20^TH The gentle simplicity of Taurus is disrupted as the Sun enters the bundle of restless energy that is Gemini. We are motivated by the urgency to know, to do, to say or to be which stirs up a lot of communication, busyness, visitation and social interaction that engages the mind. The contrariness of Gemini energy is part of its curiosity, scepticism and humour. We entertain a playful attitude with reality. We want to know everything.  While this sign makes us secretive about the personal we love to discover and learn about everyone else's mysteries or intrigue. We are inclined toward behind the scenes antics. This is a good month to lose weight by keeping very busy and active. New friendships can be formed. Love initiated at this time will be based on an intellectual connection, shared ingenuity and a sharp wit.

21^ST The First Quarter Moon is shining brightly. We have things to do, ideas to reconsider but we still love the surprising out of the blue occurrences that distract our focus. We can make a lot of money, spend a lot of money or decide to totally remodel our investment portfolio. So much is going on internally that our outer expression almost seems to be on autopilot. We are inside and outside of ourselves at the same time. This is like watching ourselves while simultaneously being aware of ourselves from within. Take care of health issues that have been left unattended.

22^ND We will stretch the rules for more autonomous satisfaction. Universal concepts facilitate a reordering of our guidelines. More willing to develop the untried we form different kinds of connections. New rules and innovations in everyday operations evolve into being because the current situation can no longer continue. Relationships or partnerships take on a different configuration, either through a reordering of the old model of long term marriage or creating unique paradigms within new couples. We are free to join together as we will. The idea of security takes on many facets.

Things can cut to our core, to the deepest sense of self, it is best not to take things personal. Feeling diminished, we need too much approval from others which sends off warning signals to the self-image telling it that it needs development. Taking responsibility for ourselves and facing the facts should help us to stand our ground better. If we falter due to emotional disturbance we need to sort this out by taking steps toward becoming our integral self. Envision self-approval. Take the self-made path. Do not follow the illusive dreams of others. Faith and truthfulness will help clarify the path to take.

23^RD There are no governors on our appetite, be it for food, sympathy, understanding or self-love. Exaggerated nurturing is aimed inward. We are unable to say no to our needs. They can interfere with our independence. Overindulgences, passionate desires and other magnified neediness is what will manifest. The parent child, grandparent grandchild relationship is in enhanced focus. If there is distance between such people there will be a greater gratification sought. Large or festive meals are scheduled. Children have growth spurts. Ethnic issues are possible. Legalities involving children, medicine or academia can arise. Digestive issues are major disturbances that need to be addressed through a change of diet and supplementation of a probiotic, digestive enzyme and magnesium.

24^TH If we are feeling stuck, restricted or rejected we need to look at ourselves as the source of this state not anything or anyone else. Once this is understood, we have the advantage of clarity. We cut our losses, decipher what is needed then are able to concentrate on what will grow and expand. It is easier to shed attachments, hang ups, inappropriate duties and a misplaced sense of responsibility. We put property and possession into perspective with our ability to be able to afford to maintain; upkeep and protect what we have. We are forming better judgement because we can see the mistakes that we never realised were mistakes. Paternal attitudes are good intentions that interfere with other people's lives. Let others learn by dealing with their own problems.

The Balsamic phase of the Moon is seen as the ebbing crescent slimming to dark pitch black night with no moonlight. A time that is brimming with new potentials. This is the time of the month where we receive seed ideas. We can manifest what we envision. It is a time of rest and refurbishment as well. We will exconjugate and recongigate in this phase. We can go from a place of stillness to a new found sense of robustness. We can cut loose and recommit. All of this happening much more on the molecular and esoteric levels than in tangible reality. Our resonance is changing according to who we are, how we think and what we believe. What we will do and what we will not pursue will become clear.

Warmth and intimacy can drain out of entangled relations; it increases emotional distance and we tend to let go. What entangle us are integrity, dilemma, paradox and conundrum. If we are not compatible to the partnering we have in our lives we feel we are out of place. We are growing out of things. It is difficult to process, assimilate and come to terms with this awkward stage of growth. Guilt can interfere with how we want to commit ourselves to a future especially when marriage or children are involved. Our spiritual direction will be very important to us at this time.

26^TH  We need people in our life who share like-minded interests. Twitter and other social media outlets are good for connecting with those who think the same. At other times in our evolution it is more important to be with people who have an alternative viewpoint to enrich our own. At this time we are provided with more than enough examples of other people's opposition to our position or deference to their own. So we need the kind of wholeness that is found in sharing subconscious beliefs and being able to trust another person's commitment to those values. We are inspired to develop wholeness within our relationships, with our mate, in our partnerships or in all expressions of our energy. We are developing the ability to grow together by gravitating toward like mindedness. Expansive healing and spiritual development is available. Be personally responsible; make a commitment to this unveiling.

27^TH Enough is enough already with Vesta's focusing on our inner core self. She is now turning direct in motion so we can acknowledge the self-development we have underway and get on with doing what we are meant to do. We can work with the energy knowing what is true to the centre of our being. This direct motion helps us to demonstrate our deepest essence of self so people come to know who we really are. Our self-assured spirit is powerfully silent, self-reliant and full of integrity that comes of being true to our values. We have sorted through them too. Over the next few days a growing inner consensus will propel us forward with intention.

28^TH This is good. The New Moon actually feels like a new start. We get seriously involved, make a constructive effort, will network ourselves successfully and make progress toward our prosperity activations. Drawn to explore our local terrain we are not as likely to make long distance travel plans. Sure of ourselves but not so sure of everyone else there is a degree of unconscious caution steering us to stay closer to home. Fluctuations occur in the investment and real estate community. Hard work pays off. Fun can be hard work sometimes too. We want to enjoy ourselves, socialise more and let loose so we can be more productive and ambitious where necessary.

Our diets become ultra important. Sensitivities to food cause digestive and allergic issues. It is difficult to suit everyone with meal or gathering scheduling. The differences between family members are much more distinct, they will stand out, therefore can interfere with good relations. Each individual has their own agenda. The person leading the group can use guilt to arrive at consensus. This is of course an oxymoron because we are looking for an atmosphere of non-interference and peace in which to release tension. Our evolution wants to pull us toward deconditioning of our subconscious images, social imprinting and habitual responses. Whether it is diet and digestion, meal scheduling or family relations smooth it out.

Something else can bring us to a halt. Issues with authority, expectation, duty, cooperation and trustworthiness are cold hearted if they arise. Barriers defy us as we struggle against their blockage with great discordant dissatisfaction. It feels like a no-win situation. What is occurring are invisible separations or voids that mysteriously envelope us in their confinement. These are not the walls of our own making, our fortress of protection; they are energy that creates a force field to keep out intruders or deflector shield to repel unwanted objects. The vibrations we resonate with; our "tune" will be the artisan. We have the opportunity to build our own psychic self-defence vortex. If we do not resonate with another's energy field both will feel it. These energy zones are very defining. There are practical reasons for these assignments. Identification may be necessary to provoke awareness for our current stage of belief system transformation.

Venus comes into Taurus quite self-absorbed and indulgent after a tango with retrograde Mars. This is not the attitude to enter this sign with as it can only get worse unless we check ourselves at the cusp. If we feel the need to feel loved we had better lock up our wallet. We are attracted to food and clothing, pampering the body, going to favourite places and creating cosy situations. We want to give ourselves gifts and give others the hugs we need. On the higher side romance contains the worthy traits of trust and loyalty, predictability and dependability. We enjoy aesthetic surroundings, romantic settings, simple and natural outings in nature and opening our hearts. By cultivating patience, simplicity and naturalness we find our new groove.

29^TH When Mercury enters Cancer we will experience an increase in psychic dreaming and possibly other metaphysical gifts. Intuition will increase for those who have mental flexibility, we become open and receptive. We blend our intellect with our emotion, imagination and intuition. On the other hand we can think too much about the past or be mindlessly habitual. We are not encouraged to elevate our thinking if it is not already in our consciousness. Fears and suffering plague the retentive mind that cannot forget. The overly emotional will have difficulty looking at things objectively. The emotionally upset person's view is too serious. Employ acceptance and understanding to help make things pass and calm down. The intellectually centred individual has more of an ability to suspend their critical faculties to benefit from understanding underlying emotions.

30^TH We are deciding how to channel our procreative energy into activity. Endings point out the difference between truth and judgement. Artistic expression is good therapy. We are turned inward, fostering self-improvement which makes it easy for people with hidden agendas to get us passionately involved in what they care about. Absent-minded identification with what others want will cause us to stray from our own needs. Those who are psychic or intuitive will have greater inner resolution. Everyone else experiences difficulty in the inner split between intellectual and emotional. Conflicts within family and career are particularly difficult. Old parental issues act up as some tend to over-identify. This can put a wedge between family members. Digestion is difficult; assimilation therefore is not available. If intellectually under attack we need to take digestive enzymes to help nourish ourselves.

Discipline is a strength we need to rediscover in our search to discern true value. Solid, consistent, realistic and effective application of ourselves will get us to our goals. Things like guidelines, organisation, method and rules will build confidence. A change of approach works things out. Tough love strengthens family support systems and emotional bonds. We need to be tough with ourselves. Protecting and caring for the ones we love is as important as being protected. There is no room for rejection, sacrifice and abandonment in our methods of nurturing or familial bonding. If we create better environments of inclusivity and acceptance within ourselves others can be infectiously affected.

31^ST The concept of relationship expands. If we need to separate we will move on as friends who need to continue their journey. Our growth and personal development will rebirth our sense of optimism. We can also find our faith and belief systems strengthened by our partner and reaffirm our journey together. We need to be jovial and to find a happy middle ground. Our educational interests are uppermost in our mind. This can include travel and mystical experience.

1^st The Crescent Moon ushers in the month of June. We are happiest when we are productive and achieving or resting in reclusion. There is some anticipation however it is guarded and reserved not fully demonstrated. We get on with what we have planned and interact with the people we must. In the process of a normal day there will be abnormal connections. We make connections with what is important to our journey and not necessarily of any interest to anyone else. The gems of connectivity we discover are meant for the receiver only.

Over the next few days Ceres will resume direct motion. We are able to give more of ourselves to others. A web of loving life opens the channels between loved ones who resonate with our vibration. We are much more aware of what we do not want; we are less dependent, less attached and less needy. Being in touch with how to love ourselves we are more attentive to the needs of others. We turn to what matters outside of ourselves. Improvement can come to digestion and food issues like allergies and sensitivity.

 
 5^TH Energies seem very focused on minute facets of a larger project during the First Quarter Phase. The work we do leads to increased revenues as well as promotion and recognition. There is a tendency to spend money instead of spending time. Keep boosting the immune system as this is the time when we could contract an early season cold. Temperatures fluctuate as the earth warms up. Fluctuations are hard on the body. Shedding warm clothing too soon reduces protection. People will break their appointments or change their minds due to something else that must be deal with. Major breakdowns can affect the local management systems of government, law, health and education. We work things out in our dreams. Pay attention to what is said and done.

7^TH Mercury's retrograde will be a maintenance or upgrade period for our habitual patterns. We may confront the things we need to liberate ourselves from in order to build greater stability. Interesting insights and perspectives are signals of our soul, important messages. Both our destructive and productive patterns will reveal themselves. Meditation augments our dimensional understanding and perception of them. Dreams provide rare insights into the inner workings of our mind and life. There can be the usual interruptions, schedule changes, miscommunications and glitches with electronics too.

9^TH What happens with the Gibbous Moon stays with the Gibbous Moon.What comes together becomes assimilated like conglomerate rock formed in sedimentary environments or glacial cementation. The boundaries and barriers between people are dissolved or lowered. We are more vulnerable to the influences of others. With our guard being down self-interested people can try to take control. Luckily for us if it is ill directed and ill advised it will not succeed. What is meant to be together will be drawn together but what is not will be wrenched apart.

Neptune is stationing and over the next few days will be turning retrograde. We can access a very laid-back ambient peace deep inside our heart and soul. It is easier to connect with the transcendent side of life. It is either we get in touch with our intuition, spirituality, dreams, faith and fantasy or we try to circumvent life with escape and delusion. Illusions of one kind or another are an escape from reality; denials, fears, hang-ups. The faithful remain fully accepting of every experience to be unfolding in a way that is not bound by limited labels. The artistic expression is sensitive and receptive to inspiration. Inner vision is made more profound. Heightened sensitivity can be an asset and a liability if we go into overload. Avoid addictive personalities, psychic vampires and overwhelming people who drain energy because we are picking up too much from our external environment. There are many physical causes to consider for depression, low body temperature, the thyroid, a past injury affecting the spine and food allergies.

11^TH Illusions are a way of escaping reality. We need to double check where our imagination is taking us. At the same time life without limiting labels and more acceptances is attractive. Artistic expression is heightened. We are sensitive, receptive and seeking inspiration. Due to this idealistic idea, foolish beliefs, delusions and other unrealistic states will need to be filtered out of our reality. If we plunge further forward in this way we will find out. We tend to put people on a pedestal and that diminishes our self-image. Optimism is excellent because it can bring opportunity and reasonable chances. The addictive personality, psychic vampire and needy person are energy drains.

12^TH A calling can make itself known from deep within ourselves. We are divinely inspired more than is usual and attuned to the needs of the moment. Being in touch with the deepest parts of our heart and soul can awaken our social awareness. Inner vision is inspired. We are driven to participate in and shape our social, political, financial and entertainment worlds. We have the analytical perception that can see the essence of things in their simplest of forms separating them from surrounding complications. A balance of intellect and intuition opens a lot of doorways but we also need to question whether our own beliefs and possible illusions are in the way. The wisdom of discrimination that is available now must not get lost in imagination.

If too many personal issues get in the way they will cause distortion, lack of proportion and confusion. Bound by this web of contortion we procrastinate. We say things too quickly. We are sharp and to the point. There is a misconnection between the mind and the right words. People interpret what we say according to their presets. Conflictive energies jangle but they can be weaved into an artistic creation. Good time for art therapy.

If we are conflicted in our relationships or partnerships it will be hard to avoid trouble. Problems with the urge to cooperate are the likely target. Wherever a situation of domination or subjugation exists there is an even greater clash. Anger, aggression or insensitivity arises in such relationships. Answering the call to stand up to the person can cause them to be abusive and violent. This is alpha energy; we can be triggered into thinking we have something to prove, we can be too wilful or self-centred.

The Full Moon lights up the skies and will not let us hide from our secrets. They are being flushed out so we can get on with the right plan. This can be soul deep too, flushing out past lifetime memories, agreements, guilt contracts or trauma bonds to name a few things. The plug is being pulled from our basin of karma so to drain non-transcendental attachments. We do not have to do anything but let it happen. Another wave of positive change is in the wings waiting for us to clean house of that which gets in our way. Organising the people in our lives is of great importance. Intruding where not invited and not respecting boundaries can be an issue. Children seem to grow up before us.

In order to get unstuck in whatever residual way we find ourselves in; we must remain open because we are probably set in our ways in this regard. Let go of everything, question everything; redefine, restructure, improve rules, guidelines, methodology and organisation. We have to choose between what we believe and what we have been told. Walls keep everything out; we need to check ourselves for such barriers. A change of jobs improves careers. Responsibilities avoided in the past resurface. Healing childhood wounds, letting go of memories and changing old patterns is highlighted now. We can set more meaningful goals.

13^TH A philosophical approach, humour and helpfulness go a long way to make things better. We are searching, exploring, turning new soil and dealing with the unfamiliar therefore it is difficult to know we are making the right choice. We are testing every possibility and want to improve so we are more willing to work toward mutual agreement. Nevertheless we have to strike out in a direction that requires freedom and faith. Beware of the con man.

The accumulated affects of our global shifts have the individual confronting challenges that require new choices. We must detach from our obsessive conditional demands; they are not purposeful. Conflicts within social sectors and power struggles within relationship create disturbing emotions like jealousy, suspicion, greed, attachment, hostility, anger, envy, competitiveness, arrogance, resentment, possessiveness and self-pity which lead to further destructive behaviour. Magnetic attraction draws us to a transfiguring process that is destined for us. Introspection, questioning and analysis contribute to a plan of action that will move us forward. We should make an effort to gravitate towards those with whom we share mutual trust. Forgive ourselves and others if they have reached a critical maximum. Transform personal power, attitudes and gender roles in the flow of social reform.

14^TH This intense vibrational atmosphere is cleansing, purging and renewing. We have striking dreams, visions, meditations and inspirations. The subconscious is looking for answers. Self-therapeutic analysis grooms our state of empowerment. A highly charged environment is intense and profound. Those who channel the lower vibration involve themselves in ambition, competition, power struggle, conflict, ruthlessness and corruption. In their hands this is dangerous violent energy. Avoid road rage and dangerous neighbourhoods.

If we feel stuck, there is something in it we are meant to work on. Do the work to free things up. There are likely to be obstacles, delays or deadlines that interfere with work, goals or objectives. It is okay, rewrite the script and character assignment along with it. If we did not have a good relationship with our Father there can be issues around self-authority. In claiming our own authority we deal with whatever obstacles get in our way. We may distance ourselves from others or experience indifference from others. Nothing personal; it is part of the physical reaction to the psychological conditions.

Incongruent and contrasting beliefs need to be harmonised within our being. We also need to cultivate more tolerance of other people's beliefs for our continued healing and awakening. People are invested in keeping us the way we are but we must look after our own wholesomeness. It will all work out if we move beyond the status quo. Growth and expansion requires adjustments and revisions.

16^TH We have valuable information to share with others during the Disseminating Moon. We can impress and be impressed but we are unsure and tentative in the process. It is possible that we find it necessary to separate ourselves from certain others. Things are revealed and cannot be mended. People who resonate with our vibration will be drawn to us to fill up the void. There are an abundance of details that come to our attention. Money issues need to be attended to.

17^TH Mercury retrogrades back into Gemini. After the other retrogrades we experienced this year Mercury's retrograde will only a minor kafuffle. Quickening the mind's versatility we will be filled with personally relevant ideas, however, it can be scattering. We are formulating inner realisations broadly and shallowly but we can lose cohesiveness. This is not focused energy, it is diversified and busy. We dance to an inner liveliness that makes us playful. Mental power can be directed successfully toward objectives simultaneous to other things. The urge is to write, go on a short trip or take a course.

Juno enters Gemini at the opposite end to Mercury, one on each cusp they are bookends to the Sun. Clever trickster influences stimulate relationship agreements, arrangements or situations. Random novelties spring to mind. We can spice up our marriage or partnership talking about them. Some ideas about relationship can be disconnected, contrary or odd. Not all ideas are worth pursuing. Multiple partners, outside relationships or romantic triangles are the product of Gemini thinking. We get busy with each other, connecting actively feeling stimulated by sharing with our mate. We catch up on each other's news, gossip, and chores. Many hands make light the work. Outside the inner circle we need to be leery of deceit. In pursuit of their objectives some people can spin quite a story.

19^TH The unusual disrupts the flow of relations. Some idea that is too far out causes a rupture. Unexpected events burst through our expectations. Agreement, contract, commitment, rule or role experiences a sudden departure. The unusual enters into the normal and disrupts the flow. People claim their individual freedom. We experiment to adjust conditions to make them more interesting.

As the month comes to a close the Last Quarter Moon gives us the needed motivation to complete what we have started. We can expand our love contracts to embrace both people's needs and objectives. Financial prospects are beginning to look brighter. We can get on with valuable work. If networking will help the cause this is a good time to make connections. For those that feel invisible to their partners this can be a time of considerable healing. It calls upon our inner strength and self-authority. Some can be adversely affected by what others think and for them I say turn to what you think and reconfigure your thoughts around that. Other people's opinions are too subjective and may not be relevant.

20^TH We enter a phase of prophecy and healing as Chiron stations readying to turn retrograde. We magnetically attract the guidance we need. Our spirit gently talks to us from within. It is possible to transform blocked energy and the darkest parts of our being. Flashbacks revisit old wounds. New experiences can duplicate the event. To enter into the transformational shift we need to release and flow; move forward with greater wisdom. Past life patterns are unravelled, present life tangles too. What happens now is leading us to wholeness.

21^ST The Sun enters Cancer; Happy Summer Solstice; Happy Birthday to all Cancerians. This is a year of breakthroughs and progress for those born in Cancer. There are travels and time well spent. Promote yourself or what you believe in. Friends bring a fresh perspective. Be creative but do something with your creations; like sell them.

The Sun is in your sign, Happy Birthday to all Gemini's. It is a year rich with relationship and increase in finances or material possessions. This year you need to pay attention to what is happening behind closed doors, in secret chambers or behind your back to dispel betrayal because communications are masked with illusionary suggestion rather than truth. The rules are stretched for more autonomous satisfaction. The truth when you do find out can rip to the core of your deepest self. Do not make it your job to acquire sympathy, to seek understanding rather than trying to understand. It is also a mistake to get caught up in self-love. It is too easy to fall into the trap of feeling stuck, restricted or rejected. You will alienate relations, create emotional distance and inject instability into complacency. It only escalates things to have people who agree with your misled subjectivity. With Vesta turning direct you will be able to pull up, out of this nose dive of self-centredness. Become aware of how you feed yourself, what thoughts you feed to your brain, cultivate non toxic thoughts. If you go too far out on a limb something outside yourself will bring it to a halt. Venus slips into Taurus and that will sweeten your consciousness. Relations will improve as will finances. Mercury leaves Gemini for Cancer which can cause some melancholy wobbles and nostalgic flashbacks. It is not the source of the intellectual attacks you may experience. Family and career are difficult, some over-identify with old parental issues. Channel procreative energy to diffuse the situation and apply self-discipline and tough love so you can part from each other's company as friends, without an agenda. Ceres in direct motion opens the channels of care giving and loving. Mercury's retrograde is very liberating, interesting and a rare opportunity to see yourself coming and going or from all sides. Neptune's retrograde is not remarkable on a personal level but it may infuse your business or work life with more of what you wish for. You can be on call for the creative side of your skills. Someone you know is chasing illusions that help them to escape reality and they want you to go along with them. Ideals can work the same way. You will know from deep within yourself who this will apply to. It is not a suspicion to spread around generally. Personal issues can get in the way of work which is something you cannot afford to allow. Over the top reactions like anger, aggression or insensitivity are emotional reactions. Let those things drain away. Be open, unattached and remain loose. Attempts to manage, manipulate or dictate to this energy articulates the wrong details. A philosophical approach will bring improvement in good humour and increased revenue or gifts. Conditional demands made by yourself or made of you by others are inappropriate and out of place in this atmosphere of reformational shift. Follow your karma not someone else. The devil that owns a part of your soul, or people who can sway you from yourself, are operating from the lower vibration. This time should be cleansing, purging and renewing. It is okay to rewrite the script and your character assignment along with it. You meet new friends through your job or business and group involvements. It is possible to get caught up on contrasting beliefs and feel in a muddle about them as you creatively work them through to resolution. Mercury comes back to Gemini, in retrograde motion. But its quick step enlivens your playfulness as well as lines your pocket book. Good money comes of past efforts. Juno enters Gemini and puts the spotlight on partnering, sharing and catching up on things. Ideas can get too far out on a limb and with sudden disruptful and unexpected results. As Chiron retrogrades you become magnetically attractive; you draw to you what will heal you, what you need and what resonates with you. Behavioural or past life patterns and present life tangles are unravelled releasing more wholeness. The Sun enters Cancer, Happy Summer Solstice, may the Force be with you. You feel good and look good too, power on!

When the Sun is in Gemini it is on the doorstep to your birthday. You are approaching this birthday with mixed feelings. Celebrations look successful, you worry for nothing. Back in the present you will stretch your rules for a good reason and because of extenuating circumstances. There is no problem standing up and taking responsibility for your decision; follow the self-made path. Friends, work mates or class mates come to you for love, understanding and sympathy. Make positive judgements by removing your image of correctness from your perception of other people's lives. Relations can be cut off or at a distance otherwise cool and non-committal. You will connect with people who have like-minded interests with your job, career or business which will add to your success. Vesta stationing direct is solidifying; you feel well grounded and self-assured. Mixing too many types of foods together in your digestive system can cause wind issues especially if you are creative with spicy foods. There is great momentum you would like to bring to a halt or at least slow down. You know when you are not resonating with another person which is very defining. Venus in Taurus casts a positive vibration toward you. Plan or prepare for a vacation; explore and be curious. This is feel good energy. Mercury in Cancer increases communication between family members and also playmates of all kinds. There is fun to be had. Things that are temporary can come to an end. This leaves you open to absent-minded identification out of the need to create a new start. Be intentional; muster the strength of solid discipline. Be tough with yourself. Relationships of many descriptions are given a boost of positive interaction. Whether it is work, home or play you are strengthened by your journey with others. Ceres in direct motion can be trusted to lead you to an opening up of love or recognition. Mercury's retrograde brushes very shallowly in the sign Cancer. You can take something very personal although it was not intended. Do not be too quick to blurt out your feelings. Neptune retrograde asks that you be fully accepting, laid-back and faithful. Many things help us escape reality; illusions, imagination, artistic expression, diversion, procrastination; but what interferes with reality is what you must guard against and that is fear, pessimism, jealousy, suspicion and the like. You are called to action and will take on much more than one person's portion. Get personal issues out of the way so you can enjoy other people. Ironing out issues between you and others or between you and the government brings the ire out in you. There is nothing to prove. You can be set in your ways. Things can be remedied. Humour and a philosophical approach will be your best allies. Huge shifts have been occurring in people's lives but you seem to be the care giving and watcher so your shifts are within. There is a shock wave of intensity that is going to affect those around you; you are first responder to their needs. Take some time out to restore and refurbish you at regular intervals. You are stuck with the way things are for now. A clash of beliefs or ideas can fragment negotiations between people; we are meant to grow away from not attach to. Mercury retrograding back into Gemini can stimulate some pleasant memories, lots of them. Many will be about the trips you have made. Juno enters Gemini at the front end so you need to be careful of being a stickler for the way things should be. That makes everyone jump to only your tune. Family relations can be disrupted due to an idea that is too far out.  Chiron stationing retrograde will offer you a chance to explore the options, alternatives and possibilities so people can come together in their own way. The Sun enters Cancer, Happy Summer Solstice, and Happy Birthday to all Cancerians. May you be blessed with a truly wonderful new year ahead of you.

As the Sun enters Gemini you are in good spirits. You are creating positive vibrations. You stretch the rules of your spiritual beliefs integrating more universal concepts. It is intriguing how signals you receive from others or things that are said touch your core. This is a very personal process for internal growth; nothing is shared, it just occurs. You will find it difficult to say no to what your spirit needs. Decipher why you feel rejected or held back, perhaps stuck; there is momentum available. Take the first step toward it. Getting away from it all and maybe everyone by yourself is a journey you are willing to take. You will meet people of like interest, shared values and you are inspired to develop wholeness within this like-mindedness. With Vesta resuming direct motion you can express your devotion to others. Longer daylight hours mean you are eating later at night, closer to bedtime. This has resultant consequences like bad dreams, sleeplessness or weight gain. Authority gets in your way about something you need to deal with. You enjoy good relations and challenging debates while Venus is in Taurus. Soothing soul rhythms come from Mercury in Cancer. Old memories and new travels with children are in store. Your health gets a little pernickety. It appears you are experiencing food sensitivities or allergies. Digestion is interfered with; take digestive enzymes {natural factors}. Discipline comes in handy. Tough love strengthens support systems and emotional bonds. Be tough with yourself. Your growth takes you into a larger circle of people. This expansion tends to bring more separation or growing apart. You pick new people up along your journey. Taking care of you takes on new meaning when Ceres resumes direct motion. Enjoy the upgrade inside and out. Time spent with family builds productive patterns and greater stability while Mercury is retrograde. It is best if you do not deny your fears. Dissecting them helps you to transcend their affect. Double check to see what is imagination, what is too idealistic and out of what is left decide which are unrealistic. Recognise which energy drains spin your wheels. Have clarity so you can answer a call that comes from deep within. Clear the deck of personal issues, they disconnect you and get you jangled. Conflicts within relationship can be worked out; mute alpha energy through meditation. Explore the deep childhood wound or memories that resurface; these patterns need to be re-written. You realise you cannot let them be etched in your soul forever. Dark moments lead you to good philosophy, helpful humour, freedom, faith and mutual agreement. You and most every conscious human being are making dramatic shifts. You will be compelled to drink in the accumulated affects of these shifts on our global reality. While a lot of what you are up to is profound and high spirited there is a simultaneous cleansing, purging and renewing that is ongoing. If you feel stuck about financial matters in any big or small way you need to work on these interferences. Make room for what you never wanted to know. Once known you have a responsibility that comes with the knowledge. Your mind can play tricks on you when Mercury retrogrades back into Gemini. Flashbacks seem real. Novelty spices up your home life. Random spontaneity livens up relationship. You include the unusual, the unexpected and sudden experimentation of interest as well as odd foods in your diet. Many valuable thoughts will enrich your mind and prophetically guide you toward future promise during Chiron's retrograde. Happy Summer solstice, enjoy what you have created for yourself. Follow your dreams.

You are master of your ship and comforted by your home as the Sun enters into and moves through Gemini this month. Relaxing the rules a little allows you to spend money on yourself for the right thing at the right time which lends itself to your continuance. You are in touch with your innermost self which lends itself to wiser and more autonomous strategy. A healthy appetite for social involvement puts you in touch with many people and large meals. There should be nothing hampering your ability to move forward gingerly, only yourself. People can withdraw and be emotionally distant, or a bit of both, amusing and happy one moment and quiet and withdrawn the next which is confusing. You crave people of like mind, especially with regard to spiritual beliefs, prophetic understandings, past lives or other metaphysical subjects. Your self-assurance is powerfully silent, reliant, integral and conscientious. You will be drawn to things that matter to your spirit. Put yourself on notice to be ultra careful with your diet. Unusual reactions to food, sensitivities, allergies or digestive issues give you ideas as to what you should or should not eat. Whatever it is that stops you dead in your tracks it will be entertaining and enlightening. There is a creative flow for you at home and at work while Venus is in Taurus. Relationships warm up, become romantic, make plans and share on an emotional level while Mercury is in Cancer. Channel your creative energy into activities with the people you love and care for. Discipline yourself to have fun with friends, to be open to entertainment, activities outside the norm and make connections with people you can care about. You expand your relationships beyond their normal scope; heal relations that have been wounded and strengthen those that have weakened. Dreams will feed you with the intellectual fuel you are searching for. Intuition guides you to what you need to know. Care for yourself first and foremost so you can care for others. You rethink the details of the past; remember them in a more constructive and insightful way and come to understand the dysfunctional parts with compassion during Mercury's retrograde. Spiritual upliftment comes with physical fragility. Energies are concentrated on spirit. You are vulnerable to pharmaceutical drugs, allergies and food sensitivities while Neptune is retrograde. Plan an escape, decide to travel somewhere near or far or go on a cruise. You may have to travel with your work. Listen with all ears, inner and outer, you will hear yourself being called to duty and doorways will open to let you pass through. Silly personal issues become huge overwhelming obstacles and words are sharp. Conflict can arise in relations if you have held yourself back or suppressed your thoughts. Pessimism, suspicion, paranoia and other lower thought forms keep you stuck where you are easily set free. Groom your philosophical side, strengthen your self-image and think healthy thoughts. The global shifts have had a huge affect on your work. You have developed new strategies due to this. A clash can occur within the family because a highly charged environment gets more intense. Power struggle can erupt. You are not stuck, you can change your mind and that will make things more flexible which frees you up. Contrasting beliefs or incongruent ideas get alchemically absorbed into a harmonious wholesome expression. Then you come to understand how different ideas you have about yourself are not in consensual agreement as Mercury retrogrades back into Gemini. Too many people want things their own way within the confines of a single space like home or work, or within a project or plan while Juno is in Gemini. Far-out ideas, revolutionary, contrary or the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ones all burst into the flow of relations. You wonder where things come from sometimes but it keeps relations interesting. Now you are ready to deal with the darker parts of life and your being. You will transform blocked energy and experience flashbacks of old wounds while Chiron is retrograde. Happy Summer Solstice, the Sun enters Cancer. Enjoy the brief window of full-fledged summer. There is a possibility you may spend it in the house. Change that picture.

It is beginning to feel a lot like summer, everywhere you go, as the Sun slips into Gemini reminding you of the few short months ahead of longer daylight and warm weather. You get busy, get social and have a plan to make the most of it. You are willing to stretch the rules and spend if you have to in the name of satisfaction. Whatever exists at the core of your being is what you must act on, or make right, fuel, feed and nurture. This is an alpha mode self-propulsion. You can give yourself too much sympathy, understanding and self-love but this exaggerated nurturing is overindulgence.  Lock up the bank book and credit cards. In such a promising atmosphere with prosperity consciousness growing stronger it would be a shame to put yourself in the binders of misjudgement, mistake and inappropriate financial outlay. If friends seem distant and cool, it is not you that is causing it. Everyone has some sort of process going on. People of like-mindedness, shared interests and similar values bring a kind of wholeness with them. The second to last leash is let go, you are free to demonstrate what is true or of interest to you as Vesta resumes direct motion. Spend your good money on whole organic foods and a better diet. You are building your own psychic defence deflector shield to protect your personal vortex. Those who resonate with you come out of the woodwork, clamouring for a place on your social stage of friends and fun while Venus is in Taurus. Those you do not want are deflected. Good communication is spawned by good relations while Mercury is in Cancer. Channel your relational energy into your relationships but do not be swayed by others to stray from your own needs. Discipline is a strength you will rediscover. It protects and cares for you when you apply it. Guidelines, organisation, method and rules will build confidence. Relationships grow and expand business partnerships too. There will be financial rewards or returns on investments. The last leash is taken off of you; you are free to act without limitation now that Ceres is direct in motion. This does not apply to retail therapy. Go out and play, have fun, enjoy unusual activities with friends and be yourself fully while Mercury is retrograde. You will see yourself more clearly. Discover your latent talents; try your hand at something creative while Neptune is retrograde. You will have plenty of adventurous escapes, social escapades and summertime activities to enjoy. You are stimulated to do more. It would be appropriate to pick up something you meant to do many long years ago, or even in childhood. It will call to you. Petty trivial nuisance issues created by a subjective tantrum will spoil what could be good times. If there are any conflicts in your relations you will be sure to push those buttons to put them on the table to be discussed. If you feel stuck in any way whatsoever you need to resource it back to the self and its patterns that need renovation. Develop your humour, philosophy and helpfulness to reach new levels. Everything is changing, the accumulation of global and personal shifts means normal everyday transactions can take on a new interface. The new does not always agree with you. Not being able to follow the old routine can enrage you. Do not take your rage to the road or get blindsided by the road rage of others. Detach, let go, get unstuck from old scripts and the part you were cast. Pool together all the beliefs, philosophies, ideas and knowledge that mean the most to you and cultivate a harmonised amalgamation of your wisdom. You have the capacity to take large volumes of information and cross-reference their correlations while Mercury retrogrades back into Gemini. Gathering a strong coherent sense of self allows you to stand against the influence of others now that Juno is in Gemini. Near the end of the month something unusual is going to happen and it will come out of the blue. The normal is disrupted by the unusual. Pulling the missing pieces together comes with magnetic ease and guidance while Chiron is retrograde. Happy Summer Solstice, have a wonderful summer. You are ready to play and party.

You might want some peace and quiet but you are roused to action to take care of your responsibilities when the Sun enters Gemini. The pressure on you commands that you form different kinds of connections and organise new operations as the old model is clearly not working. How you connect with people and the old standard model of everyday operating methods need a different approach. You have got to be flexible with the rules and guidelines in order to evolve and stretch them into a winning coordination. This cuts you to the core of your value system as it is possible you are following a family legacy on the paternal side. It is now time for the student to become the master. You must leave the nest of comfort and familiarity of the old in order to fly free into the modern flow of new paradigms. You get in your way because it is very hard for you to let go of duty to the father. It is such a compulsion to withdraw, retreat, go into seclusion instead you are robotic. People who think like you, have the same interests, and are in the same social class, will give the best advice. Your focus is directed toward financial management and you are preparing to draw up new binding contracts to replace the redundant old format when Vesta turns direct. Diet is important. Eating when calm and relaxed too. What you feed your mind is equally at issue. Even if you are going full tilt, full speed ahead, something can bring you to a complete standstill. There continues to be deconditioning involved. You feel alone and solely responsible for all that is on your plate when Venus enters Taurus. Emotions and fears can swallow you up if you do not apply discipline when Mercury is in Cancer. Keep your head out of the negative, pessimistic and dark side; be procreative. Discipline will help you get through just about anything including lockdown mode. Personal or love relationship continues to grow, heal and renew hope. It is the salve that soothes you. You will be feeling more charitable towards others, even those who have offended you as soon as Ceres goes direct. There are so many details involved in the responsibilities you are handling it will be difficult to keep them all straight when Mercury goes retrograde. Keep on top of the financial end of all that matters because someone could try to delude you. You would love to escape, withdraw from it all as if it were a bad dream. In the midst of the moment there will be a reckoning, a wisdom that is attuned to the needs of the moment and calls to you. Only your personal issues and allegiances can get in the way. If there are unreconciled differences in your relationship or partnership things can get distorted. Wherever you are set in your ways, tarred to the paternal brush, or a closed shop to organisation, guideline, rule and methodology you will feel stuck. Good philosophy and support from those who care will carry you through. There will be  connections with people and what you need magnetically drawn to you to help. Operating in the world requires new ways and systems because of all that has changed. You require an upgrade of your operating system. Like Windows XP you will not work in the new world even if you can carry on regardless in your personal sphere. Purging, cleansing, renewing are expected. How have you got yourself stuck? What part does Dad play in this? Ideas and beliefs jumble around like scrambled eggs. The contrary, incongruent and contrasting will need to be weaved together harmoniously. The old, tried and true has had a long run but you will be putting on new hats when Mercury retrogrades back into Gemini. A huge change comes to anything you agree to with other people, like contracts. There is more definition and detail to consider when Juno enters Gemini. Something unusual is first going to scare you and then as you calm down it will bring you a freer perspective, more possibilities and opportunities. Magnetic attraction becomes very strong when Chiron turns retrograde. It will bring what you need, it will heal old wounds, it will transform blocked energy and you will enter a trough of release and flow that unravels life's tangles. Happy Summer Solstice, the Sun enters Cancer and signals a time for summer relaxations but you have too much you want to do.

You are feeling vigorous and in command as the Sun enters Gemini, the sign that is directly opposite to you. It is justifiable to stretch your habitual routines, regimes or rules to allow for the serendipitous. Other people's opinions affect you deeply, enough to cause you to constructively question yourself. Self-gratification comes at a cost. You grow out of an old pattern. Seeing mistakes you never realised were mistakes helps you to form better judgement. With greater clarity you grow and expand in confidence. Stepping back with certain people is just as important as stepping forward for yourself. You gravitate toward people who agree with you, sharing like-minded interests lends itself to greater trust and wholeness because you can grow together. Reaching the limit of how much work you can do on yourself opens the doors to adventure, excitement, exploration and more curiosity. Digestive issues turn your attention to diet, food sensitivity, allergic response and meal planning. Deflector shields are up on your psychic self-defence vortex, you can bring things to a halt if they are not what you hold true. This is especially true of financial risks with Venus in Taurus; you will lock up your wallet with something you cannot trust. You have good self control and discipline and intuition is strong while Mercury is in Cancer. Moving too fast to be caught up in anyone else's agendas you channel your procreative energy into immense activity and having fun. You have a lot of discipline when it comes to getting what you and your loved ones want. Family, close friends and work relations flourish. With Ceres direct and the caring heart wide open you want to give more of yourself to others. You find out something you did not know about someone you thought you knew everything about when Mercury is retrograde. Peaceful contentment descends over you and your family; you enjoy work more and feel laid-back with Neptune turning retrograde. Your imagination can carry you away beyond a vacation-type escape but expect to get plunged back at a beck and call. Someone or something takes you from your reverie. Personal conflicts and issues make for confusion and misunderstandings. Conflicted relations are set off by a mere suggestion. It makes you aware of where you are set in your ways which is helpful. Humour and agreeableness makes things better. Everybody has been affected in one way or another by the larger global shifts and it has you wondering about what your children will inherit. Each generation is built differently to handle the evolution. Steer around the ugly emotions and attitudes in the people you meet in the marketplace of life. A little distance and an uncluttered mind can free things up for you. If anything triggers your contradictory self you will be your own obstacle. Harmonise incongruent and contrasting ideas. You will learn something about others you did not know and divulge secrets you have kept while Mercury is retrograde. Your side of the story will represent who you are, what you think and the judgement you form while Juno is in Gemini. By stretching your tolerance and being flexible with your conditional expectations you can be more objective. Health issues that seem to repeat themselves can arise during Chiron's retrograde. Happy Summer Solstice, the Sun enters Cancer announcing the beginning of summertime fun. You are happy to form a relationship with all that our sunny warm weather will bring.

The weeds have already got you busy in your garden and it is not even summer yet. The Sun enters Gemini and there are two things on your mind, travel and finances. There are positive vibes for both. You are not known for breaking rules but you can be creative and at this time you will stretch your own rules into a new and different shape. This comes from your most inner core self because of what you now know and enjoy. No governors on the appetite could be dangerous if attending many large or festive meals. There will be a mindset that you cannot budge even though you want to. You will look at it from many points of view to find a way to broaden this belief in your consciousness. If you feel others are withdrawing you may become suspicious and curious as to why. It is likely to be a personal conundrum. You enjoy good times with people who share like-minded interests and like connecting with those who think the same. A burden is lifted, a need to focus on only certain things has run its term and you are freer to enjoy now that Vesta is direct. Warmer weather brings many more food centred activities so a few things are possible. Weight gain is the first obvious concern but so are digestive complaints, food sensitivities or allergic reactions. Something beyond your control can stop you in your tracks. This can be in day to day affairs, on the road or perhaps highway and detours are to be expected. Good news travels quickly, you hear from people at a distance while Venus is in Taurus. Friends come back into your life, even childhood chums with Mercury in Cancer. Co-creativity channels procreative energy into an outstanding format. Disciplined cooperation and clear communication provides an accelerated experience that propels you toward enjoyment. Your friendship, acquaintanceship, co-worker or team player circles grow. The desire to give more of yourself to your family is a natural reaction to Ceres turning direct. There will be a few things to puzzle out, mysteries to solve or things to get to the bottom of while Mercury is retrograde. Peaceful co-existence, ambient relations and relaxing times come with Neptune retrograde. Your talents come to the forefront, artistic expression is inspired. Perhaps it will come through a friend or close relative but someone acts as a catalyst giving you an idea that calls to you. Do not let personal complications, distortion or issue get in the way. People who normally create conflicted moments will likely be trouble.  You are not stuck anywhere; you choose freely. Good humour, the ability to laugh at life and an equally broad based philosophy keeps you moving forward. You stand in awe of the many incidents that have been affecting people globally. Each detail has etched itself on your consciousness in a support minded desire to help. You feel the need to boost your health and take steps to eat, sleep, exercise and think in a healthy way. Divergent ideas converge and you need to harmonise them, cultivate them or integrate them into your wholesomeness. Your mind is made more curious, it wants to penetrate the surface of most subjects and perhaps it wanders into genealogy while Mercury is in Gemini. Researching as much information as you can about family, ancestors and their records will come natural with Juno in Gemini. You will discover unusual, novel and unexpected information. Instinctively you gain an insight into the possible outcome that certain people could experience if they continue on their current track. You receive inner guidance to keep yourself on the path of purposeful intention. The Sun enters the sign opposite to you, Cancer, it is the Summer Solstice. Have a happy, healthy and memorable summer.

Your to do list seems to be swelling, growing, becoming fearsome as the Sun enters Gemini. Not to worry, your social events and travels will be highly pleasurable as well as educational. You break simple rules, creating multiple-choice instead of either or which adds to the inclusivity of others. Nothing of any core value will be touched. Your sympathy and empathy for others will become greater. You have an exaggerated appetite not only for food but for information, details to be specific. Other people might feel you are getting stuck on a subject if you pursue it without restraint.  You are growing out of some activities and wanting to replace them with something new. You turn to people who have similar interests and are like-minded to see what they have to share. Very quickly your serious focus can turn to fun and laughter, lucky charm and successful interaction. Surprisingly you experience some difficulty with certain foods; perhaps foods foreign to your normal fare. Someone in the family decides to put a stop or bring an end to something traditional or something you do often. It is hard for you to understand their stubbornness. It is possible to bang heads with people when Venus is in Taurus. Exceedingly enjoyable and passive activities, communications and involvements with people occur with Mercury in Cancer. You will put your procreative energy into your own development. Consciousness raising prolific dreams will accompany increased vision and gifted artistry. Discipline is an old reliable tool that will help you get a leg up on what you want to accomplish. Expand on your network of contacts, improve personal relations and mend fences. You have more to give to others now that Ceres is going direct. There are many issues, incomplete jobs and good leads to follow up with in your work as Mercury goes retrograde. You feel good about yourself, in fine fiddle and not bound by limiting labels, denials, fears or hang-ups while Neptune is retrograde. You find many ways to escape everyday reality. They are healthy, not harmful and lots of fun. You are content with doing these occasionally, when you can, but you can be called by temptation and desire which is harder to ration. Personal life can get in the way of practicalities. You will find out if there are any issues, conflicts or jagged edges to your relationships or partnerships. It is wise to check out the self to see what contributions you are making before analysing another's culpability. Good humour goes a long way, flexibility and universal acceptance makes things easier. So many people in your life have been unscathed by all the global violence, earth changes, climate issues and other shifts it is good to be thankful. The environment and atmosphere are intense, highly charged and in a state of chaos but you are blessed for the most part. Intolerance to others can keep you stuck, unable to move ahead or in a negative spiral with people. Too many diversified ideas are descending on you at once, it is a bit confusing and ill fitting but there is a wholesome purpose to the process. You meet friends, old and new, in unexpected places while Mercury retrogrades into Gemini. It is difficult to give your work all your focus when there are so many distractions with Juno in Gemini too. The unusual, unexpected and out of the blue will disrupt the flow. You are a magnet attracting what you need, what will make you whole, what you are missing. While Chiron retrogrades you will transform dark energy or energy blocks so you can release and flow. The Sun enters Cancer, it is official, Happy Summer Solstice, may the force of summer be with you. It looks like a good one.

You are not too sure of how much you want to engage in outdoor activities right now, it seems so cosy, warm and healing to be comfortable while the Sun is in Gemini. It is necessary but also agreeable to bend the rules to accommodate what needs be. Self-analysis cuts too deep; you are questioning the deepest core sense of self. If you are looking for sympathy the exaggeration of your sense of need will repel people from giving you what you want. If you are feeling rejected, look at what you can change in yourself. If you are feeling restricted, ask yourself why you are imposing this on yourself. At the same time people are withdrawing for their own reasons; do not bear the guilt of this. Seek out people of like-mind, share with those who have similar interests and find a meeting place with everyone else. Maybe you can stop picking on yourself, and others, when Vesta turns direct and your focus is not so microscopic. It is good to mix up the people you have in your normal diet of friends. If something insults your intelligence and integrity you will bring things to a complete halt. You have a long memory and may be picking up some stubbornness from Venus in Taurus. You know what you want and need but shroud yourself with doubt as to your ability to have it while Mercury is in Cancer.  It is important to channel your energy with procreativity, free of moral conflict, negative agenda or over-identification with one or the other of your parents. Discipline is weak, feistiness is strong and you feel you would like others to give you a helping hand but it does not come. You need to expand your concepts of human relations, find a happy middle ground and reaffirm mutual agreements where they exist. You can stop babying yourself now, the state of things is turning a corner and vibrations are improving as Ceres turns direct. Your feelings are steadied by rational understandings as Mercury turns retrograde. You intuitively understand other people better, you are more peaceful and placid and you are less self-absorbed with Neptune in retrograde. You will enjoy a good fantasy whether it is a book or a movie, it will grasp your imagination. You will feel called to do something, take responsibility or change your career. Personal issues interfere with seeing things positively. Relationships that are usually conflicted will make worries for you. Take a different position with these things, value yourself and tend to your own needs so you do not sacrifice yourself.  Good humour, a light hearted approach and easy going attitudes will help you to get what you want or get to where you want to be as well as make the connections that will help. There will be a clash but you have control and responsibility and need to make autocratic decisions. If you get stuck on old habit patterns you are sunk, you need to break free. Divergent thoughts converge and need to be harmonised especially when it comes to finances. Light hearted, frivolous and interesting activities fill your schedule when Mercury retrogrades back into Gemini. Contrary demands can be made of you while Juno is in Gemini; do not let them pull your puppet strings. You will have some unexpected excitement. You will not be ready for it as it comes out of the blue and you are not alert. Take the time you need to heal, restore, fix and refuel yourself whenever you need it while Chiron is retrograde. Happy Summer Solstice, the Sun enters Cancer and signals the beginning of our sunny and warm season. Do not fret it is not all work, there is some play.

The spring equinox was just around the corner, my how time is flying as the Sun enters Gemini. You never know what to expect out of yourself as you are constantly changing and transforming into the new you. Friends help and hinder this process. You are stretching the rules, erasing some taboos, rearranging your interpretation of what you were taught and coming up with new evaluations.  Relationships will definitely change as you do; you are getting to the core of your being and rearranging your molecules to be a more harmonious expression of your true self. It is a scary business this metamorphosis and there is a definite neediness created by the transfiguration process. Get rolling, dive in, enjoy the ride and cut loose from those subjective restrictions. You will warm to those that are compatible and feel the cooling between you and those who are not. It is reinforcing to be in the company of people who think like you, share your interests and have a similar background. This companionship helps you to get outside of yourself, focusing on the self has become microscope but will turn into interest in others as Vesta turns direct. You will know if you eat something that is not easily digested, assimilated, or your body does not like because you will have an immediate reaction in the stomach or bowel. A sudden bout of ill health can stop you in your tracks but it is over as quickly as it appears. You form a relationship with the foods that are not good for you or that do not resonate with your blood type while Venus is in Taurus. Picking up tips from the people around you there are many changes you will make to your personality and manner of approaching other people while Mercury is in Cancer. You are much more procreative than you might ever have been, there is no room for the negative, and it is what it is. You are forming a new relationship to the idea of discipline and how it can help you get to where you want to be and where you were meant to go. Your circle of relationship expands and grows even as it loses members to the occasional out of the blue reason. You need to take care of any pessimism as it begins to form and harbour optimistic thoughts now that Ceres is direct. Reviewing the gains and losses in your network circle, friend circle, groups and any and all connections during Mercury retrograde puts your house in order. Your imagination is conceptual, gifted, resourceful and inventive while Neptune is retrograde. You create visions that escape reality and capture possibilities and potentials. Called to learn and grow within your work and career you will follow that path and create a stable foundational basis for future growth. Personal issues can get in the way; nuisance thoughts and distorted reactions jangle and conflict if you let them. Relationships hiding in the cracks are ones that contain elements of conflict, power struggle, wilful or subjective assertion and troublesome domination. They will be flushed out. It is up to you whether you get unstuck or keep yourself stuck, this is an opportunity. Keep your inner humour, even if you cannot speak it, think it. Good philosophies will keep you calm and peaceful in the face of chaos or resistance and rebellion. Global shifts have to be considered in your work, you need to keep up with the time we live in which is a tall order in this technologically advanced world. Anger can manifest, in others, in you, in any gathering or through your work. Whatever hangs you up, rewrite the script, get out of the vice grip, mix it up and change. The incongruent within you will manifest. Whatever contrasting ideas you have, they will present themselves. It is a process of achieving wholesomeness that requires adjustment and revision. Many old memories, ideas from years gone by, maybe even past life suggestions can present themselves while Mercury retrogrades back into Gemini. Your dreams should be vivid and inspiring, pay attention, and write them down. People can become somewhat pernickety about what they consider necessary, what they demand, what they expect while Juno is in Gemini. A usual uplift of income, an excitement of the services you offer to earn a living, comes without much effort. Chiron retrograding will be the remedy you need for your job, career or business. It brings things together, provides restoration and healing and provides you with a sense of what is to come. Happy Summer Solstice, the Sun enters Cancer signally the longest day of the year and the beginning of our warm season. You will have an interesting and enjoyable summer.

The Sun enters Gemini; your progressed birth year is in motion. This year you plan on becoming more organised, making commitments, developing greater presence and more stability in your work and in your personal life. The rules are relaxed, they are changing form and you are allowing the expansive process to show you the way. You accept the unusual, untried, innovative, unique and different. The new idea of security takes on many facets. You feel like you are more in touch with yourself than ever. Whatever life lessons you thought you reincarnated to learn, the real ones will now take shape. You are eager to grow into your purposeful perspective. Mistakes are good teachers. Paternal attitudes although well intentioned interfere. You grow beyond your teachers, mentors, parents, family and ancestors. You grow into your own. This is good. It is confusing that at the same time you feel farther removed from devoted friends even though they are as close as ever. Gravitate toward those who share your ideas, have like-minded interest, those who think the same because your evolution will be supported by this. Look outside yourself for the answers you seek, enough already with fine combing your inner self. Take the clues you have and start exploring other people's viewpoints and information for the next solution. You are drawn to trying different foods only to find that they do not all agree with you. A cessation of discordant dissatisfaction in a no-win situation strengthens your psychic self-defence vortex. With Venus in Taurus your sensors are finely tuned, you feel vibrations; if other people do not resonate with you then you will feel it. Your soft spot will be spending money on your home while Mercury is in Cancer. Greater resolution, highly procreative energy and excellent psychic or intuitive ability overcomes and excels. Your discipline is paramount; it is strengthened, highly protective, inclusive and loyal to what you believe. New people will come into your circle, old friends and acquaintances will reappear, and new associations come out of shared commitments. When Ceres resumes direct motion you are more able to care for everyone again, no longer do you have to reserve your energy and strength for yourself. There will be much spiritual advancement and rational understanding derived when Mercury is retrograde. Dream states can be disturbed by issues surrounding relationships but otherwise will provide clues to future prospects while Neptune is retrograde. You are very creative with ideas, music, writing, prophesising and making connections. Revising what you believed to be your calling will be a part of your evolutionary plan. You will no longer let personal issues get in the way and distort your progress. Relationships of conflict have to be cleared of their negative charge to get unstuck from residual issues. Take a philosophical approach, explore the unfamiliar, test every possibility and strike out in a direction that requires freedom and faith. You try to protect yourself from the negative impact of disastrous global news but are very aware of the shifts taking place in humanity. Friends and acquaintances bring their troubles to you to cleanse, purge and renew them. You are not stuck; it is either your job or your vocation. Out of sorts and out of kilter with yourself, many contrasting thoughts whiz around your head. Much of what you learned or observed in your past is reviewed for relevancy. You are looking at yourself as if you were another person; this objectivity gives you insights into how other people receive you while Mercury is retrograde in Gemini. It is blindingly obvious what other people's conditional expectations are while Juno is in Gemini. Be ready for a surprise, hopefully it is not a cruel joke, the unexpected can be pleasurable. Great transformational power comes through Chiron's retrograde. Flashbacks may revisit old wounds or new experiences are a duplication of the event. It is a release that allows the flow of greater wisdom as it untangles your life patterns. You are being led to wholeness. Happy Summer Solstice, the Sun is entering Cancer creating the longest day of the year and signalling the start of the warm season. You will be blessed.

Life in the beyond

Silver Birch the best loved internationally famous spirit communicator and teacher from the spirit world

Silver Birch has described something of the beauties of the spirit world, which he declares we visit frequently in our sleep, although most of us cannot remember our experiences on waking:

When you have tasted and enjoyed with your full consciousness all that my world has to offer, you will realise that it is the love we bear for you that makes us come back to work amongst you. You have not tasted the joys of the world of spirit. There is nothing in your world of matter with which you can compare the life of the spirit, freed from the trammels of the flesh, escaped from the prison of the body of matter, with liberty to go where you will, to see your thoughts take shape, to follow out the desires of your heart, to be freed from the troubles of money.

You who are encased in matter, do not yet comprehend beauty as it can be. You have not seen our light, colour, scenery, trees, birds, rivers, streams, mountains, flowers and yet you're world fears death.

Death strikes terror into their hearts. But you will only begin to live when you're "dead". Now you live, but in reality you're almost dead. So many are dead to the things of the spirit. The little life force flickers in their puny bodies, but no spiritual things can find any response within them. But gradually we make progress. Gradually the force of the spirit increases in strength all over your world of matter. Gradually darkness retreats, as it must when confronted by the light of spiritual truth. There are no words to compare the life in your world of matter with the life in the world of spirit. We who are "dead" and know so much more of life than you do. This is the world where the artist finds all his dreams come true, where the painter and the poet realise their ambitions, where genius has full power of expression, where the repressions of earth are swept away and all gifts and talents are used in the service of one another. This is the world where there are no clumsy words to express inspiration, but where thought is the living language and reveals itself with lightning rapidity.

This is the world where we have no money to worry us, where there is no competition, no driving of the weaker to, the wall, where the strong, are strong because they have something to give to those less fortunate than themselves. We have no unemployment, we have no slums, we have no selfishness. We have no sects, we have only one religion. We have no sacred books, only the operation of the divine laws to instruct us. And the nearer you get to the belts of matter, the more clumsy and difficult it is for the spirit to express itself. I never like to come back. The only things that make me do so are the promise that I have given to serve and the love of all of you, which gives me some compensation. To die is not tragic. To live in your world is tragic. To see the garden of the Great Spirit choked with the weeds of selfishness and greed and avarice, that his tragedy.

To die it is to enjoy freedom of the spirit, which has been imprisoned behind the bars of the material body. Is it tragic to be released from suffering, for the soul to come into its own? Is it tragic to see wonders of colour, to hear music that does not belong to material expression? Do you call it tragic to express yourself in a body that has no pain, to be able to roam all over the world of matter in a flash and to taste the beauties of the spirit life too? There is not in your world one artist who could capture with his paints some of the glories of my world. There is not one musician who can record some of the glories of the music spheres with your notes. There is not one writer who could describe it in physical words the beauty of parts of this world. What a pleasant surprise you will have one day, when you become conscious of our world. Your world is in beauty now. You see all around you the manifestations of the Great Spirit, as the dawn of life sweeps over your surroundings again in its cycle, and you marvel at the beauty of the blossom and the fragrance of the flowers, and you say: "How great is the handiwork of the Great Spirit."

And yet, that which you see is but a very, very pale reflection of the beauties that we have in our world of spirit. We have flowers such as you have never seen, we have colours such as your eye has never beheld, we have scenes and forests, we have birds and plants, we have streams and mountains. You have nothing to compare them with. And you will be able to enjoy them, for, even though you will be ghosts, you will be real ones. You come to our world now, but you do not remember. You visit the spirit world every night. That is your preparation. Otherwise, it would be such a shock when you come here to start your real life in earnest. When you pass on, you will remember your visits. You will then be freed from the limitations of the body and you will be able to express to the full all the consciousness, which has been released during your sleep. In its new expression, it will bring to you all the memories that you have, the memories of all the experiences that you have enjoyed.

Questions and answers Silver Birch

Questions asked by sitters at a home circle

Question

What will be the position of those who, after passing, go to the lower planes of spirit life? Will they remember their sleep visits.... presumably to the lower planes.... and will that memory help them to adjust their position?

Silver Birch

Those who would gravitate to the lower planes go to those planes during sleep, but the memory of that would not help them to realise their position after death because the planes on which they found themselves would still resemble the material world. The lower in the world of spirit, the more earthly it is in appearance because the vibrations are more gross; the higher in the realms of spirit, the finer the vibrations.

Question

Do we sometimes remember our sleep adventures in this life?

Silver Birch

When your spirit is released from its body, you are freed from your brain, which is your limitation in the world of matter. The consciousness now has experiences on our vibrations, according to your grade of evolution, and it is conscious of its experiences while it has them. But, when you go back to your body of matter and try to capture the experiences of the spirit, you cannot do so because one is greater than the other. The smaller cannot hold the greater and you get distortion. It is as if you had a little bag and you tried to get lots of things into it. You could only get some of the things into the bag, and the more you pushed the more out of shape they would become. That is what happens to you when you returned to your bodies. But, if your soul is already evolved and you have reached an advanced stage of consciousness, then you are aware of the spirit realms. Then you can quite easily train the brain to remember.

I talk with all of you and I often say: "Remember this when you go back to your world". But you do not. I have been with each one of you "in this circle" and I have taken you to many places. But, though you do not remember it now, none of it is ever wasted.

Question

Do you mean that the memory of these experiences will help us when we pass on?

Silver Birch

Yes. Nothing is wasted. The law is perfect. Those of us who have lived for many years marvel at the perfection of the law, and when we hear the puny minds of your world criticise the Great Spirit... how little they know! The less they know, the more they express themselves.

Question

Are many people engaged in working during their sleep state, or are the visits used solely for preparation for the larger life?

Silver Birch

Some of you do work; because there are many that you can help in your sleep state. But, usually, it is a preparation. You're taken to those places, which will help you to be ready for your work when you leave the world of matter. If that were not done, the shock of coming from one sphere of expression to another would be so great that it would take you a long time to recover. That is why it is easier for those who have knowledge when they come to our world. Others have to sleep and rest for a long time, until they can adjust themselves. If you have knowledge, then you pass from one state to another and you are aware of the new life. After all, it is just like opening a door and coming into the sunshine. You must get accustomed to light. Those without knowledge would have to have a long period of rest to recover from the period of transition. It is the same as a baby in your world. It has to feel its way. They would still remember their experiences, but more as you remember dreams. Nothing is ever lost, in your world or in mine. Always remember that. Every thought, every action, every desire to serve that is thrown out of your hearts helps someone somewhere. Always, when the desire is there, you attract those who can help you.

Question

When people pass on lacking in understanding, do they respond to our thoughts and receive our mental messages?

Silver Birch

Awakening only comes when realisation dawns. If you have knowledge, then your awakening is much quicker. We have to fight ignorance, misunderstanding, superstition, false creeds, erroroneous theologies, all of which do not help to prepare the soul for its new life. Before these are conquered, the soul has gradually to accustom itself, and there is a long period of rest. As in your world you have hospitals for bruised and injured bodies, we have to treat bruised and injured souls. But where an individual has rendered great service, and love, goodwill, affection and prayer accompany his passing into my world, then the awakening is speeded, for all those vibrations help him.

Question

What will happen to a person who passes on, not believing in survival, but thinking that when he dies it is the end?

Silver Birch

As you cannot die, because it is contrary to the natural law, that person will have to wake up and face the fact. How long it will take for the realisation of spirit life to come to him will depend upon the evolution of his soul... how far it is advanced and how it can attune itself to the new conditions.

Question

Will the passing of such a person be difficult?

Silver Birch

That, again, depends on the evolution of the soul. Passing from your world to mine is not difficult, as a rule, because usually the one who passes is not conscious of the change at the time. It is only advanced souls who register the passing out of the world of matter into the world of spirit.

Question

If such a person has been good, will he suffer in any way for not believing the truth of survival, even if he has been told of it?

Silver Birch

Good, bad, I do not know what these words mean. It will depend only upon the life he has led, the service he has rendered, the opportunities he has taken to unfold the Great Spirit that is within him. That is all that counts. It is better to have knowledge then ignorance, but the only test is the way you have lived your life from day to day.

Question

In the spirit life, do we join again with those we love and become younger? Jesus says there is no marriage or giving in marriage.

Silver Birch

Wherever there has been love between a man and a woman and that love has brought them together and made them as one, and they have lived on the same spiritual plane in your world, then "death" will not part them. "Death" will be a door, which will give them a greater freedom for their souls to be more closely united than they were in your world of matter. But if their coming together, their marriage as you call it, was not a marriage of souls but only of bodies, and their souls did not dwell on the same plane, then "death" will drive them further apart, for it will relegate them to their own spiritual sphere. If there is love, they will find that in the world of spirit they will not get younger, not older, but will experience growth, evolution, and development. These are things of the soul, not the body when the Nazarene said that there is no marriage and no giving in marriage, he was referring to the marriage of bodies, not the marriage of soul. For that which you call male and that which you call female each has its contribution to make to each other. The female is necessary to the male and the male is necessary to the female. The Great Spirit embodies the two principles in perfection. As you evolve in planes of spirit the difference becomes less and less.

The chances are that Silver Birch's wisdom will remain with you forever. Long after you have forgotten his precise words, his guidance will still be a very real influence whenever you need it. Silver Birch's words are so accessible and meaningful that you will never tire of reading them.

I was introduced to the teachings of Silver Birch many years ago and it is true you never will tire of reading them. There is something so special, so deep that will resonate within your soul and his words will stay with you, guide you, and comfort you for the rest of your life.  Silver Birch, the spirit guide channelled his words of wisdom through Maurice Barbanell.

He was born to Jewish parents in a poor area of London's East End. His mother was devoutly religious but his father, a barber was an atheist so Barbanell heard many arguments about religion during his early years. His father always won, and his son adopted the same outlook but later changed to agnosticism. Yet after hearing about Spiritualism from a speaker at a social and literary club of which he was secretary, Barbanell refused to start the debate by putting an opposing view - one of his duties - because, he explained, he had made no personal investigation and therefore his opinions were valueless.This impressed the speaker who invited Barbanell to attend a seance in which a medium, Mrs Blaustein, was entranced by various spirits of different nationalities. He was not impressed, and on a second visit fell asleep. Barbanell apologised, believing that either boredom or tiredness had been responsible, but the other circle members informed him that he had not been asleep but had been in a trance and a Red Indian had spoken through him.

With the encouragement of a famous Fleet Street journalist Hannen Swaffer, Barbanell founded Psychic News partly as a vehicle for the guide's teachings. But, because he knew he would be criticised for publishing his own mediumship in his own newspaper, Barbanell did not reveal to his readers for many years who was channelling the wisdom, by which time the guide had a huge following on his own merits.Silver Birch spoke regularly at Barbanell's home circle and the proceedings were always recorded shorthand. There were a number of differences in style and procedure between Barbanell's own journalistic efforts and the way in which Silver Birch communicated, as Barbanell himself observed:

"In my working life I use words every day. I have never yet written or dictated an article with which I was satisfied when I read it. Inevitably I find, when looking at the typed material, that I can improve it by altering words, phrases and sentences. No such problem arises with the guide's teachings. These flow perfectly, requiring usually only punctation. Another interesting aspect is the occasional use of words that I regard as archaic and do not form part of my normal vocabulary."

Silver Birch

But who was Silver Birch? A psychic artist depicts him as a serious-looking native American Indian with a single feather and compassionate eyes. There is evidence to suggest that this was simply a convenient persona behind which a far more spiritually evolved soul hid in order that those who read his words would judge them not by the name attached to them but by the wisdom that pervades every sentence.Those who knew them both were well aware of the differences in the way they spoke and the words they used. They both had spiritual missions and they fulfilled them admirably, particularly when working together in their unique two-world partnership. This, as you will discover, has provided inspirational answers to the questions we all ask, from time to time, about life and its purpose. They are needed now more than ever before as we prepare for the challenges that confront us in the 21st century.

Silver Birch Speaks:

"Man was born to be free, to dwell in liberty. He was not born to be a slave, bound and fettered. His life should be full of richness, the richness of mind and body and spirit. All knowledge should be open to him, all truth, all wisdom, all inspiration. He should dwell in the splendour of the spirit with none of the cramping, irksome, vexatious restrictions imposed upon him by those who would deny his heritage and thwart his destiny.

"The power of the spirit is the power of life. The reason why there is life is because Spirit is there. The power that fashioned the whole universe, majestic though it is and stupendously vast, is the same power which enables you to exist here and hereafter for all time.

"The power that enables you to love, to think, to care, to judge, to reflect, to decide, to weigh, to ponder, to be inspired, to reach the heights and depths of the whole gamut of human feelings - that power is the power of the spirit."

The following are quotes from the various books of Silver Birch

Quotes from Teachings of Silver Birch                                              

What a glorious message we have for your world of matter - a message that makes men free and teaches them to rejoice in their divine heritage; a message that teaches them to throw off shackles and bonds; a message that teaches them to rejoice in the fullness of spiritual knowledge; a message that shows them how to live not only on the planes of matter but on the planes of spirit; a message that brings them beauty, love and wisdom, understanding, truth and happiness; a message that speaks of service, service, service...

Quotes from Guidance from Silver Birch

There is no joy and no service that can match helping others. In a world so full of darkness, where millions have lost their way, where there are countless numbers troubled and perplexed with sorrow in their hearts, who awake each morning in fear and apprehension of what the day brings - if you can help one soul to find some serenity and to realise that he/she is not neglected, but surrounded by arms of infinite love, that is a great work. It is more important than anything else.

Quotes from Philosophy of Silver Birch

If you prefer blindness, keep your eyes closed. If you prefer deafness keep your ears closed. But if you are wise, you will open the windows of your soul so that you can become aware of that mighty, vast power of the spirit which will strengthen and encourage you and make you know how life can be lived and enjoyed to the full.

Quotes from More Philosophy of Silver Birch

You must live for the day, for the hour, for the minute, for the second, live in the ever present moment. Have no anxiety for the morrow and do the best you can. The Great Spirit is aware of the fact that you are all human beings and imperfect. That is why you are on earth. If you were perfect you would not be where you are now. The function of your earthly life is simply to eliminate the imperfections.

Quotes from Light From Silver Birch

Of course there will be problems in Life. Earth is a place where you are presented with difficulties, frustrations, obstacles and handicaps. The whole purpose of earthly existence is to meet conditions that are a challenge to the evolving spirit so that it can have the chance to epxress some of its latent qualities that can be called on in times of crisis. You cannot achieve spiritual mastery without conquering the problems that you encounter; but none is so insuperable that you cannot overcome it. You will have to be patient and pray for guidance that at the right time the door will open and the way will be shown. I always tell my friends in very simple language never to bang against a closed door.

Quotes from Silver Birch Companion

You who live in the world of matter are most unoriginal creatures. You do not, except very seldom, create anything. You are receiving stations and transmitting stations. Thoughts come to you; they lodge within you; you add to their wings and send them forth where others receive them. The thought that comes to you is not the same as when it leaves you; your personality has quickened it, or slowed it down, enriched it or impoverished it, made it more beautiful or more ugly, given it new life, or perhaps vitiated it. But over and above all that, you can, when you attune yourself, receive positive inspiration from those of like mentality to yourself.

Quotes from A Voice in the Wilderness

In all the moments of crisis, fix your minds upon the eternal things of the spirit. Do not dwell too much on the kingdom of empires and dominions but on the Kingdom of Heaven. Do not have excessive adoration for those who are only men. Remember the great tasks, the greater problems. Remember the masses who cry out, whose pain, bitterness and sorrow are far, far greater than the difficulties of only one. That is the greater lesson for all in your world of matter to learn.

Quotes from The Seed of Truth

Man was born to be free,to dwell in liberty; he was not born to be a slave, bound and fettered. His life should be full of richness, the richness of mind and body and spirit. All knowledge should be open to him, all truth, all wisdom, all inspiration. He should dwell in the splendour of the spirit with none of the cramping, irksome, vexatious restrictions imposed upon him by those who would deny his heritage and thwart his destiny.

Quotes from The Spirit Speaks

The reason for communication is love, love governs communication, whether it be in the love founded on the relationship between people who know one another on earth, or the love of service and the desire to help mankind that attracts unknowns to one another.

Quotes from Lift Up Your Hearts

Everybody in your world has to die. It is part of the law that you cannot live on earth for ever. So it is inevitable that the physical body, when it has fulfilled its function, should be severed from the spiritual body and the soul which endowed it with animation. It is thus that the transitional period can be accomplished and the soul go marching on as part of its eternal pilgrimage. It is of course sad that this happens because many of you, alas, have your spiritual vision restricted so that you see only the material, the shell, the husk, and not the underlying, sublime reality. The eyes of the spirit are open, and knows that the one you love and who loves you has left you physically but not spiritually.

Death has no power to separate those whom love has joined together and made them one in spirit.

Quotes from The Universe of Silver Birch

The Great Spirit is the natural Law of the universe. The Great Spirit is the creative force behind all life, whether registered in the plane of matter or that of the plane of spirit. The Great Spirit pervades all the universe, whether it is the tiny portion known to you, or the larger part, which ,as yet, has not been revealed to earthly gaze.

Quotes from Silver Birch Anthology

All things of matter will fade away and become absorbed in the dust of which your earthly life is made. Ambitions, desires, the acquisition of wealth,all these are of no account, but you will always remain as spiritual beings, and your richness will be just what is contained within your own nature, no more, no less. That is the lesson to be learned in all earthly life. If you learn it you are wise because you have found yourself, and having found yourself, you will have found the Great Spirit.

Quotes from The Silver Birch Book of Questions and Answers

Q - What is spirit?A - SPIRIT is perfect in its origin, spirit possess intrinsically the creative forces of all life. Spirit is not subject to age, infirmity,wastage or to any of the defects that affect the physical body. The line of spirit evolution is from immaturity to maturity. Part of its evolution is accomplished through a physical body, which it has created for that purpose. Spirit is dominant, spirit is the king, spirit is the ruler. But here comes the paradox. There is an interaction between spirit, mind and body, and the body restricts the activity of the spirit on earth because the spirit can express itself on earth only through the body at its disposal.

White Eagle & Silver Birch: Reflections on Jesus

Thích Nhất Hạnh, from "Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life"

 "When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending."

 "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."

 "Because you are alive, everything is possible."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, from "Living Buddha, Living Christ"

 "Smile, breathe and go slowly."

 "Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion."

"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can

love, and the situation will change"

 "The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, from The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

 "Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, from Stepping into Freedom: Rules of Monastic Practice for Novices

"Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, from Teachings on Love

 "Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, from The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

 "Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, from The Art of Power

 "My actions are my only true belongings."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology

 "Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, Being Peace

"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

 "If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

 "Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."

Thích Nhất Hạnh

 "Our own life has to be our message."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology

"For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, Being Peace

"By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology

 "We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness."

Thích Nhất Hạnh

"Life is available only in the present moment."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions

 "Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow."

Thích Nhất Hạnh

 "The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy."

Thích Nhất Hạnh

 "I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

 "The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

 "When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love."

Thích Nhất Hạnh

1 In my pure land, may all beings exhibit the 32 major marks and the 80 minor marks of a Buddha. If this does not come to pass, may I not reach enlightenment.

2 May all sentient beings born in my pure land radiate glowing light - a light that dispels all dwelling in darkness. If this does not come to pass, may I not reach enlightenment.

3 Whoever is born in that pure land, may they always enjoy material abundance and be free of all worldly concerns. If this does not come to pass,

may I not reach enlightenment.

4 May the beings in that pure land possess a stable vision of the pure view. If this does not come to pass, may I not reach enlightenment.

5 May those born in my pure land pay utmost attention to the purity of their conduct. May the results of negative karma due to previous actions be deferred to the time of most benefit to spiritual growth. If this does not come to pass, may I not reach enlightenment.

6 May they all emanate health and growth in body and mind. May they be relieved of any discomfort or disorder that hinders spiritual growth. If this does not come to pass, may I not reach enlightenment.

7 May my name become a mantra that heals all ailments. May the sound of my name and the image of my nirmanakaya be a balm that eases all pain. May

the sound of my name or visualization of my image cure physical troubles and sickness. If this does not come to pass, may I not reach enlightenment.

8 May those who wish to change gender have that wish be fulfilled. May that choice lead directly to enlightenment. If this does not come to pass, may I not reach enlightenment.

9 May those who hold wrong views or beliefs regarding dharma immediately develop right view when they hear my name. As a result, may they engage in bodhisattva activities. If this does not come to pass, may I not reach enlightenment.

10 May those who live in fear and are easily controlled, who feel threatened

with incarceration and punishment, leave behind their fears of catastrophe. If this does not come to pass, may I not reach enlightenment.

11 May those whose subsistence has depended on predation and the killing of other beings have all their material needs met upon hearing my name.

May their freedom result in the recognition of their innate bodhisattva nature. If this does not come to pass, may I not reach

enlightenment.

12 Upon hearing my name, may those who suffer from any kind of hunger, thirst, or cold have all their needs provided for. May their food, drink,

and clothing free them from mundane concerns so that they may begin to benefit others. If this does not come to pass, may I not reach enlightenment.

After the great Medicine Buddha made these bodhisattva vows, he kept these promises throughout all his lifetimes as a bodhisattva. When we practice the Medicine Buddha, we should remember these commitments and aspire to do the same, for the sake of all living beings. If we do this with love, compassion, and bodhichitta, it will benefit us and all other living beings.

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