Dear Friends ~ Before I publish this week’s Moon Forecast, I want to thank my loyal readers for their support of this blog and to respond to some questions and suggestions that have been brought to my attention. First of all, the thoughts in this blog are not meant to serve as individual forecasts based on your unique astrology. To do that would be a daunting, if not impossible task. These are simply my reflections on the way the Moon is configured on any given day. If they don’t apply to you as I interpret them, it’s because of the unique way that you perceive based on your planetary “friendships” that may not be the same as my planetary “friendships.” So please take what serves you and disregard what doesn’t.
And to my reader who wanted better visuals in this blog, I thank you for your advice. I am a writer, not a designer and I would love help in making this blog pop and zing like other more snazzy blogs sparkling up the internet. Alas, I drive a Ford Pinto when I really want a BMW. It’s coming. I know it. But for now, you’ll just have to join me in the Pinto.
Now onto this week’s muse…
Monday, April 5, 2010 (8th Waning; Sagitarrius/Purva Ashadha ~ “Discerning the Real from the Unreal”)
The other day I woke up and suddenly realized that what I thought about a situation that happened a while back actually wasn’t the way it really was. At the time, I made myself so upset – sick even – projecting a story that only I believed.
Meanwhile the other players in this so-called story believed an entirely different version of it.
So we fought, sent bitter messages back and forth, held grudges, and relinquished our friendship. Now almost seven years later I finally realized that both parties were just making up reality and couldn’t see that for no other reason than a rather impersonal force of karma was preventing something from happening that wasn’t supposed to happen. And we were just its puppets.
What a stupid waste of time to get all upset about something that has really nothing to do with you anyway? Why not wake up right now?
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 (9th Waning; Sagitarrius/Capricorn – Uttara Shadha ~ “The Universal Laws of Goodness”)
I have to tell you the truth, my friends: superheros are real. Masquerading as ordinary citizens, when the need arises they don their spandex superhuman outfits and valiantly fight off the forces of evil that wreak havoc across the universe (and in your life), asking nothing in return. These are those exceedingly handsome good guys who intervene on your behalf when you need them the most.
Who are they?
Your Ancestors: great-great-great-great grandmothers and grandfathers of yours who have nothing left to do but bless your sorry ass.
Right Timing: that miraculous moment that comes out of the blue that you could never have planned for but rescues you at the last possible minute – like when Michael J. Fox spent his last dime at a phone booth to find out that he just landed the role that made him hugely famous.
Right Place: the place you ended up when you thought you should be somewhere else except that it didn’t work out that way – and you realize that the place you ended up served you better anyway.
Forbearance: the strength that arises out of nowhere that makes it possible for you to keep going long after you decided to quit or your body gave out.
Willpower: the strange and unknown force inside of you that pushes you toward a goal that seems crazy to everyone else and even to yourself most of the time.
Obstacles: the annoying thing that stands between you and something that will ultimately hurt you but you don’t know that.
Victory: you can want it all you want, but unless it wants you it will always elude you.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 (9th/10th Waning; Capricorn/Shravana ~ “The Tree Full of Ears”)
Most of the time I’m fairly okay with the modern world, as long as I don’t have to think about it too much. But more often than not, I do find myself really annoyed by all the unnecessary noise that’s constantly bombarding us in every grocery store, dental office, coffee shop, restaurant, and even outside of my window every day.
About the only thing we can do is plug our ears with headphones and at least listen to our own noise.
What is it about silence that scares us so much?
Thursday, April 8, 2010 (10th Waning; Capricorn/Aquarius – Dhanishtha ~ “The Intelligent Dolphin”)
I read an article recently in which some scientist declared dolphins to be “non-human persons.”
I actually think he got it backward. Humans are the “non-human persons” and dolphins are the “real human persons.”
I don’t see dolphins making bombs and dropping them on other innocent dolphins. I don’t see certain elite dolphins owning everything at the cost of all the other dolphins who struggle just to live. And I don’t see dolphins forming ridiculous governments that do nothing but fight with each other over imaginary things like borders and yet destroy the very environment that sustains them all despite their so-called borders.
When ever have you seen a community of so-called humans relating to each other in joy, kindness, play, and mutual cooperation as an ordinary, everyday way of life?
Friday, April 9, 2010 (11th Waning; Aquarius/Dhanishtha ~ “The Drum of Change”)
And then there are days like today. You really can believe that maybe it will all work out, like there is such a thing as a benevolent God, and that you really might see something extraordinary happen that allows us as a race of beings to evolve out of the shit hole that we find ourselves in.
It’s as if a seed someone planted a long, long time ago with the intention for it to bloom at this very moment suddenly broke its skin.
Doesn’t it inspire you to plant a similar seed knowing that you’ll never see it blossom in your lifetime, but some very distant generation way off in the future is already grateful to you for doing it?
Saturday, April 10, 2010 (12th Waning; Aquarius/Shatabhisha ~ “The Empty Circle”)
All I can say is that I’m happy I have this weekend off. I just need to find a vacant cave and surrender my busy mind. You might be happy to do the same.
Sunday, April 11, 2010 (13th Waning; Aquarius/Pisces – Purva Bhadrapada ~ “A Single Ray of Hope”)
A wise person once observed that a match once lit changes the experience of darkness forever.
I believe this is why when someone has a near-death experience, they lose their fear of dying forever.
It only takes a small glimmer of something beyond your limited perception of yourself to cause your spirit to evolve past the cage of this human birth.