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Saturday, October 19, 2013
Wisdom of Paulo Coelho
Yoga Ramakrishna illustrates with a parable the intensity of desire that we need to have. The master took his disciple down to the lakeside. “Today I am going to teach you the meaning of true devotion,” he said. He asked the disciple to enter the lake with him, and placing his hands on young man’s head, he thrust him under the water. The first minute passed. In the middle of the second minute the young man was struggling with all his strength to free himself of the master’s hand and return to the surface. At the end of the second minute the master released him. With his heart beating fast and completely breathless, the young man stood up and shouted: “You tried to kill me!” The master waited for him to calm down and then said: “I didn’t want to kill you, because if I did, you would no longer be here. I just wanted to know what you felt while you were under the water.” “I felt I was dying! All that I wanted in life was to breathe some air!” “That’s exactly it. True devotion only appears when we have just one desire and feel that we will die if we cannot realize that desire.”
Friday, October 18, 2013
October Full Moon Lunar Eclipse 2013
“Whoa! Time to roll up the sleeves and dig in! We’ve got a Lunar eclipse coming Friday that may just raise the hairs up on your neck. I hate cliches but when the going gets tough the tough get going and these maybe tough times for many. The tests, trials, and tribulations serve to push us out of our comfort zones and familiar stomping grounds and reach out for the NEW…”
A Full Moon Lunar Eclipse occurs on Friday, October 18th, 2013, at 7:38 PM EDT.
On Friday evening, the Full Moon occurs with the Libra Sun in opposition to the Moon in Aries. The Full Moon is a time of culmination and the promise of fulfillment of that which was started at the New Moon. It is an emotional time--a time of romance, fertilization, and relationships. Lunar Eclipses are more potent Full Moons, and are about relationships and polarities. With the Aries-Libra axis involved, this Lunar Eclipse presses us to look more closely at our needs, lacks, and wants in our lives concerning the balance between Aries-ruled and Libra-ruled areas of life.
The Aries-Libra polarity is a relationship axis, where Aries represents "self" and Libra represents "other". Where Aries is about self-assertion, Libra is about compromise. The energy of the Libra Sun is the awareness of the need for relationships and all that comes with maintaining them--compromising, negotiating, graciousness, and balancing. The Aries Moon, on the other hand, is self-assertive, leading, and personally courageous. This Full Moon urges us to strike a balance between meeting our personal needs and tending to the needs of a significant other, and between independence or autonomy and dependence or companionability.
The Libra Sun is diplomatic, equality-minded, and fair-minded. The Aries Moon, however, values authenticity over tact, and is energized by independent efforts. The Full Moon illuminates this conflict. Neglecting either end of the Aries-Libra axis will surely backfire on us. Ideally, a balance should be found between the two energies, and this is what the Full Moon invites us to do. This Full Moon is about emotional declarations. Something has been building inside of us, likely of a personal nature, and now is the time when the energy of the cosmos fairly demands that we let it out. Over the next two weeks, we will discover what this declaration means for us. For now, we can't sit on our feelings. We need to express them.
The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse illuminates the conflict between "me" and "you", and between autonomy and sharing.
With the Moon full and bright in the sky, symbolic "illumination" occurs in our own lives. However, these new feelings and revelations are emotional ones, as there is a sense of emotions bursting forth into our consciousness. It's time to express ourselves, and to let things out of our systems. Of course, we might want to exercise some care while doing so, knowing that what is coming out of us is new and not particularly rational as yet.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
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