I had the dream of doing more art, “For Art’s Sake” in June. This was the inspiration for my title for my first poetry book, “Art for Art,” published in 2017. This publication had so much spiritual energy in it as it felt born directly from the Reiki I had been working with since 2007.

Now, I find myself in 2024, quite tired, involved in so many different trainings and groups, having an elaborate daily practice that I often only end up having the time to do only one of 4 main parts of. Having started with so much momentum in so many different areas/domains of life, I made “healing and nurturing energy” my priority—and didn’t put so much emphasis on form.

Now, today. I find myself at a crossroads. I want to keep the momentum I gained in April from writing a poem every day, and work on the manuscript for my second poetry book during the rest of this year. I also want to draw in (pun intended) more tangible, visual art explorations.

So, this much I have begun! Here it is. We are beginning, at an unknown pace! Like a dance that starts with wiggling or shifting weight from leg to leg. Let’s see we happens!

June’s New Moon is in Gemini. ♊️

If your mind is going a mile a minute and you’re not sure where to put your focus: you are in good company! If in doubt, and there’s plenty of that: laugh. 🤣

Why do we even look for guarantees anyways? Are we aiming to protect ourselves from the very life that keeps us engaged, excited, and motivated? Human nature is a curious thing among more curious things such as nature; and aren’t we still nature? 🤣 I know I am!

I have a meditation for this New Moon, it’s called: let your cells drink from the energy of the universe! You can do this in your silence of your wild self! Today and tomorrow I am setting off as the fool on the journey, Tarot card 1. I am embracing my imperfections, my unfinished messy middle. I am embracing my chattering mind, my chatting mouth, and my sheer fatigue that makes me feel punch drunk on most days. I am taking myself exactly as I am and saying “I choose me.” I choose me for this task, for this rest, for this moment. I choose me to drink up the energy of the universe and experiment with time and magic. I choose me to embrace, however way I show up.

Hellooo

I’ll still be back in June, but this playful Sagittarian Full Moon 🌕 I cannot let slip away without even just a small amount of commentary. Normally everything Jupiterian is super-sized. If you are like me you have a whole list of problems that you are working on. Let’s call them “projects” to make them sound more like fun.

Venus is conjoining Jupiter and these are known as the big “benefics” of the planets, bestowing grace and spirituality, wealth, opulence and beauty. Jupiter is known as an amplifier. However the unpredictable, zip-zippy fast and out-of-the-blue planet Uranus is tightly in the mix! Good or bad? Toss away your duality, install the Yin-Yang. ☯️ Each contains its opposite!

Well, for us: we are forced into an unexpected kitchen remodel. I’m not happy about it because i have to borrow money to get it done and therefore being in more debt is not ideal. And mostly I’m not happy about it because it only one of several expensive projects we have to do just for our house, either to remediate water damage or prepare for the next season’s onslaught of water. Or, to fix things that are broken which seems to be non-stop. The living day-to-day in the most expensive city, is plenty on its own.

Lots of unknowns in the economy right now. Dare I mention the presidential election coming up in November which I know most of us are just, focusing on ourselves and our own little bubble of world we can manage.

My point is that: Joy and abundance is not about our circumstances. Our circumstances in this quickly developing and changing world (Uranus is involved in all of this in Taurus!!) the unpredictably of life is the mainstay. I’m not sure why any of us ever expected security or ease, but life is more dynamic than that. Maybe some of our ancestors enjoyed something called “steady, slow, growth” for one generation or two. But, our lives with Pluto in Aquarius are erratic, and require so much more flexibility from us than ever before. Uranus in Taurus is changing the Earth and resources as we know them, fundamentally. Structures are in mid take apart while the new ones are not stabilized and fickle. Can’t hang your hat anywhere!

So where’s the advantage here? Jupiter is also all about opportunities!

For me, it’s humor and focusing on every advantage as my own mainstay. I take the punches and kicks and whacks of life to be enabling me to finding deeper and more constructive forms of self care, love, and compassion for my fellow humans and animals, plants and fungi. I find even more presence for myself in my own ups and downs and allowing myself to respond and navigate with little to no self judgment as the new role model for me.

The abundance is in us. It’s in our capacities!!

The unity of our consciousness is real, even despite if our circumstances don’t change, or our pain is perennial, or even if the unexpected lightning strike zaps our blueprints for our wildest and most well-planned of dreams contained detailed and intricate back up plans- A through Z!

See through it all! Know thyself.

Give yourself a BIG HUG with this full moon as you navigate the adventure of just living on this planet. To live is to risk. Your organism is stronger than you know, your mind and spirit is more wildly imaginative than you can predict, and your health can always improve despite whatever state you find yourself in.

If you find yourself low on hope or living on an island of doubt and skepticism, stinky fumes for thoughts, find your nearest oasis, your easiest chuckle.

What joke gets you every time?

Where are you ticklish?

What was the funniest most absurd thought you ever had?

Let the imagination work to your advantage this full moon! 🌝 ♐️ Be like a sponge in water and watch your capacity expand. Soak it up! Life is for the living, put a dance in your step even if it’s dancing around ashes. Know that a fortune can raise in less time than a blink of an eye. A bat of an eye-lash. In a quantum entanglement awareness moment, you can see you really are hitched to a star ⭐️ and the magnetism of your love 💗 is willing to deliver your best kept dreams for your highest and best good.

All my love to you ! See you in June! ⭐️😆🥰🤣🌌

🧲

Ka

A Belgium Blonde beverage

On a hot spring day,

After a hike along the cerulean

Ocean meeting the azure sky

The way to calm waves inside

are painted with exercise,

carved like sanded walls and banks

eroded ego

A surrendering to each wave

Of awakening

I live a dream within a dream

Born of such imagining

Full of taste, flavors, and surprises

There is no way out, but through the

Corridor of allowance

Each day a liberation and a shackle in a new way

Unfolding my path in pain, fatigue

Or flying through new highs, and revelations

I can only raise hands to thank

The same skies for chaperoning me

Through new levels of

Awakening bliss