“Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.” Miguel Ruiz

“If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.”
There will never be a time when life is simple. There will always be time to practice accepting that. Every moment is a chance to let go and feel peaceful. Ajahn Chah

Let Go Of Frustration with Yourself/Your Life

1. Learn a new skill instead of dwelling on the skills you never mastered.

2. Change your perception—see the root cause as a blessing in disguise.

3. Cry it out. According to Dr. William Frey II, PH.D., biochemist at the Ramset Medical Centre in Minneapolis crying away your negative feelings releases harmful chemicals that build up in your body due to stress.

4. Channel your discontent into an immediate positive action—make some calls about new job opportunities, or walk to the community centre to volunteer.

5. Use meditation or yoga to bring you into the present moment (instead of dwelling on the past or worrying about the future.)

6. Make a list of your accomplishments—even the small ones— and add to it daily. You’ll have to let go of a little discontentment to make space for this self satisfaction.

7. Visualise a box in your head labelled “Expectations.” Whenever you start dwelling on how things should be or should have been, mentally shelve the thoughts in this box.

8. Engage in a physical activity. Exercise decreases stress hormones and increases endorphins, chemicals that improve your state of mind.

9. Focus all your energy on something you can actually control, instead of dwelling on things you can’t.

10. Express your feelings through a creative outlet, like blogging or painting. Add this to your to-do list and cross it off when you’re done. This will be a visual reminder that you have actively chosen to release these feelings.

Let go of Anger and Bitterness

11. Feel it fully. If you stifle your feelings, they may leak out and affect everyone around you—not just the person who inspired your anger. Before you can let go of any emotion you have to feel it fully.

12. Give yourself a rant window. Let yourself vent for a day before confronting the person who troubled you. This may diffuse the hostility and give you time to plan a rational confrontation.

13. Remind yourself that anger hurts you more than the person who upset you, and visualise it melting away as an act of kindness to yourself.

14. If possible, express your anger to the person who offended you. Communicating how you feel may help you move on. Keep in mind that you can’t control how to offender responds; you can only control how clearly and kindly you express yourself.

15. Take responsibility. Many times when you’re angry, you focus on what someone else did that was wrong—which essentially gives away your power. When you focus on what you could have done better, you often feel empowered and less bitter.

16. Put yourself in the offender’s shoes. We all make mistakes; and odds are you could have easily slipped up just like your husband, father, or friend did. Compassion dissolves anger.

17. Metaphorically throw it away; i.e., jog with a backpack full of tennis balls. After you’ve built up a bit of rush, toss the balls one by one, labelling each as a part of your anger. (You’ll need to retrieve these—litter angers the earth!)

18. Use a stress ball, and express your anger physically and vocally when you use it. Make a scrunched up face or grunt. You may feel silly, but this allows you to actually express what you’re feeling inside.

19. Wear a rubber band on your wrist, and gently flick it when you start obsessing on angry thoughts. This trains your mind to associate that type of persistent negativity with something unpleasant.

20. Remind yourself these are your only three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it. These acts create happiness; holding onto bitterness never does.

Let Go Of Past Relationships

21. Identify what the experience taught you to help develop a sense of closure.

22. Write everything you want to express in a letter. Even if you choose not to send it, clarifying your feelings will help you come to terms with reality as it is now.

23. Remember both the good and the bad. Even if appears this way now, the past was not perfect. Acknowledging this may minimise your sense of loss. As Laura Oliver says, “It’s easier to let go of a human than a hero.”

24. UN-romanticise the way you view love. Of course you’ll feel devastated if you believe you lost your soul mate. If you think you can find a love that amazing or better again it will be easier to move on.

25. Visualise an empowered single you—the person you were before meeting your last love. That person was pretty awesome, and now you have the chance to be him or her again.

26. Create a space that reflects your present reality. Take down his pictures; delete her emails from your saved folder.

27. Reward yourself for small acts of acceptance. Get a facial after you delete his number from your phone, or head out with friends after putting all her things in a box.

28. Hang this statement somewhere you can see it. “Loving myself means letting go.”

29. Replace your emotional thoughts with facts. When you think, “I’ll never feel loved again!” don’t resist that feeling. Instead, move on to another thought, like “I learned a new song for karaoke tonight.”

30. Use the silly voice technique. According to Russ Harris, author of The Happiness Trap, swapping the voice in your head with a cartoon voice will help take back power from the troubling thought.

Let Go Of Stress

31. Use a deep breathing technique, like ujayii, to soothe yourself and seep into the present moment.

32. Immerse yourself in a group activity. Enjoying the people in your life may help put your problems in perspective.

33. Consider this quotation by Eckhart Tolle: “Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.” Questioning how your stress serves you may help you let it go.

34. Metaphorically release it. Write down all your stresses and toss the paper into your fireplace.

35. Replace your thoughts. Notice when you begin thinking about something that stresses you so you can shift your thought process to something more pleasant—like your passion for your hobby.

36. Take a sauna break. Studies reveal that people who go to sauna at least twice a week for 10-30 minutes are less stressed after work than others with similar jobs who don’t.

37. Imagine your life 10 years from now. Then look 20 years into the future, and then 30. Realise that many of the things you’re worrying about don’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.

38. Organise your desk. According to Georgia Witkin, assistant director of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, completing a small task increases your sense of control and decreases your stress level.

39. Use it up. Make two lists: one with the root causes of your stress, and one with actions to address them. As you complete these tasks, visualise yourself utilising and depleting your “stress supply.”

40. Laugh it out. Research shows that laughter soothes tension, improves your immune system, and even eases pain. If you can’t relax for long, start with just ten minutes watching a funny video on You Tube.
 http://tinybuddha.com/blog/40-ways-to-let-go-and-feel-less-pain/

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4402.Miguel_Ruiz

Image by Mezza- The beauty of sunset

Follow the Sun

In Hindsight I say to my sister Follow the Sun

 

 “For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.”
A peace pilgrims quote.

Xavier Rudd (Photo credit: Travy)

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/peace_pilgrim/

http://www.xavierrudd.com/ 

Follow the sun is something I say often.  I was most pleased when Xavier Rudd released his album called Follow the sun.
The sun is there for our health and it has been given the biggest baddest rap in all of modern history and I really feel like I am here to tell anyone who will listen to go and look at the sun at dawn for a few seconds and see if this helps.

Solace (Xavier Rudd album) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Masterfully delicate,

Follow The Sun is the essence of Xavier Rudd's spiritual connection to this world: his humble understanding that everything was here before us and will remain long after we are gone, and that every day is a new gift to cherish and to respect.

As a song-writer, Xavier Rudd has always been able to place complex ideas into heartfelt words with a universal simplicity. Having covered vast musical ground with his previous albums, Follow The Sun is the familiar sound of Rudd's earlier work as an ambidextrous solo artist. His voice, his guitar and his message; carried along with gentle rhythms and musical textures.

Beautifully organic and understated, Rudd's delivery of Follow The Sun is a reiteration of the song's theme that no matter what our religion or our blood lines are in this world, taking a moment or a breath, to respect and acknowledge the flow of energy around us, is vital nourishment for our own souls.

Follow The Sun invites us to leave our own distractions – the congestion of thoughts that keep us locked in our minds every waking minute – and to not let each day pass us by. To take notice and be thankful of the beauty of our great mother and our connection to her. That the most overlooked of things – each day's sun and moon, the winds and the tides, the creatures that fill our skies and oceans... that these things are the truth. They are conduits of an ever-flowing energy that society teaches us as humans to disconnect from, when in fact they are the things we need to be connected to the most

.http://www.xavierrudd.com/

This is the Sun that I follow.. I love to look at dawn and it is so beautiful.

Image by Mezza - Urunga and the sun at dawn.

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Stop jumping to conclusions.

There are two common ways this habit increases people’s difficulties.

First, they assume that they know what is going to happen, so they stop paying attention and act on their assumption instead. Most of what they assume is wrong.


The second aspect of this habit is playing the mind-reader and assuming you know why people do what they do or what they’re thinking.

Wrong again, big time. More relationships are destroyed by this particular kind of stupidity than by any other.  Adrian Savage

Image by Mezza - On the Hill in Port Macquarie

THE FOUR AGREEMENTS - Inspired by Toltek wisdom

AGREEMENT ONE
Be impeccable with your word - Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
AGREEMENT TWO
Don’t take anything personally - Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
AGREEMENT THREE
Don’t make assumptions - Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
AGREEMENT FOUR
Always do your best - Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you're healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Above is a summary from the beautiful piece of work by Don Miguel Ruiz - "The four Agreements"

  The third agreement was not followed in my case and when some people assumed some stuff they caused a lot of trouble. That person was Paul Rogers of Bellingen.  He contacted my son after assuming something very bad and then took this on as truth.  I wish he had consulted with me instead of spreading the vicious lies that he did and to my son.  Any way the third agreement would have helped me if he had understood this principal.  He has such a NEW AGE mother who perhaps has spoken herself of Toltek wisdom.  He would not have listened.  He was a too clever he thought.  Well not clever enough as the end of it is drawing to a close.  I hope for him that the creation deals with him accordingly and that is according to his vibration..  His vibration is now black and it will attract death.

 The Four Agreements was published in 1997.  The Four Agreements is a life-changing book, whose ideas come from the ancient Toltec wisdom of the native people of Southern Mexico.

The Toltec were 'people of knowledge' - scientists and artists who created a society to explore and conserve the traditional spiritual knowledge and practices of their ancestors. The Toltec viewed science and spirit as part of the same entity, believing that all energy - material or ethereal - is derived from and governed by the universe.

Don Miguel Ruiz, born and raised in rural Mexico, was brought up to follow his family's Toltec ways by his mother, a Toltec faith healer, and grandfather, a Toltec 'nagual', a shaman. Despite this, Don Miguel decided to pursue a conventional education, which led him to qualify and practice for several years as a surgeon.

Following a car crash, Don Miguel Ruiz reverted to his Toltec roots during the late 1970's, first studying and learning in depth the Toltec ways, and then healing, teaching, lecturing and writing during the 1980's and 90's, when he wrote:

The Four Agreements  (1997),

The Mastery of Love (1999),

The Four Agreements Companion Book (2000),

 Prayers (2001).

Don Miguel Ruiz survived a serious heart attack 2002, since when his teachings have been largely channelled through seminars and classes run by his followers, notably his sons Don Jose Luis and Don Miguel Ruiz Junior.

The simple ideas of The Four Agreements provide an inspirational code for life; a personal development model, and a template for personal development, behaviour, communications and relationships.
 http://www.miguelruiz.com

  
Rainbows have a vibration of Love energy they are the electromagnetic particles in the air visible because of the perfect conditions of water and sunlight..  this produces colour and colour vibrates.

Images by Mezza - All from Sentimental Rox

Living ....

 Living from the soul’s perspective, of course,
is only achievable
by Being in the Moment.

An image Rosie took on her journey

Being in the Moment is really only achievable
by not having baggage with you in the Moment.
Not having baggage in the Moment is only achievable
by becoming conscious of your baggage.
Becoming conscious of what’s going on in the moment is only possible if you’re willing to break habits.
Breaking habits is only possible if you’re willing to confront the biology that says, “Change is too scary.”
Confronting the biology is only possible if you have courage.
So it starts with the courage to say, “Life can be different.”
Once you can say that, then you confront the biology,
you become conscious,
you start seeing where your baggage is,
you release your baggage,
you are in the moment.
And because by then your vibration is so high,
the Moment allows you access to your soul,
to the Akashic Records,
and to a completely different way of living which is:
Being in the body, but living from your soul’s perspective.
Elohim - Creator of the Universe

I found this piece of writing because of  my niece Leanne... She has a good good  friend 'Jane'.  I found this on  Jane's facebook page.  It touched my heart.  It must have or I wouldn't have put it here in my blog.  I have used Rosie's image of the spirit hand on the rock.  It depicts for me original man.  Man with out all of this stuff we are made to be part of when we know that in our spirit it is wrong.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. Alan Alda

Self Examination ...

Yes  it is good to reflect on what you have achieved over the day the week or the year or even I suppose over your life.  However this can be a little daunting and probably not a happy walk for a lot of us.

myself in the window..

When I think about this rationally, I am quite pleased in fact about the results of my achievements.  But when I put this into an emotional light I am saddened greatly because I know that I am so lost when it comes to emotions.  I well up at the slightest mention of a sad tale.  I cannot listen to songs.  I cannot smell certain things as I will erupt into tears as soon as  the perfume or smell reaches my nose and my olfactory system.

I  take a long look quite often and some would say too often.  I have a long life of sleeping very very little and so this constitutes the person to be very different to someone who for instance feels like their throat is cut if they do not get ten hours plus.  I see many things those people do not see.  They never see dawn perhaps.  Sad that they just accept the sun comes up each day and don't go check on this.

Life is so bad and yet it is so good.  Life has this appearance of looking ok.  We all know there are very bad things coming at our planet and that this will all take place very soon indeed.  Draw close to your loved ones and save your seeds.


http://www.quotegarden.com/self-discovery.html

Image by Mezza - Hairdressers Window at dawn in Urunga 2012

It isn’t that a warrior learns shamanism as time goes by....

“ Rather, what he learns as time goes by is to save energy. This energy will enable him to handle some of the energy fields which are ordinarily inaccessible to him. Shamanism is a state of awareness, the ability to use energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the everyday-life world that we know.”
– Carlos Castaneda

Everyday is a new day and an opportunity to learn more about the planet and the universe in which I inhabit as a human being.  I am in love with the ground I walk on and I feel God when I walk barefooted on this earth. I feel my body tingle with excitement when I stare into the dawning sun.  I stand with my heart hopeful and with reverence of the power before me.  With out this light we would surely die.

Image by Mezza -  Rocks at town beach Port Macquarie

The source of all light is in the eye. If there were no eyes in this world the sun would not be light.

"YOU evoke light out of the universe. In the same way, YOU, by virtue of having a soft skin, evoke hardness out of wood. Wood is only hard in relation to a soft skin. It's your ear drum that evokes noise out of the air. YOU, by being this organism call into being the whole universe of light and color and hardness and heaviness and everything."  ALAN WATTS

It is beautiful to stand on the edge of the ocean and feel the power of heaven as the water washes over your toes.  The tides are governed by the heavens / the moon and the stars and this energy is in the oceans of the planet.


Image by Mezza - Rocks leading down into the ocean at Port Macquarie town beach

"You never forget who you really are... no matter how many nights you stay awake trying to,"

This is for my niece Leanne who is experiencing severe back pain...

The remarkable colours of the new day / Urunga at Dawn.

The pain of pain itself can  be unbearable.  To load someone who is so vulnerable on to antidepressants is ludicrous when they continually say that it is the pain and not being able to work.  The country has fallen down a long way in helping its society and its people's.  I do not trust this at all and there is nothing wrong with such a distrust. 

These people do not care anymore.  You are now a number a case a stroke on their payslip sheet.  You are a cash cow of this society if you get unwell and fall prey to the many sheisters out there ready to use you up like there is no tomorrow.

How dare they operate on my niece before they even attempt traction.  Let alone give her the option to try traction first.  Then operate and abandon her when she is in further more severe pain. 

The country needs to sit down and take a long long look at itself.  The place needs a good tidy up.

 http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/tinkerbell1225/sadquotes.html

Image by Mezza - Urunga 2012 at the foreshore.

Not getting carried away...

When you keep your calm; you will not be carried away by your emotions and the opinions of the majority. An advertisement says: "You must buy that", and then everybody goes out to buy it. When someone says: "that man needs to be beaten", then people can be carried away by the emotions of the majority. 

Thich Nhat Hanh

 

 

 The beauty of not getting carried away is brought home by the beauty of nature and her rivers which carry the water of the planet like the life blood.

Image by Mezza - Bellingen River. 2012

 

The Sunrise Ceremonies are very special.

This begins before there is any light at all when the sky is jet black. When the sun rises into the sky this is the yellow circle.  This turns the sky red. This is why the Aboriginal flag is half red, half black with a yellow circle in the middle.

At sunrise, I meditate and ask the Spirit for understanding and direction for my life and the lives of those around me. My entire body tingles with energy and I cry sometimes because it feels so nice. 

I know this is an ancient ceremony that has been around as long as man has inhabited this earth.  I feel so connected to this power and it helps me to stay healthy and to feel a connection to the great spirit, the source of all things in the entire universe

 

The aboriginal tribes are connected with their local landscape in a way that perhaps no other race of recent times is. The landscape is almost an externalisation of the individual’s inner world. Each tribe had a traditional area of the land which was theirs alone, and it was believed that in the Dreamtime the ancestors shaped the flat landscape into its present features. Each feature was in some way an act of the ancestors, and therefore the tribe. Like many tribal peoples, the Australian native people were deeply dependent upon their beliefs, the landscape and their inner life for their identity and strength. This makes them vulnerable to anything which disrupts their beliefs, although, apart from such vulnerability, they have a greater psychic sense of wholeness and identity with their tribe and environment than is common in Western individuals.

Uncle Tom Kelly's totem is the Waarraday - Wood Duck

Images by Mezza - Mosaics outside Bellingen court House

The honour is with the woman and their Moccasin tracks.

The honor of the people lies in the moccasin tracks of the woman. Walk the good road.... Be dutiful, respectful, gentle, and modest my daughter... Be strong with the warm, strong heart of the earth. No people goes down until their women are weak and dishonored, or dead upon the ground. Be strong and sing the strength of the Great Powers within you, all around you."

Village Wise Man, SIOUX

The fire hose hoists

For my sisters: There is much esteem given to all of us  by the spirits of our elders because we are woman.  For being created woman is so different to the creation of men.  Men do not give birth.  It is this new life aspect and the ability to replace ourselves that do make us just so different to men.

We as woman rely heavily on our feelings.  Sometimes we call this the psychic ability of womanhood.  They say this comes from just being a mother.  I am not sure of this,  I think that woman are wired so different to men.  They are hard wired emotionally to be able to withstand the greatest tragedies life can hoist at them and still survive to feed the other children all while nursing much sadness inside the tiny life of one mother

My body is alive with feelings.  When my mind has had enough and it is close to snapping, the other side of this coin is that I am operating in life then on autopilot.  This is a self protective measure to alleviate the physical stress of immense sadness and loss.  Something that woman for time immemorial have had to deal with as they have emotionally been placed in the firing line and sometimes have lost even the very children they carried in their bellies for nine months.  This is what will toughen a person up.  Loss always toughens everyone.  This  type of loss makes our hearts a little bitter and sad.  We have to get tough because we are going to lose at some time. Sometimes this toughening is a little premature and is a bodily response to severe sadness

When there is no honor bestowed on the woman for the gallant effort of giving birth then there is a serious fault line forming emotionally. 

When all the conditions are favorable this fault line can be the factor that blows everything to pieces.  It is left unattended and ignored and this can be like pouring petrol on a fire.  Kaboom and everything  blows up again.  The woman can be blamed for being too emotional.  I would like to know who made these so called rules of what is right and good and considered acceptable.  I often wonder was it in fact a man.

When a relationship ends, What hurts more is not the end of it, but the way we have to behave as strangers with persons whom we once thought we can't live without!

The Pilot house side gate.

I was half asleep last night when I started to think about what would be on the agenda today, and I had no idea of what would become of me.  But I was awoken by a very loud noise at approximately 1.30am and then Montana called out immediately as she had heard another before this.  I woke Brice as I usually do but he had been dreaming perhaps and he had not been asleep long enough and he was fully peeved and then one thing led to another and I found that I was running again.

Running is something I am compelled to do when the feeling inside becomes too uncomfortable.  I actually try to run away from it.  I usually do not prepare myself for these so called midnight marathon events and end up a long way from the house with no footwear or dressed inadequately.    I am usually found in a state of absolute confusion and with my face swollen from tears and excess emotion.  The emotion is always fueled by the loss of my children.  The situation has not changed and now it is seriously affecting my emotional health.

I am in danger seriously when this happens, I could be assaulted  or worse.  I am defenseless against the elements or the people.  I am however strangely super strong in these events.  It must be because when I get back my feet are sometimes bleeding.  I never felt a thing while it was happening.  I do not know what will become of me because of this.  I am not sure I am safe to tell any medical people this happens in the middle of the nights this way.  I am afraid they will make me take medicine that I do not want to take.

Medicine can not replace the feelings I am supposed to have inside.  I have the feelings that I do because of these serious abandonment issues from my early life and the trauma of the abandonment of my children is making me re-live this same abandonment trauma over and over and over.  I am in a state of absolute confusion and I am dying because of this unending frustration and the stark sadness of my broken heart.

I really do not know what to do.  Will this will not go away?  The children refuse to see sense with that or even re visit this as an issue so that it can be cleared up.    This is seriously affecting my relationships now with all people and I will have a difficult time the future if I am thwarted from being able to tell get the real truth out there to balance the lies that has been told by the people who have an interest in purporting such a thing.  They are not truths but useless exaggerations.   They are fanciful stories that are not true so much of what they have been told is lies!   I understand this as this is exactly what I went through with my own mother and my abandonment from her when I was four months old.

Image by Mezza- The Dawn Silhouette side gate at the Heritage listed Pilot House Urunga NSW

They say it is Easter ...

They say  it is Easter ... 
What do you do to celebrate this time of the year?

 How other the other people's of this Earth see this holiday has always been a source of interest and amusement to me.   I love to ask the enlightened Christians .. "Why didn't they at least change the name from the Pagan word of Ishtar" or Ostara (saxon)?  and " Are you ok with the linking of Christ's death to this said Pagan festivities"?   I am usually met with a blank stare and then some drivel about Jesus was killed on the cross for our sins. No history lesson about this Nicean council. Just stories of Jesus.  For me I feel in my spirit there is more.  I cannot deny this.

My representation of a cross or a tree.. the Jews would have liked this one.

Well this only solicits another negative response from me. I do not want to be bound to this type of hideous dealings with enlightenment and love.  Killing someone and then celebrating this is in line with this polluted word ( bible with half missing) that my so called Christian brothers and sisters celebrate.  Strangeness and falsity would prevail in these last day's it was prophesied.  Well strange is an understatement. 


There was a change in how things were done and it was law brought down upon all of us by the Early Roman Catholic church.    After the Council of Nicea convening in the year 300 something,  we now have the celebration of Easter! 

It's bizarre this Easter stuff and this is the celebration of hanging someone on a tree or a cross however you want to say it so don't forget that macabre little act in history.  Don't forget to eat chocolate to remember this fact.

Oh dear, this doesn't hold much water with me.  I am afraid there have been way too many lies to even believe the early church cared.  They didn't care.  They were the instigators of greed and the love of money and this is why history is manipulated this way.

They made a conscience decision to pull the wool over everyone's eyes after putting together the said Bible... which is MISSING too many books to make it complete and if and when you read this you will see the holes as I did. 

All this did was make me look harder as I am not fooled easily by this type of  fanciful story.  I am more easily taken in by my peers in this life here and now.   I think this is the reason I understand this.  If people can be fooled today, they most definitely could be fooled back in those early and ancient times by the same greed and corrupt types of people.  They don't disappear..... they have children and multiply their evil creed!
This change has been a hideous and evil dysfunction of our entire human society for over 2000 years.  That is a long time to live a lie.  This lie is the underlying reason our Earth is dying in my opinion.  This greed they fostered out of this so called arrangement of Religion is behind the greed of this earth. 

The reason that the scriptures dealing with our true connection to God had been left out of this so called Bible.  I love God, Please do not mistake this fact.  I hate organised religion and all of its false teachings and its lies it continues to foster!

I keep saying this doesn't work for me and  I think I like the original meaning. I love who Jesus the person was but I am just not sure of how they (early churches in Rome)  detailed it out. There are many holes and much is lost of the original parchments.  I know that Emperor Constantine was a control freak and whence the time comes for me to journey into the next world, I intend to ask: "Why did you manipulate humanity for an eternity with this crap".



Image by Mezza - The flagstaff on the hill looking like a cross at Ishtar

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Mercurian

 

Because today is a full moon and the moon is a Libra moon, I decided to balance this and throw up my natal chart.  When I was born on the 2nd of June 1959 in Warwick Qld  / The planets were like this and funnily enough I have both Mercury and the Sun in Gemini on the day of my birth.  Mercury is the ruling planet of Gemini.  Therefore it plays a huge role in how my act is played out on the stage of life and where my strengths and weaknesses are and where I am most appreciated and what I am most suited to in my life's work.

I would say that if you read this, you will know immediately that my natal chart is pretty spot on in the interpretation of the chart itself!  It was interesting to me.  I am going to read and do Montana's now and see just how alike we really are.

If your interested in doing you're own Natal Chart like the one above, please go to this website and just simply follow the prompts to the natal chart calculator.

http://www.alwaysastrology.com/index.html


Mercury in Gemini - The Gemini Mercury Sign

 

Mercury 9°29' Gemini

 Mercury Aspects
Sun conjunction Mercury orb +1°20'
Mercury sextile Uranus orb +3°32'
Mercury square Pluto orb -7°43'

Sun 10°50' Gemini

Sun Aspects
Sun conjunction Mercury orb +1°20'
Sun sextile Uranus orb +2°11'

On the day and at the time of my birth, the Moon was in the sign of Aries. My imagination is lively and fantastic and brings about periods of enthusiasm during which I am driven by my sudden impulses. My sensitivity lives on thrills that I want to experience in the instant… till exhaustion. My spontaneity is coupled with some instability: Mood swings and whimsical behaviours are the dangers to which my excitability exposes me to. I often show a demeanour that is full of contrasts, especially in my intimate life.  One never gets bored with me, even on a daily basis.

Isn’t real rest about being touched and stimulated, over and over again?  Boredom is what I dread most. 

Therefore, it is easy for me to adjust to precarious life rhythms and to quickly achieve balance, as temporary as it may be, should unforeseen evolution emerge.

Interpretation of the 9° Gemini symbolic degree

"A young woman gives a child a glass of water while a boy helps an old man get on his feet."

Intelligent, devoted, and philanthropist character. Life is dedicated to the alleviation of people's physical and moral sufferings. Adoption is possible. This degree sometimes indicates a medical practitioner, a scientist, a priest, or a patron whose name goes down in history.

What is Mercury in Gemini?

Mercury describes your relations, your communication skills and the way you relate to the external world. However, other astrological elements also influence these areas.
The sign Mercury occupies is significant only if Mercury is part of your planetary dominants. In your chart, Mercury is in Gemini.

You need to know everything about the world around you and you probably want to share the results of your observations with everybody. You have a real gift – or desire – to pass on acquisitions and knowledge.
Your inquiring mind is the drive behind your frequent discussions and your exchanges. You prefer to increase the number of your centres of interest rather than to lock yourself up in an exaggerate specialisation.
But don’t lose sight of the essential thing: your thirst for knowledge may scatter your capacities. Diversification also has its dangers… However, your open-mindedness spares you the traps of cultural discrimination: everything is worth your interest, in principle. Rejecting a foreigner may deprive you of enriching discoveries or assessments. Your strength lies in your ability to broaden your horizon and to know.

Mercury Dominant

The Mercurian tradition points out the importance of communication. From idle but enriching chatters to observation gift.

Such a dominant as Mercury in Gemini endows you with a wide range of expression. Human beings have one thousand facets and one thousand masks they wear according to circumstances and the fortunes of the game of life. You take the role of an observer who is avid for novelties, discoveries, and surprises. 

Everything catches your attention and becomes an opportunity for new encounters, relationships, and learning. The world amazes you, amuses you sometimes, and stimulates your curiosity. Because the most important thing is to discover, and because you consider that each new situation is packed with potentialities, you try to fill the gaps in your knowledge. 

Although your open-mindedness may scatter your centres of interest, it also enables you to carefully avoid sticking to only one immutable and rigid view. The slightest sign enables you to perceive the other side of the coin, as well as the infinite complexity of people and of situations. 

On the human plane, you seek the dialogue and the information without which you know that you are not able to fully grasp the nature of your interlocutor. This keen interest in the Unknown sharpens your inter-relational skills. All these qualities are traditionally associated with Mercury.
If Mercury is part of your natal chart's planetary dominants, in astrology, you are said to be a Mercurian.

Interpretation of the 10° Gemini symbolic degree

"Sheltered under a large rock, a group of bohemians gather around a fire for their meal."

Sensual, caring, and anxious character endowed with a strong concern for the family. Short trips and long journeys play an important part in life. Many changes of residence are caused by professional reasons, exile, or widowhood. The family is the source of the greatest fulfilments, as well as of the most painful sorrows. Success can be achieved in travels and tourism, aviation, or sports competitions.

Sun in Gemini

With your outgoing nature and your inquisitive mind, you are made for communications. Your will to process information endows you with a sociable character, a pleasant and often courteous demeanour. Although there is a danger that you may scatter your energy, you focus your attention on each and every novelty.
Your mobile mind works wonders when your activities demand a variety of capacities. Indeed, how is it possible to discover without searching and to be enriched without interacting?

Gemini’s curiosity offers unlimited perspectives. Are you considered to be superficial? When one is researching, one needs to launch experiments with no other goal than to enlarge one’s horizon.  

Gemini wants to embrace everything because everything may prove useful. This diversification ability is very helpful in relationships.   Chatting always produces something interesting.
You are always comfortable in any communication position. More than anyone, you can leap at an opportunity subtly suggested during a debate. After several trials, you can also uncover solutions that remained unidentified.
However, although diversification is fine, scattering may be risky. Therefore, it is important for you to limit your field of activities and to focus on the pieces already collected, to standardise and to synthesise them.

Sun Dominant

If the Sun is part of your natal chart's planetary dominants, in astrology, you are said to be a Solarian: You loathe pettiness and Machiavellian manoeuvre, and you are fond of natural nobleness as well as of direct and honest attitudes.
You endeavour to get out of muddled or dark situations as quickly as possible. Your need for transparency may lead you to make cut-and-dried judgements such as yes or no, and black or white. However, your honesty commands your entourage's consideration.
At times, you come across as authoritarian. It is true that you never want to be thought of the notable absentee, and that you manage to make people pay attention to you, as well as to your plans and your assessments. To this end, the Solarian sometimes develops a great talent for placing himself under the spotlight without missing a single opportunity to arouse interest.
Some other Solarians, although more discreet, still manage to be the focus of any debate, even in situations of exclusion. It is your way of being present even though you are actually not there... More than other people, you appreciate the esteem extended to you. It is useless to cheat with you, since in all areas you consider establishing enduring relationships only with those who love you, admire you, respect you, or express some degree of affection to you.

Your will to straighten out your inter-personal relationships is your strength and sometimes, your Achilles' heel. You cannot achieve anything behind the scenes. Therefore, your comportment is marked with heroism, and your stands are devoid of ambiguity, in the sense that your commitments are unfailing, and your rebuffs, final.

Mercury represents communication, logical and rational mind, intellectual skills. Earth is its element, it is cold and dry, and it rules Virgo and Gemini.  It represents tradesmen, lawyers, messengers; the age of Mercury goes from 8 or10 years old to about 15.

Temperament :    Nervous
Characterology :  Emotive, non Active and Primary type or Non-Emotive, Active and Primary, Nervous or Sanguine type.

The Sun represents vitality, individuality, will-power and creative energy and honours. For a woman, it also represents her father, and later her husband. The Sun is one of the most important symbols in the birth chart, as much as the Ascendant, then the Moon (a bit less for a man), the ruler of the Ascendant and the fast-moving planets.

It's element is fire; it is hot and dry, it governs Leo, is in exaltation in Aries and is in analogy with the heart. It represents the boss, authority, beside the father and the husband ; the age of the Sun goes from 20 years old to about 40, following the Venus age when one is aware of his seductive power.

Temperament :   Bilious
Characterology : Emotive, Active, Secondary, passionate type.

Image - Myself with Montana. Both Gemini's  The Chinese Astrology put her as a Rat and I am a Boar orientally speaking.

No tree it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

People will do anything no matter how absurd, in order to avoid not facing their own soul.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Carl Gustav Jung  (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) He was a Swiss psychiatrist, and the founder of analytical psychology.

I think I understand this concept. I think that I understand it very well as I detail the feelings that I experience from day to day.  It has many names and it has the umbrella name of anxiety. According to many texts I have read and according to the description below from this very helpful website.  http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=13741&cn=9 / http://www.mentalhelp.net/

Anxiety Disorders
The term "anxiety disorders" covers a range of conditions that impairs someone's ability to function, ranging from Simple Phobias (intense fear of a particular item or situation such as spiders or bridges), Panic Disorder / Generalised Anxiety Disorder (a intense, all encompassing sense of worry), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (a person experiences obsessions, or repeated unwanted and intrusive thoughts and engages in compulsions, or repetitive and ritualistic anxiety-reducing behaviours), P.T.S.D. , and Social Phobia (intense anxiety created by social or public situations). Even though these disorders have very different symptoms, they all share a cardinal feature: intense, extreme, and disabling anxiety that appears in anticipation of or in response to situations which does not subside over time.
Individuals with anxiety disorders may feel overwhelmed, ashamed, or frustrated that they are unable to control their symptoms. Many individuals with severe anxiety symptoms also become socially isolated and/or try to relieve their feelings by using alcohol and/or other substances. These features of anxiety disorders can lead someone to attempt or commit suicide.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
P.T.S.D. is an extreme reaction to a traumatic event characterised by flashbacks (traumatic memories), trauma-themed nightmares, extreme jumpiness, and difficulties managing emotions. Individuals with P.T.S.D. have the highest rate of suicide when compared to all other anxiety disorders.


Image by Mezza - the clouds at dawn glowing with the light.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. - Rachel Carson

I am pretty sentimental about the hill behind the trees there barely visible in this image but there none the less and clearly if you look for it.  That is Pickett Hill. 

This hill seems to be visible in so many of my shots.  I look out my front door and I can see it.  I go to the beaches around here and I can see it.  That's pretty grand I think. 

I have been told that it is a Sacred aboriginal site for men initiation rites.  and no woman are to go there.  That is absolutely fine because I don't intend to.  But it is just captivating how it is so visible from all these vantage points.  This means it was very spectacular in its importance on a spiritual level.

This morning so early still at dawn as the sun was rising the hill took on a beautiful blue hue.  It was quite beautiful to see as well as watching the dawning sun.

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Image by Mezza - The rest area on the hill and lookout over the lagoon below.

“Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.”...Wayne W. Dyer

I find it hard to say thank you silently and often just say thank you out loud to the universe around me.  Again today I was just captivated by the sheer beauty of the dawn.  My heart raced as I climbed up and down the hill four times this morning.

The western sky was still relatively dark when I set off and there were only five stars left in the sky evident to me where  I was standing.  Four stars in the south and one in the north from where I stood out the front of my house.

I knew today would be beautiful after watching all of Danny Wilten's Videos on Youtube before leaving home this morning in the dark.  I went with an expectant heart,  and as the sun rose today I spoke out to the universe my hearts desire to see my children re united with me.  I saw a spiritual fight going on and I saw that my core beliefs have been questioned over and over again to make me turn away from what I believe. Nothing and no one can change my mind on this.

I stood there reverent in from of the dawning sun camera in one hand and the other hand covering my heart.  I went home four times in excitement.  I seem to do this a lot.  I become so overwhelmed I run home.  Personally, I think I am funny, humorously speaking.  I am so like a child that I want to go and hide behind mummy skirt or something as that is what it feels like to me and I just don't know what to do or where to go for a minute!

Keep your heart expectant and stand with reverence and be silent and just listen.

Images by Mezza - Dawn up on the hill and the Grevillea on the hill at Dawn 4th April 2012

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The most effective way to manage change is to create it. - Peter Drucker

Yes! A spot of fishing..

Fishing is still fishing however these days there is also computer Phishing said the same as fishing.  This is fishing I suppose in all the similar senses of the word and its original meaning.

I don't go fishing any more.  I have no one to go fishing with.  I can't manage it on my own.  I would need help with the bait attachment  successfully and the taking off of the fish I caught.  If I was to catch one I would not know how to gut the fish.

I should not dwell on the past but some explanation is necessary.  When I was married and when I had children we went fishing sometimes.  Not near enough though and when we did I was never allowed to touch the damn things.  Besides that I was probably making sure that three children were not drowning or killing each other or hooking each other up with their sheer casting skills.

I remember fishing at Gleniffer with the three children and Montana was a baby and was in a back pack carrier on her father's back.  He had strategically placed the fish we had caught on a strong skinny tree branch  behind him on the bank.  Perch are really slimy as well.  He was fishing away very happily as Montana wasn't fussing around and was quite quiet on his back.  I came around the corner back from where I had been fishing to see a slime covered Montana.  She was in reach of these fish he had hung up and she had been having a very good time covering herself in slime.  It was pretty yuck and it was very funny.

So, with all that going on  I never really progressed any further than childhood with that skill of tackling up.  All of this doesn't mean I don't like fishing though.  I love fishing.  I am quite good at catching them.  I will sit there with the best of them waiting for that illusive bite and to possibly catch that illusive fish that may just be lurking unaware near my hook.

Sometimes I think I will never ever go fishing again because there is no one to go with.  This makes me feel really sad as I do feel like I missed out somewhere along the line.  Wish I was able to do all this myself.  Even if I could do all of this myself I still would not go fishing alone.  I have a fear of being alone in wide open spaces and so it goes I would need company.  There is no one.

Image by Mezza - Dawn fishing in Urunga April 2012

And when I saw you on the stage, and even more so, now I stand before you, I am awestruck and humbled by your radiance.

I was out early this morning on top of the hill. I didn't venture down towards the water as I normally do.  I was already in a nice position in my pyjamas out of the view of others except my neighbours.  I quite like that.

This morning it seemed to take forever to have sunrise happen.  I went up and down the hill twice before I settled on the position I would stay for a bit. 

Wet grass and rolled up Pj's and bare feet.  How absolutely glorious this is.  I simply came home and rinsed my messy toes under the tap and they were as good as new again.   I was standing there in the bright morning sun with my clean feet and I just felt nice as I stood barefoot on the Earth. I could feel the warmth swimming through me as the power came down over me  and into my eyes from the rays of the dawning sun.  I stood there grateful and simply trying to stay focused and to keep my mind calm for just a few moments.  It was a great morning actually.
 

Being Monday,  I always get very excited and I know why.  It is because today, this afternoon after school, Montana comes to stay the night again.  I love Mondays.  I love the suns rays, I just listening to what God say's.

This morning very early before I went and took photographs, I was sitting in bed with the lap top having woken in the dark due to the time change over and my delicate body clock.  I was looking over stuff and came across the trailer for the brand new Justin Bieber Single off his album aptly titled Boyfriend.  I posted the link on my Facebook and tagged Montana in the link and after that I am in no man's land.  I read what I had written a number of hours later approximately 6 hours later and dead set I would have to wonder where my head is at when I am awake in the dark so early.

I could keep writing when I am in that zone but I feel that I have to stop because I have other things I want to go and do.  So I never actually sit down for an entire day and just write one thing and work on it and work on it.  When it comes out like it does, it could very well keep going.  But I would need someone to do everything else for me.  Go and take my images and stand in the sun for me and make coffee for me and clean the house for me and dig the garden and process my images because man all those things are extremely time consuming.

Hence why I don't spend an extended period of time just writing rhyme.

Dorian Gray quote
..http://www.subzin.com/quotes/Dorian+Gray/I+am+awestruck+and+humbled+by+your+radiance

 Images by Mezza - Dawn in Urunga in early April 2012

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"Time is making fools of us again." — J.K. Rowling

 "Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of the blanket and have a longer blanket."  -  Attributed to "an old Indian" when told the reason for daylight-saving time.

 

And so it is that Daylight Saving has finally ceased for another year.  I can only say thank goodness for this.  I don't like it and will continue to register my disapproval for this hideous practice of tricking ourselves.

Are we this silly as to think this does not affect us in a bodily fashion.  I think it effects the very core of our being and lowers our immune system.  I have an understanding that the amount of light entering through the eyes of a person directly effects everything that occurs bodily within the person and so to change this by one entire hour and then change it back after a number of months and to do this year after year continually plays havoc with this internal clock.  I have spoken out against the practice since it's inception to our daily lives as a permanent arrangement in N.S.W, Victoria and South Australia back in 1972 after a trial by all states the previous year.

Daylight Saving Time means that there are five separate time zones in Australia at one time whilst it is being implemented.  There have been many positives and many negatives.  It was instigated to save money by using less power because of lighting but really,  do we need to do this now that we all use energy efficient lighting?

The reason I disliked it so much was the challenges of putting children to bed in broad day light became a laborious task I hated.  It was easier to pretend the world had gone mad and live by our own schedule and only fit in when we had to.  The children never liked it as children and I fully supported this decision they had made.  I think that the fine tuning of light coming into the body via the eyes is a finely tuned process as well.  I don't like the idea of playing around with this and our circadian rhythms

 Currently four states and one territory in Australia and they are New South Wales, A.C.T., Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia  as of midnight last night are now all suffering a from of Jet lag. .  This happens because their body clock has been tampered with.  The body clock is responsible for many hormonal exchanges that occur through out the body so to have switches turned on when clearly there is no bodily reason is a result of this practice.

I adamantly oppose daylight savings time. It truly makes no logical sense. It is just another government "smoke and mirrors" trick, that's all. And it is just one more way of them having control over our lives.

Al, Austin, TX
March 11, 2012 5:36am

Images by Mezza - Summer images around Urunga

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