| Happy New Moon in Virgo! |
“You are supported in making changes in your life. Today is your day to choose a new way of being in the world. Release whatever has been holding you back and live every minute with the freshness of new energy. You create this moment anew in every moment of your life.” |
Big day in the heavens yesterday! The New Moon happened on September 13, early in the morning (2:41am Eastern Daylight Time) and the lineup of the Earth, Moon and Sun gave us a partial Solar Eclipse (sadly, not visible in the US). New Moons are the beginning of the Moon cycles and encourage us to focus on the ‘new.’ Solar Eclipses magnify this energy of ‘new’ and encourage us to evolve. This eclipse is ‘facilitating a reconfiguration and rebooting of consciousness.’ (The Mountain Astrologer magazine) That is potent energy! Have you been feeling it? I have been in this shake-up since the last Full Moon! My personal experience of this ‘rebooting’ is that I have fully embraced the Universe as an abundant place to live. I focus on abundance, in all areas. And the generosity of the Universe is astounding me! I keep winning things that I need – including a distant healing session for our dog, Tara! (or did Tara manifest that one? Hmmm…) Pay attention to the Exploration article in this newsletter (link). Notice where your thoughts are taking you. You are in manifesting mode whether or not you are conscious and intentional or you are disbelieving in this manifestation stuff. Doesn’t it make sense to go ahead and think about what you want instead of what you don’t want, just in case those of us who have figured this out are right? With the New Moon and the Solar Eclipse energy around, there is potent energy to help you manifest something new in your life. And the energy of an eclipse stays effecting us for the next 6 months! We are also coming up on the next Mercury retrograde, when that planet appears to move backward in the sky. Some people groan when they hear this, others get huge bursts of creativity. Just be sure to be careful, read before signing, be patient with communication snafus September 17 – October 9. The Sun is finishing up its annual tour in Virgo and enters the sign of Libra on September 23, which is also the Autumnal Equinox. ‘Balance’ is the keyword here. Use the time before the Equinox to find Balance in the flow of your life. On that day with equal daylight and darkness, look at your life and decide how to live in balance so that you can ‘go with the flow.’ We’re really busy around here with Fall activities. I’ll be at the Pathways Natural Living Expo in Falls Church, Virginia on Sunday, September 27, and at the 4th Annual On Purpose Woman Regional Conferencein Columbia, Maryland October 2-3. Please stop by! ***NEW*** In the spirit of the newness of this New Moon and the Eclipse, I will be sending you a link to a podcast of The Scientific Mystic Show at the halfway points between the New Moon and Full Moon and then between the Full Moon and New Moon. This is a brief (approximately 20 minute) message to inspire you. Let me know if you have a question you would like answered or a topic you would like for me to cover. Occasionally, I will have a guest speaker with me for an interview. A link to the current podcast will be offered in a new post soon – watch for it! Family birthday – our grandson, Cody, has a birthday on September 24. Happy Birthday, Cody! (This is our family’s busy birthday season – 4 grandkids have birthdays between July 15 and September 24!)
September 15 – Red Elephant Flight Club VIP Day September 24 – Leading: The Master HeartMind Program Q&A September 27 – Exhibiting: Pathways Natural Living Expo, Falls Church, VA LINK October 2-3 – Speaking: The 4th Annual On Purpose Woman ConferenceColumbia, MD LINK October 7 – Leading: The Spiritual Exploration Group, Severna Park, MD LINK October 8 – Leading: The Master HeartMind Program Session October 11 – ACT Program event, Annapolis, MD LINK October 22 – Leading: The Master HeartMind Program Q&A
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Happy Birthday to YOU!!! – Richard’s Commentary
September 5, 2013 — RichardAnd I can also say Happy Birthday to the Moon today! She is new in Virgo. This just occurred at 7:38 am Eastern time.
Do you celebrate the New Moon each “moonth”? Are you aware of the phases of the moon and her travels through the night sky? The Ancients paid a great deal of attention to this goddess of the heavens. She lighted the way of night travelers, guided the seasons and times to plant, provided a calendar, effected tides and seafaring, and offered a rhythm to life and the basis of myth and wonder.
From modern research we know that life would be very different, if it existed at all, if it weren’t for our moon. Her influence on the planet and our lives is profound. So, I pay a lot of attention to her phases and my interaction with her. If you’ve been reading my posts for a while you’ll know, for example, that I cast an I Ching Gua (a hexagram of yin and yang lines) at each new moon to divine an energy for the up-coming month. (I’ll post that tomorrow.) I also celebrate the new moon as a new beginning, as a birthday of sorts, very much in keeping with Rosemary’s message this week. So, on this new moon day consider her advice:
Happy Birthday to YOU!!! Today is your birthday. You get to choose who you are today, right now, in this moment. You don’t even have to be the same as you were when you woke up this morning. OR you can decide that you like the YOU who woke up and you re-decide to celebrate YOU! Either way, it’s your birthday today.
It is a good time to start something new. I’m going to plant some fall vegetables in my garden today. And Rosemary and I are going to review our business plan and model to determine what’s working and what can be improved. It’s a new day as well as a new moon!
And this new moon is in the sign of Virgo. This too has special meaning. A dear friend and astrologer, Gloria Hesseloff, titled in her newsletter for the New Moon: Work is Love made Visible, using a line from a poem by Kahil Gibran. The Virgo Moon calls us to a higher work. Gloria writes:
Virgo energy challenges you to release any obstacles to finding your sacred work. Integrating this goal with the radical changes that Pluto and Uranus are demanding of us right now, ask yourself, “What changes do I need to make to my daily life routines and patterns (Virgo attributes) so I can be an instrument of the Divine?
Virgo energy asks you to become highly competent in a skill that is of value to others. Then generously offer it as your high service. Your specific gifts are truly needed at this significant moment in history.
Today is your birthday! Celebrate with me as I celebrate this New Moon and “the first day of the rest of my life”! We are always at choice. I choose to make my love visible through my work.