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full moon in pisces

On the new moon, Jamie asked us to consider, "How can I shine?" This full sturgeon moon in Pisces is also a great time to strengthen connections and relationships, and that's what is speaking to me now when it comes to shining. Shining with and for others, creating space and exchanging energy for the betterment of all. 

I feel that I'm in an expansion stage, gathering what I've learned so far, bundling it with the questions, and moving out into the world of conversation and give and take. I'm open to finding out where partnerships can lead and I'm honoring my friendships, the connections that feed me, the connections I feed.

The full moon energy is helping me release to make room for the new and  I feel its particular brand of medicine stronger now than every before. I'm swimming in the emotional waters of Pisces and delving deeper into meditative practices.

And it's not that I think I'm attracting anything to me; it's that I feel relationships, gifts, big love is being revealed. 

My dreamboard after the jump:

re trograde

re trace

re think

re treat

re veal

re imagine

re organize

re investigate

re invigorate

re lease

my stars

My brother has always been able to make me laugh with his dead-on impersonations of me. Tracy can do the same thing. They get at some essential part of me, some piece of my personality and bring it in to the light and it's funny, it that cringing sort of way that things are funny when they nail you. 

These videos in which Debra Silverman impersonates the 12 signs of the zodiac, caught my attention yesterday. Aquarius made me laugh and cringe the same way Chad and Tracy can do. I found myself thinking, that's nothing like me, oh wait a minute, that's exactly like me. The thing about the tattoos hit particularly close to the bone.  

Ready to receive

The New Moon in Aries occurs on April 14 at 8:29 a.m. EDT. New Moons signify rebirth, beginnings, a clean slate, the start of a new cycle. This new moon highlights Aries qualities (enterprising, independent, confident, assertive) and 1st house themes (the self, our potential, conscious will).

This Aries-New Moon (heart & soul) is in easy, friendly alignments with Neptune (hope) and Chiron (healing). The Arien energy is bold, ready for action, and easily enthused with the notion of new ventures. This New Moon phase is action-oriented. Is there something that you'd like initiated? A new project? A new relationship or re-igniting an old one? A new sense of personal freedom? Re-inventing the self? As we forge ahead with renewed vigor (New Moon in Aries), we must first release the past (Chiron) before we can truly be excited to dream or hope of what's to come (Neptune).

Elsewhere in the sky, Saturn (old) and Uranus (new) grow closer to perfecting their opposition (need for balance) which culminates the week on April 26. This alignment between Saturn and Uranus may shine upon events or issues from this past September (2009), when they were last opposite each other. Additionally, Aries is natively ruled by Mars, who is currently retracing the steps he last revisited early February (2010) and first embarked upon late October (2009). For some of us, this New Moon may rehash issues or events from last autumn. We are urged to finally let go of old ways of thinking or doing things; release toxic relationships; forgive the self or others; come to terms with harsh realities; surrender instead of continuing to fight progress; or whatever it may be that holds back the self from fully moving forward.

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Amalgamation Fire Nation in Triangle Park 

I am sitting at my kitchen table eating homemade biscuits, drinking coffee with almond milk, listening to Esther Hicks. I am waking up, coming around. I am experiencing the energy of this new moon.

Recently, I have said that I felt like I was in a starship hurdling through space toward some sort of cosmic opening, that the ship was shaking and rattling, the cabin pressure intense. I have said that I felt like was holding on, focusing on that opening up ahead, allowing myself to tossed and pushed around that ship, knowing that I was headed toward an important and powerful place.

Today, as I sit in my kitchen and the sun is shining on the brick next door, and my basil is beginning to sprout in the windowsill, as I prepare my mind for my client today and think about the projects on deck for the next few days, I can taste what it is that I've been moving toward. I experience it and know that it is reality.

I can feel myself stepping now into the new beginning, the clean slate. 

What does that mean?

For me, it means honestly letting go. It means redirecting my attention when anything - any thought - floats into my consciousness that lowers my vibration or mutes my joy. There is not getting rid of these things, there is simply redirection. Gentle, gentle, easy -- like floating on water.

I have spent a good amount of time in evaluation - deciding what it is that I no longer need and releasing.

I am living by intuition and my heart is dancing.

I am opening the big blank book, pen in hand.

The moon now receives light.

New moon in Pisces

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."—Richard Bach, Illusions

There's a new moon today.

The new moon is a time of beginnings, a time to set intentions that will reach fruition at the full moon. Leading up to the new moon, we release what isn’t working. This time around, that concept feels big to me. Really big. I feel no need to name the not-working things. I don’t much feel like that’s any of my business. I’m just riding the shift. I’m closing my eyes and opening my arms.

I’ve been using the word overwhelmed a lot over the past few weeks. I’ve been sitting around in a floating sensation, not doing much. I’ve been aware that things are falling away. Tasks present themselves to me, but it’s not the right time to address them.

One of the themes of the new moon in Pisces is seeing aspects of your life dissolve to be revealed as illusion. Another is the preparation for spiritual rebirth. It is a time of mystical experiences and synchronicity, and of spiritual community.

I’m feeling all of that. Are you?

I am lying back in the water and steam.

I am opening like the petals of a lotus.

I am allowing myself to drift; I am listening; I am resting.

I’m preparing a soft landing pad for the miracle.

Happy mugs

I love my collection of mugs. The mugs make me unreasonably happy. I try to buy mugs where ever I go (often I am stopped because we really don't have the storage space for any more mugs and the dissenting opinion is that we don't need more mugs.) But I love them, I love them, I really do.

I'm also a little obsessive about how the mugs get used. Some are appropriate for tea, some are appropriate for coffee, some are hot chocolate only. They're also divided (in my mind) into the categories of weekday mugs and weekend mugs. 

This is my favorite Saturday mug:

It's Saturday right now and I'm drinking coffee with vanilla soy milk dreaming about my day. 

This mug also happens to be seasonally appropriate as it was given to me as a birthday/valentine gift last year. 

Which reminds me, the sun is now firmly in Aquarius. The birthday season has begun. 

Mercury can do its thing; my heart is full of love

Wow.

Mercury Retrograde. My knowledge of astrological goings on is fairly limited, but I do get this. 

This time around, I'm noticing it in my dealings with technology and machinery. The battery in my car died, links to things that look like they should work, don't. An old amalgamated draft post published itself to my blog today with a very strange nonsensical time stamp, my phone is indulging in strangeness, weird and wrong words are showing up in my sentences.

I also learned, however, that it's not all bad. 

Other really, really good things I've discovered during the past few days - (like the Mercury Retrograde thing, because people I love have told me about them) Moby's Wait for Me, Radiolab, Wisdom of Avalon Cards as an iPhone app and Norwegian Wood.

Right now, Meryl Streep is dressed in glittery flared legged pants asking me if I want another (Abba song) one. I do. I want another one.

Despite miscommunications and mechanical failures, it was a good, good day. The outpouring of love in the comments on my last post -- wow -- and people keep saying these things to me, these important sign-post life path type things. Big glowing neon type things.

I know the best people. Just the best people ever. (Yes, I'm looking at you.)

Thank you.