Lorna Bevan – Saturday’s Virgo New Moon is a reminder to refocus on your core values and to follow your own rhythms of rest/ incubate/ create/play.
In September, with so many Copernican and deep space planets retrograde at the same time, keep in mind the ancient dictum: “As Above, so Below” and deliberately mirror the inner/slower pace.
No matter what is happening in the outer world, September is a month for simplifying, for renewal, for refreshing your journey by closing the doors on old choices and habits, for tending the well: Continue reading →
Full Moon in Gemini: illumination, fulfillment, shadow side, realization
Goddess of Wisdom: Kali – Goddess of Endings and Beginnings
God of Will/Desire: Elias – God of the West
Skill: practice balance and forward movement
True Alignments: acceptance of others as they are and self-acceptance, admiration, admissions or confessions of truth, change of mindset, seeing clearly, shared impulses, renewal of respect or self-respect, going under the surface
Catalysts for Change: elitism, judgmental, selfish, rejection, feelings of meaninglessness, stealing money or happiness, forsaking the self, hyperactive, imbalance, hiding behind a poor excuse
Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Month: “a Jewish rabbi performing his duties”
Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Year: “the music of the spheres”
The Full Moon phase continues and the Great Mirror in the Sky continues to shine the light of reflection. Today, reflection, realization, and illumination comes from deep places to bring balance and forward movement:
Sun: “deep sea divers” – When a planet reaches this degree, we most always have to look under the surface or the veneer of things to make sense of them. When the Sun reaches this degree, it brings things up from the depths. The people in the symbol are not snorkelers, they are divers. They are capable of diving many fathoms, perhaps, in order to fathom many things.
Earth: “a woman of Samaria comes to draw water from the well” – When we return to “the well,” we come to replenish ourselves. This symbol involves returning to our true selves or returning to our true Source, especially when we are running dry or running low. Deep sea divers would certainly be qualified to investigate the well and what’s down there. Continue reading →
Before going into the huge number of uses for mylar blankets lets look at their primary use.
Most people have a mylar blanket in their kit, the question is, do you know how to use it? That sounds like a stupid question, but bear with me.
Using a space blanket when you are really cold is not the best idea. It will take an age to warm you up and could even make you colder in certain circumstances.
The reason these blankets are shiny is to reflect heat, and if you are already very cold there is no heat to reflect and any ambient heat will be reflected away from you because of the shiny surface.
The optimum time to get out the mylar blanket and wrap yourself in it is when you start to feel a little chilled but before you get truly cold. That way the body heat you have left will be trapped between you and the blanket and will prevent further cooling.
These emergency blankets are notoriously flimsy and will flap around in the slightest breeze. For optimum warming, take off your jacket, wrap the mylar poncho style around you, including over your head and then put on your jacket and hood or hat. If you get too hot, undo your jacket zip to let some of the heat out or uncover your head for a few minutes.
Did you ever wonder what’s on the other side of a mirror?
Sure it’s metaphor… but is it? A mirror reflects… all. So what’s what we see in a mirror if not… all?
Even if it’s us?
Thus others reflect themselves in a mirror too. This would make others all too. Which means that when we look at others, no matter who that “other” is, we look at all as if we were looking at ourselves.
Lorna Bevan – Saturday’s Virgo New Moon is a reminder to refocus on your core values and to follow your own rhythms of rest/ incubate/ create/play.
Before going into the huge number of uses for mylar blankets lets look at their primary use.