Find a story,
let a story find you,
share it with another
and watch your hearts expand :)
We live in a storied landscape.
We are visual dynamic imaginal beings.
We are by nature story carriers.
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Monday 24 June 2013
There comes a time ...
On this day, post supermoon, it's the beginning of a brand new week and I am woken by a call from the estate agents to say we have been gazumped !!! Three weeks after our offer had been accepted, plans being made for buying our home are full speed ahead, solicitors have exchanged letters, contracts are being perused and we now find ourselves back at square one. It is simply a case of getting back up on the house hunting trail and starting again because getting back up is living. No biggy really. This is in the end one of those priviledged problems. Not everyone is in a position to buy there own home. We are very lucky. Then again, who'd have thought gazumping was back - not me :(
Sunday 23 June 2013
Super Moon Sunday
It's the closest and largest full moon of the year. The image below is a view of the super full moon taken this evening from our bedroom window looking over the roof tops of Totnes.
Technically astronomers call this sort of close full moon a perigee full moon. The word perigee describes the moon’s closest point to Earth for a given month. Two years ago, when the closest and largest full moon fell on March 19, 2011, many used the term supermoon. Last year, the term was use again to describe the year’s closest full moon on May 6, 2012. Now the term supermoon is being used a lot. The moon will not be so close again until August, 2014. The explanation of a supermoon is described by NASA in the graphic below.
Astrologically this full moon is a time of culmination and the promise of fulfilment of that which was started at the New Moon. It is an emotional time - a time of romance, fertilisation, and relationships. The Cancer-Capricorn polarity concerns the balance between the private life, domesticity, the need for a home base, and nurturance (represented by Cancer) versus the public life, career, reputation, and accountability (represented by Capricorn). Attachments and love are ruled by Cancer, while achievements and rewards/punishments are ruled by Capricorn. In some ways, this polarity deals with the balance between unconditional love and conditional love. Cancer encourages us to value our home base and our roots, while Capricorn persuades us to consider our sense of duty and responsibility along public or professional lines. While Cancer may be content to be dependent, Capricorn urges us to be grown-up and responsible. Cancer represents the origin, and Capricorn represents the goal. Neglecting either end of the axis will surely backfire on us. Ideally, a balance should be found between the two energies, and this is what the Full Moon invites us to do. This Full Moon is about balancing our commitment to our career and families. Something has been building inside of us, and now is the time when the energy of the cosmos fairly demands that we let it out. Over the next two weeks, we will discover what this means for us. For now, we can't sit on our feelings. We need to express them (www.cafeastrology.com).
Technically astronomers call this sort of close full moon a perigee full moon. The word perigee describes the moon’s closest point to Earth for a given month. Two years ago, when the closest and largest full moon fell on March 19, 2011, many used the term supermoon. Last year, the term was use again to describe the year’s closest full moon on May 6, 2012. Now the term supermoon is being used a lot. The moon will not be so close again until August, 2014. The explanation of a supermoon is described by NASA in the graphic below.
Astrologically this full moon is a time of culmination and the promise of fulfilment of that which was started at the New Moon. It is an emotional time - a time of romance, fertilisation, and relationships. The Cancer-Capricorn polarity concerns the balance between the private life, domesticity, the need for a home base, and nurturance (represented by Cancer) versus the public life, career, reputation, and accountability (represented by Capricorn). Attachments and love are ruled by Cancer, while achievements and rewards/punishments are ruled by Capricorn. In some ways, this polarity deals with the balance between unconditional love and conditional love. Cancer encourages us to value our home base and our roots, while Capricorn persuades us to consider our sense of duty and responsibility along public or professional lines. While Cancer may be content to be dependent, Capricorn urges us to be grown-up and responsible. Cancer represents the origin, and Capricorn represents the goal. Neglecting either end of the axis will surely backfire on us. Ideally, a balance should be found between the two energies, and this is what the Full Moon invites us to do. This Full Moon is about balancing our commitment to our career and families. Something has been building inside of us, and now is the time when the energy of the cosmos fairly demands that we let it out. Over the next two weeks, we will discover what this means for us. For now, we can't sit on our feelings. We need to express them (www.cafeastrology.com).
Wednesday 12 June 2013
Collective Wellbeing Muses
Opportunities for equanimity abound
When creative engagement is found
Sharpen the saw
Building brand new hopes in uncertainty
Getting to meet new people
If my doing comes from my being
Then I will feel well
Wellbeing is having cake and a cup of tea on a rainy afternoon
The cake of wellbeing smiled deeply !
Monday 10 June 2013
Dandelion
Dandelion
In a field of grasses
and buttercups
stands the dandelion
its flowers and seed heads
mark the passage
of seasons and time
spreading their message
in every direction
on the wings of the wind
gently floating on by
noticed and unnoticed
waiting for nirvana day
Tuesday 4 June 2013
some people
Another day
Another vote
Another step closer
To marriage equality in the UK.
It's not a lifestyle choice.
It's not a defining characteristic.
It's not about coming out.
It is about being visible.
It is about normalising what is normal.
It is about respect.
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Sunday 2 June 2013
Saturday 1 June 2013
Perspective Pangaea
An amazing new map of Pangaea shows how all the land masses on the planet would have looked when as one. By displaying our modern day country borders it is interesting to see Brazil for example completely landlocked. You could travel everywhere by road and rail, not to mention sail the circumference.
The map above is being attributed to Massimo Pietrobon. The idea of land masses being huge tectonic plates moving around the surface of the earth was proposed by Dr Alfred Wegener back in 1912. It wasn't until the 1950's that his theory was more generally accepted within academia. Now there is the fossil evidence and more to support the premise that continental drift began 200 million years ago during the Triassic era. When you think that planet Earth began 4.5 billion years ago, the movement of the landmasses is relatively recent, at least in geological terms. And when you think homo sapiens appeared approximately 200,000 years ago it puts everything into an even greater perspective.We are only a mere dot in the timespan of this beautiful blue planet. Let's hope we have the sense to leave it just as we found it, if not better :)
The map above is being attributed to Massimo Pietrobon. The idea of land masses being huge tectonic plates moving around the surface of the earth was proposed by Dr Alfred Wegener back in 1912. It wasn't until the 1950's that his theory was more generally accepted within academia. Now there is the fossil evidence and more to support the premise that continental drift began 200 million years ago during the Triassic era. When you think that planet Earth began 4.5 billion years ago, the movement of the landmasses is relatively recent, at least in geological terms. And when you think homo sapiens appeared approximately 200,000 years ago it puts everything into an even greater perspective.We are only a mere dot in the timespan of this beautiful blue planet. Let's hope we have the sense to leave it just as we found it, if not better :)
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