The serpent sheds its skin cyclically creating once again it's own self, renewed, or having it your way through focus, determination, will, and ultimate knowledge of exactly what it is that you personally want to have or create. It is after all, all about you. Isn't it? If not, what is the point? I get so bloody tired of hearing people talk about "the ego" well, I have news for some of you (the rest are already well aware of it) if we did not have an ego we would not be on this planet. We are here to learn humility, it is not an inborn thing by a long shot, nor is it an overall necessity, it is just a part of what we came here to learn, and anyone who is constantly telling you that you have an over blown ego, and it does not fit the way you see yourself, must want something from you. Ask them what it is and save both of you a lot of time and effort in the long run.
If we were living up to our own set of standards instead of borrowed opinions from others we would all be where we are supposed to be, and extremely happy and fulfilled, simply because we would know who we are, and we would be with them, and they with us because we liked being together, and for no other reason. Sounds simple, huh? It is not. Having it your way rarely ever is. In order to have it your way, first you must know exactly who, what, where, and the how, of it all. How do you get that? Through focused meditation. First let's determine exactly what Webster's says about that verbatim; To engage, contemplate, plan, mentally. Wow! How about that? Not one bit of "Fluff Bunny" mysticism about that meaning is there? What does that remind me of? Oh, yeah! I know! That old ESP stuff that they told us about way back in the 60's and 70's (along with the rock 'n' roll prophets back ground music) that we are constantly transmitting and receiving, like a radio, and that our brains are the original computers.
We are electro-magnetic and our inner parts are comparative to a mini atom bomb. We are sound sensors, with thermal nuclear heat, real power conductors that are continually vibrating, even when we sleep. We are surrounded by motion molecules or spirals of pure energy, that come and go as they please. How much of this power do we really consciously utilize? How much gets sucked up through a big black hole? Now, that's the real question to contemplate. I challenge you to be aware of you. How much do you really know about you, and what you are capable of doing? It's all out there just waiting to be recognized and utilized. It is as close as the palms of your hands, or a light bulb. If you are interested in finding out.
We are encouraged not to meditate for what reason? The majority do not even know what it means to do it. What if I told you that it is as individual as you are and just as effective? It starts with your Sun and Moon sign, that is the physical body and how you feel, this is where you ground. In the body, by feeling it, you know settling on your sitting bones and getting comfortable with your feet flat on the ground and your hands, palms up in your lap, then you must know how you think, that is your Mercury. There are four elements and you think in one of them. Air-Mental, Fire-Action, Water-Feeling, Earth-Physical, you can think about that a bit. It is a logical outcome, I promise you, or you can go research it, or hey, just ask me. The first one to start; What do you like to do? In this, I mean can you sit still like a yogi and do the om thing? If you can that's fine, just do that. If you are like a three quarters of the population you can't do that, and your form of meditation is not of the Watery kind. You are one of the others, Air-Fire-Earth, this means that you must engage your mind or Air, take action with your creative ability or Fire, or do something with your body physically or Earth. These are your hints for how you individually meditate. To practice it, or try it out, (pretend it's a game, most things are to start out with anyway) try this; On a clean sheet of paper write down a question that you have been mulling over for a good length of time and can't seem to answer, only one please. Put it on the table, the desk, the dresser, the dashboard now go walking with a friend, or play racket ball, dance, do aerobics, or run, build or paint, or work out, pump iron, or box, chop wood, or hunt. Make sure that you are ready to walk out the door before you write that question down, and then just go. When you come back, possibly hours later, relaxed hopefully, and happy, read your question with your pen in hand. Bet the answer is there for you. Let me know how this works out for you and good luck. Stay in touch. If you have questions email me. sylviabogart@gmail.com Love and Lightening.
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Little Red Riding Hood: Full Moon Leo
Little Red Riding Hood: Full Moon Leo: "There is only one question that all of science and philosophy seek to answer: Is the universe a friendly place?" - Albert Einstei...
Full Moon Leo
"There is only one question that all of science and philosophy seek to answer: Is the universe a friendly place?" - Albert Einstein -
Eventually we come to the point where we either trust implicitly or doubt compulsively. Trust in the "Great Turtle" that holds us all the way down. Let go of fear by short-circuiting it with faith at every level.
I was, and am, provoking your self importance and mine. Self importance is our greatest enemy, it is what weakens us by causing us to feel offended by others or their deeds. Our self importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone or something. What a waste of our time, effort, and precious energies. Expectations are like that, for they are no one else's business except the one who is doing the expecting. No one else even knows what is expected of them, nor do they feel obligated to perform, without self importance we are invulnerable.
Realizations like this are always personal, this is the time to make them as the planets align and bring forth the promises that are in the chart of our birth. There are two category's; The first one is made up of those who are willing to exercise self-restraint in order to channel their activities toward pragmatic goals. The other category consists of those who don't care about self-restraint or any pragmatic goals.
"A petty tyrant is a tormentor, someone who holds the power of life or death, or simply annoys us to distraction." Humor is the only way to counteract this kind of "coyote" power. The most fearsome are the buffoons, all teach us the strength found within detachment. We must learn to utilize the petty tyrant as a device of strategy, (think of the Acme kit) on the pathway to knowledge. The thing that turns humane into petty precisely is the obsessive manipulation of the already known. If you can hold your own with the known (petty tyrant) you can face the unknown without fear (roadrunner) which is the real reason for this kind of testing. It is a directive for us to pay close attention to the details. There is no longer any leeway in the abstract, the fatal flaw is in taking every thing seriously, actions and feelings become all important. Warriors with a well thought our strategy, focus, and goal, are free from self-importance, and can enjoy the playful ride, understanding that reality is our interpretation.
Eventually we come to the point where we either trust implicitly or doubt compulsively. Trust in the "Great Turtle" that holds us all the way down. Let go of fear by short-circuiting it with faith at every level.
I was, and am, provoking your self importance and mine. Self importance is our greatest enemy, it is what weakens us by causing us to feel offended by others or their deeds. Our self importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone or something. What a waste of our time, effort, and precious energies. Expectations are like that, for they are no one else's business except the one who is doing the expecting. No one else even knows what is expected of them, nor do they feel obligated to perform, without self importance we are invulnerable.
Realizations like this are always personal, this is the time to make them as the planets align and bring forth the promises that are in the chart of our birth. There are two category's; The first one is made up of those who are willing to exercise self-restraint in order to channel their activities toward pragmatic goals. The other category consists of those who don't care about self-restraint or any pragmatic goals.
"A petty tyrant is a tormentor, someone who holds the power of life or death, or simply annoys us to distraction." Humor is the only way to counteract this kind of "coyote" power. The most fearsome are the buffoons, all teach us the strength found within detachment. We must learn to utilize the petty tyrant as a device of strategy, (think of the Acme kit) on the pathway to knowledge. The thing that turns humane into petty precisely is the obsessive manipulation of the already known. If you can hold your own with the known (petty tyrant) you can face the unknown without fear (roadrunner) which is the real reason for this kind of testing. It is a directive for us to pay close attention to the details. There is no longer any leeway in the abstract, the fatal flaw is in taking every thing seriously, actions and feelings become all important. Warriors with a well thought our strategy, focus, and goal, are free from self-importance, and can enjoy the playful ride, understanding that reality is our interpretation.
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Little Red Riding Hood: Happy New Moon in Capricorn
Little Red Riding Hood: Happy New Moon in Capricorn: The domestic cat paces her comfortable cage, bored once again with all of her toys. She gazes longingly out the window dreaming endlessly of...
Happy New Moon in Capricorn
The domestic cat paces her comfortable cage, bored once again with all of her toys. She gazes longingly out the window dreaming endlessly of how it could "almost" be, if only, she could find the courage to run away.
She meows desperately, not really understanding what it is that she seeks. She knows that she is weak and afraid that she is meek, then suddenly a shadow glides across the window screen from which she peeks. She slumps down into her shoulders in terror of what could happen, what could be, as she hears the screech of a passing Hawk from the sea, she jumps through the air and runs down the carpeted stairs to hide in her designer closet where she thinks dark thoughts about how unfair life can be. "It could of been me. I could of been free. Only Destiny says; What will be, will be." Then she sleeps and she dreams, or does she?
A man pretending to be normal is holding a child because it is expected of him. He is completely and totally uncomfortable with this situation, every particle of his stance shows that he is, even the child feels it as it begins to cry. There is no kind of connection on any level of life, he is only trying to survive. The heart long dead emotionally still beats, it pumps the blood through the body, and the body is still activated, it goes through the motions of primary actions, the expected gestures of a life. There is no one home, the spirit is gone, it the physical body, occupied by the mind alone. When did the Spirit and Soul leave? At twenty-eight years old? A life sentence in an animated body armor, that no longer feels or experiences life. Reaction, not action. He is playing a part on a world stage, where the audience has long gone home.
Never allow anyone to intimidate you. You do not have to defend or apologize when you are authentically being yourself. Come from a place of peace and power joyfully and always. When you are not effective it is because you are coming from a place of fear and emptiness. Ask yourself this; Why am I empty? When we tap into our own divinity it is with joy and laughter in a celebration of life and of love. The separation comes when we take things too seriously. What has taught us to be this way? Cultivate your sense of humor, it is the best cushion you will ever have against pain. If you cannot laugh, love, or cry about something, you cannot be healed by the experience of it for you have learned nothing. Joy and enthusiasm are the voice of the Spirit. The mind is a terrible thing to waste, but sometimes we must simply follow our heart in order to find the creative juices that remove boredom and fatigue naturally allowing us to bathe in the pure energy essence of delight.
She meows desperately, not really understanding what it is that she seeks. She knows that she is weak and afraid that she is meek, then suddenly a shadow glides across the window screen from which she peeks. She slumps down into her shoulders in terror of what could happen, what could be, as she hears the screech of a passing Hawk from the sea, she jumps through the air and runs down the carpeted stairs to hide in her designer closet where she thinks dark thoughts about how unfair life can be. "It could of been me. I could of been free. Only Destiny says; What will be, will be." Then she sleeps and she dreams, or does she?
A man pretending to be normal is holding a child because it is expected of him. He is completely and totally uncomfortable with this situation, every particle of his stance shows that he is, even the child feels it as it begins to cry. There is no kind of connection on any level of life, he is only trying to survive. The heart long dead emotionally still beats, it pumps the blood through the body, and the body is still activated, it goes through the motions of primary actions, the expected gestures of a life. There is no one home, the spirit is gone, it the physical body, occupied by the mind alone. When did the Spirit and Soul leave? At twenty-eight years old? A life sentence in an animated body armor, that no longer feels or experiences life. Reaction, not action. He is playing a part on a world stage, where the audience has long gone home.
"Lighten up! Life is too important to be taken so seriously."
- Oscar Wilde-
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Little Red Riding Hood: Own Your Saturn and Take Control of your Future
Little Red Riding Hood: Own Your Saturn and Take Control of your Future: When you decide to "own your own Saturn" you really are deciding to take responsibility for your own life. You become free for the...
Own Your Saturn and Take Control of your Future
When you decide to "own your own Saturn" you really are deciding to take responsibility for your own life. You become free for the very first time in your life. The opinions of the world view with all of its differences, control mechanisms, and judgements, no longer holds any power over you, finally without censor you can march, or dance, if you will, to the beat of your very own drummer, which is of course, your heart.
Death must come to the old way of thinking and being before the rebirth of the new through conscious decisions can take place. This is where it can get a little tricky. You must ask yourself some very serious questions about what "you" really want to have in your life, as well as whom. You must be very clear about these answers. Pay close attention to the details. You may be surprised by some of what you find, perhaps all of what you find may come as an epiphany. If it does, be happy about that, let go of what you don't need, in this I mean all of that superficial "fluff stuff" that is someone else's idea of who and what you are, and therefore has absolutely nothing to do with you.Their expectations are none of your business. It is a brutal clearing away, and you must be ruthless, after all it is your life that you are living, isn't it?
There must be a transformation in the way that you deal with intimate relationships, emphasis is on the metamorphose of your own personal inner most thoughts, actions, feelings, motivations, creations, and how they not only effect you and the world around you, but also, and this is probably the most important thing, how they are actually working with and for you in the physical world. You will find that there are some that it is just time to give up on, letting go allows you to move forward in ways that you cannot even imagine. A previously cherished structure or structures having to do with the way you relate to authority figures (or the Father/Mother image in general) may have to be challenged as to its authenticity, or its basic reasoning for being a part of the world that you live in now. Sometimes we carry things from the past that have outlived their time, letting them go brings an amazing surge of energy and power. This will give you the stability that you need in a new way to take charge of you own life with no regrets, and no looking back, closing the door firmly on things that are no longer working for you.
You will also be more in tune with the vibrational flow of others, their thought processes, (through the basic details that once were missed) will now become transparent to you. This should give you the gift of empathy. Please, do not allow yourself to buy into that ego trip of "savior/victim" it is a huge pit of quick sand that can and will drain you of all of your most valuable resources almost immediately. Yes, it can seem as if you are energized, momentary, think about it, you know this trip, recognize it for what it really is, a distraction, and move on, say thank you, but "NO", if you really must. It is better to just smile benignly and move on without losing a step in the action that you are trying to create. Compassion is a great gift it gives an "opening of the ways" which allows the good feelings to flow in.
This is a good time to plan for the future, and re-evaluate your life's goals, with full faith in their ultimate success because you now have the determination, and the energy to focus and follow through on your plans making your dreams a reality by balancing equally all of your resources toward your goals. Opportunity knocks and contacts need to be followed through on. Do not procrastinate, remember all of the stories with the basic "pray and get a shovel" theme. You must do the work in order to be successful.
Death must come to the old way of thinking and being before the rebirth of the new through conscious decisions can take place. This is where it can get a little tricky. You must ask yourself some very serious questions about what "you" really want to have in your life, as well as whom. You must be very clear about these answers. Pay close attention to the details. You may be surprised by some of what you find, perhaps all of what you find may come as an epiphany. If it does, be happy about that, let go of what you don't need, in this I mean all of that superficial "fluff stuff" that is someone else's idea of who and what you are, and therefore has absolutely nothing to do with you.Their expectations are none of your business. It is a brutal clearing away, and you must be ruthless, after all it is your life that you are living, isn't it?
There must be a transformation in the way that you deal with intimate relationships, emphasis is on the metamorphose of your own personal inner most thoughts, actions, feelings, motivations, creations, and how they not only effect you and the world around you, but also, and this is probably the most important thing, how they are actually working with and for you in the physical world. You will find that there are some that it is just time to give up on, letting go allows you to move forward in ways that you cannot even imagine. A previously cherished structure or structures having to do with the way you relate to authority figures (or the Father/Mother image in general) may have to be challenged as to its authenticity, or its basic reasoning for being a part of the world that you live in now. Sometimes we carry things from the past that have outlived their time, letting them go brings an amazing surge of energy and power. This will give you the stability that you need in a new way to take charge of you own life with no regrets, and no looking back, closing the door firmly on things that are no longer working for you.
You will also be more in tune with the vibrational flow of others, their thought processes, (through the basic details that once were missed) will now become transparent to you. This should give you the gift of empathy. Please, do not allow yourself to buy into that ego trip of "savior/victim" it is a huge pit of quick sand that can and will drain you of all of your most valuable resources almost immediately. Yes, it can seem as if you are energized, momentary, think about it, you know this trip, recognize it for what it really is, a distraction, and move on, say thank you, but "NO", if you really must. It is better to just smile benignly and move on without losing a step in the action that you are trying to create. Compassion is a great gift it gives an "opening of the ways" which allows the good feelings to flow in.
This is a good time to plan for the future, and re-evaluate your life's goals, with full faith in their ultimate success because you now have the determination, and the energy to focus and follow through on your plans making your dreams a reality by balancing equally all of your resources toward your goals. Opportunity knocks and contacts need to be followed through on. Do not procrastinate, remember all of the stories with the basic "pray and get a shovel" theme. You must do the work in order to be successful.
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