Emotional Ideas

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Gemini Lunation Crescent Phase Gemini Sun Cancer Moon

It's inventory and planning time once again. The idea is to obtain as much information as possible to further your goals.

Breaking free of habitual modes of communication, especially those that are emotionally triggered, is a struggle. Allow yourself to feel your emotions. Be conscious of them as a resource. Learn what your feelings have to teach you about your communication and what your communication has to teach you about your security issues.

Activities: If your intentions for this cycle include:
Learning something new, review what you know and ask questions about what you don't.
Planning for education, check how many credits you already have and how many more you need.Improving communication skills, inventory your strengths and weaknesses.
Sibling relationships, account for the things you have in common and those you don't.
Buying a car, consult your financial status and resources.

Exercises: Ask for ideas and information from your family.
Explore your heritage for clues to your line of thought.
Make a list of the fragrances and aromas that remind you of home.

Gemini Lunation

Friday, May 26, 2006

Gemini Lunation New Phase Gemini Sun Gemini Moon

The Gemini lunation cycle is about making connections (mentally and physically), communicating (receiving and relaying information), integrating opposites, and playing with dualities and multiplicities. Unleash your curiosity for the next 29.6 days. Information and education lead to illumination.

Communication, sibling relationships, neighborhood issues, education and transportation are appropriate fields of inquiry.

The New phase in Gemini poses the question, "What do you desire to know more about"? Use the next 3 days to determine your answer and establish your intention.

Activities
Become conscious of your communication styles and patterns.
Observe the paths you take to get from one place to another.
Open your mind to images that excite you emotionally.

Exercises
Translate your ideas into a visual form that you can use to focus your attention.
Add pictures to your treasure map showing ways you can connect to the intention you set in Aries.

Affirmation for the Gemini cycle
Knowledge illuminates my thoughts.

Letting Go

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Taurus Lunation Balsamic Phase Gemini Sun Aries Moon

Empty yourself in preparation of the new cycle. Separate from others. Surrender all fears and doubts about your resources. Trust in your abundance. Release concepts of where you're going. New visions are being formed. Music and sound therapy is particularly effective now.

Last Call for Action

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Taurus Lunation Last Quarter Phase Gemini Sun Pisces Moon

Keywords for the Last Quarter phase are realignment, revision, integration, cleansing.

Allow yourself to be open to change. Progressive thinking now will bring new twists to old concepts. Be more than a rebel; be a reformer. Review all the information about your resources you have worked on during the cycle. Determine what is relevant and workable and what is not. Implement your financial plan or budget. Detach and let go of everything else.

Stimulating the physical resource associated with each phase facilitates a clear envisioning of your intentions for the cycle. During the last quarter phase, information is accessed and processed most easily via the senses of taste touch and smell.

Activities:
Realign yourself, your purpose, your intent, regarding resource and abundance. What is manifesting in your life? What have you learned? What is still to be done? What do your ideas mean to the collective?

Exercises:
Let go of tension – get a massage!

Sharing Knowledge

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Taurus Lunation Disseminating Phase Taurus Sun Aquarius Moon

Keywords for the Disseminating phase are demonstration, distribution, sharing and introspection.

Share your feelings about the experiences of the cycle to date and seek feedback on your perspective from those you respect. Define your status with practical and responsible behavior. Demonstrate what you have learned regarding the organization and respectful use of your resources.

Stimulating the physical resource associated with each phase facilitates a clear envisioning of your intentions for the cycle. During the disseminating phase, information is accessed and processed most easily via the kinesthetic senses - through physical motion and muscular activity. Therefore physical activity during this phase is key to the outcome of the cycle.

Activities:
Get the feedback by involving yourself in professional activities. The more serious you are now, the more others will respond.

Look within for solutions after listening to others.

Exercises:
Find a physical activity that requires the participation of another person, like tennis, dancing or a team sport and observe how you interrelate.

Dinner Music

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Taurus Lunation Full Phase Taurus Sun Scorpio Moon

Keywords for the Full phase are fulfillment, illumination, realization and experience.

Personal resource issues are triggered by discussions of sex, death, dying, transformation, loans, taxes and/or insurance. Others, especially those who have an investment in you, will bring awareness to your situation. Information regarding personal values which was otherwise secret, hidden or simply unnoticed comes to light and is an assist to decision making.

Stimulating the physical resource associated with each phase facilitates a clear envisioning of your intentions for the cycle. During the full phase, information is accessed and processed most easily when the sense of hearing is engaged. Therefore environmental sounds, verbal conversations and auditory stimulation during this phase is key to the outcome of the cycle.

Activities:
Intimate relationships reflect your use of power to control your resources. Invite a significant someone to share a delicious meal. Make sure there is ambient and harmonious music playing in the background. Listen closely to your conversation, to all you hear and say - there is a depth in even the most casual comments.

Exercises:
Listen to the words you use to describe your financial means. Do they summon up thoughts of gratitude and abundance or do they conjure images of greed and lack?

Join someone in a spontaneous duet. Sing an old country-western tune like, "I've got the money honey, if you've got the time" or a Gershwin tune along the lines of "Let's call the whole thing off", or best yet, make up your own song.

Analyze and Filter

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Taurus Lunation Gibbous Phase Taurus Sun Scorpio Moon

Weigh the impact and effects of your latest activities (May 4 - 8). Before adjustments can be made, you must assimilate and refine the details of your original vision. The gibbous phase of this Taurus lunation cycle calls for adaptation in situations involving others. In what ways do others fit in with your vision?

Stimulating the physical resource associated with each phase facilitates a clear envisioning of your intentions for the cycle. During the gibbous phase, information is accessed and processed most easily when the sense of sight is engaged. Therefore imagery and visual stimulation during this phase is key to the outcome of the cycle.

Exercises:
Consider your willingness to accommodate others.
Look for patterns in your relationship experiences.
Who are your partners? Do they support your vision or discourage it?
Which of your relationships would you count as a resource and why.
How are you a resource to others?

Activities:
Create images that include others sharing in your abundance.
Look at your Treasure Map or a Mandala for inspiration.
What aspect of it pleases you most?
Where or what are the areas of disharmony.
Adjust the images to bring them in balance or create a new image using components of the old.

My personal mandala and reflections upon my current experiences are located in my other blogs.

First Quarter - time to start the ball rolling!

Friday, May 5, 2006

Taurus Lunation First Quarter Phase Taurus Sun Leo Moon

Time to start the ball rolling! The first quarter phase is the time in a cycle to make the opening move. Actions taken now must express your needs and desires to move toward the achievement of your goals.

The call for action during the Taurus lunation cycle is to break away from old values by expressing your independence and abundance. With the First Quarter Moon Phase in Leo, creative activities produce practical results, while acts of kindness and generosity raise the spirit.

Stimulating the physical resource associated with each phase facilitates a clear envisioning of your intentions for the cycle. During the first quarter phase, information is accessed and processed most easily via the kinesthetic senses - through physical motion and muscular activity. Therefore physical activity during this phase is key to the outcome of the cycle.

Activities:
Do you own your possessions or do they own you? Take action to express your financial independence. Purchase something you need. Give away or sell something you don't need.

Exercises:
Use a bit of drama to act out or role play a problematic situation.
Make up a dance that expresses how you feel about your personal abundance.
Walk through your home as royalty would walk through a castle; movements should be of a grand or regal nature.

Crescent Sensations

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Taurus Lunation Crescent Phase Taurus Sun Leo Moon

From Zodiac Arts Moon Phase Calendar Key:

"Crescent phase
Keywords for the Crescent phase are: expansion, growth, struggle, opportunity. It is the time in a cycle that you gather the wisdom learned in the new phase and communicate your intention to move forward. Light a candle. Write or read an affirmation. LISTEN & ABSORB. Commit to your goal."

The struggle in this phase of the current Taurus lunation cycle is to break free of old and outworn patterns of communication, negative attitudes about abundance and blind acceptance of ideas on the basis of familiarity. Practical information provides the greatest resource during this phase.

Increase your opportunities for success during this phase by tuning in to your sensate nature. Indulge your skin with soothing oils and lotions. Infuse your environment with delicious scents; flowers at the office, baked goods at home. Savor the flavors and textures of your favorite foods. Luxuriate in lounging clothes made of silk or soft cotton fleece.

Allow new ideas to come. To imprint this in your mind and give it a physical application, take new paths to get where you're going, i.e., take different routes to work, shopping, visiting friends.

Welcome all new information without assessing its worth.

Question all ideas; pre-conceived notions keep you stuck in the same-old-same-old.