New Moon
August 9, 2010
17 Leo 25’

You can [look up] if you have vision, if you reach for the highest, if you keep looking up, and if you believe that what human has done, human can do. If a person is in the gutter, the only way that he can get out of the gutter is to look up. In other words, he must begin to think “out of the gutter” thoughts before he can actually get up out of the gutter—and this is true at every level of human experience. If a person is ill in mind or body, before she can get out of the experience of sickness, she must begin to think out of it, she must look up. She must entertain the possibility of something different in her life.  —Eric Butterworth

The audience leaps when the dancer leaps from the heart.  This Sun in Leo asks, are you leaping from your heart? Is there any game in your game? Is pleasure in your work? Are you in there? Are you in it? Are you into your life? Are you on an adventure? Or is doubt stealing your life?

To be is to bestow. To be is to give, to offer, to radiate, warm and illuminate. This is true if you are a Leo, and it is true for you wherever you have Leo.  The thing to do in your Leo part is to shine, to be a source of light, sun, play, and laughter. In Leo you are the hearth that cooks and feeds. You are the center, and you know it.  To express is to give of yourself from your heart. To bestow is to be bright, optimistic, and joyful.  If Leo is on the ascendant, Sagittarius is on the 5th cusp. That means that Leo gives the quest for broader horizons. Leo loves to be the master teacher. Leo eloquently expresses the better way. Leo loves to philosophize, demonstrate, and edify. Leo lifts and elevates. (Sagittarius on the 5th)

If you are afraid to fail, you will be afraid to try. If you do not try you will not learn how to perform. Leo is a fixed sign. You have to shine a steady light. The trouble with Leo is that Virgo is next. Virgo’s job is not to be steady, but to finalize. In Leo you beam. But then you have to analyze and refine. You want it to be good, so you value the work it takes to perfect it and make it better. That means keeping some stuff, and deleting some stuff.

There is a Libra lineup in the 2nd house of this New Moon. (Mars is at 6 degrees of Libra conjunct Venus at 3 Libra, Saturn at 1 Libra, and the asteroid Vesta at 0 Libra.) You refine, polish, and make it better in Virgo.  Then you put it out there in Libra. You offer what is essentially your love. Leo’s love is on her lips, in her speech, and in her kiss. (Libra on Leo’s third.) You actively speak peace and harmony in thought, word, and deed. Or you pick and prod and poke with your stick. You don’t relate so much as you goad.  And guess who you goad? With Libra in the 2nd house of this chart, you goad yourself and you do it with the language of thought because Libra is an air sign. Air communicates.

How do you avoid thinking about the brink when you are sure you are on it? How do you avoid worrying about money when you are broke? Look up with faith. Do not look down. Skip. Laugh. Be grateful. Even if your body is at the very edge of the abyss do not cast your mind there.

If your circumstances seem to be failing and it appears you will not able to make ends meet, why are you walking 15 steps ahead of the event and thinking failure? Is it inevitable, obvious, the other shoe you’ve been waiting for?

You will say to me, thinking of what I want when failure is so frightfully real is easier said than done. I will say to you. “Duh! Ya think?” Otherwise we would not have to have this conversation. All you have is the moment in which you are thinking and analyzing, so why not consider success? If you are not on the street, don’t cast your mind onto the street. Look up.

Think good thoughts. (Libra on the 3rd).  It’s hard to do. But it’s easy, too. There are no true blocks to your good life. The force field that is keeping you out is the field of your ideas and dreams. It is the default field of following gravity to the grave. Life worries actively about death, worries about the thing happening that you don’t want to happen. And a life that worries about death does not live.

You have to do that hard but easy thing. Look up. It’s an act of will. Fear, depression, hopelessness, and worry do not resist the downward spiral. Don’t go gently into that dark night. And don’t rage against the dying of the light either. Instead,  you must reach. Stretch! You do this with your mind. What if you can? What if you can have more, be more, do more? What if opportunity is waiting for you to risk leaving the nervous safety of the ledge to leap head up and heart out?

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