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Oooh
that Moon... Fall 1998
 I
was the worst student in the astrology class. When I was a kid, and they pulled out
the balls to demonstrate in science class about the moon and the sun and the earth
and how they all rotate around and create the phases of the moon, I was really lost.
You
know how you look up sometimes in the middle of the day and go, Oh. Wow, Hey! the
moon's out. Or you are walking home late from work and, BAM! there is is big glowing
yellowy thing coming up over the horizon. But you don't know why it is you see her
some days and other days you don't. Or why she wakes you up sometimes in the middle
of the night.
Once
I learned that the new moon was a time to focus on initiating new things, or the
old moon was a good time to draw inside and let things go, I found I wanted to really
understand more about the moon's travels across the sky each month. The moon is both
more accessible to us than the stars in the sky (which are very hard to find if you
live in the city) and more complicated. She changes her position every night. And
everything she touches changes.
The
moon is right behind the sun when she is new and falls a little further behind every
day. The full moon always rises at sunset. When the moon is new, you will see her
setting in the west just at sunset. As the month progresses, the moon will set some
50 minutes later each night. The quarter moon will appear at the top of the sky at
sunset, and a week later, the full moon will appear on the eastern horizon at sunset.
New moon in the west, full moon in the east, at sunset.
A
tiny slice of the deep and rich pattern of the universe... Watch for the next WonderWorks
Astrology Workshop with Julie Simmons with more moon magic...
Mary Anderson
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Creativity
as Political Tool
November 1996
Well,
I don't exactly know how to say this, so I will just put it out there. There is a
change happening. For the better. No, I am not a secret supporter of the Harris government,
and yes, I do despair that the planet is on the brink of destroying life as we know
it. There is something else going on. I can feel the pulse of it even more strongly
this fall as nature's glorious bounty shrinks back.
This
Fall, as we prepare to move into the darkness and enter the mystery of winter, it
is undeniable that we are living in very particular times. The Mayans and the Hopi
prophesized about this time, and the Age of Aquarius officially began as the planet
Uranus moved into the constellation of Aquarius last January. But you may not believe
in astrology. Just look out your window and into your heart. We are on a brink. How
do we navigate in this darkness, when so many doors seem to be closing, when we don't
know what is ahead? We feel our way along and move by our senses. We trust and work
from the inner, honouring the mystery.
Brink
times bring a special energy, and with it a special responsibility to use this energy
wisely. The Big Lie right now is that we can't afford anything and that nothing is
possible. This censorship of the imagination is a most dangerous repression because
it tells us that there is no way out and no road to follow except that of the consumer/taxpayer.
As
an antidote to this repression and a way to guide your own energy in this powerful
time, consider the following: reduce the time you spend conversing about what is
wrong and whose fault it is. Replace it with ten minutes a day of uncensored stream
of consciousness writing about what kind of world you would like to see. Do it every
day. A full ten minutes. Let it rip! Enjoy unbridled possibilities. Bask in the pleasures
of a more beautiful world. Flex those imagination muscles. Resist the temptation
of worry about how it all will work. Fight back with your imagination.
And
then do something that comes straight from your heart. Big or small. Do it consciously,
knowing that contained within your desire is a blueprint for the future.
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