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“Love is better than hatred, and peace is better than war. And, we have to take care of ourselves because this is all we’ve got.” ~Graham Nash.
“DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you’re about WILL COME TRUE.” ~Bob Dylan
Art by Dimitra Milan
Happy Full Moon in Aries!
“Despite tremendous friction and pressure, this one helps us yield to our feelings so that we can make crucial choices at the threshold of a new life.
Here the adventure makes things seem simple, and simplicity is the means to embrace the adventure!
This Full Moon will help us become perfectly clear about what works and what doesn’t, what we need to move into new effective realms of activity, and helps us find realizations as we move into a time of old forms falling away.
The ‘cutting, grinding, and polishing’ energies of the recent past have shown us the value of what is to be done, with this Full Moon revealing the larger sweep of cycles of creation.
As we are still dealing with squares between Libra and Capricorn, beware of dishonest comparisons and false equivalents.
Find the right sense of perspective and/or proportion, and make the decisions you need to in order to recalibrate your public and personal life, or the relationship of your outer life to your inner life.
Find ways to decrease the heaviness and take care of yourself, or decrease your defensiveness to find ways to be the wisdom of your ‘Spiritual Adulthood’ in the world.
The friction will be obvious, and there is great creative potential if we see how we’re dealing with the results of our previously held ideals.
This is a healing Full Moon, where laughter will make things easy, plain, and simple.
New developments beckon, but be patient as you work out potential consequences to embracing certain actions.
This one throws us into the future!”
~Robert Wilkinson, from Mystic Mamma
Art by Lucy Campbell
“The so-called ‘Black Sheep’ of the family are, in fact, seekers of liberation roads for the family tree. Those members of the tree who do not adapt to the rules or traditions of the family system, those who were constantly seeking to revolutionize beliefs, going in contrast to roads marked by family traditions, those criticized, tried and even rejected, those, by General, they are called to release the tree of repetitive stories that frustrate entire generations. The ‘Black Sheep’, those who do not adapt, those who scream rebel, repair, detoxify and create a new and blooming branch… countless unfulfilled desires, unfulfilled dreams, frustrated talents of our ancestors manifest themselves in their rebellion looking to take place . The family tree, by inertia, will want to continue to maintain the castrating and toxic course of its trunk, which makes its task difficult and conflicting… that no one makes you doubt, take care of your ‘rarity’ as the most precious flower of Your Tree. You are the dream of all your ancestors ” ~Bert Hellinger
Art by Jeremy Enecio
Source~ Shamantube
“The awareness of our separateness is what often brings on despondency and despair. We begin to think of our small human lives as inconsequential, even unnecessary, to the great diversity of things. If we let this awareness unconsciously drive us, our lives can become endless treadmills of desperation. Wishing to create a legacy, to make a mark, to create evidence of our specialness, we build from the lowly perspective of the drop. Forgetting our belonging to the greater ocean body, we become trapped in this cult of individualism, where nothing we achieve can ever be enough. But purpose, in its purest sense, is not that different from being an organ in a body. By themselves organs are useless—unless they work together, in their wholly individualized ways, to serve the greater body. We are not separate, but also we are. We are these completely unique individuals who are capable of infinite configurations of innovation and beauty, but we are embedded within and entirely dependent upon the larger ocean of allness.” ~Toko-pa Turner, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home (belongingbook.com)
Artwork by Gemma Capdevila
Happy New Moon!
“The September New Moon falls on the 9th in the sign of Virgo and asks you to put down your heavy load and enter into the world of your imagination, into the world where anything is possible.
The New Moon has long been revered as a powerful time for tuning into the shadowy depths of the mind, body, and soul. It is a time to sit with the darkness and to honor all that we are and all that we are becoming.
The Full Moon usually gets the most attention, but the New Moon really is much more potent than we give it credit for. It is a time where our subconscious becomes more active and our dreams become more psychic.
Our dreams are a portal into another world and carry a wisdom that we often don’t pay attention to. This not only includes the dreams we have while we sleep but also our daydreams, our wishful dreams, and the places our mind travels to when we are looking for an escape.
We all have hopes and dreams and in a way, this is how we maintain our curiosity for life. Our dreams are also connected to our imagination, and our imagination is where all things are possible.
Your imagination can take you places that no one else can. Your imagination can conjure up scenes, travel to far off places, and take you wherever it is that you want to go.
The September New Moon is asking us to escape to the land of daydreams for just a moment. It is asking us to let go of all the heavy baggage we have been carrying so we can tune into the power of our imagination instead.
When we were kids, we imagined all sorts of things while we played. It didn’t matter what it was, all that mattered was that we believed, and through this belief, we were able to create.
This New Moon is asking us to do the same thing. This New Moon is reminding us that with our imagination and with a sense of self-belief, we can create and turn our dreams into realities.
Take a moment to dream, take a moment to visualize, take a moment to imagine yourself however you wish to be imagined, and then allow the gentle vibes of the New Moon to take your vision and help turn some of it into a reality.
So, let go of all that you are holding and take a trip down the rabbit hole. Allow your mind to wander. Allow your imagination to take you where you need to go, and then when you return, use the earthy Virgo New Moon to bring your visions to life.”
~Tanaaz, excerpt from foreverconscious.com
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” ~Vincent Van Gogh
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” ~ Lucille Ball
Art by Cami, http://www.camellie.com
Happy Full Moon!
“The August Full Moon in Pisces falls on the 26th and brings with it a fresh burst of creative and romantic energy. It is one of the best Full Moon’s of the year, and signifies a new opening, a new gateway of energy that we all get to enjoy.
After the intensity of three Eclipses and many planets in retrograde, we are now being given a breath of fresh air. We have now reached the light at the end of the tunnel, and we are going to feel rewarded for wherever we have landed.
Since July we have been walking the Eclipse gateway between a trinity of three very potent Eclipses. This bridge was leading us away from the old into the new. This bridge was our map, our ticket to a plane of higher consciousness, and therefore the journey was not easy.
We had to accelerate our growth and development. The Universe had to push us, it had to bring events and circumstances into our lives that were going to force us to notice the truth, and feel what was real inside the depths of our hearts.
Although this trinity of Eclipses took place over the course of just two months, we have been working with this Eclipse cycle for some time, and now as we are at the end of the bridge, we are able to see that it connects to a totally new path. A new journey is now before us.
Under the influence of this beautiful Pisces Full Moon, we are going to be able to look out at the new path in front of us and feel excited for the journeys that are destined to come. We are going to feel stronger, we are going to feel more aligned with ourselves.
Life is always twisting and turning, but it’s cosmic alignments and moments like these that remind us why we are here and what this is all for.
Life is not to break us down. Life is not to hurt us. We are here to grow. We are here to learn. We are here to have an adventure.
Our timeless souls know the truth. Our timeless souls know that this is a temporary movie, a temporary script that we all get to act out together. And when it’s all done, when it’s all over, we will return to our true nature, our true home, and laugh about how wonderful it was, the friends we made, and the memories we had.
We will also cherish the hard times, and know that it was in these times that we did the most learning and the most growing.
The August Pisces Full Moon is radiant, it is a beacon of hope, and it is a pure and true light in the dark. It is protective, it is magical, and it is a reminder that you are stronger than you ever imagined.
You are wiser now, you are wiser for the road you have traveled. Just like the Moon, you are more magnificent and radiant than ever before.
The August Full Moon is a rare treat. A beautiful melody of energy that is going to love you, hold you, and remind you that no matter what, you got this. You got this.”
~Tanaaz, excerpt from Forever Conscious
Under The Blue Door 