What Is Going On, Anyway?

September 2, 2024. It's a New Harvest Moon and time to get our to-do lists in order. This time we should probably use a pencil or be ready to re-write. Our lists will change as we go and collaborate with a grounded sense of innovative creativity. We don't know what we will be inspired to do next, but one step at a time will get us to dance in relationship with creativity. We are aiming to build a world that we want to participate in and one that offers us back a receptivity and collaboration what we so generously share. The I Ching offers us the guidance to remain still and know who we are from a place of center groundedness.

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Full Super Blue Sturgeon Moon. August 19, 2024. Everything seems to be turning upside down and inside out. On the outside world that can look like weather upsets and political instability. On the inside of us? It can feel both vulnerable and exhausting with a tinge of no f***s left. This moon will boss us into a new way of being where we become more friendly with death who gives us the perspective that we've been desperately wanting. If you have the resources you need, you have many gifts and abundances, what then? What will you do with all these treasures of your life? You are unique and talented and curious and inspired. As the newly appointed boss of all that, what now brown cow? As things seem to go haywire in the world it's more important than ever to know what makes you feel centered and grounded.

New Moon for August 4, 2024. But it's the 6th and I had a quiet start where I didn't publish for 2 days. That's just fine because this new moon is about potent and creative beginnings. Whatever it is you attend to, whatever it is you put your attention on... that will germinate and grow. This is the same wisdom as always, but this time it's like magic beanstalk beans. Or I think it might be. It's probably worth considering that what you want to see come into being creatively in your life should have some focus in your life these next two weeks.

This episode I use random chance to pull together a theme. I took 5 titles from my stacks and shelves and randomly selected a page. I like what shows up and here are the books for reference:

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Translation by Edwin Bryant

You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay

Be Here Now, Ram Dass

The Time of Our Lives; The Ethics of Common Sense, Mortimer Adler

Ways of Being; Animal, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence. James Bridle

We consider Hexagram 1. The Creative, the Force, the Dragon. In the time of beginnings, what will you start?

July 21st, 2024 and it's a Full Moon. I was given the advice to look back 18 months and consider what was happening then. The suggestion is that we've completed a cycle and can now look at some of those issues from a completely different perspective. For me, that's when this podcast began. I've come a long way, baby! This podcast has become a personal practice for me, and the results are less important. I mean, I love hearing from you, but this is what I do mostly for me. I started off thinking I was doing some public service via podcasting, but nope! The pleasure is ALL MINE! Ha. I'll talk about this plus our hexagram for this cycle which asks us to find our Tigers and stop becoming entangled in such things that limit our freedom. I hope you have a listen and let me know what you think!

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July 5, 2024. It's a new Buck Moon in Cancer. Maybe, hopefully, some sweet nice things will happen and you can relax and take a deep breath out and just be content for a moment. It's the feeling of floating in a body of water and watching the sky move above you, the water below you, while you breathe and float peacefully. At least, that's what I hope for you. Just a little bit of that. Meanwhile, our big message is: Keep Going, don't give up, find that place where your creativity meets reality. Let yourself be inspired, and participate joyfully in this life you find.

June 21, 2024. It's the Full Strawberry Moon and Solstice all together now. Perhaps it's a great turning point, but some of the sludge-y gunk may get stirred up first. That's okay because you aren't alone. It may be hard to reach out, but at least try to go and see that you aren't alone in any of this. I'll tell you about my latest squirmy situation... and, offer hope of course.

June 6, 2024. New Moon in Gemini. Bugs and Gardening. Seeing myself from every angle. Why is this New Moon such a truth seeker? Not an absolute truth, more like the truth from an innocent asking why and why and why and as you answer you realize that there are so many other ways to see things. I wish us well as we see the good, the bad and the ugly all at once.

May 23, 2024 This is our full Flower Moon. It's good. Even though I'm tired, this is good. I'll share a little about what's going on for me, and talk about how I think that could make meaning. What is this moment about? Why so full? Even though we may have our hands full at the moment, this is the perfect time to also experience value and worth and let that unlock our flows of easy energy. You are pretty great, now that you know this, use it.

May 8, 2024. These next two weeks are tinted by this New Flower Moon in Taurus. My take? Nothing will be so amazingly different and we will still feel the difficulties of these times. However, we may feel a tiny glimmer of hope. And we may have just one thing go our way. Just enough that we don't feel so lost. This is my hope and prediction, but mostly a hope. I'll share my story about this new moon and I reference a poem that I shared a couple of years ago at a local Story Slam.

Click here for Ann reading her Poem.

Full Pink Moon. April 23, 2024. How many times do we need to hear, just let it go? It's not so easy though, is it? This full moon we've passed a signpost. The land we've entered has a new ruling party and we don't quite know how to conduct ourselves here. It takes a lot of bravery to know something is right on the inside and then follow through with that knowing on the outside. This is a time for teeny tiny steps in the direction of our inner authority taking charge. I don't foresee this being simple or easy. What I can see is that it will be rewarding and offer some moments of liberation.