After a torrid day yesterday you will want to put your feet up. With the Moon in Taurus creature comforts are favored. It’s also a time where you can attend to finer details. You may enjoy detailed work like cross-stitch or cabinet making. For the coming week spirits are up and celebrations are called for. Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.~James Herriot
Today you’ll be pulled away from your sense of purpose and direction in a way that is very emotionally challenging and disruptive. What you choose to do with that tension is vital. You will feel stressed and have to choose between two sides of your personality. Again, physical activity combined with time for reflection can be an outlet. You only live twice; once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.~James Bond
Today the Moon is Void of Course from 10.57am EDST USA until 1.32pm. 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.
Jetsunma Ahkham Lhamo was an emanation in human form of Arya Tara, the holy mother of all the Buddhas. She was born in the province of Do Kham, in Ah Chog Drolhey village in the Bubor Mountains of the Palyul region of Tibet. This place has all ten positive auspicious signs present. Her father, Dorje, came from the highly revered family heritage of Mutshaga, and her mother was a wisdom Dakini named Gurutso. She was born around the later part of the eleventh Rabjung (according to the Tibetan Calendar), which corresponds to the later half of the seventeenth Century A.D. She was the youngest sister of Rigzin Kunzang Sherab.
She started her education with reading and writing at an early age, and she learned without much effort. Together with Rigzin Kunzang Sherab, she received many teachings from Terton Migyur Dorje and Khedrup Karma Chagmed, who was the emanation of (Lotsawa) Chogro Lhuyi Gyaltsen, as well as teachings from many other scholars and accomplished masters. With them, she perfected her study and practice of both Sutras and Tantras beyond any doubt. She entered with perseverance into single-pointed practice at various undisclosed places, and many meditational deities appeared to her and gave instructions to her. Through her practice she purified all illusory phenomena into primordial non-conceptual pure awareness, and became a ruler of the realm of Kuntuzangpo.
She lived on the mountain ridge towards the east of Palyul Namgyal Changchub Chöling (Palyul Monastery) and unceasingly turned the wheel of Dharma to a large community of Ani disciples, gradually turning that place into an expansive Ani Gonpa. Thus the location was called JOGONGDONG (nunnery on the ridge) and because of the huge numbers of nuns with red robes, that whole area has been called DRONGMAR TENG (red knoll village) ever since that time. In short, through turning both wheels of Dharma – both teaching and practicing – Jetsunma trained numerous students, not only as Buddhist scholars but many of them became highly realized practitioners.
The “AH” on the skull relic
When she saw that her activities to benefit the doctrine and her students had reached the limits of this lifetime, she passed into the peaceful Dharmata. While her holy body was being cremated, her skull flew over and landed on top of the throne of Rigzin Kunzang Sherab in the place where he used to give Dharma teachings. Since that time, that place has been used as a sacred cemetery and to this day, all the revered Lamas of Palyul Monastery have been cremated there.
Additionally, her skull has been used as THOEYAB during all major accomplishment ceremonies in Palyul Monastery to invoke the blessings even up to the present day. I heard there is an awakened reincarnation of her who has been born in America.
Ven. Gyaltrul Rinpoche carries the Kapala
Excerpted from Palyul Namgyal Changchub Chöling Ge Denrap, a history of the Palyul Lineage, written by Mupo, a contemporary Tibetan scholar and historian. Originally published in China, May 19, 2002, Seventeenth Rabjung Iron Horse Year. Reprinted in Taiwan. [Ed note: The first Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo has sometimes been referred to as Genyenma Ahkön Lhamo]
For the next several days it’s a time of reflection about where you’ve been and where you wish to go. It’s a time to look at the psychological barriers that prevent you from moving forward. There is an opportunity today to move in an unfamiliar but beneficial direction. There is a stronger tendency towards activism for the next several days and expect some disruption to plans. Conquer anger with non-anger; conquer wickedness with goodness; conquer stinginess with giving, and a liar with truth.~Dhammapada
Better to get on the soccer field than chew someone out today! There is lots of emotional energy that can be profitably channeled into physical activity especially if you find yourself feeling irritable and in a fighting mood. There is an offset. If you’re prepared to be authentically charming relationships will be more harmonious. There’s no better feeling than stepping out on the field and stunning them all by doing what none of them thought you could do.~Ashlyn Harris
For the next several days, the planet of thinking and communication, Mercury unites with the cautious, restrictive planet Saturn. The tendency to think and communicate negatively must be guarded against. This is a good time to attend to projects with precision. However, this is not a good time to make plans that require a broad viewpoint. Emotions and one’s purpose are in harmony today which helps you accept any upheavals beyond your control. Don’t ever stop believing in your own transformation. It is still happening even on days you may not realize it or feel like it. – Lalah Delia
Today the Moon is Void of Course from 9.26 am EDST USA until 3.19 am the following 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.
Theme: Breaking free of restraint and dreaming on…
For the next few days, there will be a strong impulsive urge to break free from confining structures. It is also a time that offers potential for deepening personally particularly when faced with changing, unstable outward circumstances. Today is a particularly dreamy day where perceptions of the non-ordinary world and illusion are heightened. Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.~William Butler Yeats
There is emotional excitement today which encompasses a desire for change and doing things differently. And there is a growing harmony between the genders for the next week. It’s a good time for reflection, deepening in compassion and short spiritual retreats. However, there is still the danger of arguments, disruption to plans and power struggles. I have to stop saying ‘How stupid can you be’-I think people are starting to take it as a challenge.~Donald Duck
Today the Moon is Void of Course from 11.54am EDST USA until 2.45pm. 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.
