Make a Start

Make a StartDavid R. Hamilton Ph.D. – Make a start. Whatever your goal or dream, do something to get the ball rolling.

It’s one of the most important lessons I’ve ever learned. If you don’t start, you can’t ever finish.

Pretty obvious, I know, but starting is the hardest part for most people. We mistakenly think we need to have all the answers before we begin. “I need to be an expert first and then I’ll get going.” That’s sort of what most people think. Continue reading

The Brevity of Life and Making Changes Before It’s Too Late

effortCharles Hugh Smith – At a reader’s request, I’m excerpting an essay from last week’s Musings Report:

My friend GFB recently sent me a quote from Paul Bowles novel “The Sheltering Sky” (1949). If you are under the age of 30, it may not have the same impact that it has on those of us on the downhill slope of life.

“Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.” Continue reading

How Did I Manage to Stumble into That?

perfectionKatherine Cartwright  – I’m pondering lessons around imperfection today.

Ugh. Maybe I’ll just put my toe in the water. But while standing at the edge of the deep waters, I was pulled in. And I can see where this Summer of Self-Love is going to take me. To the places where I don’t love myself well.

What did I expect? Really.

A good friend tells me I always walk into things so guilelessly and end up being so surprised when they bite me. It’s something we laugh about together. Thank goodness for friends you can laugh with.

Anyway, don’t ask the Universe for help and then be surprised when it comes in interesting life lessons.

So yesterday I published the first post of this daily discipline of writing and it was beautiful. Except for the pesky extra space between the picture and the text, which I thought would be a simple enough thing to fix. I’d already posted it and did not like the look of it when I went in and read the published version. It was just a tiny little thing, but it really bugged me. So I went in to edit. All I did was take out a space. I went back and viewed the blog and it had transformed into the ugly blog. Three different fonts. Two different font sizes. How the heck did that happen? Continue reading

Oracle Report ~ Wednesday, June 17, 2015

visionNew Moon in Cancer: beginnings, intentions

Goddess of Wisdom: Bagalamukhi (Goddess Who Stabilizes, Goddess of the Power of Words)

God of Will: Ian (God of The East)

Skill: hold to a greater vision

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: “winter frost in the woods”

Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Year: “the music of the spheres”

Today, the Sun will travel to make exact opposition with the Galactic Center, the Central Sun of our galaxy. Exact alignment occurs at 5:19 pm ET/9:19 pm UT. This angle happens only one day each year.

The Galactic Center is the hub of our galaxy, and is a place or space or point of limitlessness. It is a sacred place. It opens us up, expanding our perception and understanding. When the Sun comes into this configuration, a massive spiritual energetic is activated.

The vastness of the energy can be daunting, however. The Sabian symbols describe it perfectly. The Sun is located at the degree of the Sabian symbol of “a young gypsy emerging from the woods gazes at faraway cities.” We face the Unknown, which seems limitless under this dynamic. Things can seem insurmountable. Our programmed experience is that the unknown means something bad will happen. Continue reading