September 23, 2005
Proceed With Gumption
Fearocious daze ahead. Creeping, crawling, craving...... The world
seems like an Heironymous Bosch painting. Heartbreak shatters and
tatters the fabric of hope. All of this runs deep and is barely
noticeable by most folks. The glaze thickens. The Gulf coast of America
is only a small but emblematic piece of the story. Despair is very
erosive. Blame is a strategy to escape the pain and it is not working.
We are realizing new ways of being with suffering. Some of it doesn't
work. Some of it is the old way warmed over. But some of the ways that
people are going about the tragedies of life are remarkable (but
difficult to articulate). Living beyond hope offers clear choices and
clear manifestation. Give the peace of your being a chance.
This is a strange era. Authority is breaking down. What will replace
it? Maybe nothing. More will be revealed. More will be felt. You don't
have to learn your lessen. Just let go of your identification in all of
the stories. Being presently choiceful unwinds the suffering for you.
Unfortunately, there'll be abundant and obvious suffering swirling
around and about the Dream for years to come. Do you want to be part of
the problem or the solution? How about being neither and thereby choose
the dissolution of the machinery of suffering for you? Do you actually
believe that being part of the suffering will remedy it for your self
and others? Solutions tend to make more problems. Making choices with
less projection will see your through the daze.
There's a whole lotta loveitis in the air. Venus and Mars are opposing
in the Grand Cross, squared to the opposition of Saturn and Neptune.
The contrast between ideals and sorry experience is loud and perhaps
lonely. Romance is rampant; so are relationship endings. Money issues
are up. A bunch of babies are wanting to be conceived. They'll carry a
load and a half on their little shoulders. They can handle it, but the
people around them may be very challenged. Many folks will be getting
caught in lies. These are grab bag days of sorted/sordid material. Old
power strategies are blowing up in the faces of the powerful.
In the midst of all of this loopla, you can readily manifest your
heart's desire. Intention is most important. Do you want to choose your
life or do you want you karma to choose it for you? Be expressive. The
sludge of our times wants you to fade from your own being and
playfulness. Heaviness will not assure you or protect you. Letting go
while being present sees you through the morass.
Your quotient of creativity is abundant. Everything is an opportunity
to creatively go about your life. I'm not speaking directly of Art. I'm
speaking of playing with the Game pieces of your life. You don't have
to go anywhere or do anything. Being offers playfulness in any
situation. What you have to share is unique and worthy. Drop the fear
and hesitation. Go boldly where you have never been before. Pay
attention but go for it, whatever the it may be. You are fine and you
have fine things to share. Proceed with gumption.
Take care of your dear self,
Mark