Violence Does Not Solve Violence

How many wars have been fought in the name of justice?  How many innocent people have been killed in the name of religion? 

 

Throughout the years mankind has used drastic measures to try to deal with injustice and what is the end result?  Have the issued been resolved?  Is there less crime or atrocities?  Has the punishment suited the crime?

 

Why do so many innocent people need to be hurt or die when fighting breaks out between rival factions?  How do you stop this violence?  How to you make these individuals accountable without violence?

 

When someone is jailed for a crime committed is the problem rectified due to their institutionalization?  Does the perpetrator come out with a new found outlook that assists them with the intension that they will not harm another again?  We call incarceration justice but does justice assist in correcting the issues or does it perpetuate the problems?  What is the alternative?

 

One thing is for certain, violence does not correct violence.  If anything, it promotes more action of the same.  So what do we do and how do we change the course of our world?  What is the alternative for our political leaders?  What other course of action can they take to combat violence? 

 

Can change begin with us?  We can foster a better tomorrow by being an example to our children and our children’s children through love and compassion.  We have to “be” the action that we want for our world.  Slowly we will mold a future that WILL help those in need of direction and those who are dishearten because of a life that offers little in the area of hope.

 

It begins with us.  Once a wave starts on a lake, it continues and will travel the full length of the lake.  Our small steps in a positive direction can become the source of inspiration that can touch all of humanity.  Start your own wave and let’s watch its rippling effect.

 

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Transitting Jupiter in Leo

Jupiter has been in Leo since July of this year and we will be focusing on the movement of Jupiter in the sign of Leo specifically between 15-22 degrees.  If you have your Midheaven at 15-22 degrees of Leo, Jupiter will be conjuncting this area of your Chart beginning towards the end of September and will remain in close proximity until late June, 2015.  Jupiter goes into retrograde motion on December 8, 2014 and will pass over this area of your Chart two more times before it moves beyond the 22 degree mark.  Its influence will intensify each time is conjuncts this area of your Chart.

 

Transiting Jupiter’s orb of influence can be felt about 5 degrees approaching and lasts about 2 degrees while separating.  Jupiter is known as a major benefactor in Astrology and usually provides luck and good fortune or at least a positive approach to life’s circumstances when it becomes activated with another point in your Chart.  When Jupiter conjuncts the midheaven quite often one receives opportunities to further one’s occupation through promotion or increase in salary.  This opportunity increases when Jupiter is well aspected in the Natal Chart.  The results would be less affluently affected when Jupiter is under some stress in the Birth Chart. 

 

Jupiter regardless of natal aspect (with the except for Saturn) rewards and provides opportunities to move forward in your life’s direction.  Sometimes one’s aspirations and outer goals come to fruition during Jupiter’s contact with the mid-heaven.  You may get more recognition for hard work but Jupiter’s main expression deals with expansion.  If for example you have been avoiding responsibility at work, you may also get noticed for this; however, because of the good fortune that Jupiter usually offers, you may only get reprimanded in a gentle fashion.  Under most conditions, you would get another chance to prove yourself and in so doing, change your future prospective.  

 

When Jupiter is conjuncting the Mid-heaven, it is also in opposition to the IC or fourth house cusp.  This usually brings opportunities for changes in the home front although oppositions are usually not the best aspect and are often associated with other people’s opinions or communicational disruption and interchange.  If Jupiter is conjunct this area of your Chart, there would be opportunities to move into a home of your own, or buy or sell real estate that you could prosper from during this time.  The fourth house also deals with the family, and your family may experience gains at this time or you may assist them during this period.

 

Jupiter is nearly always present when good things happen or some sort of expansion takes place.  It promotes luck and ease in obtaining benefits unless there are other challenging aspects within the Chart at the same time.  If there are plenty of squares or oppositions and even some conjunctions to planetary placements within the Birth Chart during the transiting Jupiter conjunction, you will have to weigh in all the potential challenges that these other placements will have.  In most circumstances, Jupiter will provide some fortunate outcome although you may have to work very hard to achieve what you set out to do.  Jupiter is normally beneficial in its effects.

 

Find out how Jupiter is affecting your Birth Chart and understand what the opportunities for growth are for you.

 

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Locating Your Place of Serenity

After a hectic day performing all the necessary tasks to fulfill your commitments, whether it be a day spent at work outside of the home or a busy day working at home watching the children and doing the house chores, it is essential to have a place where you can retreat – a place to call your own.  Some prefer to take a walk outside viewing the garden and its beauty.  Some like to sit and turn on the television and watch their favourite show, while others need a place where they feel secluded and are able to review the day’s activity and recharge the emotional batteries.

 

You need some time to reflect on the day and whatever activity or lack thereof it takes to settle you down, this should be pursued.  If you find peace and solace through meditate or a walk in nature, take the time required to release any pent up emotion from the day’s workload and events.  It is important to release any tension and stress that you have throughout the day’ events.  Relax your mind.  A nature walk, meditation or a gentle musical interlude are all good ways to find that place of serenity that we all need to release.

 

Sharing the day’s events with a loved one or companion can also help you release and unwind after a busy day.  Even if all events of the day were positive and you are at peace with the events, share them with someone.  Release the joy and share the feelings you have about your day.

 

Each and every one of us has a need to release.  If after your release practice, you still feel restricted or obstructed, a listening ear or a strong shoulder will often help the situation and bring new light on subjects that just needed a different vantage point.

 

Finding your place of solitude is essential.  Each of us needs to release any emotions that are hindering our otherwise peaceful existence.  If you have had a wonderful day then share it as your feelings can also go along way on making others happy, simply by being and sharing with you.   Find your place of retreat, your place to unwind and continue or end your day free from any anxieties or stress.   

 

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Moon in Pisces in Astrology

The Moon in Pisces is an extremely sensitive sign placement and often provides people with the Moon in this sign or the Moon in the twelfth house with strong psychic inclinations.  They are very emotional in their nature and not very practical or earthy.  These individuals usually are apt to pursue a profession that involves caring for others or charity work.  Some view these sensitive individuals as spaced-out as they are often more in touch with what cannot be seen rather than being consumed by material possessions or professional advancement.

 

They are very deep people who unintentionally absorb other people’s feelings often mistaking these feels as their own.  This is something that they will need to work on in order to not become overwhelmed by the emotions of others.  They are psychic sponges and are also very compassionate souls who will need time alone to evaluate life’s circumstances and recharge their emotional batteries. 

They do not take well to insults or rejections of any kind.  They feel things deeply and neither take well to other people’s criticism nor overly aggressive individuals and their actions.  Their world is a feeling one and they can judge the environment before meeting anyone or knowing what is transpiring at any given time.

 

These people are gentle souls who genuinely care about others.  They are soft-hearted and because of this may be taken advantage of especially by those with sob stories.  They will have to learn (and probably the hard way) who is genuine and who actually needs their help.  You will find them involved in a spiritual cause or in religious groups and also in groups of like-minded people.

 

Many of these individuals find it very difficult to deal with some of life’s more tumultuous conditions and they have a desire to escape these life experiences.  Because of this, there are dangers of becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol in order to try to avoid these difficult situations that we all have to face at some point in our life.  Facing cold hard facts head on is often very trying and they will gain resilience and strength when they actually do try to cope with life’s hardships.

 

Because of their great sensitivity and strong imagination they are often able to decipher dreams and can use their gifts of psychic ability to assist those around them, as long as they learn how to separate themselves from others’ emotionally.  Their great imagination can also assist them in uncovering life’s mysteries and many use these talents and their emotional sensitivity to make great writers, poets, musicians and artists.

 

If you are looking for someone who will walk that mile in your shoes and share your most emotional experiences, these are the people that make great friends and the ones that will understand you when no one else seems to.

 

Where is the Moon in your Natal chart?

 

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Be True to Yourself

There are many individuals that live their lives for others--rarely thinking of their own needs and always putting other’s needs ahead of their own.  These are admiral qualities to say the least, but while they are busy helping everyone else they are forgetting that they also have needs.  How can we truly be of service if we are not looking after our own needs? 

 

You have to be true to yourself first and look after what is important to you.  If you spend your life neglecting yourself for the sake of others, will you find contentment in service?  Is it wrong to look after your own needs? 

 

Life is meant to be shared and if you truly want to share your life with others, perhaps to perform at your best, you have to have an honest look at how you feel.  Is your life complete and are you getting what you need?  It certainly is necessary to think of your own personal needs.  This is not being selfish.  It is important to look after yourself and your life’s requirements.

 

If you are living your life just for others, what is left for you?  How can you truly be of service to others if you feel incomplete or dissatisfied with life’s conditions?  You have to be happy within and content with your life.  This cannot be found through others.  It can only be found within you.

 

We are each here to help others.  If we pursue a life of giving, we are on the right path and following our destiny.  If you ignore your own needs, it may be difficult for you to do the best you can for others.  There will be times when you have to address your own mental, physical and emotional needs.  It is not necessary to bringing someone else into the equation.   It does not have to be brought out into the open or even presented to others.  It can be a pact you make with yourself -- a silent commitment you decide on without any outside involvement.  

 

You deserve to be happy and content in life.  Being true to yourself and paying attention to what your needs are is the first step in acknowledging that you too are deserving of attention.  We live a service oriented life and this is as it should be, but you should also experience the receiving scenario.  You are as relevant as anyone else.  Be sure to treat yourself in the same fashion as you treat others.

 

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Past Lives.....Fact or Fiction?

Are past lives fact or fiction?  This is a question that has been baffling people for eons. 

 

Is there a possibility that we have lived in previous lifetimes? 

 

Have we been here before? 

 

Is this our one and only life, and what happens when we die?

 

There have been many mystics, among others, that are quite comfortable with the concept that we have lived before.  There are countless individuals that truly believe that they have had recalls of past lives.  Some have experienced glimpses through past life regression.  Many of us have heard of stories where people claim to have experienced a “knowing” feeling as if they have been somewhere before yet know without a doubt that they have never been there in this lifetime.  How can this be possible?

 

We, personally, have seen an English speaking child under two years of age speaking fluent Chinese to a shop owner.  The Chinese owner said the child was talking in his language and questioned if the parents could also speak Chinese but they could not.  How is this possible? 

 

It is said that in the meditative state one can have many experiences, such as out of body experiences, finding their eclectic records and the remembrance of past lives.  Are all these fabrications of the mind or is this possible? 

 

Undoubtedly, we all have heard of experiences from those individuals who have clinically died and came back to life.  These individuals refer to a light or walking in a tunnel towards a light.  Some say that as they were walking towards the light that they reached a point where they knew that if they passed it there would be no returning. We have also been told that some are told to turn around and go back that it was not their time to come.  How can we explain this?

 

We hear more and more people having “special” experiences.  Does it not make you questions, what is normal or “super”natural and what is not? 

 

Are these experiences not just our individual perception of reality?  We, personally, cannot help but question just how little we actually understand.   What is the big picture and what is our part in it? 

 

We each have a choice to be a skeptic, to be a believer or we can just be open to all potentials.  Fact or fiction--what is your interpretation?  We leave it in your hands to come up with your own personal perception of what reality is and what your part actually is.  It is certainly wide open for discussion, isn’t it?

 

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