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October 28 through November 3, 2024

Things will flow along pretty smoothly until the weekend, starting with a productive Virgo Moon on Monday. It might be a good idea to get anything essential or time-sensitive done today, as astrologically it will be the day you have the most uninterrupted time. Tuesday and Wednesday are all about restoring balance as the Moon cruises through Libra, not only in our physical worlds but in our emotional and intellectual worlds as well. Thursday could be a free-for-all all as the Moon moves through Scorpio, calling for us to change direction at a moment’s notice and adjust our expectations to transition through the day smoothly. Friday’s Scorpio new Moon marks a two-week cycle of fresh beginnings, and it’s also the first of two new Moons that occur in November this year. This is a rare occurrence but also brings home the idea that we are ready for advancement and progress on a deep spiritual level. A game of musical chairs will be going on over the weekend, as Mercury moves into Sagittarius on Saturday and Mars advances into Leo on Sunday. Both of these planets will thrive in fire signs, and as Mercury is known for its love of communication and Mars is all about action, the next few weeks should be very interesting!

Living Love Daily, by Jennie Lee

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

By what measure do you love? If you are like most people, you probably keep some score of reciprocity, monitoring whether or not others are giving as much as you are in your relationships. Granted, no one likes to feel that a friendship or partnership is one-sided, but this typically self-referential approach to love does not really serve our highest good, and keeping score never feels good.

It is true that the feeling of love we have will fluctuate based on how balanced the giving and receiving is between us and others. But if we instead approach love as an action rather than a feeling, then we can be grateful, either for what we may be receiving, or if we are not, then for the opportunity to practice stepping deeper into love. If we take the perspective that loving is a spiritual practice, it changes the measure by which we love.

The Energy of Love
The key to making this shift is recognizing that there is only one energy of love. It is not mine, or yours, or hers. Divine love is radiating to us and through us in a million different disguises, through every human expression of loving that we share with partners, relatives, friends, and even strangers.

Love is the universally harmonizing energy that draws all things together. It is the uniting principle of the cosmos. When we see it as such, rather than a limited personal commodity that we may or may not be getting from another person, then we can start to create divinely loving relationships.

We can see one another as love channels and appreciate every moment as an opportunity to dive deeper into loving action, offering kindness and compassion to each person we encounter, rather than selfishly looking for what they can bring to us. If we are not watching to see what someone is giving back, then we are free to expand our capacity to love.

This is certainly not the world standard for loving, is it? And if someone is unkind, or even hurtful to us, how can we be loving then? This is when our practice is most essential! Rather than react in a similar way, we need to pause and breathe. We can bear witness to the purity of the person's soul behind his disagreeable exterior and choose to drop into the energy of love that lives in our own hearts.

Although it is not easy to keep our heart open in this way, it is possible if we allow conflict to be the catalyst for our spiritual evolution. Our challenge is to return again and again to the essence of love itself, not as an intellectual exercise but as an embodied meditation on our shared oneness, twenty-four hours a day, every day.

Of course, we will feel challenged by the painful limitations of our ego at times, but if we attempt to spiritualize every moment of our lives by living the principle of love, we create a purposeful connection to all beings and to the Source of love itself. Any small gesture of love moves us in a positive direction and eventually we experience a newfound freedom in all of our relationships. This practice also keeps us from drowning in the worldly fear and outrage that threaten daily to rob us of our inner peace.

Love Is Always the Answer
By making our engagement with conscious loving, rather than the scale of reciprocity, our measuring stick of success, then whether the world responds or turns away we are able to carry on with passion and purpose. Love becomes our guiding philosophy, sustaining us during times of sorrow and discouragement, and giving us meaning and joy. There is no more powerful or constructive force for positive change.

Every moment becomes different when we approach life through divine love. We see more possibility, more compassion, and more potential. We feel more expansiveness in every moment as we grow beyond our old personal limitations until the whole world becomes our beloved. By consciously loving, we remember the truth of our being; that we are love and that love is the answer to everything.

Meditation Opens the Door to Divine Love
The best way to develop a strong connection to this energy of love is through mediation. Daily stillness illumines the ways in which we may be blocking Divine love in our hearts or minds through habitual reactive responses, or the tendency to fight or flee if our ego feels threatened. It calms the body and the mind and creates the foundation for a deeply peaceful life and more harmonious human relationships. It also connects us with our innermost soul, which is love, and this makes us feel joyful and eager to extend that universal love to all those around us.

Daily Practice
Beginning meditation is not difficult and requires no special techniques. The first step is simply commit to some time to be still. Begin with just five minutes each day. Turn off cell phones and other distractions and sit down somewhere quiet. Feel your breath moving in your belly and chest. Notice any thoughts, feelings, or physical sensations, but do not engage with the story. Instead, direct your mind to something that inspires the feeling of love for you. For some this might be a religious teacher or symbol. For the non-religious, it could be your spouse or beloved pet. However you initially connect to love is fine.

Train your attention completely on the energy of love and breathe into it with your whole being. Eventually, with deeper and deeper concentration on love, you will feel a merging into the energy of love itself so that you perceive no separation from it.

If you are in intimate relationship and would like to experience a connection together in Divine love, try an open eye meditation with your partner. Again, be sure to eliminate distractions and commit to a period of quiet time together. Sit in close proximity to one another and hold eye contact without talking. Take slow, mindful breaths for at least two minutes. See the essence of love within the eyes of your partner. This will create a profound feeling of togetherness and deeper intimacy.

Studies by Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education have shown that meditation increases positive emotions and decreases negative communications. As a result of seven weeks of loving kindness meditation, reports show participants felt heightened love, joy, contentment, gratitude, pride, hope, interest, amusement, and awe: all factors for relationship longevity. And it only stands to reason that people who are happier and experience positive emotions are more likely to form stronger, deeper bonds.

Devotion to Divine Love
To experience the full measure of Divine love, a total commitment to it is required. The same is true for meditation. Spiritual practices, both meditation and conscious loving, evolve with time and patience. Unfortunately, too many people throw in the towel because results are not always immediate. But this is just like the worldly, self-centered love that we stop offering because we are not getting it back in the way we wish.

The more we choose to focus on Divine love, the more profound our devotion becomes. And as we become saturated with loving devotion, both our meditations and our relationships deepen. Our consciousness blooms in empathy, compassion, understanding, and ever-deepening love and we no longer feel limited or motivated by personal agenda or feelings. Instead we feel the bliss of oneness and unconditional love.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2018. All rights reserved.

I have always had this feeling that I was meant to be rich and famous, but it's never come true. I realized something today: Maybe this is what I'm looking for in a man - someone who is powerful and wealthy. On the other hand, I want to be the one who has the freedom to pursue anything, go anywhere, spend money frivolously and attract lots of attention. Am I just a very selfish, unspiritual person? Am I messing up my karma and happiness by desiring such superficial things? I would love to just be able to pay my bills and raise my children without such struggle. Should I focus all my energy on that instead of wanting fame and fortune?

- Lisa

Dreamchaser:

Lisa, you have no idea what you want, do you? On one hand, you say you would love to be rich and famous. On the other hand, you say you would love to just be able to pay your bills and raise your children without struggle.

Then you say you would like to find a rich and powerful man. On the other hand, you say you want to be footloose and fancy-free. As long as you have no idea what you want, you will continue to get nothing.

There is no harm, no bad karma, and no punishment or penalty at all for wanting to be prosperous on ALL levels. The Universe/ God/ Spirit/ whatever name you prefer wants you to have whatever you want.

Besides, the more money good people have, the more they can help those who are less fortunate. So someone like you getting a bunch of money would be a good thing, because you would help a whole lot of people who are less fortunate than you are. That in itself is one really good reason for you to have what you want, but there are many other good reasons too.

The Universe is not holding out on you, Lisa. You are holding yourself back from fulfillment by not knowing what you want. You can't ask the Universe for something if you don't know what it is.

Your homework is to figure out what you really want. It doesn't matter if you think you can actually HAVE it or not - just pick what you want and then spend about 15 minutes a day imagining what it would be like to have it. Allow your mind to go there. Allow yourself to play make believe. REALLY feel what it would be like to have what you want and be who you want to be.

I'm reading a new book now called The Law of Attraction by Esther and Jerry Hicks. In it, they repeat over and over how we get what we think about whether we want it or not.

I recommend you start thinking about what you want, and quit thinking about what you don't want. You might want to pick up this book too, as I feel it would help you a lot.

Also, please let go of that outdated and completely false belief that wanting financial abundance is greedy and sinful. It's not! We were just raised in a puritanical society that somehow made self-denial look honorable.

All we have to do is ask for what we want, for the Universe will handle the HOW part. We don't have to try to control how blessings will come into our lives: we just ask and they come.

Figure out what you really want so you can start asking for it, and please don't feel bad, Lisa. I can't tell you how many people have no idea what they want either.

I wish you great fun in discovering your true desires.

*****

Astrea:

It certainly seems reasonable to me to want enough money to pay your bills and take care of your kids! The Universe wants us to do everything in our power to be happy, and it works with us and for us to that end.

Wanting to feel more blessed and more important is normal - you're just one of the few people brave enough to admit it! Everyone wants abundance and most people do all they can to get it.

Feeling average is what is keeping you average. Don't let that feeling control you or make you feel trapped in your current circumstances. At one time you had some specific goals and dreams that would carry you to the fame and fortune you desire. You just need to revive those goals and dreams and pursue them with all your heart. It really is up to you what happens in your life.

Of course, the Universe doesn't just hand out fame and fortune. When things don't work out the way people want them to, I often hear them say they guess it just wasn't meant to be. While I'm chatting with them, they'll say, I guess I'm just meant to be alone, or I guess I'm not meant to have the job I want, or I guess this relationship isn't meant to work out.

This sort of thinking is illusionary and leaves people feeling helpless and disempowered about their own future. It also runs counter to the Law of Attraction, which tells us that we create our own realities, and if we focus on what we want, we will get it. If we feel too overwhelmed to deal with our lives or fulfill big dreams, we can always turn to higher sources for aid.

When people blame destiny for things not working out, they tend to use it as an excuse to give up on goals that just take more effort than they want to expend. People who are rich and famous usually don't get that way because it's meant to be, but because they work hard and focus their energy on fulfilling their dreams.

Regardless of what you may see on TV, no one is discovered simply because it's their destiny to be. It may seem like the rich and famous have better luck than the rest of us, but their success is a result of their conscious intentions and focused efforts.

We shape and control our own destiny: what we do with the life we're given is up to us. We have the free will to choose to fulfill big dreams or to sort of coast along through life. Each one of us is born with the potential to become rich, psychic, married, educated, loved, or whatever we long to be.

Figure what you really want and go out and get it, Tiger! By pursuing your dreams, you're not being selfish or unreasonable at all.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.