Showing posts with label gratitude. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gratitude. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

The Capricorn New Moon and Manifestation

The Sun and Moon are now conjunct in Capricorn, the sign of manifestation.

This means we have a two-to-three-day window during this commencement of the new lunar cycle to send forth into the universe our highest aspirations, desires and hopes - not just for ourselves, but for our loved ones and all that lives - all creation in other words, since creation is very much Saturn-ruled Capricorn's realm (though it helps if Neptune's involved, too).

With the powerful Capricorn energy dominating over the next day or so, we are given a particularly potent window of opportunity to channel our intentions for new projects outward and give thanks for what we already enjoy and what we are yet to receive.

This evening, I reminded myself of my most positive aspirations, since I so often struggle with the lowest vibrations of anxiety, depression, fear and negativity. I gave myself licence to remember what I hoped for for myself - to remember, in other words, my highest self.

I looked into my heart and saw a mighty being of light - a light far greater than the terrors that usually threaten to overwhelm it.

I saw creativity, joy and daring. I saw a gratitude mighty as the sun, reaching forth with every action to embrace life and to send out love and healing.

I imagined a consciousness pure of every kind of bias, prejudice and limitation. Of limitless generosity and grace.

No longer a slave to pessimissm, fear and shame, anxiety, insecurity and timidity, I invited my grandest, strongest, wisest, most compassionate self to me.

May the beginning of the new lunar month make us all agents of our highest aspirations, to serve and to love others, regardless of reward, and to help each other manifest our dreams.

Light, love and peace to all.

Friday, December 28, 2007

Grace, Magnanimity Remembered

On a day when I was utterly shaken and dispirited by the assassination of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, and by the further evidence of humankind's violent, self-destructive urges, I wanted to post something to balance out my gloom, something that made me both happy and humbled to read.

From the December 23 online edition of The New York Times, here is Darcey Steinke's poignant remembrance of a kindness that was not originally appreciated when she was, in her own words, "a skinny, eye-rolling 21-year-old with literary pretensions" as an American exchange student in Ireland, but is, today, a source of great gratitude to her:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/fashion/23steinke.html