astral meanders may 18-24 2011

In General: Saturn is retrograde all month in Libra and we will be feeling this energy quite strongly now. Relationships are a continued focus and we are definitely becoming more aware of where our issues are within these. With the Sun moving into Gemini on the 21st there are new ideas available to us and innovative ways to problem solve! If we are willing to put in the work then we can make relationships and just about everything else more of what we want them to be! On May 20-21 Mercury, Venus and Mars in Taurus make an agreeable trine to Pluto, which favours realistic communications and cooperative activities that have a supporting and lengthy rationale. With these aspects in play we can expect beneficial conditions for manifesting enhanced general success and satisfaction within relationships. At the end of this week Saturn’s influence calls for some caution and realignment of our personal balance. If you have a birthday this week then the year ahead promises to be a fulfilling and successful one! Utilizing new ideas and finding new ways for doing things will be uppermost. On the world scene this is a week for re-establishing communications that have been a tad unpredictable. Nations can find better ways to work together if they really want to! What we will see is just how much they really want to, or not! Locally it is a good time for re-establishing our own relationships and working things out where needed.

Quote of the week: We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. Mother Teresa

Aries
March 21- April 20
This is an excellent week for getting all that Aries energy back on track and in order! You can achieve a good deal if you stay focused. Finances can be rebuilt, creative ventures can be reactivated and unfinished business can be completed and all this in a successful and very satisfying way!

Taurus
April 21-May 21
The start of the week is full of good, positive even lucky energy for you guys. If you have a vision that you want to activate then now is the time to do it! You are driven to stabilise finances and make your living conditions more comfortable, and any efforts towards these ends will pay off nicely now.

Gemini
May 22-June 21
An excellent week for getting on top of business. If there is an idea or opportunity that you have been vacillating about, now is the time to embrace it and give it all you have got! You have an uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time now, so getting the help and support you need, will be a trice.

Cancer
June 22- July 23
It’s a lot easier to achieve a nice balance between, work, home and fun this week, especially in the first few days. Things and perhaps even folk that have outworn their benefit in your life will begin to fade away now; don’t prolong the process by trying to hang on. Go with the flow for the best results.

Leo
July 24- August 23
This week holds a lot of opportunity for you Leo. So many positive things are happening for you now. It’s a social phase and you can derive much enjoyment from being out and about. You will attract a good deal of interests and support now so it’s a great time for networking. Use this week to plant seeds for your future.

Virgo
August 24- September 23
All the things you have been cleverly and tenderly nurturing up to now, really take root this week and begin to grow. You only have to stand back and admire! Certainly it’s an excellent time for realising the fruits of your labours. Educational and travel opportunities are opening up for you now and can be very rewarding.

Libra
September 24- October 23
There is a chance that others will step up and give you some much need help this week. Where you may have felt a problem was unresolvable the results will surprise you in the nicest possible way. You are beginning to feel the need to step outside of your comfort zone and seek adventure. You are searching for a deeper meaning in things.

Scorpio
October 24-November 22
Energy levels are picking up. Even so you feel more inclined to enjoy your own hearth than socialise and get out and about! You are keen to establish relationships and work on your inner self. You are clearing out personal junk on all levels and finding out important and liberating things about yourself.

Sagittarius
November 23- December 21
Love relationships, creativity and all things personal are improving! You may even feel like you can pat yourself on the back over a job well done this week. You are more tactful and compassionate than usual and are keen to improve relationships with co-workers. It’s also a good time to sort out daily life details.

Capricorn
December 22- January20
Career opportunities are likely this week but do be sure to dot all i’s and cross all t’s if signing documents of any kind. Your charisma is still shining brightly and intimate gatherings will see you at your best. Be sure to attend to your general health and well being. It’s a good time to begin new health and fitness routines.

Aquarius
January 21- February 19
This week begins on a slightly shaky ground but after the 19th things should improve. It is actually the start of a much more gregarious and playful time of the year for you guys. Pleasure, amusement and social activity will be much more important to you than usual. Let your inner child come out and play!

Pisces
February 20 March 20
It’s an important time for listening to your inner voice and following that gut reaction. If you don’t its very lively you will later regret it. Family and a sense of belonging become more than usually important now and you want to solidify your sense of putting down roots. You need to cultivate and nourish your family relationships.

Astral Peeks: The cosmology of mindfulness:

It would take 1,000’s of earths to fill Jupiter. It would take 1,000’s of Jupiters to fill Saturn, and it would take 1,000’s of Saturns to fill the Sun. You could fit, 1 million and 395,000earths inside the sun....we are a small galaxy in a cosmos of much bigger galaxies....

We are diminutive individuals on a small earth in a small galaxy....this acknowledgment of our minuteness should not make us feel vulnerable...rather it should provide us with the vast freedoms of insignificance...when we realise how comparatively unimportant we are, we take our lives less seriously, we lose our judgmental attitude, we allow ourselves to wonder at the largess around us, we recognise something greater than the self...

Mindfulness connects us to more than the moment and the self in the moment. It allows us to connect to the entire universe or in other words to expand and develop a real interest in the world outside of the self. When we do this we draw that world into ourselves and expand the self at the same time....everything becomes one thing...

‘When you can see the universe in a table you have become mindful....’ Thich Nhat Han

If we could see through all our projections Down to the last traces, Our personality would be extended to Cosmic dimensions”
Marie Louise von Franz

An understanding of the vastness of the universe brings us back to our own self. Mindfulness meditation allows us this experience. If you are interested in classes or even in purchasing a Cd by myself then pop into the wellbeing center in Yamba.