Manifesting

Manifesting...or as my favorite astropersonality says...lightcasting...is so much fun. Take your challenges in life and turn them around. Convert them into affirmations, positive verbal expressions of what you KNOW to be your true path in life. Try it as an experiment. See what you can bring about out of spirit (or light). You will soon discover the power of your own words to manifest your experience here on the planet. And you'll discover that what you choose as your affirmation...I usually have a few going that I recite together...was truly your destiny all along. But now, you have become an active participant as a co-creator with God...an act of free will...directing your path. God wants to have relationship with you in His holy nature. We are not pawns in a game. We are more powerful in love and light...made in His image...truly children of God. We shall inherit the Earth.

New Year Challenges

Tidying up details of my recent past. Setting off in a major new direction, with my teachers and spiritual guides beside me. Pluto in my second house of personal values to stay for awhile, probably bringing me to the close of my time here on the planet, at end. Less is more. Refinement, being clear about what and who I am. I travel light. I am learning the joy of living from the heart, and not from material circumstances. To be in the world, but not of it.

Jupiter in my fourth house of home and family, a place of constant change and revolutionary ideas, as Uranus and Aquarius are always interwoven in my chart. Feeds my creative work. Brings freedom to ideas and self-expression. I am becoming more unconventional, more courageous, more willing to break with the past.

Uranus comes into a seven year cycle this year in my house of romance, so there will be experimentation, new relationships, a rising tide of involvements with those not of my background and culture meant to open new windows into my soul, growth and healing. This is dangerous ground for me, so I keep my daily affirmations close and draw upon the wisdom I have gained so far from Pluto's tour of my second house of self-worth, personal values.

And finally, Saturn, has taken up residence for two and a half years in my house of friends and deepest aspirations. I am being thrust into a heavy period of rubbing up against those souls with whom I share this life, by cosmic design, and those long cherished dreams of mine. It is a beautiful time for me, but one not without pain and sorrow, for we do not always get what we want when we want it, and there is the karmic thread that sometimes violently jerks at our emotions and physical desires. As great as my blessings are, so, too, my sorrows run deep. Thrusting upward, I reach higher than ever before, determined more than ever to manifest my destiny and accomplish my life's purpose. Nothing's going to change my world. I am resolute.

I share this video with you on the day of the full moon. For those of you for whom it resonates, god bless and be at peace as we march confidently into 2010.

Here Comes the Central Sun

In the '60s, we often talked about "vibes." Vibrations exist throughout the Universe and affect all life. The vibrations coming from the Central Sun call us to transform our lower natures and to raise our consciousness, both individually and as a planet, to a higher frequency. Open your heart to Love. This is more than a nice Hallmark greeting. It is an alchemical union with the Divine Spirit for which no textbooks or classes are needed. In fact, no one need show you how it is done, how to make the connection, for it is all done for those who would surrender themselves to its welcoming embrace. The process of ascension is encoded into your DNA ready to spiral up upon your command. Awaken. Find your true power and abundance as a Co-creator with God. Manifest Love. Ask and you shall receive. This is your true calling.

Bright October

October has always been my favorite month. Maybe it's because my Moon is in Libra. Or because the colors of autumn appeal to my fiery Sagittarian nature.

This October is especially appealing. Jupiter, my ruling planet, the planet of expansion and good fortune, goes direct October 12. Finally, his influence, in my third house of communication, siblings and travel, returns.

Not only that, but after two and a half years, Saturn finally comes off my career sector and enters my house of friends and aspirations. And I am ready.

Saturn in Libra is also a Saturn Return for me, my second in this lifetime. What karmic challenges have been set for me? Bring them on. What will be the result of all of this hard work these last 30 years? It all makes sense to me...this emphasis on relationships, career, aspirations...I am definitely entering a new, major phase in my life.

October is a wonderful time to bring balance and harmony into your life...to embrace that Great Centering Middle Way that Buddha talks about. Sure, it is wonderful to be blessed with material well-being on this planet, but it's only by cultivating inner joy, and in nurturing deep spiritual growth and a love for others, that we find eternal bliss. Find yours!

A World of Color

I received this image in one of those email blasts from a friend. Wildflowers on a Bakersfield, California hillside--a reminder about just how beautiful the Earth really is and how important it is for all of us to open our eyes and be grateful for what we've been given.

The new moon in Virgo yesterday, coupled with Mercury retrograde, signals the opportunity to begin again, to re-examine and to make sense of what we're doing. Virgo brings order and clarity to any situation.

Two other planetary factors also come into play. Saturn, the planet of limitation and karma, is in opposition to Uranus, the planet of revolution. So there is a struggle between the traditional and the new in all of our lives. Pluto has also changed direction and is now moving forward. Pluto is the planet of deep soul transformation.

If ever there was a time to ask yourself what it is you really want, now is the time. Life can be as colorful as we make it. Bring your whole sense of self, all of your gifts, to your journey, and sprinkle your path with lilac, and oranges, yellows, blues and greens. Go wild and watch as your life begins to flower!

'A Return to Love'

What a wonderful book "A Return to Love" is. Published in 1993, it is Marianne Williamson's popular book about what we are all learning to do here...as the Nada Surf song says....to "Always Love." This lesson seems simple enough, but in practice, it is excruciatingly difficult. So it's a life-long lesson that we keep written on our hearts. I know I do, and when I forget, God reminds me. How many, many times have I been placed in a situation that tests my commitment to Love. Oh, yeah, we say. I got it. I got it. But do we? Ha! He is a relentless God. Always perfecting Himself. Don't expect to ever get off the hook.

And how blessed we are to be children of God. The only joy to be found in the world is in His Love. No compromises people. If we are to build a better world, we need to work it. Her book contains that famous quote from "A Course in Miracles" largely, and incorrectly, attributed to Nelson Mandela: "Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us."

I read her book and then I picked it up immediately and started reading in again...do it! God bless you, Marianne. Another go-to-source book for this soul journey.

Mr. Jackson

I knew I admired his talent, but I had no idea the depth of my love for him. It's like a light went out in the firmament. I am inconsolable...returning to youtube again and again to find him. Check out his rehearsal videos. He was such an amazing talent. I am inconsolable.