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How the Rainbow Works
(for Jean Cook, on learning
of her mother's death)


Mostly we occupy ocular zones, clinging
only to what we think we can see.
We can't see wind or waves of thought,
electrical fields or atoms dancing;
only what they do or make us believe.

Look on all of life as color -
vibratile movement, heart-centered,
from invisibility to the merely visible.
Never mind what happens when one of us dies.
Where were you before you even get born?
Where am I and all the unseeable souls
we love at this moment, or loathed
before birth? Where are we right now?

Everything that ever happened either
never did or always will with variations.
Let's put it another way: Nothing ever
happened that wasn't dreamed, that wasn't
sketched from the start with artful surprises.
Think of the dreamer as God, a painter,
a ham, to be sure, but a divine old master
whose medium is light and who sidesteps
tedium by leaving room both inside and outside
this picture for subjects and scenery to wing it.

Look on death as living color too: the dyeing
of fabric, submersion into a temporary sea,
a spectruming beyond the reach of sensual
range which, like time, is chained to change;
the strange notion that everything we've
ever done or been un until now is past
history, is gone away, is bleached, bereft,
perfect, laving the scene clean to freshen
with pigment and space and leftover light.

~ Al Young ~

(In the wonderful anthology, Soul Food,
ed. by Neil Astley and Pamela Robertson-Pearce)

Pink Bat Movie

Pink Bat Movie: Everywhere you look today there are problems. Turn on your TV or computer—pick up a magazine or paper—and what do you see? Problems! Talk to your spouse, co-workers, family members or friends, and within minutes someone will bring up a problem... or two or three. Problems permeate the workplace, too—new products, old products, customer service, health care, retirement plans, sales, marketing, budgets, IT, personnel — the list of problems we confront each day is vast.

OpEdNews - Article: Gemini Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse: December 10, 2011

OpEdNews - Article: Gemini Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse: December 10, 2011: "By Cathy Lynn Pagano"

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The lead up to this Saturday's total lunar eclipse is electric. Uranus, the planet of sudden change and freedom (think The Tower tarot card) turns direct about 7 hours before the Gemini full Moon lunar eclipse. These two combined energies will shift something fundamental in us.

Uranus, which went retrograde on July 9th at 5* Aries ( A triangle with wings ), will turn direct late Friday night/ Saturday morning, just hours before this intense total lunar eclipse. Like The Tower card I mentioned, Uranus can strike like lightning, suddenly liberating our soul from our collective sleep, showing us the haughtiness and megalomania of our personal/collective vision. This Tarot card symbolizes the collapse of a narrow world-view and value system; the liberation from constricting behaviors and false beliefs. I feel this is especially true with Uranus in Aries, where Uranus, like Prometheus, brings us fire from heaven to re-ignite our sense of destiny.

Once again Uranus is back at 1* Aries ( A Woman just risen from the sea. A seal is embracing her. ), the very first degree in the zodiac, igniting a new consciousness of our unique destiny at this time in our history. If there was ever a time when we needed heroes and wise women, it is now! What have you been feeling since Uranus first went into Aries back in late May 2010? What are you willing to sacrifice, like Prometheus, to bring Light to the world?

Before we can catch our breaths, the full moon will be upon us. All full moons offer us awareness; shining the reflected light of solar awareness into our lunar emotional bodies. The energy pattern between the Sun and the Moon at full moon is intense, and it pulls at our inner as well as our outer waters. The energy that appears to us as Moon Light gets seeded in our inner waters. This feeling awareness allows us to harvest the riches of our life experience each month. During lunar eclipses, the awareness can be so profound that our lives change.


Lunar Eclipse by Fujii Eclipse




Eclipses are especially powerful full moons, and total eclipses are special, covering the entire face of the Moon. The Earth lines up exactly between the Sun and the Moon, deflecting the Sun's light through our atmosphere and changing the light and the energy before it reaches the Moon. The Earth's shadow covers the Moon's face, blocking out part of the Sun's light. Our own "dust' obscures the face of the Moon. Metaphorically, we could say our human shadows (our polluted collective psychic atmosphere) are projected outward onto the Moon's surface for all of us to see -- if we choose to. The face of the Moon is expected to turn a bright red with a hint of soft turquoise on the edge. Red is the color of life, of blood, of passion and anger. Turquoise is the color of open communication and clarity of thought. Tune into your feelings and decide what you really desire and believe.

North America, except for the East, will have an excellent view of the eclipse. The Moon is going to be especially large in the Western US because it will be setting at the height of the eclipse. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKtNgD45OB4&sns=fb

Many of us will have a marvelous chance to step outside and see this eclipse from start to finish. The eclipse begins around 3:30am PST/ 5:30am CST. I urge you to get up early and watch the eclipse LIVE and OUTSIDE -- despite the cold! (It's in the low 30s here.) It's a sight to behold, and from the sounds of it, will be quite clear in the cold night air. Look to the West right before Sunrise if you live in Pacific time -- that's when the eclipse reaches it's fullness.

Get your friends to come over and make it an eclipse party -- make the house cozy with beautiful smells and good hot baked apple pies and hot apple cider or cacao. Blankets and lounge chairs make sky-gazing quite enjoyable. (Thank you Dianna and girls for our enchanted night of star-gazing that night in RI.)

Sagittarius/Gemini Eclipses


Gemini/Sagittarius by Cathy Pagano/Kepler


Every 18 months or so, the Lunar Nodes change signs, pointing our collective vision toward new insights. When the North Node of the moon is in Sagittarius and the South Node is in Gemini, our Cosmic instructions point to worn-out ways of thinking and believing. It's time to dive deeply into our beliefs and jettison those old categories and ways of thinking that keep us stuck in our rational mind and shut off from our spiritual intuition. (Once again, the image of The Tower comes to mind.) Quantum physics states that there is no objective reality. It all begins with our attention and our belief. What we believe we create. The Sagittarius North Node asks us to reconsider our beliefs and transform our Gemini thought patterns.

Since this eclipse series started last Winter Solstice 2010, we've begun to face the truth about the world we live in, what we believe in and what is of value. Hypocrisy has been out-ed in politics, the economy and our respected institutions. Sag and Gemini call us to really look at our beliefs and see if they're still pertinent to our life. What have we learned since last Winter Solstice's solar eclipse at 30* Sagittarius ( The Pope, blessing the faithful. ) Do we still need Big Daddy's blessing? Or do we need our soul's blessing?

The Cosmic Story says we have been gifted with beautifully ordered cosmic laws -- the archetypal patterns that channel energy to Earth and her creatures. This year's Sagittarius North Node points us to our collective destiny, namely discovering what we really believe about the true spirit of life (Sag) and then thinking about what we're going to do about it(Gemini).

The Big Sagittarius Question is: How do our beliefs shape our experience of Life?

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Energy Tip:
Make Your Energies Crowd-Proof this Holiday Season!


As we head into the holiday season, we are sure to encounter more people than usual in our day-to-day life. Large crowds are usually the norm with holiday get-togethers, shopping, etc. And sometimes, the energies of crowds can really stress us out. You can protect yourself by "zipping yourself up" when you find yourself in an uncomfortably large gathering or are feeling vulnerable. Central meridian runs like a zipper from the pubic bone to the bottom lip. If the energy in Central meridian is unstable, we can take on the energies of others.To protect ourselves, we can use the energies of our hands to "zip-up" Central meridian.

"Zipping-Up" will help you:
Feel more confident about yourself.
Think more clearly.
Protect yourself from overwhelming energies around you.
Before doing a zip up (pp. 94-8), briskly tap the K-27 points toinsure that your meridians are moving in a forward direction.

Then, zip-up as follows:
Place your hands at the bottom end of the Central meridian. (see Figure 10, pg. 116)
Inhale deeply as you move your hands, slowly and with deliberation, straight up the center of your body to your lower lip.
Continue upward, bringing your hands past your lips and raise them into the sky.
Circle your arms back around to your pelvis.
Repeat three times.
Voila', your have made your energies more crowd-proof!

Donna demonstrating the Zip-Up.
Page references are to Donna's Book Energy Medicine, 2008 Tarcher/Penguin.

Sagittarius New Moon Solar Eclipse, November 24-25, 2011
By Cathy Lynn Pagano
It is the North and South Nodes of the Moon which determine where our yearly eclipses fall. The North Node points out what we have to integrate into our collective vision; the South Node delineates what we have to leave behind. This year we are called by Sagittarius to stand in our Truth and leave behind the false dichotomies of the Gemini Rational Mind which has controlled our society since the Age of Enlightenment. This is the year we get to really shift our Minds -- time to start using all sides of the brain. Since Gemini's ruler Mercury goes retrograde in Sagittarius a few hours before this Thursday's solar eclipse, we can count on spending the next few months contemplating what we believe and how we use our minds -- or not!

Sometimes you just "gotta have faith'!

This Sagittarius new Moon partial solar eclipse occurs on November 24 at 10:10pm PST and on November 25 at 1:10am EST/ 6:10am GMT. It will be seen at the bottom of the world in Antarctica, South Africa and New Zealand.

The Sabian symbol for the New Moon solar eclipse at 3* Sagittarius is: Two men playing chess. The two opposing sides in the game must use strategy and cunning to conquer their opponent. Chess trains us to be more objective and aware of the big picture. It images for us the interplay of light and dark, good and evil, male and female, yin and yang. We all need to understand the big picture and create accordingly. Our Wizard's Chess board sharpens the mind as it presses towards its goal.

If I had to pick a story to go along with this month's Sagittarius New Moon, it would be the story of Harry Potter. Harry is asked to stretch his mind around the fact that he is a Wizard -- he has magic in his blood. But because he has to confront the evil Voldemorte, he must confront the question of what he values. Before Voldemort becomes embodied again, he tries to entice Harry to side with him and take up Power. But Harry values Love and loyalty and friendship and rejects the call to Power. It is this grand mythic story of the struggle within one boy to decide if he will stand for Love or give over to Power that has captured our collective imagination. This is especially true for men -- it is up to men to make this choice for Love, for men still control much of the world's wealth and power.


It is not the power of the rational mind itself which is good or evil -- it is what we each chose to do with ours that matters. Objective rationality can be death-dealing if it is cut off from heart values just as subjective emotionality can be delusional if we can't discriminate between good and evil. We have to achieve a balance of letting the heart lead the way while strengthening our ability to focus our minds on what is important. The proper balance is the Mind supporting the Heart.

Ancient wisdom says that magical powers -- which include the focused power of Intention - are not meant to be used for personal gain -- no matter what The Secret says. Our beliefs give rise to our reality. If we believe that we can use our "magical power' of intention to make money and have power over other people, we are siding with Voldemort and his Death Eaters. We have to decide if we are here to use our creative powers to serve the greater good or our own personal good. As we can all see, that hasn't worked out for the best, has it?

Sagittarius New Moon Solar Eclipse


Sagittarius New Moon Solar Eclipse 2011 by Cathy Pagano/Kepler


This New Moon is a Solar Eclipse as well as a SuperMoon, bringing in more intense energies that can shift our awareness and beliefs. The Moon is at its closest to the Earth now, exerting a greater pull on both our inner and outer waters; the Solar Eclipse brings the Moon onto the same plane as the Earth and Sun, setting up a new energy grid as the old one dies out. This Sagittarius New Moon wants to expand our beliefs about what is possible. In this dark time, it is the light of Sagittarian truth that sparks our curiosity and deepens our belief in Life.

This New Moon is challenged by a few energies that have to be included in this extra potent seed time: Neptune at 29* Aquarius and Chiron at 1*Pisces confront us with the truth that it is the power of community that will create these new possibilities and give us new hope; and Mars at 7*Virgo, challenging us to get our act together, know who we are and create the perfect vehicle to express it as we wait for the next chapter in our cosmic story -- the upcoming Uranus/Pluto square.

Jupiter rules Sagittarius, the sign of Cosmic Order and Laws. Sagittarius focuses its energies on cosmic law and truth, always pushing the boundaries of knowledge, curiosity and inclusion. The constellation of Sagittarius contains the Galactic Center, located within the starry river of the Milky Way. Jupiter's spirituality continually expands our knowledge of the Universal Laws of Life, bringing justice into our collective code of laws and wisdom to our personal consciousness about Life's laws.

Venus, the ruler of Taurus, is in Jupiter's sign of Sagittarius, right on the Galactic Center. Jupiter is in Venus' sign of Taurus at this solar eclipse, asking us what is most valuable to us. If your answer is Life itself, then Jupiter in Taurus says we need to get going to save our environment, because the window of opportunity is fast closing to reverse the worst outcome of climate change. Scientists say we have 5 years before our children will inherit a world of continuing environmental disasters. This new Moon is all about the heart chakra.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is demanding economic equality. What we really need is a redirection of wealth toward healing the environment first. The wealthy 1% is holding the planet's health and our lives hostage to their short-sighted greed. Jupiter in Taurus encourages us to listen to the Earth's Laws of Life. If our environment is in jeopardy, the Earth can teach us how to heal it if we listen and observe her laws. We have to shift collective consciousness to do this.

Jupiter is in a wonderful helpful aspect with Pluto in Capricorn and Mars in Virgo for this solar eclipse New Moon. What we work on we can manifest. If we really need it! Because of Mars' retrograde next January, it will stay in Virgo from mid-November 2011 to July 4, 2012. Mars' extra-long stay in Virgo can give us the determination we need to heal ourselves and work to bring healing into our world.

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Everything in the universe
is a pitcher brimming
with wisdom and beauty.

Moonlight floods the whole sky
from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room
depends on its windows.

There are thousands of wines
that can take over our minds.
Don't think all ecstasies are the same

Look past your thoughts,
so you may drink
the pure nectar of This Moment.

If I can only recount
the story of my life
right out of my body
flames will grow.

The soul is here
for its own joy.

Rumi

A Serving of Gratitude May Save the Day
By JOHN TIERNEY

The most psychologically correct holiday of the year is upon us.

Thanksgiving may be the holiday from hell for nutritionists, and it produces plenty of war stories for psychiatrists dealing with drunken family meltdowns. But it has recently become the favorite feast of psychologists studying the consequences of giving thanks. Cultivating an “attitude of gratitude” has been linked to better health, sounder sleep, less anxiety and depression, higher long-term satisfaction with life and kinder behavior toward others, including romantic partners. A new study shows that feeling grateful makes people less likely to turn aggressive when provoked, which helps explain why so many brothers-in-law survive Thanksgiving without serious injury.

But what if you’re not the grateful sort? I sought guidance from the psychologists who have made gratitude a hot research topic. Here’s their advice for getting into the holiday spirit — or at least getting through dinner Thursday:

Start with “gratitude lite.” That’s the term used by Robert A. Emmons, of the University of California, Davis, for the technique used in his pioneering experiments he conducted along with Michael E. McCullough of the University of Miami. They instructed people to keep a journal listing five things for which they felt grateful, like a friend’s generosity, something they’d learned, a sunset they’d enjoyed.

The gratitude journal was brief — just one sentence for each of the five things — and done only once a week, but after two months there were significant effects. Compared with a control group, the people keeping the gratitude journal were more optimistic and felt happier. They reported fewer physical problems and spent more time working out.

Further benefits were observed in a study of polio survivors and other people with neuromuscular problems. The ones who kept a gratitude journal reported feeling happier and more optimistic than those in a control group, and these reports were corroborated by observations from their spouses. These grateful people also fell asleep more quickly at night, slept longer and woke up feeling more refreshed.

“If you want to sleep more soundly, count blessings, not sheep,” Dr. Emmons advises in “Thanks!” his book on gratitude research.

Don’t confuse gratitude with indebtedness. Sure, you may feel obliged to return a favor, but that’s not gratitude, at least not the way psychologists define it. Indebtedness is more of a negative feeling and doesn’t yield the same benefits as gratitude, which inclines you to be nice to anyone, not just a benefactor.

In an experiment at Northeastern University, Monica Bartlett and David DeSteno sabotaged each participant’s computer and arranged for another student to fix it. Afterward, the students who had been helped were likelier to volunteer to help someone else — a complete stranger — with an unrelated task. Gratitude promoted good karma. And if it works with strangers ....

Try it on your family. No matter how dysfunctional your family, gratitude can still work, says Sonja Lyubomirsky of the University of California, Riverside.

“Do one small and unobtrusive thoughtful or generous thing for each member of your family on Thanksgiving,” she advises. “Say thank you for every thoughtful or kind gesture. Express your admiration for someone’s skills or talents — wielding that kitchen knife so masterfully, for example. And truly listen, even when your grandfather is boring you again with the same World War II story.”

Don’t counterattack. If you’re bracing for insults on Thursday, consider a recent experiment at the University of Kentucky. After turning in a piece of writing, some students received praise for it while others got a scathing evaluation: “This is one of the worst essays I’ve ever read!”

Then each student played a computer game against the person who’d done the evaluation. The winner of the game could administer a blast of white noise to the loser. Not surprisingly, the insulted essayists retaliated against their critics by subjecting them to especially loud blasts — much louder than the noise administered by the students who’d gotten positive evaluations.

But there was an exception to this trend among a subgroup of the students: the ones who had been instructed to write essays about things for which they were grateful. After that exercise in counting their blessings, they weren’t bothered by the nasty criticism — or at least they didn’t feel compelled to amp up the noise against their critics.

“Gratitude is more than just feeling good,” says Nathan DeWall, who led the study at Kentucky. “It helps people become less aggressive by enhancing their empathy. “It’s an equal-opportunity emotion. Anyone can experience it and benefit from it, even the most crotchety uncle at the Thanksgiving dinner table.”

Share the feeling. Why does gratitude do so much good? “More than other emotion, gratitude is the emotion of friendship,” Dr. McCullough says. “It is part of a psychological system that causes people to raise their estimates of how much value they hold in the eyes of another person. Gratitude is what happens when someone does something that causes you to realize that you matter more to that person than you thought you did.”

Try a gratitude visit. This exercise, recommended by Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania, begins with writing a 300-word letter to someone who changed your life for the better. Be specific about what the person did and how it affected you. Deliver it in person, preferably without telling the person in advance what the visit is about. When you get there, read the whole thing slowly to your benefactor. “You will be happier and less depressed one month from now,” Dr. Seligman guarantees in his book “Flourish.”

Contemplate a higher power. Religious individuals don’t necessarily act with more gratitude in a specific situation, but thinking about religion can cause people to feel and act more gratefully, as demonstrated in experiments by Jo-Ann Tsang and colleagues at Baylor University. Other research shows that praying can increase gratitude.

Go for deep gratitude. Once you’ve learned to count your blessings, Dr. Emmons says, you can think bigger.

“As a culture, we have lost a deep sense of gratefulness about the freedoms we enjoy, a lack of gratitude toward those who lost their lives in the fight for freedom, a lack of gratitude for all the material advantages we have,” he says. “The focus of Thanksgiving should be a reflection of how our lives have been made so much more comfortable by the sacrifices of those who have come before us.”

And if that seems too daunting, you can least tell yourself —

Hey, it could always be worse. When your relatives force you to look at photos on their phones, be thankful they no longer have access to a slide projector. When your aunt expounds on politics, rejoice inwardly that she does not hold elected office. Instead of focusing on the dry, tasteless turkey on your plate, be grateful the six-hour roasting process killed any toxic bacteria.

Is that too much of a stretch? When all else fails, remember the Monty Python mantra of the Black Plague victim: “I’m not dead.” It’s all a matter of perspective.

This Amazing Day -- e. e. cummings

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

~ e.e. cummings ~

(Complete Poems 1904-1962)

Thrive - The Movie...

Dreams are Whispers From the Soul Movie

Dreams are Whispers From the Soul Movie: There are many different aspects that live inside of us and two of them have respectfully been dubbed the Dreamer and Doubter. When it comes to pursuing your dreams, The Dreamer is often gung ho while the Doubter can provide a laundry list of concerns and issues. Your movie today will inspire you to find your purpose and passion in life while you strive to live your dreams.

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Remember

Remember the sky that you were born under,
know each of the star's stories.
Remember the moon, know who she is. I met her
in a bar once in Iowa City.
Remember the sun's birth at dawn, that is the
strongest point of time. Remember sundown
and the giving away to night.
Remember your birth, how your mother struggled
to give you form and breath. You are evidence of
her life, and her mother's, and hers.
Remember your father. He is your life also.
Remember the earth whose skin you are:
red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth
brown earth, we are earth.
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their
tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them,
listen to them. They are alive poems.
Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the
origin of this universe. I heard her singing Kiowa war
dance songs at the corner of Fourth and Central once.
Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.
Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you.
Remember that all is in motion, is growing, is you.
Remember that language comes from this.
Remember the dance that language is, that life is.
Remember.

~ Joy Harjo ~

(How We Become Human)

How Genuine Care and Compassion Affect Us

Did you know that your immune system, the body’s complex process of protecting you from illness and disease, is profoundly influenced by your emotions? It’s true: Anger, joy, love, depression, compassion and any of many other possible emotions affect your immune system and, ultimately, your health and well-being. Positive emotions, naturally, can help strengthen the immune system, while negative emotions can deplete it.

The effects of two specific emotions – care and compassion – on the immune system have been of particular interest to researchers, who have studied this phenomenon for decades.

How Genuine Care and Compassion Affect Us

In the mid-1990s, Institute of HeartMath Director of Research Rollin McCraty and a research team wanted to go beyond a 1980s experiment by Harvard Psychologist Dr. David McClelland, who found that immune-system functioning, as measured by IgA, or secretory immunoglobulin A levels, increased in students who were shown a video about Mother Teresa.

McCraty and the team wanted to know whether self-induced care would have the same effect as vicarious care, so they began by duplicating McClleland’s experiment and produced very similar results in their study, The Physiological and Psychological Effects of Compassion and Anger. After study participants had learned the Institute of HeartMath’s Freeze-Frame® Technique, they were instructed to employ it to help them intentionally feel care and compassion for five minutes.

Several days later, they were asked to feel five minutes of self-induced anger by remembering a situation or experience that made them angry and trying to recapture the feeling they had at the time.

The results McCraty and the team obtained were quite remarkable: In both cases, IgA samples were taken immediately after and then every hour to six hours. After five minutes of intentionally feeling care and compassion, the subjects had an immediate 41 percent average increase in their IgA levels. After one hour, IgA levels returned to normal, but slowly increased over the next six hours.

The researchers observed that self-induced care resulted in a much larger rise in IgA than the care experienced by viewing a Mother Teresa video. In some individuals, IgA increased as much as 240 percent immediately after they performed the Freeze-Frame Technique. Interestingly, there also was an 18 percent increase in IgA levels when the participants experienced anger, but an hour later, their IgA levels had dropped to only about half of what they were before the anger. Even after six hours, their IgA levels were still not back to normal.

Key findings: Heart-focused, sincere, positive feeling states boost the immune system, while negative emotions may suppress the immune response for up to six hours following an emotional experience. Read the abstract or the entire study: The Physiological and Psychological Effects of Compassion and Anger, 1995, Rein, Atkinson and McCraty.



Differences in mood change before (solid bars) and after (hatched bars) experiencing anger and frustration (5a) and compassion and care (5b). Moods were assessed using the Profile of Mood State test. TMD refers to total mood disturbance. Results are expressed as mean (±SEM) for the 10 subjects in each of the two groups. * p < 0.01 for the Wilcoxon sign-rank test, ** p < 0.05 for Wilcoxon sing-rank test. © 2011 Institute of HeartMath, Boulder Creek, Calif.

Care, But Don’t Overcare

"A drop of genuine compassion is more effective than a gallon of drama-based sympathy, which often drains sender and receiver as the day ends." – Doc Childre, founder HeartMath

The quote above appears on Childre’s website, www.heart-basedliving.org. There he explains the difference and importance of distinguishing between care and overcare. The following is excerpted from that explanation:

Care from your genuine heart regenerates your system, while overcare drains and debilitates your system. Overcare is when the mind and emotions cross the line of balanced care and get too attached and bogged down with whomever or whatever they care about. Once you become too entangled in another’s web and realize your energy is drained from overcare and attachment, you often can be seduced into blaming and resenting the people or issues you care about.

As you become trapped in the blame and judgment loop, you drain energy further because judgment and blame are energies that are not aligned with our heart of hearts or the way of spirit so they feed back into our system. The nature of our true heart is designed to care and support others, but it’s an individual responsibility to learn to discern and balance the personal energy and feelings that go out to others and within yourself.

Judgments are energies that are accountable, and their deficits play out within our mental, emotional and physical systems, even if we are unaware of it. Storing judgment and blame is counterintuitive and counterproductive to personal empowerment, wholeness health, and resonance with yourself or others.

A HeartMath Tip: Below is a simple exercise adapted from HeartMath’s Cut-Thru® Technique to help you achieve emotional coherence, which has been shown in many studies to improve the efficiency of the immune system. The Cut-Thru Technique is discussed in greater detail in the HeartMath book, Transforming Anxiety by Childre and Deborah Rozman.

Be aware of how you feel about an issue at hand.

Breathe a positive feeling or attitude.

Be objective, as if the issue or problem is someone else’s.

Rest peacefully in this neutral state, allowing your heart intelligence to offer new perspectives and possibilities.

Soak and relax all resistances and disturbing or perplexing feelings in your heart’s compassion.

Ask for guidance, and then be patient and receptive. While awaiting an answer from your heart, find something or someone to genuinely appreciate.

For a deeper understanding of this topic, read the IHM newsletter article, Overcare – Make Sure Your Care is Helping, Not Hurting.

"Increasing your care for the concerns of the global whole brings spirit and increased empowerment to the personal self. Practicing wholeness care advances your effectiveness in self-care and manifestation of joy and personal peace." – Doc Childre

OpEdNews - Article: The Cosmic Story: Taurus Full Moon, November 10, 2011

OpEdNews - Article: The Cosmic Story: Taurus Full Moon, November 10, 2011:

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The Cosmic Story: Taurus Full Moon, November 10, 2011
By Cathy Lynn Pagano (about the author)

The Cosmic Story:Taurus Full Moon:

November 10, 2011

Life Flashing Before Our Eyes

This month's Taurus Full Moon stands across from the Scorpio Sun, making us aware of life flashing before our eyes during this season of death. The Taurus Moon energizes the beauty and possibilities of life that we want to conserve and protect during the coming months of darkness and cold, so they can blossom again next May. At this full moon, we stand at that moment before death when we see what we have chosen to believe is important in life. Look deeply at what you value and decide if it's still important to you. If it is, conserve it; if it's not, let it go -- let it die.

Since this full Moon lands right on my Taurus Venus, I will take this opportunity and tell you what I'm seeing as I face my yearly Scorpio shedding of skins. I see the beauty of the Earth and wonder of the Cosmos first and foremost. A brisk wind blowing through the mountains, glinting sunlight on the Seine, the dance of ritual fire, the changing landscape, the starry night sky. I also see how climate change affects my world and my people in burnt-out forests, dry riverbeds, giant dust storms and early snowstorms. I see my children, my family and my friends and they fill me with love and hope. I hear exotic rhythms, I see radiant colors, I smell fragrant cheeses and baking breads, I hug myself in scratchy warm wool, I taste delicious Italian gelato! I remember new and unexpected experiences. I see old wounds healed and integrated. And the most wonderful thing I feel is hope - hope of changing the world as I see my sisters and brothers gathering around the world to stand up for freedom and a new peaceful vision of Life here on Earth.


While many of you might see something different from what I'm seeing, this is a very Taurean inventory of the beauty life holds in store for us. Stewardship of the Land, loyalty and love of family/friends, sensuality, and a sustainable future are hallmarks of a Taurean's strength and endurance. While the Sun moves through Scorpio, the Earth slowly sinks into sleep in the Northern hemisphere and dreams of the future. (yes I know my southern friends are waking up to Springtime! Joy for both of us, since I love Winter.) Our Mother Earth takes a time out to rest. Are you resting enough? With the seasonal shift in light that comes on cross-quarter holidays such as Samhain/Halloween and the end of DST in the United States, people are exhausted and need to remember to rest. That's definitely a Taurean trait!

Our Collective Taurus Full Moon Experience


Scorpio by Cathy Pagano/Kepler


This 2nd full moon after the Autumn Equinox urges us to form collectives, working with others to create change within and without. Once the Sun moves into the second half of the zodiac, from Libra to Pisces, we gather together in collectives to sustain life through the cold and the dark. Like ancient tribes, we gather together to sustain each other during the hard winter months. In Libra, the idea of cooperation and partnership is generated. In Scorpio, we are forced to look at the emotional issues that arise as a result of those partnerships and tribes.

So it makes sense that we look outside to the collective this month and see how this full moon plays out in the culture. The Occupy movement is a wonderful example of how this energy is manifesting just before the arrival of the first of the 7 Pluto/Uranus squares next year. The Occupy movement is only six weeks old and it is growing like a miraculous hero/hera (Uranus in Aries), bringing in supporters across the world. The ideal (Neptune in Aquarius on America's natal Moon) is to stand in our truth (Libra) before power (Pluto in Capricorn) and demand justice (Saturn in Libra). Any astrologer could have told you that the hippies would be back playing drums during the demonstrations -- after all, the 60s are back.

Now with Scorpio energy in play, we are seeing both the strength and the weakness that each group must face. When the darker energies arise, how do we handle them? On the plus side, Occupy Oakland shut down the port for a day. We are building coalitions that will work together toward common goals. There has been plenty of debate about the "demands' of the Occupy movement, but it's easy to read. People want change -- not the false promises of politicians but real, observable change in an economic and political system that no longer works. We're educated and conscious enough to get it right this time but we have to stay peaceful, we have to stay united and we have to be courageous. Innovation and imagination blossom in these situations and issues become interesting problems to be solved rather than hurdles to overcome.

That's why we have to face the reality of Scorpio's death and transformation, both within and without. Only the strength of Taurus and Scorpio combined can see us through the darkness of Death into the light of new Life.

The Scorpionic dark side of the quest for real freedom is beginning to manifest -- the violence that is the "other way' - to "fight' for freedom as all oppressed peoples have done against tyranny. That's why I like the fact that people are "occupying' things instead of "fighting' things. We are putting our bodies on the line by standing up for our beliefs, not fighting for them, which is the old way. We cannot stop war with other wars. We stop wars by facing Death and not fighting. Already the Occupy groups are de-crying the use of violence in Oakland and standing in their truth. "We will do this peacefully. We will not go away. We will win, for we are the 99% of people in the world. We've been taught about freedom, and now we really want it."

Violence begets violence. The Scorpio energies bubble with that kind of raw, volcanic violence. We can choose that way, but we will only recreate a violent world or an angry life. Or we can learn to walk calmly over that lava flow of destructive fire -- firewalking at its best! If we want a new world, we have to birth it with labor -- which might include the pain of channeling the fire instead of letting it consume you -- with love, with determination, with hope and with vision. A new Aeon, the Child of the Woman in Revelations, is being birthed now within so many people. These are the testing times, when we let go of the last bit of ego-darkness -- a fake darkness fraught with unfounded fears and unexplained terror -- and allow the healing darkness of Feminine Spirit to fill us. To rest in the Mother is a gift, not a punishment.

Scorpio initiates emotional release and transformation within the psyche if we are ready for it. This means releasing old, ugly hurtful emotions and fears that live in our unconscious and which get activated when we're with other people. I know many people are ready for it. Just as the Occupy movement is establishing new ways of living and making decisions communally, each one of us is doing the same within our own groups. We are growing together, and any emotional distrust, fear of betrayal and loss of love will be felt by others. Instead of hiding our feelings, we can listen to and understand them. Then choose what to do about them. Ignoring or repressing our darker side isn't the answer. The answer is to understand what those feelings are and to find ways to ease their pain without giving in to them. We need to get down to the truth of our Being and not be afraid to BE who we are meant to be.

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IN PRAISE OF THE EXUBERANT



And as you stand there

Sunshining all over our Rain Parade

Voice cheering

Toes tapping

Eyes dancing



Let us now praise you.



You, the mango-coconut in our vanilla world.

You, the red balloon in our blue sky.

You, the hooray-for-your-new-job (or hooray-for-your-engagement or hooray-for-your-wedding or hooray-for-your-new-baby or hooray-for-your-divorce) party-throwing friend.



Your door is always open

And don't think we don't take advantage of it.



Your heart is always open

And don't think we don't take advantage of it.



You have a particular kind of bravery:

The not-being-afraid-of-feelings kind of brave

The stand-up-and-be-counted kind of brave

The jump-off-the-high-dive (again) (naked) kind of brave.



We always know when you're in the audience, because

We recognize your laugh.



And as you sit us down and give us your full-beam attention and as you ask us for every detail of our latest adventure (how do you always lead us to the conclusion that our life is an adventure?) and as we, flattered by your unwavering, bright-eyed gaze, end up going on and on and on and on, we have to mentally waft away the annoying, fluttering thought,

"Yes, but: Who takes care of you?"



Because we know that underneath the nonstop carnival there is a lot of

Damn hard work and that some of

Your sparkle

Is the glitter from the parts that got

Broken.



We've seen you fall and get right back up and assumed that it must not have been that much of a

Tumble but the truth is that

You alone have the

Strength to Rise.



And so it is from you we learn that while we may not always

Feel happy

We can always feel

Joy.



And as you Gush and Exclaim and Twist and Shout and Wiggle with pleasure and Yelp and Hoot and Swear out loud and Burst into tears and Rush in and Hug and Holler across the room in a way that some might think of as

Embarrassing, we

Bask in your fearless conviction that

No human experience is unlovable.



Thank you for that.



So let's break out the

Sequins and the feather boas and

Have dessert first and

Grin at strangers and

Let's do the Hokey-Pokey and really

Put our Whole Self in

And order one more bottle because it's so nice to all be together



Under the Abundant Sun.



© 2009 Samantha Bennett

We Were Made for These Times by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times.

I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world right now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people.

You are right in your assessments. The lustre and hubris some have aspired to while endorsing acts so heinous against children, elders, everyday people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, is breathtaking.

Yet, I urge you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope. Most particularly because, the fact is that we were made for these times. Yes. For years, we have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

I grew up on the Great Lakes and recognize a seaworthy vessel when I see one. Regarding awakened souls, there have never been more able vessels in the waters than there are right now across the world. And they are fully provisioned and able to signal one another as never before in the history of humankind.

Look out over the prow; there are millions of boats of righteous souls on the waters with you. Even though your veneers may shiver from every wave in this stormy roil, I assure you that the long timbers composing your prow and rudder come from a greater forest. That long-grained lumber is known to withstand storms, to hold together, to hold its own, and to advance, regardless.

In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that.

There is a tendency too to fall into being weakened by dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails. We are needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear.

Didn’t you say you were a believer? Didn’t you say you pledged to listen to a voice greater? Didn’t you ask for grace? Don’t you remember that to be in grace means to submit to the voice greater?…

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely.

It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing.

We know that it does not take “everyone on Earth” to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.

To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these – to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both, are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.

If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do. There will always be times when you feel discouraged.

I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

The reason is this: In my uttermost bones I know something, as do you. It is that there can be no despair when you remember why you came to Earth, who you serve, and who sent you here.

The good words we say and the good deeds we do are not ours: They are the words and deeds of the One who brought us here.

In that spirit, I hope you will write this on your wall: When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for. This comes with much love and a prayer that you remember who you came from, and why you came to this beautiful, needful Earth.

"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost."
~Martha Graham

How To Be a Poet -- Wendell Berry

Let your life be the poem you write. -- Bokonon

How To Be a Poet
(to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge,
skill - more of each
than you have - inspiration,
work, growing older, patience,
for patience joins time
to eternity. Any readers
who like your work,
doubt their judgment.

Breathe with unconditional breath
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
There are only sacred places
And desecrated places.

~ Wendell Berry ~

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Burnt Norton (excerpt) -- T.S. Eliot

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At the still point of the turning world.
Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards;
at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.
And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered.
Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline.
Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance,
and there is only the dance.
 
~ T.S. Eliot ~
 
(excerpt from Burnt Norton, The Four Quartets)"

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11-1-11 Meditation Intention:
Our intention is to transcend superficial differences that divide us – race, religion, politics, beliefs, culture – to acknowledge, experience and honor the essential bond that unites us all as one interdependent organism.

We also intend to evolve in both consciousness and action so that each of us learns to perceive the whole, relate to others in wholeness, widen our definition of ‘we’ to be all inclusive and become evolutionary leaders for a peaceful, holistic, sustainable world.

OpEdNews - Article: Scorpio New Moon, October 26, 2011

OpEdNews - Article: Scorpio New Moon, October 26, 2011: "Scorpio New Moon, October 26, 2011

By Cathy Lynn Pagano (about the author)

Scorpio New Moon, October 26, 2011

The Day I Die -- Rumi

On the day I die,

When I am being carried toward the grave,

Don't weep.

Don't say: He's gone.   He's gone.


Death has nothing to do with going away.

The Sun sets and the Moon sets,

But they are not gone.

Death is a coming together.

The tomb looks like a prison,

But it is really release into union.

The human seed goes down in the ground

Like a bucket into the well where Joseph is.

It grows and comes up full

Of some unimagined beauty.

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 "

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Scorpio New Moon, October 26, 2011
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By Cathy Lynn Pagano (about the author)

Scorpio New Moon, October 26, 2011
The Day I Die -- Rumi
On the day I die,
When I am being carried toward the grave,
Don't weep.
Don't say: He's gone. He's gone.

Death has nothing to do with going away.
The Sun sets and the Moon sets,
But they are not gone.
Death is a coming together.
The tomb looks like a prison,
But it is really release into union.
The human seed goes down in the ground
Like a bucket into the well where Joseph is.
It grows and comes up full
Of some unimagined beauty.
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...damn everything but the circus...
damn everything that is grim, dull,
motionless, unrisking, inward turning,
damn everything that won't get into the
circle, that won't enjoy, that won't throw
its heart into the tension, surprise, fear
and delight of the circus, the round
world, the full existence...

- e.e. cummings

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... have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
and to try to love the questions themselves
as if they were locked rooms or books written
in a very foreign language.
Don't search for the answers,
which could not be given to you now,
because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~


(Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Stephen Mitchell)

Earth Your Dancing Place

Beneath heaven's vault
remember always walking
through halls of cloud
down aisles of sunlight
or through high hedges
of the green rain
walk in the world
highheeled with swirl of cape
hand at the swordhilt
of your pride
Keep a tall throat
Remain aghast at life

Enter each day
as upon a stage
lighted and waiting
for your step
Crave upward as flame
have keenness in the nostril
Give your eyes
to agony or rapture

Train your hands
as birds to be
brooding or nimble
Move your body
as the horses
sweeping on slender hooves
over crag and prairie
with fleeing manes
and aloofness of their limbs

Take earth for your own large room
and the floor of earth
carpeted with sunlight
and hung round with silver wind
for your dancing place

~ May Swenson ~

(Nature: Poems Old and New)

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Healing your ROOT CHAKRA (located at the base of your spine)

================================================

Your Root Chakra holds the energy that influences the dynamics of birth issues, survival
patterns, generational patterns, money, food and health issues, grounding, and what
keeps you from belonging.

The color of the Root Chakra is Red. Wear some red this week to heal your First Chakra.

Place your fist on your Root Chakra, which is your groin area. Rotating your fist in a clockwise
direction will energize the following truths held in your Root Chakra:

I belong because I exist

It is my blueprint to be wealthy and free

I am clear of all energy related to my birth

I am free of generational beliefs that hold me down

I am grounded and connected and sharing my gifts

I am grounded and balanced in my First Chakra

Do this everyday for a week and you will shift the energy of your Root Chakra to be in more
wholeness and to raise its vibrational frequency, which will shift the results you are getting in
these areas of your life.

As you work with your Root Chakra this week, expect to see a shift in your feelings of belonging,
to feel the freedom to move forward in your life and purpose, and to see your bank account grow.

Throw some energy into your bank account by closing your eyes and imagining a shaft of light
spilling down on your bank account, filling your account with more dollars. What amount comes
to mind? Imagine that much in your account.

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Healing your HEART CHAKRA (located at the center of your chest)

===================================================

When you Heart Chakra is strong, you'll enjoy comfortable, loving and emphatic

relationships with your loved ones, your colleagues and people in your community.

You'll constantly have a heartfelt sense of gratitude for how wonderful your life is, and
feel compassion for everyone around you.

The colour Green helps heal and creates a stronger vibratory force of this Chakra. So I
recommend that you wear Green for as long as you are working on this Chakra.

You may even want to get yourself Ruby or Roselle Quartz gemstones to assist in the
healing of the Chakra - they hold tremendous therapeutic qualities.

Work on your Heart Chakra for at least a week. Write the following statements on your
bathroom mirror, and every morning this week, place your hand on your Heart Chakra,
and remind yourself that:

I am loved because I was born

I am safe feeling my feelings

I am a balanced and vibrant fourth chakra

I am safe to give and receive love

I am loving myself and sharing that love

I am forgiving

I am forgiving

I am forgiving

I am loved and supported by God

Do this every day this week and your heart will be smiling.

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Healing your SACRAL CHAKRA (located at your lower abdomen)

===================================================

This Chakra influences your sexuality, and you'll know when it's strong when you see
sex in a positive light - as glorious, pleasurable and healthy activity. Sexual sessions
are frequent, and you and your partner enjoy long-lasting sex that end with mind-blowing
orgasms (usually at the same time).

The health of this Chakra is responsible for keeping you passionate about your partner,
even though you've been together for years, and if you're single, you'll always attract the
right partners.

Wear Orange clothing to feed the Sacral Chakra. And seek out the Carnelian gemstone
to help assist you in the healing of this Chakra.

To energize your Sacral Chakra, repeat the following the statements while rotating your
hand on the Chakra in a clockwise direction to anchor in these truths.

Thank You, God.

I am worthy of love

I am grateful to be a woman or man

My life is right and good

I am deserving of all of life's blessings

I am grateful for this body as it is now

I am comfortable in my body

I am allowing nurturing and comfort

Do this every day for the rest of the week (that you spend on this Chakra).

I also recommend putting the statements on your bathroom mirror.

Chakra Healing from Carol Tuttle

The Intuitive and Crown Chakras.

=====================

It's important to note that these two Chakras are extremely

crucial to your wellbeing - and they're also very closely

connected to each other.

Both play a part in helping you connect with higher guidance

and your natural intuitive sense, so you can make better

decisions, have a clearer sense of direction, and enjoy

deeper peace of mind.

If yours are weak or closed, you may experience symptoms

including a sense of aimlessness, spiritual emptiness, a

tendency to make the wrong decisions in your career and

personal life, and difficulty in knowing and pursuing your

life purpose.

When you took the quiz, were your Intuitive and Crown Chakras

strong, weak or closed?

Either way, the techniques I'm about to share will help you

heal and strengthen them (and if they're already strong,

try these anyway because there's always room for improvement):

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Healing your INTUITIVE CHAKRA (located at the center of your forehead)

============================================

Your Intuitive Chakra is your psychic power - your intuitive

knowing - and is often referred to as your third eye.

It is responsible for your experience with intuition and

psychic talents, self-reflection, visualization, imagination,

perception, discernment, and how to develop clarity and trust

your own intuition.

The color for the sixth chakra is indigo. Wear some blue/purple

indigo to give your third eye a big boost this week.

The therapeutic gemstone for this chakra is Indigo. It is one of

my favorite gemstones, and I have used it extensively over the

years to help strengthen my intuition and discernment.

This week, write the following statements on your bathroom mirror.

Every morning, put your index finger on the middle of your forehead,

and imagine you are opening a closed eyelid while repeating these

statements:

I am intuitive

I am inspired

I am receiving guidance for my life

I am discerning

I am aware of my higher purpose

I am seeing and hearing my spiritual truth

I am a balanced and powerful sixth chakra

Your intuition is one of your greatest tools to guide your life.

By opening your third eye, you are giving yourself a great resource

for divine direction - so trust your intuition and your spiritual

eyes to guide you.

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Healing your CROWN CHAKRA (located at the top of your head)

=======================================

Your Crown Chakra is your direct connection to source and your

higher self. It's the source of your divine inspiration.

The energy of the Crown Chakra influences your experience with

charity, connection to a higher power, divinity, belief systems,

revelations and divine consciousness.

The therapeutic gemstone that feeds your Crown Chakra is Amethyst,

and its color is purple. Wear some purple every day this week to

open your Crown Chakra.

To work on your Crown Chakra, write the following statements on

your bathroom mirror. While you are repeating them, place your

fingertips on the top of your head and pull your hands apart as

if you were pulling open your head:

I am important to divine consciousness

I am connected to my highest self

I am connected to the higher purpose of money

I am following my divine path

I am living my purpose

I am spiritually connected to heaven

You were placed on this earth for a purpose. There is no accident

in your being alive here exactly at this time. There are people

waiting for you to learn what you came to learn, so you can share

it with them.

Hope these techniques and insights do wonders for you.

As always, if you've got any comments, questions or experiences to

share, drop me a line at support@chakrahealing.com.

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Libra New Moon & Aries Full Moon

Autumn Equinox 2011

(I will be out of the country for most of October so I am combining the New and Full Moon Cosmic Story. I'll be back for the Scorpio New Moon!)

"Diane di Prima wrote a line that comes back to me now: "The only war that counts is the war against the imagination.' . . . All war is first waged in the imagination, first conducted to limit our dreams and visions, to make us accept within ourselves its terms, to believe that our only choices are those that it lays before us. If we let the terms of force describe the terrain of our battle, we will lose. But if we hold to the power of our visions, our heartbeats, our imagination, we can fight on our own turf, which is the landscape of consciousness."

Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing, p. 238.

Autumn Equinox - Friday, September 23, 2011

Pumpkin Field Autumn. New England. by Bruce Barone

Sabian Symbol for the Autumn Equinox Sun at 1*Libra: A butterfly, pierced by a dart of Light, is made perfect. Transfiguration, sudden Spiritual illumination, awakening to a higher reality.

This Friday is the Autumn Equinox, the day when the Sun stands over the equator and day and night, light and dark are equal. Now the Sun will begin to move south of the equator, bringing Springtime to our neighbors in the southern hemisphere. Here in the North, the hours of darkness grow even longer until the Winter Solstice brings us the rebirth of the Light.

There is a soft and quiet quality that the longer nights gift us with, that we often ignore by staying indoors during these winter nights. But what a treasure awaits us as we travel again through the dark time of the year. The nighttime sky attracts our attention, giving us a glimpse of the wonders of Heaven. Add to that our Lady Moon shining such a benevolent light upon us that we can't help but be enchanted with the night. Perhaps we need to reclaim the night in this next season and bear witness to the beauties that surround us in the dark. I'll be telling a story about the Light and the Darkness this Friday night at the Bard's Grove .

There is a new rhythm about to be struck in the Earth cycle. The Wheel of the Year is turning once again, and it will bring us to the time to go within, let go, let things lie fallow so a new creative vision can be born within the depths of both the inner and outer darkness. This is how the ancients experienced the Universe and heard the new stories being birthed. If we want to give birth to new stories and new possibilities next year, we might listen to what the Cosmos is telling us for the next three months now that the dark is rising. I'm positive it will be a story of HOPE. Otherwise, we are left with the darkness of our culture, which tries to overwhelm us with fear.

Autumn Equinox 2011 by Cathy Pagano/Kepler

The Equinox chart, which describes the issues that will arise for the next three months, describes the point where the Sun goes into Libra. It tells a story about the equality between Self and Other that arises from mutual respect and the willingness to compromise. This is due in part to Uranus in Aries demanding that we take up a new identity that isn't wounded or unconscious, but purposeful and creative. Feeling different about ourselves can help us appreciate others and see them as equals. Both Moon and Mars in Leo want to take creative action, despite the inconjunct from Pluto in Capricorn. We still have to refine our creative ideas about what new forms and structures need to be built, but we're getting there. With the Sun, Venus and Saturn in Libra holding down the third leg of the Pluto/Uranus T-square, this revolutionary energy will kick in consciously this fall for a lot of people. You can help spread the work by being respectful and conscious, just and open in all your relationships. We teach by example.

Venus in Libra and Jupiter in Taurus both want the same thing -- Peace. It's just how are we going to get it? Make peace with yourself before you make peace with others. Then begin in small ways, with people in your lives who you need to make peace with. It starts with us and within us. Then the Sun in Libra and Neptune in Aquarius ask us to figure out how to take those qualities that make for deep personal relationships and bring them to the group imagination. Perhaps our artists can lead the way here. After I get back in late October, I'll be writing about how artists can band together this winter to create an artistic platform for educating our people about what's really happening in our world with stories of truth, hope and possibilities.

This Autumn Equinox and the next Moon cycle are the time to release your creativity into the world -- the final harvest of 2011. What did you create this past year? Send it out and let it go! And begin to slow down and let your energy balance out so it can begin to regenerate. The Darkness can be very healing.

Libra New Moon, Tuesday September 27, 2011

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