School comes from Greek scole, literal meaning: leisure. Later it came to mean a place for learning.

What it is it to learn? Is it the process of going by rote? Memorize or syncopation, a  flattering  rhythm? Learning to be loved? Leisure vs duty? The Greeks natural way of living, learning, living is condensed into the word. 

Teachers, influencers, gurus, lawyers, religious leaders, political leaders, develop a way of persuasion, that is coming from a certain point of view. So often, it is the case of the myriad of different points of view that share a really extremely similar perception.

Which is preferable? Progressive or permissive? Educational or political? We seem to want a definitive answer.  

Information is ephemeral, as facts seem to evolve with different language and the emotional intelligence of the moment.

Divine truth is what we are searching for. We want to be inspired but do we truly want to embrace the illusion the information highway provides? 

“What do you most desire?” Says Lucifer in the tv series of his name. It is mostly directed at criminals, who then are seduced into telling him their crime. But, the dilemma often is, if you’re not a bad guy, how do know what you most desire? The necessity is to make money. Often, the wish is for intangibles, like happiness or peace. The unusual thing is, it is so fleeting, it is hard to hang on to.

If one is single, the hope of a partner is strong. Some believe it is impossible without knowledge and self-love. Couples stay together to try and get it right. Full consciousness can precipitate the blending of opposites. Our past experiences predicate habits, that need tweaking. Ironing is a skill that carries a meditative focus. As do our sensational reactions to another’s perhaps misguiding opinions. To observe as much as possible, our senses is key. To smell a certain perfume, or see a blossoming flower is focusing on merging our senses into contemplation.

The idea of the one is founded on letting go of polarities. As we most often try and save ourselves of being consumed by another’s pleasure and pain. The one has had the most appeal throughout history. We have one hero and one villain. But how do we perceive a one God? By concentrating on the One within.

To lighten the mood, it is important to develop our style and humor. My favorites are nursery rhymes and dancing to the rhythms. The lyrics to the melody “twinkle, twinkle little star” became “Ah Mamma, if I could tell you what causes my torment, father wants me to reason like a grown up, but I say that’s sweets are more than reason.” Baa baa black sheep and singing the alphabet are also set to the Star melody. Mozart enhanced it.

To embrace the oneness often requires the illogical.

Do you feel energized? The skies are embracing Aries. The exalted fire sign can make us think that anger is the predominant emotion. Look carefully as to why you may feel that way. We are still in the duality mode of preferring activity over acceptance. We hear a lot about the mind being the trickster. We all love those who make us laugh, after all it’s the best medicine. The rage in us is motivating and can emphasize the death and rebirth.

The difference in hearing makes the eyes more open. Musicals like The Sound of Music” give us delicious hope. The lyrics “climb every mountain” and “how to solve a problem like Maria” appreciate each of our part in the universal consciousness. The arts in all forms struggle to give us alternative ideas. Can we not polarize our fears? The bottom line is, we usually muddle through.

Eostre is one name for the celebration of spring, rebirth, and hope. The renewable, sustainable energy is grand. The egg and its oblong circular nature is the circle of life. The suffering we all fear can be short circuited with the focus of any moment. Sustain a tune or run that mile, it requires one focus. This is our goal and gift.

​Facts are elusive like truth. With the brain, heart and soul, the predominant factor is feeling and intuition.

We know planes, trains and world clocks have a consistent pattern, so we can coordinate. Time changes within our own country or traveling to a foreign one can slow our reactions. But our intentions mutate constantly. In traveling to another place, the scenery changes but do our interior monologues? The need to have different wallpaper is generally encouraging. The most important is to recognize the subtlety of complete observance. Breakfast in Paris is a different feel from breakfast in Mobile Alabama.

The complexity of reactions may confuse our inner being to decipher. The novelty is the appeal. How we perceive the five senses is essential. Trying to remember the taste, touch, smell, and sight of a different culture, can put us in the habit of being more centered at home.

The days when our focus is impaired, makes us long for speed, excitement and premonition. As many have brains with issues, dyslexia, or chemicals that color our mood, it is most confusing to communicate. We must; as the observance of ourselves through others, pushes us more towards living and growing and evolving.

Numbers have an ephemeral meanings that are attached to the alphabet. Although every letter has a numerical value, they still represent the concept of sound, as well.

We are hearing more and more about the correlation between sound and numbers. We could also make a case for the other senses and their value of numbers. We see in patterns, like the Golden Mean. We smell and taste in proportions. We touch with memories of pleasure and pain.

A very good friend, John Michell, wrote The View Over Atlantis in 1969. “It is not so easy to dismiss the hard evidence of identical systems of number and measure in places of ritual throughout the world, nor to avoid the conclusion to which they obviously point: that a single code of knowledge, philosophical, religious, and scientific, once flourished universally.” 

He also contributed to the “black hole” theory.

Mind-altering experiences such as plant medicine can open previously blocked channels of understanding. The risks are sometimes scary. Fear is the emotion we all wish to disperse. Hope is the antidote. The polarity of emotions are nevertheless present.

It is believed that the pyramids and not just the Egyptian ones, have dimensions that showed the builders understood the earth and the solar system.

The momentum of music and its ability to alter our heartbeat, again is a measurement of a universal state of consciousness. 

John Michell was intrigued by anonymous phenomena. Charles Fort was an observer of this. His book was a collection of articles discovered in newspapers that defied the unusual.

Ley lines and Feng Shue have similarities. The concept of earth energy influencing events and the building of monuments. From Glastonbury Tor to the Coal Castle, the manifestation of these portals are of unknown systems, theories and explanations. The ancient concept, as above, so below, expands the scope of numbers. The connection between disparate events and contrary explanations is most certainly a point of view.

The value of the letters in the word love and hate are the same. The number 7, which represents finding faith, not necessarily knowledge.

There is truth in knowledge but also in magic and miracles.

​Do we ever get rid of the family dynamics? We can analyze, act out, accept and ponder. If you are of the belief we incorporated in this life from unresolved previous ones we will repeat patterns till they are learned. Will we ever know why? Probably only in our unconscious and our dreams. Acceptance will help resolve most things.

Our earth is heaving under the strain of the humongous population and polarizing belief systems. The seesaw is there of change. Can we accept the ones that we have internalized to bring to the surface and acknowledge the rhythm of harmony and discord? Sometimes the earth demonstrates that which we cannot control. The theme is to breathe and let go, no regular limits.

In the winter we mostly become quiet and internal. Explore all the fantastical, terrific, stupendous, as these will encourage the hope for a brighter day. Perceive the habits that disappoint you and mutate. Eliminate them and it usually brings some of another sort.

Have you found the way to celebrate yourself as the teacher? Ideas come from the ones with confidence to observe life experiences.

Curfew comes from the French couvre feu, which means cover or put out the light. Isn’t it amazing how a practical expression becomes slightly different. As Fire and Water are so much on our collective minds, let’s try and not place blame.

My Mother had a pillow. “If you rest, you will rust!”

It’s all about repeating patterns. Sometimes we want out and sometimes we don’t. The linear concept of progress. If we exchange one pattern for another, is that the best?

Perhaps better to not get discouraged when we seem to get embroiled over and over with similar people and projects.

The concept of past life regression is to see how we repeat before we can alter. What the imagination inspires is how to achieve joy and feel worth it. Maybe Lancôme’s advertising team knew this.

Not helpful to make explanations complicated. Starting to explain it by nature, is distracting. We require our knowledge like pablum to go down easy. The realization of resonance is in the complete, mind, body, heart, spirit; not always words.

Smell is one of the strongest feelings we have. Food, flowers, perfume and the unconscious love and fear.

The full moon, happening today, moves the body’s fluids. Which in turn sets in motion, possibility of melding the perception “to become”. When we use our hands there is strong sense of simplicity of purpose. Gemini figures strongly here and this sign rules arms and hands.

My favorite action to strengthen my psyche is singing. Like breathing it requires single-minded performance. Sustaining a pleasing musical note brings a balanced harmony.

Dancing is marvelous too. Even standing in place or wiggling in your chair, all creatures love the playfulness in stretching and interpreting.

Most children’s books, songs, and games encourage some nonsensical experience. CS Lewis, Frank Baum, PL Travers, and the authors of “Sleeping Beauty” or “Cinderella” are hoping to give us a moment of magical awareness.

To incorporate this with AI is the challenge we face. Can our imaginations keep up with the speed of the robot?

Not to worry, like the specialization of everything, there will be a separating inclusive solution.

​Turmoil and trying to grasp the ferocity of emotions that are only being used in a virtual reality are, today’s dilemma. The written word has become decidedly more powerful with less concrete evidence to do so, the cinematic description of POV has become the major influencer.

With age we tend to go from loving speed to a barely tolerating impatience. The need to express ourselves is consistently present but rarely truly engaging to others.

Repeating the dictates large corporations, political persons, medical persons, and legal officers insist for our “safety” cause anxiety, in an ongoing belief system that does not require temperance or kindness.

On another note, AI is speeding up to handle our medical; i.e., synthetic human parts, our concepts, that we may be struggling with, to express. Experts can no longer be the truly accountable. Does a Ph.D. make you kind?

The existential and the absurd are the best we can grow into. The Western word “focus” is where we meet with the Eastern concept of “presence”.

There is a cemetery that has “Something as Universal as Death must be a blessing” as a welcome sign. To be blessed with truly knowing the connection we all share, is better than letting the overwhelming description of those in power bring separateness with the concept of safety.

Socrates and Plato said “Philosophy is the preparation for Death”.

FDR said it well: “The only thing to fear is fear itself”.

​There is beauty in endings. This the nature of Pisces and Neptune. Celebration of life as in funerals can be comforting. There is no need to be cheerful or sad. It is the moment of “just be”. Sadness seems more peaceful than drama. The trick is, to let it be. Sad, can become mad, but ideally, like a wave, it just rolls over back out to sea.

Venus in her last day of Scorpio, is in harmony with Neptune. If you recall, she arose out of the sea, in all her glory. Exalted in Pisces, it brings the need to understand, unconditional love. It can be understood, but rarely lasts longer than a moment.

If we can all believe, the craziness of the moment is just a passing thing. Keep remembering the silliness of our need to control most anything, is absurd. We talk of war and peace, but it happens mostly out of nowhere. We must recognize, they are two pieces of the whole.

The theory of most belief systems is the idea, we must know ourselves. To think we understand another or a whole different race, is only possible with seeing any similarities, as a part of our personal makeup. Struggle to remember that the one opposite you is conflicted to believe another’s language.

Irony of age is the body slows down but the need to accomplish more, speeds up. The best we can do is watch, integrate and love.

To accompany the upper left photograph of Vaslav Nijinsky, here is a wonderful article: Serge Diaghilev and His World: A Centennial Celebration of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1909–1929"