The Hungry Moon!

"Be more than food for the Moon...
Be what you came here for."

- Kathi Lawder

This post is to catch up with the Moon! Darn ole' Moon, anyway.... moves faster than I can keep up lately! I heard something the other day about the Moon that I'd not considered before. The Moon is hungry! Never thought of it that way before. The reference was given in terms of the Moon's phases. When dark (no moon), it was said, that the Moon is the 'most' hungry emotionally.... it is craving the emotional qualities of the particular sign (and of course, on a more personal level, the house/area of experience) that it's passing through.

I thought that I'd take that theory and see how it correlates.

Libra Moon

But first, I've got some catching up to do! I left off when the Moon was back in Libra. Since Libra is about balance, it would (I guess) make sense that when the Moon is in that sign, we are emotionally yearning for balance, and those other Libra qualities--which are:

• harmony and equilibrium


• peace


• beauty and artistry


• love -- oh, how could I nearly forget THAT one! ha ha

Libra energy tolerates paradox; meaning it can see two sides to things--which accounts for Libra's well-known quality of indecisiveness.

Now, since I was neglectful and lost track of the Libra Moon time, I have to go back into my memory. I do remember blogging (earlier post) that I had a balanced day... well, balanced as far as "a little of this and a little of that" (regarding my daily activities at that time). Emotionally (which is what we're talking about when we discuss the Moon), I felt fairly balanced because I sought and found a day that included a balance of varied activities. So much for the Libra Moon which was around March 12th and 13th.

Scorpio Moon

Then the Moon moved into Scorpio... deep, dark and hypnotic. A few key words there to start us out but Scorpio is about getting to the bottom of things, probing kind of detective stuff. It is associated with psychology and metaphysics and the occult. This is what a "hungry" Scorpio Moon would be seeking to feel emotionally happy/secure. I wanted to be left alone! That's what I remember about how I felt around the 15th. It seems to correlate.

Sagittarius Moon

The Moon's been in Sag for a few days now... hungry for anything BIG and HAPPY! Those are a few key words for Sag (ruled by huge Jupiter). This is general because we really have to filter in the house, which is different for everyone--the house, the area of life experience. But let's just stick with the generalities. The hunger has to be big--huge in fact--when the Moon is in Sag. And Sag is about philosophy, teaching/education, the ultimate search for the "meaning of life"--all that is Sagittarius, including the search for one's destiny in the cosmic scheme of things--and as Steve Forrest says, "... in practice this attainment is harder than walking up a flagpole." ha ha

For Sagittarius, there is no clear ending to the search, only and endless process

It is not entertainment I am seeking. It is understanding. Understanding, understanding, and more understanding. I will stuff myself with it, sniff it up with every pore, cram it into every orifice. Someday it will pay off. Everything will fall into its proper place, and I will, at last understand! -- Laurel Coldman

I have to say that for the past few days, and currently, with the Moon in Sag, this pretty much describes it for me personally. I've been looking at life from different viewpoints, looking for the answer to the illusive questions and finding no resource as helpful as faith--another Sag keyword, faith. Sag is about FREEDOM too, wanting freedom from limitation and constraints. That, the past few days I can relate to as well. (Mostly freedom from my own fearful mind, if truth be told! And every time I think I've made it! I get another chance to be sure! ha ha)

Okay, so we're caught up on the Moon's and have come back around to where I started this diatribe on the Transiting Moon through the signs! As a matter of fact, in 30 minutes from the final edit of this post, the Moon will move into Capricorn, which is where we started. I just had an idea; maybe I will take the Moon through the Houses for the next 30 days worth of posts.

A Zen story describes three men observing a flag fluttering in the breeze:
One man says, "The wind is moving the flag."
The second man says, "No, the flag is moving the wind."
The third man says, "You are both wrong; it is your mind that is moving."
- Dick Sutphen in "The Oracle Within"

On a final note... I've tried to "enable comments" for this BLOG but to no avail... at this point I'm going to have to give up on it! So, no comments on the BLOG... not because I don't want any, but because I can't seem to get it enabled. Trust me folks, I've tried! the only option being starting the formatting for the whole blog all over again. After uploading the pictures and quotes in the side bar, which took me more hours than I'd care to admit, let's just agree that reformatting the whole blog from scratch isn't going to happen!

However, I invite you to drop me an email if you'd care to make a comment about any of the blog posts here.

joystar777@gmail.com.

Joy

Sit Right Down And Write Your Self a Letter!

A letter From Your Spirit Guides

This post is about writing.... some would call it automatic writing.
(Automatic writing is when a spirit takes over your hand.)

This post is about Inspirational Writing.

You are "inspired"... in spirit-ed.

It's easy to do. You begin a dialogue. Open a Word document or any writing program you have or grab a pen and paper. Ever read the book "Conversations With God"? Just like that!

Just write a question and write what you are inspired to write as an answer! That's talking to yourself, you say? Maybe. Maybe NOT.

Just try it. Write, "Spirit Guide are you there?" and you receive and answer and then ask the next question and then the next. How you know you're not just talking to yourself? YOU ARE TALKING TO YOURSELF... but there are many layers to "You". Your Higher Self has lots of connections--and that's what you're going for: the Higher Version of You. Those connections to your Higher Self contain Spirit Guides, working under "the direction of" the Higher Self.

Just write what comes and don't analize the process while you're writing... that crimps the flow. Wait until you're completely finished to read it. The more you practice this way, the stronger the connection will be.

I did it myself this evening--sat right down and wrote my Self a letter! "Look at where Mar is!" That was the answer to one of my questions. So, okay--I open my software program and Mars is crossing my descendent. That explains quite alot!

I got to the bottom of some other concerns too! Don't knock it until you try it! As crazy as it sounds, it actually works.

Spirit Guide are you there? Anyone there?

Yes, we always with you.

Can you tell me what is going on with me right now--why I'm feeling this way?

Check the location of Mars and you will see.

Transiting Mars?

Yes

I began to look at the aspects "to" Mars which didn't really tell me much and then I stood back and looked at it with different eyes. Mars is crossing my descendent!

Oh? What does that mean, you say? Well, anytime a planet crosses a sensitive point, which the Descendent 'is', it triggers some stuff. That's the short version of the answer; it's a bit more complicated, but that gives you the idea.

Regarding the writing, the concept involved is to simply listen to what is being said and write down what you hear, or what you THINK you are hearing!

Working with pen and paper or a computer writing program, brings us half way there.... we naturally begin to OPEN when we are poised to write. The next thing is to take a deep breath, maybe say a little prayer or mantra to shift to a higher state of awareness and relax.... going with the "flow" as they say.

Joy

How do you recognize Spirit Communication?

Many people ask me how to know the difference between spirit guide communications versus left brain ego dialogue.

First of all, that's a very good question. And while I could write a book on that topic, I will try to make a few points here.

The ego will communicate in ways that are much different that spirit guides. I think a good place to start is with the word "guide" itself.

A "guide" does just that--they don't call 'em guides for nothen'!

A guide will not tell you what to do... they guide you, giving you insight and sometimes in personal dialogue with you will ask you questions to help you realign with your life plan. After all, their job is to keep you on track with the life goals that you have set for yourself. Spirit guides speak to you in ways that are very loving and encouraging as well. You can be sure that if you hear a critical voice in your head--that's not your spirit guide. It's your egoic mind which sometimes repeats critical messages that you've heard directed to you over your lifetime. These are old tapes playing... mother's (or someone else's) critical voice and so forth. Another thing is that many times the ego mind wants to keep you sticking with the old, safe life patterns.

This is why many times in the beginning stages of psychic development, people feel overly-cautious or express concern that this is a dangerous area to work in--their ego doesn't know anything about these areas and feels like its loosing control.

(And it is!) The egoic mind and the logical mind sort of work together sometimes, trying to keep you out of areas that it knows nothing about. This is normal and it soon passes. The idea is to eventually solicit the ego mind and the logical mind to follow in line behind the Higher Mind. It's like a re-training process and it takes a while (dependent upon the individual and their level of resistance) to be able to accomplish the transfer of power. It involves releasing one's will to a Higher Will and ego doesn't like to do that and the logical mind can think of a million reasons why not to do that.

Persistence is the key, however. But all throughout the process, the ego will try to keep you from risking embarrassment (what if the neighbors find out your dabbling in the realms of psychism?) and failure (what if you try to do a reading for someone and make a fool of yourself?). People get past this stage, but it may take a while, depending on how developed the ego actually 'is'.

The egoic mind is not bad; it is there to protect us... but it need not protect us from Spirit World and Higher Self. Anything the ego doesn't know anything about, it tries to stifle--unfortunately, that suppresses growth and spiritual evolution.

One of the most wonderful things in my life (well, not THE most wonderful, but one) was a time when spirit guides were... well, guiding me. They were persistent and repetitive. But they did not tell me what to do, per se. Let me explain. They used a phrase like "Why don't you?" Here's what I mean. A friend suggested (rather strongly and persistently) that I pick up a news paper on the way home to check out a house for rent. I really didn't have the time to move, nor the money--even though I really want to move. After leaving my friend, I headed for home to finish an assignment for a college course and really wanted to get back to finish it. In fact, I was rather in a hurry to do so.

As I approached the one (and only) store that sells newspapers, I was hearing, "There's the store that sells newspapers, you could stop in and get one." I ignored the voice and just wanted to get home. As the store was within turning distance, again I heard, "You could stop in here and get a paper." And again, I ignored the suggestion. After I passed the store, then I hear, "You could have gotten a paper to check out the houses for rent." I kept driving. And yet again, "Why didn't you stop at the store and get the paper?"

Enough! I said. Fine, I will go and get the paper! And I turned the car around and got the paper. To make a long story short, I ended up calling the lady with the house rental listing. And ended up finding the most wonderful house and between then and

move-in time I somehow had enough money for the deposit and moving expenses. I'm in that most wonderful house now as I write this post--yet, had I not gotten the paper on that day, I'd still be in that old, falling apart drafty old house. There's a lot more to this story, but I think I've made the point.

And the point is that I've given an example of how spirit guides can guide us and most importantly dialogue with us--notice they did not tell me what to do (exactly), they just heavily suggested it, with great persistence!

One last point, spirit guides will never suggest that you do anything dangerous or cruel and will never speak to you in an unkind way. In my experience, they've always been patient and loving. Although (as in the example above) sometimes they are very persistent.

I know it wasn't my ego mind telling me to get the newspaper, nor even my logical mind. Logically, I knew I didn't have the money or the time. And my ego wouldn't have believed I could have moved in the first place--that was the part of me that just wanted to get my college assignment finished.

Anyway, more about this type of thing in the next blog. That's all for this time.

Meanwhile, I lost track of the Moons! I got carried away with updating my website, changing the home page and making some much needed improvements and corrections. There's still more to do, but I got side tracked for a few days and didn't post about the Moon like I've been doing.

That urge to do some work on my website was probably helped along by the Moon being in Virgo at the time. I left off posting with the Cancer Moon and this month the Cancer Moon wasn't too much of a bug-a-boo for me. Deep feelings--I can agree to that I guess--but the irritability that I sometimes feel with the Cancer Moon didn't seem evident this time around.

Hey! Satori! I bet that's where the phrase "this time around" comes from! The Moon going around the zodiac each month! -- this time around, meaning the Moon moving through all the signs once every 30 days!

Anyway, the Virgo Moon (I'm certain of it!) helped me make the detailed corrections on my web page...and I'm sure when it hit transiting Saturn in Virgo (Saturn being hard work) and Virgo being about picky details, the combo caused me to be up nearly 48 hours straight (with a few hours napping here and there) while creating some new web pages. I just went back and check in with my astrology software program and I see that the 2 days that I worked nearly around the clock, the Moon was in Virgo!

The Leo Moon just previous to that was hitting my natal Saturn, probably pushing me in those same directions. Leo likes to be noticed and likes attention. My web page was very slow loading and maybe the Leo Moon was helping me to think about getting more "attention" on my website?

The reason I'm posting about this Moon stuff is that I've been blogging about how the transiting Moon affects energy as it moves through zodiac during the monthly cycle (see earlier posts).

Now (currently/today) the Moon is in Libra--my sign! My Natal Sun and Moon are both in Libra.

As a matter of fact I'm having a Lunar return currently--the Libra Moon is making an exact conjunction with my Natal Moon at the time of this post, at 19 degrees. Libra Moon seeks balance. Peace and Harmony is the Libra Moon's desire. Also, and most importantly the Libra Moon seeks balance. Libra is inherently 'out of balance' and is constantly seeking it.

I think I've had a pretty balance day--work, exercise, rest and a little play too!

My Libra Moon should be fairly happy--it is. :)

Until next time dear reader....

Think abundance! And listen for the voice of your Spirit Guides!

Joy

Scanning!

Well, here we are! 1:30 am 'ish and I started to run a Norton Virus Scan and I can't sleep until it's finished. Yeah, I tried but its like sleep won't come while I know my computer is running.
I think this computer has become too attached to my own brain... !! It's like there I am laying in bed scanning along with my computer! (Instead of sleeping!)

How many more items to scan can there possibly be? We're up to 267,500 something or other items now!
Make that 268,360 and counting!
I had no idea there were that many files in this computer's brain!
I wonder how many files are in my brain?

At least that many and more I'd say, considering all the silly memories that pop into my head when I'm trying to sleep... especially when we're nearing a full moon... which we are!
Life reviews I tell ya', life reviews! Just like this computer scanning files, my brain scans my memory files... searching for corrupted mental memory files... isolate! quarantine! delete!
Then forgive, re-write and release!

People's items, especially ones they frequently use, actually do become an extension of them. It happens with our cars, our computers, our jewelry. That's how people do psychometry... they read the person's energy that is surrounding and attached to their favorite item.

If someone did psychometry on my computer, I wonder what kinds of vibes they'd pick up! Considering some of the names I've called her lately, that'd be interesting.

Yet, I apologize right away after yelling at her. (Yeah, my computer is a her--have no idea why, but definitely female.) "What the heck is taking you so long!? NOW what are you doing?!" Then I say I'm sorry--what would I do if my computer got just as ticked off at me as I get a her. And as a result she REALLY started acting up?

Sorry, Sorry, I say... I didn't mean that--usually following that kind of apology (also many times at drivers in traffic who I've just called "Bubba"), I usually apologize to "god" too, since everything is an extension (somehow) of god--just like this computer is an extension of me!

So I say sorry to the car, the computer, the people in traffic, followed by the quick addendum, "sorry god", too.

Well, we're over 360,000 items scanned now... we've got to be running out of files soon. Any minute I hope! It's getting close to 2 am!

I'm now having a fantasy... it involves marrying a computer geek... or maybe a quick affair and afterwards saying, "Hey (like it just came to me), you wouldn't mind having a look at my computer would ya'?" True confessions! I still fantasize about taking up with a car mechanic once in a while too. I usually toss these kinds of thoughts in during the full Moon sleepless night life-review scenarios!

It's my natal Mercury in the 3rd house! I'm sure of it. Too strong a placement... Mercury RULES the 3rd house and there it is in the house it rules. And its in the sign of Scorpio... which goes to the depth! Let's not leave one stupid memory in the corner of the mind!, says Scorpio, Let's drag them all up and out into the Moonlight! Yeah, and let's keep her up all night!

We're now approaching near 500,000 files scanned.... gimme a break! Why did I even start that virus scan in the first place? Well, she's been running slow and I've done everything ELSE I can think of to speed her up. I guess she's getting old, like me.

Five years in computer age these days is pretty old. I nearly choked when I found that one out! She cost me almost a thousand dollars back then! (a fortune in my world).

I'm fantasizing about an affair with a computer geek again... and that's a real hoot! Most computer geeks are in their 20's or 30's... what would they want with a 60 year old anyway?

Oh, well... as it turns out with most things in life, if you want something done, you have to do it yourself anyway. Sigh! ha ha ha


Well, she deserves this scan I guess. I don't think I've run a full scan since about the year I got her. So what if I go back to bed and lay there scanning along with her? Nothing like togetherness! Me and my connection to my computer... I probably should see a shrink about this! ha ha


It's nearly 2:20 AM by my clock... I'll see ya'. I hope she enjoys her all niter with her new boyfriend Norton! She divorced McAffee and so did I.


618,254 ... and counting... I'm outa' here!
.. by the way, the published time of this post is an hour earlier b/c of technical difficulties! It really is 2:20 AM now! AND, praises to the Angles in the Heavens, she Norton just said goodnight! The scan just ended. Perfect timing... I was just going to abandon the both of them. The total was 635,000 and some change! PS-- no viruses; I already knew that there wouldn't be! They don't call me psychic for nothen'. Maybe now I can sleep....!!
Joy

Moon in Cancer

The Moon is in Cancer. The Moon RULES Cancer... that's sort of (for lack of a better definition) like a double Moon. Maybe that's why my emotions are intense when the Moon is in it's own sign. Just figured that one out--SATORI! Enlightenment!

Although if there's any crankiness in me at all today it's from a bit of soreness lingering from the fall on the ice. Yeah, I know. I wrote that I was no worse for the wear the other day, but I was wrong about that. Delayed reaction! Aside from that, I don't feel emotionally intense actually; yet the Moon isn't in my 12th house yet either. That doesn't happen until tomorrow.

I've got good ole' Cancer on the cusp of the 12th house. The 12th...unstructured consciousness, the subconscious. Makes me wonder if I have some deep seated anger that that transiting Moon triggers at certain times when the Moon hits the 12th house. Well, anger may not be the right word... or maybe it is I don't know. But it's more noticeable some months than others.

I tend to have times in life when I ask myself a question like, What in the world is wrong with me today? Why do I have such impatience? It's at those times that open my astrology program to find my mood... or my Moon (same difference) and sure enough, the Moon is always in that 12th house at those times! Nothing like observation and correlation!

I wonder if it's that way for everyone? Do people have more intense emotions when their transiting Moon passes through a house that Cancer rules in their natal chart? Rhetorical question I guess. Or one for further study on another day.

Anyway, that's all that's on my mind for tonight... just noting the Moon's transits and trying to be consistent with previous blogs.

Just a last mention on the topic of astrology... I love it!! Its fascinating! Yeah, I know, I know... I really need a life! haha It's late and I'm off to bed... g'night.
Joy