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Pisces New Moon Journal '10
Monday; March 15, 2010.                                               Keywords: Beginnings, Fresh Start, Clean slate.
Tues. Mar.16, 2010.  New Moon, but no great grandbaby; I guess she's waiting for the full Moon and Lou's
birthday. I bet she's decided to be an Aries anyway.  I would love to do her for the Aries Sign of the Times.

Yesterday was my ACBL bridge game downtown.  It was an individual game and I did terrible (terribly?)  I
always like individual games better, though.

Wed. Mar. 17, 2010.  Just got word this morning that my beautiful granddaughter, Melissa, is in labor.  If
she delivers her baby girl today, maybe she'll call her, Patricia, in honor of Saint Patrick?  Also, if she's
born today, it will be under the New Moon Phase. My daughter-in-law, Carol, called it.

I started a new on-line retreat today at Spiritualityandpractice.com and first lesson talks about metta
meditation and we're told to keep a journal.  I'll do so here.  The leader is Sylvia Boorstein
and the retreat is called  Lovingkindness.  In the first lesson we're told to copy this:

People who practice metta:

1. Sleep peacefully
2. Wake peacefully
3. Dream peaceful dreams
4. People love them
5. Angels love them
6. Angels will protect them
7. Poisons and weapons and fire won't harm them
8. Their faces are clear
9. Their minds are serene
10. They die unconfused
11. And when they die, their rebirth is in heavenly realms

Also,...the traditional practice of repeating the phrases of good will. Start with yourself. Sit comfortably.
Close your eyes. Feel your body responding to each incoming breath by expanding and then relaxing as
the breath is exhaled. Then, think these phrases for yourself.

May I feel safe.
May I feel happy.
May I feel strong.
May I live with ease.
Crescent Moon
Fri. Mar. 19, 2010.                                                                         Keywords: intentions, hopes & wishes.
Sat. Mar. 20, 2010.  Happy Persian New Year, Happy Spring, and Happy Sabbath.  I keep listening to the
news to find out if Health Care bill is close to passing.  I have called my Rep. Miller, sent a donation to the
info@barackobam.com, and will light a candle at
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/enter.cfm?l=eng
I must say that I only want this bill to pass if it is the will of God and truly good for our country.  The tea party
group is very strong and Fox news is playing that to the hilt.  

Sylvia Bornstein's Lovingkindness Lesson 2 says to now mention someone with whom you have an
uncomplicated relationship with and love saying this:

May Carmella feel safe.
May Carmella feel happy.
May Carmella feel strong.
May Carmella live with ease.

And what sentences in the Metta Sutta that caught my attention the most?

Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.
By not holding to fixed views,

I usually seem to be burdened with duties I don't want to do and can be very nonfrugal in some things.
I have my favorite views, but I am open to listening to reason and logical viewpoints.
First Quarter Moon
Tues. Mar. 23, 2010.                                                                               Keywords:  Lights, camera, action!
Thurs. Mar. 25, 2010. My horoscope for yesterday from StarQ was:

Transiting Venus Conjunct Natal Venus
PLEASE YOURSELF FIRST
This is not the best time for dealing with the practicalities of everyday life, but it certainly is conducive to
meeting someone whose touch melts you or whose silky voice makes you swoon. If you're not careful,
you may be hit like a ton of gooey, yummy chocolate by love at first sight. Watch for an unexpected
financial offer or a check in the mail-and it's not a bad day to purchase a lottery ticket!

It's only 9 am in the morning today, but here's what happened last evening.  I went downtown because the
director of my ACBL bridge club asked me to come to the game as some of the usual players couldn't
come.  I don't usually play on Wednesday evening, but I went.  As it turned out, she didn't need me to fill a
spot so I started on my way home.  It was still light so I thought that I would drive across town and check out
a church that I wanted to visit; Christ Church, Disciples of  Christ.  

Quite a few cars were in the parking lot and I figured something must be going on and went in.  A couple
of very nice women approached me and introduced themselves.  It was choir practice night and they
invited me to join them.  I declined, thanking them, and left.  As I got to the car, I told myself that I should
return; I'd been praying for a like minded church for a long time.  So, I went back in and told the whole choir
that I changed my mind.  LOL.  It was really fun and I think I've found my church.  

Disciples of Christ  have no creed and that's the first thing in their favor.  They include women clergy and
that's the second.  They call themselves disciples and that's the third thing. Jesus Christ taught me that it's
important to follow him as a disciple and believe in him, not some man made creed, especially one from a
Roman Church written centuries ago and surviving the Reformation up to the present time.

If you know me, you know that churches are my passion and I've fallen for quite a few in my lifetime, but
then, I have Venus   square Jupiter and Pluto.  Jupiter rules religion and Pluto rules one's downfall. Here I
go again!
Gibbous Moon
Fri. Mar. 26, 2010.                                                                                         Keywords:  review, adjust, edit
Sat. Mar. 27, 2010.  I went outside and took some pictures; it is finally beautiful again in Florida;
shirtsleeve weather.  My camellias are blooming and there are still oranges on my orange tree.  That's a
me metaphor if I ever made one.  LOL...I wish!
Days like this make me wish I were still a
gardener, but I can't stay outside during June,
July, August or September here.  Too, if I were
wealthy again, I'd have a mountain home
for the Summer. (Sighhhhhhhhhh)
I'm full of it...I don't want for anything.  My life is full and I'm joyful;  just
when Spring comes, I start longing and wishin'.  Maybe I can find that old
song that expresses it all.  I'll be back.
BACK!
Sun. Mar. 28, 2010.  I enjoyed this Palm Sunday at the Christ Church (Disciples of Christ).  It was a lovely
service and I was glad I went.  Something has been at the back of my mind, though, and it took reading
something a while ago that another astrologer wrote:

"IMAGINE YOU'RE SITTING IN A RESTAURANT with a group of your friends, and a discussion about a
potentially sensitive subject comes up. A few of your friends express their views, and you decide to take a
turn, something you don't usually do. You speak your mind and the room goes chilly. There are stares in
your direction. Your stomach turns; you've crossed the line of social appropriateness.

It's like a nightmare: you've revealed yourself and been rejected for it. In a single moment you realize that in
order to maintain your social relationships from this point onward, you would have to ignore the difference
in values and suppress your views and, in reality, yourself. If you were to be open about them, you would
basically be unacceptable. Suddenly you feel very alone in the world. Could it be that these people were not
your friends at all? What is a friend? And could it be that you really need to invest more energy into actually
expressing who you are, rather than in conforming to what other people think for their convenience?"
(excerpt from Planet Waves.)

A similar thing happened the first time I was in this church last Wednesday night at choir practice.  I was
asked to stand up and tell a little bit about myself.  After telling the usual things about family and where I
lived, I said, " And I have been a life long student of Astrology."

Some man in the choir said, "Ok, that's enough!"  And an Alto echoed, "Yeah, that's enough."

I sat down.  
Tues. Mar. 30, 2010.  I saw the full Moon last night when I took my dog, Lily, outside.  

Yesterday was my son Lou's birthday.  I tried to call him, but I guess they were out to dinner.  It was also one
of my dearest friend's birthday, Lou's godmother who, 48 years ago when I was pregnant with Lou and was
due between his brother's and Len's birthday, told me that he would be born on her birthday, the 29th.  She
put a spell on me and Lou was, then, three weeks late and born on her birthday.  

My doctor put me on a new medicine, Byetta, for diabetes.  It's fairly tricky because it makes my sugar level
drop drastically almost like insulin would.  I will have to monitor myself closely for the next few weeks until I
get the hang of it. Too, I'm still waiting for the results of my heart stress test.  This time they injected me with
some stuff that gave me a mock heart attack and then watched on a scanner of some sort.  Well, that's the
last time I'll willingly do that one; scared me half to death. Believe me, I'm going to be good from now on:
lose weight, exercise, keep my sugar down and my cholesterol.  I think that's why they give us those tests; to
scare us into the straight and narrow.

Life's a bitch...and then she has puppies!
Libra Full Moon
Mon. Mar. 29, 2010.                                                             Keywords:  Signed, sealed, and already done.
Disseminating Moon
Fri. Apr. 2, 2010.                                                                             Keywords:  Enthusiastic, trust, & share.
Sat. Apr.3, 2010.  I remember when I was a kid ordering a "code ring" off a box of cheerios or cornflakes
or shredded wheat (that's all we had back when the earth was cooling).  I waited and waited and waited for
the mail to come and bring me that treasured ring. When it came, I excitedly opened the box and picked up
the code ring.  I was instantly disappointed.  Instead of a silver or gold ring it was red plastic and cheesy,
like some penny item I'd get in a cracker jack box. However, that was an instant lesson to my semi-cynical
Capricorn rising; "life is full of disappointments so don't expect much and you may be surprised once in a
blue moon."  You think I really learned?  

You know those ads you see everywhere about the sterling silver cross where you hold it up to the light and
view the Lord's Prayer?  Yep, I bought one.  It came with, "made in China" written all across the mailing
box.  It is cheap shiny and has a little tag on it that says, "sterling silver plated" on the chain. Was I
disappointed?  Nah.  Well, maybe a bit.  I just wondered why someone here in America doesn't get ideas
like that and make a few dollars.  There is simply enough of our money in China for the time being.  I don't
begrudge China; really.  I hope some nice middle class family is eating better for what they sell here.  
There is a middle class in China, isn't there?

I'm wearing the cross until it tarnishes.  It's the thought that counts; right?  Right?
Last Quarter Moon
Tues. Apr. 06, 2010.                                                                          Keywords: Release, let go, be grateful.
Thurs. Apr. 8, 2010.  Here it is almost two weeks since I decided to be hurt from a couple of comments
made by two people and I almost quit a whole church because of them.  This morning I realized that I had
not been practicing the "no blame" and immediate forgiveness that I believe is part of being a disciple of
Christ.  So, now I have to forgive myself and get on with it. I, too, have to forgive myself for whining at my
son's house about churches and people.  I have been the bad guy this time.  I will go back to church this
Sunday and behave like a grownup instead of a spoiled brat.  Thank you, Lord.
Balsamic Moon
Sat. Apr. 10, 2010.                                                                           Keywords:  Surrender, rest, recuperate.
Today I am absolutely ready for rest and recuperation.  Yesterday I spent the night with my daughter, Carol,
in Walton County.  We went to the Seaside Rep and saw the play Love always, Patsy Cline.  It was
fabulous!  Then, this morning we went for an hour's walk along the boardwalk of Water Color Bridges; an
amazing piece of property along the coastal dune lakes and Gulf beach.  The heather was in bloom. I am
sated with nature.

Tues. Apr. 13, 2010.  Here I am; ready to tackle another diet program.  As an astrologer, I know that the
best time to start a weight loss diet is after the full Moon, when she is decreasing in light.  But, as a female,
I know that anytime I'm most motivated to diet is the best time; the Moon can do her thing and I'll do mine!

I do want to decrease in inches and weight, but getting healthy is the foremost plan.  It is the dark of the
Moon from now until the Crescent Moon, so while she isn't watching me, I'll plan and get working on the
Fast Track Meal Guidelines which have to be filled out every day.