The urge for harmony remains strong in spite of the challenges. Discipline in relationships bears fruit. Emotional nourishment is the overall theme of the day. There is a desire to be of service and emotionally share with others. This can be a deep experience. You can gain insight into your inner workings including your relationship with your mother or the mothering person in your life. If you realize the self in your innermost consciousness, it will appear in its purity. This is the womb of wonder, which is not the realm of those who live only by reason.~Lankavatara Sutra
Today there is a grounded emotional energy between feelings and the capacity to deal with change, building and restructuring. There is harmony between the three times – past, present and future. With the new Moon in Virgo it’s a good day for planting and beginning to grow things and tidying up the house. Bringing order to your outer world helps with your inner world. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.~Cicero
On an ego level and an emotional level you and others may dig in your heels. This is the new moon phase so the energy is right for a new cycle of activity. But don’t let pride and obstinacy keep you from being successful in your goals. If you are able to be flexible you will be more likely to receive benefit and harmony in relationships. We stubbornly cling to the idea that our ego has the answers.~Jetsunma Ahkon Norbu Lhamo
Today the Moon is Void of Course from 5.59am EDST USA until Midnight. If you’re in another country check what that means for you time-wise. It’s best to avoid making major decisions or signing contracts during this time.
Leo energy peaks today with the Moon joining the pride! Leo’s appreciate appreciation. So you could call this appreciation day! It could also be called a willful day as Leo energy seeks center stage. The theme of transforming structures through compassionate activity and confronting deceit is operating today. There continues to be friction in relationships that needs to be resolved which can be aided by knowing what you’re prepared to commit to. The key for today is to know how to deal with people who refuse to back down. As a young performer, I didn’t know you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it’s not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let go when it’s done.~Claire Danes
It may not be a day to meet aliens but your own inner feelings can be alien to you. You can expect intense encounters with others today especially those to whom you are closest. Today is an opportunity to deepen in your emotional understanding which can lead to profound realization or conflict. Deep changes continue in the world and yet there is stabilizing forces that assist at this time up until November. Everyone’s quick to blame the alien.~Aeschylus
Today the Moon is Void of Course from 7.22am EDST USA until 12.19am the next day. If you’re in another country check what that means for you time-wise. It’s best to avoid making major decisions or signing contracts during this time.
The energy today is nurturing as a number of planets reflect the mothering principle. The highest expression of this nurturing is to develop universal love- look for opportunities in your encounters today including support for women and the environment. Are you the teacher or the student or both? Higher learning, long distance travel, and foreign cultures are important today. As is honing your religious, philosophical, and spiritual view. We are shaped by our thoughts; what we think we become.~The Buddha
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Bringing Virtue into Life”
A lot of people play the power game of trying to gain power and domination over other people simply because they feel if they can control others it will make them happy. They will be powerful. They will be shielded from hurt because they are dominant. Others are weaker than them and they don’t care whether they hurt the people under them or not. They do whatever they want to do in order to make themselves happy. That’s what people do. What they don’t realize is that in every conceivable sense they are making themselves more and more unhappy. That kind of power over others will never produce happiness. In some future time that very person who is such a power monger will be the most powerless of sentient beings. Think about the helpless little creatures that are kept in cages in pet shops to be sold to who knows. Think about the helpless little creatures that are kept in laboratories to be tested on for who knows what purpose. That kind of helplessness. So we are talking about curable suffering and unhappiness and we bring it on ourselves through cause and effect relationships. This is one of the teachings that the Buddha has given us that is very, very logical, and we can see small examples of it within our lives. If we engage in non-virtuous behavior, it will produce unhappiness.
With the planet of relationships, Venus, moving into Libra, one of its home signs, it is natural to think more strongly about how you are relating to others. While it is good at this time to work towards harmony, this week more effort is required in making committed relationships work and taking responsibility in your important connections with others. You and others may have to contend with increasing subjectivity in your perceptions. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit — love.~ Morihei Ueshiba
Today the Moon is Void of Course from 3.56 am EDST USA until 12.02am the next day. If you’re in another country check what that means for you time-wise. It’s best to avoid making major decisions or signing contracts during this time.
As you generate yourself as a Buddha or Bodhisattva, reciting mantras and devotional prayers, your mind arises as a pure form. This is different from the ordinary mind that struggles to wake up each morning, dragging along its ego-clinging baggage or karma and looking for happiness in futile ways. This pure form is an expression of pure cognition, free of conceptualization and limitation. It is pure awareness, a state of pure luminosity. The deity we generate is an expression of that pure state. All phenomena are understood to be the deity’s body, voice, and activity. Thus, phenomena cease being something we grasp.
Generation-stage and completion-stage practice disassemble the entire time-and-space grid, disassemble the moment itself. You dissolve into emptiness and purify all things into their natural state. Thus, the mind relaxes from the tension that is gathered around “I,” and it becomes possible to reconstruct the moment naturally through the creation of the mandala and through allowing the mind to arise as the deity. This great skill is accomplished when the entire process becomes effortless.
“How,” you may ask, “can it be effortless? The mandala, the whole process, seems very complicated.” Actually, it is less complicated than what you are currently perceiving. You have a mandala going right now. Look around you. You sit on a world that sits in a galaxy that sits in a universe, and it is all lit up. How do you ever manage to conceive it? And on top of that, you pay your electric bill, call people on the phone, feed your pets and yourself. You enter a metal thing that flies through the air from one place to another. It is an extremely complicated mandala. In addition, you are constantly moving through a chain of lives in six major realms in a completely un-predictable pattern.
The generation of the deity is far easier. It is natural and spontaneous because it is not built on the assumption of ego. It is not constructed of tension because the deity is understood to be real but insubstantial. It is understood to be that which does not need to be constantly maintained. The tension of survival associated with desire and egocentricity is not there. With the continuation of this practice and the skill developed through good concentration and an effortless effort, all perception is purified. The five senses are not given their lead. They are not permitted to feed back information that satisfies the need of self to be self. They are purified by the mind naturally arising as the deity. The karma of endless cycles of birth and death is purified at last.
With the Moon in Gemini for the next 2 days communication is more lively and people can also be more fickle. People are not so attached to their feelings which can make people insensitive. The 5 energies in Leo continue emphasizing that sense of purpose can be beneficially aligned with mental creativity, communication and courage to do things differently.One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.~Simone de Beauvoir
