New Moon
March 26, 2009
6 Aries 10’

If you are involved in a “me against the world” scenario (Sun, Moon, Mercury and Venus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn), the opportunity is to learn that you, one person, can make a difference in the outcome of the whole matter. Play it like a game. Notice that shifts in your thinking shift the scene even in something that appears to be out of your hands.

Eric Butterworth says, “Even the solid material thing is only a changing mental concept.” Change your attitude. Change the result. Change your idea. Change the result. Change your thoughts. Make them positive and strong. Change the conclusion.

We are conditioned to be at the mercy of externals. Yet there have always been those who refused the confines the status quo.

When it feels like you against the world, you need an ally. Your first ally is the mental construct upon which you base your actions. Your first ally is your words of faith.

There was a trying period in my life a few years ago when I used a childhood hero, Pippi Longstockings, to be my mental/visual bridge over troubled water. I used a Disney image of her, standing with her odd stockings, one with wide bands of orange and yellow stripes, the other a lively lavender, her too-big shoes, ponytails sticking straight out at the sides and toothy grin. She looks unflappable, mischievous, and a little sassy with her left hand up in the air and her right hand on her upward tilted hip. I imagined her saying to her mother, who she believes is in heaven watching over her through a hole in the sky, “Don’t worry about me! I’ll always come out on top.” Any time I faced a point that threatened to turn downward, I would mimic this same stance and say those same words, “Don’t worry about me! I’ll always come out on top.” I always did.

Nothing has the power over us that we do not give it. There is no world outside that is not inside.

Let your words make medicine. Say something like,

“I need not wonder if my plan, scheme, or vision will work or manifest. There is always something to fill the gap. There is always a voice in the void, a solution to the problem, and a cure for the illness. It is always all right. Nothing outside has power over me. My resources are endless. I am rich, wealthy, and important now. I am able now. I feel gratitude for everything and everyone because everything shows me that I am connected. I might think I need money, but I need the center, the pool of creativity. The next step is always possible and always poised at my ready disposal.”

From this balanced perspective you can see, hear and plan and not panic.

Don’t get mad (Aries) at the manifestation (Capricorn). Stay in love. Live and move and have your being in love. Love is the power. Love is the key. In love you are good to yourself. Anger at society, your parents, or outer authority is really anger with yourself and your apparent weakness, because the truth is that you are strong enough to prevail.

I love an ad for the Dr. Phil show that I saw in the April issue of O Magazine. It advertises starting a “Change Reaction” (italics mine) and is comprised of several blocks of pictures with accompanying statements: “My retirement plans are on hold. My life isn’t.” “I’m living on less. But I’m living more.” “My credit cards are maxed out. But my brain isn’t.” “Losing our house broke my heart. But it didn’t break me.” “I’m out of work. I’m not out of ideas.”

That’s the spirit. That’s the alchemy for “the economy.” You have to persist. You have to know that whatever you think, you’re right. Think your most powerful thought. When your emotions give you the cons, let your conscious mind enforce the pros. See what you want, not what you don’t want. See it as a present reality.

Faith is the way we balance (Libra) our vision so that we may see with the eye (Aries) of faith.

We also need emotional grounding (Cancer, the sign opposite Capricorn). We need the rootedness that comes partially from centeredness and a sense of mission and purpose, knowing who and what you are and not counting on others for approval or acceptance that they might give, but can also take away. This is balancing the world of appearances with the inner life. The Cancer part of us has to be able to negotiate the world, carrying the house of self-acceptance and inner strength on its back. We have to have emotional resiliency, the ability to handle no, or temporary rejection, or temporary disappointment with ease and aplomb. And to do this, you have to get out there in the world and mix it up and practice keeping, restoring, and balancing your center.

Words of power help here too:

I am a center of expression for good. I am soaked in the light and made in the likeness of the intelligence that made me and set the universe of the planets within, that sets my world in motion and has every good and perfect thing in store for me, awaiting only my claim. Nothing can harm me. Nothing can disturb me or deter me or curb my fulfillment. I am strong, courageous, resourceful, bountiful, beautiful, and blessed.

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