New Moon
February 13, 2010
25 Aquarius 18’

In her bestseller, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, author Anne Lamott recalls a Mel Brooks routine where a psychiatrist tells a patient to “Listen to your broccoli and your broccoli will tell you how to eat it.” She uses this introduction in a lesson on writing that teaches her students to get still and quiet when they want to know the direction a story will take or  whether their character will do this or that.

She says that we lost touch with our “broccoli” as children when the grownups might correct, ridicule or punish us for our opinions. She also says that if you said, “Why didn’t Dad come home last night?” you might have been told brightly, “Dad did come home last night, but then he left again very early.” And so begins the disconnection between ourselves and our intuition, the still small voice of instruction that will tell us what to write, paint or construct, not only in our art or craft, but in our life. Not only is the leading away from the truth practiced upon us, we practice it upon ourselves until we are confused and weak when could be wise and strong.

Peace on Earth

Let there be peace on earth that begins with me. If the whole earth is at peace while a war is raging in my soul, I will not be at peace. So peace on earth is not the responsibility of others, but mine. Why peaceful? Peace connotes faith. You don’t have to push, shove or force when you have faith. With faith you understand that the enemy is not the enemy. With faith you understand that you are not a victim and cannot be victimized. With faith you know yourself to be aligned with the power that is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. You cannot ultimately fail or be failed.

Be Different

Aquarius is an air sign, though its glyph of parallel waves and representation as a water bearer makes many think it is a water sign.  It is a fixed air sign. It represents truth, that which is true yesterday, today and tomorrow. It gives us hope that there is a way out of chaos and a solution to our problems. In order to think what is true, one must be an individual and be able to stand on one’s own despite what one is being told or despite the look of things. Hence, individuality, uniqueness, and distinctiveness are attributed to Aquarius. Aquarius at its best isn’t different just to be different. It looks different if all others are buying into a lie.

The slaves who refused to be slaves were different. Those who chose to risk their lives by running were different, and if they had children, those children were part of different circumstances. They were truly free. That was not a truth to be created. It was a truth to be demonstrated.

It is sometimes necessary to be the solitary keeper of the way, the truth and the life. The weak individual goes with the crowd, even if it means living in falseness and error. The strong individual is able to think truth when all about her are believing lies and even when her own eyes behold the appearance of the negative. These are our times. This is our challenge.

To look upon the appearances of poverty will produce corresponding forms in your own mind, unless you hold to the truth that there is no poverty; there is only abundance.

To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease or to think riches when in the midst of the appearances of poverty requires power, but whoever acquires this power becomes a master mind. That person can conquer fate and can have what s/he wants.— Wallace Wattles

Choose What You Think On

Wally Wattles, author of The Science of Getting Rich (click here for your free copy) also teaches  that to think what you want to think is a power that we all have, but, “To think according to appearances is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work we are called upon to perform.”

When I recently told a friend to be positive about an outcome, she told me it was hard. It seems to be hard because negative thinking is easier. I call it default thinking. No effort required. She needed to file some legal papers and did not have the fee she was quoted to have someone else draw them up. The reality of not having the money was the in-her-face obstacle. No money, no possibility. I told her that though it was more difficult to think positive, the alternative was to give in to the impossibility of her situation and suffer the outcome she did not want.  Thought is hard. But it is also easy. You can do it without money. If you can’t do anything else about your circumstances, if you are fresh out of ideas and have not a clue of what to do, you can, if you will, think. on what you want instead of what you don’t want.

When my friend went back to the people who wanted to charge her the $900, she was told that she could go to the court and file the papers herself! This is what she did. If it cost her anything to do this, it must have been nominal because she didn’t even mention it.

Choose this day what you will think. It will determine what you see tomorrow.