Archived Lunations:
Making What Can’t Be Bought
Full Moon
Lunar Eclipse
August 28, 2007
4 Pisces 46’
Why is it that the more we make, the more we need to make?
Because prices rise.
Do prices raise themselves?
No. Prices are raised by the people who are in control and by the conditions of the market.
Who’s the market?
You and me.
And what are we thinking that influences the market?
We are thinking about how we can get more so that we can have more so that we can keep up with rising costs. And we hope we can get our big break and make the big bucks that will buy us the lifestyle that we desire—a lifestyle where we don’t have to do anything that we don’t want/like to do. Or so we think.
While we are seeking more money so we can have more things, the cost of those things keeps rising. The average cost of a home in Los Angeles is $500,000 and if you were looking into buying one of those homes, you might think, “They want that . . . for this? Perhaps you try to get more bang for your buck, so you move to a place where you can afford to live. Then you find yourself frustrated like the man who recently said that he works solely to pay for gas and the baby-sitter.
The media reports that the middle class is disappearing. Less and less is affordable and everything costs more and more. What’s the answer? Make more, right?
We have been persuaded that the best things in life must be purchased, charged and mortgaged without ever considering the power of bringing into existence, that which can’t be bought. You can bring a great life into existence without buying it. Do you realize that if we really understood and operated from this, we would cease to be slaves to manna? Ultimately affordability and manageability are not about keeping prices in check. Our thinking is out of whack and it is whacking us. However, since we have made this economic morass, we can make something else. You can get on a different wavelength and live a different life. The rich in spirit make their own branches and roads and travel through the maze, genuinely unfazed. You can be one of those.
Outer conditions are the sum total of our collective input. So conditions cannot change unless you change. If you change, we change, even if you don’t see it for a while. If nothing else, you will change your own trajectory.
You might think that the rich do not have your worries, because they make the most. But it is those who are rich in spirit who do not have your worries. Some of them have lots of money. Some of them don’t. The best things in life are free. We need a different kind of more—the more that money cannot buy. Never could. Never will; despite the tease on TV.
If you cannot make the good that can be had for free, you cannot make enough of the good that you need. Look around you, especially those of you who are 50 and 60 and older. As doctor Phil would say, “How’s this working for you?”
If you follow the yellow brick road of more, more, more, you will remain banished in the Land of Oz—disappearing, as it is called. And what do they mean by disappearing? Can’t they name what the middle class is becoming? Are they the new poor? I don’t think so. Poverty, like disappearing, is a state of mind. And by disappearing do they also mean, no vote, no voice, and no power? Is your power gone, like the power-planet, Pluto? (This writer doesn’t endorse Pluto’s disappearance, by the way.)
As you know, the Wiz is a harmless old fellow, pulling the gears of a fake machine that counts totally on your belief and seduces you into following the yellow brick road and posturing at his feet asking for your brains, and your heart, your courage, and a way home.
The secret is out. What are we visualizing? More—and often the wrong kind of more—the more that we think money buys. But more money does not buy more. Nor does it buy security or peace of mind.
How can you get back your voice, your vote, and your power?
Instead of following the yellow brick road, follow the light. To follow the light, you have to close your eyes and teach yourself to be still in the night in this wonderful life that we have now–citizens of 2007, replete with its global warming and excess storming, its wars and its lies and rumors of terrorist threats. We can totally handle this, one at a time and all together. We are the ones who created the problems. And the problems can serve as a roadmap to show us where we need to change our thinking.
When you open your eyes, make your choices carefully. What are you going for and what price are you going to pay? What do you really think and is your life in sync with your consciousness? Are you soullessly earning in order to pay your light bill? If this is what you do, this is what you are teaching your children.
That the middle class is disappearing is the voice of the Wiz saying “Go to sleep, and make worry. And while you sleep and worry, I will sleep and make money.” This is not hating on the Wiz—after all, he’s our own creation. Neither are we to be hating on making money. Blessed are you if you know how to make it. I’m just suggesting that you don’t lose sight of making the meaning and happiness that you can have for free. If you can do this, you can learn how to swing money because the drive is in the right place.
Practice making the happiness and the meaning you can have for free, especially if you are so-called broke. You will see that this is always first, always primary. Perhaps, you already know that staying on the path of light is a feat of the mind. Seek first the kingdom. All else follows—money when you need money, God when you need God.