Archived Lunations:
I Have All I Need
New Moon
May 5, 2008
15 Taurus 22’
This bud is for you. The opportunity in this condensed and pointed thing will burst from its casing radiating beauty thanks to your attention. Bursting in Air. Sweet glory. You are the sunshine of your life. Nothing shall shake you.
That which is just “how it is” can change too. When doubt approaches the doorway of your mind, it finds no inlet. You can have what you want. You have all you need. Everything that you need for today’s work is at your hand. And when today’s work is done, tomorrow’s tools will present themselves.
That which is ailing you, can transform from beast into beauty. No beast. No beauty. So love the beast. Embrace the beast. Put your arms about its mane, and coax its mouth open with your hand using only enough pressure to suggest what you want. If your life is funky, get down in it. Examine it. Scrutinize. Touch it. Feel it. It cannot shake you.
Find out the nature of this trouble. Fear it not. Offer it tea and listen calmly. Get close to it. Discern it. Know it to close it.
Bobby McFerrin sings, “The Lord is my Shepherd. I have all I need.” You have all you need. You don’t need to wait for anyone else. You have the go light. If you knew that you have all you need, that all the power is here now, you wouldn’t have to wait another moment. You wouldn’t have to wait for things to change. You wouldn’t have to wait for money, time, power, or position. Close the gap by being thankful and present today. This is a bit of mental technology to heal your wounded mind. You don’t have to wait for it to be better in order for it to be better. Today matters. This moment matters. This moment makes your tomorrow. Don’t squander it by being down and doubtful.
Look at the circumstances of your life. If there is something happening that you don’t like, don’t cast blame. Calmly observe. Then adjust your plays and see how they turn out. Don’t give up. Don’t forfeit the game. You can win even if someone is cheating. Use the force. Center yourself. Calm yourself. Aim. Release.
I did an exercise a couple of years ago from the book, Overcoming Underearning by Barbara Stanny. It was called the Value’s Clarification exercise. She listed about 70 words to represent things you might value, among them truth, responsibility, health, love, spirituality, and beauty. You were to circle 10 of them, then cross off five, then list the remaining 5 as your most important values. I liked the exercise because I remembered the word that defined my most important value for a long time. In the past, when I had made mission statements, I would soon forget them.
Eventually I forgot my most important value word too, at least consciously. My top value was beauty. Then right around my birthday this year, I found myself in the beauty business of cosmetics, surprising me because on the surface, it is not what I dreamed of doing. I told my sister Deborah how excited I was to find this awesome, generous, dream business this year because my new journal cover, made from a copy of my New Year 2008 paper quilt collage said, “This is your year to be beautiful.” My sister reminded me that on my Tah Dah, sheet, where she and I list what we did and did not accomplish for review, accountability and mutual support, I had written, “My vision is to bring more beauty into the world.” When she told me it was there, it was a revelation. Frankly, it had vanished on the page as I focused on updating my list each week. It was unseen, but apparently carefully planted and well attended because it unfolded this spring like a rose.