South Beach, Boca Raton, Florida, photo by Jane Sherry

Welcome to the Virgo Full Moon, Pisces Solar Festival Satya Center Cosmic Weather Forecast for March 1, 2018! Warm greetings from your co-Editors, Jane and Curtis. 

This Full Moon week we all need to engage in a Saturnine reality check to counter the pervasive Neptunian fog, navigate through nascent Piscean emotional rapids and elevate our consciousness to transcend an array of assorted entrancing astral glamours. Our task is to stay grounded and to use intuitive guidance to discern that which is aligned with our path of Spirit!

At 7:51 PM Eastern Standard Time on Thursday March 1, 2018, the Moon is full at 11°23' Virgo and we celebrate the Pisces Solar Festival. At that time Sun, Neptune, Venus, Mercury and Chiron will all be in Pisces, with Mars in Sagittarius square Mercury and Venus in Pisces.

Pisces is associated with the problematic gift called empathy, the ability to feel what others feel so deeply that sometimes it's difficult to discern our own emotions and concerns from the emotions of others. Water signs generally are often blessed -- and cursed -- with this tremendous gift, which allows them to understand others as if they had X-Ray vision, and to offer healing and guidance to others based upon their deepest emotions and the karma that generates those emotions rather than on superficialities conveyed through conversations or appearances.

With so many planets in Pisces at the Full Moon, we may all find ourselves experiencing the emotions of others as if we were a Water sign. This will enable us to penetrate deeply into the psyches of those closest to us and to come to a conscious understanding of many of the collective emotions and thought-forms  circulating in the astral (watery) realms around us. In this way we may see clearly how certain habits of thought and emotional responses to the world around us are conditioned by our friends, family, political affinity group, and religious or spiritual groups to whom we belong.

Empathy has tremendous powers to produce healing insights, and also can be extremely unpleasant when we "pick up on" the negative emotions and conflicted thought-forms of others, to the point where we begin to react to events as if those base emotions and mistaken maps of the world were essential elements of our own nature. 

For this reason, it's important for us all to practice psychic self-defense so we can engage with others at a deep level while practicing the discernment that can use empathetic response as a tool for insight and healing.

Jane has written a lovely article to help us this Full Moon, entitled "Psychic Self-Defense: Developing Discernment and Compassion"

The Lovers, Mixed Media Drawing by Jane Sherry

Jane asks, "Do you ever feel overly impacted by the emotional turmoil around you at home, work or out in the world? Do you ever feel overly impacted by the moods of your loved ones?"

"Do you have trouble relating to the emotions you are feeling sometimes, as if they weren't your own? Do you feel that sometimes when you walk into a room, that your energy changes to reflect whatever's going on around you? Do you pick up or experience the emotions of characters on tv and movies, in the news or newspapers?"

"You may be what is called an empath, someone who experiences what is known as clairsentience, or the ability to pick up the emotions of others. This ability has been referred to as a paranormal ability, which implies that the person with that ability is someone whose experience is 'outside' what is considered 'normal', but in fact, empathy is a perfectly normal ability which each of us may experience in varying degrees."

Jane explains that empathy is the forerunner of compassion but that boundary issues with others can lead to energetic attachments, known to energy workers as "hooks and cords". These energetic attachments can lead to a variety of emotional, mental and physical difficulties. Jane provides a variety of techniques for dealing with the downside of empathetic consciousness in her valuable article.

Renowned spiritual astrologer Jeffrey Wolff Green called the Virgo-Pisces axis the "sado-masochism" axis, and as we all prepare to file our income tax returns in the US, it seems appropriate. Here at Satya Center, this Full Moon week friends and clients are surfacing acute medical issues and many may experience painful reality checks of various kinds. Symptoms include physical discomfort, negative emotional discharges, including fear and anger, and a pervasive mental miasma that makes it hard to see a clear path forward in life at a time when critical choices must be made.

This is a supercharged watery Full Moon moment, when it would be easy to lose ourselves in a turbulent ocean of emotions and react to the uncomfortable tensions generated by the steamy fire and water Mars-Mercury Square by escape into the realm of dreams, self-medication, and/or self-indulgent consumption of all kinds of comfort foods and drink. There is a pronounced tendency to seek a world that matches the view through rose colored glasses. 

On the positive side, Jupiter in Scorpio is trine this overwhelming Pisces stellium of planets and Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn are sextile the Piscean cosmic juggernaut.

Jupiter can exaggerate the effects of this Piscean tsunami of energies, but Scorpionic X-Ray vision could help us navigate these troubled waters.

Grounded and exalted in Capricorn, Saturn offers us a solid rock amidst the crashing waves, and the opportunity to link our consciousness to the demands of the time, anchored in the realities of our current conditions. In short, by exercising self-restraint and self-discipline we can connect with the Inner Teacher whose soft voice counsels wisdom and embodies the virtue of discernment, allowing us to see our way forward on a clear path of Spirit.

In its exalted state, Piscean energy gives us access to the transpersonal Greater Mind that is a conscious part of the Web of Life and connected to the Akashic Records, aware of the big picture that transcends our petty ego concerns and the limitations of our current incarnation. By staying steadfastly centered, balanced and grounded this week, we will find that accessing this immense storehouse of loving wisdom will be facilitated by the Cosmic Weather patterns swirling around us and we will be able to achieve the clarity and higher consciousness we all desire.

To assist in releasing negative emotions such as anger and fear, and to mitigate the tendency for nonstop mental activity such emotional turbulence generates, it's helpful to connect with the water element in a positive way through various exercises.

Mindful swimming as a meditative exercise can help to release toxins, discharge negative emotions, relax the mind and connect with Greater Mind.

Clouds on the Water, South Beach, Boca Raton, Florida

Spanish River Beach, Boca Raton Florida, by Jane Sherry 

If you live near a beach it's very helpful to walk in water ankle deep while performing your favorite breathing exercises and perhaps performing your favorite mantras, aloud or internally. This exercise is a great way to provide additional grounding during emotionally turbulent times. Because the nerve endings in the feet are so connected to the solar plexus, which is the central switchboard for our major organs and the nervous system, we can detoxify and cleanse our entire bodies in this way. In addition, breathing exercises performed in air charged with positive ions and ocean salts will charge our physical batteries and clarify our minds, enhancing our ability to connect with inner intuitive guidance. 

If you don't live near the beach, seek out a stream or pool in a wooded area where you can perform breathing exercises and wash in the cool clear waters.

Taking a long hot bath in water infused with bath salts, flower essences, and detoxifying herbs such as chamomile, lavender or sage can also be extremely beneficial this week. 

Using a neti pot or a salt water inhaler can certainly help to alleviate sinus blockages and provides some of the same benefits as a walk on the beach. You may want to do breathing exercises after using the neti pot to help recharge your physical batteries.

This is also a great time to perform Reiki self-treatment and meditative exercises of all kinds. By purifying and recharging with the help of water element exercises such as those mentioned above, we prepare ourselves to take advantage of the increased access to Greater Mind and Subtle Worlds that this potent Full Moon configuration enables.

This spiritual potential is reflected in the Sabian Symbol for this month's Virgo Full Moon. The Sabian Symbol for 12° Virgo is After the wedding, the groom snatches the veil from his bride. Spirit, conceived of as the masculine principle, strips away the veils of Maya from the material world, the natural world, physical reality. Spirit empowers us to see the true nature of our existence free of illusion and delusion. This is the key to true spiritual freedom. 

The Sabian Symbol for this Pisces Solar Festival, 12° Pisces, is In the Sanctuary of an Occult brotherhood, newly initiated members are being examined and their character tested. This indicates the flavor of the energy that this Piscean month emanates, and that energy provides us with a proving ground for our spiritual practices.

We are challenged to stay grounded, centered and balanced, to practice discernment in all that we see, think and do, and to take our place within the context of the spiritual community or communities in which we dwell, and which have been instrumental in forming our present character and practices.

We are challenged this Full Moon to offer our selfless service to our community, and to subordinate our ego-driven desires and impulses to the agenda of our spiritual community, however we define that for ourselves. Astrologically, we are challenged to take our Saturn medicine, honor the demands of our Higher Mind and our spiritual guides and teachers, exercise self-discipline and make Piscean sacrifices for the sake of the greater good.

In this way we will be assured of future revelations, and of accelerated progress along the path of Spirit we have chosen in this lifetime and in lifetimes to come.

Global Cosmic Weather Forecast: Waning Uranus Pluto Square and Neptune in Pisces Influence World Affairs

We are in the waning days of the infamous recurring Uranus Pluto Square, which began at the time of the Global Financial Meltdown, precipitating the emergence of the Grand Cardinal Cross from 2010 onwards.

We have written many articles about this stellar configuration, emphasizing that Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn and the Grand Cardinal Cross co-incide with the breakdown of existing global financial and political systems, in preparation for the reconfiguration of our fossil fuel based global capitalist economy and the American dominated geo-political and cultural institutions that have maintained the current system over the last 75 or more years, since the end of World War II.

As we predicted in our article of February 2008 entitled The Coming Collapse of Globalization, globalization as a financial, political and cultural force has been under assault since the onset of the Uranus-Pluto Square and is under increasing assault, weakening every year. 

The unraveling of American Post-World War II geo-political, financial and cultural hegemony has become stark and unmistakeable during the first year of the Trump presidency.

 President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence

Shealah Craighead [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Donald Trump's Presidency represents the first conscious attempt by an American administration to unravel the liberal democratic values underlying America's post World War II hegemony. Trump believes in an "America First" set of policies reflecting his view that the world is engaged in a financial, political and cultural "war of all against all", and that it is no longer in US interests to maintain and underwrite a "New World Order" sustained by expensive military alliances and extensive global diplomacy.

As President, Trump behaves as much as possible as an authoritarian leader, constrained somewhat by the pushback from entrenched intelligence agencies and the political forces that created and sustained American globalization for so long, epitomized by the Bush and Clinton families, whose representatives congregate on MSNBC daily to attack Trump for his ties to Russia and his proto-fascist strongman rule. Trump responds with a flurry of Twitter posts designed to create his own reality, disengaged from any objective view of facts or the historical record. 

This increasingly shrill political war of words has engaged America in what amounts to a political and cultural cold war.

Even worse, this is the first time in my lifetime that a new federal tax bill has targeted the states that voted for the President's opponents, but we now see this in Trump's tax legislation, which will cut deductions for sky-high property taxes in predominantly Democratic coastal states. This is an act of economic war against the President's political enemies that surely will result in further escalation of political hate rhetoric and potential retaliation if Democrats ever regain control of any portion of the federal government.

Right now Republicans control Congress, the Supreme Court and the White House, and the majority of state governments as well. So the frustration of globalization proponents and Democratic political operatives will only grow as their impotence is increasingly revealed.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi with China's Xi Jinping

Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping [CC BY-SA 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons

Trump's ascendancy coincides with a global trend toward authoritarian strong man rule and a devaluation of democratic values and human rights around the world. The front page of today's New York Times features a story about the spread of authoritarian rule and its increasing popularity in Asia, Europe and, yes, America. China has abolished term limits for its Executive, and China's President Xi has set himself up to be President for life. The Times notes that in the past such an action would have resulted in a global wave of condemnation, but in the current climate Xi will be one of many authoritarian strongman leaders, many of whom have already been warmly congratulated by President Trump, who has an affinity for all such anti-democratic leaders.

Renowned Princeton University scholar and peace activist Richard Falk, who specializes in global and international affairs, has published an important new article about Donald Trump and the decay of the American system of globalization and liberal democracy entitled America’s ‘Liberalism’ & Other Inhumane Styles of Governance At Home and Internationally  . Falk summarizes the deplorable state of geopolitics and its pernicious effects on humanity's prospects for the future.

"Trump’s presidency has so far meant a record military budget, relaxed rules of military engagement, geopolitical militarism, irresponsible regional coercive diplomacy, a regressive view that the UN is worthless except as an enemy-bashing venue, a negative assessment of multilateral treaties promoting a cooperative approach to climate change and international trade, as well as a hawkish approach to nuclear weaponry that features bravado, exhibits unilateralism, and in the end, employs hard power and irresponsible threats to achieve goals formerly often pursued by liberal international global leadership," Falk explains. "Without exaggerating the benefits and contributions of liberal internationalism, it did give science and rationality their due, was willing to help at the margins those suffering from slow and uneven economic and social development, and relied on international cooperation through lawmaking and the UN to the extent feasible, which was always less than what was necessary and desirable, but at least, not taking such a cynical and materialist view of the feasible as to create a condition of policy paralysis on urgent issues of global scope (e.g. climate change, nuclearism, migration)."

"Trump’s ideological prism. . . is alarmingly similar to that of the many other leaders throughout the world who have recently been leaning further and further rightwards," Falk continues. "The internal politics of many states has turned toward chauvinistic and mean-spirited forms of autocratic nationalism, while cooperation in meeting common global challenges has almost disappeared. Instead of hope and progress, the collective consciousness of humanity is mired in despair and denial, and what is more, the dialectics of history seem to be slumbering, with elites and even counter-elites afraid of utopias on the basis of a widespread (mis)reading of 20th century political experience, seemingly entrapped in cages constructed by predatory capitalism and rapacious militarism, designed to render futile visions of change adapted to the realities of present and emergent historical circumstances. Inside these capitalist and militarist boxes there is no oxygen to sustain liberating moral, political, and cultural imaginings. Trump is not only a distasteful and dangerously dysfunctional leader of the most powerful and influential political actor in the world. He is also a terrifying metaphor of an anachronistic world order stuck in the thick mud of mindlessness when it comes to fashioning transformative responses to fundamental challenges to the ways our political, economic, and spiritual life have been organized in the modern era of territorial sovereign states."

Global climate change is the most important challenge facing humanity in the 21st century and Donald Trump and the Republican Party claim to believe it is a figment of our overheated imaginations despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary. There is no more scientific debate about climate change than there is over the fact that the earth is a spheroid, not a flat pancake. Despite the urgency of the situation, the Democratic Party has not made the creation of a new Green economy a legislative priority or a prime political cause. 

At this Full Moon featuring a powerful Neptune in Pisces, it's a great time to provide an update on the latest science concerning global climate change.


Spring weather arrived here in Boca Raton months early this year, and unseasonable spring conditions have appeared up and down America's East Coast this winter. In Florida February brought near record temperatures, more common in May than mid-winter, and the pollen from blooming plants and pine trees has left a dense layer on the surface of our pool.

"This is happening in part due to the polar vortex," according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in an article entitled Spring Weather is Arriving Alarmingly Early This Year. "Yes, that polar vortex that brought Arctic air to the eastern U.S. to start 2018."

"But rather than dropping into the region again, it’s instead being bifurcated into two areas of intense chill split between western North America and Eurasia. Those areas will be much cooler than normal, but eastern North America, sitting right between all that, will be shielded by an atmospheric ridge that will allow warm air to hang around. Some of that air will reach all the way into the Arctic Ocean, which is already facing temperatures well above normal for this time of year. Sea ice will suffer and is likely headed to a near-record or record low maximum (if it’s the latter, it would be the fourth year in a row to hit that mark)."

 

"Temperatures could be up to 35 degrees Fahrenheit above normal for this late February. The most abnormal warmth will settle over New York and New England, opening the door to spring-like conditions."

This is not just a curious weather anomaly but rather an indicator of long term disruption of climatic conditions that date back 11,700 years, the entirety of the period known to geologists as the Holocene, during which humanity established agricultural settlements, began scientific research into the movements of the stars, and created a more and more energy intensive civilization, culminating in the present globalized fossil fuel based 21st century capitalist culture of conspicuous consumption and rampant economic inequality.

"The Holocene is over," explains Ian Angus in his new book Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil  Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System. "The Anthropocene has begun. That cannot be reversed. The climate changes already under way will last for thousands of years. No currently available technology can restore extinct species to their former abundance. The acid in the oceans cannot be removed. Many glaciers have melted and much polar ice is gone forever. The oceans will continue rising."

Environmentalist Barry Commoner summed up the situation as follows: ". . .The present system of production is self-destructive; the present course of human civilization is suicidal.”

". . .Dramatic destabilization of the Earth System since 1945 [has caused] a shift so significant and sudden in geologic time that climatologist Paul Cruzen famously coined the term “Anthropocene” in 2000 to refer to the new geologic era marked by human impact," Michael War explains, in a review of Angus' book in the International Socialist Review.

Most modern humans believe that a stable climate has persisted on the planet since more or less the time of the dinosaurs, when it was obviously a lot warmer, but that is not really the case. 

". . .New data shows how climate volatility was more common in the prior 2.5 million years than the warm stability of the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago and bracketed the rise of agriculture and class society," Ware continues. "Sudden heating and cooling is more common, caused by subtle wobbles in the Earth’s orbit. Angus quotes geologist Richard B. Alley to drive home the point that climate change can happen quickly and that recent human activity is as potent a geological force as changes in the Earth’s orbit, which have played a role in suddenly shifting average surface temperatures up or down."

"Large, abrupt climate changes have repeatedly affected all or much of the earth, locally reaching as much as 10°C change in 10 years," Angus concludes. " . . . The abrupt changes of the past are not fully explained yet, and climate models typically underestimate the size, speed and extent of those changes. Hence future abrupt changes cannot be predicted with confidence, and climate surprises are to be expected."

In short, we are currently in a Neptunian fog concerning the likely short term, medium term and long term effects of climate change despite the efforts of the entire global scientific community, because humanity has never faced a problem this large, this complex, and this hard to forecast.

Climate forecasts are continually tweaked and updated and the latest updates are far from encouraging. In fact they indicate that we are in a planetary emergency, an emergency which is not acknowledged by the vast majority of people in the world today, and which is minimized or ignored by the political leadership in America. 

 Satellite View of the Arctic, Courtesy NASA and Wikimedia

Satellite-based view of the Arctic. The images for this scene were captured on September 2, 2012, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite. The composite was compiled from 14 orbits of the satellite and multiple imaging channels, then stitched together to blend the edges of each satellite pass. The record lowest minimum ever observed in the satellite record occurred on September 16, 2012, when sea ice plummeted to 3.41 million square kilometers (1.32 million square miles). This image shows the area two weeks earlier. The edges of the ice pack are reasonably visible, as are some fractured areas, but some details are obscured by clouds.
By NASA (NASA) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Imagine a world where there is zero temperature differential between the equator and the North Pole. Needless to say in this scenario polar ice has long since melted completely. In this scenario global sea level rise engulfs the major coastal cities of the world entirely. In this scenario it's quite possible that gargantuan methane deposits in polar regions are released into the atmosphere, accelerating global warming, changing the composition of our atmosphere into a toxic stew and rendering the oceans uninhabitable for oxygen breathing creatures. Now imagine that to forestall this doomsday scenario we have five years to act.

This is not the apocalyptic raving of some cranky environmentalist hippie monkey wrencher, but rather the sober assessment of Professor James G. Anderson of Harvard University, who addressed climate concerns in a recent speech at the University of Chicago in January 2018, when he received the Benton Medal for Distinguished Public Service, in part, for his groundbreaking research that led to the Montreal Protocol in 1987 to mitigate damage to the Ozone Layer. Robert Hunziker reported on Anderson's speech in a Counterpunch article entitled There is no time left: Accelerated climate change is a game changer.

Ozone hole recovery projection, 1960-2100.
This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA.

In 1987, "Anderson was the force behind the most important event in the history of atmospheric chemistry, discovering and diagnosing Antarctica’s ozone hole, which led to the Montreal Protocol," Hunziker reports. "Without that action, ramifications would have been absolutely catastrophic for the planet."

"Stratospheric ozone is one of the most delicate aspects of planet habitability, providing protection from UV radiation for all life forms. If perchance the stratospheric ozone layer could be lowered to the ground, stacking the otherwise dispersed molecules together, it would be 1/8th of an inch in thickness or the thickness of two pennies. That separates humanity from burning up as the stratospheric ozone absorbs 98% of UV radiation."

"In his acceptance speech, James G. Anderson, Harvard professor of atmospheric chemistry, now warns that it is foolhardy to assume we can recover from the global warming leviathan simply by cutting back emissions."

"Accordingly, the only way humanity can dig itself out of the climate change/global-warming hole is by way of a WWII type effort with total transformation of industry off carbon and removal of carbon from the atmosphere within five years. The situation is so dire that it requires a worldwide Marshall Plan effort, plus kneeling in prayer."

"Additionally, Anderson says the chance of permanent ice remaining in the Arctic after 2022 is zero. Already, 80% is gone. The problem: Without an ice shield to protect frozen methane hydrates in place for millennia, the Arctic turns into a methane nightmare. This is comparable to poking the global warming monster with a stick, as runaway global warming (“RGW”) emerges from the depths. Interestingly enough, the Arctic Methane Emergency Group/UK, composed of distinguished scientists, seems to be in agreement with this assessment."

"Assuming professor Anderson is as accurate now as he was about the Ozone dilemma, then what can be done? After all, the world’s biggest economy, which has over-reaching influence on the biosphere, is under the influence of anti-science leadership. In fact, the Trump group is driving scientists out. France is hiring left and right under its Make Our Planet Great Again initiative. Thirteen of the initial eighteen French science grantees are from the U.S."

 

New research from NASA shows that sea level rise rates are accelerating due to the melting of large glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica. The key driver of this melt is human fossil fuel burning and related accumulation of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere. Carbon dioxide levels this year will hit near 412 ppm in April-Maya level not seen in 10-15 million years. See the NASA video here.

More alarming still, a new study just published in the open access scientific journal Earth's Future finds a median sea level rise projection of 4 feet and 9 inches during the 21st Century if greenhouse gas emissions remain on their current high trajectory.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we can expect the oceans to rise between 11 and 38 inches (28 to 98 centimeters) by 2100, and that would be enough to swamp many of the cities along the U.S. East Coast. A rise of 4 feet nine inches equals 144.78 inches, and would certainly create a global emergency with over 150 million climate refugees worldwide, the demise of most coastal cities, and the implosion of the global economy as a consequence. Not to mention widespread global warfare, panic, and civilizational collapse.

"The new study paints a far more alarming picture compared to what the IPCC found, which was a median projection of two feet and five inches of sea level rise by 2100 under a high emissions scenario," according to a report by Andrew Freeman on the Mashable website." Most sea level rise predictions since that report was published have indicated that figure was too low, however."

"The study shows that global average sea level is projected to increase by one foot by the year 2050, and several more feet by the year 2100, depending on the significance of any cuts to greenhouse gas emissions," Freeman reports. "If the temperature targets in the Paris Climate Agreement are met — which is a big if at the moment — then we're unlikely to trigger a rapid Antarctic meltdown, the study found."

"Prior sea level rise projections have not included the recently discovered mechanism of marine ice-cliff instability in Antarctica. Instead, those projections relied on other assumptions of how significantly the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets might melt during the course of the 21st Century. Nor have they included all of the ways that floating ice shelves might disintegrate rapidly, either, weakening inland ice," Freeman explains.

"The good news is that at this point, we have a pretty good fix on what will happen through 2050," said the Earth's Future study's coauthor Michael Oppenheimer, a climate scientist at Princeton University. "That means the time to implement the first phase of adaptation is NOW - we have a credible sea level range for that period. But we need to implement resilience flexibly while we start planning for the period beyond 2050 because projections are unlikely to narrow for the later period for a long time." 

In conclusion, let us all ponder the words of the Dalai Lama in a video recorded December 17, 2017, which has received 1.6 million views on YouTube. Addressing the need for dramatic global change to bring about peace in today's increasingly warlike world, the Dalai Lama explains that Praying Won't Solve Your Problems. If we want peace in the world, if we want a livable climate for our children and grand-children, we must act. We must accept the messy job of becoming politically involved, and we must make political activism part of our spiritual practice. For these intractable global problems are spiritual problems as well as political or environmental problems, and only a spiritually infused political movement can adequately address these issues.

There is no reason to believe today's political and corporate leaders will make this change for us. There is no reason to believe that the invisible hand of the free market will somehow automatically, through the activity of the current economic war of all against all, magically produce a sustainable, equitable global civilization. There is no reason to believe that current great power nationalistic political formations will bring us anything but war, bloodshed and suffering. Only a newly awakened spiritual activism can bring about the new civilization we all hope to see.

Jane and I hope that this Full Moon you will receive the grace and guidance you require to help you achieve your spiritual and material goals and we pray that all of us will be granted golden opportunities to be of service to the world, in part by participating in some small way in a growing global spiritual and political movement to achieve peace, environmental stability, and equality everywhere in the world.

Nothing less will secure humanity's future. Anything less will result at best in a Global Dark Age, and at worst in a global extinction event.


If you see no evidence of any such movement in your world, ask for guidance to help you discover how you can be of service to the world by working in some small way to help bring about the monumental change that is required in today's world.

Meditation Moment: Words by John Keene

When you said people did you mean punish?

         When you said friend did you mean fraud?

When you said thought did you mean terror?

         When you said connection did you mean con?

When you said God did you mean greed?

         When you said faith did you mean fanatic?

When you said hope did you mean hype?

         When you said unity did you mean enmity?

When you said freedom did you mean forfeit?

         When you said law did you mean lie?

When you said truth did you mean treason?

         When you said feeling did you mean fool?

When you said together did you mean token?

         When you said desire did you mean desert?

When you said sex did you mean savagery?

         When you said need did you mean nought?

When you said blood did you mean bought?

         When you said heart did you mean hard?

When you said head did you mean hide?

         When you said health did you mean hurt?

When you said love did you mean loss?

         When you said fate did you mean fight?

When you said destiny did you mean decimate?

         When you said honor did you mean hunger?

When you said bread did you mean broke?

         When you said feast did you mean fast?

When you said first did you mean forgotten?

         When you said last did you mean least?

When you said woman did you mean wither?

         When you said man did you mean master?

When you said mother did you mean smother?

         When you said father did you mean fatal?

When you said sister did you mean surrender?

         When you said brother did you mean brutal?

When you said fellow did you mean follow?

         When you said couple did you mean capital?

When you said family did you mean failure?

         When you said mankind did you mean market?

When you said society did you mean sickness?

         When you said democracy did you mean indignity?

When you said equality did you mean empty?

         When you said politics did you mean power?

When you said left did you mean lost?

         When you said right did you mean might?

When you said republic did you mean rich?

         When you said wealthy did you mean wall?

When you said poor did you mean prison?

         When you said justice did you mean just us?

When you said immigrant did you mean enemy?

         When you said refugee did you mean refusal?

When you said earth did you mean ownership?

         When you said soil did you mean oil?

When you said community did you mean conflict?

         When you said safety did you mean suspicion?

When you said security did you mean sabotage?

         When you said army did you mean Armageddon?

When you said white did you mean welcome?

         When you said black did you mean back?

When you said yellow did you mean yield?

         When you said brown did you mean down?

When you said we did you mean war?

         When you said you did you mean useless?

When you said she did you mean suffer?

         When you said he did you mean horror?

When you said they did you mean threat?

         When you said I did you mean island?

When you said tribe did you mean trouble?

         When you said name did you mean nobody?

When you said news did you mean nonsense?

         When you said media did you mean miasma?

When you said success did you mean sucker?

         When you said fame did you mean game?

When you said ideal did you mean idol?

         When you said yesterday did you mean travesty?

When you said today did you mean doomsday?

         When you said tomorrow did you mean never?

When you said hear did you mean hush?

         When you said listen did you mean limit?

When you said write did you mean wound?

         When you said read did you mean retreat?

When you said literacy did you mean apathy?

         When you said fiction did you mean forget?

When you said poetry did you mean passivity?

            When you say art do you mean act?

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