Droplets
It’s raining in the early hours of the morn – what a blessing after a hot, dry and breathless 38 degrees autumn Sunday. Melbourne is celebrating a Labour Day holiday which doesn’t really seem relevant anymore, but we Ozzies love our Long Weekend so enjoy the Moomba festival spirit as the city lights up for the Commonwealth Games.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip have arrived: she looks lovely in golden yellow and white, spritely for her age. A subdued republican Movement tentatively voices its interest in our coming of age and claiming independence. What was once a vigorous movement, is muted now, as sentiment, respect and comfort umbrella an insecure populace. Is there really a Common Wealth of Nations or is this just another Athletics Meet?
So much is emerging from the hidden underground of feelings, beliefs, customs, values and ideals. We are being confronted by outmoded religious doctrines and capitalistic lifestyles and question whether they really serve us, our planet and our humanity.
We don’t feel comfortable with competition anymore so we refer to ‘personal best’ in athletics. Workplace Reform seems to be taking us backward into more enslavement and less time for leisure and family. Health and Medical Practice has become too expensive to maintain and is in Crisis. Doctrines and Dogmas, Rules and Regulations try to guide human behaviour but end up suffocating the freedom and diversity for which we yearn. So much of our Society depends upon unpaid and voluntary labour yet Economics is the basis of Social Policy. Gods and Judges, Politicians and Scientists don’t seem to understand what it is to be human. Our young are conscripted so early into schools that suffocate the natural buzz for learning and the spirit of curiosity and wonder that is natural to children.
What is Happening?
The moon has moved into Virgo in the build up to a Full Moon Eclipse at 10.35 am on Wednesday. With Mercury retrograde in Pisces until 26th March, and Jupiter retrograde in Scorpio until 6th July, we are entering a time of review and reflection. Being water signs, there is lots of emotion to be explored.
As we lift the veils and peek beneath the surface of daily activity, may we find within, the Light that is stronger than doubts and fears and a Love for Life that lingers and beckons us onwards.
This is a mutable and poignant time, and our ability to adapt amidst changing energies is an expression of that which we know to be The Truth … the eternal seed of Spirit is within each lifeform … we are all in this together.