Full Moon Lunar Eclipse
December 31, 2009
10 Cancer 15’

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” — Langston Hughes

Don’t give in to feelings of gravity. Don’t surrender to what you don’t want.  Shape your feelings instead. Give them the form you choose.

Transcend adversity by infusing the matter with light and relaxing your will or your need to force things. You may work as if it all depended on you, as long as you know that it really doesn’t. What you do has the purpose of affirming your faith. Faith implies you know that you are working in cooperation with a higher power.

Don’t give in to what you see when it looks hopeless. Affirm what you want instead.

I recently woke up with my right eye extremely red. I had a dental appointment that morning. Did I have the highly contagious pink eye? Would the dentist not want to treat me?  I decided on a faith healing. I decided to act as if my eye could be healed by the time I had to leave for the dentist in a couple of hours and to not admit any doubt into my mind. I calmed myself by breathing and imaged my eye filled with light. Then, every 20 min. or so I went into the bathroom and rinsed my eye with an eyewash. I took an echinacea with golden seal tablet  (anti-infection) and put cold compresses on my eye since red indicated inflammation and cold was the opposite.  I didn’t look in the mirror because I felt that was contrary to the faith process. The steps I took were revealed when I determined to have the faith healing. I did what I could, but I was not in charge of the healing. A higher power was. I was simply cooperating with it and co-creating according to its instruction. By the time I went to get dressed for the dentist, the redness had gone! Both eyes looked the same, which was my image. No trouble from the eye since!

Functioning forms, discipline, and longevity are exalted in creative mind and creative thinking. Your eye is on the prize. Your eye is the prize maker. It is important to play it close to the center. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Behold beauty and let it come to be as your hands and heart work to create what you see. You do your part and let it be unfolded by forces greater than yourself.

Realistic  Relationships

Saturn in Libra calls for realistic relationships instead of fairy tale relationships. Realistic does not have to lack quality or heart. It just means calling a spade a spade in order to know the qualities of what you are working with so that you can make something more, yet along the lines that are keeping with its nature. You wouldn’t make a coat designed to keep you warm out of shear,  thin fabric. So don’t make a relationship that requires openness and fidelity with someone with whom you are closed and unable to be honest with, or vice-versa.

Romantic love as we practice it, encourages a belief in fate. Many of us think love should have that fated quality. It should overtake us and overcome us, even upset us. The more out of control we feel, the more certain we feel that we are in the throes of destiny. But fated events often turn to fatal events, better known as fatal attractions. These are the attractions of a deadly kind. They destroy integrity, relationships, and wholeness. They turn out to be a detriment to your hopes and dreams. That which is unconscious comes to us as fate, Carl Jung says. Our attractions have a fated quality. We were not looking, but whomp! It took us. It hit us. It made us do things and behave in ways that were a contradiction to our character. But such a relationship has to become conscious if it is not going to be snatched or trashed as suddenly as it came.

At this Full Moon we have to reconcile our feelings with our common sense and with our need to relate in a way that does not rob us of our autonomy, identity or personal integrity. As someone recently said, if you have to lie about it, it is probably not right. Or it could be that your current situation is not right, and being honest about the thing that seems to be wrong would set your life aright.

Making relationships real is the call of this Full Moon. The real relationship must add up and make sense. It must be fair and balanced. It must feel safe or lead to the safety that honoring the self brings.

This Full Moon asks that you dare to dream the dream you dream, not the one that somebody else has dreamed up for you and not the one that you think is inadequate but the best you can do. The call is to be true to the dream you can feel in your own bones. If you don’t know what you want in a relationship, it may be that you have already dismissed it. You are invited to imagine a relationship that would work for you. Dwell on it a little. Dream on it. If you can dream it, you can probably have it!

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