Spring Equinox & super moon

For the first time in nineteen years the final super moon of the year also falls on Spring Equinox. Sky gazers will be treated to this vernal event dubbed, Super Worm Moon. 

This ancient name derives from Native American tradition. Also called the Sap Moon because it is the time to tap the maples for their sap.

The Old Farmer’s Almanac reports that the full moon in March is always known as the worm moon because it marks the time of year when earthworms begin to come out in the soil.

EcoDeo at NY Open Center 35th Anniversary

EcoDeo was at the NY Open Center 35th Anniversary celebration and open house.

On its tenth year now of the SMI sound healing program, it was the first time the graduates participated.

The night was a huge success! Even though Martina and I did miss Manny.

wealth & poverty | world views

The disparity between rich and poor nowadays is stunning beyond belief.

Basic needs definitions also go beyond money, to include all the things that a person needs in order to survive – including employment and participation in society. Wealth and poverty can be measured in many ways. 

Using the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, intended to replace the GDP, it can measure ‘quality’ economic activity by making a subtraction for air pollution and an addition for unpaid household labour for example.

Another method is the Human Poverty Index. This is ranked according to three main areas of deprivation - survival, knowledge, and a decent standard of living.

In the industrial world, where the Index also includes social exclusion, the higher the percentage classified as poor, the greater the poverty in that country.

Recently New Internationalist published, "Equality matters in terms of health and happiness, but surprising new data reveals that it is also better for the environment – in the more equal rich countries, people on average consume less, produce less waste and emit less carbon." 

Conscious living is applying our attention more mindfully and respectfully. Progress and urbanization have costs and consequences that would benefit us more to approach with care and honor. 

Thinking and planning beyond personal and individual enrichment for the greater good of more is the better option. For ourselves, our families, our communities, our societies, our countries, and the whole world. 

It is human centered nation building. It is a natural and loving way for humanity to prosper and thrive. We are all in this together. 

femme fatales

I recently came across an article on vintage Valentine postcards that featured nasty anti suffrage beliefs of those times.

Being anti suffrage, it meant mostly nasty remarks against females. Declared mostly from the male perspective, of course.

Glorified goddess or deified demon? Angel or temptress? Wife or whore? How the world defines its women throughout the ages has not changed radically enough.

Sunday thoughts

This time last year Change Warrior was clear across the world - blogging about earth rumblings and volcanic eruptions. 

Today Change Warrior is reposting some worthy contemplation from Rick Jarow on A Culture of Awakening: The Inner and Outer Revolution. 

The post ignited some thought provoking ideas that shook me to the core and made me erupt at the cosmic joke being played out for us all. 

let your inner buddha out

Who are you?

What do you want to be? 

“What you tell yourself every day will lift you up or tear you down. Choose wisely.” ~ Unknown Source

Find some way of quieting that chatter, of quieting that chaos, of quieting that stuff that will only take you so far.

Allow yourself, in that quieted space, the permission to build positive emotion and positive momentum.

That is who you really are. You can go from peak. . . .to peak. . . .to peak. . . .to peak.

Because that is the way your life is supposed to be.

You are supposed to get to move from here to there. . . .and there. . . .and there. . . .and there.

The morning breeze has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep. ~ Rumi

2018 epiphanies

January 6 is observed as a church festival commemorating the coming of the Magi as the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles in the Western [Christian] Church or the commemoration of the baptism of Christ in the Eastern [Orthodox] Church.

Adoration of the Magi, Hieronymus Bosch

triptych detail

For many of us, with the holidays now over, Epiphany marks our return to Ordinary Time. Another definition of epiphany is an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. A revelation. 

What has the past year revealed?