Author: anna

The position of several planets at this time forms a grand cross.  This can appear to be causing discomfort. Rather than to succumb to what appears to be happening, remain as you are and ‘this too shall pass’.

“As an organism, every single thing which you experience is experienced within awareness. And to the extent to which awareness itself can be experienced, it too is merely another experience.

It is not “you”–an object of awareness–which is seeing through your eyes, it is this ever-present be-ing. It is not you which is aware of thoughts–objects in awareness–it is again, awareness. Anything which you can think of that you are is simply objectified in awareness. So clearly it is the awareness which is the you that perceives, not the objectifications in awareness identified as characteristics of your self. There is no self outside of awareness”. –Robert Wolfe, Abiding in Nondual Awareness

“Nonduality is incredibly simple but it is incomprehensible to the mind. It doesn’t matter how much the mind studies this, it will never get it. We can study this and understand concepts about it, but the mind will never approach what nonduality actually is.

The mind could analyze and fully understand the constituents of an orange but that wouldn’t give us any idea what one tastes like. But once we’ve tasted one, its flavor is incontrovertible whether we understand what constituents it contains or not. In the same way, we can have a very good understanding of nonduality but that won’t tell us what liberation tastes like.”–Richard Sylvester, The Book of No One

New Moon March 30, 2014 @ 9 degrees Aries 59 minutes

2:45 p.m. EDT 11:45 PDT

“You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side, yeah”
~Jim Morrison, The Doors

As challenging as this New Moon chart may seem, Sun Moon Uranus square with Pluto and Jupiter in opposition, it isn’t as daunting as it first appears. We have been dealing with this energy of transformation for a long time. Fortunately, wisdom and grace are in accompaniment placating the rattled nerves sensitized when Pluto moved into Capricorn (November 2008) and the deconstruction process kicked into high gear. We now continue to experience the unraveling of patterns and beliefs and watch them drift away and disappear. Focusing on any single aspect in this chart seems pointless, rather like staring at a speck of dust as the tornado tears the surface away. Aries weathers the storm very well; sometimes is the storm.

The message with an Aries New Moon is be bold, strong, courageous—Be. There is nowhere to focus your attention outside of your self. There is no one that requires anything of you that should deter you from Self. The happiness we seek, in all the Universe is registered exactly at this point, right here, right now. Everything else is the ongoing story that I create to entertain my self; that the entertainment occurs, not an issue, unless it is an issue that makes you suffer and you would rather not.

What if you are locked in a room, you think, for your whole life gaining access to the outside only when someone comes to let you out? Then one day, you decide to escape and find that the door has never been locked and you are free. Conditioned beliefs are the walls that imprison us and prevent us from knowing freedom. The liberation is peace and love and grace. It is everything and available everywhere and always. Disassemble the thought structures and there you are.

It is what is happening in every moment. We could talk about the details but is there a point when there is one simple truth and there is nothing else we need to know in this moment? “Be as you are”, Ramana Maharshi was a man of very few words as the truth is simple and then, there is nothing else to say.

Step up. Step out and step into finally, the stillness that you are. During this New Moon, there is nothing else to do. Any reverberations of discomfort will be the ego digging in its heels as the ever flowing urge to realize Self unfolds.

And Jesus said, “Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven”.~Matthew 18:3

What gems to find, when sifting through what you’ve left behind; the innocence and purity, the absence of mind that allows love to populate this moment unencumbered by shoulds or should nots.

Love fills all the gaps between stutter and statement, a bow and a blush that paints the sky peach, turns the heart in, spreads the love all ’round.

The little child, a simple gift to me and knowing that I am “that”–pure and simple.

Let the first touch be friendly. Let the first touch be kind. Let the first touch be loving. When we extend our hand in greeting let it embrace the world in peace.

Dalai Llama from The Little Book of Wisdom

“I always try to create a ground of friendliness with people. Whenever I meet someone new, for example, I feel no need for introductions. The person is obviously another human being…I see a smile, some teeth and eyes, and so on, and I recognize the person as a human being! On that basis, on the emotional level we are the same..with that conviction, I feel that the other person is a human brother and approach him spontaneously. In most cases the other person immediately responds accordingly, and becomes a friend.”