The Full Moon in Leo Cometh

Tuesday March 10 is a Full Moon, Venus goddess of Love and Money, is in a holding pattern.
There' s lots going on and it will be a good time meditate if you can see it.
There's storms tearing up power lines, rain foretasted and thunder storms.
To a western astrologer this is a moon in Vergo, but to the vedic it is Leo.
with all this stuff going on I'm beginning to think Vedic makes more sense
as Fixed signs cause more problems. I know from a holistic seed planter friend of mine the best time to plant by the moon is the sideral zodiac or the same the Vedic astrologers use such as
Joni Patry. Here' s a bit of info she put out about the Month of March.

I see my friend Meso Fine has more details of the coming days of March.

May be March will go out like a Lamb as it sure has come in like a Lion.
Do view the beautiful Venus in the night sky , and some meditation on here over the next few weeks may be beneficial - I'll let you know what I discover.

Here's Joni:

This is the month to expect enormous shifts and changes. It will be a very explosive and difficult time. Mars nears the opposition to Saturn and Mars crosses Neptune approaching Uranus. I have never seen a month with such an array of extreme aspects. The exact opposition of Mars oppose Saturn is April 4th and April 15th Mars will conjunct Uranus. So April will be just as eventful! But this month of March will begin the shake ups that make this year of 2009 transformational.

The New Moon chart for this month is the chart to be used for making world predictions for the entire year of the time frame from March of 2009 to March of 2010. In India a chart is drawn up on the day of the New Moon in Pisces. The longitude and latitude for each country or city to be looked at is used to make predictions for that particular place.

This is an extremely eventful and extreme chart. The world will never be the same after this month. There could be assassination attempts and riots that create a world of social unrest and calamity. more...

Bees - the Secret Life...

Would you have thought that Bees, hornets, and Wasps would need love?
I have known this from birth; my dad was an entomologist. He would say: just be calm and they don't want to sting you; they don't because a honey bee can sting once - and dies. A hornet or wasp can do so many times - this it does to stun it's prey.

The movie The Secret Life of Bees, brings this point home, so well as Queen Latifa, points out - just love them, and her calming 'presence' in the movie is felt even by the movie viewer. So the Bees must feel it. and they do. Plants do as well, animals too, ask any animal communicator.

So if those around you can feel the peace and presence of your LOVE why don't we put out more of this Love? More often? More frequently? To More People? At More times of the day?
In our Sleep?
In our work place?
well? what do you think?

Love is a spiritual power- some call it 'Universal' Love or 'Unconditional' Love as opposed to I will love you for sex, if you will cook for me - I'll bring home the food... routine.

The masters of some Zen Monasteries do the cooking for they have the best Loving consciousness to put into the food, and hasten their students development.

Why don't we do more ? mostly because we don't believe that we can. Jesus walked away from the angry mobs ready to stone Mary Magdalen: he had the power of peace - more than just words...

The lion laying with them lamb is more than and idea.
My Yoga teacher meditated on the banks of the Ganges river and tigers come and drink even a few yards away from him. They didn't bother him - but they could have... He also slept in a scorpion infested hand hewn rock shelter in the ground. He had developed the power of a mantra over scorpion & snake bits to diffuse their venom.

Love is a power full attitude, or mental state - it is not the romantic love of the Romance Novels, it is real, tangible able to felt by Bees and everyone else. It is a great inner peace, radiating forth as demonstrated so well by Queen Latifa - and this was not just acting.

'You can't fool Mother nature.'

meditate today:
sitting in silence, breath rhythmic, slow, soft, calmed, stomach in and out just a little
~ feel loving peace, like warm sunshine, radiating out to the world - just like the sun.

Love is a Wonderful thing 3...

Or is it? What is it? continued....

The Language of Love:

Loving attention is always appreciated, but there is a time for it and everything else under heaven. You tap into the state of permanent love, but think it comes from the partner or can be felt only with them. This is a lie. This here is the source.

The best love I experience is when I get centered and connect my 3 selves together. This is my conscious self (driver of the car) my companion self (the car with all of its power) and my High Self. The bliss and love is fluid healing. This is then passed on to another in healing energy through the hands, eyes, intention, words, etc., etc., etc.

How could the King in “the King and & I” show the love to the European teacher girl?
He tried very hard but he had to die - it was the only way to get around all of his rules and beliefs clashing; to let his son take over the country and make the changes. In this way he could honor the lady’s teaching and ‘love’ both her, and his country.

May you rise above your limiting beliefs; create beliefs that will support you on your path; and experience more of what you want: Pure Love.

oh, are you on a path of your choosing?
This may be the message for you today.
Inspect the path you are on: observe your actions; journal them.
May you then travel the path you want to be treading.

If you can tune into the higher self of person, and help them in the way they recognize as unconditional truth, or love, then they will know you love them. even if it only your smile...

how's that for a new belief?
here's another one:

If we can market to a person in the same manner as above, a product that they instantly recognize as a benefit to themselves, and we only want them to have it because it will help them: then instant love, and money will flow. Reciprocity of the nature of the universe.

Shoot your arrows cupid, please have a conscious aim.

Love is a Wonderful thing 2...

Or is it? What is it? continued...
the Language of Love:

A small girl has a little frog, oopps a small boy, (my mistake, our society says little girls don't like little frogs - more beliefs)
and he 'loves' the little frog so he hugs it, just like his mom does to him. He is sending all kinds of good energy to the little green thing. So he is loving it right? to it death, squeezes to hard.

So does he love it? I would say no. I would say he is operating from a preprogrammed behavior and that is not love in my book, but in his.
It doesn't give him (her) the right outcome she is expecting.

So, do feel then, unloved if you don't get bunch of flowers, a card, a nice dinner? Or do you feel unloving if you don't give something to your beloved? These are beliefs. And I would say nothing to do with love - but your rules.

Look inside is there a 'If ....then' rule? I have them.
If she gives me a card... she loves me. she thought enough to go out, look around a store, find a card, sign it, put it in an envelope, and give it to me. There for I am loved. no card, no love, I have been miserable over that rule.

But I forgot the times, she paid for my lunch, my dinner, my bill payments when I couldn't, I forgot that she is tiered when she comes home from working all day, and doesn't feel like talking to me and is 'ignoring' me - right! Only if I have to feel right ! but i am incorrect. She loves me - in her way and in her language.

Truth is I had to learn her language of love, if I wanted to feel it.
To do that I had to get my emotions under control, back into neutral, be Present again, and look at life in the here and now, I had to look in reality.

Did I give her a diamond bracelet? no. Bunches of flowers? nope. What does she really want? Me bring in more than enough income to handle what needs to be taken care of... She does this - she just would like to be matched. Do I ? about 1/2 time yes I do...

So what is love?
Lets look at the first sentence again... Love is flowing positive energy to another. I would like to add and it is mutually felt and reciprocated, in a timeless deep understanding of unemotional joy, peace, and liquid positive energy called 'ananda' or bliss.

Paramahamsa Yogananda chants in 'Oh God beautiful' to the lover thou art love...
this mutual state of energy flowing back and forth around and through the beloved so that one could not say where it starts nor ends. It is a oneness of unconditional love; A focus on each other and not on another. The key is the focus not the object of the focus.

I see that when the focus changes, say a man or women looks to or at another, instead of at the once lover, all hell breaks out in the one who has lost the focus of the other person.
'Hell hath no fury like a women scorned' is the observation of many playwrights.

Love of money is ... this is another belief about love. but the phrase is not this, it is one cannot serve 2 masters. One cannot serve mammon or money or fame and the lord at the same time. If you look at the lives of very wealthy people you will both sides of this: some die penniless, lonely and miserable, others are a blessing to everyone they meet, know and do business with. It is not the money but the attitude about it that is the key.

So, Love lets look at the Chant of 'Oh God Beautiful' again. Some are seeking love - lovers are... some are seeking other things:
In the mountain thou art high, in the river restless, in the ocean grave... You move in many ways, you magical God...
To the sorrowful thou art sympathy, --- can one who is sorrowful feel the loving of another? maybe but that kind of intertwining love sought by the lover is not able to be felt, while the grieving is going on, sympathy is the form of Love Yogananda indicates in this case, at this time, in this temporary situation. (Like medicine it is given for a limited time as it is needed; latter another medicine may be required.)

Paramahamsa Yogananda and great Yogis like Swami Shivananda, act in the present, the 'here and now' they also do not practice the lovers love between the sexes, interesting...
Take Mahatma Gandhi, did he love his wife? and she him? Very deeply, but they only had sex four times ( I believe) and each time they had a child and practiced no sex at other times. does this mean they didn't love each other? It would have in our society - she would have divorced him and the marriage counselors would condemn his actions as well; Simply because of different rules..(If ... then) and beliefs and the idea of 'rightness: my belief is "right" '.

When one applies rules they miss the present situation. Rules are guidelines only, but if you apply the rule unconsciously or unknowingly you may come to wrong conclusion.
'well, love means: ... card, bracelet, hug for over 10 minutes, kiss for over 5 minutes, sex only is such and such a way and not others, dinner, dance, what ever it is the rule inside your program only. There for the joy or feeling of being loved only inside you, or being shunned is inside you as well.
Find the belief, inspect the belief, see if it serves you, change it if you wish...
Change the belief = change the resultant feeling; change the channel.

Take another line of the chant:
To the Yogi thou art bliss....
This is 'Ananda' the liquid light flowing of indescribable bliss of universal love knowing no bounds, no rules, no limitations, no beliefs, but 'IS'. Pure 'hereness'; Pure Presence. Pure 'Knowing'. Pure Truth.

Swami Shivananda sang:
I am neither mind nor body
immortal self I am
Witness of 3 States
Knowledge Absolute.
Sat chit ananda rupa...

Sat: Truth, Knowledge
Chit: Divine spark consciousness
Ananda: Bliss

put all of those together...
and you will experience a permanent LOVE.

More Tomorrow, The Day After...

Love is a Wonderful thing...

Or is it? What is it?

The Language of Love:

Do you mean by being “Loved” that another is flowing energy towards them in a positive way, and they feel 'loved'?

If so, the converse then seems to be also true:
“If I am not feeling 'good' vibes from such and such a person, then they don't love me. or then I don’t feel loved and this is a bad thing…”

Do you see the difference between the two sentences?
You say yes; but do you?
OK, one says I feel love than the second one says I don't... Right?
so, Are you miserable because I lack love...(my comment -is that right?)

Look closer at 2 the sentences: one has 'if ...then' and is different.

When you notice you are saying 'If 'I only had love, 'then' I would or could or... now you can see that there is an expectation that you are operating from a belief.

There are many issues here.
Lets look a bit further.

How do you know that someone is sending love your way...
'cause it feels good' you say...OK
If someone ignores you, then is that unlove? does it feel bad? if a stranger in wall mart doesn't acknowledge your presence as you pass them by and you don't see them either (except to avoid hitting them with your shopping cart) then is that a 'not love' situation?

You say 'no' I hear...
'because I don't expect them too do anything...
so the first sentence is an observation with emotional expectations, the second is both the observation and the emotional expectations. It is a program in you that say poor me: when I push the 'on' button the TV will come come on and will play the 'poor me' program - 'I have no love'; that is what you feel. The preplanned and you feel this -but you can change the channel.

continued on Valentines day... Tommrrow.
pic credit: Cupidon (French for Cupid), by Bouguereau, 1875

Quigong or Chi gung ~ the flow of life...

I was born to heal like Ruth Montgomery's book about Philip Gray she calls Mr A.
Since studying yoga all through the '70s, I developed the ability to read a book and put it into practice. Now with cassette tapes, DVD's and all it is even easier.
Back in September of 2000, I bought Chunyi Lin's course in springforest chigong and have been practicing it ever since. the meditations are wonderful ~ the style suites me well. Gentle and powerful. sharing this with others is wonderful too. but the most amazing is the re-energizing of anohter that is ill.
To see the face and eyes light back up is truely a reward. And I have never experienced any other way to get as intimate with another~ in a acceptable way. The connection is realy rewarding . Thank you Master Lin for bringing your work in its simplicity to share with us.

Magic does live.
We have this in our bookstore
on page # 9.

Give to Receive...

This one of the Foundations of most religions, and moral systems.
It is most important to day with Moon in Pieces ,
and by chance(?) it the 5 day of the Chinese New Year - to stay in an greet your wealth.

Give? today one needs to Give a gift to others - just to listen, to forget their own position & circumstances, and give the gift of 'presence' of focus to another. Let them talk, you only listen.
Or talk enough to ask appropriate questions to show your interest, concern, and understanding of what they have said. Let them feel your presence - your gift to them.

Most of us want to talk out our stand points, our problems, our troubles... not today - best is never... but not today. When we truly drop our troubles by developing sincere interest in another, magic happens inside of us. We gain an inner glow and inner feeling we cannot get any other way.

So give this gift today - keep your mouth shut. and :
you will receive ! how can you receive when you are too busy pouring out our guts you are off in some other time and place and not present.
Act in the Present - is anyone threatening your life right now? Probably not-- so don't act like it or complain like it. Most of time in the Present 'Here an now' it is peaceful, pleasant and comfortable - so act like it is...
talk like it is
be thankful it is...
if it isn't get out of the house on fire
call 911
use your first aid course to advantage
hide
run
take the appropriate action in the here and now...

so today give of you ears but don't be taken off you course.
You have the right to your life.

Others will try to steal your attention in a million ways.
The want you to listen to their troubles - but just to bitch - not to do anything about getting ahead - run away from them.
TV with adds, turn it off...

The moral is KIV - do your duty - fill you spot - do your job - and let others do theirs.
The coffee bar in the office is not the place to get work done.
The golf game can wait til you are on the 'T'
The kids will be there when you get home.
on and on we like to waste time as - it is our habit-
can we create a better habit - you decide.

Take your time to help those who are helping themselves.
here's a great article I posted out taking your positive position in the world.

Cheery Day
be you - the real you

And all my relatives...

This 3rd day of the Chinese new year as Meso Fine reports, is to honor the in-laws.
My way, I picked up living for 17 years in the New Mexico Mountains of the Santa Fe area, is to honor all my relatives...

A wonderful Indian Medicine man living in Bernalillo, the town just north of Albuquerque, finished all of his meditations and healing ceremonies and sweat lodge prayers with this phrase blessing all his relatives:
'And all my relatives" he mean,t and frequently stated, the no legged, the mutlti- legged, the 2 legged, and the 4 legged. I took this to mean all the creatures that lived in the area of his home: snakes, insects, spiders, millipedes, birds, humans- friends & relatives, cows - deer - antelope - bear - etc., etc.,

So today I am investing so time remembering with thankfulness all of the creatures that live around me.
Even the Armadillo - I still want to see him, running live. I know he's there, by friends reports.
but I just haven't seen him as yet. Not yet today either as the ice in Dallas even has the blue & yellow pansies with Ice hats - the sun is helping them raise their heads...

Blessing to you on this day - and to Dallas, the USA, the planet,
and...

"All my relatives"