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November 2016

Human Evolution Muck Raker Power & Politics

Now what?

Ok, so we have a Kaiser Elect right now. The 4th Reich? The Weimar Republic 2.0? Perhaps. How did we get here? And more importantly-now what?

First, the how. In 2008 the US underwent a financial coup d’etat that was orchestrated exactly as it unfolded. This added a number of citizens to the “desperation” category. Fast forward 8 years and nothing has changes for those left in the lurch. This was completely missed by all but Bernie Sanders as far as candidates running for either of the corporate captured parties.

Those “deplorables” who voted for Trump are the very same people who had voted for Obama only 8 years earlier. Being that Obama turned his back on the mandate which brought him to office(and even got rid of Habeas Corpus)-that vacuum of a “Party for The People” still existed. When the DNC pulled it’s shenanigans and propped Hillary up it was open season for Trump to hijack the language of the progressive. The Clinton legacy was so tainted it far from represented any notion that was pro-human(Honduras, Haiti, Libya and on and on and on).

Though misguided-these voters elected one who was actually made by this Clinton limousine liberal class which has no true interest in humans. The only way they weren’t misguided was in the realization that the supposed left party on the ticket was far deeper to the right. The irony is-she and her Wall Street Dems are the ones who create the likes of Trump. The facade my be far uglier in his case, but the depth of outright proto-fascism and war hawkish neocon leanings went undetected by those who rely on perception managers of the Corporate media and Corporate underwritten media(From Fox to NPR). Had the Hillary supporters taken any time to look at the true history by way of proper info(Chris Hedges, Glen Greenwald, Truthdig, Democracy Now, Pacifica and ion and on) we could have a real conversation without first educating the mislead about what day it even is.

A lot of Kool-Aid was imbibed to vote for either of the Two Party Corporate Dictatorship. A LOT of it. Trying to nourish one’s self from the food which others have chewed and swallowed is an effort in vain. We see so much of this today. And the emotion based decisions, combined with a lack of true examination has left us again with the Tower of Babel 2.0.

Being denied it’s blue pill to slip back into the Matrix, we see agitation all over the place. The energy is good, while the misbehavior, vitriol and hate energy is obviously not . A snake must become uncomfortable before it sloughs off it’s dead skin. We’ve been numbed to this discomfort for decades due to propaganda, bread and circus. All the while critical analysis has greatly suffered.

One of the greatest examples of this is the endless support for the US backed attempted genocides in Palestine. Both corporate candidates firmly established their membership in Club Psychopath by supporting this(and who can forget the horrifying images of Hillary literally patting Netanyahu on the back while Palestinian babies murdered by US bombs stacked up in Gaza Ice Cream Parlor freezers). Where were the crocodile tears then?

So now what? Now we awaken to realize there never was any adult supervision. Tear down the wall of illusion! Time to look deeper and find common ground. We The People are a threatened organism. We must act in solidarity or perish-no other choice folks. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. The unity model needs self empowered individual with eyes and ears wide open. It’s time to slough off the malaise, the corporate press(including NPR) and breathe the air of truth.

Like the garden-we must have nourishing soil for all seeds to thrive. This include proper input on information. The status quo has no interest in democracy or harmony. Now we must slow down and chew our own food. With a commitment to make the human organism synch harmonious we gotta get alchemical on this shit! As above so below-to do the greater work of the one. Blessing fellow Earth dwellers.

November 30, 2016 0 comment

Happy Pilgrim Love & Relationships

Where are Relationships Going?

written by Sedonah Sunn

It seems the world has gone crazy in the realm of personal and romantic relationships. As I look back and see our history it appears that in the 1950’s & 1960’s people got married and stayed married alot more than they do these days. In the early 1980’s my parents split up and this was a big deal. I was the first person in my class to go through this ordeal. After that neither one of my parents ever really dated much or remarry. I was not witness to what a happy, healthy relationship felt like or looked like, aside from what I picked up on TV sitcoms.

I have come to see that a lot of people are not really sure what a truly happy relationship is made up of. Many simply take what looks good. or what shows up in front of them and hope for the best, without really questioning it. Years later they find themselves fighting over money and who gets the kids.

I think the downfall of relationships came in the 80’s & 90’s when fashion & gossip magazines started glamorizing ‘thin and beautiful as the new sexy.’ American society became overly obsessed with the body – more cleavage and men with tight abs in underwear briefs was on everyone’s minds. And with that came the infamous Questionnaires on “How you scored on achieving the perfect sex life.”

No wonder we are confused and stressed about dating. Our handbooks have been written from the ego mind which looks for instant gratification, and bodily attractiveness which is near impossible. Most models photographed these days are air brushed by computer before going to print, so do we really know who we are?

I admit I have fallen prey to popular media ideals and chosen men based on the outer package & charm. But outer appearances cannot satisfy because the ego mind which looks at the external world will always want more. After jumping in with both feet and then discovering, that this is not the pond I want to swim in the rest of my life, a feeling of entrapment or boredom sets in. People either stay in that and wither away, or they escape and move on to another similar situation until they wake up.

The deeper question for me now in my mid-forties is not what my ego wants but what does my soul want. How I wish I had remembered to ask this of myself when I was in my early twenties, but such as life. I know that all is perfectly unfolding as intended. Now it is time to release old patterns and habits, choose the higher road, which is often less traveled, a lot more adventurous, and ultimately leads to a different outcome.

After many attempts to find divine love and not succeeding, I opened my mind up to creating a new kind of relationship. From my experience when you set out to try something new, wisdom comes to guide you. Recently a wise friend of mine from East Indian descent shared this with me on the topic of relationships, “Humans will always struggle in relationships on earth because – the perfect relationship is the one that you have with God. When you come to earth and first feel a separation from that perfection, there is an innate need to find that again. Most people look for that in a life mate, or spouse and when that spouse who carries human traits of imperfection fails you there is disappointment.”

Just knowing this has been enough of a wake-up call to see that the ultimate relationship is the one with the Divine Creator. Once you begin to rekindle that relationship I often hear people say now I need to work on the relationship I have with myself. I find this step unnecessary, or if you really feel you need this time make it brief. If it goes on too long you return to ego imposed self absorption which is highly destructive and incredibly unproductive.

When you have returned to oneness with God the self actually dissolves. I began my relationship with God by posting this mantra on my wall: Supreme Lord, awaken in me the part of myself that wishes to be in service and cooperation with your Divine Will. Once the request has been made, with a pure and devoted heart, the door is open and the mysteries of life become clear.

The next step is to open up to a divine union with another human being, which ultimately is God in body. Letting go of the idea of the outer package being the draw, and looking at how their consciousness and life experiences match up with you and your soul’s mission is the ultimate pathway to true happiness in relationships. When you find that connection with someone – linger in the getting to know each other phase for a long time. If sex comes, it does, but it is not necessary to your spiritual progress as a couple.

So where are relationships going? I see them going towards spiritually advanced matched beings coming together all over the globe. These couples will co-create balance and harmony as they unite, and their peace and happiness will ultimately bring peace to every person they come in contact with. These couples’ presence will shift our planet without them having to DO any thing in particular…. except BE LOVE.

There is no need to feel rushed to find this person. As I am – simply being in a state of inner peace, by connecting with God through daily meditation is enough to attract your VIBRATIONAL SOUL MATCH. If you have been looking for love in all the wrong places, I encourage you to open up to the truth of who you are – a Child of God the Creator – you came here to love…, to observe it… to feel it…, and to fully express it. Your true spiritual partner is present in your life now. Open your 3rd eye and see.

~Happy Pilgrim – I am ~

November 29, 2016 4 comments

Love & Relationships Superhero Sis

Changes

written by Superhero Sis

The holidays are supposed to be a happy time of year. At least that’s how they market it. For me, so far its been a mix of feeling lonely, experiencing loss and moving toward something new. I had a falling-out or I should say a friend had a falling-out with me because it wasn’t my decision. She was like family to me. No conversations, just an abrupt text and that was it. It broke my heart and hurt even worse when I found out that she eliminated me from Thanksgiving dinner where I would naturally have been invited to celebrate with friends who are like family to me. She is not facing her own feelings or expressing her own needs but instead blaming. I’m not taking her blame as I have an open heart to listen and know that we could work through anything but she chose to treat me like I am disposable and that is not okay.

Another woman in my life who I had made a business arrangement with did something shockingly unexpected this week that had me equally dumbfounded. It’s not okay to go back on your word and even worse that I had arranged my schedule to honor our commitment to have her change it within days of the event. I wish I wasn’t so thin skinned and that my feelings weren’t hurt over hateful actions and unkept promises but that isn’t the case. It’s been a tough week of learning, growing and changing as I let go of what no longer works to embrace something new.

Thankfully, I have amazing friends in my life I was able to call on to talk about these things, while I felt the sorrow of the loss, the anger from the betrayal and the sadness of the loneliness. I do very much live an optimistic and intentional life and through affirmations, meditation, self care and a myriad of other things I keep myself centered and grounded but that doesn’t mean things don’t hurt me. In addition to reaching out to my good friends here I earth, I turned to my yogi friend by opening his book “Autobiography of a Yogi” to ask for answers when these things were going on. The page I turned to had these words of wisdom for me; “If joy were ceaseless here in this world, would man ever desire another? Without suffering, he scarcely cares to recall that he has forsaken his eternal home. Pain is a prod to remembrance. The way of escape is through wisdom.” I didn’t write down the page but those words were a reminder from a great yogi exactly when I needed them. We aren’t here to become consumers and overspend at the holidays, we are here for a much deeper purpose that continues year round.

I think this time of year provokes depression and sadness that gets overlooked and stuffed like a turkey. A male friend of mine wrote to me saying how he’s been going in and out of depression over the last couple of months, with the weather being so rainy and cloudy where he lives. I was happy that he wrote to me and equally appreciative of his sharing about the great things he had going on, as well as, the tough things he was facing. It’s so important for us to reach out to one another and to be there for each other, to share our triumphs and our sorrows. I sure do feel better after a girlfriend has given me her heart and ear, as I move through the passing moment of life’s trials, and return to my center, where I know all is well in the world. May the holiday season remind us all that we need one another and the best place we can meet is in our hearts!

Love,
Superhero Sis

November 27, 2016 0 comment

Astrologically Speaking

Horoscopes for week of November 21, 2016

written by Superhero Sis

Lately, like most folks, I wake up in a state of confusion. My half conscious state tries to reckon with what I have read, talked about, and heard from friends and loved ones the day before.

Did that really happen? Yes.

What do I do now? Get up and work.

Heartbroken, we must still seek progress.

Scorpio season isn’t a gentle one. It tends to reveal our fears. And the resilience we need to confront them.

On Monday, however, we get to enter into a new kind of light. The sun enters Sagittarius, the sign of the seeker. Sagittarius wants adventure. Brings an abundance of spirit. Brings with it a faith and trust in life. The sun entering this sign won’t save us from the difficulty of the moment, but it might help us to rally our reasons to believe that we can find a way forward. Find a way through this. Find reasons to keep our faith alive.

Mercury wants to encourage this sentiment. Currently in Sagittarius, Mercury will make a helpful sextile to Jupiter in Libra on Tuesday, encouraging us to strategize and plan for our success, no matter how far off that might feel at the moment.

Whatever it is we plan or communicate, it needs to be solid in its structure. Only the ideas that keep us committed to working through the most real and time-sensitive matters are meaningful now. As Mercury makes a conjunction to Saturn on Wednesday, we will come to understand the limits, the boundaries and the obstructions that are in our way. Reality checks might be more than we feel we can handle right now, but they are also necessary for us to understand the reasons why we have arrived at this moment, what it means for us and what it can bring about.

Thursday brings one of the bigger astrological movements of the month: Jupiter in Libra square Pluto in Capricorn. I wrote a full post about it last week, but in short, Jupiter and Pluto together can unleash a tremendous appetite for success and a tremendous collective power that we can tap into.

But not without testing us at every turn.

Pluto will drag Jupiter’s boundlessness through the back alleyways. Pluto destroys in order to transform. Pluto square Jupiter asks us to transform our ideas about balance, spirituality and justice.

But lofty theory won’t get us far.

Pluto does not let us get away with much, nor does it let us keep anything nonessential to our journey. Pluto strips us of our innocence and initiates us into a long, dark underworld journey. One that will reveal exactly what we are made of and exactly how mature our ideas of justice are.

These themes are echoed on Friday as Venus, planet of love, relationship and beauty makes a conjunction with Pluto in Capricorn and squares Jupiter in Libra. Venus is the current ruler of Jupiter, so this incarnation of the Jupiter/Pluto square (there will be 3 in total) has extra potency.

The addition of Venus to the equation will make the Jupiter/Pluto square reverberate on a much more personal note. Venus and Pluto together is an intense combination. One that can produce feelings extreme in nature, obsessive in effect and transformative in essence. Venus square Jupiter can exaggerate or magnify all that is occurring in our relationships at present.

I won’t say this is easy astrology. It’s fraught with both personal and collective challenges to witness and integrate. But it is fitting for this moment.

The week does end on a slightly easier note, however. Mercury in Sagittarius trine Uranus in Aries is an inspiring, innovative and experimental signature. It is the kind of creative thinking that we need to remind ourselves we are capable of. Fear freezes us. Leaves us open to demagogues. Creates a mental barrier to creative solutions. We need to recognize our fear and treat the threats to our freedom as real and present dangers, but to stay in fear robs us of our ability to realize our potential in any given moment.

May we remember, rekindle and collectively conspire to be creatively mobile.

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Jupiter Square Pluto: Horoscopes for the Week of November 21st

November 21, 2016 0 comment

Happy Pilgrim Power & Politics

You Have a Choice

written by Sedonah Sunn

I have titled this article, YOU HAVE A CHOICE… and we all do. Nothing is inflicted upon us that we don’t somehow choose. I hear there has been much upheaval in the world around the recent elections. When I say, “I hear” I mean I have heard from word of mouth, through friends or people talking on the street. I have not owned a TV in just over 10 years and I do not subscribe to any news sources via the internet. This is not out of ignorance or wanting to put my head in the sand, it is simply a personal choice to live a freer, clearer life with less drama, and where my divine insights about world issues and politics comes from the Highest Source of all… which I call God.

On the night of the election I did sit with my 12 year old house mate to watch the final countdown on TV, not because I was that interested in who would win but I was more enthralled with seeing how a 12 year old boy feels about the state of world affairs. For his age he is quite bright and well educated, swayed by media… perhaps a little.

Personally I did not vote on election day but what I did do was head down to one of the polling stations to play my harp for those waiting in line. That is how I contributed to the election, by bringing peace to the people. Sometimes we think, “How can I create a change or a movement,” and the answer is sometimes even the smallest things can mean so much and affect more people than you will ever know. Many people smiled and thanked me for being there, I even had one woman say if I was running she would vote for me. It brought a lighthearted feel up for people in a seemingly stressing time.

One day I will put my two sense in and vote when a Christ-like being who stands for purity and truth runs for office. When will that happen? It will happen when the collective consciousness has gone through enough personal struggle and strife, then the collective will call that being forth. He/She is here just waiting for the call. As I see it the world is really going through an incredible amount of ‘drama’ and so by participating in watching TV/Media drama we are saying to the news crews, yes we want more.

We do have choices: to turn to other options, to seek out positive news stories, or to go on living our lives not caught up in the hysteria.

The night after the election when people were beginning to protest about the elected Candidate I had my car packed with tent and sleeping bag. I headed up to the Ojai, California mountains for an over night vision quest in the woods by myself. I often take time out of daily life to be alone either in nature or just alone in my room to pray and meditate for peace in myself and for peace in the hearts of all beings everywhere.

There are only so many hours in a day and so much energy we have to expel. I say pick your battles with care. Maybe it is right to protest, maybe it is right to pray for peace, maybe it is right to take positive action and get involved. What’s right is what makes you happy. If the election is making you angry you have given your power away to one person to run a country and when you give your power away there is a sense of hopelessness.

You have a choice.

When I was coming off the mountain from my overnight excursion I met a man who lived in a cabin up there. As I walked past we spoke briefly about the election and he shared with me, “Trump may be president out there but on top of this mountain I am in charge.” Now that was a man speaking from a place of empowerment.

Personally because I have not seen any slandering of character about Trump through the media and it appears that he will be president for the next four years, the most productive thing I can do is send him good thoughts and positive energy. If I can see him having the courage to help and not hinder, to create peace and not war, than I have my power back. I can also write inspirational and motivational articles to shift people’s awareness and consciousness. And so… I do what I can, and I do what makes me happy. I am living my truth and standing in my power and in that I AM AT PEACE, are you?

~ The Happy Pilgrim~

November 20, 2016 3 comments

Sex Superhero Sis

We need you men!

written by Superhero Sis

There’s a new breed of women out there. They are empowered. I am one of those women and I understand what it means for me. Life is a full body experience. I have new questions and ideas that thankfully I can share with my other empowered female friends. There’s a whole world of endless possibilities. We as women are the ones creating it this new world. I understand that when one of us can see it, then others can too.
I think its interesting that prior to this we had been asleep to much of our power. We projected it out onto others, gave it to men and authority figures in our lives in order to remain small. We let other people make our decisions and to tell us who we were. It’s taken years of self reflection and lots of inner work to see this is unending process of change, growth and expansion in becoming. Not just women but all of us our becoming new humans. Some of us are far more aware than others as to what that means. A glimpse into my life would have you hearing people suggest I record the conversations I have with others because they are so interesting…perhaps daring and oh so real!

Some of my thought provoking questions in these conversations include the female anatomy. One in particular is; “why isn’t it talked about that only women have a body part that is built only for pleasure and nothing else?” Don’t you think that if men had a body part that was only made to enjoy and receive pleasure that every young girl would be taught how important that is to know and to be aware of how to please it? The penis held that status and we all did learn how important it was to please. But the penis wasn’t build only for pleasure, men urinate from it as well.

I think it’s a crime that it’s not publicized and honored that female clitoris was only made for pleasure. The reason I think that information is so important is because women’s pleasure was stolen from her and its time she now receives. I also find its important to publicize this organ because of the fact that it isn’t necessary for a woman to have an organism in order to make a child. She doesn’t have to cum in order for her egg to be fertilized. Which would mean that many women who have come before my time could have passed through life having given birth and gone on to her grave without ever having experienced an orgasm. Isn’t that sad?

Why were we designed with one body part that was only built for pleasure? I would think that signified the importance of women receiving pleasure. And that it would be an important area to know and to learn about. Why not educate both women and men about learning how this pleasure principle liked to be touched, licked or played with? I would imagine the whole world would be a whole lot happier if this kind of education were not controlled by religion and government. For God sakes it’s our God given body part. We didn’t go out and order this part. It was installed and manufactured by God without our choosing. Why did the women before us denying it? Hide it? Shame it away to a place called “down there?” Religion.

Did it take a new President to release the Pussy? I think its time we as women grab our own pussy’s and teach men how we like to be touched, tasted and pleased….slowly. Maybe we like something different every time. Maybe its not something you figure out and memorize? It’s time we talk more about this. Until we do, most men will keep on thinking they know what we like, as if we are all the same or that we always like it the same way. It’s not true men.

There’s no way a man can give a blanketed statement that he’s sooooo good at sex and believe that makes it so. Also not true. Let the woman your with decide that but first realize that each woman is different in the ways she enjoys being touched, loved and pleasured. She may be too shy to tell you so you do what you already know and you think its good because the last woman liked it. It may take the man asking and being patient to learn in order to know what your woman likes. She certainly didn’t have a lineage of empowered women leading her to between her legs but since you happen to be the one that’s there, consider how much you could help her learn more about her own pleasure by considering she might be learning what pleases her for the first time because YOU TOOK THE TIME.

The other day, I was talking to a man who is 2 years out of a 20 year marriage. The last several years of his marriage he said they didn’t have sex. He also hasn’t been with anyone sexually in the last two years plus since his divorce. When I asked him about going so long without sex, he quickly replied he has no concerns in that department because he knows he’s good at it. He boasted a confidence about it in a way that I felt almost sick to my stomach. He’s out of touch with his body, his own sexuality and with pleasing women. Remaining virginal for years doesn’t make someone good at sex. He might be confident in his mind around sex and believing he pleased his wife early on but that’s not proof. His wife could have faked it. Sadly this man had absolutely no sexual energy coming off of him, even while he spoke about sex. A man feels completely different to a woman when he embodies his sexuality. There’s energy that comes off his body below his waist. His sexuality doesn’t stop in his mind but it extends to below his neck. There’s even a heart energy that is tied to it that has his whole body speaking to a woman from more than just his mind. We as women feel and sense energy. A man who is sexual and comfortable with his sexuality becomes more attractive when he understands that every woman is different and that getting to know her body is important and takes time.

Being good at sex isn’t just about the man. I understand we, as empowered women, are a new breed AND I’m trusting that there are plenty of men out there, who are able and willing to learn and grow with us, not only sexually but emotionally and spiritually as well. We need you MEN; to honor and support our growth and we will do the same for you!

November 16, 2016 0 comment

Astrologically Speaking

The Super Moon is here!

written by Superhero Sis

“Good morning on this shining Monday.

But let’s focus for a bit on the moon instead of the sun. The biggest and brightest full moon in nearly 70 years has been moving across our sky.

A supermoon, as it’s known, is when a full moon is at its perigee — the closest point to Earth along its orbit.

(This particular supermoon experience is extra rare: It’s the closest full moon since 1948.)

If you slept through the exact moment of the perigee (6:22 a.m.), don’t fret: You can still catch the spectacle tonight, when the moon will look about 7 percent bigger and 15 percent brighter than usual.

Not super enough for you? Then enhance the experience.

Look for the moon when it floats above the horizon (around 5:14 p.m.), said David Kipping, a professor of astronomy at Columbia University. Because of an optical illusion, the moon will appear larger, and possibly more colorful.

Miss it, and you’ll have to wait 18 years for another supermoon this close.”

Chani Nicholas Horoscope Reading for this week:

Supermoon in Taurus: Horoscopes for the Week of November 14th

“This week begins with a supermoon in Taurus. It is going to be a spectacular sight, the brightest that we’ve seen in 68 years and one that we won’t see again until 2034. Full within two hours of pedigree (the point at which the moon is closest to the earth), this moon will be extraordinarily brilliant.

A moon so close to the earth has a great emotional impact on us. Illuminating what we most need to see. In the super stable sign of Taurus, this moon will hopefully reveal what we have built that is stable and sound. The world will go through a million ups and downs, some more severe than others, but we must find within ourselves what is solid, sturdy and immoveable.

Taurus is here to teach us about fertility, fecundity, productive growth and the goodness of the natural world. Physical pleasures. Sensual sweetness. The satisfaction of having put the time and work into something and watching it grow. May we look for the evidence of all of that in our personal lives. May all of the collective work we have done stand as a monumental testament to what we will continue to do, come what may.

Six months ago, there was a new moon in Taurus. At that point we planted seeds. We claimed our intentions. We made clear our desires for growth and healing in a certain part of our lives. This full moon is the proof of the work that we have put in, the proof of what we have been able to steadily build over the last 6 months. Its magnificent light is sure to exaggerate our efforts and their outcomes. If you’ve put in a solid effort you can expect substantial rewards.

On Saturday, November 19th, Neptune will station direct at 9° of Pisces. Neptune is currently conjunct the south node of the moon. The south node is a moveable point in space that signifies where and when eclipses occur. It is often associated with release, letting go and the powers of the unconscious. Neptune is a planet that dwells in the language of the symbolic, the impressionistic and can evoke powerful yearnings for oneness which sometimes lead us to escapism.

Sometimes we all need to escape a little.

Right now though, let’s find less harmful ways of escaping. Those that struggle with addiction, those that struggle with recovery, those that are trying to find a way to be in relationship with substances that alter consciousness might be tempted to use intoxicants in ways that go against their best interest. Stay safe. Stay close to what heals you. Take good care of yourselves.

Neptune stationing direct on the south node speaks to purging the deceiving dreams that transfix us, coming to terms with the illusions that derail our real-time progress and making peace with what we have lost.

Currently, Neptune is in the most fluid of water signs, Pisces. This combination highlights all issues related to water and our relationship to both the emotional waters of our inner life and the water that we need in order to survive on this planet. Water is life and our lives and the lives of all living things on this planet depend on our ability to defend the sacred sources of it.

May the grounded fullness of the Taurus moon and the forward motion of Neptune encourage us to focus on making real the dream of living in accordance with all of nature. Including each other.

Monday’s full moon sheds light on your most pressing financial matters. It might urge you to make a decision about how you are spending your energy. It might reveal an aspect of the gifts that you have been given to work with. It might solidify your understanding of what is possible when you spend time developing your talents and making them publicly known.

What resource have you learned to use recently? What talent have you been developing over the past 6 months? What are you willing to share with us through your work that you have not yet been able to? What practical progress have you made in your work? Can you validate that progress and use it as a jumping off point for further development and growth? To celebrate this full moon, give to the causes that give you strength. Feel the power that you posses by simply acknowledging with your resources the good, positive and deeply important work that is being done in the world.

As Neptune stations direct, this week will also encourage you to release a self-sabotaging behavior. It will help you to parse out the delusions that keep you roaming around the same issue, tricking you into thinking that you are making progress when all you are really making is circles in the sand. Neptune station direct can help you to cut ties with what keeps you energetically, psychically and spiritually connected to all that ails you.

Pay attention to what drains your life force. Notice the excuses that you make on its behalf. Notice any fear around letting go of what you know you need to. Notice how much lighter you feel once you do. In order for us to find our way forward in the coming weeks and months, we will all have to personally up our self-care game so that we can be of service to the collective one.
Taurus & Taurus Rising

An extra potent supermoon in your sign is no small matter. It highlights all the work that you have done on yourself. It makes real the efforts that you have made. It makes obvious what is most important for you to continue on with and what isn’t.

This past week has left many of us at a loss. This is a time to recalibrate. To see our role in the world in a new way. This week encourages you specifically to let some hopes and dreams go. The ones that you have outgrown. The ones that you have, if you are honest, lost interest in. The ones that, given our current situation, are no longer applicable. The ones that you no longer have the space for if more honest growth is to take place. A new vision for your future is occurring.

Have faith in the ways in which you are blossoming. Work on relaxing into your skin when you can. Find the ease that is in your life and build from that place. Take whatever recognition you are receiving in. Let it stir feelings of vulnerability. Let it disarm you. Let it seep into your defended places. Let it bolster you. Let it linger in the air like a good song. Like the scent of a lover. Like the sound of laughter. Don’t rush it. Don’t speed through it. Don’t brush it off.

Let it land and let the sound of its landing resound throughout your life. We need as many bolstered souls, as many lighthouses, and as many grounded folks as possible. Now more than ever.
Gemini & Gemini Rising

Settle in. Hunker down. Pull back a little if you need to. A lot has taken place. A lot more will. We all need to pace ourselves. Monday’s full moon is hiding out in the back rooms of your psyche and is extending an invitation for you to join it. It’s a slower kind of start to the week. One that might have you hanging out in bed and slamming the snooze button more times than you usually do.

Don’t worry about it.

Give in to the need to rest, recuperate and renew your energy. Notice if downtime scares you. Notice if you get hooked on the buzz of stress. Notice what it’s like to unplug for a moment. What does a momentary timeout give you the chance to witness?

Your more important relationships might need to find their way through some foggy territory this week. Let the truths sort themselves out from the distortions. Let the projections that you place on others be reclaimed. Let yourself sit with what feels confusing until it becomes clear.

With Neptune’s station direct, this week promises to shed light on what dreams you’ve been able to realize in your career and which you know you need to move away from. It’s natural to want to accomplish different things at different times. It’s important to give ourselves permission to outgrow the ideas that we have about who we want to become in the world. It’s imperative that we allow our work to change with the changing needs of the world.

We are allowed to replace outdated or ill-conceived ideas of our place in the world with what resonates deeply with what our soul and the soul of the world call for now.
Cancer & Cancer Rising

We are all called to be activists. Acting on behalf of what we feel are the most important of issues to highlight.

We are all influential. Each one of us impacts the days we live through. What that impact is, is up to us.

We all have access to platforms that have immense potential to build communities that support our vision of what the world could be. Whomever supports us, whomever encourages us, whomever bands together with us, becomes a part of that dream.

Monday’s full moon reveals the state of your dream team. It highlights the importance of community and the much needed relief that friendship brings. It reveals the tangible rewards that you can reap from the efforts that you have put in. The efforts that you have made towards building alliances with others. It pulls focus on the ways in which you are supported by your patrons, fairy goddess mothers and all those helpful folks that you know and do not know about.

This moon links you to the people that help you the most. It’s a gift to have such support. It’s a boon to have a bridge of solidarity. It’s a blessing to be known. It’s pure bounty to know where you are needed, where you are acknowledged for your gifts and where you are inspired by the gifts of others.

Share yourself. Be less afraid to transgress the boundaries that you have created in your mind between you and the rest of the world. With Neptune stationing direct you are more apt to open yourself up to a new way of seeing the world. Both as it is and as it could be.

Your are more tuned into the psychic side of your knowledge system thanks to Neptune’s station. Stay receptive to the messages that come and feel free to follow them. In times of great fear we must be ever more dedicated to developing our intuition, our psychic abilities and our connection to what is greater and more intelligent than us. That is a power no one and no thing, can take from us.
Leo & Leo Rising

Full moons enhance, magnify and make more fuss over a certain area of our life. They reveal our successes and failures. They highlight what we need to keep and what we need to release. They allow us to see how our efforts are helping or hindering our agenda. Each month we can harness their energy, capitalize on the momentum and move our lives forward.

Monday’s full moon impacts your career. It wants to help you make an impression there. It wants to bring you some recognition. It wants you to step up your game in all that you do in the world. Something we all need to do now. Something that you can lead the way in.

You can use the full moon’s effect to your advantage by spending the week putting out excellent work, showing up to your soul’s calling like a rock solid source of reliability and by appreciating the steps forward that you have made.

Neptune’s station direct wants to help you to sort out fantasy from reality in terms of your shared resources and financial life. Knowing what is an impracticality will help you to focus on the joint ventures that are best suited to you. Your resources need to be understood in real-time. Your resources need to be worked with in order for them to work for you. Your resources are everything from your coinage to your courage. Understand the emotional issues that get in the way of making the best financial decisions for yourself. The more you address them, this week and in the future, the cleaner you can merge your assets and create sustainable, long-term, workable wealth.
Virgo & Virgo Rising

Monday’s full moon calls you out onto the dance floor of life. It wants you to engage with it. To move out into it. To take a chance on it. Venturing out past the limits you live comfortably within.

Got for it.

The further we permit ourselves to travel into life’s great lessons, the greater our understanding of our capacity to deal with everything that gets thrown at us. The greater confidence we develop in our ability to figure it out along the way. The greater understanding we have of how to handle the unknown, instead of living in fear of it.

But we have to take the chance on ourselves. We have to step off the well worn path of our lives thus far. We have to strike out and make our way through the new land we find ourselves in.

Monday’s full moon also highlights your studies, your travels and your big-plans for the future. What have you been building up to? What are you granting yourself the freedom to do now? What foresight have you gained that gives you confidence in your path forward?

All of these advancements will help you to heal certain issues in your most important relationships. There is something tender, something soft, something vulnerable occurring in the part of your chart that connects you to others. Perhaps it’s your ability to reckon with the reality of a relationship instead of being caught up in the fantasy of it. Perhaps it’s a desire to let old wounds rest. Perhaps it’s a greater understanding of the spiritual nature of each of your very human connections. Knowing what you are learning in the big picture, through your partners, helps you to work out what goes on in the minutia of the day to day.
Libra & Libra Rising

Monday’s full moon points out which collaborations make good working sense and which need to be reconfigured or let go of completely. For many of you this moon will bring a financial boon, something that comes to you through the grace of another. This might be good news on a grant, the clearing of a debt or the financial backing that you have been wanting.

Make sure that you don’t idealize anyone that offers you help. A collaboration is only as good as both parties’ ability to make it work. Step up your game in regards to certain collaborations if you need to, but don’t put your value below another’s. Monday’s new moon highlights the places where you have been able to build successfully with others, or with their help. Look to see what you have been able to create because of your skills of co-operation.

Right now, it’s of extra importance that you be real about your work. Right now, it’s all kinds of important that you are able to navigate agreements with a level head and even-keeled expectations. Right now, what takes precedence is your ability to sort out the truth from the lies in terms of what you can get done in a work day and what projects need to be looked at through a more realistic lens. Right now, it’s imperative that you listen to what your work yearns for. What you need, on a spiritual level, from your daily life, work and routines.

Invest in your soul’s calling. It will always give you the greatest returns.
Scorpio & Scorpio Rising

Monday’s full moon wants to help you make magic in your most important relationships. Its effects are stabilizing, generative and sensually astute. Send your love(s) their favorite flower, treat or sweet. We all need a little extra love right now. We all need to know that we are capable of giving it too. Entice the best out of your partners by affirming your feelings of affection for them. Build bridges to the hearts you want to reach.

Monday’s full moon as well as the rest of the week’s astrology help you to see the real love deals and the not so solid relationship situations. The week reveals what you most need to know about the state of your (love) affairs. Though at times possibly a little overwhelming, the information retrieved right now is golden. With the most pressing relationship issues up close, unmistakable and relentless in their personal tone, you will be able to see what you usually bypass. Whomever is closest to you is bound to be under a light that exaggerates their effect on you.

The same goes for the creative projects that you are working on, especially if they are collaborations. You might be experiencing a heightened sensitivity, a newfound ability to channel creative works or be able to tap into an source of inspiration that helps you to move beyond the doubts that normally keep you from it. Remind yourself that art is a necessity. A pillar of any progressive society. We must always keep the art in our hearts alive.

Let yourself be swept away with creative insights, but keep your heart grounded in the work it takes to relate.
Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising

Monday’s full moon points to the fullness of your work life. What have you been able to build, make real and make the most of in this area of your life over the past 6 months? What seeds did you plant in the spring that have now grown themselves into a healthy, flowering example of what your consistent effort and diligence can produce? What part of your work is stabilizing and is now able to support your further development?

You have been able to solidify something here. See it as a stepping stone. See it as a place that you can build from. See it as a way to tap into the power of dedicating your days to manifesting your dreams a little bit at a time. The world needs as many success stories as possible. We all need to remind each other of the power of our efforts when we are dedicated to them.

There could very well be financial rewards that come with these accomplishments. Reinvest them into your health. Reinvest them into whatever helps your days run smoothly. Reinvest them in the things that help your body be happy day in and day out.

Give yourself what you didn’t get when you were young.

For better and for worse our childhoods invariably leave us with some sense of loss, some trauma, some core issues to work out. Some of us have more of these than others. Whatever your story, whatever you have lived through and live with, Neptune’s station direct will ask you to give some of that pain back to the rivers, streams and bigger bodies of water. Let the old hurts be washed with healthy tears and emotional healing. See the ways in which some hurts have faded and some are now more intimately understood and ready to be dealt with.
Capricorn & Capricorn Rising

There is great inspiration to be found in your daily rituals right now. There are many ways in which you can use the energy of this week to make connections with others that have great meaning. There are also ways in which you might witness the vulnerability, the compassion and the commonality that you have with those around you. Use the unity you experience as a source of inspiration.

No one person can be the sole source of all we need. No one person is going to make everything better for us. No one can care for us like we can. As we learn to be better care-takers of ourselves, our relationships become places of greater growth and deeper connection.

Monday’s full moon highlights the creativity required to find your way around the most challenging of life’s test. It illuminates the creative projects that you have been able to see to completion. It highlights the immense importance of engaging with your creativity as a way of engaging with your self-determination. It begs you to take a moment out of your shifting schedule to enjoy life as it is. It reminds you that pleasure need not cost anything except the time you spend cultivating it. And that pleasure, especially in times of despair, is essential to our ability to persevere. Grow your happiness where you can. Grow your love for all you can. Grow yourself through what helps you celebrate your unique, creative, soulful spirit.
Aquarius & Aquarius Rising

In times of great uncertainty and upheaval, we must find the places where we feel safe. To gather ourselves. To call our energy back. To recalibrate and recuperate the energy that traumatic events drain from us. Monday’s full moon helps you do just that. It gives you a sense of what is working at your base. It wants to help you feel more grounded in yourself. Firm in your stance. Solid in your stroll. Monday’s full moon finds a way to help you sort through the issues with those you live with or are related to by finding the most practical solutions available. Monday’s full moon reveals the immense fertility of your inner life.

What you build internally is the structure from which you build everything else.

Focus on giving yourself what you need to feel comfortable here. Know what you need from a home. Know what you need when dealing with family issues. Know what you need to feel held by the foundation of your life.

Give yourself more of that.

This week points the progress that you’ve made with your inner life, but also reveals the power of your imagination to finesse financial situations. It asks you to work out what is fiction and what is fact. And what impacts your ability to access your resources and make the most of them. Thinking that we deserve special treatment or access to fortunes without doing the work is an addiction to illusion. This week asks you to see how you can make your dreams real. It’s time to awaken to the potential of your gifts by getting honest with what they need and then learning how to give them just that.
Pisces & Pisces Rising

One of the most powerful tools for liberation that we posses is our imagination. If we can dream it, we can become it. The stronger our powers of visualization, the greater the permission we give ourselves to grow towards our ideals. The more specifically tailored our vision is, the more easily we can attract those that share it with us.

But we must be willing to reconstruct these visions as we outgrow aspects of them. And as the world shifts and asks something different of us. We must be willing to reckon with the losses that life’s blows deal us and find a way to move on in honor of what life is now asking of us. As Neptune stations direct this week, you will have the opportunity to see what your most important manifestations of your personal gifts could be. At this point. In this situation. At this time in our history.

One of your greatest gifts will always be your ability to connect with others through your compassion, your sensitivity and your ability to spark the creative visualizations that inspire others to rise to their potential.

This week the full moon is helping you to see how you can effectively and practically connect with others. It is helping you to see the ways in which you can live out your dream in your day-to-day real life. It is giving you the opportunity to spread the messages most meaningful to you and the messages most meaningful at this particular moment in time.”

November 14, 2016 0 comment

Daily Inspirations Power & Politics Puff Puff

HIGH or low

written by Puff Puff

I was very surprised at the results of the presidential campaign, but as that evening began I could feel the shift to Trump happening. I try to take the high road. Of course I don’t like what Trump has said, or how he presented himself etc. etc. But he is now the president and this is the way that democracy works—peaceful transition of power. I thought Hillary Clinton’s concession speech was remarkable, wonderful. I do not want to wallow in misery about the election results; instead I can only take a positive approach and hope that things work out the best they can. Any other way of looking at it is depressing. And I refuse to be depressed about the results of this election. I prefer to be positive. And I can do that because I am pleased with who I am. I’m pleased with my life, and I am pleased with the way I live each day. I’m not gonna be brought down by the election results—I will not allow myself to wallow in it. I turn 77 in a few weeks and at this point in my life, the election results will not have any major effect on me. I am way too involved in things that are creative and positive.

November 12, 2016 4 comments

Dancing Deva Human Evolution

How To Communicate In Loving Ways

written by Dancing Deva

Humans are sensitive emotional beings. As we evolve and heal our past patterns our emotional reactivity begins to diminish. Until then, when we are upset our resolve to be level headed flies out the window along with our intelligence.

How can we communicate through the challenges that relationships bring our way without thrashing each other in the process?

Arguments are not an indication of relationship failure. It is the way we argue that creates the resultant demise.”

Through my life, I have had plenty of experience in relationships. What I have found is that what our parent’s modeled for us as love usually wasn’t loving. Certainly, in my case, there has been much un-learning and unraveling of what works and what doesn’t in relationships.

My parents didn’t speak to each other for weeks when they were upset. As children, we were caught in the middle of missiles, landmines, and volatile rage. Their style of communication was destructive, damaging and negative. We need to learn a new style that lifts each other up, rather than destroys self-esteem. If we can’t communicate when we are angry and upset without giving each other the silent treatment while we process, we might continue to operate in our parent’s footsteps of volatility, defensiveness and contempt.

Unlearning old behaviors takes time, patience and practice. We didn’t create these deep patterns overnight. As children, we were
little sponges who soaked up everything our parents did, said and felt. We mimicked them because that is what we are programmed to do. Children learn by watching other’s behavior and replicating it.

If our parents were negative and accusatory with one another, we mimic their style. Beginning a conversation with harsh accusatory criticism can cause the other to react in a tailspin of emotions, Once contempt enters a relationship we are doomed to failure. Divorce is a certainty.

Arguments happen in the best of relationships. Conflict will arise. We can’t avoid these issues. Not being able to talk rationally to our partners about issues with emotional intelligence leads to divorce and break-ups with a certainty.

John Gottman is a relationship expert in Seattle has researched and written more than twenty books and researched couples while arguing in his Love Lab. His work is remarkable and enlightening. His best work is The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work. Gottman began researching couples in 1972. He has researched thousands of couples in seven different studies while arguing to see what works and what doesn’t.

He is able to predict whether a marriage will succeed or fail from the way that couples argue, and their repair statements at the end of an argument. Gottman’s focus is on success rather than the failure of a relationship.

Gottman’s research is clear. When we argue in certain ways, our relationship is doomed to failure.

What We Need To Do Differently For Relationship Success

deepen our friendship by supporting each other’s goals and dreams
avoid accusatory statements
avoid sarcasm and criticism
avoid beginning arguments with a harsh startup – criticism
when criticism is pervasive it leads to contempt
avoid contempt (sneering, cynicism, sarcasm, eye rolling, mockery, and hostile humor)
avoid defensiveness – it doesn’t help your argument
don’t tune out your partner – “Stonewalling” often a trait of older marriages
avoid flooding your partner with a vitriol of criticism – often accompanied by hostility (physically distressing, blood pressure mounts, heart rate increases, our body goes into overdrive)

“Recurrent episodes of flooding leads to divorce for two reasons,” says Gottman. “First, they signal that at least one partner feels severe emotional distress when dealing with the other. Second, the physical sensations of feeling flooded – the increased heart rate, sweating, and so on ~ make it virtually impossible to have a productive, problem-solving discussion. When our body goes into overdrive during and argument, it is responding to a very primitive alarm system we inherited from our prehistoric ancestors. All those distressful reactions, like a pounding heart and sweating, occur because on a fundamental level your body perceives your current situation as dangerous.”

Repair Attempts

Repair attempts can be as simple as “Stop yelling at me.” or “Stick with the topic.” These repair attempts can diffuse a situation. A grin, a goofy face or a statement can all be considered repair attempts. A repair attempt stops an argument from steamrolling out of control.

It is the quality of the friendship between a couple that determines the ability to repair an argument and a positive spin on our past.

Positive Spin On The Past

How we spin our old story determines how successfully we navigate our present. If we continually bring up the negative about the past, everything in our current situation has a negative quality to it. If we have created positive feelings about the past history, recognizing was the catalyst for your growth and evolution, and got you to the place you are in now, you have a positive sentiment override.

Every relationship can be repaired. A commitment to renew, recover and repair are what is needed. It isn’t conflict resolution that is needed. We need to learn constructive ways of arguing, know each other well and be friends as well as lovers.

When Everything Falls Apart There Is Good News Coming

Divorce is stressful for everyone. Regret over divorce occurs more often than people admit. If I knew now what I didn’t know then, I would have stayed with husband number one. We jump from relationship to relationship because we don’t know how to navigate it alone. Having a guide to help you is required, rather than traditional therapy that ends more marriages than it saves. (Just 35% get clinically significant improvements).

I am currently wrapping up a powerful six week program for women who have continued to attract emotionally unavailable men, or people who won’t or can’t commit. Last night we began discussing communication and how we can improve our delivery. I am offering two programs beginning in January, one for men and a second for women. Both sexes have their individual issues with communication. From Tainted To True Love shifts our perspective and patterns so that we easily attract a loving, committed relationship. This workshop is a life-changing and powerful event.

A clarity building exercise to help you discover what you want and don’t want precedes a powerful manifestation event in the fourth week. Once you are crystal clear on what you want and don’t want, you are quickly and easily able to determine who works well for you and who doesn’t. This workshop will save you years of heartache and searching.

November 10, 2016 2 comments

Happy Pilgrim Human Evolution

Achieving a Balanced Life as an Entrepreneur

written by Sedonah Sunn

I have noticed that in the past 15 years more and more people are running their own business’ from home. It is amazing that our society has offered this great freedom, yet on the downside some structure has been lost.

If you have the motivation to stay on a regular schedule that is wonderful, but if you tend to slip into being distracted by what’s in the fridge or social media, or simply working all the time – beware.

Here are a few of my simple techniques that bring balance to life.

First thing to look at is… how you wake up in the morning. I set an alarm for 6:30am and then I stretch and do some really deep breathing for 10 minutes while I am still in bed. When I say really deep breathing I mean expanding the air in my belly fully, and letting it rise all the way up to the top of my lungs, and holding. On the exhale, I let all the air out, and then when I think I am done, I let out one more breath. This is the key to a good wake-up. On that exhale what is happening – is you are letting out stale air from your night sleep and from all the day before stresses. As soon as I begin this type of exaggerated deep breathing/ deep exhalation, my brain gets an immediate dose of energy and I am now vibrantly awake. Even if I initially felt tired on that first alarm ring, the breath work shifts me into preparation for the day to come.

I also like bringing in a nice thought like, “I am excited to see what wondrous miracles, divine opportunities or intriguing people I will meet today!” I connect with God first and so a prayer of gratitude reminds me brain that I have everything I need right now. This keeps my mind from slipping into the states of lack or greed. Gratitude brings all the riches you could ever ask for.

The next part of my day consists of drinking tea with a morning exercise ritual. I am a student of the Self Realization Fellowship and so by taking these lessons there is specific guidance on how to exercise the whole body. Any exercise will do, just find something that works for you. To heighten your experience I do recommend some time outside barefoot. There is a movement known as “EARHTING” which explains the benefits of relaxing the body by connecting your feet directly to the electromagnetic field of the earth. In general I always find nature to be incredibly balancing.

Once I have completed these steps I eat a good meal and then I often get on my computer which if you have a home business like myself some time spent promoting on social media has its benefits for getting the word out quickly. There is a warning with this in that I recommend at the most, computer work should only take you 1-3 hours maximum, the less time the better.

You can say a prayer before you get into your computer work or simply state an intention that this will go quickly and smoothly, and it will. I know it is easy to get caught up in feeling like you are behind or you have just got to get something done, but trust me if you do all the other things I am suggesting in the day and take care of your outer and inner health – everything will get done in divine timing.

After computer time is done, it is time to go outside again. It could be as simple as going for a walk in your neighborhood, or taking a drive to the park or the ocean. It’s time for some non-structured play time. You can also add in painting, singing, playing music to this daily excursion.

People used to have to work 8 hours a day to get things done, not anymore. Our brains through increased awareness and spiritual practices are now becoming more productive in less time.

The last thing I love to do is to take 1 day a week as a designated ‘NO TECHNOLOGY DAY’ – that is you shut down your phone, your internet, your TV, your video games and you unplug. The business you are trying to solicit is not going to forsake you just because they cannot get a hold of you for one afternoon.

I once had a conversation with God and asked him, “I don’t understand God, I am very diligent about my work and I am always focused on bringing more work my direction. Yet I am finding it is not coming to me anymore.” He cleared up my confusion by saying, “If you are always in the frame of mind of asking for business to come to you, you are not in balance. There must be some designated time where you sit in the frame of mind of receiving.” This can be done through daily meditation and it can be done in taking one day a week or month where you shut down the technology.

I also highly recommend one day a week or one day a month, which can coincide with the NO TECHNOLOGY DAY where you don’t have anything planned. This is a day where time does not exist. You can go outside sit on a blanket, watch the clouds go by, and there is no thoughts of needing to rush or be anywhere.

You know how sometimes your computer glitches and the best way to get it back on track is to shut it down and reboot it. Well this is the exact same thing needed for your mind, body and soul – a reboot, rejuvenation day. Enjoy!

blessings from ~ The Happy Pilgrim ~

November 9, 2016 0 comment

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