Archived Lunations:
Give Me Something Real
New Moon
May 13, 2010
23 Taurus 9’
Give me real. Real delivers as promised. Fake pretends. I want that, so I am going to act like this. Only real satisfies Mother Nature. You can’t fool Nature. You can’t fool your heart. You can bypass your heart or ignore it, but you can’t fool it. People often say that they followed their heart and it got them into trouble. If got you into trouble, you ignored, not followed your heart. The heart is like the root. It’s the gut. It’s the “do be is” to quote my mother. It’s the stuff. It’s good, healthy stuff. To deviate from the heart is not healthy.
Following your heart is not for the faint of heart. It is not for those who cannot endure a stiff wind. The stiff wind might be you being a novice at something. You must be who you want to become. But you might have to be terrible or not so good before you can be great.
I am talking about aspects of Taurus, the sign of real, genuine, and earthy. Venus rules Taurus. Venus evokes the creative principle. We are all creative. We all take what happens to us and make a narrative of it. Then we decide what to do with it. That’s the creative part.
Someone does you wrong, for instance. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to live in fear of it happening again? Are you going to let it suck life out of you, burst you balloon, defeat you? Is this going to be your excuse for staying behind closed doors or hardening your heart?
The Moon is exalted in Taurus. The Moon is moment by moment. The Moon is what happens and how we respond emotionally. What happens today can cause automatic reactions for the rest of our lives. I often remember hearing the woman who was raped by Tyson say that he will one day get out of prison, but that she, in a sense, never would. I thought to myself, “He ‘“took’ you that one time. Don’t give him the rest of your life!” The Moon in Taurus is emotionally resilient. We all have to be able to ride, drive, or direct our emotions so that they stream into the lives we want, not the lives we don’t want.
Many writers say that sometimes in order to write you have to give yourself permission to suck. If the words don’t flow, let them falter and staccato. Write that lousy, awful, nobody-better-look-at-this first draft so that you can have something upon which to improve. Whole lines and paragraphs might ultimately be scratched out, but something remains to which something better can be extended. This is what we need right now, permission to be stilted and awful.
It’s like that. To live means to feel the fear and do it anyway. Risk. Take a chance. Think your most powerful thought. Walk through the door of your imagination into another world. Your imagination sets your boundaries. Can you see this thing for yourself or for the world? Or is it outside the barriers of your imagination, in the dark space that you cannot imagine thinking, “I was never that before. I never had that before. How can it be different now?
Be willing to imagine. Open the door and step through. Shut it behind you and do not, in a moment of insecurity, go back. You have to imagine a world beyond your previous limitation in order to experience that world.
Freedom is choosing your own discipline. You have to dance between innovation and the tried and true, between possibility and obstacle, between faith in the unseen and respect for the established. You may also have to balance dependability and independence, the spirit and the letter. Although there seems to be a very long way between the imperfect first steps and the brilliance that beckons us to seek, all you have to do is take a step.
May 10th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
“you might have to be terrible
or not so good before you can be great” is a bitter lemon,
tasty / acidic / sweet
like a mango.
May 10th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
By removing the word “great” which I had planted before artist, I was finally able to make art. Remembering I made art in the third grade, I took up a brush and oh baby! I’m having fun. I will use the principle of choosing my discipline by walking every day. Thank you for giving from your heart.
May 10th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
Once again,thank you Inez for Lunations. You are so right when you talk of freedom and choosing our own discipline. Continuing that walk of freedom releases fear, encourages contemplation and nurtures the expression of our living,and creative souls. To be reminded of such a great purpose brings me to a place of rest and peace. The dynamic and cyclical movements of life from birth until death consistently encourage us to move forward…out with the old, in order to make room for the new. Experience summons courage. Your gentle reminders help us all to be courageous, to be our dreams in progress, and to love, love,love this privilege called life.
May 10th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
just wanted to share some insight on an aspect of the moon that many of us may be unfamiliar with: The Dark Moon. Here’s an excerpt from the description of a book entitled,
“Mysteries of the Dark Moon; The healing Power of the Dark Goddess” by Demetra George
Description of book:
Exploring the mystery, wisdom, and power of the dark phase of the moon’s cycle–a lunar-based model for moving through the dark times in our lives with understanding, consciousness, and faith in renewal.
The moon’s dark phase has traditionally been a time of fear and superstition, a time associated with death and isolation. The mythical embodiment of these fears is the Dark Goddess. Known around the world by many names–Lilith, Kali, Hecate, and Morgana–the archetypal Dark Goddess represents death, sexuality, and the unconscious–the little understood, often feared aspects of life.
Demetra George combines psychological, mythical, and spiritual perspective on the shadowy, feminine symbolism of the dark moon to reclaim the darkness from oppressive, fear-based images. George offers rites for rebirth and transformation that teach us to tap into the power of our dark times, maximizing the potential for renewal inherent in our inevitable periods of loss, depression, and anger.
May 17th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
I’m astonished our google android had been able to view this post, magnificent work.