If you only desire the prayer for this lunation, then scroll down to the *** and skip all the anecdotal semi stream of consciousness stuff through which I arrived at it.
Yesterday, I was reading about the Israel/Palestine mess over at Huff Post regarding a dispute between former Pres. Carter and Dershowitz over the "roadkill to peace" and I was thinking about the New Moon in Capricorn which will occur at 11:01 pm EST tonight at 28 degrees and change.
If anyone still cares to refute astro influences then scroll below to the first link at the bottom of this thread for what I said last week and still stand by now regarding such arguments. If it doesn't work for you, then that's fine with me. "Different strokes for different folks" and all of that. Still there is no harm in working with the inherent energies that be.
Or to quote Isaac Newton in regards to astrological detractors, "I have studied it, you have not."
ASTRONOMICALLY by precise longitudinal measurement, Pluto (though allegedly dwarfed???) will enter Capricorn (tropically) for the first time in 247.7 years in about a year's time. This year Pluto will transit the Galactic Center for it's 2nd (mid July) and 3rd (latish October) times in 247.7 years. It's transit to the Solar Apex (the direction in which our Solar System is headed through our galaxy (signifying our future-no biggie-LOL) will happen late next January, 5-6/08, 11-12/08, finally stationing there in 9/09.
It is my fervent wish and deep seated belief that this influence among others, could potentially goose our collective evolution and consciousness in a very BIG and completely unprecedented wayyy.
A few of the myriad of things which fall under Capricornian rulership are leadership, government, the rule of law, and "business as usual." Since 1988, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Chiron have all scrambled, altered and caused great upheaval to that particular sign . If you hadn't noticed, business has hardly been at all usual since then, nor have any of its other realms of rulership. New models for those arenas are more than a little warranted IMHO.
On a superficial level, it would appear that the kids born since '88 until 12/05 will more than likely be the ones to purify, reorganize, and overhaul the structures that seem to be so irretrievably broken and totally dysfunctional at present.
Psssssssst. . .Perhaps we could help them along to have an easier time of it. Maybe "Graceful transitions (could be) "R" Us" for far more expedient ameliorations. Could we possibly start thinking about saving the kids instead of covering our asses? Sheesh.
Though, in contemplating the Israel/Palestine dilemma I was reminded of a "Prayer For A United World" by Paramahansa Yogananda
http://www.yogananda-srf.org/py-life/index.html (Disclaimer-NO I'm not a devotee-I know very little about him-just stumbled upon some of his most inspiring quotations several years back-the spiritual wells I draw from are limitless, unfathomable, and widely varied so don't even start. Okay ?)
If you'll allow me to set the "way back" again, the first time I typed that particular prayer, it was for a stellascope I wrote shortly after 9/11 and I was strangely shown a vision of how, if only Jerusalem could be turned into an international zone for a decade (commencing at that time) it would be more than likely that by now, with the energies that now are hovering, that all the hot heads would have possibly chilled and gotten over some of their rancor, hostility. purposely destructive urges. Of course, that didn't even remotely happen for many assorted and unbelievably dumb and unenlightened reasons. Sadly, it's been quite to the contrary.
Okay so to revisit, here's a humbly presented non gender specific revision to Yogananda's awesome prayer updated for more current expansively "gender bending" times. It may be appropriate for this pending lunation. My edits are notated by quotations marks. I do so think it's really silly to quote myself.
With all due respect to the Yogi I never knew. . . (how's that for a trashy romance novel title . . .?)
Garishly Revised & Updated "Prayer For A United World"
***""I'm co creating with spirit that" the heads of all countries and races be guided to understand that "those" of all nations are physically and spiritually one: physically one, because we are the descendants of common parents-the symbolic Adam and Eve; spiritually one, because we are the immortal children of our "Creatrix (aka God/Goddess)**", bound by eternal links of "humanity."
Let us pray in our hearts for a League of Souls and a United World. Though we may seem divided by race, creed, class, and political prejudices, still as children of the one "Creatrix" we are able in our souls to feel "ONENESS" and world unity. May we work for the creation of a United World in which every nation will be a useful part, guided by "love, great humors, true compassion, and generosity" through "our newly restored" enlightened conscience.
In our hearts we can all learn to be free from "hatred" and selfishness. Let us pray for harmony among the nations, that they march hand in hand through the gate of a "truly" fair new civilisation."
Consider breathing that one in for the lunation.
The thought of revising that prayer reminded me of a conversation I had a couple of nights ago with an older wise one.
We were talking about Iraq and she said with absolution that it would only be resolved through the gentle application of feminine energy. That may sound sexist so with another disclaimer, may I offer up that I feel as though both genders are generally a mish mash of archetypal feminine and masculine energies. Can we all agree upon the apparent truism that the disaster in Iraq could be construed as Mars gone amuck. (again see last week's link, the first link at the bottom of this post for explanation of the healthy versus unhealthy Martian influences, manifestations, and phenomena)
Prior to our invasion, from what I've read from the Iraqi ladies, the ratio between incomes of professional men and women was far more commisarate than it was in the US. Sure they had a despicable tyrant in charge but "yoohoo" we put him in power. Yet despite all of that it was, in other regards, one of the more progressive and secular countries in that region, despite other obvious problems. Individual freedoms weren't thriving necessarily, but in terms of education, and in many regards, women's rights they were far better off than many of their neighboring more sectarian neighbors. Back then I heard there were more Phd's per capita than we have here, though many have reportedly either fled or been assassinated by now.
I had posted several months ago in GD about how if only Faiza (a Shia married to a Sunni) who has a Phd in Engineering and is more knowledgeable about her culture, world history, various religions, and literature than most of our leaders (that doesn't say much) (
http://afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com ) & riverbend (a Sunni who is so savvy and refreshingly clear, despite her now horrific circumstances) (
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com ) could only have political influence for a transitional period, instead of our installed puppets, I bet that conflicts would be straightened out in short order far more humanely than the absolute idiocy, of non effective, onerously costly and counter productive escalation. Ahhh that particular post scarcely got any responses.
Psssssssssst. . . the time has long since past that we could be anything even closely resembling honest brokers of peace and/or democracy in Iraq or anywhere else for that matter. Peace starts within.
Someone in GD nailed it in three words a few weeks ago. . .in reference to *'s Iraq policy and described it as "a vendetta on failure." That blew me away in its accuracy, brevity, and astuteness.
In searching through the 5-6 year old copies of stellascopes I saw something that I'd been thinking of digging for ever since I first heard John Mayers' "Waiting on the World to Change." last summer . . .
From shortly after 9/11. . .
"Our opponents in this conflict have sleeper cells. Well, in my humble opinion, so do we. Anyone who has flirted with a spiritual path even for a millisecond is now hereby officially qualified to create their very own "waking cell." Also included in this oh so exclusive spiritual society is anyone who's soul's desire is to wait no longer for the world to change . . ."
We simply can no longer depend on our leaders for damned near squat.
I then went on and on about mirroring the attributes of one's opponents instead of creating intractable further conflicts by indulging in shadow projections and the foolishly counterproductive nature of labeling anything or anyone "evil."
In a letter I foolishly sent to the pres on 10/16/01 (which I'm quite sure he never read LOL) I summarized my reasons for this theory more succinctly. . .
"I humbly beseech you to eradicate the word "evil" from your lexicon of verbiage. Consider for a moment it's definition when it's spelled backwards.
From an energetic point of view, "the overuse of the word "evil" only empowers one's opponents and always has.
There are many more creative terms to use. . .misguided, unenlightened, destructive, hateful, mean spirited, sadistic, short sighted, stupid, obnoxious, cruel, deviant, villainous, absurd, totally uncalled for. . .etc."
A lot of good that effort did. . .not.
Then I threw a moccasin at my television during the SOTU when he coined the phrase "axis of evil." Gee years later, now two of those countries may or may not have gone nuclear and we've not so ingeniously decimated the third. My poor moccasin.
In kicking around the notion of unenlightened shadow projection and assorted limitations of dualistic thinking, another dear one mentioned the Yin Yang Symbol and reminded me of this. . .
Here's what I wrote last year and have been saying for eons about the Yin Yang Symbol. . .
"Consider also being squiggle in the middle of Yin Yang symbol because at the
center of the white is black, at the center of black is white. 'Round and
'round we go. That is the trap of dualism, and why it is far more fun to be
the squiggle in the middle. The dark (unconscious) is simply as sacred as the light (conscious).
Problems arise when imbalances and repression and resulting deviance occur
through an unbalanced relationship between the two and not by the fault or
exclusive virtue of one or the other. (lots more on that later)
The Yin Yang symbolizes a gateway to upper universes FYI, or is at the
verrry least one of them. There are many, and are several such symbols for
every faith and culture. Though the uncircled cross is a symbol, most
crucifying and damning for many. It simply has no flow. Maybe start
circling that around."
Anyhoo the "surge" in the collective racism and bigotry over the past 6 years has my head spinning. If I have to hear another RWnut disparaging Muslim as "towel heads" who have been killing each other for eons and always will, I may suffer from spontaneous human combustion. Their's is the Cradle of Civilization which was respnsible for Hammarabi's Code in the first place. The blinding idiocy abounds.
Approaching Pluto's planetary ingress into Cap and it's conjuction with the Solar Apex and subsequent retrograde passes over the cusp and Galactic Center and it's station at that degree in September, perhaps there is a better way. We perhaps must find it and create it. Killing and War are just so antiquated and ineffective and only enrich the very few and cost the many.
Or, as a very wise one's protest sign read in DC a year and a half ago, "I can't believe we still have to protest this sh*t."
Oh and as an aside. While I was riding the "Ooga, Booga, Smooga, Wooga" wave last weekend and on MLK Day, I felt a spiritual movement hovering based on shared humors. It was really amazingly cool.
Furthermore, on MLK Day, on the Today Show, which I rarely bother to watch, the opening line was "__________ & ___________" were hung in Baghdad today. Neither was mistreated." 'Scuse me but, since when does lynching and decapitation not qualify as mistreatment regardless of alleged culpability. The degree to which our handsomely paid oft disingenuous talking heads are working towards desensitizing us to inhumane treatment, brutality, and cruelty is reminiscent of the Colosseum and days I foolishly and naively thought had long since past. Hope Lester enjoys his big fat pay check this week. On MLK's birthday no less. Atrocious. Corporate control of media must end IMHO. It's akin to brainwashing and is really annoying. It's far worse than that really.
rumpel's contribution from an interview:
"Oren Lyons
I believe that all of this discussion between human beings is one of morality. I think that everyone has to deal with the emotions that are in each individual. And we understand that we have both good and bad in us and that you must strike a balance at all times. This spiritual center then, is what the Great Tree of Peace is. It's a spiritual center. It's a spiritual law--
Bill Moyers:
The Peacemaker, when he came, planted a Tree of Peace?
Oren Lyons:
A Tree of Peace, a Great Peace, a great law. It's a spiritual law. He said, `When you become afraid or when you become weak or when you become not able to carry,' he says, `it's the spiritual law that will stiffen your spine.' He said, `That's where your strength is. So you must make your laws in accordance with those spiritual laws and then you will survive.'
He called that council the Council of the Good Minds. He said the Hoyanni -- that's what it means, the all-good, the good, peacemakers. So that's what he set up. And when he uprooted this great tree and he asked the Nations to come forward and cast their weapons of war, he says, `We now do away with the warriors and we do away with the war chiefs. And in their place we plant the Council of the Good Minds who will now counsel for the welfare of the people.' And he said, `I shall not leave you defenseless.' And he gave us a spiritual strength, Oyenkwaohweh, the Great Tobacco. He said, `This will be your medium for communication, directly.'"
The "Council of Good Minds" concept is humoring me, not only because it's what we are sorely lacking but because when I was reviewing the writing from 5 & 1/2 years ago, I read something I had forgotten about. At the time, I was thinking we needed to initiate a "Department of Ingenuity" instead of another big bloated behemoth dysfunctional so-called intelligence agency like Homeland Security. Especially when we had five such agencies already who were not communicating with each other or doing their jobs. In my smallish book "bad intelligence = Shear stupidity." I'd always wondered and wanted someone to explain to me WTF the obtusely negligible and subtle distinction between Homeland Security and National Security was. e-gads.
Fundamentally most people are peacefully oriented. The profiteers who speak in terms of fear only are not. I'm thinking about what all the psychologists said about that poor young boy held captive by that creep recently in the news. The kid who was just rescued and the psychologists were all suggesting that he didn't leave because he thought it would endanger his family. I've said for years that we were collectively experiencing Stockholm Syndrome: wherein we were lulled into a sense of complacency due to a false sense of security from our captors. "Terror, terror, terror = fear, fear, fear + it ain't about love at all." Maybe we could all get along a little better.
Enough of that old fearful BS. Let's have some real leadership for a change and for our kids brighter futures.
The phrase "surge in consciousness" is sort of hovering around this effort. Happy New Moon and may we make it so.
Try the prayer, it can't hurt.
hmmmmmm. . .
I had a funny thought on Monday "Ooga, Booga, Smooga, Wooga" = OBSW = Oh Bull Shit W
tra la la
Backround info in the first two links and goofily funny OBSW merchandise at the 3rd one.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... http://www.cafepress.com/helderheid/2380944 **I've playfully referred to our collective spiritual source as the "Creatrix" for a long time, as it transcends all dogmas and EVERYONE has access to that force, if only they may find laughter and express kindness in as many moments as possible.
"nam-myoho-renge-kyo"
this is dedicated to MLK who's birthday was distracted by qustionable hangings in Baghdad and hedonistic self congratulatory fests in LA. How utterly disrespectful. Hurrrrumph.
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