Attitude is everything! A warrior knows that expectations will be reciprocally met, that if one wishes for something one must give equally, that if one is happy happiness will reflect back, if one is angry anger will reflect back, if one is morose moroseness will reflect back. And so, a warrior constantly adjusts. A warrior’s attitude and mood are always appropriate, and yet a warrior allows for life to flow smoothly, joyously, and without regret, no matter what the circumstances. A good attitude and good experience of life go hand in hand.
Soulbyte for Saturday June 6, 2015
Worry, as it comes in the dark of night, is all-consuming, silently entering and overtaking the awakened mind. And yet the mind has no power. Only the intent of the human being is powerful. And so don’t blame the mind for its worrisome thoughts, blame the thoughts themselves. And then shoo them away. Use intent and blow them away with the force of breath, the most powerful and natural cleanser available to humankind. Breathe into the thought-packed mind and create empty mind. With no thoughts, with clean, unoccupied mind, truths will ring clear and you will be more than worry free!
Lessons in a Life: Retrogrades & Unfinished Business
– Photo by Jan Ketchel
Mercury Retrograde. Some people, when they hear that term, are immediately suspect, wary, and prone to morose depression. Mercury Retrograde means trouble!
Mechanical failures are rampant. The iPad won’t connect to the wifi. The car won’t start. A computer failure occurs. Bothersome memories flare up. Things left undone surface in gnarly and annoying ways.
On the other hand, I see Mercury Retrograde as a time of opportunity, offering very succinct and direct guidance on just what needs to be done right now! It is a time to complete unfinished business so that we can move on into new life. If we don’t do it we will never fully be able to move on.
That which we don’t complete remains attached forever; it WILL come back to haunt us. Why put ourselves into such a compromising position?
Retrogrades also offer us the opportunity to confront and discover our karmic challenges. Our karmic challenges, like unfinished business, return often throughout life, asking us to deal with them once and for all. To face, solve and resolve our issues is the only way we will be able to freely move on into new life, both in present reality and when we die and enter the bardos.
Will this be the life that we move on up the astral ladder? Or will we reincarnate into another life, playing out the same issues once again? It’s a choice we make during each lifetime, evolving a little more, completing a few more karmic issues each time. By the time we’ve lived several thousand lives, however, wouldn’t it be nice to go on to something entirely new?
– Photo by Jan Ketchel
So, with another week of this current Mercury Retrograde still to go, I suggest taking a good look at what has been happening in your life to challenge you. Perhaps the failure of mechanical devices means you should not be using them; perhaps your addiction to your iPhone or Facebook is being challenged.
Perhaps your recapitulation is pushing you to go deeper as it brings up memories. Perhaps your body is telling you to take better care of it as it pains you or shows you some weakness. Perhaps your insistence on doing things your way and them not working out means you should relax and flow better with life. Perhaps old legal issues finding you many months or years later are letting you know they will not go away; that it’s time to finally deal with them.
To face what comes with maturity, to quickly respond, clears the air, clears the mind, clears the body to be ready for what comes next. Retrograde is a great time to learn the importance of taking care of daily business so that it does not follow you beyond its “sell by” date.
If we learn to deal with what comes, when it comes, we have learned one of the great lessons in life: We are only free of something when we take the time to attend to and fully complete what life challenges us with. If something is done right the first time, we will not have to do it again. And that is a karmic lesson too.
So, retrogrades offer us the opportunity to face something about ourselves and clear not only our issues but also to erase some of our karma, which is really the business, the work, of this life. Rather than continuing to sweep things under the bed, it’s time to take out the vacuum cleaner!
– Photo by Jan Ketchel
And just so you have something to look forward to, this Mercury Retrograde, which is all about our personal issues, is being followed by a Venus Retrograde in late July, which will be all about our relationship issues.
And so, fresh opportunities for getting those relationships in good form are about to hit! Good Luck with that! But first finish the old business that is popping up now, so that you are free to fully experience what Venus has in mind for you!
Setting things right,
Jan
Soulbyte for Friday June 5, 2015
During this time of change some people are experiencing great shifts, moves, displacements, forced change and elected change alike. If you are feeling no change, there is nothing wrong with you. Remember change comes when it is appropriate. But also remember that the energy of this change is significant and so you ARE feeling it in some way.
Though your own big shifts may have come at another time, or are yet to come, you are still affected. People you know are affected, or fully participating, and so your own energy, sensitive as it is, naturally is affected too.
Find your balance, your equilibrium, no matter what your situation is. Stay upon your intended path and without swings of mood, desire or need, allow yourself to use this time of retrograde energy to build a strong tower within the self, a tower of love, kindness and compassion. And, without attachment, reside there knowing that your life is just as it should be in this moment. And then make the most of it, for your own evolutionary karmic journey.
Soulbyte for Thursday June 4, 2015
Keep changing! Each day make an effort to live differently, to think differently, to perceive differently, and to act differently. Keep the new and changing self on the spiritual path of understanding so that your path of heart is always lit from the curious and eager light of learning. Keep kindness in your heart for all beings, even those who know no path of heart, who merely exist in their human form, who resist and deny their spiritual connection to all else in existence, seen and unseen.
To live life differently is to constantly be on the alert for synchronicities and deeper explanations of your experiences, to enjoy each day as a great exploration into an unknown dimension where everything is possible, where everything is apt to change and reveal its truth, including your Self.
Do everything with openness and joy, with awareness of your spiritual, karmic path through life, of your transformational journey, and all your days will be different, and so will you!