A glorious Harvest Moon 27Pisces (11:11UT! 19th Sept) suggests we can
now reap rewards from qualities associated with the sign of the Fish, as
well as the Goddess of Perfection,
Virgo, especially those that illuminate spiritual healing and devoted
practice. Meditation, yoga, tai-chi, mantra, music, dance, poetry, art,
swimming (even) are all activities that align higher chakras to the
heart-mind, to release the divine nectar of creative luminescence that
transports one into the intuitive world of oceanic bliss. But perhaps
the most valuable practice that combines the boundlessness of Pisces and
pragmatic Virgo is that of universal loving kindness, also known as
Metta (‘Maitri' in Sanskrit).
Metta is based upon the
understanding all life is interconnected and taking to heart the care
and well-being of others, which can then be used as an antidote to all
negative emotion. The blessings of Metta are manifold, including the
development of compassion, rejoicing in the happiness of others, and a
calm personal equanimity.
ॐ_/♥\_ Metta Sutta ॐ_/♥\_
“This is what should be done by one who is skilled in goodness
And who knows the path of peace:
Let them be able and upright, straightforward and gentle in speech,
Humble and not conceited, contented and easily satisfied.
Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.
Peaceful and calm, and wise and skilful,
not proud and demanding in nature.
Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
They should wish:
In gladness and in safety
May all beings be at ease.
Whatever living beings there may be,
Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,
The great or the mighty, medium, short or small,
The seen and the unseen,
Those living near and far away,
Those born and to-be-born,
May all beings be at ease!
Let none deceive another, or despise any being in any state,
Let none through anger or ill-will wish harm upon another.
Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings,
Radiating kindness over the entire world,
Spreading upwards to the skies, and downwards to the depths,
Outwards and unbounded, freed from hatred and ill-will.
Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down,
Free from drowsiness, one should sustain this recollection.”
ॐ_/♥\_Enjoy the blessings of this Full Harvest Moon _/\_ and thanks to unknown artist for KwanYin, Goddess of
Compassion
_(▼)_This
triple-whammy moon-ruled Super-Moon Cancer lunation is bringing
powerful waves of emotional intensity for everyone to ride, be they
personal or mutual feelings, sensations are cosmically bound to be
strong, as indicated by the Grand Water TrineS coming to perfection this
week, on the 17/18/19/20th July (& the 20th is the day Mercury goes
forward!).
_/✶ \_ A week later, starting 27th July,
a magnificent Six-Pointed Star once again creates the summer’s Grand
Sextile, with interlocking Grand Earth & Water Trines, invigorating
celestial sweetness that can enhance and stabilize unseen bio-force,
'chi', through meditation, yoga, mantra, tantra, prayer, dance, music,
healing, and basically serving humanity, both spiritually as well as
practically. This Six-Pointed 'Star' has the potential to tap into the
creative feminine life-force to generate peace and love - so much so
that kind souls have created a 'harmonic convergence’ which we can all
join and empower the Goddess (within); and has been twinkling in and out
of focus since the extremely potent medicine Buddha Moon, June 16th.
This Sacred Star, a the double tetrahedron, a.k.a. Metatron's cube,
creates symbols of both, the flower of life, and the Tree of Life, was
also in celestial play at the first turning of the Dharma wheel, on the
karma multiplied x10-million day, July12th. And it sharpens up the
six-points again as we go into the last quarter Tara Moon when Venus is
in Virgo, which is just after our third and final Super Full Moon of
2013 on July 22nd. All the while the double Water Trines undulate
through the collective consciousness, with powerful and emotion coming
up from often suppressed and deepest recesses, activating the Water
triplicity’s qualities: Cancer’s personal and familial care and loving
kindness (Metta), Scorpio’s social intensity and laser-like insight
(Vipassanna) and Pisces’ compassionate ego-dissolving, embracing
unconditional love into the communal heart-mind (Karuna).
These energies are powerful. And one must take care not to get swept
along by collective hysteria or confusion. There is also a Black Moon
Lilith, ‘Kali’ momentum to deal with, which involves cutting the root of
ego and the prevention of anger and retaliation (more on that in
another post); but suffice to say that the Grand Earth Triangle enables
one to remain grounded whilst feelings, thoughts and ideas flow – a bit
like the Temperance card in the Tarot, contained yet aware of a powerful
flow and movement.
Thanks as always to the amazing Visual Alchemy for ‘Sprouting’
And to Pouyan for Pineal Visions ~> With _(▼)_ Heavenly blessings of Love & Light
& being in the flow of the Celestine Sextile _/✶ \_
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One
of the main Buddhist principles, that of cultivating ‘loving kindness’,
Metta Bhavana, towards all beings, is epitomized by the empathetic
zodiac sign Cancer, symbolic of familial sustenance and support. Both,
Sun and Moon are now in watery Cancer with a new Moon on Sunday/Monday
7-8th July, at 8:13BST, creating a triple whammy cosmic reminder (as
Moon rules Cancer) to look after all beings, as a mother would her child.
Sensitivity is magnified and emotions heightened as Sun and Moon form
one of two 'Grand Water Trines' currently blessing our heavens. By
connecting to shamanic Chiron in magical and compassionate Pisces and
the destiny-fulfilling North Node in perceptive Scorpio, the lights –
Sun and Moon - spotlight the need to practice loving kindness, with a
focus upon our own hearts and plant the seed of love, with the healing
and well-being of others as our motivation.
Three other
planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune triangulate earlier degrees of
water signs, adding to an intuitive pyramid power that inspires
generosity, imagination, and karmic responsibility. This phenomenal and
long lasting emphasis on the water element accents universal
interconnectedness (which may even be reflected environmentally in the
weather, either in a need/or lack of water or overflow). Also, feelings
we cannot put into words and/or overwhelming emotions can, with a
little training, raise intuition, psychic insight, and a direct hotline
to Divine bliss. Even in the face of recent events around the beloved
Bodhi Tree in BodhGaya, developing a warm heart and gently tuning into a
peaceful rhythm of life, helps one to be extend loving kindness beyond
self, family, tribe or nation, to embrace all beings, no matter the
culture, race, gender or background.
“May you be filled with loving kindness.
May you be safe from inner and outer dangers.
May you be well in body and mind.
May you be at ease and happy.” _/\_
With love & new Cancer Moon blessings
__/♥\__
☼
☾ The full Super Moon on Sunday @12:31pmBST (6:31amEST) is at
2Capricorn, accenting the brilliant Solstice Sun, as it stands
resplendent with generous and optimistic Jupiter. The Full Super Moon is
indeed astrologically super, as it also brings into practical play a
rare ‘Kite’ formation that includes the overwhelming power and fluidity
of the ‘Grand Water Trine’; thus it is the Moon, i.e. ‘the
people’, our emotions, our (vibe) family, and our needs, that are all
now playing a pivotal role as catalyst for crystallising important
ideas, events, situations, as well as enabling one to embody the
compassion, care & perception indicated by this immensely important
and long lasting Grand Water Trine.
Note how the summer’s
perceptive and intuitive Grand Water Trine lasts until early September;
Water and its qualities of purifying and nurturing will continue to be a
theme throughout the summer. Notwithstanding a decade of rainy summers
forecast in Britain, planets in the Water element make it easy to tune
into a collective undercurrent; feelings that sense a transformation in
the making. And it is the Spirit of the Solstice Sun which now seals
this magical configuration that works on many emotional levels; being in
exact trine to the perceptive Saturn in Scorpio AND watery Neptune in
Pisces on the 26th June (same day Jupiter goes into Cancer, and Mercury
goes retro in Cancer, advising us to reconsider family and security).
This Water triplicity, Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces, manifests at its
highest vibration as compassion with Neptune/Chiron in Pisces,
perception with Saturn in Scorpio’s laser-like insight, and caring
Cancer, with Sun, Venus, Mercury, soon to be joined by expansive
Jupiter, who is exalted in Cancer.
From the Buddhist
perspective we could say this a summer of developing a connection
between ‘Maitri’ (Metta), loving kindness (symbolised by Cancer, caring
as a mother loves her child), ‘Karuna’, compassion when life is in the
flow of change is Pisces; and Saturn in Scorpio, developing the
Bodhisattva spirit with Vipassanna, the special penetrative insight into
the true nature of reality– all of which can be enhanced by specific
meditative techniques that help us to put compassion into action.
The Water trine can therefore enhance prayer, meditation and all work
with unseen energies with positive affect. In light of this please send
love & healing prayers to Northern India where the Temple town near
the source of the sacred Ganges has been flooded and mountain tsunamied:
many people have died and are still missing; Also Calgary in Northern
Canada, where 100,000 people have been forced to evacuate due to
flooding.
Thank you & thanks for sharing. _/♥\_
Image of Kwan Yin Goddess of Compassion, artist unknown. Shiva, guardian of the Ganges by HinduTimes photographs_/♥\_ ☼ ☆•*¨*•.¸¸♥ ☾
