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Akasha's Change Your Story News
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October 17/18 New Moon Libra
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October 2009
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Happy Halloween!
Happy Celtic New Year!
Autumn is my favorite time of year and October is my
favorite month. This is the time when
the veils between worlds are thin and many people honor their beloved
dead. For many cultures it is also the New
Year.
I went to see a Rocky Horror Picture Show extravaganza at Skyline
College, which was a fundraiser for
their theatre department. It had a live
show on stage and props for the audience.
My favorite parts were singing "Let's do the time warp again!" at the
top of my lungs with the entire audience and creating rain with water pistols
during the rain storm scene. I was a bit
wistful for a good old fashioned water balloon and pistol fight outside in the
hot sun. The live show was creative,
well acted, and detailed. It was a lot of
fun. To find one near you go here. Rocky Horror Picture Show Search
We've been having wonderful autumn weather, hot during the
day, cool at night. More leaves are
turning red and gold and then becoming crispy underfoot. I find myself wanting to be outside all the
time.
I am still having a Lightning Fill In The Blank Tarot
Special. It ends October 29th.
May you have the time to enjoy the colors and offerings of
Fall.
Akasha
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New Moon Libra Oct 17th/18th
Moon in Libra is mostly about finding harmony and balance in
one's life. Libra is the scales of
justice and equality. She usually can
perceive all the different perspectives of a situation or issue and seek an
integration of all these sides into a whole.
Unfortunately, it makes it very difficult to make a decision.
When there are many options, more often than not, to Libra, all
of them are equally good, bad or middling.
The Libran energy can be very frustrating to us as it doesn't help us
choose. This is why I recommend for the
waxing part of this moon for you to reevaluate your deeper motivations. People tend to make decisions based on their
values and priorities. If you are clear
on what these are, then you can make a choice that will further you along on
the path you'd like to travel, even if all choices are equal or not so pleasant.
Take time to find your center and set your intentions for
the rest of the year, not only for what you want to accomplish in your life but
also in your relationships. How do you
want existing ones to grow or fade. What
brand new relationships would you like to attract? If you carve out the time to do that now at
the beginning of this new moon, it will save you time later as opportunities
present themselves.
I remember one woman talking about how you can focus all you
want on creating the perfect relationship or community from the heart but if you
don't know your own heart you'll get lost.
This is a classic lesson of Libra moon; finding the balance between your
own needs and the needs of others. It is
like the airline instructions say, if the oxygen masks come down, put your mask
on first, then help others; you can't help anyone else if you can't
breathe. The same is for our heart. Libra represents the guidance that helps us
make sure our heart is taken care of while we help others.
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The Dance of Balance and Focus
I learned in martial arts training, that to have balance you
must have focus and to have focus you must have balance. I have found that it
is a basic universal principle that can apply to all things. If you flit from one thing to another without
purpose, you don't really go anywhere. If
you concentrate too much of your attention and time on one goal, everything
else in your life goes into disarray or disintegration.
Try this experiment.
Stand on one leg, look all over the room with out focusing too much on
anything. Notice what it is like to try
and keep balance.
Next, while on one foot, focus on a point in front of you
and perceive the difference in keeping your balance.
Now stand on your other leg and over exaggerate trying to
maintain balance by flailing your arms, wobble wildly back and forth while
trying to keep your eyes focused on one spot.
Be careful of your neck and back while doing this. How is it different?
--Now stand weight evenly distributed on both feet, hands
calm at your sides.
Take a few moments and look forward and down. Notice your energy wants to dive. Now focus forward and a little above your
line of sight. Notice how your energy
wants to lift.
In martial arts, where you focus is your aim; it is where
you will kick or hit. For instance, when
breaking a board. If your focus is on the
board, you won't break it, you will just hit it and bruise your knuckles. If your focus is the wall or person behind
the board then you will punch through it because that is not what you are
aiming at.
In life, finding your focus entails choosing how you want to
feel in life, figuring out what you want to accomplish in order to support that,
and determining the measurement for when you have achieved that accomplishment. This is where focusing forward and up is
critical, because it makes it so much easier to fly.
Here is an exercise for finding your vision.
First, what would be the best scenario
for your successful life? Think
big. Write or draw or sing this. I recommend using crayons to help access your
child self easier. You don't have to
know specifically what it will look like.
I suggest starting with how you want it to feel. i.e. happy, respected, productive, healthy,
etc. Then bring in the types of colors
or sounds or textures that symbolize those feelings to you.
Second, create even bigger than
what you just envisioned. Try and make
your first scenario twice as big and spectacular. Again draw or write or sing this.
A third time, can you make it even
more spectacular than before? If you can
go three times bigger, write, draw or sing this into being.
Next, take your favorite things of
all three and create a word picture, or collage, sculpture, or song compilation
(sound collage). Put it where you will
see it or play it often. If it is visual
make sure it is placed a little above your line of vision. If it is a sound collage make sure and look up
as you listen to it. This is your point
of focus, your vision, and your muse.
Balance comes into play once you have created your focal
point. Balance is the combination of
near and far. It is what is happening
right now that you need to do to survive and it is what you are aiming for in
the future that is your desire. The dynamic of balancing the two is what keeps
you moving forward. If you stand on one
foot, you will notice that when you achieve balance you are not standing
still. Your foot is making constant
micro-adjustments with your foot bones, which is why it is not a solid bone but
many small pieces of bone.
Balance is an active state of being. Think of a see saw. When I get on a see saw with someone of close
to my weight, I like to first play with going up and down. Then I like to try and keep the other person
up. I also like to be kept up and
struggle and struggle to get down. After
awhile my desire evolves into finding that point of equilibrium where we are
both at equal height suspended in air and see how long we can stay there. Then we might go through the cycle all over
again. All of these states are a part of
achieving balance.
Balance enables you to keep a soft focus of both the long
and the short term at the same time. It
supports you in taking the leap of faith to follow your ambition while honoring
your need to eat, sleep and be safe. But
without a vision to focus on it is hard to keep that balance.
It is the same with focusing on a vision. Your partner is your spirit/child self. Some times they jockey for weight, and other
times you, as in your mind/emotion/body do.
On one side is the practical/here and now; and the other is the spiritual
knowing and hearts desire reaching towards one's future aspiration.
Your vision is always changing as well. As you journey towards your goals, you will
find opportunities you did not know existed, you may realize your objective
isn't what you thought it was, or you could be knocked off your trajectory by
life itself. Just like an airplane must
constantly keep readjusting it's course to maintain it's flight path, you need
to set times to re-evaluate your vision and adjust for these changes.
Balance and focus partner together on the dance floor of
life. Whether the music is fast or slow,
even or bumpy they will keep you steadfast and moving forward on your life's
journey.
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