​Let me tell you a story... 

In the Velveteen rabbit “you become, it takes a long time”, and Pinocchio and the Sleeping beauty, it is all about becoming real through true love. Asking permission is grand but we also need to react.

True love is about getting to that place of divine nothingness. Believing in unconditional emotional healing.

Descending the rabbit hole, in this year of the rabbit, is akin to exploring the belly of the whale. It is not just dark but precisely what comes after, the peace of understanding.

The equinox is the balance of light and dark. Cannot have one without the other, although the outcome is perfection of whatever we are capable of.

Innocence becomes more desirable with age. Remembering when our reactions were instantaneous and heartfelt. Of course Mood, is the defining factor. The chemistry of our bodies is altered on a molecular level and hard to decipher.

The planetary bodies have moods too. The Moon, which rules moods is splendiferous in Taurus. Grounded in beauty. In Scorpio, the Moon can sometimes eat the poison of its mood.

The blind lady of justice can not always see the way the wind blows with rationality. The blind develop other senses to compensate. Intelligence and feelings need to work in harmony.

The Jewish new year is always about the new moon and the equinox. Try and keep the harmony and balance, so when the polarities happen at the solstice, much will be clarified.

The key ingredient to “action” is to stop waiting for it to happen!

As you know the month of August is about Leo. The heart is the sense we must be aware of. Why is hard to describe feelings? Sometimes the fear of exposure limits us. Freedom is another concept that is often confused. The only thing that limits it, is the nature of our belief. Freedom is not to be confused with thinking others limit our ability to have it. Contemplation is a solitary spot to encourage, see courage, the perspective of being limitless. Fleeting thoughts do see this, but we must focus to sustain it. The emotional dark hole of numerous devastating experiences makes us grasp at the negative of blame. 

We are all made up of various factors of life affirming gifts. Anyone can tell you to reflect and point yourself in that direction.

Captain Kirk (William Shatner) has made some documentaries about the freedom of moving towards acceptance of whatever is in outer space. Boldly go where no one has been, and do not attempt to change what you find.

Television and film have brought so many alienated concepts together. The energies of those who work in these fields is often spectacular like the Phoenix, who dies to be reborn. Some of us find the fantasy easier to watch than the supposed realities. Even Antigone’s pain is a step away from the financial politics of the here and now.

What is slavery? Most of us feel enslaved by our existing parameters. The Turks were slaves to the Mongolians. The Jews were slaves to the Egyptians. Many in Britain were slaves to the philosophies of financially wealthy alternate belief systems. And of course, the Africans became enslaved to the new world. 

But, internal freedom is always there to be enjoyed. The person who retreats to a cave is working on their ability to open their heart.

The cowardly lion knew he needed a unbreakable bond to his heart. The word root of courage is Coeur. Why, purpose, and meaning? These words are the never ending story. Why is where we go to find cause. Purpose gives us motivation and energy. Meaning is how we express the intangible.

​Love as a word brings up passion. The nature of compassion is a little different. Drama is what we feel when we are “in love”. Of course, we often wish for less tumultuous moments. Somehow it doesn’t seem like, we, as a race will ever escape the peaks and valleys.

Experiencing the less mundane emotions is not what we desire. The Ferris wheel, the roller coaster, the stories we tell, almost always go for the momentum of high and low. Our compassionate side strives for temperance. How do you find that moment of silence, joy and peace? The breath helps. In singing, you can’t hide because the focus to sustain any note is a delivery of pinpointed direction. Noticing others observing you, also pinpoints a soul, spirit phenomenon. 

The original compassion is described suffering within. It signifies the importance of the commitment to others.

To love in a romantic nature can be obsession. Can you merge and contain the other?

Now kindness and humor initiates the space we need to submerge into limbo. The dictionary meaning of limbo is about the past or what is out of fashion. I feel it is the delicate balance that describes the three essences of past, present, and future. And the dance shows the strength to bend.

What is the condition between Beauty and the Beast? Beauty wishes to look in the mirror and see a reflection of the other as/in herself. The Beast’s suffering sees the love as a mutual possession.

Do we ever lose these electric moments of heart pounding exuberance? At different ages, do we restrict the ability to blend into another’s psyche? It could be the fear of the pain we have experienced keeps us from attempting the momentous journey.

​How often do we take the path of least resistance?

In the Emperor’s New Clothes, The Emperor was somehow convinced that the cloth the conmen were making, was extraordinarily special. Colorful and sturdy. Now, we could say that the power of decisions that he made were stranded in a limbo fallacy. 

Mirrors have always been doorways to insights. Narcissus was perhaps overly consumed with his image but, we do need to dissect and understand ourselves to grow. A mirror also is a path to the imagination. The Emperor was not able to see his own nakedness. He believed the illusion.

With all the conflicting points of view that exist in our world of speedy communication, how could we not be frustrated and confused. And perhaps encouraged to take the path of least resistance.

The parable of nakedness is also a dilemma. A Puritanical concept is, any semblance of nudity is not encouraged, but are we supposed to accept everyone’s need to be heard on their point of view?

In the Garden of Eden, Eve and Adam were shamed into covering up. For some, the eyes, and what they interpret have more value than hearing stories that are told with absolute conviction and maybe some duplicitousness. In the end both sight and sound need a delicate transparency.

The wisdom of the snake entices Eve as the serpent does in “The Little Prince”. The healthy apple in Snow White is tainted by the evil narcissistic queen. 

A metaphysical thought, is that “death” takes us home. The snakes on the caduceus of modern medicine reminds us that the poison is also the cure. The Prince certainly sees a few of the misguided characteristics, greed, conceit, ignorance. The vain and selfish rose, whose life is ephemeral, is what the Prince wishes to return to. The love he feels for her is what makes him special. Does this lead to, too much knowledge is a deadly thing? Or only the pure of heart can embrace perfection?

The fox becomes his consciousness and shows him the love that is unique and special. To see with the heart, is the prominent message. Certainly the polarity of conflicting facts leads to intellectual breakdown. Opening the heart does not.

June 29 is “Little Prince” day. St Exupery’s birthday.

​“May the force be with you” could also be “May the focus be with you”. Concentration is the ideal and hope. Maeg is the old German origin; meaning, have power, might and relates to goddess Maia. She is goddess of mountains, Great Mother of Hermes. The bellies of Mothers could seem like a mountain and the strength of carrying and giving birth is tremendous.

This Celtic holiday is in between the Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. We feel the energy of birth around us with flowers and nourishment. The celebration of new beginnings is often overshadowing endings. Depending on your belief system death is a celebration too. The idea of rebirth is a comforting one. “On a Clear Day” with Barbra Streisand and Yves Montand is a beautiful and fun film dealing with past lives. Letting our imagination and clairvoyance be in our thinking May just lessen the darkness we carry about our mortality.

The maypole and the bonfires are always uplifting ceremonies. Fire is energy and the pole is procreation.

Collectively we are waking up from a long haul of confinement. Many are already on the road of journeying. Movement is our greatest strength. Meditation is often about circling the monuments. Any activity that gives you calmness is a meditation. For some it is boxing, others may trim the roses. Stick to that which is your greatest place of peace. Be aware of the seductive powers of others, and enjoy the moment of feeling apart of a group. Polarity is always with us, but there are brief moments of a fabulous focus and force.

​It is a fact we seemingly want to make heroes, leaders, and love impermeable. It is also true we often want to relieve them of their pedestal.

The polarity is believing our power is ephemeral. Know Thyself refers to the advantage of being able to react to the premise. The collective love we can all share is hounded by the doubt of how the individual is effected.

The hero always needs a villain. Classic case: Shakespeare wrote Richard III for Queen Elizabeth I.

Richard may not have killed his nephews in the Tower. It could have been Henry VII. But Elizabeth, being Henry’s granddaughter needed that particular propaganda. History shows us how it is mostly interpreted by the hero in power. And then the hero loses his head.

With the collective emphasis on victimhood, who will relinquish the role first? The basic philosophy of most of us is to save those who need it. Although many don’t want the help offered.

There is much to be said on age related wisdom. As we experience the repetitive dramas in reality, the news, or in fiction the silver screen, we form an overview that cannot be appreciated when young. Of course, the problems wherever you are on the spectrum seem forthright. A baby wants to be fed and an elder wants his time to have security.

We all want to be seen and heard. Our styles may be different but the belief in the afterlife includes what made us unique. Not sure what testing our DNA will prove, but any journey of self-discovery is a promising possibility.

What is propaganda? Manipulation and influencing public opinion. Is it good to question authority? Is it better to let the heroes decide? The devil is in the details. Also the interpretation. As the population grows and the governments also, the nugget of necessity becomes blurry. The repetition of the word “safety” is redundant, as what do we want to be safe from? Mortality and pain are inevitable and presumably only when we can meander and mutate, can we blend into the flight of birds.

​Van Gogh painted his most inspired works in a mental hospital, it was also a church. Perhaps it was a place of comfort to see others in their non conforming behavior. Confinement and solitude can be the roots of consciousness. Focus on the ordinary to create the extraordinary. As a fire sign, born with Sun in Aries, his use of strong colors, particularly yellow, are only tempered by the planets in Pisces. The visceral brush strokes display a strong Taurean stellium of love of the sensuous. 

He was born during a similar sky as we are experiencing today. Our recent, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto aspects and Neptune in Pisces, were dominant. Neptune, in its own sign, close to when it was observed, for the first time.

We need to throw out what is no longer needed but reconfigure with thoughtfulness. Boundaries are a Neptunian concept. Liquids can only be contained until the boundary is breached.

Element of air, is also difficult to contain. It needs rhythms and constancy. The speed of our brains is accelerating with the massive amounts of information. Pluto, God of death and rebirth, is here to constrain the intellectual conundrums of intellectual overload.

One of my favorite bumper stickers is “Rebel without a Clue”. This sums up Aquarius, needing a cause, try and choose one that appeals to you. Groups are made up of individuals that bring different energies to the forefront.

Madness visits us all. We can be confused and then clarity strikes. The ping pong of this, is the beauty and silliness that inspires. 

Our perception of Uranus from its discovery is of an air nature. In 1781 it was in the sign of Gemini. It rules Aquarius. But the day of its birth, the Sun was in Pisces, so it has a murkiness in its purpose that we can only hope we will merge into our psyches with pathos.

​The heart is a shape that has many meanings. Inverted it could be a pear or the anatomy of the female derrière. Life and morality are some of the earliest interpretations. It could also represent emotions, thought, and reason. Many of these ideas are mutations and without boundaries. A silphium seedpod may have been an early depiction. This plant, no longer in existence, was thought to prevent pregnancy but also was an aphrodisiac. Maat, the Goddess of justice weighed the heart against the feather to decide if the soul was worth saving.

Prehistoric cave paintings had images of the heart in the animals they depicted. In the tarot hearts/cups represent the element of water and emotions. But, conversely the spade/sword which represents air and the mind, also is an upside down heart. Of course the connection between lung and heart are supremely intertwined. 

As our emotions are not physically evident unless we react or get sick, it is the chemistry we receive from another that embraces our awareness of them and ourselves. Why are we attracted to certain folks? Many systems, like astrology try to analyze this. Initially it is through the eyes, but rapidly encompasses the other senses like, smell and hearing. Then love becomes a conglomeration of coincidences, history, shared habits, and compassion.

13th century poem “Roman de la Rose”, Depicts joy and despair. The beauty and smell of the rose is balanced by the thorns.

Uranus or Ouranos is the God of the Heavens and the Rain, he is the father of Venus, whose mother was the sea. Venus’ sire were the testicles of Uranus. Her earlier incarnation, Ishtar was above all, passionate. Be it sex, or war. This is in keeping with the universal myth, the King is dead, long live the King. Venus was often attracted to various suitors. Uranus now is in Taurus, which is one of Venus’ rulerships. The sensuousness of Taurus is comforting, but Uranus likes freedom. Venus also rules money and self-worth. As we are in the season of Aquarius it is the opposite of Leo the lion. And we celebrate the poignancy of Valentine’s Day, the expression of the intimacy of love.

Our intellect often wants one supreme leader. The ability to carry numerous persons of authority as guardians is a democratic concept. In Greece, a republican one. Perhaps we need to truly apply the God/Guardian in our hearts as the ultimate decider.

​You know romance is on the run. Screwball comedies, with magnificent sets and costumes from the 1930s and 40s are in short supply. Dialogue is limited. Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, Vivienne Leigh and Lawrence Olivier, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, were heroes of the magical, hopeful and silly. 

What keeps us going down the rabbit hole hoping to find solace? The Sleeping Beauty fell asleep because her father did not want the darkness of the 13th fairy to envelope her. As we know the unconsciousness came anyway. She did struggle to find her way back. Although the Prince’s warrior spirit and insistent focus helped, and he gave the gift of breath, through his kiss. 

Cinderella took her ashes and constructed a perfect slipper to fit her soul. The inner fairy godmother she believed in, dressed her in magnificence.

Dorothy also found that Ruby magic in the Emerald city. In astrology the ruby is assigned to Capricorn. The slippers provided structure, discipline and the desire to achieve. The emerald is assigned to Cancer. The home, the mother and the emotions that are elusive. The unconscious is Mum’s domaine, she provides the rhythm of breath. Do you think Frank Baum with his theosophist leanings, knew this?

Being hit over the head with the reality of inequality, ugliness and violence is only one way to inspire the goodness in humans.

At the beginning of WWII in 1939, two of the greatest movie magic movies were made. Gone with the Wind and the Wizard of Oz. They each told of the need to change a way of thinking but in a way of colorful and soulful illusion.

Keeping up with the interpretation of it all in the super speedy way of the airways today is highlighting anxiety. But most of us are not strong enough to reject the addiction. Have recently discovered the book, “The Art of Fear” by Kristen Ulmer. It describes the difficulty of accepting and acknowledging the primal emotion which gives birth to anger, grief and sadness. The mind seems to get in the way and cannot truly explain emotion. Particularly as we all want to stay in motion. Funny, the similarity of the two words, emotion and motion.

The layers of understanding do provide insight with the repetition of time and experience. The situations and descriptions remain the same but the depth of the rabbit hole provides greater clarity to The Who, what and where.

​Gen is a word root for birth and kin. Beget, procreate, generate, cause. These are all words that produce and contemplate genius. A genii gives you your heart’s desire, if you can figure out what it is. There is genius in all of us.

So, is there similarity between guru and genius? To engage and learn so you can remember requires an enticing entity that inspires. Desperation and need bring a dictatorial influencer.

Genuine, genes, Progeny, gender. In the beginning, we create and are reborn. Death is a part of the regular theory of life, we experience it through the continuous cycle of new ideas.

Each generation has its own language and brings ingenuity to the age in which it resides. There is generational information. The gist is often about specifics. We are a certain race, creed, sex. We all seem to need to explore.

Have you noticed the differences between age identifying information and how propaganda influences without the general (gen) population realizing the complete purpose?

To feel secure we want ownership and control. But, to have control, we must relinquish it, the organizations, that influence, usually provide a panacea of perception to pacify. 

The refrain in the brain, can alter moods. Chemistry is producing a rebirth with rapidity. Chaos and change are longed for and often not what was imagined. Feeling calm and accepting are glorious but usually fleeting. Only place a few memories in the mix. Regenerate!