​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"

Decisions... Judgements. Ego.... How do we resolve opposites?... To cut off, is a literal translation.... And once we’ve done that?... Let it go.

What do you believe in?... Philosophy, politics, justice, or a higher power that decides for you.

As we are all mainly contained by our thought process, how do we let the heart and our intuition in?

So many different languages and interpretations... The eclipse in Virgo/Pisces on Tuesday the 17th at 10:30pm promotes healing... What is this?... To heal is to carry opposites effortlessly... A look, a sound, an awareness of the understanding of our interconnected living experience, is how we reach a plateau of acceptance, hence healing.

Shirley Maclean has a blog, in which she writes of Gary King... He has put up over 600 signs all over Florida of one word “happiness”. As advertising has proven the repetition of something makes it real… (See this newsletter for some recent Shirley Maclean updates.)

The Budweiser commercial for 9/11 was only aired once, of the magnificent horses marching a dirge... An even more powerful statement than endlessly reminding us of the negative, like pharmaceutical commercials.

With Virgo’s need for perfection, it can feel like, it’s never enough... Pisces attempts to encompass all pain and suffering... How do you see the polarity of these descriptions reunited?

The equinox and the sign of Libra are wrestling with equal balance... We know the world is spinning and yet we seem to not lose our balance... This can be compromised with a lack of trust in awareness... Youth manages to speed pass the periodic misstep... Age requires paying more attention... See this as a chance to enhance intuition... If we can find something every day to look forward to, all is lighter.

The turtle and the snail carry their home; i.e. security, on their backs... In the east the turtle represents longevity.

If we see our heart as whole, it can be... Even eyes closed.

Enjoy "It's a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong...

​Time is a strictly human concern. Time is elusive, erratic, structural, unpredictable, and an agreed upon need for us to connect. Saturn, the ruler of time is causing a slow mist in the sign of Pisces. Can you move with all the illusions that are pervasive? See the unconditional support from floating.

In this time of Lughnasadh, we worship the Sun, as its Poignancy is the strongest. Brightness must have shade to experience completeness. Integrating opposites is a strong purpose. The breath, with the intake and outflow is a perfect example. To voluntarily change a thought process is stupendous. Reintegrate the belief in this.

Mercury brings humor and anxiety as the fleeting ideas take hold in the mood that flows through our involuntary muscles. The connection between brain and stomach is like a seesaw.  The ancients knew what they were doing when they made Mercury, the conduit between the worlds. When he slows down and covers old territory, he is really solidifying this awareness.

Jupiter is lending a largesse to the mix of the heat of the Sun. When expansion is coupled with diversity, it can be overwhelming. Ceili dancing, the traditional Irish expression of isolating movements and speed, provides a powerful rush of adrenaline. Jupiter thrives on this.

Pluto’s excursion through Aquarius is confounding the airways. The addiction we have to the diversion of constant reinterpretation of information is bound to be tested. Understanding what others are saying and what we are thinking is multifaceted. The 5 senses are always used and influencing. Each atom in the brain is attempting to be noticed and heard. Try and contemplate in between space and time.

All other life forms enjoy rest. Mostly we fall and are tricked into preserving the limited time we have. In the season of fall we admire the colorful nature of nature dying. Dreaming and being are the best part of living.

​How do you express yourself? Can you hear the words you want to say before you say them? Quite often, it seems, that the mischievous monkey speeds out before the thought has been formed or refined. 

And what is free speech? Most conversations have a spark of competition and can inspire a new perception. But sometimes they go too far. Hurtful is often when the speaker does not remember who the listener is. Opinions like underwear need to be changed. The temperament of some is to express with courage and conviction that their ideas are the only ones. Others do not express themselves with the respect for their own words. 

What do you believe? The format or structure of a belief system is rarely unique. Usually the main concept is kindness. Whether you prefer many gods or just one, there is insight from the stories they tell. The relationship between Hera and Jupiter was tumultuous and loving. Trying to have control usually means you don’t have any.

Independence means to not rely on others. It does not mean to not listen. Forming an opinion usually comes from hearing different points of view. Eventually that opinion can become set in stone. Evolving is working to allow variables to come in. The repetitive hurt of someone demanding you choose their point of view can be quite concerning. If concentration and focus can be applied the hurt lessens. Distractions coming in a group are good too.

To lessen fear, a very abstract concept, is the goal. Often we see the constant reminders to stay safe as the illusion they are.