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Transit of Neptune

2012-02-02T16:58:00.000+11:00

http://blogs.abc.net.au It’s fitting for the last day of Neptune’s transit through Aquarius that it should be so very wet. Neptune consciousness only started to sink in for me as his departure became more imminent and I began to grow very weary of the state of total mystification (for better and for worse) that Neptune has brought into my life. Since my twenties he's been making his

Beautiful Truth

2012-02-02T09:28:00.002+11:00

Somewhere between the nose of junior and the brow of mum, is where I'd like to be right now. The rain is enough! I'm off down to the valley to pray today to meet up with the farrier to get Shep's feet trimmed. That he has any hooves left, that they have not turned to complete mush is a miracle.

Knowledge and Being

2012-01-30T12:49:00.001+11:00

Gurdjieff taught that knowledge and being must be acquired at a similar rate in order for being to grow and transform. Knowledge x being = understanding. Until one has an understanding of ‘being’ it’s difficult perhaps to grasp this concept. I used to know a musician who had great knowledge of his music and great skill in playing, but he had not developed his being to the same degree as his

The Paradox of Choice

2012-01-29T16:00:00.001+11:00

Professor Renata Salecl explores how capitalism’s shrill exhortations to ‘be oneself’ can be a tyranny which leads to ever-greater dissatisfaction and how the insistence that choice is a purely individual matter obstructs social change . Source This is very clever, and I really like the way this woman thinks.

Self-remembering ~ The Ultimate Reality Check.

2012-01-28T10:11:00.000+11:00

Self-remembering is a spiritual exercise brought into modern times and the West by G.I. Gurdjieff. It has its origins in Ancient Egypt where it was called God-Remembering. For me it is the ultimate ‘reality’ test. Self-remembering is not essentially difficult to do. The difficulty comes as with most spiritual exercises in remembering to do it. Self-remembering involves dividing our

Bibliotherapy

2012-01-25T14:17:00.002+11:00

Not much of a summer we're having here in the Blue Mountains. My excitement at understanding how beneficial it would be to greet the Sun every morning has been dampened by the very few days we've had of being able to actually see it. I've been working on my bibliotherapy list. Working being the operative word. It is taking longer than I thought. I am having to revisit these texts and think

January New Moon Horoscopes

2012-01-22T00:00:00.000+11:00

Wormhole Wedgetail by Link New Moon in Aquarius. L.A. – Sunday – 23:41 SYDNEY – Monday – 18:41 LONDON – Monday – 07:41 NEW YORK – Monday – 02:41 The first new moon of the year is both beginning and ending. Beginning because a new moon always stands for a fresh start, a new endeavour, the empowerment of ideas. They refresh and invigorate, an opportunity for metanoia--newness of

Moon Dark Prayer to Maat

2012-01-20T10:09:00.001+11:00

may my body, may natural self, in all it's complexities be a useful instrument for the transformation of energy to its highest good. help me use my body wisely, help me understand it's needs, help me know it as a gift, a tool, a protector that connects me to all sentient beings and this earth. help me enjoy it's uses, the delights of the senses may my thoughts, my spiritual life,

The Day The LOLcats Died - SOPA PIPA Protest Song

2012-01-19T11:47:00.000+11:00

Tinker, tailor, soldier . . . John Clarke.

2012-01-19T11:42:00.001+11:00

13. If you have not seen any other vehicles for some time, don’t know where you are, seem to be driving through a moonscape and wonder if you’ve just seen the tardis, you are possibly on some new tollway. Enjoy Adelaide. IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL DRIVERS. CHANGES TO THE ROAD RULES. Mercury in Cancer, Sun, Saturn and Pluto in Leo. Jupiter in Sagittarius, Mars and Neptune in Libra. A

Understanding

2012-01-19T10:16:00.000+11:00

I used to think that not understanding, was the worst possible purgatory, when you could see things happening, but you couldn't understand why they were happening. I think this is a Sag Ascendent thing. At the risk of sounding like Donald Rumsfield, with his known knowns. There are things I know I don't understand, but far more are the things I don't know and so don't understand. Just what

The Screamhouse Gases

2012-01-17T11:28:00.001+11:00

I sit down to write a post and the sun comes out--finally--a bit. Washing needs hanging, though it's a bit ugly out there right now. Screamhouse gases next door have been going off for at least the last 48hrs. Calling the cops has been crossing my mind, I wish I had big speakers to blast Beethoven at them. So, no laughing now at my ruler skills, or at this point, attention to degree

Moon overload.

2012-01-14T13:09:00.003+11:00

December 2011 Full Moon Eclipse. by Link. It was a big Moon--the eclipse Moon in December. Seems like a long time ago, now . . . Followed by a slightly weirded-out Xmas Day new Moon and then a big full-on Cancer Moon. Man, I am moooned out. New Moon on 23rd, in Aquarius! But I won't consider my year to have started until the new Moon in Aries. Which should be a beaut too, as it

An intelligent way of working on your 'being'. . .

2012-01-13T22:19:00.001+11:00

The Fourth Way is a term usually used to describe the method of teaching as described to his followers by Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. It is and it isn’t rocket science. Gurdjieff taught his pupils that working in the Fourth Way was the fastest route to enlightenment. Sounds good so far and as a practitioner of Gurdjieff teachings it is a very intelligent way to work on

Transit of Neptune, 1998-2012 by Sign.

2012-01-13T15:47:00.001+11:00

♈ Aries Neptune has been transiting your 11th house and in some ways this transit of Neptune through the 11th house (i.e., the house ruled by Aquarius), has made your experience of Neptune, common for us all. Take all you've learnt about group dynamics, false friends and true, wild schemes and deception into a new era where compassion, empathy and finding common connection with others

Neptune, . . so long and thanks for all the fish.

2012-01-13T12:33:00.000+11:00

can't haunt me by ansziadesign on deviant art. Neptune will end his long transit of Aquarius on February 4th--not long to go now. It's been an amazing fifteen or so years since Neptune first moved into Aquarius in 1998. Because Neptune is an outer planet and takes 164.79 to orbit the Sun, those of us alive today will never again experience quite the same sort of strange peregrinations

Soul in live Music.

2012-01-10T16:46:00.001+11:00

If you want to tap into the living soul of music. It has to be live. It is a truly wonderous experience, playing music with others which I've been lucky enough to do, in a traditional Irish session around a friend's kitchen table-- about fifteen musicians. I play the bodhran or on this occasion I think it was the salt and pepper shaker or maybe it was just my tighes as the Irish say . . .

A.A.

2012-01-09T21:57:00.002+11:00

Despite my mother's insistence I really do not believe I am an alcoholic. As I have tried to explain to her over the years, you have to drink a bit to be an alcoholic. I barely even drink a bit. She then suggested I was a binge drinker (finger pointing accusingly). Well, no Mum you really need to drink at times to excess to be a binge drinker, and I don't do that either. This was pure

Go for Walks, Dance, Pull Weeds.

2012-01-09T12:39:00.001+11:00

Go for walks, dance, pull weeds!

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

2012-01-08T16:43:00.001+11:00

Time to get cranky with google. Although cranky if you're in Tasmania means mad, as in nuts not cranky as in irascible which is the meaning I . . . mean. Futile! (I hear you cry). Yes of course, but all the same. . . . Do you get the impression there is something of a desperate attempt by the big search engines to corral us all into ever decreasing circles in order to get a better handle on

Hallucinogens and Psychotherapy

2012-01-05T09:18:00.001+11:00

Window. La Nina. by link Delaney swallowed a blue capsule of psilocybin in a cozy office at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She donned a blindfold, a blood pressure cuff and a headset playing classical music. With two researchers at her side, she embarked on a six-hour journey into altered consciousness that she calls "the single most life-changing experience I've ever had."[Source LA

Of Dirty Jobs and Dog Whisperers

2012-01-03T11:40:00.000+11:00

I have watched more television in the last 12 months than I have in the last 12 years. I'm undecided about what I think about this. Not exactly a television addict, I try to be discriminating about what I watch. I rarely watch commercial television, which leaves me speechless and agog. The lightening paced editing from one ad/program/preview to another is decidedly discombobulating leaving me

Birdlip, January 9 1943 SELF-OBSERVATION

2012-01-02T14:45:00.000+11:00