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My True Center is an Enormous capacity for falling in Love with Everything around me and not being afraid to show it.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Anandashree Astrology New Moon Report
Thursday, January 11, 2024
New Beginnings: Becoming and Being the One, celebrating itself as the many
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Happy New Moon Lovelies!!!
The first new moon of 2024 falls on Jan. 11th at 3:57am PT.
To start off this post, center yourself in your Heart and in Unity with the Heart of the Cosmos with a tidbit of the vedic astrology of today's New Moon. This report comes from one of my favorite teachers, Anandashree (Kari Fields). Following the New Moon report, this post dives a little into understanding our relationships with ourselves, each other and the cosmos.
May all your connections, creations, and moments in the solar cycle ahead be blessed with renewal, ease, and Grace.
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Anandashree Vedic Astrology
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This lunar reset kicks off a cycle of new hope and future vision. There’s a growing regenerative energy within this new moon, and tuning into it can help you recalibrate and heal your nervous system.
Seize this time to look within, recharge, and envision your year to come. The dark days leading up to it may feel challenging, but this new moon has a spark of hope that will brighten as the moon gets fuller later this month. Keep your heart open to new possibilities coming into your life.
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Happy New Year and Happy New Moon
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WHAT IS THE TRUE MEANING
OF A SOUL MATE?
Question: The problem seems to be that when you are in a relationship, in the beginning everything is happening, but when you marry that person it changes.
I’ve been in several relationships, major relationships, and been married and divorced twice and I’m searching for something special. Something I’ve been told has been called a soul mate. Do you believe in such a relationship or person and what would that mean? How would I know that?
Ram Dass: Got it! Keep looking! I’ll give you the farthest out answer first and then we’ll come back to something that everybody can handle. In the farthest out answer, we have all been around so many times that every one of us has been everything with everybody else. So when I look at you, you and I have been in so many relationships together. It’s just that we don’t remember.
Do you know how many times we have been born and died? Remember that story, Buddha says: If you take a mountain six miles long and six miles wide and six miles high, that’s the distance a bullock walks in a day. And a bird flies over the mountain once every hundred years with a silk scarf in its beak and brushes the tip of the mountain. In the length of time it takes the scarf to wear away the mountain, that’s how long you have been doing this. Just think about that. Once every hundred years the scarf goes over. A scarf and a mountain. It goes on and on and on. In India there are Yugas and Kalpas of hundreds of thousands of years and then they just start cycles all over again. And we’ve been through all of them again and again.
Now, behind all of it is the One. And that is all there is. All of us here are One in drag, appearing to be many. So we are all “soul mate”.
There is only one of it. It’s not mate, because it’s not even two. It’s only one. There’s only one of us. So what you’re really doing is constantly marrying yourself at the deepest level of God marrying God. Now you come down into soul. And each soul has a unique karmic predicament, you could call it a psychic DNA code, that guides which way its life will go. And it is entirely possible that when souls take birth into parents that are part of their Karma, they will meet a being and they have agreed in advance to come down to meet. And that’s what we usually call soul mate.
What you have found from your past marriages is that what you are attracted to in a person isn’t what you ultimately live with.
After the honeymoon is over, then you are left with the work to do. And it’s the same work. When you trade in one partner for another, you still have the same work. You’re going to have to do it sooner or later when the pizzazz is over. And it just keeps going over. And you can’t milk the romanticism of relationship too long as you become more conscious. It’s more interesting than that. It really is. And people keep wanting to romanticize their lives all the time. It’s part of the culture. But the awakening process starts to show you the emptiness of that form. And you start to go for something deeper.
You start to meet another human being in truth. And truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times, truth is boring, truth burns the food, truth is all the stuff. Truth has anger, truth has all of it.
And you stay in it and you keep working with it and your keep opening to it and you keep deepening it. Every time you trade in a partner, you realize that there’s no good or bad about it. I’m not talking good or bad about this.
But you begin to see how you keep coming to the same place in relationships, and then you tend to stop. Because it gets too heavy. Because your identity gets threatened too much. For the relationship to move to the next level of truth requires an opening and a vulnerability that you’re not quite ready to make. And so you entrench, you retrench, you pull back and then you start to judge and push away and then you move to the next one. And then you have the rush of the openness and then the same thing starts to happen.
And so you keep saying, “Where am I going to find the one where this doesn’t happen?” And it will only happen when it doesn’t happen in you.
When you start to watch the stuff and get quiet enough inside yourself, you can take that process as it’s happening and start to work with it. And you can keep coming back to living truth in yourself or the other person even though it’s scary and hard.
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In loving memory of Anandamayi Ma, Neem Karoli Baba, Ram Dass, and Shri Mahant Mangalanand Puri
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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
The Dark Side of Health
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There are many illusions and veils that are lifting off our minds as we grow, evolve, and deconstruct the conditioning from society, family, peers, traditions, beliefs, values, and propoganda. One of the realms in human life that's difficult to find truths within, are the present day health care systems. Modern medicine is cuddled up to technology, colonialism, and capitalism to such a degree that the average person has no internal compass for their body's needs, it's proper preventative care and daily maintenance and how to create and live a life in alignment with our natural state of abundance of health, the true wealth. So many millions have decided to surrender their capacity to understand how their biological systems work. We've created a vast network of external individuals and corporations, who have been deemed authorities, and we let them decide, what we eat and drink, what medicines we take, what kinds of reactive responses we do, but when it comes to simple nutrition, exercise, tending to whole life well- being, these systems fail; and they always will, because they are created out of a system of control and greed that has no interest in your longevity, your awakening to the power of being human, of being healthy. There are good individuals in the system, that want to help, but they are bound by their allegiance to it. So, turn inward, talk to your body, listen to the truth you hear in your heart. Find a way to dissolve the dissonance and the illusion of doubt. When you accept the truth of who you are, access to universal knowledge is yours. It is only found when identification with the person as who you are, is surrendered to the Soul. Align with your innermost self, your Heart knows what is true for you. Take your seat there and find Freedom. Stop denying what your Heart knows is True and Right for you, in favor of the stories you star in, in your mind.
Jai Shri Mahakaal
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Are You Enjoying Your Human Experience?
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Have you found your purpose?
Do you understand your own consciousness?
Are you getting the best out of your human body?
Are you getting the best out of your life?
Do you understand your patterns, memories, the design of your existence to transform patterns of darkness into Light?
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Jai Shri Mahakaal
Jai Shri Gurudev
Hari Om Tat Sat
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Monday, January 8, 2024
Find Me on the Webz
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While it has some useful qualities, they pale in comparison to experiencing life without them. Being more in the moment and cultivating deeper relationships through other means is so much more refreshing. I do not plan to return to them for at least some months, if ever.
That said, I've heard from some of you that you miss my presence and posts.
I'll try to update the tree soon with my other spots.
Stay Tuned
Come to Star Camp July 2024, Mt Shasta, CA
& Dance to my VishnuyaĆas set.
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Thursday, December 21, 2023
Embracing Winter Solstice ~*~ Balancing Divine Energies
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Happy Winter Solstice
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In the Tao-te Ching, Lao-tzu writes,
(Image: Tantric Marriage by Geoglyphiks)
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Understanding Feminine Energy
In Taoism and Qi Gong, both masculine and feminine energies offer essential gifts that all living and nonliving things require.
The feminine is associated with Yin energy and embodies the qualities of flow, receptivity, intuition, collaboration, and empathy, to name just a few.
As humans, it’s critical that we cultivate these qualities in order to flourish, both as individuals and as a global society. Receptivity allows us to be sensitive to the world around us in order to live in harmony with each other and nature.
Collaboration and empathy are the natural ingredients of healthy relationships. When we’re able to understand what others are feeling and communicate effectively, we’re able to build stronger social connections and more healthy communities.
Intuition allows us to know what is best for ourselves when logic doesn’t have an answer (which is often). It makes it possible to be our own guide, able to lead ourselves forward in the right direction.
The gifts of feminine energy manifest both within ourselves and within society. Within ourselves, it allows us to strengthen our connection to self, which empowers us to love and accept ourselves more fully. It also helps us to listen carefully to our own needs, which is the first step in taking care of our body, heart, and mind.
Within society, feminine energy can help us to find acceptance when differences occur, leading to greater harmony and respect. Whether it’s within the household or in international politics, Yin energy can help us to develop constructive ways of communicating and working together.
The Importance of Balance Between Feminine and Masculine Energy
Finding balance is one of the most important intentions in Qi Gong and Taoism.
Unfortunately, western society has a tendency to gravitate toward an imbalance of masculine energy. While the masculine certainly has wonderful gifts to share with us, it also can become destructive when we neglect its counterpart—feminine energy.
In the world, our imbalance toward masculine is clearly reflected in our destructive practices with the environment. Instead of seeking ways to live in harmony with the natural world, too often, our policies and behaviors disrespect our most sacred natural resources. Sadly, this is leading us toward a less healthy planet. Of course, as a global community, there are choices we can make to help regain balance and allow our sacred planet to flourish.
Within each of us, an imbalance toward masculine can lead us to become out of touch with ourselves and others. When we suppress our emotions, negative energies can manifest within us in destructive ways. Similarly, if we fail to truly listen to others, we’ll encounter great difficulty in our personal relationships and communities.
Honoring the feminine means being in touch with ourselves, nature, and other beings. When we’re able to really find attunement with our inner and outer worlds, we can experience a deep sense of flow and harmony that ripples throughout all aspects of our lives.
Cultivating Feminine Energy
Qi Gong teaches us how to work with the energies within us to cultivate the qualities we wish to experience. When it comes to cultivating feminine energy, there are some simple yet powerful practices that can completely transform our inner state of being.
Since feminine energy offers us the gift of receptivity, it’s a good idea to find a place that allows your heart and mind to feel open to the wonders of the world. Lee always recommends making your way into nature where you’re able to disconnect from the distractions of daily life.
Once you’ve found a peaceful environment, just try to sit in silence and pay attention to the world around you. Feel the interconnectedness between all things and allow your senses to absorb the sites, sounds, and smells of the surrounding atmosphere. What subtleties can you pick up on? What lessons can you intuit from the energy of nature?
When you listen closely, you’ll find that the universe is alive with infinite wisdom for us to receive. Of course, practicing Qi Gong is a great way to heighten your awareness of the natural world and cultivate an abundance of nourishing Qi.
Because feminine energy helps us to connect to the universe and receive its guidance, it plays a critical role in allowing us to understand our life’s purpose.
There’s a reason that people often seek a quiet place when they need to reflect on their life or make an important decision. Intuitively, humans know that listening is the key to discovering our inner truth.
Paying attention to the natural world is a great way to cultivate feminine energy. In turn, that energy will help you to become more in tune with the universe, leading to a stronger knowing of who you are as an individual. When you’re able to fully surrender and listen, you become the most powerful and authentic version of yourself.
After spending time receiving the energies of the natural world, take a few minutes to write down any new feelings or thoughts you experienced. Have any decisions become more clear? Were you able to cultivate more empathy for a friend or family member? Just take note of any new truths that were revealed to you.
By making a habit of slowing down and listening to the natural world, you’ll be able to consistently cultivate feminine energy and develop a stronger connection to yourself and others.