Cross-posting astrology from the amazing, insightful Chani Nicholas. We need all the positive guidance we can assemble during these times...we are at the precipice...good things await.  I'm sure of it

http://www.chaninicholas.com/full-moon-gemini-horoscopes-week-december-1st/


My sister friend calls for us to determine 5 things we would like to accomplish before 2014 ends.  A challenge to all of us to make this kind of essentials list and attend to our time and attention in the next 30 days.  I'm on it...who's with me?

From today's meditation, my thoughts of dedication: December 1, 2014

I bow to the unknown.

It is all we have.

I bow to the unwavering and unchanging intention

that creates unwavering conviction in my actions.

I bow to great Love.

It is all we are.

The Tree of Life is a magical symbol for me and I see it everywhere... Blue Hills Reservation.  Communing with nature has always been a way for me to learn to be in the world - grounded and present, awake to all my senses, seeing myself in all living beings and all living beings in my self.

Here I am again...

Restless today.  Means I'm tired but also the deeper feeling for me is that I'm on the cusp of something new, another change.  I'm eager to expand my life and extend my reach... get outside of the confines of my life the way that it has been...again.  A constant growth process of bringing my two lives together - the one I've been living and the one in my dreams. Paulo Coelho speaks of this, of course...

From the "Manual of the Warrior of Light":

Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
         In one of them he is obliged to do all the things he does not want to do and to fight for ideas in which he does not believe.  But there is another life, and he discovers it in his dreams, in his reading and in his encounters with people who share his ideas.

       The warrior allows his two lives to draw near.  'There is a bridge that links what I do with what I would like to do,' he thinks.  Slowly, his dreams take over his everyday life, and then he realises that he is ready for the thing he always wanted.

       Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.



Here I am at the edge of the cliff again.

Nightmare

Written at 12:13am, 4/15/13

Awoke at midnight

Had been flying and looking at beauty

Outside

Starting to fall, a crash is imminent

Scary

Yelling, "I don't need to see this!"

And trying to wake up

But I can't 

I'm forced to see the almost end

As I scream, "no, no, no, no, no..."

It wasn't the fall that was scariest

It was trying to wake up so I couldn't

witness it

And not being able to

Being made to live through it.

The trying to escape, not the falling

Was the scariest moment

If you don't know what to do, just be moved!

Kute Blackson is speaking my language... say it!!! "And if you don't know what to do...just be moved!  Move in the direction that most feels right to you.  Move in the direction of your passion..."  Such a powerful reminder to re-connect to our heart center, to feeling, and follow that.  Not the money, not the shoulds, not the blueprint given by someone else but the blueprint revealed through our beings.  Love it!

Africa Today

Today I Googled the search phrase, "Africa today" and this is a sampling of what came up:


Africa Today - New Africa you don't see:


Africa Today, Voice of the Continent: http://www.africatoday.com/cgi-bin/public.v0.1.cgi

Africa Today Journal: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/at/

Africa Today Weekly Radio Show, KPFA (Berkeley, CA): http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/87610

Africa Today BBC Podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/africa