All too often we find ourselves trapped within the confines of our daily routines...We lose ourselves in the chores, the bills, the responsibilities...in other words, the demands of our everyday lives...
Though most of us are able to and do cope, I can only speak for myself, when I say, that all too often, I am left drained, spent and a bit empty....
It is at this moment that I begin to lose perspective, to forget the everyday 'little miracles' as I call them, that make my life so full and so worth while...
One day it occurred to me that I wasn't alone...It occurred to me that no matter who I spoke to or where I went, there was always someone venting about 'work', 'significant other', 'finances', or the other good one, 'time'!
Wouldn't it be wonderful, I thought, if I could bring all these people under one umbrella to discuss something else, to flip the coin! What motivates you? What excites you? What fulfills you? What gives your life meaning and purpose? What are you grateful for?
And so, I decided to create Our Journey to Balance...Without prejudice, and with a deep conviction, I hope to get people talking...about the good stuff!!!
My mission for this blog is to get people motivated...I am attempting to do this in the simplest way possible...by getting people talking about what makes us happy! Is it The Arts? Science? Faith? Spirituality? Our Kids?...
Whatever that may be, I want you to express yourself or simply ask questions...
My philosophy is this is: WE are all pieces of the puzzle...the whole...We all have value...We all have a voice...
I would love to hear yours!
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ReplyDeleteWhat’s good in the Cosmos: January-February 2011
Posted on February 14, 2011 by editor
This isn’t the same ol’ astrology column you flip to in the back of Vogue. Nah. We’re talking about your place in the universe! That’s right, you heard me: your role in the cosmos, the patty in your big-mac experience, or maybe the tune in your rap. I prescribe to astrology in the academic lineage of Plato to Freud to Jung to Tarnas. We’re talking about archetypes, or universal and cyclical stories, that are simutaneously reflected in our psyches, global events, and the positions of the planets. Archetypes are like cosmic road signs telling you where the universe (including you) is at these days.
As above, so below. It’s fractal, it’s quantum, it’s resonant.
For example, right now with Uranus starting to align with Pluto in the sky at a right angle, the cosmos is feeling rebellious– and we are too. Not because we’re feeling the planets’ vibes, but because the planets, us, and everything else in our quantum reality is feeling and reflecting an archetypally patterned wave that underlies all energy. Everything is connected, and reflected and always co-created. The planets can give a clue to major themes to consider for yourself, your peers and for humanity at large as we ride the cosmic wave.
With our economic and political systems joined at the increasingly French Revolution-esque hip, we’re due for some big shifts in our worldviews, our cultures, and ourselves.
For example, we’ve got Uranus approaching a right angle with Pluto in Capricorn, soon to form a T-square (another right angle) with Saturn. We’ve also got a Jupiter-Uranus conjunction winding up and moving into Aries, and Neptune moving into Pisces until 2025.
Neptune in Pisces will help us learn about ourselves deeply while Uranus in Aries will help us express this through our personalities. Together, these transits will help us wake up to the wild beauty of our own lives and how we fit into the big picture.
Adding to this is Pluto in Capricorn. This pattern has been in progress since 2008, and has come with many social changes, some of them unsettling. We see this in the economic crisis, our government’s chaos, and of course a sense that everything might collapse tomorrow. Current affairs include examples like the recent student protests in London, or the rebellions happening in Egypt as I write.
ReplyDeleteNow, here is a clue about 2012: the year that Uranus moving through Aries first meets Pluto moving through Capricorn with another square to Saturn in Libra. This is called the Uranus-Pluto-Saturn T- square. This is part of the cycle that delivers some of the most radical astrology ever documented by historians — the astrology of revolution and of revelation. This alignment happened during the French Revolution, the Depression and then again in the 1960s.
Think of how this is developing — society changing, perhaps seeming like its falling apart, while at the same time we are awakening to our creative potential, and getting into the process of creating change. A place where we realize that we do have power, we can influence our world, and we can create a world that is just and sustainable for all.
The Uranus-Pluto-Saturn T-square describes the place where revolutionary self-awareness meets the vast and sweeping changes that the world is going through. The world is changing, and many of us feel a profound need to rethink our role, our place of participation, or our point of influence.
Unlike the 60’s though, don’t “tune in and drop out.” Tune in, and drop in. Know yourself, live in alignment with your values, engage in your community, and bring your gifts to build the kind of world you want to see! According to our archetypal cycles, now is the time.
Leandra Jones is currently a student at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she is working towards a Masters in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. She is also the proud mom of a teen daughter at Tam.
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Good luck on your new project, hopefully it will be everything you dream of.
ReplyDeleteA Prayer by St. Padre Pio
ReplyDeleteGood evening friends,
Today I would like to introduce to you one of my favorite prayers. It is the prayer that was said by St. Padre Pio after communion. This prayer brings me hope because it shows how even the holiest of men struggles with the same thoughts and feelings we may feel. St. Padre Pio died in 1968. He was given the grace of having the marks of Christ, the Stigmata. He carried the Stigmata for 50 years and when he died they disappeared without even a trace that his hands and feet had bled for 50yrs.
St. Padre Pio has been credited with many miracles, including giving site to a girl with no pupils, he was known to be in two places at once but I think he was most well known while he was alive for his abilities in the confessional. He was known as "a great apostle of the confessional". St. Padre Pio would say mas for as long as 3 hours sometimes. It is said when he would pray over the communion he sometimes would fall over, feeling the weight of Christ's cross on his shoulders. When St. Padre Pio would give communion his wounds would bleed.
Unfortunately, St. Padre Pio was often very sick and was, I am ashamed to say not treated very well by the Pope of time. It was not almost at the end of his ministry that Padre Pio was finally able to practice his calling without prosecution. There is so much more I want to tell you about our wonderful Padre Pio but I will leave that for another day.
I hope this prayer touches your soul as it has mine.
St. Padre Pio
Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have You present so that I do not forget You. You know how easily I abandon You.
Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak and I need Your strength, that I may not fall so often.
Stay with me, Lord, for You are my life and without You I am without fervor.
Stay with me, Lord, for You are my light and without You I am in darkness.
Stay with me, Lord, to show me Your will.
Stay with me, Lord, so that I hear Your voice and follow You.
Stay with me, Lord, for I desire to love You very much and always be in Your company.
Stay with me, Lord, if You wish me to be faithful to You.
Stay with me, Lord, as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You, a nest of Love.
Stay with me, Jesus, for it is getting late and the day is coming to a close and life passes, death, judgment and eternity approaches. It is necessary to renew my strength, so that I will not stop along the way and for that, I need You. It is getting late and death approaches, I fear the darkness, the temptations, the dryness, the cross, the sorrows. O how I need You, my Jesus, in this night of exile!
Stay with me tonight, Jesus, in life with all its dangers, I need You.
Let me recognize You as Your disciples did at the breaking of the bread, so that the Eucharistic Communion be the Light which disperses the darkness, the force which sustains me, the unique joy of my heart.
Stay with me, Lord, because at the hour of my death, I want to remain united to You, if not by Communion, at least by grace and love.
Stay with me, Lord, for it is You alone I look for, Your Love, Your Grace, Your Will, Your Heart, Your Spirit, because I love You and ask no other reward but to love You more and more.
With a firm love, I will love You with all my heart while on earth and continue to love You perfectly during all eternity. Amen.
May the blessings that I wish upon myself and family be also given to you.
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