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Short and Sweet Astrological Sign Definitions

June 8, 2021 By pgarry

ARIES is super quick and in a hurry – has an idea which need to be implemented now!  Maybe our fiery one should take a breath first.  :  >

TAURUS wants to think it over first – smart move, but not for weeks on end.  Make a choice and get going, Sweet Bull.

GEMINI wants to make all the choices at once – and then two seconds later is sure something else will be more fun.  Focusing on just a couple of things will work better.

CANCER wants to peer out of that beautiful shell and see what’s going on.  All that sensitivity and artistry will go to waste.  Please share it with the world.

LEO loves everything, and wants to take care of all that is.  And all needs to be done the big cat’s way. A step back would be good.

VIRGO is so smart, and great with all the details.  Worrying and being critical might get in the way of all that creativity.

LIBRA wants everyone to be happy and comfortable.  Please don’t give up your own joy to try to make the world better.  That won’t work.

SCORPIO wants to get at the core issues.  Use those skills to heal your part of the world for maximum impact.

SAGITTARIUS is the traveler and philosopher, always moving ahead.  Noticing the state of the world where you are would be helpful.

CAPRICORN wants to climb that mountain step by step.  That’s a good way –  but flying might work as well.

AQUARIUS moves always toward the Shining City on the HIll, which is beautiful and worth aiming for.  Maybe some energy could be used to fix your present place.

PISCES wants all the beauty, and can be melancholy when there are so many directions to go.  Maybe paint the vista you are now looking at first.

Filed Under: Reflections, Spirituality, Uncategorized

Time to Stop Men Fighting and Killing for Power

May 18, 2021 By pgarry

I started writing this a couple of weeks ago:  Men all over the planet are fighting and killing each other for power. In Yemen, for instance – they are pounding each other for power, with especially the Saudis using American weapons for this killing.  We make a lot of money selling weapons to the Saudis and many others.  Why do we do that?  Does it make any sense at all?  Let them make their own weapons – or let them use rocks and sticks.  Why do we think it is okay to support this behavior?

More to the point – why do we women allow this to go on?  Are we crazy?  Are we so beaten down by our dreary cultures that we don’t have the energy to stand up?

This is so wasteful.  Look at Lebanon – piles of rubble from an explosion caused by leaders not paying attention to a bad situation at their waterfront.  Look at Syria – piles of rubble caused because folks stood up against a dictator – who would rather see his country destroyed than find a way to share power.  As though he is the only person in that country who can be the leader.  Especially in Syria –  destroying big apartment buildings that cost millions of dollars.  Now all the rubble is likely to end up in the landfill, and if re-building ever happens, and if there are ever people who want to live there, the country will have to spend its resources on new materials to do that.

And of course chaos there has spread, so now the Kurds and the Turks and Isis are all working against each other – to gain what, exactly?

All this while we are in the middle of our energy and global warming crises!  What is wrong with us women that we tolerate that behavior?  I know we are smarter than this, more conservative, in the sense that we understand the monetary wastefulness of all this destruction, let alone what it does to our children, to our families, to our lives.  And for what?   Block after block after block of destruction.  People depressed, scared, injured, unable to function.

Our money, our energy, our lives would be so much better spent on books, on playgrounds, on health care, on creating beautiful lives for each other.

Why don’t we just stand up and say STOP?  Why don’t we just quit tolerating this insane behavior.  This wasting of human lives and bodies, wasting of our ability to move forward on saving the planet from its own destruction, and on turning around the wasting and stunting of our children’s lives.

Think about it, women and sane men.  What if we all just stood up and said STOP? And held firm, just quit tolerating this insane behavior.  The world would indeed change.

Look now at Israel and Palestine.  Were women just born to stand around and be devastated, holding the dead bodies of our children?  Is that what we came here for?  Or did we come here to stand and not move an inch further, not allowing one more inch of territory to become chaotic?  Are we ready to stand?

Filed Under: Reflections, The Political Realm

The New World Is Coming – Hold the Vision!

April 24, 2021 By pgarry

My vision says that in 2024, we will be living in the world we all know is coming – the world where there is peace, justice, love and beauty.  Where life is fun and deep, where hearts are open, where we work for each other, where work is not exhausting, and where the world itself is limitless.

I know it is hard to see from here.  I have been seeing this vision for a long time, and yearning for it  I knew a paradigm shift was coming in the 90’s, but didn’t have a confirmation until the first time I saw Barack Obama in 2006.  Then I knew we were actually already in the shift, and I drew a deep breath and exhaled slowly. I had not realized I had been holding my breath for a long time.

Another shift signal came in late December last year, 2020. For me, the world actually lightened up, and I relaxed, feeling more cheerful, knowing that we were irrevocably now committed to the new, though the actual evidence was / is still lacking.

It can be challenging to know the new world is right behind that curtain, and to hold true when we can’t see it, yet we have to hold the vision.  That is our job now.  To keep seeing the world we want to live in, to feel that joy and ease, to hold that beauty in our hearts.  We have to refuse the hate and anger and fear, and remember the spiritual message of FEAR, taught in intuition classes since the 70’s:  False Evidence Appearing Real.

Let’s let our own anger go right now, see past it and through it to ease and joy.  Holding our vision of the world as it will be in a very short time will speed up the transition.  Our joy, our readiness, our feet starting down the path are signals to us and to others.  Feel it all coming, be grateful for every moment, hold the vision.

Filed Under: Reflections, Spirituality

The Past Affecting the Present?

April 23, 2021 By pgarry

A long time ago – 7 years? 10 years? – I frequently spent time with two women friends, going to plays and to restaurants, enjoying our city’s great culture.  I was flexible, following their lead, to create a harmonious atmosphere.  Until I suddenly woke up and didn’t want to any more.  Out with them separately, as well as together, I found that I evidently did not measure up to their standards for food or for plays or for music.  I began to notice that what I wanted to do was not on their lists, and that I needed to go / attend / eat where they wished in order to have a pleasant evening.

I love a variety of restaurants always, plus many different cuisines, and lots of different kinds of theater, from the Know, raucous and boundary pushing, to Cincinnati Shakespeare’s classics, and the Ensemble somewhere in between.  As well as small theater groups all over the tri-state area.  Variety is my middle name, essentially.  All kinds of creativity make me happy!

So I simply became busy doing other things, wasn’t able to work their events into my schedule.  One of them noticed and made an overture, but I was just done, and was not ready to have a discussion or hash anything out or compromise.  I had had my fill.  Through several circumstances, the other reappeared in my life recently, and wanted to be involved in something that I do, which I love.  No sooner did she come to one gathering, than she began to do what she had done before – began to shape that gathering to fit her needs.  After we agreed to shift the meeting date to allow her to attend !!!, she then needed the time of the gathering to change.  And then that new date didn’t work either, so perhaps we could pick this particular date, which worked better for her.

I then had a dream, where all of us in the group were swimming in a bright and beautiful pool, like happy little dolphins.  She came into the group, and started to build a den, like a bear’s den, at one end of the pool, so she could be comfortable!  A den! In a swimming pool!

I did not simply walk away.  I talked the dream through with one of my friends in that group.  And a couple of days after waking from that dream, I called her to talk, and laid out what I had previously seen and what I was seeing now.  I told her that I understood her need to be comfortable, but that our group was unwilling to change to provide her that comfort.  She could, if she wished, try again, at our time and place and arrangements.

Her explanation to herself, and to me, was that there was a scheduling conflict, and she was sorry that her plans did not fit with our schedule, so she would not be able to attend.  I simply agreed.  She then mentioned the cancer death of another friend of ours, and how wrong she felt my behavior had been.  Good heavens.  I had done what I do, and mentioned some other healing possibilities, and then again one more time, and then let it go.

Then a few days later, I received a note from her, about how sad it was that the past had gotten in the way of our present.  Another good heavens.  My thought was that she had dragged that past into the present, and was unable to come into our group and our culture and our patterns and simply be with us, and see what would happen.

I am writing this out as an act of cleansing, to make myself feel better, and to better be able to let it go.

Filed Under: Reflections, Spirituality

We Are All So Busy!

April 21, 2021 By pgarry

Life is amazing!  Here we are, beginning to come out of the Covid pandemic, where we’ve been at home most of the time, some family around, but mainly seeing people on zoom.  My work and volunteer meetings are on zoom (or one of the myriad similar apps), my meditation group is on zoom twice a week, and my dream group is on zoom.  We’ve really switched over rapidly, which has been good, and has kept us going.

And yet I’ve been totally busy through the whole time, and as life is now opening up so we can begin to go out to events and restaurants, and see people who haven’t been in sight for nearly a year, I feel busier than I ever have been in a long and busy life.  I like to be part of everything, and I have many interests, both right-brained and left-brained, both work and volunteer.  I always love to lead and love to follow, so there is much variety in my life, which makes me happy.  And yet….

I now find myself doing tasks that do not feel like my work, and not being able to pass them along to wherever they need to go.  I am agreeing to take on tasks that are needed on a given project, but are not what I want to be contributing to that particular project.  I am not helping groups at the level I could be, and that is not making me happy.   And I am not getting to my own priorities, though I’ve done lots of things to meet other folks priorities.  I am just becoming clear about this, and will shortly be letting the groups and projects I’m connected to know more about what those priorities are.

For instance, I have written an excellent fundraising letter, and have been so busy working on mailings and stuffing envelopes that I have not been able to send out the 10 to 12 letters a day to my friends that I want to send out.  Much of my healing and psychic work is not being pushed forward because I am helping the groups I belong to with various maintenance tasks.  And my writing has dwindled because I am not prioritizing it.  When I feel / believe that it is one of the reasons I am on the planet.

I know I am not the only person / woman with this problem.  And I know I have contributions I want / need to make.  It just has not felt like I am making those contributions, but am doing other groups’ work.  I used to know, and teach groups, that there may not be as many volunteers as you want, but there are always enough volunteers to get that job done.   Just find the way – it is there.

So, Patricia –  accept your own teaching, and know that it is okay to do the work you are called on to do, and those other folks will find their ways to get their jobs done as well.

 

Filed Under: Cultural Commentary, Reflections

I Love Affirmations

April 17, 2021 By pgarry

Here is my current favorite affirmation –

I Live in a World of Generosity, Gratitude and Grace, Where Alll the Magic and Miracles Fall into Place

That affirmation grew out of one that I worked with for years – I’m not even sure where I first heard / learned it:  I Live in a World of Grace Where All the Pieces Fall into Place.

And here’s another go-to affirmation / meditation:   I Am in Perfect Balance.  I Move Forward in Life with Ease and with Joy.

Affirmations are multi-use statements, which can help soothe us right now, while reprogramming our very cells to move us into a new reality.  I always say with laughter that an affirmation is not true when we first begin to say / repeat it – but after 13 or 14.000 times, we will have come to a new place and been re-shaped, such that our old scared or self-questioning life can seem very far away.

It’s easy to sit down to meditate with one of these affirmations. Just breathe quietly, perhaps with music, perhaps sitting up or lying down.  Start to repeat it in your mind, and when random thoughts intrude, just go back to it when you realize you’ve been side tracked.  You could also think about what it means, though that isn’t necessary at all to have it begin to point you in your correct direction.  What would your life look like, when you begin to life in a world of generosity, gratitude and grace?  How much fun would that be?  What kind of folks would be around you in that world?  What might you be wearing in a world full of grace?  Something beautiful, no doubt!

Your mantra / affirmation can come in handy all through your day = walking, loading the dishwasher, exercising, waiting on the zoom to open up.  Enjoy!

 

Filed Under: Reflections, Spirituality

Heaven, Perhaps

April 17, 2021 By pgarry

I have been musing on my own belief that We are each a Drop in the Ocean that is God.  Which clearly means that We are God, that We have soaring power and magnificent gifts.   Though we seem and can see ourselves as puny and pitiful.

 

I /  We also talk about our own Higher Selves.  I picture My Higher Self as the awake and fully conscious part of me, My Larger Mind, the 90% of me that is unseen.  I am continuously communicating all day, which I picture as sending questions up and getting answers back.  I call the What / Who I am talking to Spirit.  I also name That Which Answers as The Universe.  And as The Goddess.

 

And what is Heaven?   To most of us, it is the unseen place somewhere up in the sky, which we have named as Heaven.   I have many visions / concepts of heaven.  Looking almost like earth, where folks hanging out with each other, relatives gathering to await the arrival of the next family member coming to join them. And with immense space, where we might be luminescent / rainbow bubbles, communicating through thought, moving from space / time to the next space / time in an instant.

 

I also picture us each as working on the projects / goals that we have chosen, to explore / learn / and grow even as we no longer have bodies and timelines.  We are sometimes also preparing to return to earth, to continue our growth in this atmosphere.

 

And the question that has been asking me to answer it for the last several months is –  is our Higher Self Always / Already in Heaven?  Which would mean that we are actually already in Heaven as well.  Is that Ocean actually Heaven?  Is our Drop of Mind in that Ocean already Heavenly?  If so, All is Accessible to Us – every One of us.

 

We can know, we can experience, we can simply be.  And we can simply relax, knowing that all is being well managed, no matter what it looks like at the moment.

 

 

Filed Under: Reflections, Spirituality

A Great Passover Seder!

March 31, 2021 By pgarry

My son Brian and I gathered together 8 friends on Saturday at sundown to begin the ancient ritual and celebration of Passover.  Our eclectic seder was begun many years ago by our friend Mickie Singer Werner, who gathered many friends, Jewish and non, to celebrate the beautiful and moving ceremonial meal each year.  When she moved to York, Pennsylvania, she asked Brian and I to continue it. And so we have, with friends from many belief systems, from many levels of our city, and every demographic available.

There was one real difference this year – with Brian’s City Council campaign going at top speed – we just did not have time to shop for and prepare all those wonderful ritual dishes – matzoh ball soup, all those baked eggs, all that cooking, and finding everything for the seder plate – the horseradish, parsley, the horases, the lamb bone – which is usually, for us, a beautiful long seashell.  So this year, I googled vegetarian seder caterer.  And found one!  Out of Thyme in Montgomery, with Chef Jaime.  It was a wonderful meal, with excellent dishes, and even a tiny cup of salt water to dip the greens in.

And once again, as we have over so many years, we each took turns reading the hand-written Haggadah Mickie wrote all those years ago, and we all fled with those Jewish refugees out of Egypt into their future.  Next year in Jerusalem!

Filed Under: Reflections, Spirituality

Two Poems

March 2, 2021 By pgarry

3 Haiku on Justice, Peace and Joy

Justice, peace and joy                        Justice, peace and joy              Justice, peace and joy

When these are found and present,    The basis for a good life.           Why are they so hard to find?

Breathe in Gratitude.                             Often missing today.                Let’s look in our hearts

 

Issues of Justice and Peace

Issues of justice and peace often get tangled, especially when justice means the Courthouse.

Where is peace and justice for children who have just been evicted?  Their chance for a prosperous and happy future becomes smoke when Mom can’t pay the rent.

Will the needed remedies – fixes to the law, money from the Feds, come quickly enough for those / our children’s futures?

 

Filed Under: Cultural Commentary, Reflections, The Political Realm

Tape Harvard Professors

February 15, 2021 By pgarry

To the Editor:

Re ?Tape Found Over Portraits of Black Harvard Professors? (news article, Nov. 20):

Instead of dignifying with inflated philosophical bloviation the grim nastiness of the anonymous vandal(s) who pasted strips of black tape on the portraits of African-American professors, Harvard Law students responded with wit and human warmth: They put along the frames of those same portraits hundreds of colored Post-it notes bearing messages of affection and gratitude.

These young men and women teach us all a valuable lesson.

CHARLES FRIED

Cambridge, Mass.

The writer is a professor at Harvard Law School.

Filed Under: Cultural Commentary, Reflections

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