moon in Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter. Given the extremely favorable sextile between the New Moon stellium in Sagittarius and the heavyweight stellium in Aquarius, expect major productivity in many areas of your life. Jupiter ruling the Lunation will assist the ability to demonstrate true detachment and dispassion, where we teach and/or learn from ours or others’ experiences.

Baking Soda, cheap, non-toxic and not only great to keep your ph properly in balance but I use it instead of comet and other abrasive cleaners. If we would all throw out our chemicals and use simple, non-toxic natural forms, our world would start to heal much more rapidly. Get over your addiction to chemicals, use things like baking soda, vinegar and ammonia instead.
I found this information on www.mercola.com, great stuff!! Read on…………Sue
According to the Materia Medica by Walter Bastedo, sodium bicarbonate taken internally can soothe your mucous membranes and dissolve thick mucus.
In their booklet “Arm & Hammer Baking Soda Medical Uses,” published in 1924, Dr. Volney S. Cheney recounts his clinical successes with sodium bicarbonate in treating cold and flu:
Recommended dosages from the Arm & Hammer Company for colds and influenza back in 1925 were:
• Day 1 — Take six doses of ½ teaspoon of baking soda in glass of cool water, at about two hour intervals
• Day 2 — Take four doses of ½ teaspoon of baking soda in glass of cool water, at the same intervals
• Day 3 — Take two doses of ½ teaspoon of baking soda in glass of cool water morning and evening, and thereafter ½ teaspoon in glass of cool water each morning until cold symptoms are gone
Further dosing recommendations and instructions for taking sodium bicarbonate can be found in Mark Sircus’ book Sodium Bicarbonate – Rich Mans Poor Mans Cancer Treatment, which is also available in Kindle edition.
According to Arm & Hammer’s dosing instructions, do not exceed seven doses of ½ teaspoon per day, or three doses of ½ teaspoon daily if you’re over the age of 60. In addition, do not use the maximum dosage for more than two weeks.
Baking soda (also known as sodium bicarbonate), popularized by Arm & Hammer some 155 years ago, is derived from a natural occurring mineral, and is one of the safest and most versatile substances around. In fact, if you search for “baking soda” on my site, you’ll find a number of articles detailing its potential uses, including using it as a:
• Household cleaner
• Sunburn remedy
• Alternative to toxic antiperspirants
• Sports performance enhancer
Few people realize, however, that baking soda also has potent medicinal properties. Taken internally, it helps maintain the pH balance in your bloodstream. This is likely the basic premise behind its recommended uses against both colds and influenza symptoms, and even cancer.

Something in me is stirring;I think it’s the part of me that waits in lonely exile and years for a homeland.
It’s the hidden part of me that wanders aimlessly, stumbling in the dark, crying to be found.
O God of exiles and strangers, find the homeless parts of me; guide them toward yourself, for you are my promised land.
Take the stranger inside of me and find familiar soil for it. Keep me mindful of the Emmanuel, whose sojourn brought a glimpse of home.
-Joyce Rupp

December mini reports-$20 How this month can be salvaged and enjoyed according to your own chart!
Yearly Astro-Reports are a wonderful gift for yourself and your loved ones. One hour/taped $95 till January 1, 2010
Compatibility Charts-How can you make this relationship work, or should it??? $95 till 1/1/10
Many more combinations or just ask for your own specific questions about the future and we’ll take a peek together! -Sue
……..may be a little more difficult this December due to some hard aspects from our solar system. Whenever Mars (power/force), Pluto (deep power/transformation) and Saturn (responsibilities/foundations) team up we are all in for some hefty lessons in changing and letting go. And to top it all off we get a Mercury (messages/thoughts) retrograde (slow it down) December 25 till January 16.
We all have our own issues to heal/resolve/release and so does our city, country, world. This month is a good time to sit down with pen and paper and start identifying the things that really hold you back whether that is a person, a house, a car, your work, etc. Look realistically at any of these and see if there is a way to heal them. Brainstorm with yourself, call in your higher guides and angel and have a little spiritual roundtable of how best to move forward and expand in these very constrictive energies.
One of the most important things you can do for yourself this month is to take a deep breath before you speak, take the high road when it comes to judging others and keep your nose out of other people’s business unless asked.
You will be facing your “walls” this month and they need to be coming down with your help or not.
So, be compassionate and look around, many are having a very stressful time of it. As a great astrologer says, “….among other things, it’s a clash between the force of time and evolution and the force of inevitable change. Squares are gear grinds, producing either a braking action, a release, or a turning of a corner.” And another part of this Saturn square Pluto, “We are on the edge of a shift in history, a fulfillment of a great historical cycle, and the beginning of a decline that will last for a few years until the next conjunction down the road a piece. Governments, authoritarian systems, and control mechanisms will all break down over the next year while this aspect is prevalent.” –Wilkinson
Inevitable change is so much easier to work with consciously than to be hit over the head with. As Wilkinson says, “So things are spinning, ending, grinding, and turning corners. This period is bringing finality to whatever has been, and could never be. It’s time to take note of deep feelings and say goodbye to whatever, creating the space to attract things more appropriate to who we are. The trick is to be patient in refusing all that is not appropriate, and welcome that which is. So say goodbye and hello, release and welcome, and let go of whatever and whoever is being spun away. We are all in the whirlwind, and must learn how to dance on the edge of eternity. We have nothing to lose but our fear.”

Crunch, crunch, crunch……….Nana, I wish I had a mitten for my nose…………….Nana, why doesn’t everybody walk to school in the snow?

Crunch, crunch, crunch………Nana, why won’t the snow make snowballs????

Crunch, crunch, crunch………….Nana, can we go sledding after school??

Crunch, crunch, crunch…………..Bye Nana, I love yoooouuuuuuuuuuuuu…………………….

http://www.spiritofomaha.com/Metro-Magazine/December-2009/VIBRATIONS-Love-Deeply-Let-Go/

Some people have said they cannot go to the magazine on line when they click the above link. Let me know and we’ll rectify that!

Happy December Astrologically and all ways!

One of my favorite teachers, Carolyn Myss, has completely “walked her talk”, so far as I can tell, in this life. I admire her forthrightness, integrity, grit and vision. Today when I opened the mailbox, there was a commentary on some changes she is making as it is her birthday. Like many of us, birthdays can be a marker for looking back over the past year and seeing where we’ve come, then looking forward and seeing where we might like to go next. It can be a time of inner purification if we choose. She does and I usually do too.
Today, she adds light to the ever perplexing being in the now/present moment. So, it’s a little long, but so worth the read:
“…………The truth is that wanting to be anywhere other than where you are or anyone other than who you are is a version of hell itself. All the great traditions teach their students – and I mean students genuinely devoted to inner illumination – to “get back here” – and now. There is only “now”, only present time, only this moment that counts in terms of what is “real” so far as you need to be concerned about. Indeed there is far more to this Universe and to the nature of God and this magnificent, endless cosmos than will ever be known to us – but so what? What has that to do with the here and now of your life? Nothing.
The essential challenge to the soul is not just to close your eyes and breathe deeply and say, “I am present and here I am,” and then open your eyes after the meditation, thinking, “That was a nice experience of the present moment. Now it’s back to being fragmented.” The goal is to live fully in the present moment, to connect the events unfolding around you within the perception that all events happening to and through you are somehow interconnected – not personally but impersonally, because that is the nature of the present moment. It is not the nature of your life because you are special and all things are happening to you, for you, and from you. They are unfolding and you are a part of a greater unfolding – a sphere of life that includes you.
The challenge I have decided to embrace is to reside within this mystical truth: “I am residing within the It and the All that I am seeking.” Or, to put this in more grounded terms, I’ve decided to move to It’s-Ville, where “it’s” all happening – at least for me. No more fragments going their own way, no more wanting to be anywhere other than exactly where I am, no more imagining that somewhere other than here is where I’m supposed to be. All that is exactly what Buddha taught so long ago: illusion. And I don’t want to be seduced by illusions any longer.
It’s all here and now – everything I need. Teresa of Avila taught, “Look for God in details” – in every detail of your life. How can you possibly do that if you project on your life that you are in the wrong place? I have listened to so many people share their conclusions that “something is wrong” with their lives and as the discussion progressed, their conclusion that something was wrong was based upon the polarities of happiness or sadness, pain or pleasure, patience or impatience, endurance or lack of endurance. Are these really the indicators that something is “wrong”? Or are they really indicators that a person simply does not like what the ingredients are in her life? A person has to be still and present to sense the energy field of the imbalance. An individual must then enter into the polarity to identify the reasons causing the imbalance and then, with great wisdom, discern what to do next.
Pain-pleasure or happiness-unhappiness or any of the countless other polarities that exist in life may or may not be indicators that we are in the wrong place. That is often far too superficial an interpretation of these grand psychic maelstroms. We must first look to the source of the imbalance – what is its cause? What are we generating from within? We must always go within first.
I have been profoundly influenced by the work of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross, as so many of you know. The idea of moving to the Sacred Land of It’s-Ville is most certainly the consequence of hanging out in the rare air of mystical teachings for these past years. I do not believe I would have been inspired to move to the Sacred Land of It’s-Ville were it not for my realization and understanding that there is only the present moment; all else is distraction. My task is to manage the power and consciousness of my soul in this present moment. There is nothing missing from this present moment. The moment contains all “it” needs. It is up to me to recognize that:
• I am no longer searching for any other place but where I am.
• It’s all here in It’s-Ville.
• Maintaining the field of grace that is It’s-Ville is a full-time job – no more sending fragments of myself into the past or future to regret or fret.
• All things are interconnected in It’s-Ville. Nothing exists separate from anything else happening or unfolding in my life within the same moment: That is the nature of the law of interconnectedness. How we interpret this interconnectedness becomes the art form – and the more impersonal an eye we have, the better.
• The impersonal eye is the preferred lens in It’s-Ville, lest one risk becoming a narcissist. Life is not all about “me”; yet I must view “me” as the central participant in my life.
• “I have plenty” – plenty of what? Plenty of everything in It’s-Ville. I don’t need foolish mind games focusing on greed-based thought forms to draw in more stuff. Rather, my focus is on creativity and increasing my capacity to contribute to the whole.
• Reflection at the end of the day is a daily devotion. Where am I as I prepare for sleep? Am I shattered and fragmented or am I present in the moment? If I am shattered and fragmented, what am I prepared to do about that before I go to sleep?
• Blaming another person for my personal actions is not allowed in It’s-Ville because my choices and decisions come directly from me. I must refer only to myself – and as a point of reference, I refer to the seven shadow passions as a guide. All negative actions are rooted in one or more of the seven shadow passions. These are the source of why and how we fragment ourselves.
So – those are my rules for living in It’s-Ville. I’m just exhausted with thinking there is anything other than the present moment, and these conversations about how tomorrow is going to be better than the now are just boring nonsense. This is my gift to myself, that today is what we have to work with and we owe it to ourselves to give each day of our lives all we have to give.
I’m not kidding myself about the size of this challenge. I’ve slipped up several times already and I’m not even aiming for perfection, as if I care about that. But I am striving to find harmony within a higher mystical truth – which is that living in the present moment is all we have. I know from my work as a medical intuitive that clinging to the past makes you ill. It drains you of your spirit, and from that spins a list of negative consequences: depression, loss of creative instincts, anxiety attacks, a growing addiction to your historic self, a tendency to increase the emotional dimensions of your wounds in order to excuse why you are not acting on your present moment.”

Could be a wild ride tomorrow because, Uranus, that creative bad boy of the stars is moving faster and may unleash a lot of action in your life! Turn it into a great day for Christmas shopping or making gifts, baking cookies etc………….BE CREATIVE!
The Full Moon turns a quick mental response to all at hand, you will be thinking out of the box. Do be careful if traveling or even just driving around town, as Gemini rules transportation and if you aren’t grounded (the negative side of Gemini) you could be in a fender bender!
Open your heart for the Season of Love and Giving, volunteering is a wonderful use of this Full Moon energy…………………
Fa la la la la……..la la la la………………….

Still working out the glitches in re-creating this to an astrology site. So, in the mean time, will post astro tidbits and my own musings.
There is an odd, slightly hard edge feel in the air at this time, despite the recent holiday. Uranus has been adding it’s peculiar nervous high energy that created rapid communications during the T-Dinner and lovely Neptune/Venus kept the whole thing at a loving/idealistic familial bonding. Nice Thanksgiving.
But the aftermath is usually a “food-hangover” period of adjustment with lots of sleeping and laying around. Though today seems like another party mood, tomorrow we will probably all want to sleep in and just relax.
Thoughout the pleasantries, food and merriment there was a current of world events moving at breakneck speed and who knows where that will manifest next.
Last night I watched a piece on C-Span about the history of the White House. Amazing! As I watched the very beginning of that symbol of our countries independence, I was struck by the evolution of our species through time in so many different flavors.  And I still find it hard not to believe in the patriotism and the goodness of it all.  So, maybe what I connected with last night was the inherent beauty and strength of our human spirit as it evolves towards freedom for all.  That’s what it felt like and now wish I could speed up time to the days that will bring the future community-one for all and all for one with no one left behind/hungry etc.

The mist hangs suspended, too frail to fall.  Eerie light shifts above the aluminum sky.

Our cheeks break through the filmy barrier on our brisk walk down the lane.

Granddaughters tumble around us until a stand of sumac up the hill calls Hannah’s name.
She leads the brigade.
Scattering up the hill like discharged buckshot, the girls wade through a yellow river of foxtails that swallows yellow headed Nora, but then the white fleece of her jacket rises like a silver moon out of the amber flow.
Sun stalks for an opening in this jealous sky looking for a spot to anoint the five bobbing heads. Faces shimmer with the beads of mist. Heads shine with a golden orange aura.
And I remember a time when I—newly here, not yet weaned from heaven—played in the lap of the earth.
The russet thicket of sumac becomes their fort. Two are Indians, three are Pilgrims. There are seeds and weeds to collect for a Thanksgiving dinner. They scurry, rising and falling on the terraced field.
“Let’s say this is the kitchen.”
“Let’s say this is our food.”
-from “Right Here on the Ground” by Jean Miller

Sunlight sneaks in

under the crooked blinds

spilling its morning juice

over the green bowl.

The bowl stands

wide mouth agape

with astonishment at

its depth of hue

that was blanketed

in the darkness of night.
-Right Here On The Ground by Jean Miller

Bring out your wish list and look at it with deeper eyes. The planting of seeds that later blossom into our hearts desires is what a New Moon is about! This particular one is quite profound as Scorpio likes it that way. Dig deep, find your treasures and bring them up for all to see.

“This New Moon at 25 Scorpio will help us find ways to see through the superficialities of life and discover a power to know the structural strengths and weaknesses of actions, arguments, ways of living and more. Over the past 2 New Moons we’ve found wisdom amidst the passages by understanding Nature’s cycles and continued our journey away from “a narrow destiny” and “routine duties.” This one shows we have understandings available of how to purify our personality so the Soul can come forth, and how to accept power or Grace to take the lead in our world.

There will definitely be major forks in the road for everyone, with our Soul speaking out and many things being thrown out or regenerated. It shows some heart-related things are about to spill out that have been held in check for a while. It’s time to bring Spirit to matter, and let your heart express itself!

A live and let live attitude will do wonders, as well as returning to simpler joys for pleasure and revitalization. Those who have shown faith, determination, indomitability, and willingness to rise to some occasion or meet a challenge in the past few months will receive gifts from Spirit as a reward for their diligence. Many can find a new inspiration in a silent moment that can provide a penetrating shortcut to direct accomplishment and social success.” -Robert Wilkinson

“The Self — Its Relation to Space and Matter”:
The emotions are natural forces on their proper plane; and because they are natural, many persons think it unnecessary to control them; and many who would like to control them do not know how, because they do not understand their own natures. Simply because a thing is natural is no reason why it should not be controlled. Electricity is a natural force. Used properly for illuminating purposes it is a very good thing – but it is a natural force and can be used to destroy human bodies, and valuable property – so there may be a perversion of natural forces through the misuse of them, since they seem to make up the greater portion of ourselves. In appearance they are many, and yet, on close analysis, we find only four basic ones, and the battle will not seem so hard if we can realize this.
The emotion which causes the most needless suffering is Fear. Together with Sensuousness, animal Sex Desire, and the most subtle of all, Vanity, these are the basic elements of the emotional nature. You cannot conceive of any emotion that has not its origin in one or more of these four basic ones. Let us briefly examine each of these emotions, since the larger part of the actions of mankind are directly attributable to one or more of them.
Fear is the cause of most anger, most jealousy, most murder, failure, theft, doubt, discouragement, despondency – and many of the lesser inharmonious conditions. Analyze any one of these states of mind and you will find that fear is the father of it. Eliminate fear and you have destroyed the root, or basis, for many of the emotions which lead men astray. Begin your fight directly upon fear, and not the many phases of it, and a tremendous amount of force will be saved, for it must be conquered before very much will be accomplished in life. You will remember that you were told that the mind is magnetic, and draws to itself whatever it frequently thinks about. When you are constantly fearing something, you are drawing toward you the very thing you fear, and the reason that humanity has not been swept from this planet long ago is because it has shifted its fears from one object to another so often that it has never held to one thing long enough to destroy itself.
To accomplish rapidly the destruction of this great enemy, it is well to begin by controlling some of its grosser forms, such as physical cowardice. Great numbers of men and women are inwardly the most wretched cowards and yet suppress the external expression of their fears because they are ashamed of them. Here is where the fear of public opinion is greater than the fear of something else, and the emotion is not conquered, but shifted. Try to conquer your cowardice, because it is an enemy to you and will retard your development…
Many people are afraid of mice. To people of this class we would suggest that they think about the many small boys who have made pets of tiny mice, and love them; and if a child is not afraid of a mouse, there is surely nothing about them for an adult to fear. A child loves his pet mouse, and we do not fear the thing we love. They are small centers of consciousness, and we are only larger centers in the same consciousness. The same life principle that sustains them sustains us; and after we have come to a realizing sense of our relative positions our fears will fade away, never to return, for we realize that all is one.
When you have eliminated the grosser forms of fear, then attack the finer forms, such as fear of the unseen, or the unknown. Many persons’ lives are made utterly wretched because of their fear of the future. They are continually expecting things that never happen. Others are afraid of the criticism of the world, and a common question on their lips is, “what will people think?” You must remember that the world always criticizes and condemns everythiing and everybody that it does not understand. You must declare, therefore, that you are not afraid of the criticism of any individual, nor of the public at large; that you are not dependent upon anyone for your health, wealth or happiness; and that the approval and disapproval of other persons, whether collective or individual, are alike to you. If you declare this earnestly and often, you will overcome all fear of criticism.
The Magic of Space by a Tibetan Dakini
Chapter 7

Here I am for all to see………A glistening product of eternity………………
I found the below description on Alan Seale’s website (http://www.transformationalpresence.org/main.html) :
“Presence—how an individual or organization ‘shows up’ in the world, the energetic space that their “being” creates, and the energy that they bring as they meet challenges, opportunities, dreams, and visions.” -Seale
We practice “presence” every moment of every day…………what is your presence saying to the world and what is it saying to you?
“Transformational Presence—a state of being in which one lives, leads, works, and engages in life from a place of profound alignment with their soul, their soul mission or life purpose, and the Greater Consciousness. This presence opens the door to the greater potential waiting to emerge in any moment, situation, or circumstance, and becoming a steward for that potential to manifest.
The more authentic and dynamic one’s presence, the more effective that individual or organization will be in serving the positive transformation and evolution of our world.” –Seale
I am present in my life; I am a presence in many people’s lives. Just making that statement brings in such a profound energy and it holds me accountable to be the best I can be.