Astrology for 8/31/2019

8/31/2019 Saturday by Jampal & Wangmo

Theme: Enjoy and Indulge

For the next week, enjoyment and indulgence are on the table. Fortunately, the strong Virgo energy balances this tendency with discipline. Social activities and harmonious relationships are enhanced. During this week subjectivity is strong, and we can miss the big picture. If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Today the Moon is Void of Course from 4:47 am EDST USA until 7:09 pm. If you’re in another country check what that means for you time-wise. It’s best to avoid making major decisions or signing contracts during this time.

Astrology for 8/30/2019

8/30/2019 Friday by Jampal & Wangmo

Adjusting and Changing

The cluster of celestial energies in Virgo is especially potent today. With the new moon in that sign it is a time for new beginnings, with a focus on practicality, details, and analysis. The cluster of energies harmonizes with Uranus, the planet of quick and unpredictable change. Innovation, and the seeking of freedom and excitement are themes for a couple more days. Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end. ~ Robin S. Sharma

Caught In A Dream

An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Stabilizing the Mind”

In order to practice the Buddha’s teaching with any meaning, you first have to understand that all sentient beings are suffering.  Now I have to ask you: Have you really seen that with your own heart, with your own eyes, with your own mind?  Have you seen that all sentient beings are suffering?

If you have seen that you are suffering, then let me describe a funny little thing that you still do that cannot coexist with that knowledge.  You have circumstances throughout the day (and throughout the month, the year, your life) that either please you or displease you, that either make you happy or make you unhappy.

You may think, “Oh, I’m really down today.”  Then you talk to someone, and someone has an upbeat thing to say to you.  It’s meaningful, it’s good, and it pleases you.  So what happens to you?  You go up, right?  There’s a nice sense of warm fuzzies, and you go up.

Or let’s say you are a renunciate, a monk or nun, and when you wake up in the morning, it’s a ho-hum day.  You’re in a flat-line zone, a kind of grey zone.  And let’s say you manage to get in all of the practices that you want to do in the morning, and you manage to have a pretty good experience with them.  You feel buoyant in your practice.  You feel stable in your practice.  You’re able to hold your visualization.  Somehow that magical thing that happens every now and then happens.  You had a good practice.  Then you have your breakfast, eating your cereal by the window like a guy in a commercial, and you say, “Morning is my time!”  But later on the dog urinates on your one robe, you are too busy to eat any lunch or any dinner, and you have a bad practice.  That’s the worst thing – you have a bad practice – and things are no longer going so well.

These things happen to all of you, and yet, although you say you know that there is suffering from the depth of your heart, you have looked to satisfy the end of suffering in a way that is different from what the Buddha taught.  We let our minds float on an ocean of waves like a buoy, up and down.  What is “up”?  What is “down”?  And who is feeling it?  Who says morning is your time?  Who says evening is not?  Who says life is good when you go out to a restaurant and have a glass of wine?  These are concepts that are part of your mind, and your consciousness floats on them.  For some of you, there is not a moment of spaciousness in your mind where your consciousness is not floating on some circumstance you contrived all by yourself.  Why does that happen?

You say that all sentient beings are suffering and that the end to suffering is enlightenment, yet you allow your mind to be satisfied going up and down according to circumstances.  All of the beings that you say are suffering are doing the same thing.  Has anyone achieved happiness by allowing the mind to float on that ocean of concept that we call samsara, affected by circumstances, lifted up by what we call high circumstances, put down by what we call low circumstances?

No one.  Never.  The Buddha tells us that samsara is not happiness, that the contrivances of the mind are not happiness, that sentient beings are suffering, and that the only end to suffering is enlightenment.  Yet we allow ourselves to slide up and down every day.  We get excited about some project, we get enthusiastic, but it always comes to a dead stop.  It always ends.  It has never, never, never, never, never continued until it gave you supreme happiness.

So here’s the point I am trying to make.  First brick: All sentient beings are suffering.  Now, we’ll put the next one on top of it: There is an end to suffering, and it is enlightenment.  Just two bricks, and already we find that we are not secure behind those two bricks, that we don’t believe.  Yes, you say that you believe that all sentient beings are suffering.  Yes, you say that you believe enlightenment is the end of suffering.  Can you tell me how that can coexist with the tendency to let your mind drift, relying on circumstances to make it happy, being the victim of circumstances that make it unhappy?  How do we allow that?

We forget.  We’re caught in a dream, and we lose faith.  So how are you going to practice this Vajrayana, the Diamond Vehicle, the Tantric teachings of Buddhism, passed from teacher to disciple, that can lead to the attainment of enlightenment in one lifetime, a path with sincerity and stability for the rest of your life until some potential comes for you to achieve supreme enlightenment?  Do you believe that that can happen?

Copyright © Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo.  All rights reserved

Astrology for 8/29/2019

8/29/2019 Thursday by Wangmo & Jampal

Theme: A Virgo convocation

With the Moon moving from Leo into Virgo today, the total number of planets in Virgo comes to five! Virgo energy can bring a gentle but critical, flexible yet focused, approach to all kinds of tasks: weeding, walking the dog (or cat), writing, crafting (in a variety of forms), and all kinds of organizing. As Virgo, writer Roald Dahl stated: We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it!

Astrology for 8/28/2019

8/28/2019 Wednesday by Wangmo & Jampal

Theme: Healing energy

Virgo is one of the signs of the healer. With so many planets in Virgo, there’s an opportunity to take care of your own health, and the health of others. There is also more energy to engage in activity that heals divisions. With the waning Moon it’s a good time to complete projects and tie off loose ends. We are what we think. All that we are arises from our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.~ The Buddha

Astrology for 8/27/2019

8/27/2019 Tuesday by Wangmo & Jampal

Theme: Focusing on important details

With the Moon in its home sign of Cancer, there is strength to be found in drawing on the supportive environment of home, or home-like spaces. With three planets in Virgo, there is both attention to detail and an opportunity to provide care for those most in need. In the midst of much work, do not lose sight of your goals. Seek the treasure you value most dearly: if you bow your head, let it be to a lofty mountain.~Maori proverb

Astrology for 8/26/2019

8/26/2019 Monday by Wangmo & Jampal

Theme: Excitement

For the next few days, innovation, scientific inquiry and seeking excitement are on the table. Also, we express ourselves more authentically. People are more likely to challenge authority. Don’t take your feelings too seriously. If you’re feeling unusually isolated, this will pass by tomorrow. Unhappiness doesn’t come out of the clouds. It doesn’t manifest out of nowhere. It has a cause.~Jetsunma Ahkon Norbu Lhamo

Astrology for 8/25/2019

8/25/2019 Sunday by Wangmo & Jampal

Theme: Centering yourself for Success

If you’re in tune with your sense of purpose, there will be good outcomes. Today, the Moon moves from chatty Gemini into intuitive, imaginative Cancer. A good flow of harmonious and creative energy develops as the day proceeds. For the next few days there are material resource challenges. If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?~ Dogen

Today the Moon is Void of Course from 3 am ESDT USA until 5.06 pm. If you’re in another country check what that means for you time-wise. It’s best to avoid making major decisions or signing contracts during this time.

Astrology for 8/24/2019

8/24/2019 Saturday by Jampal & Wangmo

Theme: Virgo Bonanza!

With so many planets in Virgo it’s a great opportunity to address details, work with the earth element in its many forms, and communicate with others in a practical way. With the Moon opposite Jupiter there is a drive for personal freedom and humanitarian concerns. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.~Cicero

Astrology for 8/23/2019

8/23/2019 Friday by Jampal & Wangmo

Theme: Careful and Neat

Happy Birthday Virgos! The combination of the Sun, our purpose, Venus, love energy, and Mars, the warrior, all in Virgo gives a focus towards discipline, orderliness, and practicality. There is also energy for exploring new and exciting endeavors. Something disruptive today will turn out to be beneficial. Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but of that of mentality and principle. ~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

Today the Moon is Void of Coursefrom 5:34 pm EDST USA the day before until 10:35 am. If you’re in another country check what that means for you time-wise. It’s best to avoid making major decisions or signing contracts during this time.

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