If you feel like you are pushing a huge boulder up a steep hill on this Full Moon in Capricorn, blame it on retrograde Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Chiron.
Ouch!
Well, what other Full Moon could face this kind of struggle by shrugging its shoulders, and saying, "So what else is new?"
Thank you Saturn, ruler of Capricorn, the great teacher of how to handle hardship, struggle and reality, with commitment, follow-through and guts.
So though this is the Full Moon to celebrate goals and achievement, with this kind of planetary resistance to moving forward, we can also celebrate small steps, realistic goal-setting, and being successful when faced with tremendous limitations.
Going forward has its right time and right place.
This is the night to look within, connect with one's own sense of proper timing and trust the wisdom that arises from this kind of inquiry. Remember retrograde planets are ideal for inner work; especially retrograde Mercury.
When the Moon is full in Capricorn, the Sun is in Cancer, the sign that rules emotional connectedness, nurturance, compassion, and personal expressions of love. Because the Moon rules Cancer, when the Moon is posited in Capricorn (the sign opposite its natural zodiacal energy) this makes for a special energetic symbiosis between the Sun and Moon.
Only at this time of year, can the Moon fully infuse the restrictive, withholding, structured, serious energy of Capricorn with its natural, energetic Cancerian open, flowing love and compassion. This is especially true with Mercury (mind) in Cancer (heart) conjunct the Sun and opposing the Moon.
This is a celebration to enliven compassion for ourselves, especially in our toughest times.
So use your ritual to bring compassion to bear upon your most critical, negative images and thoughts about yourself. Self-love is not a concept; it is active, and takes energy and time to develop.
This Full Moon in Capricorn calls upon each of us to find the appropriate structures to express love and connectedness in our lives. This is especially true when love is not our first response, or is drowned out by pain, fear and hatred (the domain of Capricorn/Saturn). Where Cancer feels almost childlike in its attachment to direct experience of emotive love, Capricorn knows that sacrifice and personal responsibility are the building blocks of true love, and realises this goal with a special grace and maturity.
This is the Full Moon of tough love, facing the reality of love lost or denied. Don't underestimate the depth of understanding that a Capricorn Moon brings to the table, especially with all these retrograde planets. This is a huge invitation to look with depth at the suffering you create around love; Venus in Leo, the drama king/queen makes this Full Moon particularly suited for releasing our attachment to emotional wounding as a way to get love and attention.
Use this Full Moon as a test of how selfless and openhearted you can be. Mercury and Sun in Cancer and Venus in Leo can make us all ultra-sensitive, teary-eyed and touchy. So do some self-care. Make sure to be in the company of people you feel good about and trust. The level of sentimentality will be high on this day.
Saturn/Capricorn forces us to come to terms with fear. I don't know about you, but I am so tired of fear mongering and war mongering. The old ways (Capricorn) steeped in solutions that arise from fear and war will not work. They are what got us here and will never lead to freedom from fear. The Full Moon in Capricorn is the one night of the year when we can truly see our fear for what it is: a distinct inability to transcend the human-made irrational divisions of race, religion, nationality, and gender. There is no separateness, only love. All matter is made of love and therefore can only be love at its most basic, as well its highest expression.
We need to create societal and governmental structures that solve these problems from a core belief in love and connectedness.
This will of course require a complete shift in human consciousness. We must move away from identification with the small egoic, self, mired in the ignorance of separateness, to the full experience of the unbounded, transcendent divine Self, realising love as the true nature of all existent life. When we change the Self, we change everything.
Do you think this goal is unrealistic? Not on this Full Moon. This is the Full Moon of hard work and accepting one's personal responsibility to heal the suffering of others. Did you know that most of the great spiritual teachers were born under the Sun sign of Capricorn? Why? To change human consciousness requires a Herculean commitment to achievement no matter how hard or how long the road. This is Capricorn at its best.
Take responsibility for your own healing.
This is the night to reach deep into your well of strength and decide that achieving your own inner peace is the only goal worth attaining at this moment in our human evolution. This Full Moon simultaneously uncovers our fear and reflects the solution to our fear: acting only from love, compassion, and doing the hard work of relieving the suffering of all sentient beings by achieving enlightenment and inner peace.
This is a very powerful and serious Full Moon-don't waste it!
Saturday, 30 June 2007
Full Moon in Capricorn 8° 25'
Posted by Mich at 7:07 pm 3 comments
Labels: meditation, moon, soul work
Discovering my true self
This week's Rainbow Dreams challenge was a difficult one for me ... I often like to hide my true self, because I fear rejection. So why do I fear the following questions? Because they make me look deep into my soul, and lay my soul bare for all to see.
- What does your original face look like?
I am a Priestess of Atlantis, surrounded by mermaid and goddess energy. I am a healer, full of compassion for the world.
Pure in spirit I wear a ceremonial robe representing spiritual power beyond my personal identity. Initiation into the Sanctuary of Atlantis requires that I engage with the watery depths of the dark waters of the unconscious. Out of the unconscious, the conscious world is born. - Who is your true self?
I know I am a healer. I am a talented writer. I have a lot to give to the world. I am working to become a life coach
The Priestess becomes reactivated when I choose to follow the path of inner teachings and open mysteries of the Sanctuary within. Pilgrimages to Her holy sanctuaries will help me reconnect with the spiritual resources of the Priestess.
I listen with a cosmic ear. See the world with my eyes closed. Meditation, prayer, chanting, or any form of stillness will brings me into union with higher aspects of my own being, in body, soul, and spirit, as well as into a conscious relationship with the profundity of daily life. - Are you radiant and glowing?
The Priestess archetype is available to me at all times. When an important decision needs to be made, it is the divine wisdom within that helps me align to right action. It is the way I walk my life each day that matters most. Everyday life is sacred. As much as possible, I try introduce a mood of inner quiet into daily life, looking beyond impressions, feelings, and impulses of external reality to cultivate my own higher potentials.
Posted by Mich at 5:44 pm 4 comments
Labels: challenge, soul work, virtual circle
Viva BrisVegas
I was recently in Brisbane on business, and had a good time! I was up there with a group of colleagues. Here I am at Cha Cha Char with Kaylia, one of my gal pals, and a good colleague at work ...
And oh the views! We were staying at serviced apartments, and I had the most spectacular views ... see below.
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Monday, 25 June 2007
Rainbow Dreams
Each Monday, I'll post a challenge or exercise in Rainbow Dreams, our virtual circle.
Check out the latest challenge in Rainbow Dreams ~ Discovering your true self.
I'd also like to guage interest in who'd like to participate in a 21 day challenge. This will be conducted in the Rainbow Dreams Blog, and if we go ahead, we'll start next Monday.
Ok so here's my challenge...
Gayla Maxwell has developed a 21 day e-COREse which she offers for free through her website. I've done this course and it changed my life!In order to produce sustainable and positive changes in your life you must create neurological pathways in your brain that are 'ingrained'. In other words, at least a small amount of daily focus is essential in order to generate the life you desire at your CORE!
Just imagine what your life would be like if you were living on purpose -- the real possibilities of a life of security, happiness, financial and personal independence, and perhaps the most important of all, life fulfillment.
Think about it ...
What if you could live every day of your life on purpose -- naturally motivated and with passion?
Imagine what your life would be like if you were feeling the following each and every day:
- excited about the mystery that is unfolding today
- looking forward to the opportunities that lay in each moment
- a greater connection to the place within you that knows unlimited clam and joy
- a greater level of awareness -- minus the critique!
- even more clarity
- a sense of living in your natural flow
- having a positive sense of direction and purpose
Gayla is offering this course for a limited time free - if this is something you'd like to do, sign-up here.
Posted by Mich at 7:12 pm 7 comments
Labels: Gayla Maxwell, virtual circle
Sunday, 24 June 2007
A lazy Sunday
I had some unexpected visitors this afternoon. Two gorgeous and very vocal white cockatoos ...
They didn't stay long in the tree though, it wasn't long before they flew down to the fence ...
Posted by Mich at 4:58 pm 7 comments
Labels: About me
Saturday, 23 June 2007
Flight of fantasy
Posted by Mich at 2:07 pm 5 comments
Labels: poetry
Thursday, 21 June 2007
Deep Winter Affirmation Prayer
Yet, the voice of a dream affirms meaning in night
In the deep cold of winter, in the length of the night
Each soul, as the seasons, turns like a wheel
Darkness can be washed away by the light
Posted by Mich at 11:17 pm 2 comments
Labels: poetry
Winter Solstice
As I prepare to celebrate the Winter Solstice in Australia, my friends in the northern hemisphere will be celebrating the Summer Solstice; perfect opposites, our worlds turning beautifully back-to-back, like two sides of a coin.
Posted by Mich at 10:57 pm 5 comments
Monday, 18 June 2007
Virtual Women's Circle
Rainbow Dreams is a virtual circle, which will post each Monday.
It is a space to gather, and connect with other women who are blogging their thoughts and feelings, struggles and revelations as we journey on the path of our individual spiritual journeys.
I extend the invitation to anyone who would like to join us ... you'll find the latest post here.
Posted by Mich at 9:28 pm 3 comments
Labels: inner-child, soul work, virtual circle
Sunday, 17 June 2007
A glimpse into my world
Here's a glimpse into my world ~ here's the view from my back fence ....
... and here's some of the local wildlife ...
... my fur baby, Trinity ...
... one of Trinity's friends who comes to play with her regularly ...
my altar ....
Posted by Mich at 10:49 pm 8 comments
Labels: About me
Thursday, 14 June 2007
New Moon in Gemini 23º 41'
My friend Dana sent me this today, and I thought I'd share it with you.
Friday, June 15, 2007 1:13pm AEST (OZ)
©2007 Lisa Dale Miller
All that we are, arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
How can a troubled mind understand the way?
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
But once mastered, No one can help you as much,
Gemini rules information: its gathering and dispensation. Gemini represents knowledge of the material, relative plane of existence, which is made up of binary information bits; a digital landscape of 0's and 1's.
Posted by Mich at 9:35 pm 4 comments
Labels: moon, soul work, virtual circle
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
Randoms
I've been tagged by Annie ~ so here are eight random things about me:
- I love to be surrounded by beauty
- My step-mother is a medium
- I grew up being the oldest of two kids, and eight years ago became the second youngest of six
- I am a ChakraDance instructor
- I run goddess workshops
- I crave the perfect relationship, yet am terrified of commitment
- I was a priestess of Atlantis in a past life
- I love my fur baby ~ Trinity
If you're reading this, consider yourself tagged!
Posted by Mich at 11:36 pm 1 comments
Labels: About me
Hues of Winter
A thick fog blankets the lake
Posted by Mich at 9:40 pm 4 comments
Labels: poetry
Monday, 11 June 2007
Virtual Women's Circle | Soul Work | Creating your bliss
I believe we've developed a kind of online women's circle. We certainly meet all the criteria: we share our hopes and dreams; we support each other; we cry and laugh with each other. Without even trying, we have created a virtual women's circle.
So, I'm setting some soul work for all of you who care to join in ...
Read the post below and answer the two following questions:
- What in your life is being built?
- What inner vision do you carry?
- What must you do in order to accomplish your true goals?
Publish your answers in your blog and then post a link to your post in the comments page to this blog.
Posted by Mich at 10:52 am 15 comments
Labels: challenge, personal journey, soul work, virtual circle
Saturday, 9 June 2007
Creating my bliss
I was watching The Secret this afternoon, and decided to pull one of my Inner Child Cards.
It is important to discover the center of gravity within the soul, that magical core that draws forth creative will.
This empowerment helps us build the world according to our deepest values and guiding principles.
Personal responsibility and constructive actions are beginning steps toward the foundation of a beautiful life for ourselves and others.
The gnome children portrayed in this card are busily creating a home with various tools and a cooperative spirit.
The foundation for this house is an apple tree, signifying the Tree of Life.
In Greek myth, the apple tree is a symbol of abundance.
A new consciousness is being built.
In Thailand, many people creating houses construct replicas of those structures, to be inhabited by spirits. These miniature models are called houses of spirits.
This ancient practice welcomes guardian angels into the households and fashions talismans for the overlighting power of universal love and truth.
From the awareness achieved with this practice, family members can develop inner strength and reverence for all life.
These gnomes are very focused. Their work is taken seriously. They hold a vision that they are in a process of manifesting.
The card asked me two questions:
- What in your life is being built?
- What inner vision do you carry?
So, my answers to these questions are:
1. What in your life is being built?
I am building myself a new life. I am moving towards a career change - to work with people to help them achieve their dreams. By helping others create their world, I create mine. My new life brings abundance: abundance in health, wealth, well-being, love ...
2. What inner-vision do you carry?
I am a successful life coach, specialising on work/life balance and well-being. I help people reconnect with the sacredness of life, with the sacredness of being them. Spirituality is very important to me. I live in a beautiful home which I own. I own a coastal retreat where I hold workshops and retreats. I am a successful and published author and travel the world running my workshops and speaking at conferences. I am a humanitarian, working to empower women around the world. I have a successful life in love as well, with a man who loves, respects and supports me, and I he.
Why don't you answer these two questions yourself ...
- What in your life is being built?
- What inner vision do you carry?
Posted by Mich at 5:10 pm 1 comments
Labels: inner-child, soul work, virtual circle
Friday, 8 June 2007
Manifesting your divine potential
Beneath the surface of our daily lives, we are always asking the question, “Who am I, really, and where is my true home?”
Posted by Mich at 7:53 pm 1 comments
Labels: goddess, meditation, soul work
Salute!
The grand and dramatic salute pictured in this card is a tribute to the active force of the mind that has found unity and success.
Each child holds a cup, representing the heart, and a sword, representing the mind force.
The destination has been reached, and the search for new clarity is complete.
There is focus and a unified vision.
There is responsibility, loyalty, and friendship.
At this level of exalted awareness the individual has merged with their ideal of community.
From this union, the mission to serve the planets is possible.
The heightened mind, symbolised by the swords, is infused with light.
The mind is brilliant and full triumph.
I have reached a pinnacle.
Foresight and inspiration have embraced my mind, and it is as if warm sunlight is evaporating the waters of negative thinking and fear.
Salute!
I sit up straight, close my eyes, and let the light of the solar fire become an elixir of wisdom.
A golden aura of divine protection surrounds me.
Now is the time to serve humanity with clear vision.
Posted by Mich at 7:35 pm 0 comments
Labels: inner-child, soul work, tarot
Thursday, 7 June 2007
A gateway to new awareness
I'm enjoying exploring my inner-child cards again.
I pulled a card this evening to give me guidance in my meditation ~ and I drew the nine of wands ~ oh how I love these cards ....
There are times in life when we are shown the gateway to new awareness that is beyond our current boundaries or resistance.
This new awareness offers another view of the world that can recapture, or open us to, the magical garden wisdom that lives within us.
It is there that we may learn to master our abilities and gifts.
When the fairy on this card is ready to open the garden gate, she will discover a world of herbs, flowers, and trees that await her arrival.
They will revitalise and heal her. There is an abundance of energy available to her.
The butterflies on the gatepost are the aspects of her soul that are ready for metamorphosis.
She hears the garden calling, and so she peeks.
This is a wondrous time in your life when you may be exploring the secret passages of your spirit or completing an important evolutionary cycle.
There is a rich and flowering place within you.
You must journey there.
Close your eyes and envision yourself entering the colorful and fragrant gardens of your mind and heart.
Posted by Mich at 8:11 pm 4 comments
Labels: inner-child, soul work, tarot
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
All aboard!
I found this clip when visiting Anita, the Chakra Goddess' blog ...
Doesn't this clip (in support of a campaign for an international human rights organisation that promotes values of dignity, equality and justice) make you want to take life by the short-n-curlies, climb aboard a bus full of goddess sisters, and DANCE?!
Enjoy!
Posted by Mich at 9:33 pm 1 comments
Labels: goddess, soul work, womens circle
Monday, 4 June 2007
Bliss
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source
bliss /blɪs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[blis] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
2. Theology. the joy of heaven.
3. heaven; paradise: the road to eternal bliss.
4. Archaic. a cause of great joy or happiness. —Idiom
5. Slang. bliss out,
a. to experience bliss or euphoria: Just give them some bean sprouts and a little tofu and they bliss out.
b. to cause to become blissful or euphoric: a recording guaranteed to bliss out every Mozart fan.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
It was my first day back at work today, and I feel blessed. Not because I love my job and that I was glad to be back. Rather it was just the opposite. Within 10 minutes of walking in I heard myself saying, "I just don't want to be here anymore."
Then I cried.
I finally let go of a job that no longer serves me, it was a moment of mourning. For years, this job has been my identity -- an integral part of who I was.
No longer.
Tonight during my meditation, I invoked the goddesses: Kali for grounding; Pele for empowerment; Kwan Yin for love; and Athena for communication.
Through Kwan Yin I sent love and light to those who have wronged me, and I forgave them.
I asked Kali to keep me grounded during this time of turmoil, and invoked Pele to keep my self-esteem strong and true. And of course Athena to help me speak my truth with integrity and love.
During my ChakraDance practice tonight, I experienced a sense of bliss whilst dancing the heart and crown chakras. I felt a smile creep across my face as I danced with the goddess.
Through regular prayer, meditation, and visualisation—the human body begins to transform into a being of Infinite Bliss. The organs are strengthened and new levels of perception are awakened. The preconditions necessary to attain true peace and freedom have been fulfilled.
Remember you encounter the Great Bliss Queen in your life when you are fully present and alive in the world of form, while fully immersed in your flaming wisdom bliss. Once you have awakened to your own blissful nature, you encounter the Great Bliss Queen everywhere. There is no place She is not. She is All. All is Bliss.
Posted by Mich at 10:04 pm 3 comments
Labels: chakra, chakradance, goddess, meditation, soul work
Friday, 1 June 2007
I believe in miracles
I pulled a card for myself from the Inner Child Cards. And I pulled the Nine of Hearts: this is my reading ...
A well, vessel, or cauldron can hold sacred waters for rituals, blessings, purifications, and healings. Water is the essence of all life.
The answer to the question of whether the cup is half full or half empty depends on how life is being viewed at a given moment.
This question is being asked of you now. Along with this question, you may be granted a wish.
In the traditional tarot, the Nine of Hearts is often considered the wish card. Your wish should reflect what you feel you deserve in life, where your heart is, and how much you love yourself.
Wishing is a way to observe how well you are seeking your individual fulfillment. Can you accept a happy life?
This is not an easy question to answer, and much care should go into this inquiry. Sometimes wounds of the past must be healed before you can grow into your wish. Forgiveness of self and others is one step toward greater fulfillment.
The mermaid in this card is holding her vessel toward the waterfall to be filled. She has reached a point of acceptance in her life and is ready to have her cup run over.
Hold your own cup high toward the waters of life and dare to fill it completely. Imagine the possibility of unlimited love, joy, and wisdom pouring into your heart.
This may be it time for spiritual initiation or purification in your life.
Believe in miracles, and follow your dreams.
Posted by Mich at 10:26 pm 2 comments
Labels: inner-child, tarot