Sue Moon’s Blog

I have been grappling with time management and desires.  What do I want to do today?  Do I have to do anything I don’t like?  Can’t I just go play?  A funny little stuck place that inhibits growth.  That’s because I believe growth is forward moving and action etc.  But on further introspection I see that this limbo type place is full of lessons.  The first one I see is fear of moving for fear of making a mistake.  A thought pattern that says if I just sit still nothing bad will happen to me.  Then frustration at not being in control smiles at me and I just have to sigh and remember that nothing happens unless I make it so.

Yogananda was one of my greatest teachers and he has this to say about time:

“Very few of us know how much we can put into life if we use it properly, wisely, and economically. Let us economize our time — lifetimes ebb away before we wake up, and that is why we do not realize the value of the immortal time God has given us.”

– Paramahansa Yogananda

I’m pasting some very good information about what is going on in your life right now and in the world. Saturn square Pluto is a tough aspect! You can see that major changes need to occur in your life but it is difficult for that to happen. R. Hand describes this, “…your ambition for your work may be frustrated. Bosses or coworkers may try to prevent you from accomplishing what you want. Financially, you will probably have to curb expenses. Sometimes the experiences of this transit is much like struggling against chains that hold you down.”
Well, the Borg’s told us that “resistance is futile” and so it is at this time. There will be many obstacles to overcome during this time because this is a time to eliminate the unnecessary in your life. Pluto rules breakdown and regeneration. If you work with this it will turn out positively, if not, quite negative. You will be a lot stronger when this transit is passed.
…….”From a practical, “real world” angle, these multiple “expansion through sacrifice” energies have triggered some very “hard adjustments” and forced some major shifts in whatever life areas they influence. Let’s take a look at just a few things that have been going on during this time of interlocking Yods.
First, the Vancouver Olympics with their equipment malfunctions, weather issues, ticket cancellations, and safety problems. They began with the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili last Friday, forcing a rearranging of the luge course to slow things down. Then the games began with one of the columns of the Olympic flame not rising as it should.
The weather has totally messed up the Alpine schedule, wiping out the first two races on the opening weekend of the games as well as a bunch of training runs necessary in order to hold actual races. This is because Cypress Mountain, site of freestyle skiing and snowboarding, has not had enough snow.
Organizers covered the course with hay bales and dumped snow on top, but heavy rains washed much of it away. Organizers then canceled tickets for all snowboard events — men’s and women’s snowboard cross, halfpipe and parallel giant slaloms. That’s six events with no spectators lining the course, a total of 28,000 tickets requiring refunds of $1.5 million.
The reason? The snow washed away to the point where people were sinking up to their knees, and in some case even deeper, putting many spectators in very unsafe conditions.
Fans can’t get into events for which they bought tickets, and can’t even see the Olympic cauldron since it’s a restricted area, creating mass discontent. Athletes are competing in less than stellar conditions — Tuesday’s snowboard cross competition was a fall-riddled nightmare, and the speedskaters were less than pleased to be kept waiting to compete Monday night because of a malfunctioning ice-resurfacing machine. Or, like the Alpine skiers, they aren’t competing at all, or even getting in training runs.
I couldn’t help but note while viewing the couples figure skating competitions that I’ve never seen so many falls in any Olympics I’ve ever viewed. The judges were actually awarding high marks even when one or both skaters fell in any number of ways. I believe it’s because skaters are always pushing to exceed the old standards, and some jumps they’re attempting are almost impossible anyway. It’s easy to see how some adjustments might be in order just to keep from falling on their bums. The judges sure had to adjust their standards relative to past Olympics!
Besides the Olympic mess, there have been other major events going on as well. There is the seemingly never-ending stream of bad news for Toyota, with multiple brand recalls for a fairly large spectrum of problems. We’ve also seen many announcements of retirements from the US Congress including an unexpected death due to complications from surgery. (Update: There are 45 so far, one of the largest waves of retirements in history!)
The Taliban’s number 2 guy has been captured along with several Taliban “Shadow Governors,” the Ukranian election results have been suspended amid allegations of fraud, and in a very bizarre turn, an Alabama college professor went berserk and killed several colleagues. Upon further investigation, it has been found she killed her brother years ago in very peculiar circumstances, and was even a suspect in a bomb plot at another university a while back!
I’m sure there are more events that are indicative of Saturn square Pluto with multiple interlocking quincunx energies, but these are the ones that have happened so far that I know of. Oh yes, and one of my favorite poets died, Lucille Clifton.
It would seem that the times are truly a wild ride, with more to come once Mars goes direct!”
For more on the recent Yods, please revisit Astrology in February 2010 – Entering the Mars in Leo, Jupiter in Pisces, Saturn in Libra, and Pluto in Capricorn Yods, or Fingers of God.
© Copyright 2009 Robert Wilkinson

Sad to say, I had never heard of Lucille Clifton before this morning.  As I perused one of my favorite astrology sites, an ode to a famous poet who just passed.  I will gladly search for any of her published material.  Enjoy……..

the light that came to lucille clifton
came in a shift of knowing
when even her fondest sureties

faded away. it was the summer
she understood that she had not understood
and was not mistress even
of her own off eye, then
the man escaped throwing away his tie and
the children grew legs and started walking and

she could see the peril of an
unexamined life.
she closed her eyes, afraid to look for her

authenticity
but the light insists on itself in the world;
a voice from the nondead past started talking,
she closed her ears and it spelled out in her hand
“you might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”

As we move, somewhat sluggishly, into 2010 there is a felt quickening in the air (Pluto in Capricorn) and soon the rapid fire changes (Uranus in Aries) that we have so impatiently been stamping our foot at, will be here.
Last minute checks to see if you have clearly stated what you want from this year (Mars retrograde). Be thorough, look at every part of your life. Do you want a garden? Perhaps rescue a shelter animal? Do you need to change your career? Do you need to move, or take a vacation? Want different friends?
Surfing on the winds of change (Uranus) will help you now, don’t bury your head………breathe, expand, open to your greater potential and the even greater reality that we are all birthing here. A reality of equality, acceptance of all, tolerance and the abolition of fear. A reality that supports everyone in all of their uniqueness and creativity.
This is the time of planning and re-planning (Saturn & Mars Rx) till we burst through to Spring’s great activity (Mars goes direct on 3/10), you can smell it in the air. This is an exciting time, believe in yourself and break on through to the other side……….
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee

“A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn’t the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.”

-Robert Johnson, Jungian Analyst

I stumbled across this quote this morning and it made a huge impact on me. What a nice way to look at this. In fact, reverse it and say the same about a woman.

The dance of the sexes……….I believe more has been written about this than any other topic. Hopefully as we move into the greater evolution that is upon us, we can all make peace with our own interior men and women and come out equals at last.

Not so much really, and I think everyone is starting to get that. Fortunately we still have some freedom of speech in this country and many who are evolving rapidly in the spiritual realms are helping to spread the word. Wake up. Step up. Move up…………it’s time to leave the negativity of your life behind and get healed.
Sometimes that healing doesn’t look like it, it can look like illness and anger and sorrow, but you are just cleansing in order to be in a higher state and closer to God/Light.

Bill Herbst is a great astrologer and has this comment about these times:

“Civilization is not coming to an end, just the mistaken and childish directions
we’ve been on for quite awhile. The challenging, difficult, and sometimes
agonizing work to reform and rebuild healthier families and societies, to create
better, more sustainable models for commerce and finance, and to evolve into
responsible shepherds of the ecosphere that supports us and all life begins in the
2010s. The decade we have just entered will serve us notice that our collective
childhood and disturbed adolescence must end.
The Uranus-Pluto conjunction of the 1960s brought our species’ first baby steps
toward a new and better world. The 2010s are only the second step, where we
leave adolescence and accept the enlarged responsibilities of young adulthood.
The 2040s and 2070s will take the work further, into full adulthood and senior
maturity. Our collective performance throughout the century will reveal whether
we are indeed operating with sufficiently enlarged empathy and wisdom, as well
as renewed reverence. One step at a time.” –Bill Herbst, Astrologer extra-ordinaire

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

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!

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

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!

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.

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

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.

Well, I guess it happens quite a bit, but I was quite shocked to log onto my beautiful new Astrology website and find that it is now gone and a hacker had inserted a new page.
Fortunately, a friend was able to put the old Blog back up.
I’ve lost all entries since the first of September, but at least I am back here.
Not sure what will happen next, so just chillin’

We have made so many adjustments and moved through so many changes, where do we go from here?
At this point our view of the past has lost a lot of its grip. The future continues to beckon with uncertainty. I remember in Lord of the Rings, Galadriel telling Frodo, “Stray but a little and all will be lost.” It does feel like that. But staying the course, which means, true to self, right action, right thinking and all that we know, has become a little harder and yet easier at the same time. An odd conundrum of contradictions.
What used to work was right, is it wrong now because it doesn’t work anymore? And what does that say about truth? It does indeed have the feel of standing on the threshold looking into a new world and not knowing if we should walk through that door yet. Timing is so important.
Following the transiting planets can explain a lot and show which forces are strongest in our charts for change and how to flow thru some of that. Pluto (power and transformation) is transiting my 12th House of Mysticism/Karma/Institutions. I am, and will be experiencing the clearing out of old psychic garbage for the complete rebuilding of the self that is coming. I can tell you that some days I feel the power of that in positive ways and others in very fear based negative ways. It will be in this house till January 2021, so plenty of time to release old negative patterns of thought etc.
I’m doing brief Pluto reports for $15 if you would like to know how you will be changing at your deepest levels over the next 20+ years.
Sue Moon
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